Worst Fan Base Out There

[OneEyeX]

On a far fetched note. Furries, they do technically call themselves a "Fan Base". I'm not even going to go into that, seeing as I may get suspended for a hardly justifiable reason.

First they came for the Cats,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a cat person.

Then they came for the Dogs,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a dog person.

Then they came for the Horses,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a horse person.

Then they came and expected to be treated like normal god damn people.
and no one took that seriously.

 

[Sunrider]

The League of Legends community. Guess why I stopped playing.

I actually made a thread here about how bad the LoL community was a few months ago. Seriously, if I didn't play with IRL friends all the time I would have quit a long time ago.

I don't have any IRL friends playing LoL, and it was hard to make friends, so I went back to Heroes of Newerth. I can't believe I actually like this community better, seeing as it is horrid. But I guess that goes for the entire DotA genre.

I've always heard HoN has an even worse community. But yeah, you are totally right. For whatever reason the DoTA genre (if it can be called that at this point) has the most hostile player-base I have ever been a part of.

HoN had a worse community, until recently (or, the last five-six months), when LoL became insanely popular. Now it's a cesspool of bad manners, basically. I won't turn this into a LoL vs. HoN discussion, since I like both games, but in my experience, the LoL community is worse nowadays. Pretty sad, because it was alright when I started playing, when the game wasn't HUGE.

HoN Community will chew you out for being stupid, LoL will chew you out for any reason, including none.

I was once playing Shen and someone fucking bitched me out in all chat for not ulting him.
I was level 5.
He then proceeds to dictate it's due to my terrible farming skills. For those wondering; he was also level 5 and got raped while in their jungle taking their blue buff.

With HoN I've found if it's more based around chewing out the idiots from LoL. The people who pick a carry when team already has 2. The people who really don't understand that Tanks are a good to have, but not really a full-blown requirement. I found if I was getting yelled at in HoN; it's because I actually did fuck up; Not that my team did something stupid and wanted someone to blame.

I ended up quitting Shen and Rammus on the grounds that, even in decent ELO rankings, there are a lot of me-first morons who consider themselves all-stars.

There are no players who fit your category more than some of the top LoL players like HotshotGG for example. You can't watch his stream for 30 seconds without hearing him rage and flame his teammates. I'm sad about what happened to the LoL community. It used to be pretty cool.
And I agree with your points on the HoN community. People are really harsh, and there are some who flame you regardless, but mostly they call out players on their mistakes. They go too far in that a lot of times too, and they are far from constructive, but I consider it more justified. Not saying it's GOOD, but more justified than what you described.

 

[Sgt. Grub]

I'd have to say the CoD fans. They constantly preach that their game is the second coming of Jesus, and that all other games are crap. It's jusy annoying and insulting. I admit, the CoD series isn't that bad, and the gameplay is solid for the most part, but the fans just kill any chance for me to like it.

 

[Drew Richard]

It's a kids game, stop trying to force people to play it like we're all 30 year olds with nothing better to do than beating other 30 year olds on a game for bloody 7 year olds.

You realize that nobody forces you to take part in the competitive aspect of the games, right?

I'd rather you'd post the whole message so people get the full context of the message. Anyway, it's annoying when I've met up at tournaments and people have berated six year olds because they haven't got an "elite" team. They're children and these guys literally scold and criticize them because they don't play like them.

And be honest with yourself, who really plays Pokemon JUST for catching and trading them all... well now anyway xD

I play Pokemon just to catch and trade. Occasionally I battle my friend, who then destroys me with his "elite team" that took him about 3 months of non-stop breeding to get. I still find it fun though.

On the topic of annoying fanbases, I would say the few people online that I have observed in a heated debate on console vs. PC or console vs. console. They all have their merits, and all have games I enjoy that I can't play on any of the others. Also the few (or many, I never really counted) that argue over Call of Duty or Battlefield without giving any rationale about why they prefer one over the other. I personally am a fan of Battlefield because the few times I played Call of Duty, the maps were really small, so I died frequently a little after I spawned (not due to spawn-camping), and the lack of players working as a team. Also because I have never had the enjoyment of running over someone with a tank in Call of Duty like I do in Battlefield.

 

[Matthew Valkanov]

Oh good God, too many to chose from. Fans are fine, fans who have to be pricks irritate me. Unfortunately most of my hobby horses have been covered, so let's see...

