There has not been a single major patch without a critical issue since Endwalker.

[Akiudo]

Meanwhile you have the other side calling every type of feedback a personal attack on the devs. At this point EW is the Cata expansion of XIV. It checks off all the marks if you compare them side by side, lol.

literally the fourth post in here (the second post of the actual op of this thread) says that the dev's just don't care and have lost all passion. if you put in months of your live into something and than get told that obviously you didn't care than don't tell me that isn't an attack on you. later on on page 9 we have a post upvoted 18 times saying "so what if people are mean to the devs", and that general sentiment just seeps through every part of this thread.

or what about other parts of the forum ? i mean my comment wasn't adressing this thread in particular but more a general aspect of the forum.

we had a thread named something like "lets cut the developers some slack" opening with a sarcastic post about the hamsters powering the servers being tired or something akin to that, another (mis)using google trends to paint the game as basically dead or the thread on the hildibrand relic calling out the devs for forcing people to grind out such an "absurdly long quest chain to start the relic" (its not really any longer than the ivalice questline if you only do it for the relic and dislike hildibrand cause at that point you might aswell skip cutscenes) which includes several people in thread calling the devs lazy, the hildibrand storyline trash (you don't have to like it personally, thats fair, but again someone had to put in the work to create it) and if the devs aren't lazy than they are actively ruining the game. and lets not go into the 600+ page thread of the same 50 or so people basically having a circlejerk about how much the story sucks.

am i saying that nothing constructive ever gets unnecessarely put as "an attack" ? no, no i'm not, it happens. but at least 2/3 of the threads in this forum could ask for exactly the same things with a quarter of the "the devs are lazy/just don't care/have no idea what they are doing/even some random modder can do a better job" and you than wouldn't need "white knights" protecting square, which is another of these things while where at it, people aren't automatically white knights (no that weren't your words but they did get used in this very thread) because they disagree with things you take issue with, the fact of the matter is that the ffxiv forums are full of personal attacks.