Right now there has been a lost of talk about fanboys lately and an equal amount of talk about haters. Now I got the idea for this thread, when someone made a thread asking how Halo is so popular when it's so mediocre for the forty seventh time *twitch*. Most of the people responded simply 'Halo is popular because people like it, accept it and piss off ' however it did give me a moment's reflection. That moment of reflection then spawned this poll.
My thought was (I'm going to use Halo as an example because currently it really best example) 'how come there is so much flack about fanboys when there are so much more haters?' Let me reprhase that:
Whenever people talk about how annoying and obnoxious Halo fanboys are (I saw a poster about this in another thread), always whining about how great Halo is and that you should only ever play Halo. I always find myself wondering where these idiot fanboys are. Because whenever I surf the threads I never see any posts like that, in fact more often it's about Half Life. However one thing I do see a lot of is obnoxious and frankly juvenile attempts at starting flame wars usually starting by some Valve optimist going onto a Halo based thread and spamming it with hatred an obvious trolling for something three posts before getting banned. Meanwhile I'm being told that Halo fanboys do this but I never see it, in any forum I go onto.
(this now marks the end of using Halo as an example, as I'll probably warrant a few million responses all with the intelligent, detached academic response of PLAE HL2 HALO SUX.)
Personally I feel that the concept of 'fanboy' needs a broader definition because most people who are accused of fanboyism are simply fans of the game. Meanwhile the people who really, really, Really, REALLY want everyone to know how much they hate (enter game title here) will make post after post, thread after thread, spam after spam and troll after troll and honestly it gets on my nerves.
But that's just my view of it... where do you stand in this. What is a bigger plague to the forums, fanboys or haters?
My thought was (I'm going to use Halo as an example because currently it really best example) 'how come there is so much flack about fanboys when there are so much more haters?' Let me reprhase that:
Whenever people talk about how annoying and obnoxious Halo fanboys are (I saw a poster about this in another thread), always whining about how great Halo is and that you should only ever play Halo. I always find myself wondering where these idiot fanboys are. Because whenever I surf the threads I never see any posts like that, in fact more often it's about Half Life. However one thing I do see a lot of is obnoxious and frankly juvenile attempts at starting flame wars usually starting by some Valve optimist going onto a Halo based thread and spamming it with hatred an obvious trolling for something three posts before getting banned. Meanwhile I'm being told that Halo fanboys do this but I never see it, in any forum I go onto.
(this now marks the end of using Halo as an example, as I'll probably warrant a few million responses all with the intelligent, detached academic response of PLAE HL2 HALO SUX.)
Personally I feel that the concept of 'fanboy' needs a broader definition because most people who are accused of fanboyism are simply fans of the game. Meanwhile the people who really, really, Really, REALLY want everyone to know how much they hate (enter game title here) will make post after post, thread after thread, spam after spam and troll after troll and honestly it gets on my nerves.
But that's just my view of it... where do you stand in this. What is a bigger plague to the forums, fanboys or haters?
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