I know I'll prolly get some stick after the last thread I posted in on the forum, but meh there's nothing stopping me from commenting on people's threads, regardless of what people want to believe.

But I think you're spot on, there's a lot of negativity, now obviously being an official forum there's a level of feedback and suggestions and personally I think they're great to have (and love the fact SE has taken a more active interest), because at least it means SE can learn what players (old and new) like, don't like and how they think it can be improved. And of course on the other hand you do get people taking it too seriously and going a little over the top, with trolls to feed their frustration too. As you rightly say, there's a lot of negativity.

FFXI is a great game, it has a lot about it that's enjoyable and I think that's important. If people are no longer interested, they can stop playing and if they find interest again then they can carry on playing. Yes, I quit the game (and I'm probably going to be trolled), but if the game isn't going to continue to appeal to me then I ought not expect it to, it would be very self-centred if I expected SE to change the game to specifically suit ME.

At the end of the day it's a video game and in playing MMORPG's I know for certain a lot of people forget that and take things waaaaay too seriously, if it's not going to suit you any more then you don't have to play. So although I am a lowlife scumbag quitter who shouldn't even be posting on this forum! SE have done a bloody good job to make the game good and to keep it going for so long.