OOH! Richard Dawkins fans. Not because of any difference of opinion, but because they act like pretentious twits who seem to treat Dawkins as though he were their Pope all the while going on about how "they use their minds and free will". I just wish they really did.

Next on the list...PETA. Actually, make it any animal rights group. I'm all for treating animals respectfully, but if one more person tells me that enjoying a nice piece of veal in a forest mushroom cream sauce is evil and that I should be ashamed of myself, I'm going to twat them.

And last, and closest to my heart : university pseudo-communists. Communist ideal : everyone works to better the situation of all. Their ideal : other people should pay so that we can do what we like, and if you disagree you're a fascist(I WISH I were exaggerating). But they do bow down to the all mighty terrorist, murderer and brand name extraordinaire that is Che Guevera as though he were Jesus, the Prophet Mohammed, Abraham, Brahma and the Buddha all mixed into one.

 

[Smagmuck_]

On a far fetched note. Furries, they do technically call themselves a "Fan Base". I'm not even going to go into that, seeing as I may get suspended for a hardly justifiable reason.

First they came for the Cats,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a cat person.

Then they came for the Dogs,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a dog person.

Then they came for the Horses,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a horse person.

Then they came and expected to be treated like normal god damn people.
and no one took that seriously.

As much as I agree, I'd have to say that was a little tasteless...

 

[OneEyeX]

The League of Legends community. Guess why I stopped playing.

I actually made a thread here about how bad the LoL community was a few months ago. Seriously, if I didn't play with IRL friends all the time I would have quit a long time ago.

I don't have any IRL friends playing LoL, and it was hard to make friends, so I went back to Heroes of Newerth. I can't believe I actually like this community better, seeing as it is horrid. But I guess that goes for the entire DotA genre.

I've always heard HoN has an even worse community. But yeah, you are totally right. For whatever reason the DoTA genre (if it can be called that at this point) has the most hostile player-base I have ever been a part of.

HoN had a worse community, until recently (or, the last five-six months), when LoL became insanely popular. Now it's a cesspool of bad manners, basically. I won't turn this into a LoL vs. HoN discussion, since I like both games, but in my experience, the LoL community is worse nowadays. Pretty sad, because it was alright when I started playing, when the game wasn't HUGE.

HoN Community will chew you out for being stupid, LoL will chew you out for any reason, including none.

I was once playing Shen and someone fucking bitched me out in all chat for not ulting him.
I was level 5.
He then proceeds to dictate it's due to my terrible farming skills. For those wondering; he was also level 5 and got raped while in their jungle taking their blue buff.

With HoN I've found if it's more based around chewing out the idiots from LoL. The people who pick a carry when team already has 2. The people who really don't understand that Tanks are a good to have, but not really a full-blown requirement. I found if I was getting yelled at in HoN; it's because I actually did fuck up; Not that my team did something stupid and wanted someone to blame.

I ended up quitting Shen and Rammus on the grounds that, even in decent ELO rankings, there are a lot of me-first morons who consider themselves all-stars.

There are no players who fit your category more than some of the top LoL players like HotshotGG for example. You can't watch his stream for 30 seconds without hearing him rage and flame his teammates. I'm sad about what happened to the LoL community. It used to be pretty cool.
And I agree with your points on the HoN community. People are really harsh, and there are some who flame you regardless, but mostly they call out players on their mistakes. They go too far in that a lot of times too, and they are far from constructive, but I consider it more justified. Not saying it's GOOD, but more justified than what you described.

HotshotGG is, in my opinion, the largest problem with LoL. There is no one who deserves a good right hook more.

What makes it worse is that using Elo for a team-game causes him to be high-as-a-kite in solo que, which to me, is a failing of the system.

For example, Westrice, who plays Akali in high tier games is a good example of someone who probably shouldn't be there. He doesn't do anything REALLY special with Akali, he picks up kills, snowballs. Kinda the standard Akali play.

But if I'm in ranked and someone says "I'm going to pick a Melee-AP champ, who should I pick?"

Sion, Leblanc, Kassadin are all FAR better choices bringing more to the team.

The system is broken and it gives a lot of players a bad example of what to play like.

 

[OneEyeX]

The Escapist.

The fans seem to hail it as one of the greatest, most civilized sites on the web, yet all it has is strict moderation. There's still bucketloads of thinly veiled insults, whining, and douchbaggery in this site as most, and I would go so far as to say that it has more of such things.

