Quote Originally Posted by SargeTheSeagull View Post
Zepla is right, the community cannot take ANY criticism about 14 at all.
I think that isn't really true. There are things that nobody defends, such as:
  • The fact the story is massive and only getting bigger, preventing people catching up to a friend who is at max level very easily.
  • The UI being annoying, such as managing lots of different inventories.
  • Not being able to communicate with people in duties through /tell.
  • Lack of variety in Expert roulette.
  • Lack of decent item level syncs for old duties such as the first max level trial of each expansion.
  • Pre-ordering an expansion not giving you access to the prior expansions until the actual launch day (really bad for sprouts).
If people don't take criticism of the game, then either they simply disagree or the tone and wording is the part they disagree with because perhaps they would make such a criticism without being a negativity nancy about everything else. For example, their outlook is going to be more like "that part is not very good, but all these other things are good!"

On the main subreddit an hour ago I said that 14 was falling behind the other big MMO's like GW2 and WoW and that comment is sitting at -13 votes right now.
What really do you expect? It's like going into a bar and saying alcohol is unhealthy. Sure it is, but it's trolling to go there and say it.

But I think that if you're going to argue that then you should use some statistics otherwise it really is just your opinion. Statistics themselves can be subject to interpretation but at least it is not just throwing something out of nowhere with no evidence.