Biggest online meltdowns in videogame history? [Video complete- thanks for the help!]

[Viper1]

KylieDog said:

Viper1 said:
Nintendo selling stock back to RARE and them MS buying 100% of RARE stock. Many of you are probably too young to recall the full brunt of that one, especially given how young the Internet itself was at the time (no YouTube, no Facebook, no Twitter, not even Myspace yet) but it was huge.

It really wasn't, by the time that happened RARE was barely outputting any games, they were roaring during the SNES/early N64 era but even by end of N64 their output was really slow.  They had several employee walkouts and several of their games took a quality drop during that time.  Sales also suffered.

Is a reason Nintendo got shot of them.

Valid issues but not well known for the majoirty of people that enjoyed RARE's games.  I was a mod at a popular Nintendo forum back when it happened.  The meltdowns were legendary.   And as I said, you didn't have the social media that we have today so it was limited in overall scope compared to today's meltdowns because we get Twitter rants and the like now.  But as a measure of the percentage of active gamers online (and offline) that went nuts over a piece of bad news....nothing tops the RARE sale.   For many gamers, that was like watching Pikachu die in your arms at sunset while Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven plays genlty in the background.