Counterpoint to all the Debbie Downers lately...

[TowaIsBestGirl]

I'm almost in the same boat here, although my reasoning is less about being stubborn and more about finding humor in the wild flailing of madmen. You need to be a particularly... unique... specimen to earn a spot on my block list.

While I'd hardly say I have a saint's patience, I prefer to continue dealing with less cooperative posters until I absolutely cannot do so any longer or until such a time as they say something that offends my moral values. So far, no one has managed to accomplish this just yet.

That's because the worst people on the positive side of the argument are people like VelKallor who gives everyone angry rants, and Striker44 who goes on and on about some invisible majority. Then on the other side, the worst of the negative people is supposedly Aveyond who is just a little forceful with his opinions. To a normal person coming into the forums, the positive side of the argument looks insane and overbearing while the negative side at worst looks jaded and cynical. Towa is literally in the position I was in just a little under a year ago when I started posting more often than the occasional question. I came to the same conclusions after seeing how rabid certain people can be. Are you surprised that someone new would come to these conclusions?

In the spirit of fairness, I feel inclined to state that while I concur with you on the perceptions of those first two I don't know for an absolute certainty if I'd have liked to been around for past posts made by the third poster in question. I imply nothing untowards, of course but assuming there is any accuracy in certain tales I've heard I think maybe I can deem myself fortunate to be a late arrival here.

You really have some nerve calling someone who wants to post their enjoyment having some contrarian purpose. You don’t know that person and have been here a month. You in fact were in that thread saying she was wrong about her own opinions. I mean we can get into your own behavior more if you really want, since a good portion of your limited history is calling out others. Given I am out of posts, good evening.

(◔_◔) I really despise petty tribalism. Is me addressing only one "side" the sole umbrage you raise against me? Again, as I was saying earlier I have not found any of the recent threads about positivity and what they enjoy to not have had a hidden angle or second half made for the explicit purpose of putting down those who did not enjoy it as much. Frankly, they did not exactly attempt to conceal what jabs they made neither. Once more, there is no such policy stating that positive posts cannot permit less positive posts. Additionally, I'd very much prefer it if you actually linked to the specific thread in question and since you mentioned it in specificity the post of mine you found disfavourable as well.

I'm perfectly willing to recant and correct myself, but I cannot facilitate that if you keep remaining vague about it. But from what I've observed, too much of what is not actually "calling people out" is such to you so I suspect we shall not arrive at an amenable conclusion together.

Edit: Wait just a moment, were you speaking of this thread:

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...s-pretty-great

And, more importantly, this post of mine:

I'd imagine that one of the most glaring flaws in this approach is that half of OP's post is highly inaccurate and ill-researched. If the points being made cannot stay true to the information at hand to players then a suspicion of laziness, reactionism and contrivance is inevitable. The timing could be better too, but that's too possibly coincidental for me to legitimately criticize I feel.

I contest the insinuation that statement I made there was in any way discourteous, I was referring to how the OP did not properly research a few of the points she made in her post not saying she wasn't allowed to be positive. A few points, like the longevity of certain content and the non-stable implementation of the portrait system did not match what a good number of players were professing to experience. If I need to cut back on some of the more scathing remarks I will, but so far I've not observed myself to be nearly as worthy of condemnation as you aspire to throw me to.

Not to mention, a good chunk of your posts in that thread were needlessly antagonistic as well.

Like take these for example:

Completely agree, and love to see a positive thread in the sea of negativity!

I was very much invested in Endwalker's story, and I was captivated until the end. I'm still enjoying the updates now but enjoying the feeling of relative "downtime" for my WOL, which is coinciding with him enjoying other interests (taking up a craft, other classes, housing, Island) that all fits me well now that the world is saved. Excited to see where this goes next.

I'm personally playing more FFXIV than I ever have before, as someone who started in ARR.

Why aren't people allowed to discuss enjoying the game? Contrary to popular beleif (here at least), forums aren't only for endless complaining and bait threads. There is one of these for every 40 complaint threads, but all I see are people looking to turn this thread into something negative too when you literally have nearly every other topic for this.

Oh, they don't want happy players here at all.

This is not the conduct you claim to desire here on this forum, and some of it is predicated upon false pretenses and rather glaring misunderstandings of people's actual positions. In the future, please cut down on the outrage if you do not intend to remain true to your own professed principles.