History Main / MisBlamed

** Al Jean also inherited a mostly new writing staff, presided over the retirements of the show's last original writers a few seasons into his time as showrunner, and took over at a time when the series was falling apart, due to both its age and the DenserAndWackier elements introduced during Scully's tenure. 8 seasons was a long time, and 12 was positively record breaking.

** The showrunner position on ''The Simpsons'' is more creative control and management than hands-on writing: The writing staff comes up with plot ideas on their own, the showrunner selects episodes to be written, hands out writing responsibilities, and manages the group rewrites of the initial scripts. The showrunner gives initial and final approval to an episode, but has little to do with anything in between.

** The showrunner position on ''The Simpsons'' is more creative control and management than hands-on writing: The writing staff comes up with plot ideas on their own, the showrunner selects episodes to be written, hands out writing responsibilities, and manages the group rewrites of the initial scripts. The showrunner gives initial and final approval to an episode, but has little to do with anything in between.
** Scully inherited a show that was already going down: Season 8 was the beginning of the end, with many senior writers and producers heading for the exits; co-showrunners Oakley and Weinstein operated on the assumption that ''The Simpsons'' would soon be over, leading them to experiment with new art and plot formats that led to a drop in quality and lack of direction for the show. The show was staying on the air, leaving Scully to reverse the quality decline and change in tone of Season 8, all without the very staff who had made the series what it was. The hardcore Scully HateDumb says he's responsible for everything wrong with the show to this day, ''12 years'' after he stepped down from the helm.

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* There is a tendency of fans for [[{{Cancellation}} canceled]]/discontinued works to blame everybody involved in the distribution of bad faith without thinking that there might have been valid reasons. The simple reality is most shows weren't ScrewedByTheNetwork, but simply just didn't get either the ratings or the advertising revenue to warrant their cost. Distribution companies don't stay afloat by losing money to appeal to niches, after all. See also FanMyopia and TheFireflyEffect (which is almost a form of FanMyopia in itself).

* MisBlamed/AnimeAndManga
* MisBlamed/VideoGames

Anime/Manga and Video Games have gotten their own subpages. To find them;

[[MisBlamed/AnimeAndManga Go here for examples about Anime And Manga]].

[[MisBlamed/VideoGames Go here for examples about Video Games]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has a serious case of Type 5: Fans who dislike the newer seasons generally say it's all the fault of the showrunner at the time: Mike Scully for Seasons 9-12, and Al Jean for 13-present. Jean and Scully aren't innocent, to be sure, but they inherited a ton of problems:
** Scully inherited a show that was already going down: Season 8 was the beginning of the end, with many senior writers and producers heading for the exits; co-showrunners Oakley and Weinstein operating on the assumption that ''The Simpsons'' would soon be over, leading them to experiment with new art and plot formats that led to a drop in quality. The assumption that the show was over was bogus, leaving Scully to reverse the quality decline and change in tone of Season 8, all without the very staff who had made the series what it was.
** Al Jean also inherited a mostly new writing staff, presided over the retirements of the show's last original writers a few seasons into his time as showrunner, and took over at a time when the series was falling apart, due to both its age and the DenserAndWackier elements introduced during Scully's tenure. 8 seasons was a long time, and 12 was positively record breaking. Jean gets a ton of crap for recycling old plots, but there isn't much new ground for the show to break anymore.

* While most reviewers managed to avoid falling into the trap of blaming KevinSmith for the screenplay of ''CopOut'', which he didn't write, many blamed him for what were felt to be weak action sequences in the movie. In fact, Smith didn't direct any of the major action scenes -- David R. Ellis (of ''FinalDestination 2'' and ''4'' fame) was brought in to handle those.

* ''StarWars'':
** Fans say the decision to make Greedo shoot first in the "Special Edition" version of ''ANewHope'' is proof that George Lucas has completely lost touch with his earlier work. The change may have been to get a PG instead of a PG-13 rating, but Lucas [[FlipFlopOfGod flip-flops a lot]].
** NataliePortman's performance as Queen Amidala gets lambasted as flat and lifeless. Oft cited are scenes in which it [[KeiraKnightley ''isn't actually Portman'' in the Queen Amidala makeup]].

** Portman and both Actors who played Anakin had a very poor script to work with.

** Forget Michael Bay, Shia Labeouf is actually the person personally responsible for everything wrong with Transformers. He's also the responsible for every fault of the fourth Indiana Jones movies.

** It seems doubtful many people blamed the ending on Spielberg, as it's such a Kubrick premise. If anything, a Spielberg ending would have been more satisfying. If anyone blamed Spielberg, it was probably for keeping the ending as it was.
** Kubrick isn't to blame for the robo-teddy either. He's already in Creator/BrianAldiss' original short story.

* GeoffJohns gets a lot of flak for his storyline ''Graduation Day'', the GrandFinale of ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'', which saw that FunPersonified series [[SuddenDownerEnding end in a bloodbath for no apparent reason]] and is widely seen as a point at which TheDCU became [[DarknessInducedAudienceApathy too dark to care]]. Likewise, James Robinson gets hate for the similarly bloodbath-y ''CryForJustice''. In reality, both of these stories were mandated by the same man, editor Eddie Berganza, and both times the writers fought against him; Johns lost out, but Robinson actually scored a major victory, believe it or not, as Berganza's version would have destroyed ''all'' TheDCU's fictional cities except [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Metropolis]] and [[Comicbook/{{Batman}} Gotham]].

** Scully inherited a show that was already going down: Season 8 was the beginning of the end, with many senior writers and producers heading for the exits; co-showrunners Oakley and Weinstein operating on the assumption that ''The Simpsons'' would soon be over, leading them to experiment with new art and plot formats that led to a drop in quality. The assumption that the show was over was bogus, leaving Scully to reverse the quality decline and change in tone of Season 8, all without the very staff who had made the series what it was. Episodes certainly became DenserAndWackier during Scully's time as showrunner, but this was a trend going back to Season 5, and the series wasn't even trying to mock its own absurdity by Season 8.

** Scully inherited a show that was already going down: Season 8 was the beginning of the end, with a decline in quality, many senior writers and producers heading for the exits, and co-showrunners Oakley and Weinstein operating on the assumption that ''The Simpsons'' would soon be over. The assumption that the show was over was bogus, leaving Scully to reverse the quality decline and change in tone of Season 8, all without the very staff who had made the series what it was. The HateDumb aimed at Scully insists he's responsible for everything wrong with the show to this day, even after his 2002 retirement from running the show.
** Al Jean also inherited a mostly new writing staff and presided over the retirements of the show's last original writers, and took over at a time when the series was falling apart, due to both its age and the DenserAndWackier elements introduced during Scully's tenure. 8 seasons was a long time, and 12 was positively record breaking.

** Scully inherited a show that was already going down: Season 8 was the beginning of the end, with a decline in quality, many senior writers and producers heading for the exits, and co-showrunners Oakley and Weinstein operating on the assumption that ''The Simpsons'' would soon be going off the air. The assumption that the show was about to be cancelled was bogus, leaving Scully to reverse the changes and quality decline of Season 8, all without the very staff who had made the series what it was. The HateDumb aimed at Scully insists he's responsible for everything wrong with the show to this day, even after his 2002 retirement from running the show.

** Scully inherited a show that was already going down: Season 8 was the beginning of the end, with a decline in quality, many senior writers and producers heading for the exits, and co-showrunners Oakley and Weinstein operating on the assumption that ''The Simpsons'' would soon be going off the air. The assumption that the show was about to be cancelled was bogus, leaving Scully to reverse the changes and quality decline of Season 8, all without the very staff who had made the series what it was. The HateDumb aimed at Scully insists he's responsible for everything wrong with the show to this day, despite his retirement as showrunner in 2002.

** Scully inherited a show that was already going down: Season 8 was the beginning of the end, with a decline in quality, many senior writers and producers heading for the exits, and co-showrunners Oakley and Weinstein operating on the assumption that ''The Simpsons'' would soon be going off the air, simply because 8 seasons is an eternity in television. The assumption that the show was about to be cancelled was bogus, leaving Scully to reverse the changes and quality decline of Season 8, all without the very staff who had made the series what it was. The HateDumb aimed at Scully insists he's responsible for everything wrong with the show to this day, despite his retirement as showrunner in 2002.
** Al Jean also inherited a mostly new writing staff and presided over the retirements of the show's last original writers, and took over at a time when the series was falling apart, both due to its age and the DenserAndWackier elements introduced during Scully's tenure. 8 seasons was a long time, and 12 was positively record breaking.

** Scully inherited a show that was already going down: Season 8 was the beginning of the end, with a decline in quality, many senior writers and producers heading for the exits, and co-showrunners Oakley and Weinstein operating on the assumption that ''The Simpsons'' would soon be going off the air, simply because 8 seasons is an eternity in television. All of this meant Scully had to undo the changes of Season 8 so that the show wouldn't end in the near future, with a mostly new staff backing him up. He certainly didn't bring the series back to its former glory, but it's not clear that anyone could have.
** Al Jean also inherited a mostly new writing staff and presided over the retirements of the show's last original writers, and took over at a time when the series was falling apart.

** The series was in trouble before Scully took over: Season 8 marked the beginning of the show's declining quality and also saw a bunch of senior writers and producers head for the exits, leaving Scully with a mostly new writing staff. The HateDumb aimed at Scully maintains that he's ''still'' the root of all the show's problems, ignoring his retirement as showrunner in 2002.
** Al Jean also inherited a mostly new writing staff, and took over at a time when the series was falling apart.

** The series was in trouble before Scully took over: Season 8 marked the beginning of the show's declining quality and also saw a bunch of senior writers and producers head for the exits, leaving Scully with a mostly new writing staff. The HateDumb aimed at Scully maintains that he's responsible for the show's problems ever since he took over in 1997, ignoring the fact that he stepped down as showrunner in 2002.

** The series was in trouble before Scully took over: Season 8 marked the beginning of the show's declining quality and also saw a bunch of senior writers and producers head for the exits. The HateDumb aimed at Scully maintains that he's responsible for the show's problems ever since he took over, ignoring the fact that he stepped down as showrunner in 2002.

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** Scully took over when the show was already a LongRunner beginning to show its age (the decline in quality actually began in Season 8), and inherited a mostly new, inexperienced writing and production staff due to high turnover. Phil Hartman's untimely death, which necessitated the retirement of characters Troy [=McClure=] and Lionel Hutz, didn't help matters. Many fans ignore the fact that Scully stopped running the show in 2002, and say he's responsible for all the show's problems to this day.
** Al Jean also inherited a mostly new writing staff, and took over at a time when the series was clearly in decline. 12 seasons on the air is a long run for a sitcom, to say nothing of another 12.

