Is no one happy?

[Kolsykol]

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.)

I think people who are angry or just really disappointed about something will just have a lot more energy too to spend on it generally speaking ( my signature coincidence not intended ).
Even in the thread as I mentioned where most people rant about the story it still has someone saying that they liked the story with more than double the updoots than the OP and a second one just meme:ing with more too.
But somehow it's evidence of how much people supposedly hated the story?
I wonder if you just reduced the thread to 1 post per person too how it'd really look.

The same goes for me too, I ranted a ton about the Kaiten removal.
I didn't spend a whole lot of energy talking about how much I love NIN in EW tho.