Quote Originally Posted by Malakhim View Post
These numbers are what led me to believe that nobody liked the stuff in the first place, but then I waltz in to the appropriate threads here, and to my surprise, plenty of people(at least those who have posted) enjoy things like the aforementioned combat and such.

Keep in mind that all those results are the combined percentages of all regions. If you look at the combined numbers for each region separately, then things aren't so obviously unanimous. There's still a wide margin of people who don't agree on all the issues you're presenting. Using those polls won't give you the best picture for that reason and several others.
I'm not really sure you understand how this works.

You pretty much just contradicted yourself here. Of course that when you walk into the "appropriate" threads, people will be praising certain parts about FFXIV's gameplay. Those threads are made BY that 6.6% that like combat, FOR that 6.6%. You are not going to find more people that dislike combat than people who like combat, in a topic praising combat; and vice versa.

The polls are pretty much the best, most unbiased, and definitive statement on what's the status of the game; because the polled population has a gigantic sample size and is representative of the ENTIRE USERBASE. There is no better picture than those polls. Certainly not doing fuzzy counting on how many topics you saw about how "combat is awesome".