[[folder:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
* Generally speaking, the lengthy amount of time between Japanese and US/EU DVD/Blu-Ray releases of anime, and/or [[BadExportForYou releases lacking in quality]], are blamed on the alleged incompetence of Western licensing companies and frequently held up as an excuse to pirate and/or not buy official [=DVDs=]. In truth, problems like these are often the responsibility of the Japanese companies licensing their properties in the first place, and arise from those companies' desire to prevent reverse importing (Japanese fans buying foreign [=DVDs=] because they're so much cheaper than domestic ones).
* Virtually any reference to American (or Western in general) pop culture is generally reviled as a lame joke added by dubbers or a mere coincidence. One example is when TomHanks and MariahCarey are brought up in an episode of ''Manga/WeddingPeach'', or when Manga/SailorMoon made a MichaelJackson joke; all are [[CulturalCrossReference in the original Japanese]].
** In fact, many more Western references made in ''Manga/SailorMoon'' were removed from the English dub, such as Mars being a fan of MichaelJackson, or a Princess Diana {{Expy}} that appeared in the show.
** There are more misblamings in ''Manga/SailorMoon''. The fifth season was not dubbed due to Toei not wanting to sell the rights, not because of the Starlights. (Granted, the possible controversy regarding the Starlights may have been a reason Toei chose not to sell, given the massive {{Bowdlerization}} of Haruka and Michiru...)
** The [[WesternAnimation/ToonMakersSailorMoon live action/animation blend pilot]] is [[FanNickname nicknamed]] "Saban Moon", after the company that brought SuperSentai to America as ''PowerRangers''. However, Saban actually had nothing to do with this one; it was made by a company called Toon Makers.
** Dic and Cloverway are often blamed for the dubbing of ''Manga/SailorMoon'' when in fact Optimum Productions is responsible for most of how the dub turned out.
** A character example: Chibiusa/Rini/Sailor Mini Moon is hated by fans for her sudden promotion from supporting character to main character in Sailor Moon SuperS, and because of her early brattiness in R, people refuse to believe that she's grown up and blame her for why SuperS failed. It's not the character's fault she was shoehorned into main character status. It was mostly due to ExecutiveMeddling. The creators thought that it could try and save the show's popularity by trying to reach a new, much younger audience by making her lead character, mostly in an attempt to make younger audiences relate/identify with her, which obviously didn't work.
** There's also a lot of people who don't seem to realize that some of these western references put into animes that weren't there in the first place where actually replacing a reference that [[LostInTranslation wouldn't make sense]] elsewhere, and that sometimes, name changes aren't as bowlderized as you may think. There's the "Castle in the Sky" example listed on this page, and other examples such as [[Manga/DragonBall Chi-Chi]] being changed in Latin America and Portuguese-speaking countries. No, this was done because "Chi-Chi" is regional slang for "Breasts" and "Urine" in Portuguese. Would you ''REALLY'' think it's a good idea to have a character named "Breasts" or "Urine" in a show meant for children and teenagers? Especially if it's meant to be taken ''seriously''?
*** Whether Chi-Chi counts is debatable. It's also slang for "breasts" ''in Japanese'', so it certainly got used in a childrens' show in Japan and would have been a LuckyTranslation if it had been kept.
* More than one shojo fan has accused the genre of sticking to the cliché of "I love you, you love me, let's not say it 'till book three", not knowing that in Japan people just aren't as direct when it comes to emotions. It's not a cliché, it's a genuine cultural difference.
* Many fans believe the English versions for the ''Manga/InuYasha'' songs are produced by the English dubbers. They are really made by the Italian dub, sung by Italians, and have only aired in Italy. The English dub uses the original Japanese songs for the endings, and does not use the openings.
* In general, filler is often a result of when an anime [[OvertookTheManga runs out of source material]], and because it was aired in Japan, they have to do ''something''. Not every fan knows that an anime series has to produce ''something'' during the dead-time for the manga to catch-up to the anime; one simply couldn't just put the show on a seasonal Hiatus because viewers would assume it was canceled and lose interest. So naturally, the writers of the anime may come up with filler. It's not uncommon to hear writers of the Manga get blamed for unpopular {{Filler Arc}}s or {{Filler}} Episodes that they had no hand in writing. Other options are to split the anime into an AlternateContinuity, in which writers may often be credited or blamed for that too.
* In ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', dubbers were blamed for things they didn't do. Before the advent of widespread fansubbing, when the details of the original were only known to a few, a ''lot'' of blatant lies were taken as absolute fact.
** TK and Kari's [[{{Shipping}} famous kiss]] in the "Digimon World Tour" arc never happened. TK and Tai ''do'' kiss a French girl named Catherine on the cheeks, however.
*** There was also the persistent rumor that the English dubbers removed both a TK/Kari kiss that was supposedly in episode 13 and that both supposedly did end up married in the DistantFinale. Neither the kiss nor the marriage happened, of course, but the blame-inducing damage was done.
** The same goes for Matt and Sora being divorced post-series. A statement by one of the [[WordOfGod script translators]] that this absolutely did not happen hasn't stopped the Tai/Sora shippers from insisting it did.
** Wormmon did not gain an Armor form near the end of season two. The Japanese episode title "The Last [[EvolutionaryLevels Armor Evolution]]" refers to the show's last use of the gimmick, not a specific user. Wormmon only Armor-evolves in an [[AllThereInTheManual audio drama]].
** There was a lot of humor that poked fun and lampshaded Davis' arrogant and ignorant characteristics in the dub. Some interpreted this as an insult and assumed the the Japanese version of Davis was much different. This was categorically denied by the production; turns out it was a well-intentioned running gag that people took too seriously.
*** To add on to this: a lot of the instances where Davis is being an idiot, inconsiderate or generally acting like a jerk, are almost the same in the original Japanese version. The only difference is that in the English version most of these instances are lampshaded by the other characters, and because this occurs quite often it ends up looking like the writers had something against Davis when in reality they were just translating his dialogue. However, many fans swore that the Japanese version Davis was different (read: smarter) despite having never seen the original version of 02.
**** One example of "Davis-is-an-idiot" joke had Kari show him her day planner, and Davis mistakes the date (8/1) for a fraction, and everyone laughs. This joke is almost exactly the same in both versions.
** This got so bad that on the then-famous Digimon Couples forum, a long list of obviously fake Censored Dub Evidence was posted for [[{{Shotacon}} Sora and Cody]]. At least, one ''hopes'' they meant it as a joke. Then again, this ''is'' Digimon, where every single character is a LauncherOfAThousandShips...
** Takato Matsuki and Ms. Asaji ''were'' different in the original version (Matsuda and Asanuma) but the fault was a misspelled script and not a deliberate change. And again, the difference between Matsuda and Matsuki is hardly world-shaking.
** Taichi and Hikari originally had the last name "Yagami". While rumors spread that Saban's translators changed the name due to it being "I'm a gay" backwards, the truth is that "Yagami" became "Kamiya" due to a mistake in reading its characters.
* Oh my God, look at what Light says in ''Manga/DeathNote''! He says, "I'll take a Potato chip, and '''EAT''' it!" Manga/DeathNote is ruined! Look at what they added! ...added ''what''? That scene is pretty much ''exactly the same'' as the anime, and the subtitles even say "I'll take a potato chip" (pause) "And eat it" while the so-called dramatic music that people claim was added plays. And in fact, ''it's even the same in the manga!'' Sans the [[MundaneMadeAwesome dramatic music and the epic chip-split-in-half]].
* There's a conspiracy theory in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' fandom that all [=PokéShipping=] is a product of [[FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]]. Actually, the dub took out as much as was put back in, with the added reminder that as a low-age end {{Shounen}} series, it never had huge romantic overtones anyway. A rumored scene in Misty's departure episode that showed Ash giving his cap to Misty was never in the original to begin with.
** Some ''Pokémon'' fans go further, and blame 4Kids for the many name changes that are actually the fault of Creator/{{Nintendo}} of America, even those "changes" that were just faulty translations to begin with.
** 4Kids is often blamed for 'removing' the backstory of Mewtwo in Mewtwo Strikes Back, where Ai teaches Mewtwo about life, for being too sad. However, that scene was purely DVD only, for both America and Japan.
** An interview revealed that the series becoming more culturally generic after the first saga was a decision made solely by the Japanese creators, who were very much aware that they had a worldwide franchise on their hands. It was not forced upon them by [=4Kids=] as one faction had been insisting for years.
** In the first episode that introduces Crasher Wake, the character of the day looks [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/diamond_pearl/ep082_character-of-the-day.html different]] from his Japanese look. People thought it was Pokémon USA, but it turns out it was the Japanese who changed it because he was based of the protagonist of 'DokonjoGaeru'. The creators of 'DokonjoGaeru' threatened to sue, so they changed him.
** Fans of May are quick to complain that they censored her by decreasing her breast size in her Sinnoh reappearance. They didn't censor it, they just followed guidelines better. May's chest was never consistent throughout Hoenn and it was considerably larger than her game version most of the time, so they just updated it to her correct size.
* There was a conspiracy theory around the ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' dub, which had shown Yammy only knocking Chad down. Meanwhile, the manga had shown that Yammy had apparently ripped Chad's arm apart. (This was actually shown even in the issue of ''ShonenJump'' which was subject to any kind of censorship.) The conspiracy theory was that they censored it for the dub...when it was actually done in the anime.
** Similarly, it looks like a good part of the blame for "Kubo's horrible pacing" doesn't come from Kubo himself, but from ExecutiveMeddling. Go tell that to the fans, tho.
* It was widely believed that Keyop in ''BattleOfThePlanets'' (which really was {{Macekre}}d, but in other ways) had his strange speech pattern because swearing was censored out in the original ''[[Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman Gatchaman]]'', though this belief has pretty much ended now that unedited dub ''Gatchaman'' by Creator/ADVFilms is commercially available and can be compared. It seems more likely that the Sandy Frank adaptation team gave him the speech pattern to emphasize how "strange" he was as an engineered clone (while Jinpei in the original Gatchaman had no such origin).
* Most complaints about Manga/{{Naruto}}'s English voice being "so annoying" ignore the character is a BrattyHalfPint and state that it just doesn't show up as much when listening to his voice in another language. Instead of sounding like he has a sore throat in English...he sounds like he has a perma-screech in Japanese.
** In fact, let's just throw in ''any'' example of an English dub voice that is called "annoying" despite the fact that it's ''supposed'' to be annoying and the Japanese voice was played in an equally irritating way...But [[DoubleStandard It's not in a dub, and that's alright.]]
*** You wanna know one funny thing in the eternal subbing and dubbing wars? Well voice actors often get blamed for how a character is ''written''.
** Another common complaint is that the dub replaced a swastika on Neji's head with an X. Except the anime did that originally.
** The dub even got blamed for some art changes made for the Japanese [=DVDs=]!
* Among many things they ''do'' deserve to be blamed for, [[FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] is sometimes bashed for not dubbing the "first season" of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' (which covered the earlier chapters of [[Manga/YuGiOh the manga]]). Except that the "first season" was a different ''series'', made by a different animation company, with sometimes drastically different character designs, and not part of the same continuity as the second.
