Do people on these forums only complain endlessly?

[Reclusegamer]

Most of the complaints are very petty. most legit arguments I've seen are actually in the job/class discussions. For example, I'm not a healer main but I can share some sentiments for the complaints there about healer rotations being too boring when there's no healing to be done.

I can't relate to the Kaiten threads though. I didn't play SAM before 6.0 so I don't know what it was like. (I'm not much of a SAM player either, so therefore, I don't touch those threads.)

Most of what's on Gen Discussion is just children screaming into the void. Some are froggy enough to try and interact with it but it almost never works out because proving people wrong doesn't shut them up.

I, like many of the millions of other subbed players that enjoy this game, are just staring back.

I could speak more but I think everyone's opinions on everyone else's attitudes will suffice. So i'll just leave it at this.

[Lauront]

At its highest reading ever, the site that takes regular surveys of the player population registered 1.7m active characters - its more recent ones are at 1.3m. Where's the "millions" here?

[texas_boy]

There are a few bad apples moaning and griping at everything. You could give them an envelope full of cash and they would moan because the envelope had a wrinkle in it.

You can glean some great info off the forums if you don't mind wading through the trash

[VerdeLuck]

There's a difference between discussion and endless bitching. Do people really have to come to the forums to complain about the fact that they can't pass a solo duty in the endwalker campaign?

Yes, this is the official forums. Most people here only come to post when something is so obnoxious or frustrating for them in game that they come over to make an account and post about it.
No one comes to the official forums in any game to post only positive things, they go there to post negative things they want changed.

[LittleChickenNugget]

I come to the forums to be a bully.

[Padudu]

I goddamn love complaining, don't you take it away from me

[anna-steele]

"Endwalker is badly written because it didn't go the way I wanted it to. Also, I love the genocidal mass murderer."

"Island Sanctuaries are bad because it's not instanced housing. There's nothing to do after picking up 9700 nodes to reach rank 10 in the first week. What's a workshop?"

"Datamining has ruined the game. These debuff icons reveal everything about the savage raid and will ruin progression. I don't do savage raiding though."

"Why do you say "first time" in a new instance?"

"I got rescued once so please remove the ability from the game. I can't handle losing control over my character. I'm the main character, nobody should be able to mess with my movement but me."

"Crafting is too easy."

"Crafting is too hard."

"Removed from Ex4 by Japanese group. Racist. I queued into a duty complete group and got removed for not knowing what to do."

all game forums are for endless complaining. they are full of counterpoint trolls seeking only to be offended, complain about the game/devs, and argue with other people. just like voidsent they are driven by one purpose alone, to suck the fun and enjoyment out of everything.

[Payadopa]

Honestly, it's mainly the dozen or so people (aka The Complain Squad) who complain incessantly within their own echo chamber. Rule of thumb: it's usually the opposite of what people inside the game say.

[Cach]

Do people really have to come to the forums to complain about the fact that they can't pass a solo duty in the endwalker campaign?

That sounds like a golden opportunity to talk about solo duty design, how has it changed over the years, if it has gotten better or worse, which ones are your favorite, etc...

How does an ideal discussion forum look like? Because if you just want "I drew my lalafel, my wife's boyfriend thinks its neat" threads, the official subreddit is just a click away.

[Sesera]

my wife's boyfriend.

Hol' up wait a minute.