What is going on with Square Enix and the 14 team?

[Kolsykol]

ESO, Swtor

ESO is its own beast imo, it's just so different than other MMO's.
It's unironically my favorite Elder Scrolls games since Morrowind, it's a way better singleplayer open world game than both Skyrim and Oblivion.
But I view it more as a singleplayer game tbh.
Unfortunately I really hate the way the characters look and the weapon switching combat but I love the world.

In regards to SWTOR, the '' expansion '' was genuinely one of the most embarrassing launches ever and the story content is a complete joke.
The fact that they launched it even calling it an expansion is crazy, they hyped it up so much.
If you want to see a game that feels like it's on life support then SWTOR is probably a good example, it's pretty universally agreed upon that the state of the game is absolutely horrible.
Which is strange because it still has a ton of players ( cuz Star Wars ) but EA seems to have no real interest in doing anything with it.

Altho that's with endgame in mind, if you just want to do the main story for the characters then it's still great.
But if you're a long term player it's pretty awful and the lack of content is on another level.

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I just dunno what you want me to say to that, especially when a lot of them had every incentive in the world to hate on the game and actually went into it with a VERY negative attitude and an audience that already hated the game.
Ofc there's a lot of fakeness the same goes for Youtubers too, I think it's mostly some exaggerations tho and not necessarily fakeness.
Most of them also don't need to play FFXIV they could get into another game.
Every community has harassment issues too I think like with a lot of else about FFXIV it's mostly people blowing it out of proportion and it becomes something people tell each other and just a repeated thing people say and end up believing.
Ultimately tho I don't really care if one is slightly worse than the other, in Mikepreachwow's and Nobbels chats at least it's just a straight up meme that they're '' reacting wrong '' it's not taken seriously at all.
And usually when I see people go on about the '' toxicity of FFXIV players '' it's coming from people playing other games that aren't exactly the most wholesome person themselves.
It's also not like Twitch chat has a good reputation for being wholesome either.

In the end of the day you can write off reviewers like this too, and Streamers was just one example.
Most of their reactions really reflect what I see ingame too and not what I see on the forums and they had a much bigger financial incentive to stick with WoW.
I mean then why didn't they lie about WoW and say that they loved it?
It's not like they only in these past recent years began criticizing WoW, but why does your argument not apply there too?
That was a MUCH bigger risk potentially career ending and they did it anyway.
In fact some of them did it knowing that it'd probably cost them good will with Blizzard and it did but they did it anyway.

I mean I am sure there's going to be people who lost their house roll too who aren't exactly being the most '' unbiased '' opinion around too.
You can spin these types of arguments and ways of looking at it with basically anything, but my overall point was that the way people are raging on the forums isn't reflective of what I see basically anywhere else.