Sung-Hwan said:
erttheking said:
Sung-Hwan said:
So by your logic a series can only have a bad fanbase if it's popular. Because Dark Souls is a niche game and as a fan of that game I'm not afraid that parts fanbase can be insufferably smug and elitist. You are running off of stereotypes, pure and simple. News flash buddy, everyone complains. Check out the TV Tropes page for SMT IV and see the long laundry list of problems people have with the game. Same with the Dark Souls fanbase and their problems with Dark Souls II, the Suikoden fanbase and their problems with Suikoden IV, the Kingdom Hearts fanbase and their hatred of the idea of Marvel characters being in the game. Plenty of people complained about these, the small size of the fanbase doing absolutely nothing to stop them "whining" as you so elegantly put it. Because fandoms always complain about the games they like People always complain about everything, small fanbases don't stop complaining just because you think they don't.
But the most important fact is for the problems these small fanbases may have, they don't dictate changes from their creator; hence Atlus doing what they like and making games like Catherine, something that no American will ever buy.
Square Enix though, is listening too much to what their fans complain about and try to keep spinning their games to what their fans like; thus going back to the point of what I said with creative freedom being shackled.
You know criticism is always criticism, it doesn't automatically become dictate just because you disagree with it. Something no American will buy? And people who create entertainment NEED feedback, otherwise they'd just lock themselves in an echo chamber and never improve. Catherine? Uh, I hate to tell you but plenty of Americans DID by the game. Nearly TWICE as many as Japanese gamers for the matter.
http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=catherine
.45 million in North America. .23 million in Japan. Really, you keep making these massive claims but a few minutes on google shows me just how little evidence is backing up your arguments.
Square Enix is listening to their fans? Funny because I've talked to quite a few of their fans and the general opinion that I'm getting is that Square Enix is shoving its fingers in its ears, going "LALALALALALLALA" and stubbornly marching forward. Also I've yet to hear a convincing argument why listening to your fans is a bad thing. As a writer, I would like to dispel the myth that people who create are infallible, because someones we need an extra perspective to realize what we thought was a good idea was a massive fuck up.