Quote Originally Posted by strawberrycake View Post
everything is an absolute or an extreme, or a situation where if the others win you lose.
This has always been the case in the FFXIV community. I've never liked it. Going back to the earlier years of this game, people would always have hot takes. They were misinformed, lacked consideration, lacked empathy and they were everywhere.

It was extremely refreshing to watch MrHappy's videos because he would always have a balanced and fair perspective that tried to take into account all sides. Different types of players, etc. He's the one person you can count on in this community to have a level-headed take.

People feeling the need to tell people to quit when someone made a tempered take about the state of the game, explaining their thoughts in a fair way.
I actually never say this on the forums, because that's up to the person.

That doesn't mean I won't point out that some people are burned out. Because you can make a bunch of criticisms but when you're exhaustedly saying that every single thing isn't good then, at a certain point, it goes beyond just saying "hey! the game is great but I want these few things to be better". It begins to look like heavy burnout to an external observer.

It would take a lot to suggest that someone actually quit though. That isn't my intention at all. The discussion can help people re-evaluate their perspective, or alternatively, re-evaluate presentation.

These things were more of an issue in the past. It's not nearly as bad anymore because some of the really burned out people here actually did quit, or are on break.

The assumption that someone hates the game in it's entirety for wanting change.
Tone and presentation say a lot though. If there is not a single positive thing in someone's post and, furthermore, not a single positive thing in their post history, it builds a certain picture.

Like I said, I don't think the doomposting is actually as bad on these forums as it used to be.

I don't like it when people say to quit, or say something is good or bad to try and "win" an argument, or otherwise don't tackle arguments constructively, such as with statistics or a discussion about function and history.

If a post is respectful, understanding, constructive and saying what could be improved, explaining actually how, trying to take into account that other types of players exist ie. roleplayers, story players, casual raiders that just do extremes, ultimate raiders, social players, hardcore players, returners, new players, etc. then that is what I like seeing.