** Speaking of, considering all of the wacky things that {{Konami}} and Upper Deck Entertainment has done to the ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' [[TabletopGame/YuGiOh card game]], it's hard for fans to keep track of who did what, and will often misblame one company for a screw-up that the other did.
** Remember that scene where Jonouchi/Joey punches Honda/Tristan in Duelist Kingdom, and how it was removed (or as [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries LittleKuriboh put it]] "It is implied dat I am punching you"?) Well, it's your imagination because the scene is not there in the original either. (Joey punching Yami Yugi ''was'' cut, though.)
*** 4Kids were also blamed with making up "the heart of cards", which was in the original, albeit not to the extent as in the dub, and a bit different in concept.
*** They also get blamed a lot for making up the concept of the "Shadow Realm" from whole cloth. They didn't; it exists in the original, inasmuch as the dark bubble dimension the characters slip into during a Shadow Game is the "Shadow Realm", it's just that the dub added a bunch of occasions where just dying was changed to getting sent there.
*** 4Kids is often blamed for turning Anzu/Tea into a "[[LoveFreak friendship nut]]", citing the speech she gives before Yugi and Kaiba's first duel as if 4Kids had created the whole scene themselves out of thin air. The speech in question and Anzu's tendencies were, again, almost utterly unchanged, being [[CharacterExaggeration slightly exaggerated]] at most.
*** You want to talk about getting blamed for stuff that wasn't their fault? Their page on this wiki reminds people that they weren't the ones responsible for {{Macekre}}ing ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': Nelvana was. Yes, their reputation for screwing things up is so bad that they get blamed for bad dubs they didn't even do.
*** Similarly, the original TV dub of ''{{Escaflowne}}'', produced by Ocean Studios and with changes ordered by Fox, was at one point attributed to [=4Kids=] on this wiki.
**** And those who ''do'' attribute the changes to Fox will constantly claim that they "redubbed" the series, and that the "American" dub was different from the "Canadian" one. Actually they didn't rerecord a single line, only got rid of some for censorsphip. TheOceanGroup dub is the only English dub in existence, period.
*** As was ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''. You'd think the group of voice actors (literally coming from ''the other side of country'') used would be a strong hint.
** On the ''[[YuGiOh5Ds 5D's]]'' side of things, head writer Shin Yoshida is widely blamed for the second season being weaker than the first, when in truth many of the plot details fans didn't like are believed to have been [[ExecutiveMeddling enforced by the Konami executives]] [[MerchandiseDriven to better sell cards]]. Some fans know this and bash Yoshida anyway for giving in to the execs' demands to change the plot.
* Speaking of ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'', Nelvana is often itself MisBlamed for the terrible new theme, the skipping and reordering of episodes and eventual cancellation the show received when it aired on KidsWB in the United States. In all other English-speaking territories, all 70 episodes were aired in the correct order, non-spliced and with dubbed versions of the original themes. As KidsWB was known for editing other shows as well, it's odd Nelvana was blamed for this particular one.
* A large quantity of the complaints about the ''Manga/{{Mai-HiME}}'' and ''Manga/{{Mai-Otome}}'' mangas stem from not being faithful to the "[[AnimeFirst original anime]]", despite the fact that the production teams were each given settings and characters whose traits they would establish themselves, and were made at the same time. This means that ''neither'' was an adaptation of ''either''.
* Creator/VizMedia was blamed for the horrific dub of ''{{Eyeshield 21}}'' when the blame actually goes to The Eyeshield 21 US Project, a group of Japanese companies who took a bunch of episodes of ''Eyeshield 21'' and merged them into five episodes for a test run. It's unknown if the actual release will be as badly cut, nor whether they'll tone down the less "family-friendly" elements.
** And while we're on the topic, while Hiruma's... [[GratuitousEnglish distinctive]] [[ClusterFBomb speech pattern]] is heard clearly in the Jump Festa OVA, it is not heard in the actual TV series.
* Many yaoi-shippers have claimed that the US dub of ''GundamWing'' edited out "definitive proof" that [[YaoiGuys the five Gundam pilots are gay]], up to and including a wedding for one of the most shipped pairings and a ''sex scene'' for another. As the show is easily available unedited, this information can be proved false by simply watching the show and not the fantasy version cooked up by the HetIsEw crowd.
** In another case, certain fans often badmouth MarkHildreth for portraying Heero as robotic rather than [[TheStoic subdued]]; at conventions, Hildreth has said this was the decision of the voice director, not him (see below). Reportedly, the constant pestering got to him so much that he's sworn to never work on a ''Gundam'' dub again.
* In a variation, ChristopherSabat, a regular voice director for {{Funimation}} and frequent voice actor, was often leveled criticism for the heavy dialogue alterations for ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' from the third season on. He pointed out that it wasn't his department, the script writing was out of his hands and his job was to do the best he could with the performance. To Funimation's credit, though, they took the time to make both acceptable to fans.
* Some other things Funimation has been misblamed for:
** In yet ''another'' dubbing-related example, Funimation is frequently blamed for the changing of characters' names and the title of the American dub and English manga[[hottip:* :published by Creator/VizMedia, who also gets a share of the blame]] of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', which was called "Case Closed". The name changes were actually requested by the Japanese licensor Tokyo Movie Shinsha, while the title change [[MarketBasedTitle was the result of]] a complaint by one of the owners to the rights of ''ConanTheBarbarian''.
** They were also blamed for changing ''KimiGaNozomuEien'' to ''RumblingHearts''. As it turns out, the decision to use it as the English-language title was made by the Japanese licensor (it was the [[GratuitousEnglish subtitle]] of one of the [=PS2=] ports, as well as the title of the main opening theme for incarnations of the original game), not Funimation.
** The English MarketBasedTitle of ''SoukouNoStrain'', "''STRAIN: Strategic Armoured Infantry''", has been criticized for misrepresenting the series as battle-oriented (when some episodes don't even feature any fighting) and doing a bad job describing the role of the main characters. Actually, "[[FunWithAcronyms STRategic Armoured INfantry]]" has been the official full name for the [[RealRobot Strain units]] piloted by the Spatial Armour Division ever since the series first came out, and if you notice, the ''original'' title is also named after the mecha!
* Funimation gets blamed even before they release shows. In the later installments of ''SpiceAndWolf'', some {{fansub}} groups have been accused of "using Funimation's translation" in [[SpellMyNameWithAnS spelling]] the female lead's name as "Holo" rather than "Horo." Once again, "Holo" is the official spelling according to the Japanese companies and the in-show visuals (as seen in episode 6 of the 2nd season).
*** There's actually a problem with this one, since the original light novels' author uses "Horo", in direct contradiction to what the official Japanese sources gave to Funimation.
* Similarly, when ''[[DragonBallKai Dragon Ball Z Kai]]'' was licensed, Funimation got some flame for "changing" the original title (with the addition of... that... one letter). In reality Toei chose that name for international distribution. Pretty much every country not-Japan got the series with that name.
* The old ''SonicTheHedgehog'' anime {{OAV}}, which was made sometime after the release of ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3'', refers to Knuckles the Echidna (introduced in that game) as a mole. This was preserved for the dub, where it is often misinterpreted as a translation error.
* This applies whenever a voice actor is criticized for "not sounding enough like the Japanese voice" or something to that effect. In reality, besides that being a dubious assessment of voice acting quality, it's not the voice actor who has the ultimate say on how a line is interpreted and delivered, but rather the voice director.
** Bizarrely enough, people also complained about Yuki's voice actress (MichelleRuff) in the English dub of ''TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'' sounding ''too much'' like the original Japanese.
*** Rather famously, one anime fan complained -- to JohnnyYongBosch's face -- that his [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Ichigo]] voice didn't sound enough like MasakazuMorita's. Bosch's response was "I'm an actor, not an imitator."
**** Similarly, at a recent convention, VicMignogna took [[AuthorTract five minutes out of a panel to give an unsolicited semi-rant]] about how a voice actor's job is to act, not to do impressions.
**** Similarly, at a convention panel, ToddHaberkorn related a story in which he ended up auditioning for ''AxisPowersHetalia'' using a very stereotypical accent for Italy after the authentic Italian accent wasn't what they wanted. He was sent a letter from someone, informing him that his accent was very inaccurate and giving him instructions on how to do a proper one. Haberkorn found the whole thing very amusing.
* Parodied in ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'': An episode begins with the main cast watching a bad movie, whose director defends it by saying that it was 100% faithful to the source material and it's not his fault the original story sucked. The rest of the episode consists of other people making similar excuses, such as a housewife blaming her recipes on the soup her husband didn't like.
* Anybody who ever shows you a {{Fansub}} and then tells you "yeah, there's a ''lot'' of swearing they take out of this show." [[YouFailLinguisticsForever Lies]]. The Japanese language doesn't ''have'' swear words, just a "polite" and "rude" way of saying things. (The whole concept of "profanity" is a product of Western religion, Catholicism in particular, and does not even have any meaning to a historically isolationist Far East civilization.) For just one example, "kuso" is never a polite term, but it literally means "excrement." How ''strong'' that is depends on context. However, many fan translators with less experience or care towards translations will simply pick the rudest or most shocking equivalent with no concern for the subtlety. Even professional translators struggle with this -- Disney's translation of ''PrincessMononoke'' actually altered a line from something tame ("This soup tastes like water") to something not so tame ("This soup tastes like donkey piss") in their dub while trying to put the line in the context of "rude" Japanese.
** The ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fandom complained that Tayuya of the Sound Five didn't swear in the dub, as her rudeness was not only a key character trait but also a plot point at one point in the story (when a character attempted to impersonate her and didn't pull it off); however in the dub her simply being ''rude'' is still evident because of the choice of words she uses anyway.
** The story goes that the reason the DVD sets of Funimation's ''OnePiece'' have the characters swearing as much as they do is because a large fraction of the OP fandom requested they put the swearing in. Funimation representatives would go to the forums and ask for feedback and fans who watched the fansubs would ask for stuff like Luffy saying he'd "kick [the bad guys'] ass". As a result the Funimation uncut dub at times sounds like it's [[ObligatorySwearing overcompensating]] (thankfully, it gets less ridiculous as it goes on).
** There are in fact quite a bit of fansubs that actually ''add'' American swear words. Because they assume ViewersAreMorons and in fact can continue to deceive people this way.
*** Or they just want to [[TrollingCreator have some fun]] at the viewers' expense.
* Speaking of ''OnePiece'', the series has a LOT of this. Just to give a few examples: The Government's law enforcers are referred to in Japanese as the "Kaigun" with the word "MARINE" written on their clothes. Thus, most fan-translations went with "Marine" to translate "Kaigun". "Kaigun" doesn't actually mean "Marine", it means "Navy". All English versions correctly translate it as "Navy", and this usually gets a backlash from fans claiming mistranslation. Funimation seems to use "Navy" and "Marine" interchangeably to curtail this though. Another good example is that Mr. 2 constantly refers to himself as a crossdresser (Okama) in the Japanese manga. Toei (the company who produce the anime adaption) objected to this for some reason (probably because he's a walking stereotype) and, in the Japanese version they changed all his references to being a "crossdresser" to being a "Ballerina". This is often called out as a form of "Funimation censorship" when seen in the dub or official subtitles, despite the fact that it was there in the Japanese version too. (Including pretty much all fansubs.)
* Anyone that tells you ''Manga/SailorMoon'', ''Manga/DragonBall'', ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', ''Anime/YuGiOh'', or ''TokyoMewMew'' were shows for teens or adults that were "kiddified" by their English dubs. These are all, in fact, shows for children, general audiences, or at most young teens. Sometimes these complaints are justified, such as only airing ''Manga/SailorMoon'' during timeslots for pre-schoolers or severely [[{{Bowdlerization}} censoring]] the content, but sometimes they seem to stem from a mutation of the AnimationAgeGhetto in which the fan doesn't want to admit they're watching a kids' show. This could also stem from [[ValuesDissonance the difference in cultures]] between Japan/whatever country -- starving oneself, lots of blood, MindRape and [[StalkerWithACrush thirteen-year-old girls being stalked and threatened]] are permitted in Japanese kids' shows, but there's no way they'd appear in many Western shows made for the same age group.
* Even though the modern dub of ''CastleInTheSky'' has won over many new fans, there are a number of naysayers who have been overly critical of it, and that like most dubs Miyazaki would be ashamed of it. Uh...no he isn't...he actually ''approved'' the dub and the only dub he ''actually'' said to ignore was the old bad dub of Nausicaa from the 80s. And let's not mention the "omg Castle in the sky should be castle Laputa". This was changed because ''Laputa'' happens to resemble the phrase "La Puta", which means "The Whore" in Spanish, a language that more people in North America are likely to understand than in Japan. What would ''you'' think if you saw a film on shelves that was called "Castle The Whore"? Would your first instincts of the AnimationAgeGhetto kick in and think it's a stupid cartoon kids should be watching or would you actually wonder why the hell it's called "Castle The Whore" when it's pretty PG-rated (at most).
