Quake3World

imagine if you were looking to buy a new car. You go to the showroom and you're specifically looking for something with four-wheel drive. You find the perfect car and there, on the roof, is a sign proudly announcing that it has four-wheel drive. You take it for a test drive and find out that it hasn't got four-wheel drive at all, so you return to the showroom and ask the manager why they are making false claims about the car.

Rather than admit that the sign was wrong, the manager simply tears it up and insists that it never existed. You argue that you saw the sign with your own eyes, and then you notice that other customers in the showroom are starting to gather round. You expect that they're going to agree with you, but then they go and stand by the manager and defend him, saying that the sign never existed and that you must have just imagined it.

Can you imagine that situation ever happening? No, of course not. All of the other customers would have walked out of the showroom in disgust and the manager would have realised pretty quickly that telling such obvious lies was only going to lose him business. In our online community, though, that isn't what happens - for some reason, we defend companies when they lie, even though we know that they're lying.

Ask yourself - if a company lies to its customers, and the customers defend them for doing so, what motivation do they have to tell us the truth?

The whole point of this article is to express my concern, as a consumer, that I no longer have any right to make demands on games companies, especially the ones with the largest number of fans. If I complain that Unreal is being delayed for so long, Epic's fans will defend them and say that I have no right to complain. If I complain that Quake 2 is having features dropped far too often, id Software's fans will defend them and say that I have no right to complain.

No matter what concerns I, or anybody else, express about a game, the very fact that I am criticising a particular company's game will result in that company's fans leaping to its defence. Whether or not my concern is justified is completely irrelevant - they are not interested in defending what is right or wrong, they are interested in defending "their game" at all costs. The mentality is very much like that of a politician in opposition - no matter what a member of the governing party says, however right it is, it's always wrong.

imagine if you were looking to buy a new car.

Keep It Real wrote:Imagine if you had a girlfriend...

ToxicBug wrote:

Keep It Real wrote:Imagine if you had a girlfriend...

bant

Keep It Real wrote:

imagine if you were looking to buy a new car.

Imagine if you had a girlfriend...

I think this guy should spend more time caring about himself. People who are as hateful as this have self esteem problems. Kind of sad!

redfella wrote:First off, thats the shitiest analogy I've ever heard.

Second, how are fanboy's defending a game considered to be "lying"? Gay.