Take a moment for self-reflection and ask yourself the following

Take a moment for self-reflection and ask yourself the following:
If you feel these forums are filled with too many criticisms and negativity towards the game, why are you still here posting and spending your time here?
Then consider your answer.
Is your life better because you stayed?

nice new sig

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Originally Posted by EderTheBro

nice new sig

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Would you say graphic design is your passion?

shouldn't you do some self reflection on that point seeing you saw it necessary to make this point? *sips tea*

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Originally Posted by EderTheBro

Is your life better because you stayed?

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Yes, I'd be awful lonely if I left.

Yes, because it's an awesome game.

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Originally Posted by EderTheBro

If you feel these forums are filled with too many criticisms and negativity towards the game, why are you still here posting and spending your time here?

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Because trying to be positive is never a waste of time.

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Originally Posted by EderTheBro

Take a moment for self-reflection and ask yourself the following:
If you feel these forums are filled with too many criticisms and negativity towards the game, why are you still here posting and spending your time here?
Then consider your answer.
Is your life better because you stayed?

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Nah, we're just tired of all your alts and the constant trolling.

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Originally Posted by Ransu

Nah, we're just tired of all your alts and the constant trolling.

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it is unfortunate I can only have one like for this comment.

"We're tired of this troll" they say, as they continue to feed him.

I just like watching meltdowns happen when people say they didnt enjoy endwalker.

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Originally Posted by Oizen

I just like watching meltdowns happen when people say they didnt enjoy endwalker.

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some people take it like a war crime if you are not 100% enjoying the game

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Originally Posted by Oizen

I just like watching meltdowns happen when people say they didnt enjoy endwalker.

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I just like watching meltdowns happen when people say they enjoyed endwalker.

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Originally Posted by ZephyrMenodora

I just like watching meltdowns happen when people say they enjoyed endwalker.

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Theres a lot to like about the expansion. But like, why do we need to create appreciation posts? It feels very patting yourself on the back. From my POV most appreciation threads feel like a desperate attempt to keep the shiny paint up to hide whats beneath the surface. Youre inviting unhinged responses lol, its like a magnet. Game forums are always majority criticisms of the game.

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Originally Posted by EderTheBro

Take a moment for self-reflection and ask yourself the following:
If you feel these forums are filled with too many criticisms and negativity towards the game, why are you still here posting and spending your time here?
Then consider your answer.
Is your life better because you stayed?

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I wouldn't say that my life is better, but certainly it's been more entertained at times.

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Originally Posted by Ivtrix

Theres a lot to like about the expansion. But like, why do we need to create appreciation posts? It feels very patting yourself on the back. From my POV most appreciation threads feel like a desperate attempt to keep the shiny paint up to hide whats beneath the surface. Youre inviting unhinged responses lol, its like a magnet. Game forums are always majority criticisms of the game.

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Yes, this is true haha. I think a gaming forum of only people who refuse to look critically at the game would be very boring, and wouldn't really offer anything to help it improve.

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Originally Posted by EderTheBro

Take a moment for self-reflection and ask yourself the following:
If you feel these forums are filled with too many criticisms and negativity towards the game, why are you still here posting and spending your time here?
Then consider your answer.
Is your life better because you stayed?

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A lot of people would answer....

In the slim hope that there criticisms will be heard and the game will be made just a little better...

After all there are only 2 types of feedback.

And those types are NOT "positive" and "negative".

They are "Constructive" feedback. And "Useless" feedback.

Just saying the game is crap is USELESS feedback.

Just saying the game is amazing is also USELESS feedback.

However...

Saying the game is crap because X, Y, and Z. Is CONSTRUCTIVE feedback.

Saying the game is amazing because X, Y, and Z is also CONSTRUCTIVE feedback.

Positive or negative doesn't matter. If it's not constructive its useless.

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Originally Posted by Dzian

A lot of people would answer....

