Quote Originally Posted by Eyrilona View Post
User reviews are strange things anyway. I just finished reading through many pages of Dawntrail reviews on Steam, and I found that even a lot of the positive thumbs-up reviews are, in what they write, kind of negative, more than a few amounting to people saying how there is a lot wrong with this expansion but they still love FFXIV enough to recommend it. That is.. not exactly a glowing endorsement?

So although the ratio of ups and downs is 'mixed', the written user reviews might actually lean even more negative.
Also we should keep in mind that review bombing goes both ways. Lots of people are mobilized to defend the game right now, not that I could tell you why. Being critical is the only way for the game to improve, did we learn nothing from 1.0? In the words of Yoshi-P himself: "A complaint is worth twice a compliment."