Questions about your reception to Dawntrail

[Turtledeluxe]

While I understand the sentiment of the purpose of the thread, aa single person goes in and says they like the healing they get jumped on and called an idiot for liking easymode by like 6 other people, that thread is as toxic as it get's unless you're in 100% support of them.

That's just factually not true. If you look at the first few pages there isn't a ton of disagreement, but some players did disagree and cited their reasons and even got decent likes. From what I've observed, toxicity in the thread is reactive i.e. you get what you give. If someone's immediately dismissive or insulting, that's what they get back. And that's my experience on the forum as well-- I can be dismissive and annoying but the difference is I'm self aware about it and prepared for the reactions.

And tbh there's no real reason to be upset about the thread enough to make fun of it. It's coherent, respectful, and organized. In contrast, it was hard to take the benchmark feedback seriously because so many people emotionally communicated all at once and left their actual criticisms quite unclear.

That's why feedback improved over time instead of just being "This isn't who I've known for 10 years she's totally different I'm unsubbing!!!". I don't feel like the healer strike is like that at all, and I'd argue the motivation behind it is nearly universally agreed upon.

[1313]

Of the pre-launch periods I've seen since I started playing the game in StB, I feel like this one is the first with this many people either uneasy or straight up apathetic to the newest expansion. I haven't seen reactions as polarizing on the short time I've been using the forums, so I got curious.

Hopefully it'll be a good way for Squenix to gather data on both what is keeping the satisfied party here, and what is pushing the unsatisfied party away.

• When did you start playing?
• Will you play DT at launch, and are you looking forward to it? Why or why not?
• Did the media tour sway your decision, and do you think there's any way you'll change your mind before DT actually comes out?
  

I started playing during closed beta, and yeah i'll probably play dt at launch but im not hyped about it at all. The most important thing to me is that there will be good players returning so my daily roulette runs wont be wipe parties all day every day for weeks on end, while i teach people the same shit ive taught them for ten years yet still nobody knows. I didn't pay attention to the media tour at all and could care less what a select few individuals did or say, it has nothing to do with me, or the rest of us.