In the slim hope that there criticisms will be heard and the game will be made just a little better...

After all there are only 2 types of feedback.

And those types are NOT "positive" and "negative".

They are "Constructive" feedback. And "Useless" feedback.

Just saying the game is crap is USELESS feedback.

Just saying the game is amazing is also USELESS feedback.

However...

Saying the game is crap because X, Y, and Z. Is CONSTRUCTIVE feedback.

Saying the game is amazing because X, Y, and Z is also CONSTRUCTIVE feedback.

Positive or negative doesn't matter. If it's not constructive its useless.

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I can't remember what thread it was in, but I remember trying to get an answer as to how people would make things better, and the majority of answers I got were "that's not my job to figure out". And they wonder why their feedback is generally dumped into the useless category.

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Originally Posted by Deo14

"We're tired of this troll" they say, as they continue to feed him.

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Originally Posted by EderTheBro

Take a moment for self-reflection and ask yourself the following:
If you feel these forums are filled with too many criticisms and negativity towards the game, why are you still here posting and spending your time here?
Then consider your answer.
Is your life better because you stayed?

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Yeah I asked my reflection that and it just laughed as it said the Dreaded One is closing in and God cannot save me whilst chewing off my skin. Do with that what you will.

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Originally Posted by EderTheBro

Take a moment for self-reflection and ask yourself the following:
If you feel these forums are filled with too many criticisms and negativity towards the game, why are you still here posting and spending your time here?
Then consider your answer.
Is your life better because you stayed?

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the entire reason 2.0+ exists was because of people coming to the forums and raising complaints and up until sometime between stormblood and shadowbringers the Devs were active on all the forums. I do not know the extinct that they are still active outside of pretty much just JP. Answering questions and making response to many of the very threads you see today. it was a wonderful time where there was often 1 thread, the devs would mark it for them to watch and the players would theory craft/argue it out and the devs would chime in occasionally.
This kept a large portion of the player base satisfied, as the active communication and relatively quick response times in addressing situations. For instance with casting brd/mch they kept an active communication about, of why they were sticking by there guns on it and urging the player base to keep playing it while taking and eventually removing the cast from them as the playerbase hated it with good reason who wants to cast on brd or mch. For a recent example of how they no longer do look at smn.
However during the pandemic fired many of their live translators, and stopped interacting with the English playerbase(possibly others as well). Eventually stopping the immediate translation of live letters, which they used to do. Now we wait an inconsistent 1-2 weeks for an official translation. While we have to get translations from 2ndary sources many times with small inaccuracies that lead to a lot of debate.
Many of dream of the day they come back and actually listen, and communicate with us again. saving us from the 100 threads on the same thing like they did in the old days. Instead what we get is chaos, crazyness, confusion, fighting. They let go most of their fan relation/dev translators they had on staff because of the pandemic, and SE keeps bleeding money by making overpriced gatches so I doubt we will see their return anytime soon.

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Originally Posted by EderTheBro

Take a moment for self-reflection and ask yourself the following:
If you feel these forums are filled with too many criticisms and negativity towards the game, why are you still here posting and spending your time here?
Then consider your answer.
Is your life better because you stayed?

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After those two of your hydra's head been cut off, what's your answer then?

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Originally Posted by EderTheBro

Take a moment for self-reflection and ask yourself the following:
If you feel these forums are filled with too many criticisms and negativity towards the game, why are you still here posting and spending your time here?
Then consider your answer.
Is your life better because you stayed?

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Be the change you wish to see in the world.

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Originally Posted by Antharaes

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Okay there, vampire.

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

After those two of your hydra's head been cut off, what's your answer then?

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Originally Posted by Urielparadox

They let go most of their fan relation/dev translators they had on staff because of the pandemic, and SE keeps bleeding money by making overpriced gatches so I doubt we will see their return anytime soon.

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Do you have a source that says they fired most of the dev translators? It's worrying if that is the case but it might explain a lot.