I have no idea what to vote to be honest. I have no idea how popular the hashtag is and how many people share the emotion. I’m not a fan of the word abuse here, not because I fail to understand a word can have several meanings or think it can only be used for the strongest one (from now on when we say abuse we only mean the very worst case of abuse and whenever we use the word we have a respectful minute of silence first), but rather because also in the meaning of the word ‘misuse’, I don’t think it’s as simple as that. I think EA is convinced they are doing the right, modern, young, flashy thing for this franchise and clearly they have a point. This whole gamechangers nonsense for instance, that program, I just can’t get my head around the very principle it’s a good idea to favour a small group of Special Fans, hand them everything for free, listen to only them (black door? black door!) and form this clique like atmosphere around them. If every fan out there was a tiny bit like me the result would be hilarious because it would have no affect at all, it rather would completely backfire even. And there’s the thing: clearly not everybody is like me, people apparently love it. People can write down walls of thorough, very constructive feedback here, as soon as some charismatic boy or girl on YouTube fills 20 minutes to say the very same thing (or utter nonsense, that too) it all of a sudden is gospel. And right there for me is where the actual problem lies (and where I begin to feel like an alien who is unable to participate in this poll). Fans apparently loving to be treated like this. Fans going more an more over the topish crazy over stuff that was just... there in the past.
Oh, that’s a bare game... meh.
Oh, swimming pools: yaaay!
Wait what, toddlers: squeeee!
Terrain tools? Scream!!
Stairs: I’M CRYING!!! AND I’M MAKING THIS VIDEO IN WHICH YOU ALL CAN SEE I’M ACTUALLY CRYING! STAIRS!
Who am I to tell EA to listen if this clearly works this way. They run a business, if it works this way it does, good job. I mean, I’m gone (well, my money is) but what do they care :D As long as enough people buy and scream and cry over stuff that’s just quietly been hanging in there in the earlier games from the very beginning, they have no reason to change a thing. That’s how companies work.
All I can think when I see that hashtag now is sorry guys, but we told you so years ago, when ‘potential’ still was the magic word.
