Quote Originally Posted by Oizen View Post
I've genuinely been impressed by the FFXIV community's ability to not only be content with mediocrity from the developers, but actively praise and defend it.

Even on topics that are objectively true, if it has a negative spin about the state of the game, people will act like you're attacking their very being, rather than the product of a major gaming corporation with a net worth of over 6 billion dollars.
Scrolling through threads in first 5 pages in different sections of the forum, most of those topics are negative towards the game.

Where’s toxic positivity when you need it?

The fact that many replies in said threads are actually in line with the topics, with some derailing here and there, some neutral takes, and definitely few white knights. Apparently those affirmations are not enough and we certainly need toxic positivity to build a victim status in order to make our voice heard. Victim card is such an useful tool


If anything, those “constructive criticism “ posts are not brushed off by “toxic positivity.“ Your voice is not heard because they’re drowned by threads of personal requests, ranting, and complaints. All of which hide behind a glamorous facade called “ constructive criticism.”

Not saying every complaint is not valid, but there’re definitely posts that complain just for the sake of it. One becomes numb when negativity keeps adding up. Your “constructive criticism “ becomes one star in the universe. Beautiful, but hardly noticeable in the grand scheme of things.

But yeah, let’s keep blaming toxic positivity. As of it’s simply a counter force of toxic negativity. Those two cannot exist without each other.