Quinn hating on the game.

[ElciaDeiLinus]

I just hope situations such as this aren't exploited as a way to deflect legitimate criticism of the game.

It's already being used as a bludgeon by streamers and players who are eager to declare their hate for the community.

Thing is- when someone is saying the game is too easy, while they're spending the entire time dead. When someone is calling the community trash and insulting them, before crying that people didn't just take being called trash lying down. When someone is ignoring mechanics and blaming healers when they fail hard, and think they have 'godtier' skill to adequately judge the combat system. When someone says the game's story is trash after they completely skipped all of it and thus don't even know 1% of what is going on in the game.

I find it very hard to see how those criticisms can be taken as legitimate.

I can admit, if you skip 99% of the story for anything, you won't know what's going on... I don't think this is either a FFXIV specific problem, or something the devs can/should do something about.

If you have three people- one loves Lord of the Rings, the second hates it and has read them all and critically evaluated them and has reasoning for why they think it's a bad book series- and the third skipped to page 450 of Return of the King, read three paragraphs, complained that they didn't know what was going on and the book sucks and everyone who enjoys it are complete idiots.

Should I really be pretending that the third person has equal and valid opinions about the books to the first two?

Are we finally going the step beyond participation trophies- where even those that don't show up or put any effort in are going to get a gold star?

[AziraSyuren]

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"It didn't interest me enough to keep going with" is a perfectly valid criticism of a story, and an uninteresting story is, in fact, bad.

I love this game's story, don't get me wrong, but finding it boring enough to skip is plenty reason to call it bad. A story isn't something you should have to slog through to "earn" the right to enjoy, y'know, the actual game.