Which video game franchise do you think has the least pleasant fanbase?

[rob_simple]

From what I've seen lately, the Uncharted fanbase could charitably be described as retarded.

90% of the GameFAQS messageboard is taken up by impotent whining over Drake's Deception not getting the perfect score it apparently deserves.

I'd like to point out I'm a huge fan of the series, but even without playing the third installment I know it doesn't deserve a perfect score.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

The idea that what game a person likes to play is an indication of how much of a douche they are is utterly retarded.

 

[WeAreStevo]

Call of Duty, Team Fortress 2, Halo, Battlefield, Minecraft, The Elder Scrolls...

But I think My Little Pony kills all of them combined, yet it isn't a game...

Totally. If we were talking fan bases in general I'd say My Little Pony is tied with the god awful Twilight "twihards." The disturbing thing about both groups I think is the age of their fan base (MLP being 20-40 year old men and Twihards being 30-50 year old women)

 

[Epic Fail 1977]

The worst? Well I don't play MP games so I've not experienced the franchises with really bad reps. But I've spent time on the forums of various SP franchises/genres, and generally found them to be much more pleasant than forums like, well, the escapist forums, for example.

I find it interesting that each game/genre tends to attract a fanbase of a certain type of personality. For example the subsim.com forums (where submarine simulations are discussed) used to be full of people who were highly intelligent, but also very right-wing and militaristic and more than a little bit anal. The BSN, on the other hand, is mostly liberal/left-wing, very gay (in both the new and old meanings of that word) and rather... emotional. The arguments that happen on BSN contrast sharply with the (mostly) cool, rational, and well-researched debates I used to see over at subsim.

TBH I'm having a hard time thinking of a "worst" fanbase because when I do stumble across a bad one I don't stick around for long.

 

[Drenaje1]

I REALLY want to say the Call of Duty franchise. But...

You know what, no. Call of Duty. It's a wasteland filled with all sorts of horrible mutants, trolls, and small children that know every curse word ever invented and freely spout it off every time they die, or kill another player. People give death threats over freaking Xbox Live messaging, or PSN, or whatever.

But still...

Well, actually, I can say nothing for certain. Because I also feel like LoL is a top contender. I play ONE game with a bunch of other people, and I'm being screamed at in the chat box. It boils down to "You're doing it wrong!" "Fuck you faggoty ****** dickface asshole ***** nerd!" "*insert a bunch of random slang terms and abbreviations used by people who play LoL religiously". Not to mention the high level people feel as if they have some sort of lordship over everyone else.

I just don't know. I think I might lean towards LoL. Solely for the fact that the response I get when trying to play the game from the community is so hostile that I just drop it and don't come back.

 

[kortin]

Everyone saying LoL has obviously not played HoN. Out of all the moba games, HoN is by far the worst fanbase.

 

[SD-Fiend]

any game franchise that get's tons of money(pokemon,sonic,LoZ,Halo,CoD etc)

 

[Toy Master Typhus]

Red Orchestra, Arma, and Most Realism Series have pretty good fan bases. Not that any fan base is immune to bad apples but I have had the most pleasant experience with them compared to most groups.

 

[The Hero Killer]

Street Fighter fans, but I have a problem with the fighting game community as a whole. I swear they would play a game with two stick figures fighting behind a blank background as long as the game mechanics were complicated enough and it had online.

 

[Supertask]

Just because everybody else is naming off first-person-shooters, I'm going to say The Elder Scrolls. I literally can't go anywhere on the internet(even xbox live) without hearing about Skyrim, or how much I suck because I don't play Skyrim

^This. The The Elder Scrolls trolls as I would like to call them, and it seems you have met them, are blind, irritating and igonrant since to them it makes sense to use the word 'dragons' as a argument when they try to convince people to spend their already spent money on Skryrim and it makes sense to them to say that "...to get the full experience and to tie everything together you'll have to come up with a own backstory" even though it doesn't make sense why YOU should do it if Bethesda hasn't.
Sorry for my bad English.

I'd say Elder Scrolls because of the non stop in my face hype and a mentally challenged fanbase.

Seems like everyone who has a problem with the TES fanbase is simply infuriated by the hype. I don't get this, if you've actually played CoD or Halo multiplayer, there are some real douchebags. Yet people hate on Elder Scrolls fans for no other real reason than that they love the franchise, and this creates hype. If you don't like the hype, ignore it. It isn't directed at you.

 

[ReinofFire]

I think everyone forgot what the question was about, now its just which are the worst fanbases.

You can give credit to some though.
The Kingdom Heart or Blizzard fanbase has the most patience out of anyone (oh and the half-life fanbase)
Most FPS fanbases at least defend their games unlike others.
At least Sonic fanbase still thinks Sonic can come back like some modern Frankensteins monster.
So as you see most fanbases are not as bad as you think.

On the other hand, word of advice to people who are fans of games (speaking to everyone here then), if you find someone badmouthing one of your favorite games tell them to stop nicely or explain why they might be skewing their information, DO NOT bring out the torch and pitchforks. Do not feed the trolls is all i am saying.

Personal opinion though based on experience, WoW raiders or at least experienced WoW players can be pretty big dicks alot of the time.

 

[w9496]

quote]Seems like everyone who has a problem with the TES fanbase is simply infuriated by the hype. I don't get this, if you've actually played CoD or Halo multiplayer, there are some real douchebags. Yet people hate on Elder Scrolls fans for no other real reason than that they love the franchise, and this creates hype. If you don't like the hype, ignore it. It isn't directed at you.

I have a problem with them because most of the Elder Scrolls fans I know talk down to me like I'm some dirty peasant just because we don't share the same interest in games.