** Granted; "Laputa" was actually from Literature/GulliversTravels, and "The whore" was actually the original intention.
* Although the dubs for ''TransformersArmada'' and ''TransformersEnergon'' [[BlindIdiotTranslation weren't all that great]], the writing wasn't good in the original Japanese shows either. (Notably, the more favourably received ''TransformersCybertron'' and ''[[Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise Robots In Disguise]]'' were both full of {{Woolseyism}}s.)
* The ''original'' {{Macekre}}, ''{{Robotech}}'' even has some level of this. While CarlMacek did make the scripts for individual episodes, the whole "[[CutAndPasteTranslation make one show using the footage from three]]" wasn't something he decided, and was in fact exactly what he was ''hired to do'' for the sake of a show with enough episode for syndication.
** Poor Carl Macek can't catch a break. Although he was responsible for many of the {{Macekre}}s, he is frequently given "credit" for almost every poorly localized release of '80s anime. Some have even blamed him for the American versions of ''[[NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind Warriors of the Wind]]'' (which was produced by New World Pictures), ''[[{{Macross}} Macross: Clash of the Bionoids]]'' (which was [[HongKongDub dubbed]] by the original Japanese studios and butchered by Just For Kids Video), ''BattleOfThePlanets'' (Sandy Frank) and ''[[MazingerZ Tranzor Z]]'' (3-B Productions).
*** Also he's also blamed for removing death and violence from the three series used for ''Robotech''. Not a single death was removed from Macross, nor was any violence. He is also blamed for ''Robotech: The Movie''. The studio in charge of the film rejected his original script, which apparently was mostly just a straight dub, and demanded all the changes made to it as they had found it depressing.
* TokyoPop has been accused of "flipping" the first series of the ''KingdomHearts'' manga. The manga was released that way in Japan as well.
* Creator/ADVFilms occasionally catches flak for their GagDub of ''GhostStories'' from fans who accuse them of completely throwing out the original material just to move a few more [=DVDs=]. In fact, Aniplex, the studio responsible for the show's production, ''told'' ADV to do whatever they wanted to make the series sell, and approved the changes made by ADV.
* Creator/{{Geneon}} and adaptation studio New Generation Pictures caught some grief (on this very wiki, no less) for spelling [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Alucard's]] name as Arucard. While they wanted to use "Alucard," the Japanese producers insisted on "Arucard" since by their logic, "it's Dracura backwards." At least they got away with pronouncing it "Alucard" in the English dub.
* Geneon has been for "changing" ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'''s name to "When They Cry -- Higurashi", when in fact, the SeriesFranchise that ''Higurashi'' belongs to is known as ''WhenTheyCry'' in Japan.
** And the anime of ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'' (which hasn't been dubbed yet) got blamed for an instance of Kinzo [[spoiler:turning into a dragon]] in the final episode that a lot of fans found to be rather ridiculous. Thing is, if you read the original VN, you'll see that the scene was, um, also there. It was just described in the narration and not visually rendered on the screen.
* To hear some people, the blame for the collapse of the anime market lies entirely on the backs of harem shows. There are several reasons besides that, such as overbidding, not reaching the right market, the changing market, and the collapse of the whole economy. Actually, many harem series, especially fanservice-laden ones, have been surprise successes -- ''IkkiTousen'' and ''{{SHUFFLE}}!'' come to mind -- while cleaner or less formulaic shows get left in the dust.
** A member of MediaBlasters stated that getting titles returned is a normal part of releasing anime, except for {{Hentai}} which is never returned. This is why they don't dub regular niche titles, but will dub things like ''QueensBlade''. Sex sells, so Media Blasters will release it just so they can release shows they do like.
*** This Troper also remembers a Media Blasters panel a few years back, in which they said that Japanese Companies will often bundle titles together and force the company to release all of the titles before giving them a title they did want. This was the case with ''Genshiken'' OVA and 2. The Japanese Company refused to give the rights to Genshiken unless Media Blasters dubbed and released Kujibiki Unbalance (2006 version).
* The [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist 2003 anime version]] of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is often accused of CharacterExaggeration, but in at least two cases, it's really not the fault of the producers at all. The reason why Kimblee in the 2003 series is a fairly one-note psychopath as opposed to the surprisingly AffablyEvil version of the manga is that at the time the 2003 anime was made, all of the manga material on Kimblee consisted of references to him being a gleeful war criminal, and so the 2003 anime's presentation of him is the result of making his character based on those references. Similarly, Mustang is a lot more of a JerkAss in the first anime (as opposed to having a JerkassFacade), because it wasn't yet established in the manga that Mustang had an UrbanLegendLoveLife and wasn't actually a lech, and so understandably, the 2003 anime's Mustang ended up as a LicensedSexist.
** As a result of AdaptationDisplacement, some fans of the 2003 anime make accusations that ''Brotherhood'' is a poor man's retelling of the first anime, without realizing there was a manga, and that ''Brotherhood is far more faithful to the source material than the 2003 version''.
* Many Spanish ''Manga/DragonBall'' fans blame the Spanish translation team for all the [[GoodBadTranslation silly]] [[{{Macekre}} or]] [[InconsistentTranslation stupid]] changes in the anime. Actually, Spain bought ''Manga/DragonBall'' from France (Like Portugal, Germany and many other European countries did; it was common at the time), and about 90% or more of said changes are France's fault, not Spain's (Just ask any German or such about THEIR translation, for example.).
** Of course, try telling that to [[BrokenBase Catalonians or Latin Americans]] who say their dubs are numerous times better because they don't have those mistakes (Even if the Catalonian dub [[FanMyopia has some of these issues as well]], though they do have less of them). Especially on ''Website/YouTube'. [[SchmuckBait Come on, try telling the Spanish-Spain dub isn't hellspawn]].
* BangZoomEntertainment, a dubbing company, was accused of using interns in dubbing some anime (in particular ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' and ''LightNovel/ZeroNoTsukaima''). While Bang Zoom did use people new to the business because it was cheaper (as the dubs had a low budget as they were made right before Creator/{{Geneon}} collapsed), none of the major characters were voiced by interns. Any interns who do voice work are simply doing incidental characters.
** To expand on this... many grossly uninformed warriors in the SubbingVsDubbing conflict will claim that ''all'' English dub voice acting is done by interns, the director's friends/family, homeless people off the street, etc.
* There's one internet forum (no names will be mentioned to protect the [[strike:innocent]] [[FanDumb idiots]]) where one poster said that "''Manga/DragonBall GT'' was a non-canon cash-in made by {{Funimation}}". Cue FacePalm.
** For that matter, a lot of people who have apparently been ''so'' scathed by ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' assume that anything Toriyama even does the ''art'' for is somehow his writing. For one, no, he was not responsible for the fillers and pacing of ''Manga/DragonBall Z''. He wrote the story for ''Manga/DragonBall'', etc, but the anime was purposely padded and had a lot of fillers merely because they didn't want to overtake the manga. If he was writing it, you would assume that he wouldn't have padded it so much to keep from overtaking the manga...wouldn't he? No, Toriyama did not ''willingly'' prolong the series...he actually had wanted to end the series as early as ''Manga/DragonBall'' with Goku winning the Tenkaichi Budokai. In fact, ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' was supposed to end with the Freeza saga, and then end with the Cell saga -- but because it was so popular, people were wanting more. Likewise, ''DragonBallGT'' was intended to be ended with Baby. He also did not have as much involvement over ''GT'' as some people even say he did.
*** This "Toriyama is Anime ''POISON''!" attitude has also unfotunately spread into other stuff he is involved in. ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' is often given a free pass, but would you believe people sometimes refuse to play games like ''DragonQuest'' and ''BlueDragon'' because they assume they're ''Manga/DragonBall Z''? AkiraToriyama has little to no involvement with the writing of ''DragonQuest'', he also did not do that much over the game design (Which was handled by Enix and other companies such as Level 5)
* ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' and the franchise both going forward and back are often subject to this. Fans will blame anything they don't like about the series... from the change in tone between the original series and ''Z'', to Vegeta's resurrection and HeelFaceTurn, to how long the series ran, to ''DragonballGT'' as a whole, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking to Vegeta's mustache]]... on absolutely anyone but Akira Toriyama. Clearly Toriyama would not have done something ''they'' disliked, so somehow it was either the [[FanDumb rabid stupid other fans]] or [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the evil greedy executives]] that ''made'' [[TheWoobie poor defenseless]] Akira Toriyama do it. Just how the fans could have forced him to do anything or which executives these are that could compel him to do so is never quite made clear.
* ''MacrossFrontier'' is a strange combination of types 3,4, and 5. Fans blame Kawamori for[[spoiler: not resolving the love triangle in the last episode]] because of favoritism and marketing, however this belief was due to a bunch of faked interviews made up by a once respected fan. In actuality it was Yoshino the series script writer who was at fault for [[spoiler: the love triangle not resolving]] and for non of the reasons previously thought. But he also can't be blamed too much due to him being quite chatty when it comes to clarifying [[spoiler: how the series ended.]] But this doesn't stop some of the FanDumb who didn't do their homework from blaming Kawamori for what happened for shipping reasons.
* One argument that has been used against the dub of ''GurrenLagann'' is that [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks in the English versions, the characters refer to the mecha's trademark FinishingMove as the "Giga Drill Break" instead of "Giga Drill Breaker."]] While "Break" admittedly doesn't sound as cool, that is actually what it's supposed to be called -- "Breaker" is a {{Mondegreen}} coming from the GratuitousEnglish of "[[CallingYourAttacks BUUUU-REEEEKKKKAAAAA!]]"
* Another 07th Expansion anime example: VisualNovel/OokamiKakushi, which falls under Type 2. The ending sequence was almost entirely different from the ''actual'' ending in the Visual Novel. Those familiar with Higurashi claimed Ryukishi [[TheyJustDidntCare didn't even care]] about his own story, not realizing that, unlike Higurashi and Umineko, he had no involvement with this adaptation whatsoever, and that many plotpoints--including the aforementioned ending--that are heavily criticized weren't even in the original story.
* Many people who've seen the English dub of ''XamdLostMemories'' claim that the story makes no sense. While the story does get rather complicated with time, the primary reason for this is that the English dub is a BlindIdiotTranslation. Context is off, word choice is misleading, and translations are inconsistent. For example:
** "One more red mark (akaboshi) and I'll get disciplinary training." -> "Akaboshi's disciplinary committee's coming by again!"
** "Don't be stupid. We purged those a long time ago." -> "Don't even joke about that. I don't want to be purged..."
** "It's a 3 hour wait at the military hospital. You'd be long dead before the examination." -> "They always glare at you before examination."
* ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'' is a joint French-Japanese program written by Frenchmen and animated by a Japanese company. This hasn't stopped accusations of French {{Bowdlerization}} of the "original Japanese" popping up when differences between the two translations are noted. In reality, the differences were due to a mutual agreement between the French writers and Japanese localizers to fit plot details to the differing expectations of their respective 80s-era audiences.
* In the manga for ''Manga/VideoGirlAi'', certain scenes with nudity in several volumes were edited to add panties or SceneryCensor to cover up Ai's naked lower body. Since Creator/VIZMedia was in the middle of a minor censorship controversy elsewhere, fans tend to blame the company for these edits as well. In reality, it was ''Shueisha'', the ''original'' Japanese publisher, which requested ''Video Girl Ai'''s creator, Masakazu Katsura, to redraw his own art. This is plainly visible in the second Japanese run of the tankoubon (and all subsequent reprints,) which sported these edits long before Viz even acquired the rights to the series. Unfortunately for Viz's reputation with fans, it's ''this'' version, and not the uncensored one, that Shueisha provides to licensees (even the Latin American version from Editorial Vid, a Mexican publishing house older than and completely unrelated to Viz Media, uses it.)


