Is no one happy?

[Mapleine]

I just want real dungeons, other than that Im fine. the MSQ is in a good direction, the content spread otherwise looks OK, I just want real dungeon content.

Oh and lower end healer gameplay to be fixed. Dear god.

Never go to an official forum for an MMO if you want good vibes, they're all irritation dumping grounds, we all just come here when we're like "THATS IT, I gotta rant for a bit"

[AngelCheese77]

I'm quite happy even with some issues with the game!

Though I'd share what I got after lots of grinding and work ... my new Anima Weapon!

[Hurlstone]

No matter which MMO I have called home in the past few decades, forums always end up being more fully of doom and gloom I find. Anger and negativity generate more noise and content. For my point I adored Endwalker, and I know many other people did.

[RyuDragnier]

No matter which MMO I have called home in the past few decades, forums always end up being more fully of doom and gloom I find. Anger and negativity generate more noise and content. For my point I adored Endwalker, and I know many other people did.

Ironically the forums weren't this bad last year.

[Hurlstone]

Ironically the forums weren't this bad last year.

That is a fair point. I think that may do with the fact we have more players now then ever. Also think the whole situation with housing has hit a particular nerve... personally speaking, its about the only think I have passionately and negatively spoken out against

[sagacious]

Are you new?
I mean if the game is new to you then it will still have that new car smell and be fun and exciting to play.

But I think once that wears off the game becomes much more stale and repetitive. Many new players end up dropping the game very quickly as a result.

People talk about a massive population influx recently but in reality it came, it stayed a few weeks, and it got bored and vanished.

I've been playing XIV since 1.0 and while the game is still enjoyable. The majority of the time that enjoyment comes from the friends I play with more than from the game itself. The game itself is pretty mediocre.

It's like a cheap restaurant. Foods crap, service is lousy, the place is a dive. But, if your in there with good friends you can still have a good evening.

Where have you been? the moon? It's 3am here in Ravana OCE and when I logged I was in a que ......OCE isn't dead your opinion is ..Yes i'm toxic but so are you

[Gserpent]

It's like a cheap restaurant. Foods crap, service is lousy, the place is a dive. But, if your in there with good friends you can still have a good evening.

I dunno. I think the food is solid and the service is quite a lot better than the average (think about how major patches are almost entirely free of major bugs), it's more like... while they have a pretty decent-sized selection, they don't have a lot of any one thing in particular. Like, you can get a burger or a pizza or a quesadilla or a plate of spaghetti, but if you want more than the most basic kind of dishes of whatever types of cuisine they serve, you're probably going to find the selection lacking?

It's a bit like that famous Skyrim review quote - wide as an ocean and as deep as a puddle. Rather than focus on a handful of things and really try to excel, Square-Enix has chosen to do a great many little things, but do most of them adequately at best.

[RitsukoSonoda]

The forum is mostly a tiny amount of constructive feedback about the game and the rest is mostly just people whining about things they feel is inconvenient to them personally, people insulting the devs, game, players for various reasons, and trolls. The latter part being the noisiest people in general when it comes to anything because they're normally small in comparison to the entire population they want to represent and think that being as loud as possible makes them look bigger. And when people start poking logic holes in their statements or arguments they get accused of being a "white knight" while the maker of the argument tries to play the victim card.

However the forum is also a tiny part of the game population. A majority of the people playing the game are happy and enjoy it. Otherwise they wouldn't be playing and for most that are enjoying a game they don't have a need to look for a game forum unless they're trying to find info and having no luck with search engines like google.

[OhNooo]

On forums it's all doom and gloom. We are having fun. Why doesn't the ffxiv forum community reflect that.
FF6 Sabin

Ok hear me out. If everyone was 100% happy with the game, what would we talk about on the forums? Just constantly talking about how much we love everything in the game and posting pictures of our characters?

Idk about you but one of the things I learned in EW is that you can't be happy all the time and everything can't be perfect. If we didn't have any criticism about the game and the game was perfect, then eventually it would stagnate and die out because we'd get so bored with everything being great all the time.

So see? It's GOOD that we are talking about things we don't like. The forums need the criticism, otherwise people would get bored of the 5 millionth post about what a great job the devs are doing.

[Iscah]

Ok hear me out. If everyone was 100% happy with the game, what would we talk about on the forums? Just constantly talking about how much we love everything in the game and posting pictures of our characters?

To a degree, yes. Things like the "show your character" threads or "Tales from the Duty Finder" and other things which do already exist on this forum, where people discuss their game experience or new additions to the game or announcements, saying whether it appeals to them or not. But that relies on having a regular forum population who come here regularly not because they have an immediate complaint but because they want to discuss all aspects of the game including positive ones. But that needs some cultivating, like moderating and merging threads, or starting official feedback threads for things instead of leaving it for the first person to come in saying "X is awful" and that turns into the discussion thread even if everyone else likes it.

But also, there are degrees of feedback. If a forum is largely populated by people who are positive about the game overall, they are still going to be able to provide feedback and complaints, but it's going to look very different to the complaints made by people who are unhappy with the game on a large scale. They can still talk about which parts of it they are enjoying and which parts are not working well for them.