Back when EA was voted the Worst company in America (again) they tried to deflect the Mass Effect 3 controversy by saying it was because gamers hated them for their inclusion of gay characters.Worffan101 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 18, 2018 2:53 pm I remember when a few racists made it impossible to call Ghostbusters a structurally incompetent mess with lazy writing, but what happened with the ending to ME3 other than most of the fanbase revolting against that railroaded, nonsensical pile of shit?
(also, MY version would've involved Shep's squadmates fighting alongside them to the bitter end and then Shep blowing the shit out of Harbinger and spending a few months to years in the hospital, but that's just me)
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I think it's far worse than anyone would be willing to admit. One of the companies I support is a toy store, and they haven't been shifting many Star Wars toys of late, while Marvel toys are going by the boatload. A guy in the Wargaming club works retail in Tesco. He said they had boxes of unsold TLJ DVD and Blu Rays that had stacked up.Worffan101 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 18, 2018 2:53 pm It's THAT bad? I knew the fanboys were pissed and popular interest was waning, but it's that bad???
Outside of that that, my local group of friends in our Tabletop group. I'd say only one guy liked the last Jedi out of 5. Big brother who group up with the original trilogy but wouldn't call himself a fan hated the new movie and sent me text messages of him "detoxing" after seeing it by watching the Empire Strikes Back and reminding himself that the original trilogy still exists.
In the SWTOR group that consists of about 50 active people there were 3-4 people that said they really liked the movie, with the rest being ambivalent or actively hating it. I was still getting into conversations with people that had only just gotten a chance to see the movie as recent as last month to let me know how much they thought it sucked.
Most damningly of all, there's my best friend of 20 years that has avoided all this internet drama until recently and I've tried to see every single new movie release with, who was also a massive fan of the Jedi to the point I bought him a full Jedi outfit for a Christmas present one year... hates this movie.
Worse than than, and tying back to the the problem with this hateful defence of the movie, he learned what a "SJW" was after someone he knew went on attack mode after he stated his opinion on the movie online. He's now left Facebook and when I linked him a trailer of Solo earlier this year he didn't even respond so I have thus avoided the topic again.
That's why I simply cannot accept that the backlash against TLJ is a minor thing. The people I game or socialise with don't go onto social media making angry messages or get into shouting matches online about this sort of thing. A lot of them are avoiding confrontation about it, or just becoming ambivalent to the whole affair. They're not making their dissatisfaction known by making complaints, they're just not going to see any future movies.
This is a problem I can only see getting worse in the near future if division and nastiness carries on.