Gamers bombard Platinum Games with hate-filled messages over Bayonetta 2 on Wii U

[TruckOSaurus]

happydolphin said:

TruckOSaurus said:

I can guarantee you that people were just as stupid back in '97 as they are now. It's just that back then the Internet was still kinda new, forums weren't as widespread and Facebook and Twitter didn't even exist. If the Internet had been as developped as it is now when Square made the decision to release Final Fantasy VII on PS1 we would have seen a shitstorm of epic proportion.

I spoke to quite a few people back then about games like FFVII and MGS as a Nintendo fan, and I can guarantee you that thoughts like this never even crossed my mind. To me, the internet brood this in people, it feeds that wolf inside of them that causes them to say stupid things. It wasn't like that prior to the net, usually it was limited to one or two trolls out of 15 normal people. That's my experience of the matter. Remember your school friends, people you talked about this with. Were things this stupid being said? I can't remember it.

 

Anonimity brings out the stupid in people. So yes, Internet is the perfect place for stupidity to breed but it's my opinion that these people were just as stupid before.