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

[Striker44]

"ffxiv is the best game ever its only losing players because of covid !!!!" is also another good one

Meanwhile, EW set the record for highest playerbase to date, and covid-time (ShB) is still viewed as the best expansion. Perhaps because you kept relying on Steam charts as if they meant anything to FFXIV?

[xxmiamorecadenza]

I believe the complaints are valid.

But I feel like the issue is further exasperated by the content drought. It gives people more time to mull over the issues that become more apparent when they aren't preoccupied by raiding, grinding, decorating, roleplaying, etc.

It's like how when folks were stuck in a 4000+ queue.

They swarmed the forums because they couldn't even play the abundance of new content available.

Or when people want a house. And can't get one. They naturally go to the forums, reddit, twitter, discord etc to voice their discontent.

[JamieRose]

I'm not saying that people shouldn't have issues or complaints that needs be brought to attention, only that this recent trend of doomers predicting the game will collapse just comes off as silly to me.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I'm not saying that people shouldn't have issues or complaints that needs be brought to attention, only that this recent trend of doomers predicting the game will collapse just comes off as silly to me.

And its been around on EVERY-SINGLE-EXPANSION

[Amenara]

I'm not saying that people shouldn't have issues or complaints that needs be brought to attention, only that this recent trend of doomers predicting the game will collapse just comes off as silly to me.

I think people get hyperbolic about their points and it can be easy to dismiss what they say as doom and gloom because of how bad their take overall can be. That being said, a lot of times there is a point that can be dug through in their doom and gloom and actually be conversed about if you look for it. It's obviously easier to draw attention to your opinion the crazier it is and a lot of the extreme people lean heavily into it. There is a reason clickbait articles and videos work, you want to see the craziness or watch the train wreck because that's how we are wired.

I guess all I am saying is it seems like there is a lot of doom and gloom because it's easier to get attention when you make hyperbolic points so it sounds a lot worse than reality.

[Soge01]

The offical forums have been like this for a looooooong time.

[Amenara]

I think people forget the purpose of having forums is to provide feedback to the developers. The vast majority of feedback is going to be on things players feel need to be changed as there is little use in saying "Hey, I like playing the game" as you are providing that feedback by staying subbed. Just simply because of that it will always have a negative feeling as most posts will be about things people feel are wrong in the game. That being said, there have been a lot of troll posters making threads to intentionally cause drama through extremely hyperbolic takes or intentionally false premises. You have to just learn to weed out those threads and focus on threads that are trying to provide actual feedback and conversation.

[TheGrimace]

Maybe one fifth of the complaints I see here have any real merit. Most of the time, I just roll my eyes at how petty people are.

[RyuDragnier]

Maybe one fifth of the complaints I see here have any real merit. Most of the time, I just roll my eyes at how petty people are.

It feels worse than usual. I've must have put around 10 people on ignore within the past month alone. Which is...well, more than I've done in the many years of being on the forums.

[ZephyrMenodora]

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?

Pretty much why I limit my time here. It gets quite old and has been like this for years.