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* This happens ''all the time'', with fans assuming that the publishers were the ones who made the game, often ignoring the developers. Apparently, SquareEnix is responsible for the remake of ''[[{{Lufia}} Lufia II]]'', despite that Neverland, the developer of the series, was the one working on it -- Square Enix is only publishing it in Japan (with Natsume, the same company that localized the original version, handling localization) and funding it. Also, Square Enix gets yelled at for publishing ''ModernWarfare 2'' in Japan, with people saying it would be tainted with [[{{Bishonen}} girly men]]. Game publishing doesn't work that way.
* As it turns out, ''{{Superman 64}}'''s glaring faults and ridiculous storyline were mandated by the licence holders, meaning that most of the errors ''weren't [[TitusSoftware Titus]]' fault'', as shown by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pirnxPT8ogA ProtonJon's LP (opening of level 4).]]
** It's really hard to tell how much of this is blame-shifting, though footage of the beta, superior to the final product, supports his claims of a rushed deadline.
* The English translation of ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}} II'' for the NES is almost infamous for its poor translation, like [[http://www.flyingomelette.com/oddities/oddities4.html blatant in-game lies]] supposedly meant to tell you what your next goal is, how to reach that goal, and [[GuideDangIt other such game-critical information]]. For years, fans thought the translation was to blame, but the original version was actually just as incomprehensible.
** Yes, even the infamous "graveyard duck" is not a mistranslation. As pointed out in a comment on [[http://www.gamespite.net/verbalspew/archives/entry_1130.php the GameSpite blog]], the corresponding line in the Japanese version uses the word "ahiru", which can ''only'' refer to the bird.
** The apparent idea behind the quotes in the Japanese version was that all the villagers were ''liars'' -- that is to say, they all said false things that players were supposed to realise were silly. However, when you have no other clues or information to go by, not to mention a lack of grammatical context in such small text boxes, both Japanese and English audiences started to wonder why the game was telling you to shout in front of a church to restore health instead of just going inside to heal. In fact, given that the Famicom controller had a microphone built into it, the Japanese probably had it worse...
**** Some of the townsfolk tell you things like what Dracula's rib does or where you can find some of the thirteen "scriptures" which explain what to do at the impassable cliffs and lakes etc. One villager tells you how to get through the poison marsh, another that you must get the cross at Laruba's Mansion... Not everything is useless or lies, and the manual does warn you that some of it is. Talking to some of the townspeople is also necessary in order to find out which ones sell you items. The dialogue sets the tone for the atmosphere and type of people you encounter in each town, deepening the game, and some of the utterances are quite funny, adding to the entertainment value. Also you know you're getting nearer the end when the townsfolk are more scared in the towns you come across, which is a useful clue and adds to the ambience as well.
* Many people are angered by the fact that Bahamut was portrayed as a dragon in games like ''FinalFantasy'' and ''DungeonsAndDragons''. And yet for some reason, the blame seems to fall ''solely'' on ''Final Fantasy'' for making people think this. Actually blaming ''DungeonsAndDragons'', which has been doing it longer and far more than ''Final Fantasy'' ever did is [[ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow a mortal sin because this was 1st edition of advanced dungeons and dragons when Bahamut was introduced as a dragon based off of arabic mythology.]] (Surprisingly people will credit this as starting the Beholder trend showing that they at ''least'' looked inside the manual.)
** Another interesting thing is that despite how common Bahamut appears in the games, his role is rather limited. There have never really been any stories centered around any character, and he's mostly been a summon. ''DungeonsAndDragons'' is more to blame for making Bahamut appear to be a character, listing rules for playing him or using him in campaigns.
** A lot of things in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' were based off things in DungeonsAndDragons, at least at the start. Bahamut was one of those things. So they probably got the idea from D&D anyway.
* When ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'' finally got an official English release, many people complained about various edits and changes made to the game script. Actually, many of the differences were a result of an earlier FanTranslation by [=DeJap=] of the SNES version being ''less'' faithful to the original than the official GBA version. Of course, there still that thing about "Ragnarok" becoming "Kangaroo" (as well as generally being a pretty bland localization), but despite what anyone says that's pretty much the ''only'' outright mistake.
** There was still some sexual humor in the original Japanese (like Arche's infamous sex dream about Cless and Arche admiring Mint's figure in the hot springs,) but [=DeJap=] was far less subtle about presenting it, as well as [[{{Flanderization}} ramping up Arche's pervertedness.]]
* The German version of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' (which was the UpdatedRerelease to boot) was translated from the original Japanese version, omitting most of the changes the US version made. Unfortunately, they threw in the English voice overs instead of the Japanese ones. This triggered one of the most infamous {{flame war}}s over how they could subtitle Yuna's "I love you" with "Thank you", when the latter was actually what she said in the original.
** It gets worse. Said incident was enough to convince Square Enix to, in the future, translate any and all story parts, even if they're not voiced, from the English version. And sometimes the rest of the game, to boot. Even if they were dubbed (like the ''KingdomHearts'' series) into German.
* Some ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' fans get huffy over Atlus's translation of some OriginalGeneration pilot and unit names, specifically regarding "Zengar Zonvolt" becoming "Sanger Zonvolt" and his [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus One Mech]] Daizengar becoming the rather silly-looking DyGenGuard. These two instances actually make sense: for Sanger's name, Atlus simply left off the umlaut on ''Sänger'', which is a German name and naturally katakana-tized as Zengar due to how it's pronounced. As for DyGenGuard, it's short for Dynamic General Guardian. The whole Daizengar ("Great Sänger") bit was an intentional pun, again due to Japanese pronunciation. Atlus's only fault in this was being lazy with their accent marks.
** "Latooni Subota", on the other hand, ''probably'' ought to be Latune Cybota to stay faithful to typical Cyrillic transliteration (she's Russian. Ish.) Basically, Atlus is perfectly faithful to Japanese. It's European languages that they half-ass.
** Meanwhile, strange Romanizations like "Hagwane" were preserved in the official sub of the anime at Bandai's insistence, as was a lengthy joke in the game ''Original Generation 2'' that no longer makes sense when the names are pronounced in the English way. These could be considered cases of a translation being ''too'' faithful to the original work.
* ''TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'' was yelled at by fans who complained about how "they took the wimpy way out with the bad ending" and instead of [[spoiler:Marta killing herself]], she [[spoiler:just writes a sad letter]]. Marta didn't [[spoiler:commit suicide]], that was a mistranslation...but the [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice of Emil was still there, as was Marta's DisneyDeath, and her TearJerker cry of '''EEMMMMIIIIIIIIIILLLLL!!!!''']]
* ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' features a strange man in a house in Ruto who, when spoken to, says [[GratuitousEnglish the bizarre phrase]] "I AM ERROR". It turns out that Error is his actual name, and was spelled phonetically in Japanese; if you talk to another character in Mido, he tells Link to ask Error about how to find the secret entrance to the Island Palace in the graveyard. There's another guy in the game named [[ThemeNaming Bug]], but the translators apparently misinterpreted this and translated his name "Bagu" directly from the katakana.
* Everyone wants their favorite games to be released on the Virtual Console (especially given that some of the old consoles may have been damaged, games take damage too, etc.). But because the Virtual Console doesn't have ''every'' game made prior to the [[SegaDreamcast Dreamcast]]-{{Nintendo GameCube}} era, supposedly, this is the fault of Creator/{{Nintendo}}. Nintendo was not actually responsible for every game released on their systems, not to mention, many of the systems with games ''available'' on the Virtual Console weren't even ''made'' by Nintendo in the first place. While Nintendo ''did'' have some of the games they made and/or published on the Virtual Console, Nintendo still gets people angry at them for not having their favorite game on the Virtual Console, when Nintendo may not have had that much to do with the creation ''of'' that game outside of licensing it (if it was on a Nintendo system).
** Some games on Nintendo's earlier systems were even released by companies that are now Nintendo's ''competitors''. Rare (which is now owned by Microsoft) and Sony were both third-party developers on the NES and SNES.
* Many fans believe that ''FinalFantasyMysticQuest'' was created as an American replacement for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'', which has helped contribute to the unfortunate amounts of hate for ''Mystic Quest''. In truth, the decision not to translate ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' was completely unrelated to the creation of ''Mystic Quest''.
* Similarly, Square's ''SecretOfEvermore'' is often despised by fans who believe the urban legend that the U.S. got it instead of ''[[SeikenDensetsu3 Secret of Mana 2]]''. In fact, the development of one had nothing to do with the other. It turns out that the U.S. got ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' instead of [=SoM2=].
* And speaking of Square, regardless of your opinions on their output, a lot of people seem to believe that ''artist'' Tetsuya Nomura not only does 100% character designs, but literally does everything at Square Enix. He is often blamed for character designs on titles he's not involved in, accused of programming decisions, and sometimes even ''marketing''. For the record, he doesn't actually do much for ''FinalFantasy'' outside of designs and debugging, and actually didn't serve as a character designer for ''IX'', ''XI'', or ''XII''. (All of which we're told "were all Nomura's".) He also only directs the ''KingdomHearts'' series, got a side project out of ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', and his ''first'' effort as a director for the ''FinalFantasy'' series is ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVersusXIII'', which is ironically being lauded by many of his detractors as a creative, fresh new direction for the series, unlike that other "Nomura anime crap".
** And not to mention, let's not forget that people seem to think he only came around in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. Despite somehow coming in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''...he was a debugger in IV, monster designer in V, and actually designed several characters in VI. This leads to a inversion of this, as people always assume Amano designed every character in games I-IV, and complain about Nomura redesigning Setzer for ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' because he was an Amano character--while Setzer was actually one of the ''VI'' characters that he designed. How '''DARE'' Nomura redesign ''his own character''?! The BASTARD! (''Vivi'' was the character he had qualms with using -- because Nomura didn't even work on IX)
*** These kids seem to want MORE of Nomura's redesigns on [[http://crimsoncobwebs.deviantart.com/art/Kingdom-Hearts-Garnet-101167858?offset=50#comments characters he didn't create]].
** He's also blamed 100% for any story issues with the ''KingdomHearts'' series, due to his role as director. The other people who have helped write the story for the games (Jun Akiyama, Daisuke Watanabe, Kazushige Nojima, Masaru Oka, Tomoco Kanemaki, etc.) are forgotten.
*** Nomura is also frequently made a target whenever a ''[[NoExportForYou Final Mix]]'' game is released. While he has gone on record for saying that he believes ''Final Mix'' is exclusive to Japan, it's more than just his decision to make it so. The boards at Square Enix don't let any (except for a few) UpdatedRerelease game come out of Japan, because they believe that it would not be profitable to do so. Despite a petition for ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+'' to be released internationally showing otherwise. Sony, the makers of the PS2, also have a strict rule against re-releases. They have to have a certain amount of new content before they are allowed to be released. In short, Nomura is only the director of the games, he alone cannot decide whether or not to release them internationally. And he has also said he'd like to release something like ''Final Mix'' internationally, but his hands are tied by the system he works in.
** The HateDumb hasn't stopped there, either. ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'''s Hatedom has been screaming at stuff that Nomura had absolutely no part in. Yes, he designed the characters for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII''...but did you know that he's not even the sole artist for that game? Take one look at the credits. You'd be surprised at how ''little'' Nomura actually ''does''.
** He hasn't helped with a lot of this by somehow managing to have MisBlamed ''himself'' in various interviews before now, though.
* There is/was a ''lot'' of confusion around ''TacticsOgre''. No, it was ''not'' a ripoff of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics''. The latter was actually a SpiritualSuccessor to ''TacticsOgre''. Yes, it was made by many of the same people. Yes, Square-Enix localized the EnhancedRemake on the PlaystationPortable. No, Square-Enix did ''not'' localize the game on the Playstation -- the mediocre translation full of typos and grammatical errors was actually done by none other than ''{{Atlus}}'', since Square had not officially bought Quest, yet.
