Q:
DPS meter addon
A:
Yes, as long as it doesn’t show gear or health of other players, and only shows DPS for others using DPS meters or other members of your party/squad.
The two most popular include your own favorite, arcdps.
edit: added that meters are permitted to read DPS from party/squad members, per Chris Clearly, linked below.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
(edited by Illconceived Was Na.9781)
There’s a good collection of dev-responses on the BGDM website.
http://gw2bgdm.blogspot.de/p/tos.html
Tldr: There are features that are allowed and there are features that are forbidden. Personal dps and even group dps in pve is allowed.
Yes, as long as it doesn’t show gear or health of other players, and only shows DPS for others using DPS meters.
The two most popular include your own favorite, arcdps.
this is a fact as the only other dps meter I believe was called bgm or something that has been dropped from the game fully when the new path of fire comes out . and will not be use able any more!!
but their is the ingame dps meter as well that does very good at its job . and really no need at all to check others dps at all in this game . besides all it does is just make more unneeded problems as a whole in general
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Yes, as long as it doesn’t show gear or health of other players, and only shows DPS for others using DPS meters.
The two most popular include your own favorite, arcdps.
this is a fact as the only other dps meter I believe was called bgm or something that has been dropped from the game fully when the new path of fire comes out . and will not be use able any more!!
but their is the ingame dps meter as well that does very good at its job . and really no need at all to check others dps at all in this game . besides all it does is just make more unneeded problems as a whole in general
It’s not clear what will happen with bgdm in September. Its developer said they no longer wish to work on it (new RL priorities etc). They might find someone else to take over.
Also, there are other DPS meters. arc and bg are just the most popular (and probably the most feature-rich, too).
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
as long as it […] only shows DPS for others using DPS meters.
Unless I missed something, I think this part is wrong. Party/squad members are fine no matter whether they use a meter or not, afaik.
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as long as it […] only shows DPS for others using DPS meters.
Unless I missed something, I think this part is wrong. Party/squad members are fine no matter whether they use a meter or not, afaik.
They specifically said otherwise. The system is “opt in” and you can’t “opt in” by accident. If you use a DPS meter, then you’re saying you’re fair game for sharing your DPS data.
Simply joining a squad/party isn’t enough, since that’s required to raid/fractal (and a practical requirement of many open world metas, although of course not technically required). Otherwise, the system would be “opt out,” i.e. the obligation would be on the part of those not wanting their DPS to be read to find out if someone else is doing that.
That said, the existing DPS meters can, under ANet’s rules, do a good job of guesstimating the DPS & buffs of non-users. So for all practical purposes, it’s moot.
I stand corrected; CptAurellian is correct. I apologize for remembering what was said in the past instead of ANet’s more recent policy update. (Thanks delta-c for linking the quote.)
Regardless, in their current “official” state, BGdm and ArcDPS are considered ok-to-use.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
(edited by Illconceived Was Na.9781)
Yes, as long as it doesn’t show gear or health of other players, and only shows DPS for others using DPS meters.
They specifically said otherwise. The system is “opt in” and you can’t “opt in” by accident. If you use a DPS meter, then you’re saying you’re fair game for sharing your DPS data.
Simply joining a squad/party isn’t enough, since that’s required to raid/fractal (and a practical requirement of many open world metas, although of course not technically required). Otherwise, the system would be “opt out,” i.e. the obligation would be on the part of those not wanting their DPS to be read to find out if someone else is doing that.
The link points to Chris Cleary saying the following on Reddit:
Good questions here, but nothing I haven’t already answered. I’ll go ahead and rebump previous info given out here.
ArenaNet authorizes the use and development of 3rd Party tools under the banner of a “DPS Meter”. “DPS Meters” is defined as the collection and processing of combat related data in order to develop a statistical and visual representation of that data. This combat data maybe [sic] collected from anyone inside of your immediate social group. Social groups are defined as including the player character, and current party and/or squad.
Combat data does not include current entity status, including current Buffs/Debuffs/Health/Stats/Location or any other data that is not generated due to the usage of skills or impact on player characters due to skill usage (by the PC/s or an outside source).
The collection and processing of data in the client must be limited to the scope of the “DPS meter” and should not exceed it. Visualization of this data must also limited to the scope of the “DPS Meter” which includes visualizations, logging, and processing/visualization of logging.
I highlighted the relevant part of the statement (since most of it doesn’t apply). I stand corrected: CptAurellian was correct. (I’ll also edit my previous posts.)
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
(edited by Illconceived Was Na.9781)
There’s a good collection of dev-responses on the BGDM website.
http://gw2bgdm.blogspot.de/p/tos.htmlTldr: There are features that are allowed and there are features that are forbidden. Personal dps and even group dps in pve is allowed.
1. He’s looking for a replacement to take over since he’s not playing
2. The meter has been broken since the last big update – very broken.
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Well what about mac client addons? If there will be one for windows, I want one for mac as well.