COD SUCKS BECAUSE PEOPLE WON'T SAY IT'S BAD!
COD SUCKS BECAUSE PEOPLE WON'T STAND STILL FOR ME!
COD SUCKS BECAUSE PEOPLE TALK TRASH AND MY MOM SAID TRASH TALKING IS BAD!

+1, I believe the word you're looking for is 'pretentious'.

 

[v3n0mat3]

Twilight: Obvious reasons

Followed by Nintendo fans. By that, I mean the rabid ones. You know, the ones who worship Miyamoto like he's the God-king video games. Every decision Nintendo makes is either gold or infallible. The ones who defend the shit out of the Wii and the DS (Personally, I like the DS, but not the 3DS... not yet, at least. Hate the Wii). I don't get them, honestly. Why buy a console that releases like, 2 or 3 good... well... decent games per year? I had a Wii at one point, and I just got bored with it... I don't get the appeal. Although, I love No More Heroes (who doesn't?)I only liked Wario Land Shake it, Metroid Prime 3, and Muramasa. Galaxy was only ok to me... and that's about it for games worth mentioning. I played Zelda at one point, and wasn't impressed, really.

 

[HobbyJim]

F***ing Gator fans. If one more person does the chomp in front of me, I'm going to F***ING lose my mind.

 

[Sunrider]

HotshotGG is, in my opinion, the largest problem with LoL. There is no one who deserves a good right hook more.

What makes it worse is that using Elo for a team-game causes him to be high-as-a-kite in solo que, which to me, is a failing of the system.

For example, Westrice, who plays Akali in high tier games is a good example of someone who probably shouldn't be there. He doesn't do anything REALLY special with Akali, he picks up kills, snowballs. Kinda the standard Akali play.

But if I'm in ranked and someone says "I'm going to pick a Melee-AP champ, who should I pick?"

Sion, Leblanc, Kassadin are all FAR better choices bringing more to the team.

The system is broken and it gives a lot of players a bad example of what to play like.

I agree. If there is ever a HoN vs. LoL discussion, I'll say "Well, at least HoN doesn't have HotshotQQ".

Anyway, I agree with pretty much everything you said.

The only LoL stream I enjoy watching is SYDTKO. He used to stream HoN, and I kinda followed him over to LoL. It's not as fun watching LoL though, I dunno why. I like playing it a lot, but watching it is a snoozefest IMO.

 

[Drew Richard]

The Twilight fans who won't shut up about how it's the best thing ever. Fair enough, Twilight was good, New Moon was shit and Eclipse was ok, but still. I haven't read Breaking Dawn (yes read... like books) but I think I've read enough to realise that it's not the best thing to ever grace this planet.

If I may save you the trouble, i thought Breaking Dawn was horrible. I really want to tell you why but it would be a huge spoiler in my opinion. The books were mediocre, but the hype about them is a little beyond the scope of what I feel it should be.

 

[OneEyeX]

HotshotGG is, in my opinion, the largest problem with LoL. There is no one who deserves a good right hook more.

What makes it worse is that using Elo for a team-game causes him to be high-as-a-kite in solo que, which to me, is a failing of the system.

For example, Westrice, who plays Akali in high tier games is a good example of someone who probably shouldn't be there. He doesn't do anything REALLY special with Akali, he picks up kills, snowballs. Kinda the standard Akali play.

But if I'm in ranked and someone says "I'm going to pick a Melee-AP champ, who should I pick?"

Sion, Leblanc, Kassadin are all FAR better choices bringing more to the team.

The system is broken and it gives a lot of players a bad example of what to play like.

I agree. If there is ever a HoN vs. LoL discussion, I'll say "Well, at least HoN doesn't have HotshotQQ".

Anyway, I agree with pretty much everything you said.

The only LoL stream I enjoy watching is SYDTKO. He used to stream HoN, and I kinda followed him over to LoL. It's not as fun watching LoL though, I dunno why. I like playing it a lot, but watching it is a snoozefest IMO.

Grassy, while not a stream, is a lot of fun to watch.

 

[OneEyeX]

It's a kids game, stop trying to force people to play it like we're all 30 year olds with nothing better to do than beating other 30 year olds on a game for bloody 7 year olds.

You realize that nobody forces you to take part in the competitive aspect of the games, right?

