Is no one happy?

[Chie_M]

I think people generally tend to go to official forums to complain about game features more than praise them, across all games - not just this one. If you judged my opinion on the game based on my forum posts, you'd probably think I hate it, but it's my favourite game by a mile.

[Vav2021]

The happy people are in the game enjoying themselves.

This a million times.

[DormantOne]

Im happy. 10 char

[Lieri]

Most of the players = your average discord server member
The hardcore forum complainers = discord mods, no memes in #general-chat

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I wish both sides could get used to the idea that sometimes, other people have different opinions and experiences, and its ok to have them, agree with them, and disagree with them.
And stop with this nonsense of "Im being silenced", they are just white knights, they are just haters, blahblahblah.

Post some Memes and chill.
Both sides are valid. stop fighting about it.

But...Ill still say that the Forums are most just full of Angry People and Trolls.
Some leave legit Critique, others just love chaos.

[LaylaTsarra]

Im happy. 10 char

Not allowed to be happy. Sorry.

[Kolsykol]

So we started an FC, and we are genuinly happy and excited to play the game.

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

Overall, this is a great expansion. Came back did ARR, so much better, do the rest.

It's a game, have fun. I love you all!
FF6 Sabin

I'd seriously suggest that you ignore the forums.
Game forums are infamously negative all the time, people who have problems will just be more likely to actually post.
People who are happy won't be as likely to feel compelled to do it, they're just playing the game.

Reddit is where you go if you want the positivity. Forums are for providing feedback to the game so it will appear a lot more negative in comparison.

Apparently according to people on the Forum Reddit is now outraged about everything too lol.
Funny how drastically different perspectives people can have.

It would be very good for my sanity if some of the more fanatic members of this community would come to understand the cognitive dissonance in saying that the majority on this forum doesn't matter because we're a minority in the community, while also stating that there's some mythical silent majority that all disagrees with us, they're just all in places where there the developers don't say to leave feedback.

It's funny how this mythical silent majority will always perfectly agree with whatever views the poster themselves hold!

I don't even think it's the majority on this forum tbh, I think it's mostly the same people.
The forum isn't exactly the most active of places tbh, which perhaps says something too because not a lot of people feel like going to the forum to rant to begin with.

Edit: Even in the big thread dedicated to ranting about the story.
The OP gets '' ratio:d '' by someone saying that they liked it and someone who's just meme:ing.

So does this mean that the majority on the forum liked the story =O, but I thought they hated it?
Hmm..

[hagare]

no. The game sucks. the community sucks. The pvp sucks. everything sucks.
But I'm not leaving and I'm gonna make everything suck for everyone else.

[Kolsykol]

no. The game sucks. the community sucks. The pvp sucks. everything sucks.
But I'm not leaving and I'm gonna make everything suck for everyone else.

You keep paying the sub but you hate it, poor SE .

.. No wait.

[KariTheFox]

One thing to remember is that when it comes to game forums, a lot of the content made by people who are relatively satisifed with the game (art, fanwork, memes, etc.) Is generally discouraged by the forum policies around third party links. And in terms of forum culture, it'd be considered kinda gauche to make a thread that's just "here's a picture of my WoL that I drew!" Whereas on reddit or twitter, that'd be considered pretty normal.

So you have a sampling bias towards "discussion" - which tends towards the negative since people don't generally go on forums to discuss elements of a game they like, they play the game. (And as far as SE is concerned, people logging on and actually playing the parts of the game is better evidence of positive feedback then someone coming onto the forums to talk about how great things are.)