sometimes I get a XIV drama video in my recommended and it makes very happy that I stopped watching a lot of XIV content creators. these popped up like on the daily before but now it's once a week at most thank fuck
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In general, it feels like content creators just decided that the only way they can get money being a FFXIV youtuber is to just keep repeating on loop how their life is ruined because Dawntrail pushes their grandma off the stairs or something.
Ngl and maybe I am being petty but I really don't think that I am...
If I was a dev I would just disassociate entirely from people who do this.
Like no future collabs and invitations or interviews.
Not talking about just actual reasonable but criticism but very blatant cyclical clickbait.
Like sure youtube might be their job, but the game is also the devs job.
And this negative clickbait that is just petty and cynical actively hurts the games image.
It's just kinda gross especially coming from people who talk about how much they care and '' it saved my life '' etc like just wat.
the only ones I still follow are grinding gear and jesse cox, the latter of which isnt even specifically a XIV content creator but hey he's entertaining af when he IS doing ffxiv stuff so
I highkey stopped interacting with most of the game's community in general a while ago for similar reasons lmao, it's wild how vitriolic people can get
I've played the game since ARR and it's a cycle, but every time they always pretend like it isn't and like '' now it's for real ''.
I also think some of it is this weird mentality that people can't just move on.
There always needs to be some dramatic reason behind why they take a break or quit.
I think after EW a lot of ppl just felt like that was the end, and they have fomo so they need some dramatic reason why they want to move on.
I don't wanna name names but there's some ppl I see play other MMO's now and they don't apply even 1% of the same level of criticism as they do with FFXIV.
Like it kinda blows my mind sometimes how ppl will be angry for a month over a tooltip having a typo in FFXIV but then not even acknowledge when a MAJOR cutscene in WoW runs at 5 fps with no audio and it can't release a single bug free patch.
Like they can't just say '' I am burnt out/ meh about current state, I am taking a break ''.
It's always like '' GAME IS DYING RUINED WUK LMAO RUINED MY LIFE YOSHI P NEEDS TO BE FIRED NOW ''.
Like the game is doing fine lmao.
There's more to it than the MSQ and we've been through much worse times.
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It's just so tiring.
If I was a dev I would just disassociate entirely from people who do this.
Like no future collabs and invitations or interviews.
Not talking about just actual reasonable but criticism but very blatant cyclical clickbait.
And this negative clickbait that is just petty and cynical actively hurts the games image.
It's just kinda gross especially coming from people who talk about how much they care and '' it saved my life '' etc like just wat.
I also think some of it is this weird mentality that people can't just move on.
There always needs to be some dramatic reason behind why they take a break or quit.
I don't wanna name names but there's some ppl I see play other MMO's now and they don't apply even 1% of the same level of criticism as they do with FFXIV.
It just feels extremely bad faith.
It's always like '' GAME IS DYING RUINED WUK LMAO RUINED MY LIFE YOSHI P NEEDS TO BE FIRED NOW ''.
Like the game is doing fine lmao.
There's more to it than the MSQ and we've been through much worse times.