I'd rather you'd post the whole message so people get the full context of the message. Anyway, it's annoying when I've met up at tournaments and people have berated six year olds because they haven't got an "elite" team. They're children and these guys literally scold and criticize them because they don't play like them.

And be honest with yourself, who really plays Pokemon JUST for catching and trading them all... well now anyway xD

I play Pokemon just to catch and trade. Occasionally I battle my friend, who then destroys me with his "elite team" that took him about 3 months of non-stop breeding to get. I still find it fun though.

Let me help you with this; Dragonite, Dragonite, Dragonite, Dragonite, Dragonite, Dragonite.

 

[Small Waves]

Sonic fanbase hands down. There is literally NOTHING that other fanbases can do to be worse than the modern day Sonic fanbase. You can argue MLP and Invader Zim fans are just as bad. You are more than welcome to contest that they could even be worse. You would still be wrong, but you're more than welcome to try.

Invader Zim would be overlooked today, but back when it aired, it was considered ground-breaking and it would finally put Nick up on top, kicking CN off of its pedestal. It did lolrandumb humor better than damn near anything out at the moment. It was spastic, coming in without warning and ending just as quickly. The acting and tone made it even better, switching between calm dialog and elliptic fits of nonsensical yelling, with the cast acting as if it was completely normal. The art, animation, and coloring were mind-blowing for a children's show. It is probably the last truly great cartoon from Nickelodeon (sorry Avatar fans, but the finale really screwed the pooch).

Friendship is Magic was the show that girls SHOULD have been getting for three decades. The characters and their chemistry was what made the show. They all weren't a bunch of Mary-Sues or damsels in distress, nor were they all buddy-buddy with each other. While the show doesn't have the most fleshed-out cast, it serves as a very solid template of how shows aimed at an "unprofitable" demographic should be done so it can transcend negative labels. If at least that much is learned from the show by future producers, writers, directors, etc. we could have another golden age in animation within the next five or ten years.

Sonic, however has had far more bad than good at this point in time. It hasn't had a game that would be looked back upon as a "classic" since the launch of the Dreamcast. It has introduced new character after new character that none of the fans from the Genesis era liked. The games has time and time again lost sight of its original routes, and when they do try to go back to the basics, they STILL manage to fuck it up. The Sonic series has been the biggest laughingstock in the video game world for over a decade. They're like a band that ruled the world in the 80s, but haven't made even so much as a passable album since then.

Even if the fanbases of Zim and FiM are shit, the shows aren't. Sonic has NOTHING left to justify the base.

 

[Matthew Valkanov]

The Fallout fanbase is in a state of constant war that has little hope of changing, ironically enough. You either have the veteran fans who insult Bethesda for committing the cardinal sin of making a first-person, semi-real time game, or you have the people who dismiss the older games out of hand simply because they're old. The veteran fans are worse, in my opinion, probably because they've been engaging in flame wars for ten years now and they've gotten really good at it.

I always feel bad that i came in to Fallout when it turned into an FPS and i know for a fact right now i could go up to Best Buy and get both 1 and 2 for a total of 20 bucks but i am too afraid that i wont like the games. Does that make sense?

Don't worry too much about it mate. I came into Fallout by the ways of Fallout 3, knowing nothing of the series but being magically drawn in by the lunch box collector's edition(of which the bobble head was a great little feature^^). Loved it, researched it, and was just itching to play the first two(being a huge fan of isometric RPG's) and loved them too. But it's completely rational to be uncertain whether you will enjoy the first two, because they are SO incredibly different to what followed. So do what I did : download a pirated version, try them out, then buy a proper version if you enjoyed the experience.

 

[Realitycrash]

Pop stars: Justin Bieber fans. (I think everyone can agree with me here, these guys treat him like the second coming of Jesus)

Books: Twilight fans. (Look at this fucking letter [http://www.latinoreview.com/news/taylor-lautner-fan-letter-to-universal-your-wolfman-ripped-off-twilight-9247#idc-cover], LOOK AT IT)

Games: CoD fans. (I refer you to this [http://www.ubercharged.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/1258035395841.jpg] now famous screenshot.)

