Is no one happy?

[Vryn]

Almost all gaming forums are an utterly microscopic proportion of their respective playerbases and the FF14 forums are an even smaller representation than that. If you spend any time here you realise that the number of posters here are a veritable dust speck compared to the numbers playing in game, additionally a large number of posts (especially the negative ones) are repeats from a hardened cadre of usual suspects. A couple of hundred rage posters of which maybe a quarter have anything of a legitimate and coherent issue to discuss as opposed to deranged poopposts compared to millions of satisfied players, don't let it get to you, either that or enjoy yourself playing forum dodge-ball.

EDIT: I'm all for constructive feedback to devs but I'm sorry, a lot of these complaint posts are ABSURDLY subjective or make no sense at all or ask for something that is even worse because they don't think about the ramifications of the various design decisions, or are barely human language that can be decoded.

If you want to complain, that's fine but the onus is on the complainer to make a clearly reasoned, least-as-possibly-subjective discussion and THEN take it on the chin if people politely say "no thanks I disagree because ..." instead of exploding into a screeching monkey-poo throwing lump of inhuman insanity.

Everything is subject. You are subjective on objective statements. That's what creates an opinion, and we as humans use said opinion to give feedback because it allows us to grant context and subtext to what would be bland objective statements

Just because something is subjective doesn't mean it's wrong. They are liking/disliking an aspect of a certain issue within the game and state why which is undoubtedly relevant feedback. But, at the same time, that may not represent everyone, and no one says it does, it does represent them and people like them, and there will be more players like them.

They have stated a point. They gave their evidence and then expanded on that evidence and linked it back to the topic. If you do not agree with that statement or think it is not logical, that's fine, but then it's on you to deconstruct their information with your reasons so they can construct the point again, taking on your reasons to refine the overall topic.

That is the point of the forums to construct and deconstruct to refine feedback. If you posted on the forums, others would label your thread as highly subjective, and that's okay.

Whether people think it's toxic or not, we are here to fight, converse and argue our point as fervently as possible. We are here to have gotcha snide and bitchy moments because it shows humanity's actual thought process on the subject. Very little worth has been derived from any situation built on love and kindness. Even marriages fail when built on crap. So you should expect people not to agree and fight over something as much as possible. Yes, that's a good thing because what's leftover is more valuable to the devs than what began, and if it goes too far for them, they can shut it down, but it doesn't stop it. It will just continue. There always be another thread.

Conflict is the spice of life. It's what makes things interesting it's why it's called Drama. It grabs people's attention. Toxicity, pain, and EMOTIONAL DAMAGE are not harmful in contained environments and help promote growth. However, you may have to die on a hill a few times to mature and grow mentally as a human, especially on controversial subjects.