Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
you'll find that the overwhelming majority of the playerbase
No, you won't. You'll find the subsection of the playerbase that posts on those sites. The majority of the playerbase doesn't care to discuss the game's writing or story direction. They're in FFXIV for the gameplay, aesthetics, and characters. The story, while widely praised as it has been since 2.0, is usually more or less window dressing / another positive they can comfortably acquiesce to, rather than think about.

It doesn't help to list sites like Twitter or Reddit, where there's an entire social dynamic/algorithmic dynamic etc. Where influencers will block you for any dissent, or you'll get downvoted into oblivion for even mild indifference. Or the algorithm is only showing things and people it'll think agree with you/you will like.

You can see the negative reactions here, because they are allowed to be here, and there's nothing that automatically hides them from you, unless you've expanded your personal blocklist to do so.