Has anyone noticed that the internet is pretty much funny cat pictures and a whole lot of hate? Its just so cool to hate on everything all the time. When it comes to video games, the hate runneth deep. In this article we try to wrap our heads around why people feel the need to project so much hate onto games, developers and publishers, and most importantly, consoles.
To hate, or not to hate? That is the question.
As far as games go one need look no further than the Call of Duty vs Halo hate war. For some reason it is not at all acceptable to like both games. If you like Halo, you MUST hate CoD, and vice versa. Not only though must you hate it, but you must openly express it all the time, going as far as to berate others for liking the opposite of what you like. Nothing is off limits either when you are attacking someone else for having different taste than you do. Slurs of all styles come out with no remorse for the person or people that don't agree with you on the subject.
Game vs game hate leads to developer vs developer hate. It's not good enough to just not like a game, you have to hate on the developer of said game also. You can bust out the big guns for that as well. It doesn't matter how you get it done, you just have to make sure that people understand that YOU ARE RIGHT AND THEY ARE WRONG.
Of course that can lead us to console vs console hate. You can't just like what you like, you have to make sure that you tell the whole world why they are stupid because they don't share your opinion. "PS3 is better than XBOX because the online is free", or "XBOX is better than PS3 because our network didn't get hacked twice in one year", etc. If you like PS3 better, that is fine! You don't have to cram it down other peoples throat because they might not agree with you. I don't understand where this feverish devotion comes from.
Fanboys (or "fanbois") are part of the problem. In their eyes the product that they like can do no wrong, and anything the opposition does is never right. Case in point; Sony fanboy defends PS4 requiring PS+ subscription even though he ragged on XBOX for years because you have to "pay to play". Or they say things like "oh Kinect is stupid, who wants to talk to their console", but believe you me, if the shoe was on the other foot and Sony had the "talk to your console" feature and Microsoft didn't, said fanboy would bash Microsoft into the ground and gloat about how awesome it is because you can "issue voice commands to your console". It is pure hypocrisy. Fanboys are bad for anything be it games, devs, or consoles.
We did a little article yesterday about Microsoft pulling its plans to leave used games fate to the developers and to ditch the always online requirement. In theory this should have been met with positivity, but not from the haters! Instead of it being celebrated that Microsoft listened to its fanbase, people are saying "XBOX 180" and "oh they should have done the right thing to begin with". Microsoft had an idea and introduced it to the public. They had some really cool ideas like loaning digital copies of games to your friends and family, playing the games in the console with no disc required, and trying to work with devs to make sure they profit off the sales of used games. I don't think there is anything wrong with the people that make the games wanting to see a payment for their games being resold. That isn't what this is about though. This move should have been embraced but it wasn't. It was just fuel for the hater fire.
Anyhow, in the end we try to figure out how to stop the hate. Can't we just like what we like and let others like what they do? Are we really so childish that we have to slander each other on a daily basis over what amounts to a hobby or pastime? If you are the kind of person who's life is consumed by video games to the point that you literally don't know what to do if you can't play a game, now would be a good time to take a long look at your priorities. Games are fun and I play a lot of them, but they are not my life.
In conclusion the only thing I can come up with is that there is just something about the human psyche that does not allow us to be satisfied with what we like. We are never satisfied until we can push our beliefs on others. If we're unable to make someone see our point and concede to it, we will push them out, chastise them, and attempt to make them feel bad about being different. Its time to grow up people. It's just video games.
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