Trying to understand the negative posts I keep seeing about the Dev Team

[Annah]

I realize FFXIV is not a perfect game/MMORPG... but I think its a pretty darn fun one. I'm not a super savage hardcore harder, I'm probably towards casual/light mid-core spectrum of things so my opinion might not mater much here, but I think the devs do a pretty good job. I appreciate the story and lore of FFXIV, I love going into a fun environment where I can jump into dungeons with my friends and chat and play for a while without hours of waiting around(I played FFXI back in the day) and I love the wonderful music Soken and Uematsu have composed for the game.

But going from a lot of posts I read it seems like the developers aren't looked very highly upon because the game sometimes has issues(like the recent DDOS attacks), people not liking Eureka, etc, but for me it seems the dev team has done way more good than bad though the posts I read seem to portray them as incompetent and people that should be replaced which doesn't seem right to me, can someone help me understand this?

For me, the simplest solution is to not visit the forums. I only visit it about two or three times a year (i started this practice last year and it was a godsend for me). These forums are toxic. Go to other areas where there are good constructive criticisms, ideas, and conversations about the state of the game. Speakers of Hydealen on twitch is great, podcasts, dev interviews, etc

Don't hang out here. It's bad for your health