Dear SE: Please listen to actual players, not just content creators

[Volgia]

consistently critical, hardly, consistently whiny, absolutely, her rants are not criticism since they lact objectivity, I mean.... going as far as complaining about the music used in cutscenes? please.... and the fact she alienated most of her viewership is undeniable, just look at her streaming numbers. Also people are fed up with negativity by now.

But at the end of the day, this is also a people created problem. Maybe we should all stop giving these streamers so much importance in the first place

I stopped watching her because her hate-boner for Dawntrail felt kind of mean-spirited and manufactured. Every criticism she's given it's just very popular takes on this expansion so I decided it was better to part ways.

I felt like this for every other streamer, I don't know why suddenly we have given them the voice of what's acceptable or not in FFXIV.

[BigCheez]

I stopped watching her because her hate-boner for Dawntrail felt kind of mean-spirited and manufactured. Every criticism she's given it's just very popular takes on this expansion so I decided it was better to part ways.

I felt like this for every other streamer, I don't know why suddenly we have given them the voice of what's acceptable or not in FFXIV.

This is such a weird post. If her takes are popular opinions then why would sharing them feel mean-spirited or manufactured? Do you not think that maybe... just maybe... she's actually just a long-term fan of the game and has a lot of the same feelings about Dawntrail as the rest of the community?

[SoleilAlphi]

what he means is that she just takes whatever is the most parroted take and she parrots it again with the excuse of criticism, regardless if the take is genuine or bait, to go with the flow, which is something many others did. Again, it generates the most clicks, and clicks are revenue, so no wonder people are skeptical to downright turned away from the content

[Volgia]

This is such a weird post. If her takes are popular opinions then why would sharing them feel mean-spirited or manufactured? Do you not think that maybe... just maybe... she's actually just a long-term fan of the game and has a lot of the same feelings about Dawntrail as the rest of the community?

That's just how it felt to me, like she was playing it up for clicks, especially when I saw her interacting with Asmongold I felt like she was taking a page out of his leaf, believing in nothing but mirroring what the community is circle-jerking to, so I decided not to watch her anymore.

Whenever you like her or agree with her is beyond this, streamers and content creators shouldn't have the community's voice.

[TeresaFortell]

I stopped watching her because her hate-boner for Dawntrail felt kind of mean-spirited and manufactured. Every criticism she's given it's just very popular takes on this expansion so I decided it was better to part ways.

I felt like this for every other streamer, I don't know why suddenly we have given them the voice of what's acceptable or not in FFXIV.

To be frank, a lot of opinions did not originate from these content creators; players generated them and allowed them to become the right voices. Content creators merely reinforced those already existing views on a broader platform.

[Volgia]

To be frank, a lot of opinions did not originate from these content creators; players generated them and allowed them to become the right voices. Content creators merely reinforced those already existing views on a broader platform.

At that point it's just a weird feedback loop. You gained no insight, but they did manage to monetize off your anger and disappointment. I simply can't trust a lot of these content creators to have any insight that will change my mind or perspective, it's just a circle-jerk that's exhausting.