Quote Originally Posted by VoltaAsura View Post
Alot of the gaming community (especially the people who make negative criticisms of the game) are not active players, and thus unaware of the substantial changes that have happened to the game since launch. Even if they have an idea of the new changes, i doubt anyone making such criticisms about the game would be willing to pay to play and see for themselves. Kinda sad tbh....but thats just how the gaming community can be. Imo idc what the media think of the game as it has come a looong way and is very fun /enjoyable for me.
It's not like SE is willing to "sell" the current version (1.x) to medias and communities anyway... Hence why promotional events related to XIV have been put on hold for a little while now. Beside "Fan Sites" interviews, nothing big was done. So cannot really blame either medias or the community for not being aware of what is going on. I don't think SE ever invited the press to try out each version update, by providing press with free accounts/trials so they can discover changes that were made and stop talking about XIV like if nothing had changed since launch.

SE's choice not to promote the current version of the game and wait until 2.0 to be ready in order to go {Full Attack!} on the market. Not a bad choice I believe, but it would still be nice to have a little bit of promotion/marketing for XIV 1.21+ now that the game is become somewhat decent.

As long as SE is not willing to however, such "mockery" won't stop and there is no way around it.