DPS Meter Megathread

PvPers just live in the old past where those chunky calculations were made by hand.
https://www.history.com/news/human-computers-women-at-nasa

Steven wants those uber PvErs to just write down their encounters and figure out how to beat the bosses w/o any additional tools.

It's just the good ol' "back in my day we had to walk 20 miles in 10 feet snow to get to school. Woke up at 3am to do that as well".

Noaani rn

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It ultimately influences everyone if Intrepid decide to keep making harder encounters to keep the top pvers in the game (that is if they even manage to get any in the first place).

Trackers will make fights easier, so pvers with them will ask for harder fights. If Intrepid comply, people who were maybe able to do those encounters before would either have to go use trackers or completely forget about any future encounters.

If Intrepid don't comply - they lose hardcore pvers. At which point I'm not even sure if it would be worth it to advertise their game as "having good pve". The latest Steven appearance kiiiiinda touched on this, but he just weaseled himself out of a comparison between super basic pve of games like AA by saying "well, you'd have to give a direct example, but we're definitely making difficult pve for Ashes, sir yes sir".

The worst thing in all of this, as you and others have pointed out already, is that Intrepid wouldn't ever know if the top pvers even have trackers on their PCs. Obviously it would be logical to assume they do, but you'd never know for sure. And at that point Intrepid would be trying to figure out if their current pve encounters are just the right amount of fun for the most amount of players or if it's so damn hard for the 95%, while it's super easy for the 5% who have trackers.

And there'd be a super vocal minority on both sides, so it's not like Intrepid could simply look at feedback and just decide which way it is.