I have actually played a lot of Halo and Call of Duty, and I can agree that there is a small vocal community that gives the other side a bad rap. On the other hand, I'm sure that if Bethesda ever included a multiplayer, that had the same number of players as CoD did, that there would be a similar issue.

On the hype issue, I can ignore the hype in small doses, but when literally 1/2 of the threads in the gaming discussion section are Skyrim threads, I just can't. Doesn't Bethesda care enough about their fans to have a dedicated forum for that kind of crap?

 

[Joccaren]

None.

What is really unpleasant is the haters of various franchises.
Fandom I can understand, but actively hating a game?
That's just lame.

I would beg to differ. Dependant on the individual fan/hater, the hater can be preferable to the fan, usually when the fan is just downright provoking attacks. An example of this that I come across all too often is a Call of Duty fanboy who will yell and scream about how Call of Duty is 'Teh Best Gamez Evar!', that its graphics are the best out there, that its gameplay is what all games should be like, that all games should have single player campaigns like it, ect.
I, being the 'hater' in this case, will politely inform them that that is there opinion, that CoD is actually behind on the graphics field, that whether its gameplay is good is subjective and I feel it is not and would like to keep other games from getting that style of gameplay, that its campaign, whilst alright for a Modern War FPS, is nowhere near great, and too me spends far to much time slowing down time to show off some tank driving through a trench infront of you or other things that sure, they're kinda cool, but just let me play the game.
Usually their reaction to this is the 'That's your opinion, but CoD IS the greatest game evar, and that is fact!', completely ignoring the fact that someone else might have a different opinion, and being completely immature about the whole thing.

Personally it comes down to who is being more immature and provoking as to who is worse. There can be some absolutely horrid haters, but fanatical fanboys are just as bad.

OT: Portal, for the ZP reference. In all honesty, I don't think there is one single game that has the worst fanbase, but all games. You will get some horrors with any game you play, and you will get some good people.

 

[Tamrin]

Just because everybody else is naming off first-person-shooters, I'm going to say The Elder Scrolls. I literally can't go anywhere on the internet(even xbox live) without hearing about Skyrim, or how much I suck because I don't play Skyrim

^This. The The Elder Scrolls trolls as I would like to call them, and it seems you have met them, are blind, irritating and igonrant since to them it makes sense to use the word 'dragons' as a argument when they try to convince people to spend their already spent money on Skryrim and it makes sense to them to say that "...to get the full experience and to tie everything together you'll have to come up with a own backstory" even though it doesn't make sense why YOU should do it if Bethesda hasn't.
Sorry for my bad English.

I'd say Elder Scrolls because of the non stop in my face hype and a mentally challenged fanbase.

Seems like everyone who has a problem with the TES fanbase is simply infuriated by the hype. I don't get this, if you've actually played CoD or Halo multiplayer, there are some real douchebags. Yet people hate on Elder Scrolls fans for no other real reason than that they love the franchise, and this creates hype. If you don't like the hype, ignore it. It isn't directed at you.

^This

So some people troll on LoL and WoW. So some people can't walk a block without hearing how a person likes Skyrim. So what?

How long ago was CoD in the news because some fans of the game committed violent acts and theft? There was one about a guy who drove to a kids home and strangled him for talking crap (although that guy is my hero for doing what most of us have wanted), the story of some young punk trying to rob people after stalking them for a copy of the game, the threat to blow up a Best Buy when they sold out of CoD, and then the truck raid when a group used tear gas and knives. There might be more, but that's just all I can recall off the top of my head.

 

[Reklore]

Nintendo fanbase. I know it says game, but that'll just make me list Nintendo games. No other fanbase has ever look down on me for not playing X game.


No offense to the good fans out there, just that some people give you guys a bad name.

 

[Jesus Phish]

I've heard horrible things about the HON/LOL player base that makes me not want to even consider those games. They're probably the least pleasant in terms of being abusive.

 

[Rule Britannia]

Portal fan base, well the younger fan base ¬.¬. All I fucking hear is "the cake is a lie" pisses me off :/.

Call of Duty is the obvious one so yeah.

 

[Lunar Templar]

in my experiences

CoH has been the best to me community wise.

WoW's where to dickish for me to want to see what people see in it.

how ever, the worst that i actually PLAY, is Vindictus, less in game and more on the forums, though its calmed down a lot, but oh my god, the shit storms from the morons, (ironically almost ALL play a Lann) 'this character is better then that, and if your not playing it you suck' was the general tone for MONTHS.

Lanns thinking they're the shit cause 'their the damage'

Evies cause they can solo everything

Fiona's >.> .... <.< .... are pretty quite actually, Same with Karok's player base, they seem pretty content to let the morons squabble and generally be wrong. another thing, that happens, mostly in the high level raids, kicking based solely on character, the reason very but its mostly 'i don't like this character so fuck em'.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

COD and Final Fantasy fans are especially annoying just because they are the most vocal.

Minecraft is getting there though.

 

[Supertask]

I have a problem with them because most of the Elder Scrolls fans I know talk down to me like I'm some dirty peasant just because we don't share the same interest in games.

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On the hype issue, I can ignore the hype in small doses, but when literally 1/2 of the threads in the gaming discussion section are Skyrim threads, I just can't. Doesn't Bethesda care enough about their fans to have a dedicated forum for that kind of crap?

Yes the hype may annoy you, but I don't see how it makes the fanbase unpleasant, like I said, it's not directed at you - it's the fans talking amongst themselves. And don't you think it's a little hypocritical to complain about being talked down to for not sharing the same interest in games one moment, and then two paragraphs later to call forum threads "crap" simply because you're not personally interested in the game?