Quote Originally Posted by Hyrist View Post
This is a non-sequetor argument. When someone refers to FFXI in positive terms, especially past or outdated systems of the game, then indeed they are being nostalgic. Nostalgia by its blunt definition is the fond recollection of one's past experiences. This in and of itself is not a negative. Being blinded by your nostalgia, however, is.

If someone is reminiscing about their past, that is nostalgia.
Indeed. And if the people calling others out for being nostalgic were intending the actual definition of nostalgia, I wouldn't have a problem with it. It's when people are using Nostalgia as a blanket dismissal of someone's opinions when it becomes patronising. People don't understand that because others don't see the advances in MMO tropes as positive, but rather, see them as a step down, that they can be looking at it clearly and rationally but instead are looking back in a distorted way through rose-tinted glasses.

I, for example, don't like inter-server duty finders. They are a modern MMO convenience that has a negative impact on server communities. I recognise their advantages (faster grouping, wider pool of party members, convenient formation), but I feel those benefits do not outweigh the negatives (lack of responsibility for actions causing players to be rude/disruptive to each other, removal of one the main conduits of networking and community-building within servers). However, if I were to start a thread to the effect of the community in XIV was far better before ARR (it really was) and DF has harmed the community, I would get leapt all over and told it wasn't, that I was being nostalgic.

I would then have to post a follow up post with all my reasoning to show I wasn't being which would promptly be ignored by others jumping on the 'lolnostalgia' bandwagon.