Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
I hear this so often but I have absolutely played games where their forums were mostly positive overall. It definitely is possible. Even though ff14 has always had some complaints, there was a point where most people would agree it was a great game. I took a break last patch and picked up some good single player games and their forums were night and day difference to here.

The problem is when a game has received negative feedback for long enough, people just start to assume that's normal. It's the opposite of nostalgia googles. We actually forget how good a game can be.

I play ff14 because it's the best MMO on the market, not because it's an amazing game and perfect. The MMO market is in a slump right now and recent competition has been poor quality. FF14 is riddled with flaws, but there just isn't anything better.
Actually I just took a quick peek at the first few threads on this forum. Suffice to say there were a lot more technical game questions among the usual complaints about certain systems. Which makes sense since ARR was new and people cared more about the game than the story maybe?

I'll have to actually go back and take a throughout look to see more of the old forum.