| Darashiva said: Pretty much. One of the worst aspects of video games in general is a specific section of the audience being unbearable self-entitled idiots who think that they are owed something by the developers simply because they happen to be fans of the games. That exact same thing that's going on with Bungie happened with Ron Gilbert and Return of Monkey Island because a group of "fans" thought the rational thing to do was to send personal attacks to developers when they didn't like some aspect of the game. |
| Ka-pi96 said: It is, yes. But I also don't really have any sympathy for the majority of development studios* when they keep doing ridiculous crap and trying to gouge money out of people using predatory practices. Like it's not something I'm ever going to do, for obvious reasons, but if people want to send angry messages to somebody like that Activision CEO then I'm not really going to criticise them doing it either. |
| Darwinianevolution said: I wonder where the "gamers are toxic we need to protect ourselves" problem ends and the "we need an excuse to blame our problems on, let's point to toxic fans" begins. |
I think you three quite well summarised the main issues that contribute to create this problem.
Personally, I think long time fans of classical series have some right to ask devs for quality and some continuity and coherence in the series, but their right ends when they stop being polite, and devs have the right to follow the paths they choose anyway and the choice to fulfil fans' wishes or not is theirs.