* Already in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep''. There was a change in a scene: Where the Wicked Queen made the mirror attack Terra. In the Japanese version, she shouted at it and her anger possessed the mirror, whereas in the other versions, she throws a potion (off-screen) and that makes the mirror become angry. This may actually be explainable...even when people were showing off the Japanese version on Website/YouTube, 3/5 out of ''every'' comment on that Japanese scene was "Wow, she sounds constipated" or "Boy, she sounds like she has to take a dump, doesn't she?" still this hasn't stopped people from assuming they censored a mirror breaking.
** While they made the scopes on the Braig fight look more fantastical and didn't show him fusing his gun into a sniper rifle...of all things, the part where you see Braig's ''bloody cheek'' was left intact. People ''already'' anticipated ''that'' scene to have been censored. (''Thankfully'' not his [[{{Squick}} eye damage]])
* The infamous "laughing scene" in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', in which Tidus and Yuna laugh like crazy people, is often held up as an example of terrible English dubbing because they sounded "fake". In actuality, not only do they sound ''just'' as fake and over the top in the Japanese version, this was ''the entire point of the laughing scene'' (specifically, to show that Tidus, at that point in the game, can't feign happiness very well). Note both of the characters laughing (normally) at how ridiculous they sound a second later. The other characters thought [[YoureInsane they'd gone out of their minds]].
* While {{Capcom}} does have a well-earned reputation for [[BlindIdiotTranslation bad translations]] of games in the '90s, they are sometimes blamed for some they didn't do. In the case of the ''BreathOfFire'' series, they are often accused of creating an InconsistentDub due to certain names in the first game being altered in later entries. This was actually the result of the first game being localized in the US by [[SquareEnix Squaresoft]], who changed names with little rhyme or reason. The later games were handled by Capcom and they usually reverted to the Japanese names in future titles.
** More specifically, Capcom USA has been the subject of a lot of heat for their English translations of the company's Japanese-developed games, which typically mangle not only the dialogue but also the plot canon for some games, ''StreetFighter'' in particular. A [[http://www.capcom-unity.com/ask_capcom/go/thread/view/7371/20130381/Seth_Skill_your_wisdom_is_needed_in_order_to_-%20resolve_a_concern_about_Capcom_USA&post_num=2#346948685 recent revelation]] from Capcom USA's Senior Vice President, however, reveals that it is ''Capcom of Japan'' that is responsible for the botched English translations that made their way overseas for years. Which begs the question of [[FridgeLogic why a Japanese company would mix-up the translation of dialogue and plot written in their native language just for outsiders]].
*** One has to consider that some of the ''Street Fighter'' games from the mid-to-late 1990's had American staff members working on them, so they had more input. However, most of the quotes and endings in the games, while a bit embellished sometimes (Guile never mentions Cambodia in the Japanese version), had mostly accurate translations. Endings that were truly different, like Cammy's and Fei Long's, were often the exceptions rather than the rule.
* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'''s review of the {{NES}} [[PortingDisaster port]] of ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' involved him complaining about butchery of a 'great game'. Among the features he complained about were the fact that you can't open a door and wear your gas mask at the same time, forcing you to sacrifice some health when you enter or leave a gassy room, which was a design flaw of the original game fixed in ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'' (and even in ''Snake's Revenge''). He also complained about Big Boss prefacing his misleading hints with the phrase 'I forgot to tell you...', claming it was a terrible translation -- not only was this a better translation than the one in the European MSX version of the game, but Big Boss's hints really were supposed to be [[StopHelpingMe useless and annoying]] for plot reasons, similar to the ''Castlevania'' "graveyard duck".
* Again, one of the many complaints lodged against ''Snake's Revenge: Metal Gear II'' is that the translation tells you the opposite of what you have to do during the train level ("THERE IS NO TRAP ON THE TRAIN" has become a semi-meme). Of course, the sequence was a deliberate callback to ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' since it happens immediately before the person giving you the hints turns out to be [[TreacherousAdvisor a spy trying to make you fail]], who you then fight in a boss battle.
** Also, a lot of ''Franchise/MetalGear'' fans who never actually play the NES version of the game accuse it of having a silly plot in comparison to the "serious" storyline in the original MSX version, replacing the original BigBad of Big Boss, an American soldier turned renegade mercenary, with Vermon [=CaTaffy=], a pastiche of real-life terrorist Muammar al-Gaddafi. In truth, Konami's American manuals back in the day tended to feature weird plot changes (as evident by the American manuals for the early ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'', ''{{Contra}}'', and ''{{Gradius}}'' games) that thankfully did not affect the games themselves. The NES version of ''Metal Gear'', despite its BlindIdiotTranslation quality, is almost identical to the MSX version in terms of plot aside for a few minor differences and Big Boss is still the BigBad in the NES version. The non-canon ''Snake's Revenge'' also featured a similar discrepancy between the game and its manual, with the manual identifying the bad guy as Higharolla Kockamamie (another pastiche, this time of Ayatollah Khomeini), but the actual villain of the game is revealed to be a Cyborg Big Boss.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid: The Twin Snakes'' often gets a lot of scorn for its cutscenes, most of the blame is directed towards Ryuhei Kitimura, who directed the scenes. However, ''every scene that Kitimura included was approved by HideoKojima'', and Kitimura was chosen specifically for his over-the-top nature.
* Continuing on with ''Franchise/MetalGear'', for a case of character misblaming, whenever anyone brings up why ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' was the weakest in the series, it is always attributed to one thing -- Raiden. While Raiden's involvement does weaken things considerably, the shameless backtracking, lack of great boss fights and ditching of any sense of coherence all had nothing to do with him.
* Many people who played the fan-translated version of ''VideoGame/MetalGear2'' assumed that the name of the enemy boss "Black Color", a misromanization of "Blackcollar", was a mistake by the fan-translators. In reality, that's how it was spelled in the actual Japanese version (all of the bosses' names in the game were written in roman script).
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' also gets a lot of blame for its rather absurd storyline placed on the translator/localizer, Agness Kaku. As [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/metalgear/agnesskaku.htm this interview reveals,]] saying that Konami was very unhelpful with regards to translation and localization is a ''huge understatement''.
* ElectronicArts receives a lot of flak for their exclusive license to make games with National Football League players and teams, with many gamers believing that EA simply threw a lot of money at the NFL to get the license. In fact, [[http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/14/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/ the NFL took bids from a number of video game companies]] before ''awarding'' the contract to EA. Gamers, however, deny this, believing that the league would never willingly enter such anti-competitive agreements -- never mind that the NFL's own actions in regards to [[http://consumerist.com/5185430/nfl-sunday-ticket-will-remain-directv-exclusive-until-2014 television distribution]] and [[http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/09/18/american-needle-throws-downfield-in-nfl-licensing-dispute/ apparel licensing]] indicates that they not only willingly agree to, but also ''encourage'' these kinds of licensing deals.
** EA still may not be totally blameless in this area, as their similarly exclusive deals with the NCAA and Arena Football League seem to indicate they have no problem pursuing exclusive rights (these and the NFL deal are all part of a California-based class action suit against the company). Of course, it may be possible that the AFL and NCAA simply follow the same hardball tactics as the NFL.
** And let's not even get started on the fans of BioWare games who are convinced that any "dumbing down" of RPG mechanics or DLC offers are all the nefarious influence of EA having bought them, and might not just be BioWare themselves trying to streamline their games and give the players more content that might not have been available otherwise.
*** Speaking of BioWare, EA was one of the major suspects to blame for ''MassEffect3'' ending that almost unanimously considered as terrible in the fandom. This despite the fact that EA had little to do with the creative process and it was mostly BioWare's work to begin with. At worst EA may have indirectly been responsible for the ''implementation'' of the ending (in particular how rushed and perfunctory it seemed prior to the Extended Cut DLC), but the fact that [[spoiler:Shepard dies in nearly every ending variation]] was entirely the choice of the lead developers.
** EA in general catches a lot of flack for "ruining" companies they buy up, but in many cases, prior to the purchase said companies weren't all that profitable, and in some cases they couldn't do what they did without EA's money. FullMotionVideo ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' and ''UltimaOnline'' were feasible only with financial support from EA, as Origin prior to being bought by EA[[hottip:* :around the time of the release of [=WC2=]: Secret Operations 1; EA involvement with Origin is, in other words, [[OlderThanTheyThink older than the fandom thinks]]]] was, at best, "holding on", financially, in spite of the critical acclaim of their games.
*** Also funny, take a look at the publisher for ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2''. Notice anything? Yep. EA. Guess whose idea it was to make it a sequel to ''VideoGame/SystemShock''? EA. AccentuateTheNegative at its finest.
** They are often criticized for releasing essentially the same Madden game with updated rosters year after year. While this is arguably true, ''football itself'' doesn't really change from year to year.
* It's common knowledge that the game released as ''FinalFantasyAdventure'' in America was in fact known as ''Seiken Densetsu'' in Japan, and was the first entry in what's now known as the ''[[WorldOfMana Mana]]'' series in America. It's also "common knowledge" that the name was only given the ''Final Fantasy'' title in America to make it more marketable. Except that the game's Japanese name was actually ''Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden''. All the localization really did to the name was drop the subtitle (or is it "supertitle"?) and change "[[GaidenGame Sidestory]]" into "Adventure".
** Since ''Final Fantasy Adventure'' contains Moogles, chocobos, an airship, the four elemental Fiends, main villains who's visual designs are BOTH based off Garland (both his overworld and his battle screen sprite, which in FF1 looked radically different from each other) and one NPC that looks a lot like a Red Mage, either this is a ''FinalFantasy'' game or the designers changed a lot more than just the title.
* [[FanDumb 80's elitists]] of the ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' are angry at {{Ubisoft}} for not including any 80's cartoon characters in ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesSmashUp''. [[http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9261054957/m/9901001297 The truth]] is, the people at Mirage Studios specifically told Ubisoft to stick to the 2003 series as the basis for the game. In fact, Ubisoft actually ''defied'' that directive and stuck the Technodrome in as a background object in one of the stages.
* Some people thought that ''VideoGame/{{Loom}}'' was uncompleted for several reasons...either '''a)''', TheyJustDidntCare for it because ''StarWars'' games made more money, or '''b)''' nobody bought it. The actual reason for not finishing Loom is way different. No, Lucas Arts didn't abandon it in favour of Star Wars...this was in the early 90s when point and click adventure games (Similar to ''Loom'') were all the rage and cash cows, especially when the NostalgiaFilter kicked in about 10 years later. And the sale figures ''certainly'' were not showing lack of a public interest...Even one of the developers said it wasn't. Loom sold over 500,000 copies at the time of the interview. (At a time when that was impressive) But why was there no Loom 2: Forge despite that Lucas Arts would only benefit from another one, and fans would support it? The Developers all got caught-up in different projects.
* The Circle of Eight mod for ''TempleOfElementalEvil'' is panned for including a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Buster Sword]]. The sword model was in the core game, used by a bugged sword that [[DummiedOut can only be accessed by console]].
* While it is true that MLB, NFL, and the other leagues forced ''BackyardSports'' to keep going, some reviewers put the blame on the leagues for making the series JumpTheShark by taking the games in a different direction. It wasn't even {{Atari}}, the publishing company, who did it. The real culprit is Humongous, Inc., a company formed out of the last remnants of Humongous Entertainment (who started the series); an employee said so in an interview.
** Similarly, a lot of people like to blame {{Atari}} for the two 2003 Junior Adventures being unfaithful to the predecessors and being plagued with certain faults. The truth of the matter here is Atari was only their ''parent company'' at the time, and Humongous hadn't even gone bankrupt yet -- that happened two years later. They were actually made after half of the Humongous workforce was laid off, and they still had yet to recover from deep financial trouble, this the reason the voice acting was subpar.
* [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] is guilty of this in his review for ''TheConduit''. He blamed all his issues with the game, such as the default control scheme on ''Nintendo'' -- when they didn't even ''make'' the game in the first place!
