Yoshi-P Statement on Player Feedback

[Kaurhz]

If echoing someone's own sentiment that they don't play tanks at high level, and voicing a dislike for Eureka-style content in a straightforward manner, while still not name calling is this community's standard for horrible, unbearable cruelty? Then it's plain the community only tolerates Stepford positive feedback.

The problem pervading this thread isn't Yoshi telling lunatic JP players issuing death threats to knock it off. It's the babying NA community equating "this content/design is bad" with unimaginable horror that shouldn't be countenanced.

I will continue my broken record statements that FFXIV's community's worst problem is its toxic fake positivity and lionization of passive-aggression as "mature" behavior.

What is it with people struggling to grasp the notion; "It is not what you say but how you say it" - You don't need to outright be offensive or rude. Simply stating, or trying to push the agenda that the developers are lazy, particularly from people who aren't even remotely qualified to do the self-same job, or of equal proportion is almost absurdly laughable. #

I need only practically look at the myriad of threads on this forum to see a clear and noticeable portion of people using it as an opportunity to be either rude and disrespectful towards people that more than likely work harder than the absolute vast majority of people on this forum. Take for example telling a developer or making the statement that they should be fired simply because their design philosophy doesn't align with your own. - What you and many people need to realise is that there is a distinction between criticising the content and the design of aforementioned content, and then criticising the developers themselves as a result. I've seen a fair few cases where people have taken less time criticising the content and how it can be improved, and more time trying to spurt out nonsensical and counterproductive remarks.

You can construe the behaviour as you wish. If someone acting like a fairly decent human being constitutes as fake positivity or passive-aggressive then by all means... Personally I'd rather not have a decrepit moral compass.