Developer: Valve fans. (I am a fan of Valve but dear god sometimes I am ashamed of the other people who share that title)

Console: All of them. (All console fans[footnote]I won't say fanboys because I know plenty of girls also play games now, they just hide to avoid shit like TITS OR GTFO and other equally juvenile crap.[/footnote] suck equally, it's a platform to play games on, stop acting like yours is better than everyone elses)

Forums: 4Chan fans. (Fuck off, seriously)

I wasn't going to comment on this topic, just scroll through, but your clear statement that the letter was something to read intrigued me. So lo', I opened the letter, read the contents of it, and proceeded to laugh so hard beer shot out of my nose and all over my keyboard.
Please send your contact-information to me in a PM so I can send you a bill for a new keyboard.
Regards, RC.

(OT: Geh, FPS-fanboys if we are talking games, soccer-hooligans if we are talking IRL. I know it has been said before, but the Halo/CoD juvenile douchebags are equally retarded)

 

[Fappy]

The League of Legends community. Guess why I stopped playing.

I actually made a thread here about how bad the LoL community was a few months ago. Seriously, if I didn't play with IRL friends all the time I would have quit a long time ago.

I don't have any IRL friends playing LoL, and it was hard to make friends, so I went back to Heroes of Newerth. I can't believe I actually like this community better, seeing as it is horrid. But I guess that goes for the entire DotA genre.

I've always heard HoN has an even worse community. But yeah, you are totally right. For whatever reason the DoTA genre (if it can be called that at this point) has the most hostile player-base I have ever been a part of.

HoN had a worse community, until recently (or, the last five-six months), when LoL became insanely popular. Now it's a cesspool of bad manners, basically. I won't turn this into a LoL vs. HoN discussion, since I like both games, but in my experience, the LoL community is worse nowadays. Pretty sad, because it was alright when I started playing, when the game wasn't HUGE.

The sad part is, despite all the money and popularity LoL has received, Riot still can't manage to act like a professional company. I like the devs well enough, but the business-end is handled very poorly. That may have something to do with why LoL is full of whining brats... that and the fact that its F2P. XP

 

[KAPTAINmORGANnWo4life]

I can't really think of any fandom that's ALL bad. I mean, every group's gonna have rational folks and fanboys.

I'm with this guy. Sure each fanbase has it's less than appealing members, some more than others, but the fanbase is never fully composed of these others. So I don't condemn the innocents with the guilty. I'll judge them on an individual basis.

...Other fanbases I hate are the fans of American extremist news (both Stephen Colbert and Glen Beck) who let them do the thinking for them...

Just wanted to point out that Stephen Colbert is a satire of guys like Glen Beck. I doubt he actually believes stuff like that. I would think you would catch that seeing as the Stephen Colbert Report is on Comedy Central.

Colbert's thinly-veiled satire is easily identifiable, and that makes his extreme Left Wing perspective stick in the mind of Leftists who let him do all of the thinking for them with his sarcastic tone.

I really hate it when people think I'm an idiot when, in fact, they're misreading what I said.

Eh, I just figure he's making fun of the extreme right-wingers like Glen Beck or Bill O'Rily. You can mock one side without supporting the other.

And I never said you were an idiot. Just thought you misread him. It seems I misread you instead.

The funny thing is that Colbert and Stewart are rather fair in the sense that they have a satirical take on news as a whole, not with such a pronounced bias. The problem is, however, that many of their fans around the world, mostly young people from 15-25, allow the satire of the Right-Wing news outlets to form their entire opinion. Many young people look down their nose at Conservatives or, in America's case, Republicans, and see them as just as biased a caricature as Beck's fans se Liberals/Socialists.

And although you seem smart enough, I can tell that this applies to you as well, for as soon as I typed "extremist news" and mentioned Glen Beck, your mind jumped straight to Right-Wingers being the extremists.

 

[penguindude42]

Sonic fans.

From their crappy MS paint, to their fanfics involving pallete-swapped sonic characters; it`s all just kinda sad. And creepy.

People like you should be thankful that I'm smarter than those idiots.

"waah stop making his eyes green!" Shut up, green goes well with blue.

"waah stop making so many characters!" Or least put some effort into writing them. /rant

"waah stop giving him a homing attack!" ...there are no words for this one. *facepalm*

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CODfags
Halotards
Weeaboos
Narutards
PC/console elitists
Final Fantasy fanboys/fangirls
Kingdom Hearts fangirls
Bioware fans
OoT/TP fanboys (Wind Waker 4ever)
Xbox fans/"X-bots"

And there you have 'em, the worst fandoms ever.

~Tom<3