How can you possibly defend people rating other peoples gameplay? Seriously, who do you think you are that you think YOU can judge another and put a value on them? The very thought disgusts me.
You are ABSOLUTELY telling people how to play by rating them. Without a positive rating how does a player find groups? They are FORCED to play a certain way (YOUR WAY) in order to play a game THEY want to play or paid for. You can't possibly defend this or...twist it into something positive. It's sick.
Again...you shoot out arbitrary percentages in reference to WoW like you know something everyone doesn't. I was there on day 1 for WoW. I can tell you with absolute surety you have little understanding of the actual numbers Blizzard does...for anything. Yet you call it a "fun fact"? I find it highly amusing that you blame "toxic" players for WoW losing millions of players and not the disgusting behavior of Blizzard/Activision's employees and their policies over the past decade. You're either very young or very misinformed about WoW and Blizzard.
There's are a ton of reasons many people do not play Final Fantasy 14. One of the major ones is their abhorrent game policies, including the one you mentioned. It's Sony. It sickens me that anyone can actually defend Sony's behavior towards their customers. FF14 shouldn't even qualify as an MMO due to how much they limit player interaction. Same goes for WoW today.
I suggest you do some actual research before throwing out opinions as facts. Everything I've stated is OPINION. I admit that. I don't try to convince people with arbitrary numbers that have no meaning. What I do have is a massive amount of knowledge and experience starting from the dawn of the internet and online gaming itself. So please...continue to make things up. It only makes my argument look stronger.
It's obvious this conversation has become "toxic" as I will never agree with you so in your mind...I'm "toxic". Different opinions, ideas, gameplay, WORDS or lives aren't "toxic", but the people that can't handle them just may be...
I hope you realize someday...the censors and thought police will eventually come for you too. Good luck, when it happens.
And that's exactly the point, as you write players with a bad rating don't find a group. Then you have to behave like an adult player, not be toxic, be helpful and then you won't get a bad rating. Only the player himself is to blame for his behaviour. Then they have to earn a good rating, as you said, it's an MMO, a multiplayer game. Then the player has to write to the people and say: I made some mistakes but I'll do it better in the future and everything is ok.
And your last sentence just confirms that I'm right and that you have a toxic streak, without attacking you now. Of course there are players who don't like such a rating system, but they know exactly why, because they are used to flaming, ganking and being toxic. No developer has really stood up to it yet.
I mean, I'd rather have 55,000 players who are loyal to the game and support it than 25,000 toxic players who ruin the game for others.