The Devs need a much needed thanks!

[AwesomeJr44]

or people coming in and labeling those that enjoy the game as "shills" or "white knights"

the insulting seems to flow quite freely both ways.

The people who freak out upon seeing critics of the game and resort to screaming at the top of their lungs and calling critics 'haters' are indeed white knights for the game. And considering that even the OP of the thread was one of said white knights, devoting half of their OP to insulting anyone who doesn't kiss SE's boots... if the shoe fits. What's your point?

By the way, people who merely thank SE are not 'white knights', don't take that as me saying as much. I think they could raise their standards for praise a bit, but they are not white knights. The white knights are specifically the people trying to silence critics of the game by labeling them as haters who should be ignored. (Example: Silverbane)

This is an example of a white knight:

Despite this last week and the amount of flak that they received, they work extremely hard to bring us a game that is much loved and enjoyed. The amount of hate I have seen this past week because a class can't do 1% more damage is absurd in the slightest, but then again that is only less than 2% of the community most likely complaining. Those that are complaining are the ones that have zero ideal what they are talking about and are only outcrying what their favorite streamer is telling them to outcry.

This is not praising the devs. It's taking shots at people who don't shower the devs with praise even when they mess up. They are trying to minimize valid concerns to make the game seem better than it actually is.

Oh wow, they patched new lines into your script!

Yeah, it's part of the 6.2 update.

I think the people who don't want that to happen probably should have thought twice about coming into threads committed to compile criticism and feedback only to go off on lengthy tangents about how the game is fine and exceedingly popular and that any opposition exists solely in the form of a vocal minority.

But Theodric... you're not respecting Striker's majoritah!!! You simply must remember that Endwalker was the 'most popular expansion ever' (TM) and that anyone who disagrees is in the minoritah, and thus must respect the factual opinions of those in the majoritah.

Kind of like how the people tired of Venat being criticised and held accountable probably should not have spent months or years declaring loudly that there was never, ever an excuse or justification for genocide only to change their tune as soon as their precious 'mOmMy GoDdEsS' became complicit in such acts herself.

Uh oh. Someone said the V word! What's the ETA on SannaR, Mightymollusk, or Boblawblah screaming their head off because someone mentioned a character in the game?

the OP did word things rather poorly for their intent (or was their intent to start this mess)

Their intent was to either start this mess, or to insult critics of the game. They wore their motives on their sleeve. It's 100% one of those two, the question is just which one, and it's not like either are particularly great.