Remember: the forums represent a tiny, loud minority

[Renalt]

Light side...Dark side...

Both are boring.

Grey Jedi is where the action is act. You need some Ying to your Yang.

Being a positive person is good...but having valid complaints IS NOT BAD. You can't mute both groups.

[Aurikai]

Most people playing the game don't use the official forums. They use Discord, Reddit, or Twitter.

Less than 1% of players use the forums, and of that, even less still are the ones who use the forums regularly.

The negative Nancys on the forums are a Tiny, Loud minority. They are here just to complain and don't reflect the 20 million players who still enjoy the game.

I love these posts that say people who offer their opinion (because they like the game) are "Negative Nancys" or "negative, angry, or bitter", people like you are why nothing improves. I agree with others, the difficulty level of new and existing content has been lowered, the game has stagnated, many of the job changes in EW aren't that good, I've only re-subbed recently to try out new alliance raid, unfortunately it wasn't that great, like the first one of this expansion, so back to WoW DF. MMOs go through phases, where they're good for awhile, then bad, unfortunately EW seems to be in its bad phase, while WoW has climbed out of its.

[VelKallor]

Surely you would know what copium is considering how much you use it

You misspelled Jamaican coffee Or any kind of coffee for that matter. Theres a reason we called it the elixir of life.

Look Stormpeaks, Ill be blunt, Id prefer to be me as I am, than to ever be anything like you. I see the good in things, you apparently dont, Ill take who and what I am any day of the week, rather be as jaded , cynical and negative as you.

What you call "copium", I consider to be a far more balanced, healthy outlook. You could do worse than think on that as an alternative.

[Jkap_Goat]

Eureka is the worst content get outta here!

riiiiight...

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Eureka is the worst content get outta here!

riiiiight...

I too think Eureka was hot Garbage.
But I wouldn't call it "The Worse Content" if I did then I couldnt possibly have loved The Bozjan Southern Front, which I loved the HELL out of. Because lol, its basically the same type of content.

The only ONE thing I liked about Eureka, was The Baldesion Arsenal.
I think that is the only REAL Raid ever put into FFXIV, and Im bummed we didnt get one on the same level in Bozja.
Even though Castrum Lacus Litore, Delubrum Reginae, & Dalriada were all pretty good.

[LianaThorne]

I too think Eureka was hot Garbage.
But I wouldn't call it "The Worse Content" if I did then I couldnt possibly have loved The Bozjan Southern Front, which I loved the HELL out of. Because lol, its basically the same type of content.

The only ONE thing I liked about Eureka, was The Baldesion Arsenal.
I think that is the only REAL Raid ever put into FFXIV, and Im bummed we didnt get one on the same level in Bozja.
Even though Castrum Lacus Litore, Delubrum Reginae, & Dalriada were all pretty good.

Isn't DRS basically the same as BA?

[Arkdra]

I too think Eureka was hot Garbage.
But I wouldn't call it "The Worse Content" if I did then I couldnt possibly have loved The Bozjan Southern Front, which I loved the HELL out of. Because lol, its basically the same type of content.

The only ONE thing I liked about Eureka, was The Baldesion Arsenal.
I think that is the only REAL Raid ever put into FFXIV, and Im bummed we didnt get one on the same level in Bozja.
Even though Castrum Lacus Litore, Delubrum Reginae, & Dalriada were all pretty good.

Eureka and Bozja aren't really the same though, other than both falling under the exploratory mission tag. In Eureka you either were grinding trash mobs off in some corner for farming or NM spawning reasons, or you sat afk in town between nm pops. Eventually you could add bunny fates to this but that isn't exactly the most compelling content. Meanwhile in bozja there were always fates you could be doing and the boss fates were reasonably fun and more involved than most of the Eureka nms. And ce's were much, much better than that.

Also nevermind how dogshit everything about Eureka was back when it was current content. A person doing Eureka now/post shb would have no idea how awful it was.

So fundamentally, Eureka's gameplay loop was inherently boring to me and bozja's was not. I have a lot of patience for fate grinding and 0 patience for random trash mob farming (between my time spent in EQ1 and FF11 I have literally 1000's of hours spent doing that and I never again wish to return).

I have no comment on BA, never did it because it was such a pain in the ass to get into back when this shit was current. It's on my bucket list of things to eventually do just because character power level in full BA gear is so high and that has some charm to it. But then on the other hand, I could only use it do more Eureka and no thanks. I like bozja and I still can't be assed to do DR savage or max out the merit points.

[Semirhage]

The key thing that separates a solid, irrefutable data point from an irrelevant anecdotal blip that hardly represents anything is whether or not it affirms the positions of the toxic casuals.

You'll note that Lucky Bancho, for example, is great if it implies people enjoy bad game design, and a non-representative survey that hardly captures true playerbase data when it doesn't.

[caffe_macchiato]

Don’t ask questions, just consume product and get excited for next products.

[GaiusDrakon]

I feel like this is a point often overlooked. I've been called a white knight and member of the Yoshi cult and all sorts of weird things because I still love the game. I have acknowledged its problems but after nearly 2 years of playing, Im still finding joy to be had in this game for hours at a time every day. Theres tons of minor issues and things I dont like in this game. Eureka, Bozja, Island Sancturary. They all fall short to me. But yet I am a white knight somehow. Lol.

Yeah of course 90% of the white knights are SHB/EW babies. No surprises there to anyone.