smorevids: The real losers in this situation are the ones paying for this stuff. Who the fuck gets excited about a game where you need to prove yourself through parsing, anyway? Just play the game. It's not a job unless you're a sponsored competitive player.

RaNc0R: And water is wet

Bkn7kt: It's more than the monthly subscription for WoW

avocado4883: Not being invited to public raids because your parses aren't good enough is the same energy as not being able to get an entry level job because you don't have enough work experience

GrantDenmark: It hurts realizing that when it comes to gaming now, there's always a catch, and there's always something wanting more money out of you...

madraccoon5934: Blizzard: "Let's create an LLC and create a bunch of different add-ons under this sub company's name and charge 25$ a month and act like we're ignoring it and are unaware of it. Profit!"

TheRetifox: The moment I switched to casual, exploring and focusing on open-world, was a moment in SoD Phase 1 when a dude asked me and rest of party about gearscore for fucking deadmines dunegon. Fuck this shit, no raids or dunegon are worth it to deal with such special type of people.

tyran5996: Everyone who has this add on should have a permanent “Sweaty” title at all times.

barrelz8646: Sod players became pathetic tbh

Happy-wm1pg: It will just get worse and worse, until Blizzard actually does something about it. Players will always min max fun out of games if developers allow it.

CybeRViruS2212: An addon that is against TOS is priced more than the subscription for the game that said addon is for. What a great time to play mmorpg's lol.

pyrelord8763: “your good at a video game, he has a job and a family so i dunno whose the winner here?” gave me a good laugh.

jamesho9500: My mind was blown in classic when our 'best' healing priest was held in high regards because of his parses and the reason he has such high parses was because they made a warlock group for him to aoe healing on spam life taps and standing in mechanics during boss fights... this was actually seen as a feat.

Cocytus127: Parsing in SoD is the definition of cringe. I'm in a literal dad guild of casuals and normies and we went 5/8 in temple the first weekend pre-nerf, now doing 2-hour 8/8 clears weekly. The level 50 raid content is 95% auto attack content. The only reason you care about parsing is because you're socially inept and don't understand how easy it is to ask somebody for a guild invite, join a raid team, and simply show up and press buttons. I pity anyone who cares about parsing in SoD.

NatoRadeX: This addon is borderline breach of player privacy...

langa77777: These greedy shits will be the end of modding. I’ve seen it from valve with custom games in Dota

StevenLeeStudios: That's what happens when you have crazy people running the asylum!

bluemyst42: Blizzard doesnt care about any of the Classic products, including SoD. The devs working at Blizz now are pissed that so many people prefer Classic to their new "modern audience" version. They reluctantly gave us Classic AFTER they shut down the Nostalrius private server and told us "you think you do, but you dont."

PlaymeoffSia: Have to pay for it? Blizzard should break it and ban it

Vandri2388: This is 10x worse than gear score, it's a invasion of player privacy and it's breaking TOS by only be available behind a expensive paywall, if Blizzard chooses to ignore this they will basically have green lit every single addon to do the same.

grimneeldrakia7173: there is a reason that yelling at other players in FFXIV for doing low damage gets you banned

m.m9769: Playing FFXIV right now, feels so nice not caring about add-ons

nickgreenhow5513: Players when leveling: "I don't want to be in the spotlight or some main character"

Players when raiding: "Why are you not in the top ten percentile?"

naemieaad5456: Feels like when gearscore came out lmao

tzoanast1061: Just fucking ban the addons already...

Fungus8mycrab: Blizzard has not cared about the game for a very long time.

johnnygray8563: Banning addons would save the game

AlvinY4kitori: Now you can be like Frieza and his boys and read the power level of BullCosby the tauren druid

_Aynix: WoW was "actually fucked" more than 10 years ago

I2dios8: I remember when I first started playing WoW and was flabbergasted when my friends told me I would need to download 3rd party programs to play the game effectively. It's ridiculous as a base concept, and it's only ever going to get worse until it's all removed.

EnderGoku9001: watch Blizzard make something like this that costs $30

shaicat: This is why the FFXIV approach to addons is the right one. Yes, addons exist and people use them, but as soon as you make it known

silv1860: WoW has a weirder mentality on this than FF does. Yes we have parsing, but average people don't look at it the same way they do in WoW. We can just join a random PF and people don't usually care enough to look you up, we just get a full party and go. Finding statics that only really care about killing the boss is the easiest thing in the world too.

People do care in higher end statics, but I think at that point its more justified in the sense that they are coming together to find people who can play at a high level. The problem in WoW is how it's taken over the pug scene.

premiumfruits3528: The funniest part is SoD is a joke and was never meant to be serious. This is like that episode of Malcom in the Middle where Hal gets into power walking and buys the designer track suit and shoes and 500 dollar helmet. Imagine going to a Chess World Championship and off to the side there's a table of checkers players screaming and cussing at each other and acting elitist as if they're playing the most intellectually advanced game ever created and everything is at stake. This is the same exact vibe.

jessewatson4876: If you banned the DPS meter, the try hards would freak out.

LazyCatSunday: Imagine paying $15 a month to play this shit.

curtisphillips243: Parsing sucks for healers. Before healers would throw in some damage to help the dps on a boss but if a healer presses a damage button now their healing parse gets destroyed.

TyrantsRuin: Blizzard: Hold my beer... $59.99

TheBappin: all i know is i haven't give a single though to whatever parsing is, and i haven't spent any gold on raid consumables, and i'm still having a blast raiding... anytime i see someone saying "i hate that raiding is expensive" or "lfg ____, checking parses" i just laugh at them because they are making their life harder by caring about things that don't matter.

"you do need a way to stop under performers, buy how do you do that?" There is this mechanic in the game where the raid leader or raid assist can kick someone from the raid group.

Gatekeep retroactively, not proactively.

ocanica3184: People have been trying to convince me that SoD is Classic since Phase 1, it's not. Levelled my Lock to 10 then went back to Era.

CyrathWoW: When there was no addons in FFXIV we ran a background program that tracked everything similar to the way you track in WoW.

Even if we remove addons, people will still find a way to track it through overlays outside of the game.

I'm deff part of the problem as my guild requires 90% or higher to even be allowed into raid, despite the raids on SoD being insanely easy and us killing bosses in under 30-40 seconds. That said, we've retained more players by pushing parses than the other group that are losing all their members to burn-out.

I don't think SoD is in a great place, I wish using parsing was not the best way to keep people interested into the game by pushing themselves each week for those rank 1(100%) Parses.

We try to hold pvp nights, rep farm nights, ect but nothing compared to parsing runs which always has a full turn-out.

I agree with everything asmon says, I agree with other peoples frustrations, I wish there was an alternative.

RawrIAmWinning: Genius of Asmon to say Blizz won't care tbh, now after this news makes enough waves they'll do something. Truly, our bald mastermind's tactical skill knows no bounds.

May 09 2024

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