Criticism

[Kaurhz]

I mean, to me, it all sounds like a bunch of kids throwing a tantrum if they don't get their way. At no point in time should you switch from being a decent human being to an abusive ahole just because you didn't get your way. That is never acceptable, so you trying to excuse that behaviour is very odd to me.

As for the issues with the RNG, I agree, it sucks but then again, if I dislike something enough I just don't do it. That's why I never did Bojza nor Atma, or anything that required a stupid amount of grind.

Now I am just playing OC every now and again with friends and between raiding. I go in there, play a bit, get bored -> get out. Also, JP has a huge culture of gacha and winning odds, which is why this stupid RNG even exists. I would prefer to have like.. Kill 20 X this mob and get 1 shard or kill 5 fates and get 1 shard, but RNG is a huge part of FF14, always has been.
I dislike RNG so much, especially after going the entire last tier without winning a single damn weapon coffer in M4s.. like..I was going insane..

This is because you're largely attributing posts to something which they are not. Take for instance the exampled Machinist thread, then asked a legitimate question, and you're sat here linking it in an external thread as if it's meant to be some sort of clown show, and with all due respect you really aren't much different. You can hide it under a passive undertone all you like, but really it's not much different from people that are being directly confrontational. I am not excusing anything, I am just not really surprised and unlike you I am not so inclined as to call 99% of all threads toxic waste of people venting and crying, and then generally I am just pointing out the hypocrisy behind your point.. Because from what I have gleamed so far, you're really not much different than the rest of us, the only major difference, you're using a passive undertone, and making the players the target of your attention instead of the developers.

and that's fine if you want to react that way, just don't expect people to react in the same manner, especially for content with which they have been waiting several years for... I'm in the boat of I simply don't care enough so I won't play it... Like I am playing Eureka over the new OC, and literally whenever I am not doing Eureka with friends, or just generally hanging out with them, then I immediately press the logout button, rather than even bother because I am driven to complete apathy.