Quote Originally Posted by Akiudo View Post
if you are in a relationship (in any relation) and you would scream bloody murder at the other party every time you weren't happy with something that they tried giving you than people would rightfully call you an abusive a** and tell the other party to cut all contact with you.

if your favorite restaurant changes its menu than you might decide to never go there again, you might also tell the owner that you liked the old menu better and you would really prefer he give you more of the old menu because otherwise you don't believe they can keep you as a patron. what you won't do unless you are completly unhinged is sending the owner a mail telling him how much his new menu sucks ass, he either starts accomodating you or you will never visit his establishment again and that he is a failure for not realizing himself that his new menu sucks ass and he should be ashamed for deliviring something as bad as the new menu to you, so why do you feel this to be an okay way to talk to/about developers in a video game forum ?
You're being deliberately obtuse on certain points. Nobody's screaming blue murder. People are giving impassioned feedback and opinion (something that comes with the territory in MMOs) because a service failed, on the back of numerous other failings, consequentially. You then proceed to compare this situation to that of a small local business owner. Strawman 101. I should know better than to reply, really.

It's important to note there's practically 0 community interaction with SE here. We're essentially "the only ones who care enough to scream into the void". I think that has a part to play in the "negativity" of the comments. But honestly, I've played games my entire life, and expecting a community of hundreds of thousands of extremely passionate fans to constantly behave "nicely" is like asking to leave the house and have a million dollars fall on top of you. It's never ever going to happen. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that in all of the communities I've been a part of, negative feedback in the XIV is actually rather polite. Although I'm sure you'd point to a single occasion multiple years ago where something over the line happened as if it's some kind of grand proof.