The Devs need a much needed thanks!

[AwesomeJr44]

Perfection.

*Saves GIF*

I predicted you two specifically, out of literally everyone, would respond to that GIF with eerily similar responses to what you did. >_>

Am I a prophet from lord Zodiark, out here predicting the future?

You must own a hay field somewhere, to be so quick and prolific with your strawman arguments.

Nah, he stole the hay from yours

Wow, who hurt YOU Silverbane? I'm literally just telling you "Okay, keep in mind people can be smart without needing to read."

It's an older woman thing. My grandmother is the same way. They think that because books were the major source of information in their time, that you MUST read books to get information these days. Of course that's no longer true as the internet offers far more information than a book every could, and is far easier to access, but they're from a different time. Although, at least when my grandmother tells me that she's at least trying to be helpful even though she's wrong. Silverbane's just trying desperately flailing around screaming things like "nazi" and "1984" in an attempt to get people to side with her. After all, siding with an unhinged person is better than siding with a nazi right?

WHO ARE YOU TO INSULT ME?? The actual hell did I do to you??

Absolutely nothing. For all her talk about 'haters', she's a hateful person herself.

Yeah no, you just proved to everyone here you're as vile as you seem.

Remember this:

Because on the Internet forums, the only one who can truly humiliate you is you.

Yeah, she just proved that statement to be 100% true.

Just like having the ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

Just ignore Silver. It what I had to to do to ignore their senseless drivel.

And yet here you are, posting about me. That hardly counts as ignoring me.

THAT WAS THE ONE GUY WHO WAS ON YOUR SIDE AND YOU STILL ARE MAD AT HIM LOL (EDIT: I read an 'it' between 'ignore' and 'Silver'. This way my bad. Happens to everyone and I'll admit that it happened to me this time)

I'm a strong believer in criticizing the bad and praising the good, but sometimes in our community there's a bizarre trend of knee-jerking to deflect criticism when it starts to get serious. The forums obviously get mired in a lot of bad faith toxicity by the same handful of people who dominate the conversations everywhere, but overall; I think that good faith criticism and good faith praise can (and do) exist and are two sides of the same coin. The devs in FFXIV get a lot of things right -- but they also get a lot of things wrong, and it's important to praise them where they knock it out of the part, and offer genuine criticism where they don't without the immediate posturing that someone is either a white knight or just a terminally online complainer.

Agreed. I'd honestly rather have the forums be a place where we can praise the devs when they deserve it, and be critical when its deserved. That's always been my position on this topic. People who praise the game aren't white knights. People who are critical aren't haters. White knights are people who go around shutting down criticism, and haters are people who complain with the intention of having the game self implode. I genuinely don't think we have too many actual haters on the forums if I have to be honest. The vast majority of the people I've encountered that are critical of the game give their feedback out of a desire that the game would improve. However, I do believe the forums do have a serious problem with white knights who pretend that forums meant for feedback are meant to be social media platforms for them to have a positive echo chamber in.