If something will kill FFXIV:ARR for me, it's this.Follow

What is "this" you ask? The community outside the game of course.

I'm not saying that FFXIV's community is a special case as that's not true in the slightest. This is what MMORPG communities have become for better and for worse.

No matter which forum you go to, the people there exist to suck all the enjoyment and fun out of the game for everyone that dares to step inside.

Why the game is dying, why it is being run to the ground, how the devs just don't get it... you name it, the forums are ******** about it.

"Stay out of the forums then, Hyan!"
You're right, that should do the trick. But I like browsing the forums as well as taking part in the discussions. There's some valuable information to be found, both from the players and the devs. For the majority of the time it is a playground of many sad individuals with an agenda though.

I'm enjoying myself, playing the game as it was intended to be played. I will enjoy it even more once 2.1 hits in a few weeks. I've my fair share of issues with the game but if you remove all the hyperbole, there's little dealbreakers to be had there. The game hits my buttons in a totally different way from how FFXI did (a game with its own fair share of issues indeed). The in-game community that I am in contact with is nothing but oblivious to any "problems", it's all quite neutral. Warrior's aren't in a high demand but that's about it.

Once I go to the forums, though, I am hit with a constant stream of complaints stating why I should not be enjoying myself and the design choices by the devs. Why the weekly lockout timers are the devil (even when the demographic I am in benefits from these lockout timers immensely). How we are not getting enough content when I will be hard pressed to have caught up by the time 2.4 hits the servers.

Even though it doesn't concern me it can be demoralizing. It is noticeable. When I am in-game, I find myself thinking how much this game has given me so far. When I browse the forums, I start to get annoyed by all the "problems" in the game and its future.

I could defend the game but that doesn't change the fact that I just wouldn't like playing it as much as before.

The lesson to be had here is: don't go to the forums if you want to keep liking the game.

Ps. I'm not including ZAM forums in the list as I haven't browsed here in a while.

Yeah the hate thread thing really isn't tolerated here (criticism =/= hate). If someone is done with the game they generally just leave. It's a pretty cool community for the most part.

As for everything else, I agree. Most people suck, but that's life.

Edited, Dec 4th 2013 6:13pm by BrokenFox

Ah, the joys of the internet, where the old adage that everyone has an opinion is proven to be true 27/4.

I would further posit that every possible opinion is typed out somewhere - whether the author actually holds that opinion or not is irrelevant.

So if you want to pull the little nuggets of gold out of a 2-ton pile of dinosaur crap, strap on your flame retardant gloves and your kaleidoscope goggles and bring your own spoon.

But but the official forum of FF14 is too entertaining for me to leave (... yeah I'm bored at work ).

On more serious note, people complaining is the norm on the internet IMO.

So in order to combat all of the negativity you perceive in the forum community, you decide it's best to write a bitter rant thread.

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The karma system is like fight club: the #1 rule is to not post about your karma.

I would suspect getting banned on BG contributed to his "coming back" here, too.

It's much simpler than the laundry list you gave. Do you find the game fun? If the answer is "No", then quit.

I would amend it to be: don't go to forums hosted by the game's publisher. It's too easy to find out about and make an account to post, which leads to a lot more trolling. Even if I don't take trolls seriously, the high percentage of trolling makes it difficult to find anything worthwhile.

If people have to go out of their way to find out about a forum, that tends to weed out a lot of the riffraff.

I wish they would close the official forums already. I've not seen this much e-bullying anywhere else before.

You make a reasonable suggestion, and it not only gets shot down for no apparent reason other than people wanting to be ***** because they can be, you yourself also get assaulted by them and the droop of sarcasm on every remark would make anyone without a decent amount of resistance to it rage in anger, just like they intended most likely.

I mean, XIV Endgame is bad. Toxic, Rude, Unreasonable but still doable sometimes if you get lucky on members.

XIV's Official Forums, no. Nothing short of fallout will fix that. And then still, i dont even want to think about the now angry mutated glowing trolls...

People do plenty of things that aren't fun and they keep doing them anyhow. Most of what happens in an MMO is anti-climactic and dry... like tapping a resource node repeatedly for hours. Fun really wasn't the standard for walking away.

On a tangent I wish things you got out of those nodes were interesting or valuable. Servers may vary but on Gilg. it's guaranteed junk for pennies, unless you're talking about gold... maybe... depends on the day. Sad that's not even reliable. Fishing on the other hand... I think it's semi RNG vagueness has helped it ward against a complete market crash.