** He also made this mistake in reverse in his ''MetroidOtherM'' review. He blamed Team Ninja rather than Nintendo, who were responsible for everything he criticized.
* Valve was complained at for breaking a promise to release something for ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' on November 11th, 2009, which was also Veteran's Day. Only Valve never even hinted at the possibility of anything being released anytime that week. People started thinking Valve was going to do something, and people jumped on the bandwagon because, [[SarcasmMode if this many people think something is coming, Valve MUST have said something about it.]]
** ''Left4Dead'' and its sequel caused a ton of backlash among its fans. When ''Left 4 Dead 2'' was made and released, people whined that Valve "broke its promise" of supporting ''Left 4 Dead 1'' and how almost everything the sequel had should have been in the first game. What people fail to realize is that ''Left 4 Dead 1'' is simply not balanced for ''[=L4D2's=]'' features (Most of the maps in the first game are narrow and small, which would make it heaven for Spitters and Chargers. Weapons like the Grenade Launcher and Chainsaw are also not suited for the close quarters style ''[=L4D1=]'' had). Along with that, to add another batch of 25+ maps and new characters with dialogue would start to get close to download sizes matching a full game. Many people also assume that since ''[=L4D2=]'' is out and Valve is making a DLC campaign that has the old survivors meet the new ones in the sequel, ''[=L4D1=]'' is now dead. Keep in mind that ''[=L4D1=]'' is only a year old and Valve has a history of still updating their older games when the sequels for them have come out.
*** And to further prove this point, The Sacrifice DLC came out for [=L4D1=] as well as the sequel in order to please both fan bases. Of course, this still backfired since the sequel also got a port of No Mercy, a campaign from the first game and people are now crying that Valve is trying to kill off [=L4D1=], even though they have been updating the game with patches and other features.
** The Cold Stream DLC had been delayed for several months, causing Xbox 360 players to blame Valve for delaying the DLC for so long and demand that they should be allowed to help in testing the beta for free or release the DLC for free. Valve isn't entirely at fault, but the rest of the blame falls on Microsoft. Not only Valve has to make sure Cold Stream can run on the Xbox 360 without trouble, but Microsoft's DLC policies prevent Valve from giving Xbox 360 owners constant updates for a beta product and it is Microsoft that determines the pricing for DLC, not Valve.
* The fact that ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' (amongst other demanded games) isn't on the Wii's VirtualConsole seems to lead to people pointing fingers at Nintendo. One would honestly think that fans would actually be bothered to ''look'' at the developer ''and'' publishers for the Nintendo 64 game...{{Rare}}. Sure, they were second-party at the time of ''Conker's Bad Fur Day'', but since 2002, they were actually bought out by Microsoft (Which is why there is a ''Conker'' game on the Xbox, not to mention ''Kameo'' and ''PerfectDark''. Nintendo had no or negligible involvement with ''Conker's Bad Fur Day'', and they likely won't be able to put it on without getting legal permission to do so from Microsoft.
** And to make matters worse, some people actually said ''Nintendo'' was responsible for the censorship done to the ''Xbox version'', ''Conker: Live and Reloaded'', with obscenities that were in the ''Nintendo 64'' version bleeped out in the Xbox version. Gaming does ''not'' work that way; why would ''Nintendo'' be allowed to have any say over something released on ''a competitor's system'', the original version of which they never even worked on or published?
** This is also the reason why ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997'' isn't on the Virtual Console. [[VideoGame/GoldenEyeWii Not that it's necessary.]]
*** Coming back to Rare now being owned by Microsoft, it should also be pointed out that Rare's N64 games ''are'' available on Xbox Live Arcade instead.
**** Except for Conker, which still leaves the fans of the game pissed off at Microsoft for not releasing it on Xbox Live Arcade and cancelling the sequel.
* Some people seem to think that Mallow and Geno, characters from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' should have been in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'', and that Nintendo was stupid for not putting them in and instead using "X retarded character" (R.O.B. being the favorite target). This would probably have had some merit... had they actually been owned ''by'' Nintendo. They were, like ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', created by Squaresoft (now SquareEnix). Even when Geno made a Cameo appearance in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'', they stated that Geno was copyright Square Enix.
** In a similar method, ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'''s FanDumb is angered upon several things... one was that apparently, the DS Translation was less faithful to the original. Maybe the SNES, but it's actually closer to the Japanese Script... namely Frog didn't speak in YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe when absolutely nobody else in that time frame did so. And another was that it wasn't on the Virtual Console... Apparently, SquareEnix wouldn't have a say at all about what games were released on there, despite ''making it''.
* A variation/mixture of types 3 and 4 happened with ''JakAndDaxter: The Lost Frontier''. A different company was responsible for developing it, which is why it (the plot, mostly) gained so much ire from the fans. However, if one would take time to watch the credits, one would find that those responsible for the story were the series' original creators. However, the same original creator had already worked on the title 3-4 years before its eventual release, before scrapping the project. Clearly someone realised their efforts would be best spent elsewhere.
* ShigeruMiyamoto (Yes, even him) is blamed for the lack of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' characters in ''[[DonkeyKongJungleBeat Jungle Beat]]'' and the general sorry state of the franchise based on an old interview where he bashed the first DKC. That despite that he later apologized for the outburst in a later interview, saying that ExecutiveMeddling pressured him into putting 3D graphics in VideoGame/YoshisIsland and that he also produced and supervised the two ''King of Swing'' games and ''Barrel Blast'', all of which features DKC characters. For example, the CanonDisContinuity page for video games credited the infamous "DKC characters aren't fresh enough" line to him even though it was actually Yoshiaki Koizumi (one of Jungle Beat's two director) who said that.
** As if all the prior evidence wasn't enough, after the reveal of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'', Miyamoto finally addressed that the idea of him hating DKC was nothing but a rumor. In fact, what he's controlled in the development of DKCR (like ''demanding'' that the music emulates the original tunes) seems to indicate that he ''loved'' it.
** Talking of that series, a lot of people seem to misblame Rare for no Kremlings in some games (aka VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns), mistakenly thinking Rare still owns them or something. No they don't, Kremlings and many other enemy characters have been in Konga, King of Swing, Jungle Climber, Barrel Blast and every rerelease of the original trilogy known to man, and they got sent to Nintendo with everything else in the VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry series. No, they just wanted a bit of a change to try something new.
* Any game that is released is treated as if the publisher actually made everything. Probably because some publishers actually ''do'' or have at least been known to make games themselves (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Square-Enix, Activision, Ubisoft), any game that has their logo or name on it is assumed to have been all their doing. No matter ''how'' many logos of companies that worked on the game come up, it is automatically assumed to be "all Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft/Square-Enix/Namco-Bandai/Ubisoft/whoever's doing". This leads to people making all sorts of accusations, such as blaming Pokémon designs on Nintendo (ignoring poor [=GameFreak=]) or saying Nomura rushed games that were made by Creator/TriAce or more by former Enix employees, and Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft mysteriously being responsible for mediocre games made by EA.
** ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' is a big victim of this trope. Every time the [[BrokenBase people who stop playing after a certain generation]] complain of a new Pokémon design or spinoff they don't like, they blame ''Nintendo'' for designing the Pokémon, or even making the games. Uh...then what's that Game Freak Logo doing in front of nearly every mainstream Pokémon game? You know...they ''do'' '''''MAKE''''' the games, after all....
*** Oddly enough, Vanilluxe, a Pokémon that ''wasn't'' designed by Ken Sugimori, is sometimes considered good. Others often say "See? That's proof they're running out of designs by having someone else design it" like Ken Sugimori is the only one allowed to design Pokémon. (Ken can't live forever, folks.)
** Related, in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'', there is a line that many people interpreted as a NeverSayDie {{Bowdlerization}}. Because it happens at the climax of the Plasma arc, it's best to just put it into spoilers. [[spoiler: When Ghetsis orders Kyurem to use Glaciate to freeze the protagonist solid, many people assumed in the Japanese version, he ordered Kyurem to outright ''kill'' the protagonist, causing people to assume that it was bowdlerized by [=TPCi=]. However, Japanese-speaking players confirmed that Ghetsis never actually ''does'' order Kyurem to kill the protagonist; he only orders the dragon to freeze them solid [[AndIMustScream so they can watch him take over Unova]]... which is arguably ''far far worse'' than if he outright ''killed them''.]]
* A common complaint about Capcom's localization of the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' series is the claim that despite the games being centered around murder mysteries and not shy about depicting brutal killings (including one ''[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impalement]]''), there are frequent references to "grape juice" which appear to be an obvious {{Bowdlerization}} of [[FrothyMugsOfWater wine]]. Oddly enough, it's grape juice in the Japanese version as well.
** In fact, the localisers who worked on VisualNovel/AceAttorney have turned out some of the best work in recent years.
* [=LJN=] Toys has taken a lot of bad reaction (such as from WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd) for the terrible video games that they've put their name on, but in reality the number of games they developed in-house can probably be counted on one hand. While they were clearly doing ''something'' wrong (likely forcing development schedules that were way too short) to have such a large amount of [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames bad licensed games]] in their catalogue, according to LordKat in his video on the ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' {{NES}} game, the actual main culprit may be surprising:
-->"Now a lot of people associate these terrible movie-based licensed games with [=LJN=], [but] ''they're'' just the publishers. The real criminals here are the beloved {{Rare}}. ''Videogame/ANightmareOnElmStreet'', ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'', ''Beetlejuice''... In fact, if you take out the [=LJN=] component, Rare has made a lot more garbage ''without'' them. So to all you Nintendo fanboys who cream themselves over ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'' and ''DonkeyKong64'', kiss my fat wide ass; Rare ruined my childhood."
** Some of LJN's games pre-Rare were developed in Japan by a then-mostly-unknown company known as... {{Atlus}}.
** The ''Videogame/FridayThe13th'' game was developed by Japanese VHS distributor Pack-In Video, which also made ''Die Hard'', ''Rambo'', and ''Predator'' games.
* A small case... the [[http://bawplz.deviantart.com baw plz]] account on DeviantART uses a scene of a character crying from a video game. Most people actually assume that it's [[KingdomHearts Sora]], but anyone who has played it and remembers that TearJerker scene can probably tell you it's actually ''not'' Sora, but someone named Yuri, from ''ShadowHearts''. Mild case, but some people ''have'' been looking for a scene in which Sora's face [[UncannyValley twists into a really REALLY odd facial expression]] as he cries, only to not find anything.
* Xbox Live's userbase has been misblamed for the creation of the "juvenile and unfriendly" gamer. Apparently people haven't heard of the theory of {{GIFT}}, which has been in existence long before the Xbox. Live just brought the issue to light if anything.
** And when it's not Xbox Live that gets all the criticism for this, it's always something like ''VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}}'' or ''{{Quake}}''.
** Not to mention within Xbox Live, games like Franchise/{{Halo}} and VideoGame/CallOfDuty get the distinction of the problem child to this. Remember folks, when it comes to this, Blame the Player...or more specifically the VocalMinority, not the Game.
** It hasn't helped that some gamers use a NoTrueScotsman type fallacy that their favorite service or game (that is not any of the above) is immune to this (Playstation Network or some very hardcore PC game are common examples). For example: Griefer on Xbox Live? That's clearly ''all'' of them. Griefer on PlayStation Network? They don't represent ''all'' gamers on PSN. Remember, {{GIFT}} can happen anywhere on the internet, so don't be surprised that in any game, a JerkAss {{Troll}} will try and ruin your fun. Your best thing to do is just ignore them, leave, or kick them out.
** Also related, anyone who thinks that the PvP in ''LeagueOfLegends'' having the screaming of XboxLive, ''VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}}'', or ''{{Quake}}'' type StopHavingFunGuys combined and cranked UpToEleven have never played the original ''[=DotA=]'', or have engaged in any competitive activity.
* Related to the above, whenever you mention Gold-selling in-game advertisements or gold farmers, most people often think it's exclusive to ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', or that it actually ''started'' that practice. No, the practice didn't ''start'' in that game, it's been around since ''UltimaOnline'', for that matter, gold farming and people buying gold was present in the original ''EverQuest'' and ''RagnarokOnline''. The only reason you hear about it in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' so much is because the game has ''millions of players''.
