We need to talk about the PC Gamer article

[Turtledeluxe]

See, the issue here is that you are equating 'discussion' to just critique. Just negative feedback.

And don't get me wrong, the things I mentioned are not exclusive to those being negative. There are bad actors on the 'positive side' too. But it's overall a "Treat others how you wish to be treated." situation. When the negative crowd decide to crash and derail threads providing praise, they should not be surprised when they get a taste of their own medicine. When their critique thread gets crashed, derailed, and turned into a praise thread. Or when it gets turned into a meme thread. (Like the otter posting apocalypse.) And vice versa applies as well. Again, the forums are for both critique and praise. And can be done so in a CIVIL manner. But, because animosity of the internet...people decide to be shitters and garbage people to each other. Because of course they do. All and all though, it just comes down to again, these forums are for both critique and praise.

So that means this...

And this...

Goes both ways.

But, it also just creates echo chambers. But that's like...90% of the internet at this point...

And all of this doesn't even get into the fact that 9 times out of 10...you can't really tell if a thread offering critique or praise is genuine or someone trolling/trying to stir the pot. Because these forums also have that reputation as well.

Notice in your post that critics are pretty respectfully suggesting maybe looking at the topic title and perhaps reading some of its content and deciding whether or not it's worth it for you to engage. There's no push to unsub. I'm not sure what else to tell you. A major site writing a critical review of XIV is news. It isn't just negative feedback because you feel it's negative. At the end of the article the author even says they hope XIV can continue its hot streak from 6.0. You can disagree or think they're disingenuous, so why not just say that instead of "unsub". That is my central point.