Enough complaining already

[Mireille]

In before /wallofflame

While the game is currently free, the point is to get it to a state where it actually warrants a game subscription. In this regard, player feedback is quite literally gold to SquareEnix right about now.

I think the problem being referred to isn't the feedback. I think the 'last straw post' was feedback though, and started a generally constructive conversation. That said there were some rage posts mixed in. I've sort of divided up the rage complaints I've seen in the forums into three groups at this point.

1) Players who have genuinely tried the game, and have earned the right to comment on what they don't like even if I don't agree with them. Sometimes those posters end up griping about the same things post after post and only really need to say it once, but SE needs the negative feedback along with the positive. Players who like the game shouldn't take this personally.

2) People who hate SE and the FF franchise and want this game to cause Final Fantasy along with the entire company to go down in an inferno. As far as I am concerned if you hate SE/FF that much, and you are burning away the precious hours of your life posting it in the SE forums, you are deranged. Its a video game company, move on....

3) The people who work for game X and post 'this game sucks come play game X.' Even if you aren't on the payroll you have taken it upon yourself to advertize for their company and that makes your opinion about this game a bit suspect. Plus it wouldn't surprise me if some of those posts are being made by people who are on the payroll of SE's competitors, and are shilling some too weak WoW clone that isn't intended to see more than one development cycle before it goes free to play. If they have to advertize their product using someone else's resources then that should tell you all you need to know about that product. It should also tell you they are afraid of what this game will do to their profit margins.