Most impossible fan base to please?

[Terminate421]

1st Generation ONLY Pokemon fans

Those who say there were no other pokemon past X generation need to get smacked upside the head.
Those who say that pokemon designs are getting worse, they need to look at Jynx and Mr. Mime.

Personally I love it when a new generation swings around, the 2nd and the 4th installments being my personal favorites, but the 5th generation does have some pretty cool highlights as well as the 3rd.

If you are unwilling to accept that pokemon has changed or will change in the future (Pokemon wise, probobly not gameplay), then I have to say you may have a mental IQ below 80, or my just have OCD.

EDIT: Might I say that there is a MASSIVE difference between liking the 1st generations and hating the newer generations.


Also, I hate to admit it but the Bungie.net forums are overpopulated with trolling children who are REALLY annoying, and this is coming from a die hard Halo fan.

 

[GunstarHero]

1st Generation ONLY Pokemon fans

I have to agree with your whole post. I love the G1 Pokes, but that's because they're the most familiar to me, and the ones I had the time to get to know.

I really like some of the new designs, in HGSS I had a small team of favourites, none of which were G1. However, I do think that 'Gotta Catch Em All' is a pisstake now, and a genuinely impossible task.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

Runescape: they get updates for the game almoost every week and whenever anything goes wrong, the forums are a mess. Hell, the forums are a mess when things are going perfectly.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

The MGS fanbase.

They complain that the fourth installment is a giant movie, yet everyone before the game's launch was hoping for more of the extreme cutscenes the players got from the first three installments. Of course there's going to be double the amount, it's the final one and they know they enjoyed almost every cutscene.

Never heard of any MGS fan doing that. I know, I am one and know a few. We all thought it was awesome.

OT: Justin Bieber fans when Justin Bieber doesn't win an award.

Sonic fans, no matter what he does, it's somehow another nail in the coffin, despite how Sonic 4 and Sonic Colours are the more stronger of his games as of late.

Bioware fans. (All of them, seriously)

Fans of fans. They can never make their mind up if the invention of the electronic fan made the hand fan obsolete.

Calumon: Mine, cause I don't have any. :'(

 

[Jezzer]

I'd say the hardest fanbase to please would be World of Warcraft players. It seems like EVERY SINGLE CHANGE in WoW is taken as a personal insult by EVERY SINGLE PLAYER, and WoW patches are apparently designed to nerf the player's preferred class and make every other class overpowered.

If you asked me which fanbase was EASIEST to please, I'd have to probably go with Pokemon. They've been releasing the exact same game for years.

 

[Zantos]

All the fanboys are incessent whining, but some of the recent offenders have been:

- Halo, CoD and Gears mp fans who complained about Bulletstorm's mp because it wasn't based on ruining someone else's day.

- Bulletstorm's mp community for whining about the Halo, CoD and Gears mp fans for going online and ruining their game by not working as a team.

- The Half Life 2 fanboys who complain day in day out that they still haven't released episode whatever number they're on now. The same people who, if Valve were to give in to them and rush it out as soon as possible, would complain it was rushed out.

Incidentally, what's the gender correct term for fanboys? Fanpeople, fanpersons?

 

[Euhan01]

Anything thats either different or the same as the past game will make people impossible to please.

 

[thedeathscythe]

Imagine buying a car and you don't have air conditioning, but the dealer says "Well for 150 bucks we can add air conditioning" so you pay him but all he does is flip open a flap inside your car and you now see that there was an air conditioning unit and dial all along, you just couldn't access it. You'd kind of be cheesed right?

Have they explicitly stated that it will come with AC as standard? No? Then I'd be fooling myself if I thought I was entitled to it. The fact is, a lot of cars have empty sockets, or blanking plates, where they can fit a £10 appendage that will add functionality. They have the pieces right there, so why don't they give them to me for free? So what if they took time to design and make, I'm buying the car so I should get all the extras too right?

Except.. What if they don't want to swallow the cost, they decide everyone WILL have the formerly optional extras, and they slap another £200 on the list price of every car.

Tell you what, I'd rather choose what pieces I want bolted on my car if A. I can't fit it myself or B. I have no right expecting it. It's an extra. Without it, you still have a car/game. With it, you have a car/game that gives you something extra that you've A. elected to receive and B. paid for, thus supporting the development of future cars/games rather than chucking more money at the retailers, since you can bet the initial price increase would cut another slice off for them.

The difference is, in my example, I was pretending that the AC was somehow hidden inside your car and inaccessable. In your example, it was as it actually is, and not a part of the car. When we get the game, they've already made the DLC, but they determined that they didn't want to include it in the price. You see, the work is already done, the content is already made, it's even on the disc that you just bought.

This is why I used my completely made up car example, but that seemed to go completely over your head. I never said they told us it would be included, but when you include it and then go "alright, it's in your game, just pay for this 6kb unlock download and you're good to go." It just blows my mind that they would do it that way. But hey, I bought it, and you don't seem to understand the concept of my example to begin with.

Here's another made up example, imagine you move out and you get an apartment, but there's a door in your place that is always locked, so the landlord says "yeah, that's a walk-in closet, it you want it, it's an extra $20 a month", you'd be pretty pissed. I mean, it's in your room, no one else can have it, and yet you have to pay some money to unlock it. Does that example make more sense now?

 

[sorpaqq]

The Zelda fan base is the worst because they had been clamouring for a different kind of Zelda game but when Wind Waker came out they complained about it being too different and then a few years later they wanted a Zelda game that was more typical of the classic Zelda games but when Twilight Princess came out they complained about it being too typical. If I worked on the Zelda games I'd be bashing my head against a wall every day out of pure frustration.

 

[Convoy]

I'd say Blizzard.

 

[Erttheking]

Let me just say that as a Halo fan I have experienced many a face palm while reading the Bungie.net forums.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

COD is another one...but to be fair it is the Devs fault... (looks over at Activision with an evil look)

Yeah COD fans are actually really easy to please - just make one balanced game that isn't ruined by 2 or 3 horrible perk/weapon combos and they'll be happy.

 

[Dansen]

Hey some people have different opinions so let's call them fanboys and make a thread discussing exactly how impossible to please they are!

I find this thread fairly ridiculous, just chalk up most of the complaining to the vocal minority and move on, they hardly represent the entire community.