What's with the forums?

[CuteBucket]

I think conversation could become so much more productive if people could separate their own personal opinions from objective facts. For example, I have no doubt that you care deeply about this game. However, what you really want to see is not for the game to truly improve (objectively speaking), but rather for it improve for you. The same thing any one of us views as an improvement could just as easily be seen as a disappointment by someone else. If we could make that distinction, we might start realizing how comments like this inherently come off as telling other people they are "wrong" for enjoying the game as it is.

How is me asking Square Enix to fix broken DC travel, fix messed up character faces, and move away from an embarrassingly bad story (as supported by tons of negative reviews outside of this forum) only asking to improve things personally for me? Two of those three problems I listed in my original comment didn't even exist before Dawntrail came out.

When this graphical update has left so many people (nearly 200 pages of posts and 400+ more pages from the JP side) upset about the changes, and another group of people unable to play the game for as long or at all due to eyestrain from the new graphics, yes, I believe that is a real, objective problem that goes far beyond just me and my wants. Some minor facial changes could be seen as subjective, but maybe the devs shouldn't have promised us that they were going to preserve the look and feel of our characters in that case?

When every day that I log in to play with my friend and all of my Dynamis friends bemoan the DC travel restrictions but I'm the only one who goes on the forums much, and once again I see many people with the same problem, a problem that did not exist before 7.05 and does nothing to "fix" the issues with Dynamis being dead and may even be making it worse, I don't think I'm asking for something to be changed simply improve my personal experience. It's not a one-to-one "an improvement for me is a disappointment to someone else."

And lastly, no, someone criticizing the game in good faith absolutely does NOT come off as "telling other people they are 'wrong' for enjoying the game as it is." That's your own insecurity and your own issue to confront in yourself, don't project that onto me. I'm very personally attached to some characters in this game and don't like seeing them get trashed, so you know what I do when I see it? I add that person to my ignore list and don't go into threads where I know I may be upset by the discussion. If you loved the Dawntrail MSQ and/or Wuk Lamat, don't go into the places that say right on the door "We don't like the Dawntrail MSQ and/or Wuk Lamat."