Are the developers this scared of criticism that crique just gets deleted?

[Sylpharia]

For real can we not give any criticism at all anymore?
Are the devs and some part of this community THIS against criticism and potential improvement of the game?

Criticism is not a bad thing.

[ZephyrMenodora]

These forums are 95 percent “criticism”. What are you talking about?

[Losado]

They probably weren't scared before Dawntrail because there will be an army of white knights on all social media to defend them.

Now though, even places like the /r/ffxiv main sub trashes on the game, and 7.2 is crucial for them because it's the fulcrum of the months of copium that everyone had. They can't afford to let 7.2 be a disaster.

They even deleted criticism during a weekend, and they've removed basically every mention of the most recent shitstorm surrounding this issue: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-Player-Safety

Notice how Yoshi P's thread is immediately closed. You can't discuss it in any capacity here. You aren't allowed to question their atrocious programming practices that even allowed that issue to occur in the first place.

This won't be the first and expect more controversies to be stealthily deleted. This is a brave new age for these forums.

[CVXIV]

the forums are almost always critical of the game, this argument makes no sense
it's more than likely because it talked about the stalking tool, because they already deleted a thread that specifically talked about it
the whole thing seems to have caused a panic because I've seen the developers talk about how it can't access critical information, which to me seems to imply that a lot of people were talking about that and freaking out

[Incantus]

If I were to believe these forums and the reddit for ffxiv, then this game is already dead and a burning pile of trash. But I don't, considering I play daily and know better. As do the community I play with.

A game is a game, if you do not find it fun. Don't play it. FFXIV has stuck the the same formula since 2.0 what makes you think it will change? Or even need to change? I swear, I really wish the population boom of ShB and Endwalker didn't happen. But then again, these forums were insanely negative even before then.

[Valence]

If I were to believe these forums and the reddit for ffxiv, then this game is already dead and a burning pile of trash. But I don't, considering I play daily and know better. As do the community I play with.

A game is a game, if you do not find it fun. Don't play it. FFXIV has stuck the the same formula since 2.0 what makes you think it will change? Or even need to change? I swear, I really wish the population boom of ShB and Endwalker didn't happen. But then again, these forums were insanely negative even before then.

You do realize that you're literally speaking to people that still care and play at least parts of the game, else they'd have left already instance of airing grievances, right?

[Kaurhz]

If I were to believe these forums and the reddit for ffxiv, then this game is already dead and a burning pile of trash. But I don't, considering I play daily and know better. As do the community I play with.

A game is a game, if you do not find it fun. Don't play it. FFXIV has stuck the the same formula since 2.0 what makes you think it will change? Or even need to change? I swear, I really wish the population boom of ShB and Endwalker didn't happen. But then again, these forums were insanely negative even before then.

Well that's good for your community, but your community don't really speak on behalf of an entire player-base... Nor does the one you interact with on a daily basis, Neither does this one for that matter. I wouldn't call it dead, but it is far from thriving either.

Also, actually, the developers were a lot less risk averse in HW and SB era, than what they are now, even if they still maintained a rigid patch schedule. This plays a part in why some people were more tolerable of a scheduled that has been established for a decade than what they are now.. In combination with other factors.

[Jeeqbit]

Obviously not or this forum wouldn't exist...

Posts are deleted when they are reported and break the rules. The last several posts contained discussion that was against the rules. And considering the post itself was made by Titanmen, it's not surprising.

[Clockworks]

Obviously not or this forum wouldn't exist...

Posts are deleted when they are reported and break the rules. The last several posts contained discussion that was against the rules. And considering the post itself was made by Titanmen, it's not surprising.

Because Titanmen makes a thread doesnt invalidate everything else in it from other posters.

[Arrius]

Because Titanmen makes a thread doesnt invalidate everything else in it from other posters.

That's the risk you take when posting in a Titanmen thread. Either deal with that risk, or stay out of it if you value your posts.