I just think SE should pay some attention to what media is saying about their game. Also I think it's a bit unfair to lump ign as one of "bad critics who just want to dump on XIV" as their review of XIV is the 9th highest score out there.

Personally I think many reviewers just stated it's so bad that they wrote scathing pieces with nothing constructive about it. Ign wrote many review-long pieces of review in process before they published their score.

Sure I don't think IGN is the best review site out there (they're a bit too keen on anything that apes hollywood and has everything streamlined) but still their review of the game at least to me seemed fair and had numerous points that SE could take a look at and fix.

What reviewers want and what players want out of a good game aren't two totally different things you know.