There Sure Are A Lot of Doom and Gloom Posts In Here

[Equitable_Remedy]

What's going on with people?

Nothing in particular is going on with people.

If you look at most MMO forums (or gaming forums for that matter), you will mostly find endless complaining, trolling, and drama. Most players are in the game enjoying themselves, and the people posting on forums/reddit/etc. are relatively small, self-selecting groups of players who enjoy raging about the game that they pay for and no-life.

It's not my cup of tea, but to each their own!

[Carin-Eri]

Nothing in particular is going on with people.

If you look at most MMO forums (or gaming forums for that matter), you will mostly find endless complaining, trolling, and drama. Most players are in the game enjoying themselves, and the people posting on forums/reddit/etc. are relatively small, self-selecting groups of players who enjoy raging about the game that they pay for and no-life.

It's not my cup of tea, but to each their own!

Emphasis "most"

I mean, I spend a lot of time on the forum - in fact, more than I spend in game. This is because I can access the forum at work, and read threads/post replies between work related tasks.

[Fayt1203]

U mean Pudding and Doom

This is nothing new here. some thread have value issues, some personal issue with the game and then there are threads that are just made for stirring up argument and bickering and some are just for fun and so on...
and longer in the expansion lifecycle more weirder threads will pop up

[Leifei]

U mean Pudding and Doom

This is nothing new here. some thread have value issues, some personal issue with the game and then there are threads that are just made for stirring up argument and bickering and some are just for fun and so on...
and longer in the expansion lifecycle more weirder threads will pop up

Pudding is delicious. I gotta get some now.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Emphasis "most"

I mean, I spend a lot of time on the forum - in fact, more than I spend in game. This is because I can access the forum at work, and read threads/post replies between work related tasks.

So I just took a peek at the WoW forums and while the language is generally the same as over here. One thread in particular talked about theres a lack of content there.

The grass is always greener and junk I guess

[R041]

So I just took a peek at the WoW forums and while the language is generally the same as over here. One thread in particular talked about theres a lack of content there.

The grass is always greener and junk I guess

Person with 100 games "There's nothing good to play.."
Person with 10,000 games "There's nothing good to play.."

You should just try both, don't make assumptions by threads posted. lol

[Gemina]

What's going on with people? Why are so many of you acting like this game is 72 hours away from total collapse? Yeah I know it's a content lull, but think back to the huge content lulls in Shadowbringers. Remember when The Coof was making it so Yoshi P's team had to work from home? Huge long months between update patches? I don't think things right now are as bad as people say they are. Nothing in this game's development is ever going to be perfect.

So calm down, lighten up and stop worrying so much.

Don't we play games like these to get away from the world and it's problems?

The experience spending time on here, and actually playing the game is night and day. Quite similar to watching the news, or flooding your mind with youtube videos about how rotten people are in 2023. When you actually go outside, you see the sky is actually not falling. The fact that several people can come here and cry so hard about how bad the game is only goes to show how easy they have it irl. It really must be fantastic if FFXIV represents the greatest of their woes.

[Leifei]

The experience spending time on here, and actually playing the game is night and day. Quite similar to watching the news, or flooding your mind with youtube videos about how rotten people are in 2023. When you actually go outside, you see the sky is actually not falling. The fact that several people can come here and cry so hard about how bad the game is only goes to show how easy they have it irl. It really must be fantastic if FFXIV represents the greatest of their woes.

100% on point with this one.

[RyuDragnier]

This is the forum, one of the few places that people feel comfortable enough to actually voice concerns about the game. If you want fluff and happiness, this isn't going to be for you.

No no, you get complaints also on Reddit about the game. We just have a high influx of trolls and since we don't really have a mod team, they've had free reign.

[Remish]

This place has a lot of doom and gloom because those that use the forums are generally unhappy. If you see a positive thread, it only get's a few pages worth of comments because there isn't anything more to say other than "Good job SE I like this". Alternatively, if there is a positive thread such as for random example "I love Endwalker here is why" it's going to attract all the unhappy folks and derail it into the ground to make sure their opinions are heard by SE. If SE saw that one positive post and took it at face value, it'd make those that are unhappy even more unhappy, so those posts usually get shut down.

Additionally, misery attracts misery. People take comfort in knowing they are miserable with someone else. But also, there are probably traces of schadenfreude in these doom and gloom posts as well. Many people believe their criticism is for the betterment of the game, but sometimes people just want someone to talk to.