Why does everyone complain about STORY based MMO's?

[ZedxKayn]

That's because it's non-constructive criticism

So? Not all criticism has to be constructive. Saying "x is not fun" doesn't make the criticism worthless, it's player feedback. It's as constructive as "wow I enjoyed the story so much!" yet you never see people say "tHaT'S nOt CoNsTrUcTiVe CrItIcIsM" to that. It's up to the devs to figure out what to do with any type of criticism positive or negative, constructive, neutral or abrasive, to ignore it, acknowledge it, think about it, because the statement "x is not fun" doesn't stop being true for the player because it wasn't presented with a wall of text on how to perhaps make x more fun. Additionally, I'd reckon the feedback of players that quit can be extremely valuable for the devs, probably more than the positive criticism.

Besides, white knights find way to call even constructive criticism "non-constructive" through mental gymnastics and disingenuity just because they can't stand any criticism of the game. Like how can you call any and all criticism from this subset of the playerbase "non-constructive"? Did you read every criticism from people who quit be it at lv27 or lv78? What makes you think that? Because they aren't entirely up to date with every piece of content there's out there? If so then no criticism is constructive until the game's development is thoroughly over, and the positive feedback of the sprout that's still lv40 being thankful for the addition of trust and/or streamlining in ARR stuff isn't constructive either... But you'd never even think about replying to an enthusiastic sprout that's saying nothing more thought out than "this is neat" that their criticism isn't constructive, would you? People who don't even have 20 minutes into the game can give feedback regarding an aspect of the game they have reached, aka character creation, about as well as someone who has thousands of hours into the game. Doesn't make it worthless or not valid.

So yeah, I have seldom seen a community more allergic to criticism.