Quote Originally Posted by TruebladeNuke View Post
Late reply is late but:

This is actually a personal issue I myself have with gaming communities. Indeed, as you mentioned, they claim that they like the game, but then they only complain about it. I've never liked mixed messages.
Generally speaking, people will complain about things that they care about, and not about things they don't care about. Why they care varies, but in a context of a video game it's usually because they either like or have liked the game.

Also complaints about a game of this magnitude =/= dissatisfaction with every aspect of the game. Our posts are focused, so we discuss our constructive criticsms while leaving out unfocused material such aspects of the game we enjoy. We could write an essay discussing every piece of content that we both like and hate for each and every post, but no one would read it.

Personally, I enjoy MMO's for the social aspect of the game. Playing single player games feels rather lonely now. I've tried GW2, Wildstar, WoW, Tera and a few other F2P games. Each game has done some things right and some things wrong. FFXIV seems to get more right than wrong compared to all else. For example I like in FFXIV:
-Tab targeting
-Raids
-Mobility in combat
-Trinity system
-Graphics
-Glamours
-Available races/classes
-Story
-Traditional style questing
-One character for all
-Flying
-Beautiful landscapes

I don't like:
-Lack of official parsing support
-Lack of official voice chat support
-Lack of replayability of awesome content (such as story)
-Despite 1 character for all, I feel forced into one job as I cannot properly gear my alternate jobs for the content I enjoy most (raids)
-Lack of experience gained in 50 dungeons, this would add a LOT of variety in to what you can do to go from 50-60
-The current maps (not the landscape, the actual maps)
-Method of gathering and crafting (i like GW2 style gathering and Wildstar style crafting)

and so on.