Quote Originally Posted by Krindor View Post
The Coven weapon did achieve something though, it got the record of killing a community in the shortest time. It didn't even get released and killed the speed running community as soon as it was found out that the stats on them were stupidly high. Why and how it did this you'll have to look up yourself, it's at a lot of places.
No. It's nothing new. The community always finds differences in opinion and expound upon them to dramatic levels. The arguments I see here have sparks no different than FFXI's arguments over expansion difficulty in accessibility, the disbalance of population and classes in Aion, and the similar tone of endgame complains in SWTOR, Guild Wars 2, and Wildstar.

If anything FFXIV has a community stronger than those other I mentioned, though some will argue that FFXI's was closer knit.

If human beings can share words, they'll argue. That's just our nature.

I don't take the complains heard on forums seriously unless I see equal impact within the actual game itself. And honestly, it's too late in the cycle for that to happen. Statics that were falling apart were falling apart to begin with. Those who quit working on Animas were likely never to complete them. Those that still have the will to stick it out will do so - and most who complain will go about their days. You'll have a few exceptions to each of these, but that's what happens when you have thousands upon thousands of different people doing similar things.

This is just another thing to take in stride. There are far more important things in life, especially in the current climate, to fret about.