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Darth Tigris on 22 February 2014
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mornelithe said:
Darth Tigris said:

Well I am 7 years older than then (though I've only been a member since 2008) and also 7 years more sick of tired of this childish behavior no matter what side it's coming from.  Maybe I'm just too old for these communities.  I saw a thread on neogaf where someone was asking how many remember the old Centipede commercial for the 2600 and most responses were people saying they weren't even born yet.  Yeah ...

Yeah, I'm seven years older and I find it difficult to be calling people out for things that were being done to them over the past 7 years.  Turnabout is fairplay, after all.  So, in the future, now that everyone's had the pleasure of having their noses rubbed in it, maybe we can be a tad more civil.  Until that time, I'm opening the popcorn and watching with no small amount of amusement.

Because it's not turnabout, it's arrogance run amok again with a heaping of online bullying.  

I really didn't want to go here with this, but since memories are so fuzzy for folks it should be clarified.  In summer 2005, when the 360 was revealed and the relatively small contingent of MS fans were excited about it, Sony (the company) and it's extremely large fanbase (see PS2 sales numbers) did everything in their power to minimize it.  Using target renders that were 4 years from being somewhat realized, hyperbolic rhetoric and demeaning insults (Dreamcast 2 anyone?), Sony and it's fanbase tried to bury the 360.  And it failed.  For a couple of years, it looked really bad for Sony with the PS3 and there was some posturing on the part of fanboys that changed loyalties (such a ridiculous notion, but whatever ...) and Sony and it's fanbase was the victim of similarly insulting talk that we're seeing now.  It wasn't as widespread, as the MS fanbase wasn't as prevalent or vocal (e.g. see DMC3 being multiplatform backlash), but it was still there and it was immature and embarassing.  BUT the key difference between that situation and what we see now is that it all started with a company and a fanbase arrogantly trying to bully an underdog and the tables got turned.

We are not seeing that this time around.  This is the same fanbase arrogantly trying to bully a (relative) underdog and as of now it's not changing.  I can't deal with a whole gen of this stuff again, so I'm involved less and less but I still find it necessary to point out how ridiculous, immature and embarassing it is for gamers to communicate like this.  It's not in good fun and does nothing constructive.