Questions about your reception to Dawntrail

[Turtledeluxe]

They are - for a simple reason that has been documented: the internet tends to encourage negativity. It's not a question of intelligence or anything like that: it's more a question of environment, and the fact that our brains are made to react to negative stimuli in a more violent way. The ffxiv forum is not alone. I have... mixed memories of the wow forums, where legitimate criticism often went hand in hand with personal tirades that went off in all directions. Add to that the fact that some people stop coming at all because of the negativity around them - and you automatically filter out all the optimists.

Saying that a forum is representative of a population is like saying that an IRL social venue is. It won't be true, because access to that social space is determined by a set of criteria (social, economic, cultural) that establish an initial filter.

Having said that, I'm looking forward to DT. I'd like to take this opportunity (and this is more of a request for confirmation than anything else, I have a doubt): are we really going back to a narrative cycle like the one we had between ARR and Endwalker? Not a stand-alone expansion?

This is just you misapplying the data. We might react more to negative threads but that doesn't mean forums are inherently negative. Hope this helps!

Also it's nothing like a music venue which is limited (mostly) to a local population, variating prices, and a fixed location. XIV and the forums are global and have a subscription based economic entry point required to participate.

Like I said l, it's a common shaky logic people use basically to discredit forums it's easy to do because the game churns on and players are playing, seemingly content. But if we actually stopped and asked everyone in game, "Hey what do you think about healers and x people are saying on the forums?" you would probably get a mixed reaction similar to what you see on the forum.

So for example if forums say 50% unhappy with healers, 30% happy, 20% just don't care...there's not a real reason to assume the general game population won't skew the same way if asked.