People are angry. And not just angry, violently angry. I brought this up briefly at the beginning of the month regarding Konami's cancellation of Silent Hills and the outcry regarding the destruction and imminent failure of the studio due to disappointing their most fervent (violently aggressive) and devoted fans. This morning, Bethesda Softworks tweeted/instagrammed/social media'd a 12 second teaser of a Revenant shooting/screaming at something it apparently is not rather fond of. And let me tell you, the outpouring of support for a new game in this beloved franchise has been so incredibly heartfelt.
Just a warning, the rest of this article will contain language, both taken directly from the interwebs as well as general sentiment interpreted and reworked by me in order to make a point. I feel odd to mention that I do not, in fact, agree with genocide of any magnitude upon anyone.
And it's not even that those who apparently only want to see Fallout 4 released by Bethesda to be announced/released at E3 this year as being the game, that for lack of a better and friendly term, unfriendly people here really want to see/hear about. Even some of those in favor of the development by id Software and release by Bethesda Softworks of Doom by taking a defensive position are just as crass in their response to people complaining about no Fallout 4 announcement.
I can only imagine what Tumblr, Pintrest, 4chan, digg, fark, forbes and reddit all have to say about the people on the other side of their personal opinion. And no, I am not going to be looking. I can only take so much of people yelling at their screens about their displeasure expecting a sudden 180 in a company's decision. Like someone at Bethesda and id will be scratching their heads in a years time wondering why no one said anything about their bad decision to develop and release an updated vision of a game that kickstarted the fps genre. If only they had bothered to actually listen to what the rest of the world and not the people tasked with writing and designing their own product.
I genuinely wonder what occurred in these people's lives that have made them believe that demanding that what they want is what everyone else wants. That by making demanding in a derogatory manner will give them what it is that they so desperately crave. Has yelling "I want General Mills to release the Super Mario Bros. cereal again fucking-damnit!" ever worked out? For anyone? At the end of a relationship, do they yell "If you leave me I'm going to commit genocide on your mother fucking family!" Has company ever been thankful for the "Hey, leave them alone for making a game you don't want to play you whining bitch faggots!" comments that are left in their defense? When has ever threatening a company or complaining like someone whining while online ever given someone their way?
The comments that really get me are the ones that sound like "No one cares about Doom, everyone wants Fallout 4! Why don't you listen to your fans!?" Which are usually followed up by some conglomeration of "Shut the fuck up whining fallout fanboy piece of shit! Doom is amazeballs!" Meanwhile, Bethesda is over in the corner drinking themselves into an early grave wondering why they didn't listen to their real fans and publish a game that real gamers actually want to play and not this Doom shit. Sarcasm.
I saw similar fallout (eh?) when The Chinese Room announced that their upcoming game Everybody's Gone to the Rapture was announced as a Playstation 4 exclusive, which included infuriated statements. I read statements wanting The Chinese Room to fail with their game resulting in the closing of the company and that people would cancel their pre-order of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs as a sign of protest against PS4 exclusivity. As a fan of both Dear Esther and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, I was saddened to hear that EGttR was going to be an exclusive, but I wasn't up in arms wishing for the failure of the studio and death upon everyone associated with the company.
Granted not everyone wanting Fallout 4 wants to bomb Bethesda back to the stone age until they create Fallout 4 (or Elder Scrolls VI: [Insert Name of Desired Geographical Tamriel Province that You Think Everyone Will Only Want to Play in and Everyone Can Suck a Bag of Dicks Because They're Wrong, Obviously]). Some people just leave "Fallout 4" as a comment, and while it can be annoying to see a page full of a game's title on a teaser video for a different game, at least those people are not threatening to set a person's dog of fire (Bioware helpfully suggests not to pet them).
I'm just going to stop as I know that I could just go on and on (and on some more) often repeating myself and how I view the people who apparently feel that complaining in the above referenced (and shown) manner will get them what they want. See, I was just about to do it again, but I stopped. That's called self control.
~JWfW/JDub/Jaconian
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