Quote Originally Posted by MicahZerrshia View Post
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.