Is no one happy?

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My only point is that it seems that some people let their enjoyment of the game be ruined or be driven to extreme emotion over cosmetics or 1 or 2 jobs not performing quite perfectly, when so many games have it so much worse. It really just wreaks of first world mmo problems.

Buddy I've literally been playing other games just because 14's getting worse and worse ever since ShB, and let me tell you, those other games do a LOT of things better than 14, yes including WoW, the game that everyone in this community has a hate boner:

WoW job design is better than FF14. The specs are still unique. Blood DK plays totally different from Brewmaster. Disc Priest plays totally different from Holy, and fucking BEASTMASTER (yes WoW has a BST) plays different from Survival Hunter.

Destiny is literally moving away from their dumbed down system of "3 skill trees" opting for more customizability and build crafting. Bungie has been adding more and more depth to the game ever since Beyond Light. They've even changed their encounter formula from literally "sit in the Well and shoot at the boss while he stands still" to literally "yeah this boss actually will kill you while you shoot at him, so don't sit in the well."

Fuck, even V-Rising showed how good the housing decoration system can be if people didn't have to rely on glitches and bullshit to do anything.

Yeah ofc those games have their own weaknesses, but we're not talking about that. We're talking about what FF14 can learn from other games, what the devs can implement into this game.

And before you say "OH MY GOD THIS IS FF14 NOT WOW OH MY GOD REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE". Bud, did you know how your god actually managed to save FF14 from the disaster that is 1.X?

They literally took the good things from other video games, and used that to improve on the weaknesses of FF14.

wElL pAyO, wHy dOnT yOu sToP pLaYiNg FF iF yOu cAnT aPpReCiAtE yOsHiP's gReAt mInd? fF14 bEsT gAmE bTw bEsT mMo UWU.

Cause I still love this game, and I want this game to be the best it was, the best it HAD BEEN. I WANT this game to be better, so I offer solid criticism from my PoV.

The moment the players don't give a fuck about the game anymore is the moment the game dies. If it can happen to WoW, the game where everyone thought it wouldn't fail, then it can happen to FF14, the game where clearly people think won't fail.

You're free to disagree with the criticism, just offer valid counterpoints on why you disagree. That's fine and totally welcome!

But if you're trying to silence criticism by saying "oH mY gOd tOuCh gRaSs! FF14 BEST GAME UWU UWU UWU UWU UWU!!!!", then you don't really have anything to contribute to the discussion, and respectfully, shut the fuck up.

That said, I do think a lot of people who frequent these forums could benefit from some perspective. Maybe take a step back from the game, gaming in general, and have a look and see just how good we have it here over all. I don't think even the staunchest Yoshi sycophant would say the game is 100% perfect with zero room for improvement.

If you really have this mindset of just being satisfied with mediocrity in life, then more power to you! By all means, enjoy the game! Don't let what other people say ruin your enjoyment of the thing you like.
We're not screaming at you to stop playing and enjoying it. In fact, we encourage it!

Me personally? I want the best in life, and that includes the hobbies I immerse myself in, including gaming, including FF14. You don't get to tell us that our criticism isn't valid just because you consider the Big Mac as the best burger you ever had, but the moment you discover that that Big Mac can be improved with extra cheese or something, then feel free to come back here and offer your criticism. You're more than welcome to! Or don't, that's fine too.