LOLPATCH 1.16a

[Abriael]

We shall have to agree to disagree then, my good man. You are entitled to your opinion as am I, I shall not attempt to argue for my opinion seeing as doing so generally just makes everyone else entrench further in their folly. However, I am of the opinion that self-elected Robin Hoods are awesome. You would prefer a "Robin Hood" that was elected by popular vote?

No, I would prefer people with a constructive and actually useful attitude over glorified thieves

"Intentionally Spreading Negativity" I suppose a great many "Muckrakers" did that as well. The general consensus was they needed to "quiet down". The overarching theme of history at large is people forget the bad things if they're idle enough.

The small detail you're not noticing is that the forums definitely aren't idle. There are hundreds of posts bursting full with suggestions and requests for changes. So people simply aren not "idle enough". No one here needs a muckracker to tell him that this game needs to evolve, if you didn't notice. Further stirring isn't needed, as much as some are quite evidently convinced that they know better than everyone else.

Sorry mate, this is game development, not politics.

Also, for someone who loves the tar out of subjectivity a statement such as "Game development needs constructive feedback, and that's what the forums are for." Seems highly suspect. I mean, who am I or who are you to say what these forums are for? Maybe they're to gauge player attitudes? Maybe they're to lighten SE's countenance?

The rules of the forums establish what these forums are for, as the various developer posts about it. Guess what? they all talk about constructiveness, respect (which includes first and foremost respect for the development team) and similar concepts. There's nothing subjective about that.

While i do agree single player games wont do anything towards the mmo market, let us not forget that other AAA MMOs are coming soon.

There are already plenty MMOs on the market, one of which is more dangerous to FFXIV (and to any other) than any other "AAA" MMO out there (quotes obligatory, since only SWTOR is actually classifiable as "AAA", and the sci-fi crowd is quite disjoined from the Final Fantasy one).
There's no ticking clock. As much as other MMOs will influence FFXIV, FFXIV's releases will influence them (if they're good) in turn. That's how the market works.
And none of them will influence the others as much as the sole presence of WoW (and the release of any of it's major patches or expansions) does.