Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
I've only ever heard the "this game's community can't take any criticism" line
It can't tho.

On topic, SE just generally withholds information from the public eye. They're very heavy-handed about outside tools like ACT and FFlogs, when they want to be, and compiling an actual workable database on FFXIV is very difficult. And of course, the data mining ban. It's an incredibly strange decision on SE's part, as sharing information would garner greater trust with the playerbase. Knowing exactly what my stats do without having to dig through the game's files would be nice. Taking stock of something like WoWhead, I'd love to see FFXIV actually get access to a database like it, but it's not in the cards for the foreseeable future.