Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
Your assessment of this situation is fair, I just can't believe that things ended up like this. If you had told me FFXIV would end up the way it did I probably wouldn't have bothered to start playing it in the first place. Now we don't have much of an mmo or even an rpg at all.
Why did it end up like this ? Look no further than Reddit. Where the moderators literally asked people to stop reporting very mild criticism. Or look at Twitter and Twitch where people sent death threats to streamers who said Savage should have more fights !

It ended up like this because Yoshi P realized the playerbase will do their positive PR for them and dogpile on any negative PR for them. You can even see that on the forums !