7.0 copium has got to stop

[TheNight]

Which (as has been discussed ad nauseam on every piece of media related to 14) there is no evidence that a significant base exists who actually like modern healers for their actual design

The forums hate them, shitpostxiv hates them, ffxivdiscussion hates them, even mainsub outside of a few overplayed “blood for the blood lily” jokes hates them, Job satisfaction surveys hate them

Every piece of evidence we have shows that people overwhelmingly hate them, at best there is a measure of people who like support roles who play them because 14 has nothing even remotely close (even ignoring that squares decisions on healers and phys ranged is what destroyed support) to support but there is basically nobody who comes out and says “healer design is good and well designed”

For the simps, they will always accuse others of presenting no data, yet will unabashedly claim they're in the majority with no data.

Such as:

EW knocked it out of the park for the large majority of the playerbase. What's represented here on the forums is the most minuscule minority of the community, and one always prone to complaining about anything. Take a trip around YouTube, or even Reddit (of all places), and for every one person you find here, you'll find dozens of unique people (not the same few posting over and over again) praising EW and celebrating the current state of FFXIV.

Again, EW may have somehow "spent" whatever faith you have for whatever reason, but far and away the general reaction is the complete opposite. The only thing EW has been consistently is praised by most people. Seriously, get out of the pathetic echo chamber of negativity that is this forum and poke around practically any other place on the internet related to FFXIV, and you'll see how overwhelmingly this place does not reflect the general reality.

Except, of course, that they're not. FC's are filled, queues pop even for odd raids at all hours of the day. It is indeed a vocal minority of pathetically bitter people here on the forums that are complaining because they can't stand that other people are having fun playing the game. This forum was less of a cesspool when a certain few people took some time off (ironically, for all they claim to hate the game, they...apparently resubbed and are actively playing again...).

Do I think the number of people who are utterly and absolutely bitter and do nothing but complain and badmouth the game on this forum are the absurdly minuscule minority? Absolutely.

Heck, the echo chamber itself admits it. They love to claim that there are evidently dozens upon dozens of reddits and other sites on the internet filled with overwhelming fanboys who accept no negative commentary, and how this forum is the only place in existence where you can say negative things. And when you look through the threads, it is in fact the same select people posting over and over again in thread after thread. Yet somehow, they believe they magically outnumber that massive number of other sites with ultra-fanboys.

Or just check out YT. On just one video there, you'll probably find more unique people posting about how much they're enjoying EW and how good they think it is than you'll find on this entire forum. That's not "baseless" - it's reality. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it any less real.

Also, yes, everything is open to criticism. But there's a difference between actual criticism and people just mindlessly bashing anything and everything, personally attacking the dev team, and doing the same to anyone who dare points out they actually enjoy something. That's not criticism - that's incredible immaturity doing nothing productive whatsoever, and a major flag that it's time to move on to something else.



Where is your data on "most people don't like IS"? Right - it doesn't exist. And it's absolutely possible that they make mistakes. But when people just whine and attack the devs for literally everything, and then you juxtapose that against the reality that the game has the highest active playerbase ever this expansion, it's obvious such sentiments aren't anywhere near the norm, and it contributes nothing useful to anything.

Dear me, I can't quite find the "data" in these posts.