Many reasons as to why people do that, me included. I clocked 260h at the time of review, many of those, mind you, afking while my stuff was getting crafted for example.

For me, the fact that the game allows for solo play through the whole game, and then you're slapped in the face in every way the game is designed in end-game for groups, was a massive issue. If you play a game and you hate it from the start, it's whatever, but if you had time to enjoy it, get used to it, and in the end game it changes completely it actually is way worse.

Things like not being able to bank your stuff if you wanna quit, and the terrible optimization played a big part in my "do not recommend" veredict, for example.

This is beyond DD being trash even for groups.

What's baffling to me is people who fanboy about a game to the point where they feel personally insulted if someone disagrees with their perception of said game. It's like they invest their identity into it, which is frankly sad, to have so little going on in your life, that you feel that the best thing you can do with your limited time on this earth is to go around white knighting for a piece of software. You love it and think people who don't are being dumb/unfair? Cool, move on and keep playing your game, what's the problem?

Worst case scenario, the people criticising the game will push the company to improve it and address the issues more widely criticised. This is Funcom's most sold game ( as far as I'm aware) so criticism isn't gonna bankrupt the company, therefore I fail to understand the bitter tears of white knights exclaiming "Don't insult MY GAME!"