State of the Game prior to Liveletter

[Aluja89]

Curious how long you've been around the forums, because honestly, they've been a cesspool of negativity since forever. Even during some of the most highly-rated expansions like HW, come here? Nothing but bad-mouthing the devs. Heck, even Reddit - a place known for being negative about practically everything under the sun - is positive about FFXIV and EW.

The simple reality is that EW is seen far and away by the playerbase as a fun, enjoyable, successful expansion, and people are overwhelmingly happy about the current state of the game. Thankfully, the devs realize this and give little credence to the attacks and pathetic insults thrown around on the NA forums. Sadly, what happens is the small group of malcontents create an echo chamber here among themselves, and start managing to actually convince themselves that they represent the playerbase instead of the tiniest sliver of the minority that they in truth are.

I mean, just look in this thread at people declaring things as "facts" which aren't by any means, purely personal opinions, and ones in opposition to the opinions widely shared by the general playerbase. It's okay to be dissatisfied with something. But to call opinions as facts and make pathetic, puerile attacks on the dev team doesn't do anything useful.

Bruuuuuh.

You're so out of the loop it's almost unbelievable, or you're a cultist. I think I'm gonna go with cultist.

[Denji]

I'll also never forget the sole poster who actually defended the earless hairstyles. Watching that unfold was surreal to me because they were apparently serious about it, there's just no way we can entrust the discourse to people who are willing to excuse that.

Yeah. I knew a few Hroths who initially defended it too and just said to use the in-game ears (which... don't look like cat ears) with the hairstyles and then bam, jellybean hrothgar happened and they all mysteriously went silent.

Bruuuuuh.

You're so out of the loop it's almost unbelievable, or you're a cultist. I think I'm gonna go with cultist.

I mean it's a person who's talking about how long people have been on the forums for when they themselves have only been here since January this year, so...