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Fanboys and haters.
Right now there has been a lot 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 comment how Nintendo is so popular when it's such a mediocre company.
Most of the people responded simply ' Nintendo 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 Nintendo 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 rephrase that:
Whenever people talk about how annoying and obnoxious Nintendo fanboys are (I saw a poster about this in another thread), always whining about how great Nintendo is and that you should only ever play Nintendo. 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 Xbox. However one thing I do see a lot of is obnoxious and frankly juvenile attempts at starting flame wars usually starting by some Xbox optimist going onto a Nintendo based thread and spamming it with hatred an obvious trolling for something three posts before getting banned.
Meanwhile I'm being told that Nintendo fanboys do this but I never see it, in any thread I go onto.
(this now marks the end of using Nintendo as an example, as I'll probably warrant a few million responses all with the response of I'm wrong.)
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?
Right now there has been a lot 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 comment how Nintendo is so popular when it's such a mediocre company.
Most of the people responded simply ' Nintendo 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 Nintendo 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 rephrase that:
Whenever people talk about how annoying and obnoxious Nintendo fanboys are (I saw a poster about this in another thread), always whining about how great Nintendo is and that you should only ever play Nintendo. 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 Xbox. However one thing I do see a lot of is obnoxious and frankly juvenile attempts at starting flame wars usually starting by some Xbox optimist going onto a Nintendo based thread and spamming it with hatred an obvious trolling for something three posts before getting banned.
Meanwhile I'm being told that Nintendo fanboys do this but I never see it, in any thread I go onto.
(this now marks the end of using Nintendo as an example, as I'll probably warrant a few million responses all with the response of I'm wrong.)
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?