While there is nothing wrong about posting something positive, and while I do enjoy FFXIV as a game, there is also nothing wrong with providing criticism when things are falling short or feeling stale.

Some of the complaints that I have seen have some validity to them: such as the game’s formula for patches/expansions—2 new expert dungeons one patch, 1 the next; Savage/Normal Mode 8-man in even-numbered patches, 24-man in catch-up patch; new tomestone every other patch with 450 weekly limit; etc.. It gets to be a little stale after being the formula for 4 years. So I can understand the complaints there.

I can also understand complaints about trying to force certain mindsets on the entire playerbase when that doesn’t exactly work. I’ve heard that the Greed-Only for Alliance raid loot stems from a JP mindset of how JP players play their main jobs in content so as to not hinder the other players with lesser geared jobs, and then cannot roll Need on items not for their main, but that they want for the purpose of gearing up their alt jobs. Meanwhile, the NA/EU side has had an almost unanimously negative reaction to the change (though I have also heard that JP is not exactly thrilled about the change either).

Positivity is nice to have; but so is constructive advice. Blatantly negative threads aren’t constructive, but when people post well-thought out complaints and/or criticisms, I wouldn’t necessarily call them a bad thing, nor say that the poster is being deliberately miserable. They would just like to see an improved experience for themselves (and other like-minded players, too).