FFXIV’s Toxic Positivity and Entitled Nature Hurts My Brain
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No more koolaid, welcome to the other side of the XIV community.
What I hate the most in the sense of entitlement, is when I host a pf with clear instructions as to how the run will go. Many will join saying " oh we should do this instead cause it's faster for everyone blah blah. Trying to use "unspoken rules" as a way to take control over a party. If you want a pf to go your way then make your own party. The communities unspoken rules don't actually apply. If it doesn't break ToS then it don't matter how a pf is ran.
I think the biggest gripe most have going into Island Sanctuaries is that SE completely missed the opportunity to give us actual instanced housing… and at least help salve some of the frustrations with the housing system like giving everyone a yard to decorate and also use the housing decorations with the sanctuary. I don't know how much of the housing debacle is the disasterpiece of the backend, and how much of it is SE unwilling to budge with their design decisions.
My take is unless a game has both love and support but also being criticized how can we hope for inprovement so 14 can be the best vertion of its self oneday
I salute you and hope you manage to stay sane after this. I gave up posting on the forums or w/e other place these devs might actually pay attention other than a handful of people that ''represent'' the community. They managed to convince the team to make these shitty Viera instead of fixing instance load for hunt trains that's been an issue since Cross World function and travel launched back in Stormblood. Thank the heavens Elden Ring and other great games launched, because FFXIV is turning into a stale bread at this point. Looks delicious and few people actually refuse it, but in the end, there's no actual flavor to it. I hope they start to improve on the other fronts that they left the same since HW, such as the gearing system and maybe, as you pointed out on the other video, that Criterion dungeons serves as a foundation or gets improved as time goes by in regards to gear, content and challenge.
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*ahem* So, I had to Google toxic positivity. 🤦♀️ And according to it it’s; “We (don’t know who that ‘we’ is) define toxic positivity as the excessive and ineffective overgeneralization of a happy, optimistic state across all situations. The process of toxic positivity results in the denial, minimization, and invalidation of the authentic human emotional experience.” So, in short, I may feel something is bad for me (about the game) but the community tries to convince me it’s not bad, it’s in fact fine, and that I’m wrong and have no reason to think it’s bad? 🤔 Sorry folks I don’t live in a beehive mindset. 😅 Ill be over here with my handful of friends enjoying my game or not, as best I can. 😂 Stay calm, stay cool and stay safe. 👍
I’m here for the drama bro. *eats popcorn *
You're entitled to your opinion, but I urge you to read dialog and commentary on Japanese culture and how they handle critical feedback. American feedback style is a full 180 degree turn from what they consider. Japanese culture is driven by community effort, versus personal effort. The closest you get to that in American feedback is passive aggressive, which is entirely unhealthy way to give people information.
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Yo Brian, this is off topic but could you play/stream a FFXI 75 private server without any actions being taken against you from SE?
I think the easiest answer to your question is…"people are stupid"
Watch people get disappointed over "Island Sanctuaries" despite being told "It's not Animal Crossing"
Today Ginger learns: Rage content is consistently more views/clicks/money. I doubt you're doing it because of the money granted, but I'm sure the more consisten viewership compared to the past month or so must be very nice.
Keep up the good work. I like you much better unchained. False positivity is easy to detect and annoying.
2 sides complaining about the same thing lol
I'm enjoying this brutally honest Brian… I like FF14, been playing since 1.0… but man the community lately, wtf happened?
This isn’t ‘open and honest’, it’s ‘being critical’ and that’s fine.
We just want to see how you handle stupidity 🤗😋🤩🫶 Brian VS Stupidity 1/0🤗🥳🫶
If it's something i hate in FFXIV is the fact that some people (specially certain FC leaders) require other people to not complain in the chat. At al. About anything. They want this whole utopia that a FC have to function without any drama or negativity. I was in such a FC for about 4 months before i realised "hey, this is actually bullshit and im not gonna waste my time trying to explain why i have certain negative opinions about certain things with the game" and then just left. There are way better options than to trying to appease other people that does nothing for you as a player.
And the problem is that I didnt have this issue once in WoW or any other major MMORPG. It's only in FFXIV where this is a issue. Which is baffling to me.
And no, it's not because there are many females playing the game, i've been in plenty of guilds in WoW where we had multiple female raiders and even a female leader during a period. Not once have i encountered a single person (female or male) aspiring to the same level of toxic positivity as people in FFXIV.
It's dumb.
If you can't criticize the things you like, you are brainwashed. Pure and simple.
Consider the unsub because you might say something about a part of the game I don't like? Psh, wasn't subbed anyway because you guys have too many channels already that I forget which ones I've hit the sub button for in the first place. Speaking of, time to fix that. (I actually thought I was when I started responding, then looked at the button and noticed I wasn't. Heh.)
Seriously though, not a big deal, at least me. Things can always be improved. Whether or not we agree on what needs it, what to prioritize, and how to do said improvements is another matter entirely, of course. But that'd certainly be no reason to get angry about it.
You are contributing by referring to people criticizing the game as "whining and complaining." You don't need to have a solution to be considered a worthwhile critique. A random player is not a game developer. The feeling of something being wrong or not enough is all that's needed. It's up to them dev team to look through the general sentiment and find a solution. That is part of the business. (I'm not talking about the people who are rude about it obviously)
Gatekeeping peoples opinions is the main problem with community which you are taking part in.
Yes I watched the whole video.