Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
Then why not play that instead? Why spend your time trying to advocate for a change when what you want is already elsewhere?

I didn't enjoy Persona 5 due to a primary mechanic it has and I didn't go to forums and essentially say "hey these other games don't have this mechanic I hate, why can't this game be like them instead?" I just went to play those other games. It's a waste of time to complain that a strawberry milkshake doesn't taste like chocolate when you can just have a chocolate milkshake instead.
Very much this.

I just don't get the mentality of:
"there's this thing I've started doing that I don't enjoy but others do, but I've got something else I could do instead"
"so do something else?"
"No, I will continue to do the thing and expect them to make it so I enjoy it, even though those who enjoy it like it that way"

It boils down to what works for people and what people are willing to accept.

That is not to say to be a yesman who accepts everything the way it is without criticism. Because there are definitely things to criticise. But there is a limit, because there is a difference between a game that has areas in need of improvement and the game not being for you.

Ultimately it's a heavily story focused game encompassed as an MMORPG. The two elements are interlinked and are at the game's core and it's working for them. Plus I like that group content is locked behind story content, because it just doesn't make narrative sense to be able to go to a certain dungeon or fight without first having reached there. If anything this was one of my complaints about WoW, none of their dungeons had context for me and no story really led me into them and I felt nothing for any of the dungeons I went through. But as you'll probably see, I'm playing FFXIV not WoW, if that's what WoW players prefer, I'd say let them have it that way.