What's with the forums?

[Striker44]

Funny thing about that is, esp during endwalker, you were not allowed to post anything negative or critical about the game. Reddit, Twitter, Youtube no matter where you went you would be met with a white wave of knights who would do everything from downvote you to send you threats to dox you. We lost more than a few good YT creators during the EW white knight wave because so many people took it as a personal slight when someone gave even constructive criticism about the game. And it still happens with certain topics. Say for instance that you do not like Soken's work because of A B or C, give great examples and bring up good, valid points. You are in for it.

The forums on the other hand do not have a downvote system and come with bans if you treat other players here the way you treat them elsewhere. So the forums tend to lean more negative since it is the only place where contructive criticism or negativity is not met with swift social media justice.

You can huff and puff about how ppl on the forums are this or that or want to suppress anything good you have to say and try to be the victim of those big bad Gamers all you want. But the truth is, this is just the only place you cannot control the narrative with intimidation and downvotes.

The part that always amuses me, however, is how the forum claims every other place on the internet is overrun with "white knights" who love the game, how this forum is the only place on the internet where you can be negative about FFXIV, while simultaneously acting as if this forum magically represents the playerbase at large and it being absolutely dwarfed by the other places that do nothing but praise the game is somehow conveniently irrelevant.