I used to be a game and forum moderator for a game called outwar, which was one of the first freemium video games, if not THE first. I started playing it around ~2002.
You want to talk about some Nerf threads... That was half the forum, and 1/3 of the tickets..
Actually pretty much everyone competitive freemium gaming community I have been in has people constantly crying for Nerfs.
Now I've never been in a gaming community where there was no direct competition in the game that ever cried for nerfs.