Well, if you've been on WOW... Or any MMORPG really, even if the forums aren't always very active for others: you already know that the forums MUST criticize the game. Simply being satisfied is a ban, pure and simple.

Joking aside, I do think there's a lot of tension on the forums at the moment. FFXIV forums are also quick to accuse defenders of the game of "fanboy" or "fangirl" without really paying attention to the arguments put forward. In general, people also sometimes ask for too much. Most of the time, this is due to a lack of knowledge of the development process: having spoken to a number of people in the industry, I've found that players' requests are often met with howls of laughter, because they are unfeasible or would require too great a sacrifice. To give just one example, the demand for constantly renewed content (and not just on FF: on all the big MMORPGs) is impossible to satisfy when you consider that some people log on absolutely every day. Under these conditions, it's impossible not to be repetitive.

Another example (... don't hit me): the thread asking for characters' hands to be redone. Typical. A new feature is added, but it's never enough. Is it really important? No. The vast majority of people don't look at their characters' hands, and many pieces of equipment prevent them from being visible anyway. But people do ask for it, without necessarily realizing the work and computer perf it requires.

If all requests were examined and respected, releasing an extension would take not two years, not four, but ten. And people are already chomping at the bit after a few short years, complaining about the repetitive nature of the content and the fact that they need the next extension.

I'm not saying that the game is perfect. There are many things that need to be improved. We can criticize the fact that the game doesn't renew itself enough. Between wow, which is caught up in a kind of frantic flight to novelty (at the risk of not developing some very good ideas) and FFXIV, which rests on its laurels by repeating certain systems from years ago; it would be good to find an in-between. I'm thinking in particular of the Memoquartz system and combat in general. But let's just say the mentality being a little... Capricious, is part of the "MMORPG culture". And FFXIV is no exception.