Quote Originally Posted by Zanarkand-Ronso View Post
Its not Deflecting or Downplaying Criticism by any stretch of the imagination to suggest X game might not be for you. You are still able to voice concerns despite anybody elses thoughts. One side can have theirs, and the other side can have theirs. Both Sides are Valid.
Ill never understand why one side is able to criticize and tell people its ok to Criticize and voice their opinion, but then tell the other side they aren't allowed to have one for not agreeing with you, and act like them not agreeing with you is an attempt at silencing you. It just...makes no sense.

Whats wrong with people being happy? Its funny how even threads that are positive of the game get met with Venom of "How dare you be happy, the game has all these problems"
or insert how I dont like this. Then just sit here and call people Shills, cult members and stuff for enjoying the game and not having the same complaints.
There are people out there who can find joy in things despite issues, or literally said issue doesn't effect them....why not just let them have it? Its an issue for you, voice it...but dont sit there and get all upset because someone else doesn't have the same issue.
Everyone is allowed to be happy or unhappy with something.

But let's take housing as an example: some people are happy with housing as it is. Maybe they have a house so they don't care if someone else that really wants one can't get one. Maybe they simply don't care about housing at all and never engaged with that content in any way. So what would change for them that they should be against improving housing to make it more accessible for more players? Nobody rips their house from their fingers if they already have one. Nobody forces them to engage with it if they don't care about it. "But then my lively neighbourhood would die and be completely barren" is something that sometimes pop up but many people say they like they neighbourhoods. Maybe they'd even have a livelier one because the people who don't care for it have an instanced house and only the people who do have one in the wards?
What would change is make more players who want to have one happy.

Or let's take healers: some people don't want to dps and it doesn't matter if it means that in some fights they'll be very busy doing... well, nothing. They don't want to dps, they don't do it and are happy not doing it. Some people heal in a way that they end up spending a lot of time healing or overhealing. They are happy as it is. Neither of these two really engage with their dps kit.
So what would change for their gameplay if healers got more downtime options? They apparently don't even have said downtime so it could be a button that paints the floor in rainbow colours and does nothing else for all they care because they do not use it now and would not use it then. The people healing me with Cure in wall to walls in EW dungeons won't engage with their dps kit, whether it's 1 or 10 buttons. And the fearmongering with "but if we had 4 instead of 2 buttons everyone would flame me because my dps sucks and kick me from parties and I couldn't even get my roulettes done" is nonsense when we already had a lot more downtime options in the past and people were more understanding instead of less and ToS still forbid harassment in any way.
But what would change is that healers who face a lot of downtime and 1 button spam could have more to do during the downtime they have now and will continue to have then.

The problem is not being happy, the problem is being happy and not wanting others to be happy when it wouldn't affect them negatively. And "but resources" can be used as an argument for absolutely everything and nothing would ever improve because the status quo then becomes too sacred to risk it and that is one of the major problems many people have: SE is making more money with FFXIV than ever so it can be expected that they use some of that to polish things that have been a problem for years.