Quote Originally Posted by CNitsah View Post
Reddit is not such a bad source of information, as long as you put it in perspectives with the other sources and the knowledge of the subreddit bias. The fact you can now criticize DT writing or the content drought in r/ffxiv tells a lot about how much they fucked up.
That is shocking lol. During EW I replied to a post pointing out a few of the many flaws in the writing for that expac too and had over 1k downvotes within a couple hours. It got so bad I completely abandoned r/ffxiv and last I was on r/ffxivdiscussion was starting to have the same problem.

But I still say reddit is a bad source of information. Even knowing it's an echo chamber doesn't negate the fact that it's an echo chamber, making everything you read on it suspect. And most other sources, like twitter and even gaming news sites are usually echo chambers as well. Twitter gives you brigading if you disagree and news sites want clicks so they will nearly always give shiny reviews to appease the audience, esp ones that are, or at least were, as unhinged as xiv's online army if they are not flat out paid for good reviews by the companies making the games. Metacritic and other such sites are known to remove even legit reviews so thats not a good source. The forums are literally the only place you can criticise due to there not being a downvote system and the ability to report ppl directly to SE. And even though that creates another bias, its not nearly as powerful as the others making it likely the most reliable source of information.

If they want more accurate information, SE should literally just poll their audience and get back actual individual feedback, but that requires work and money, which they are not willing to put into the actual game, much less a poll.