Oh good; it's a combined ME3 and DMC rant thread.
This will end well.
Polite Sage said:
Reboot a franchise > fans are not interested in the reboot > tell fans to fuck off > complain when said fans don't buy it
If the fans are dedicating so much of their time and effort to badmouthing a game that's actually pretty good to the extent that they'll
petition the White House to have the game pulled from the shelves?
Yes. Capcom has a right to be upset about that. That's bad press, and it'll affect their sales. More importantly, it's totally unjustified, because by all accounts the DMC reboot is actually a
decent game.
Here's an example;
As you can guess, Capcom and NT's handling of the situation was an instant turn off for me and majority of other fans and as such decided not to buy the game while advising others to do the same.
Every DMC fan you met, you told not to buy DMC. For...what reason? Is it a bad game? Had you
played it?
Have you played it? Did you say "Don't buy this awesome new game because the publisher has shitty PR"?
To Capcom, every DMC fan you "advised" is a lost sale. And throughout all of this, you
haven't said why DMC is a bad game. You're offering no reasons that justify you telling other fans that they shouldn't buy that game, and then you're conveniently forgetting the fact that you
told people not to buy it when the time comes to address the reason why people didn't buy it.