Quote Originally Posted by BrokentoothMarch View Post
If I may, I think it's mostly run rampant because there's very little faith we'll be tended to. The whole "They only listen to JP" is a common meme, true or not. So the forums here are more of a venting ground now. Doom and gloom and just getting frustrations out.
The forums have been a venting ground for a very long time now. Trust me, I know. It's a wonderful contrast to the echo-chamber of positivity that Reddit and Twitter are but when I see people shit up threads with multiple-paragraph-long conspiracy theories (that sometimes get just as many upvotes as similarly unhinged positive reddit posts lmao), I'm inclined to believe that they're every bit as deluded.

And, like, I'm no stranger to posting paragraph upon paragraph of malding over this game's shit design. Just look at some of my posts in the tank forum circa-2017. I literally dealt with awful gearing and even worse balance twice as long as healers have dealt with their own design problems. Literally, it lasted both of my first two expansions (HW and StB, although you can count StB as a bad sign for healers in retrospect so it's a bit subjective). But it just boggles my mind sometimes that people haven't adjusted their expectations yet when the devs have made the same mistakes (3.0 six month content drought and awful content in 3.1. I'm surprised the game didn't fucking die right then) or worse (the diadem in HW, all of it, and both Anemos and Pagos) in the past.

Or maybe it's just players experiencing this game's failings for the first, second, third, and fourth time consecutively, idk. But my own expectations for this game's non-raid content have been rock bottom for a while now so I'm just happy with what I get.