What is this I don't even...

[Abriael]

Yes, we've got pages stating how she's put together an article when she clearly knows nothing and then managed to somehow get the things published. She's making a big deal out of small things simply because she doesn't have any big things in the first place.

Unless the community would like to gather their pitchforks and march over to her comments box there's nothing we can do about that.

Oh, the community already did. Most without any pitchforks, but armed with informative and well thought out comments. of course someone decided to just use the few with the pitchforks as an excuse to avoid admitting the scarce quality of the preview.

She still makes valid points about features that could use a look at. There's nothing wrong with that and her negative article only serves to strengthen 2.0's future.
Kind of ironic in a way.

Honestly I don't think we need a journalist to point out that kind of minutiae (she can, mind you, but they're hardly a solid base for a preview). That's what we have thousands of beta testers for. The problem isn't that she pointed out some scarcely relevant negative details, but that she wrote them in a way that is highly unprofessional and borderline insulting for the people behind the game, and used them as a blanket to call the game a "pain in the ass", and other scarcely appropriate derogatory terms, which is honestly ridiculous.

[Fadigre]

Oh, the community already did. Most without any pitchforks, but armed with informative and well thought out comments. of course someone decided to just use the few with the pitchforks as an excuse to avoid admitting the scarce quality of the preview.

Why do I feel like this is going to only make readers feel worse about FFXIV after reading her article?
Just leave her be. I don't think FFXIV will benefit from their players being branded negatively

[Abriael]

Why do I feel like this is going to only make readers feel worse about FFXIV after reading her article?
Just leave her be. I don't think FFXIV will benefit from their players being branded negatively

That's why good writers don't brand readers negatively because they dare criticize what they write. And giving readers a chance for criticism is one of the reasons why one normally has a comment form at the bottom of his articles. Or better that should be one of the reasons.

Good critics can take criticism as well as they dish it.

Don't have a solid argument? Replace it with a meme or a motivated picture. Classic.