Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
Declaring the 'majority' of players to be happy and with no complaints of note unlike the 'haters' was exactly the same sort of gaslighting that led people to declare that WoW wasn't on a downward spiral and that everything was fine despite shifting from a global phenomenon with ten million active players to a quivering wreck too scared to publicly declare its number of active subscriptions.

People generally don't speak out with negative criticism because they hate the game. It's usually done because they're invested and would rather not see another major MMO repeat the same predictable pitfalls that WoW fell into.

As an aside, this isn't solely the 'NA' forum. It encompasses many voices from players from various European countries and elsewhere. It strikes me as rather bizarre to brush off such a broad range of posters as 'hAtUrZ' on that basis alone!
It kinda is just the NA forums, i know the truth hurts pal. Most of the XIV players are just going about their day enjoying the game, forums and social media will always be the minority of players who go out of their way to troll and spew out their hot takes.

And trust me i can read (and write) in english, german and even a bit of french and japanese and i can tell you that the NA social media platforms are the only ones that are crying like the final final fantasy days are upon us. Neither EU nor JP has players with such a need to cry their virtual eyes out on forums etc.

So yeah if you are the only one crying about a imaginary "problem" that just revolves around you i would suggest checking if that game and the core philosophy behind it is still for you. Better than trying to project your minority views so hard on the devs that they make changes for what...1% of the playerbase who balls their eyes out about the latest changes?