Quote Originally Posted by TitanWomen View Post
I’m envious of people who DO enjoy the story, because Square Enix is known for their amazing FF stories, but XIV just isn’t one of them.
Just wanna point out perhaps the reason you get criticized is the way you phrase your comments about the story.

By saying the story is bad (or that it 'just isn't one of the good ones' as you put it here) you're insulting the taste and preferences people who disagree with you by implying they like bad things. Also by saying 'I skip every scene but still somehow know enough about what happens in those scenes to know they're bad' you kind of put yourself on rocky ground for actually discussing the quality of the story. It'd be like 'I went to a restaurant, ordered a meal and threw it in the garbage because I knew it was bad' or 'I watched a movie, but closed my eyes and plugged my ears for the entire thing. It sucked' - if you skip everything, you really objectively lack the knowledge to judge it's quality. That's not to say you should stop skipping - if you don't enjoy it, you should skip it. But you should then not pretend you know the actual quality of the story.

If you stick to 'I personally don't like the story, it just didn't really resonate with me' or something along those lines rather than 'FF games usually have good stories but not this one!', you might get less blowback on your comments.

That being said, I agree that nobody should be witch-hunted for their preferences... however, I do wish people would think about more about WHY they might be getting the responses to their comments that they are...