Quote Originally Posted by KaldeaSahaline View Post
What made it white knighting was you irrationally justifying that somehow SE is really good at communicating and everyone else wasn't
I didn't say SE were better at communicating. Doing more communication doesn't automatically mean said communication is actually good. You can say a lot without saying anything new or useful at all. As was aptly demonstrated by the latest live letter, personally I found a lot of it was mere repetition and too many questions had the same answers.

I was simply stating that SE are often more likely to, for whatever reason, plainly say when they are unable to do something. Whereas many other dev teams often tend to keep that fact to themselves until after they have actually addressed it and have the content that was once impossible to do actually available to players. The timing of when you reveal the obstacles has great impact in how players respond to it and even remember it.

And I was also trying to dispel this myth some people believe that SE experience an outstanding epidemic of server and engine limitations compared to other mmos when the truth is all dev teams experience them daily. It just so happens SE openly mention theirs very very often.

And to dispel this idea that I'm a white knight. I found that the whole greed only mess was definitely an example of SE not being in touch with their playerbase. I think that having to pay for extra storage when we already pay for a sub is a disgrace. SE seriously lacked foresight in limiting how many cash shop items can be account wide, it's not as if they couldn't see examples of this done better in other games. I find the glamour system awkward as hell and glamour plates only make it bearable now. The housing system is far better than before but is yet another example of a severe lack of foresight. I feel the new pvp system stripped down classes far too much. SE's attempts to lessen the congestion on Balmung were laughably far too late by several years. I could go on.

I adore the game but I sure as hell don't think it's perfect, and I sure as hell am not some white knight. I am just not quick to act as if I'm under the impression that only SE experience the shackles of engine and server limitations.