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[Rahcel]

Were you people complaining when Endwalker had just as long between patches with even less content, or is this thread just here to keep alive the Dawntrail bad meme

[MicahZerrshia]

Were you people complaining when Endwalker had just as long between patches with even less content, or is this thread just here to keep alive the Dawntrail bad meme

I was there, a lot of us were here. But back during EW if you dared to say anything critical at all about FFXIV, ppl would pull out the torches and pitchforks. You couldn't say anything negative or critical on third party sites like reddit without being downvoted into oblivion. So we were here, just silenced. But do go on about how we are just DT haters

[SicariusSeven]

I was there, a lot of us were here. But back during EW if you dared to say anything critical at all about FFXIV, ppl would pull out the torches and pitchforks. You couldn't say anything negative or critical on third party sites like reddit without being downvoted into oblivion. So we were here, just silenced. But do go on about how we are just DT haters

EW came about the same time as the great WoW exodus. So people were praising FF XIV as much as they could to keep the WoW refugees. It made sense, you don't talk about bad things that could scare away new players. The issue though was exactly as you say. If anything critical came up that was serious, people would shout it down. I noticed during EW particularly, we had a rise in "Toxic Positivity". Where you couldn't be critical of both the game or a players laziness/bad gameplay. Even if you were just trying to help a player when they did a mechanic wrong, you'd get shouted at for being mean to them.

[Striker44]

I was there, a lot of us were here. But back during EW if you dared to say anything critical at all about FFXIV, ppl would pull out the torches and pitchforks. You couldn't say anything negative or critical on third party sites like reddit without being downvoted into oblivion. So we were here, just silenced. But do go on about how we are just DT haters

Oh no, you (not you, personally, the collective "you" of people dumping on the game) were out in full force here as well. This forum has *always* been an echo chamber of negativity, where it's positive voices that get torched for daring to say they like the game. Remember the infamous near-1000 page thread bashing EW? Heck, ShB is widely viewed as the "best" expansion in survey after survey and most places around the internet, but if you poked around here during the ShB days, you'd think it was the worst expansion to date.

[MicahZerrshia]

Oh no, you (not you, personally, the collective "you" of people dumping on the game) were out in full force here as well. This forum has *always* been an echo chamber of negativity, where it's positive voices that get torched for daring to say they like the game. Remember the infamous near-1000 page thread bashing EW? Heck, ShB is widely viewed as the "best" expansion in survey after survey and most places around the internet, but if you poked around here during the ShB days, you'd think it was the worst expansion to date.

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[BlisteringFrost]

Were you people complaining when Endwalker had just as long between patches with even less content, or is this thread just here to keep alive the Dawntrail bad meme

Yes, we were.