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nikkisticki · 1 year ago

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You know what you all get to suffer another pointless post about reddit and what I call the Defensive Wave

Whenever a game has common critiques that a large share of players agree on (generally bearing discontent about the state of the game) places like reddit will undergo this amusing shift of dialogue where a post or posts will get some hype, usually looking like

This [content] isn't well done because of (reasons)

Instead of the people who disagree actually trying to prove their stance, within 24 hours another post (or posts) will arrive making counter arguments without actually making anything resembling a real defense. Instead, it'll just be:

Well I loved [content] and your opinion is just an opinion, it doesn't make it objectively bad!

This is happening on r/FFXIV right now and has been since 6.5 launched three days ago, with that exact post chain happening yet again. I'll save you the braincells and just tell you that none of the posts or comments are actually discussing the issues presented, nor are they even acknowledging them. Instead, it's a direct critique of the ones who complained for speaking, usually while engaging in sideways manipulations of reality to pretend they are simply mad because of x and y reasons.

Ex. The Cyberpunk subreddit claiming people are just mad that the game didn't hold up to the players lofty expectations, ignoring that the devs promised those exact things.

This will continue until something draws the discourse away, smothering any chance of the complaints to be taken seriously while also silencing those who wish to speak under the false positivity of...attacking people for not agreeing with you.

I've seen it happen dozens of times and it's at the point that I can predict the posts of a subreddit before they happen. This isn't difficult to do mind you, people aren't particularly bright and will readily waste a few minutes complaining about those mean people pointing out the issues! It's just human nature to be a fuckwit, I suppose.

If people were slightly more intelligent, they'd realize discourse and negative comments are important for the health of an ongoing game, but no no we gotta act like everyone loves this shit in case (Dev) is sad!

Of course repeated negative discourse cycles exist, but those are a separate matter.

#FFXIV #No no these patches are great except for all the largescale complaints people have!#Its just that a sizable chunk of the community is getting exhausted from the same content loops #that doesnt count!#Its just that the content is underbaked and largely threw away all of the narrative thrust for the writers personal blorbos!#That doesnt Count!#Its just that the PVP changes ultimately didnt fix Front lines being dogshit and 90% of players doing all of the grind within a week #That doesnt count!#Its just that island sanctuary is a spreadsheet tied to you gathering sticks in a field for hours!#Its just that Criterion dungeons are done and over within 9 hours and serve no valued purpose to any of their trash Ilevel loops?#Its just that the combat system is collapsing due to bad balance choices and earlier content being made easier and less complicated!#That doesn't count!#Its just that the game is fundementally old as dirt and needs a total engine overhaul!#No no all the complaints are because you're mad they didnt give you five raids six eurekas and a blowjob!#Idiots #Dawntrail is going to underperform and be critiqued as middle of the road unless they've got some refreshing new content #And lets be real here 90% of the content we get is just different versions of fighting guys in hallways and rooms #I say this as someone whose stockpiling hundreds of dyes for the new Dye channel changes and is more excited about that then anything else #Oh also the new jobs are Corsair and Green Mage I'm 99.9% sure #And Femhroth for 7.0 which are just Femroes but hairy with a slightly more meow meow face #Nothing they've yet shown or hinted at will change the exhaustion people feel having to do pointless quests and get exposited at #HEY I KNOW YOU'RE THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON EVER BUT CAN YOU GO TALK TO X #you get to X and they say HEY MY BUTT HURTS CAN YOU GO TALK TO Y #you get to Y who tells you to go back to X then go back to the original NPC #Rinse and repeat fifteen times and throw in some combat cutscenes and 3-5 solo instances #THERES YA MSQ good job you stopped the chameleons civil war or whatever #Honestly they've got nowhere to go at this point they already committed to the fact that we are Almighty

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