** In fact, if you check some of the larget gold-selling websites you can see that gold selling isn't ''just'' limited to ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', ''WarhammerOnline'' had Gold spammers since day one, as did ''AionOnline''. And on some servers of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'', you almost ''had'' to buy gold. And not even ''RuneScape'' was immune to it!
* Class nerfs are always a source of utmost ire in any MMO, but among the VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft fanbase, most nerfs are usually directly blamed towards Greg "Ghostcrawler" or a few other choice devs, when in fact the changes are discussed in advance by a group of all the devs well in advance.
** the CMs (community managers) also get a ton of hate for said nerfs, while ghostcrawler is at least a dev, most of the CMs are just forum moderators (trying) to keep the boards a place of intelligent discussion and not constant flaming and fighting.
* The start of ''Cataclysm'' was plagued by all sorts of bugs and glitches, among them a near ''ridiculous'' respawn rate where a mob you just killed would respawn while you were looting it or suddenly reappear attacking you while you were walking away. This was apparently Blizzard's intention; but in actuality it was a programming oversight made to avert one of the things that had happened around ''Burning Crusade'' where the mob respawn rates were actually ''too high'' and people would camp required mobs.
* Game Masters/Moderators in almost any online game tend to get blamed for every single occurrence that rubs any player the wrong way and are expected to fix every technical problem and rectify every balance issue on their own.
* The North American version of the ''DeathSmiles'' {{Xbox 360}} port got a lot of flak for [[DifficultyByRegion having less slowdown than the Japanese versions]], and some decided to point fingers at Aksys Games, who did the localization. In a [[http://www.aksysgames.com/forums/topic/732 forum post on the official Aksys website]], an Aksys employee clarified that all of the programming for the North American version--the reduced slowdown included--was {{Cave}}'s doing.
* TimSchafer is a Type 5 and Type 2 for BrutalLegend. Double Fine has recieved nearly all the blame for "falsely advertising" BrutalLegend and hiding the hybrid of Action and RealTimeStrategy. One angry player messaged TimSchafer directly on Twitter and called him a liar publicly. He told the complainer that was all he talked about for months. It was ElectronicArts advertising that mislead consumers (and reviewers) that it was single player focused, to the point that it drowned out the voice of Double Fine. To this day, TimSchafer says that the reviews remain high on Metacritic, and can be divided between those who ATTEMPTED multiplayer, and those who didn't even touch it.
* Richard Garriott gets MisBlamed for ''a lot'' of things surrounding [[TabulaRasa "Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa"]], despite his role merely being Executive Producer. It's often claimed that he arrogantly decided to plaster his name on the box, when it was more likely a marketing decision to hype up a game that wasn't very famous and had been sitting in [[{{Vaporware}} Development Hell]] for some years. He's often insulted and blamed for many of game's problems due to him going to space during the game's life. Not only did he pay for the flight with his own money, but his Executive Producer role was probably hardly missed during the trip, and the trip ended up being tied into a marketing campagin anyway, which arguably ''did'' help the game (though clearly not enough). Finally, Richard Garriott ended up suing the publisher, Creator/NCSoft themselves, after a letter of resignation came out that he claim he didn't write and was forged by them to pressure him into leaving without an investment he was due. He won the case.
* The much reviled redesign of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry''[==]'s Dante in the recently announced reboot has caused a lot fan outrage. Nearly all of it is directed at Ninja Theory (who Capcom handed the series for said reboot's production), but Ninja Theory is only partly responsible, as the redesign was done at Capcom's request and approval. Sadly, lead designer Tameem Antoniades' [[http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3181535 response]] [[http://bitmob.com/articles/should-developers-listen-to-their-fans to the fans]] has done little to diffuse this situation.
* Team Ninja is solely blamed for how Samus' personality is and how the game is totally different from the rest of the games in the Metroid games in ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM''. Team Ninja just did the programming and combat system design. It was the co-creator of Metroid, Yoshio Sakamoto, who wanted to apply all the changes and wrote personally the scenario.
** Similarly, critics have tended to attribute Samus' lack of emotion in her voice to Jessica Martin's poor acting skills, when it was actually Yoshio Sakamoto who specifically asked for Samus to sound robotic in order to reflect the effects her tragic past and occupation have had on her personality. Contrast the majority of the narration with the scenes where Samus gets emotional over [[spoiler:Ian's imminent death, Ridley's appearance, and Adam's sacrifice]], and you'll see that Jessica Martin's acting covers more than just DullSurprise.
*** On the other hand, Creator/AiKobayashi doesn't nearly receive such a huge InternetBackdraft in the Japanese version, which most fans consider to be an appropriate approach to the character.
*** Jessica has also been redeemed by the fanbase. Namely by actually participating in it. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Unfortunately, the bad stink left by the game made Nintendo lock down the actors from giving interviews about what happened.]]
*** Also, Team Ninja's director, despite getting alot of the blame, is in fact a Metroid fan (even contributing along side Jessica in celebrating the series' 25th Anniversary) and in an interview criticized Sakamoto, by pointing out that anyone who said something else would be more effective (most notably, they were against the controversial control scheme) were shot down instantly by him.
* Reggie, president of Nintendo of America, is a mix of type 2 and 5. Reggie is blamed for not improving the Wii's infrastructure, for withholding potentially good games for the Wii, and is also blamed for not releasing VideoGame/EarthBound on the virtual console. Reggie hardly has any influence over what he can do to Nintendo as a whole since the true big boss of Nintendo is the people over at Nintendo of Japan, where they can decide on what to do with the Wii and what games other regions can receive (while Reggie can have a say on whether or not consumers in his region can get a certain game, he does not have a say for every game). As for Earthbound's case, there's several works within the game that are borderline copyright infringement and is a big legal mess.
** Not to mention, a lot of people hate on Nintendo for ''Mother 3'' not having an international release. The results of the second game probably left a bad taste in peoples' mouths, as it was met with poor sales reception initially and didn't gain ImmunityToCriticism until about 5-6 years after its release. That wasn't going to help the case. On top of the other issues such as the AC-DC riffraffs and mentions of other shows creating a legal mess, there was also the issue that it was released in ''2006''. By that point in time, the DS had already been established on the market and stores were phasing out new GameBoyAdvance games to make more space for the DS's growing roster. (Which was also a rumour for the first game, which also would have been released for the NES at a time when the SNES was out and most people would have shelved it.) In all, it was SavedFromDevelopmentHell a tad too late.
*** It also did not help that the sales of Mother 3 in Japan wasn't as high as people thought it was, which probably convinced Nintendo that the series in general is just not popular enough to warrant a release overseas.
* The late Gunpei Yokoi, famous for creating the Nintendo Game and Watch, Famicom/NES, the Game Boy/Game Boy Pocket, and the Metroid series, was solely blamed for the failure of his last Nintendo creation, the Virtual Boy. Yokoi wanted to wait until technology improved before releasing the Virtual Boy, namely the addition of color screens, but Nintendo pulled the project out of his hands and rushed the product to store shelves before it was complete, to fill the gap between the end of the SNES, and the beginnings of the Nintendo 64. After its failure, Yokoi was blamed for the entire fiasco, which partially led to his forced resignation by Nintendo.
* The translators of ''{{Okami}}'' are often blamed for the bizarre dichotomy that the manual for the game treats Amaterasu as genderless, while the actual game makes her fairly clearly female. Apparently, this was also the case in the Japanese version.
* The 4Kids voice actors were mainly trashed for the crappy scripts, story-lines and general badness of the [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] games from 2005 to 2010. This, however, is an extremely unfair judgement seeing as how JasonGriffith and the other actors only provided the voices for these parts and never even involved in writing the stories or scripts. All they did was voice the lines they were given.
** A key example of this the the infamous line: "It looks like being a princess isn't that easy" from Sonic 2006. Jason was trashed like hell for this god awful line. While it's true that the line wasn't well delivered, the fact that people were actually blaming the line itself on him was taking things to far.
** Sega themselves even stated once that they blame previous voice actor of Sonic, Ryan Drummond, for the fact that fans were complaining...Seriously. That's like firing a clerk then blaming them when the replacement turns out to be crap.
** Another example: Now retired voice actor to Tails, Amy Palant, was reported to have been sent death threats after her performance in Sonic 06. She apparently stated that the threats were based around the poor story and how Tails plays a crap role to which she stated she had no part in. Seriously, if your gonna threaten someone then at least know who to threaten.
** A non-dialogue related example is the creation of "Mobius". Many blame Sega of America for making such a place instead of staying true to the Japanese continuation, but the Sonic games were written with the intent of having a loose storyline; so that different regions can make their own versions of the story.
* VideoGame/SuperSmashBros: No, [[{{Pokemon}} Lucario]] was ''NOT'' intended as a ReplacementScrappy for [[{{Pokemon}} Mewtwo]]. The two play ''nothing'' alike.
* Contrary to popular belief, ''LeagueOfLegends'' actually ''does'' have different people working on different aspects of the game -- most notably the champion designers, maintenance people, and the map designers. Whenever Riot announces a new champion, the cries are often "Why can't you fix the lag/servers?" or "Where's the Magma Chamber?".
* Ted Woolsey got a lot of crap for his ridiculous translations, but most people don't realize that he did the best he could with Nintendo's censorship policies, and he didn't have the horrible grammar problems that later translations did. Thankfully, he's starting to get some credit.
* In a spectacularly brutal inversion of this, Capcom's European branch [[http://www.themmnetwork.com/2011/07/20/capcom-europe-its-a-shame-the-fans-didnt-want-to-get-more-involved/ has blamed]] ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends 3'''s cancellation on the fans, for not giving enough support on the devroom. Despite the fact that Capcom didn't even release the prototype (which was ''supposed to get made for obtaining fan response'') in the first place. Needless to say, no one in the fanbase was fooled. Things only got worse, when they tried to [[DiggingYourselfDeeper clear confusion over the actual statement]]...
* ''HarvestMoon'' fans often blame Natsume, who are simply the localizers and translators in the Americans, for certain problems that were present in the Japanese versions. However Natsume has such a bad rep because they've caused so many glitches with the games, they change parts of the games, and their translations are often butchered.
* Many of the "new" script for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' actually is OlderThanTheyThink -- the game was released with 75% of the intended script cut. Subsequent remakes have decided to restore some of the cuts.
* VideoGame/TheSims fans generally try to avert this by refering to "EAxis", when it's not known if a problem is EA's fault or Maxis'.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' is sometimes blamed for changing a bizarre Tamriel into a MedievalEuropeanFantasy. Much of these complaints stem from the fact that the elven provinces, as well as Cyrodiil, had quite a few un-European traits that originated in older games like ''Redguard'' or ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]''. For example, Cyrodiil was a jungle, had large rice fields, had a vaguely Tenochtitlan like capital, and had a strong tattoo culture. While those complaints may be justified, some seem to think that all of Tamriel lacked traits from MedievalEuropeanFantasy.
** Bethesda took a bit of heat during the Nude Mod debacle... despite it being a fan-produced mod that manipulated textures rather than exploiting some hidden feature as some commentators claimed.
* ''Morrowind'' fans often call out ''Oblivion'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' for being "dumbed down for casual gamers" because they don't have as many features as ''Morrowind'' (never mind that those removed features tended to be {{Game Breaker}}s, awkward to use, or both)...when, in actuality, ''Morrowind'' was a vastly less complex game than ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]''. Chalk it up to NostalgiaFilter.
* ''CastleShikigami 2'' was released in the US with notoriously bad translation. Turns out that although the translation wasn't great, the original was incomprehensible as well.
* ''TombRaider'' fans often blame Creator/CoreDesign for the fact that the sixth installment (and the last installment of the [[ContinuityReboot original continuity]]), ''The Angel of Darkness'', was released in a clearly unfinished state. As it turned out, [[ExecutiveMeddling publisher Eidos]] [[http://kteb.net/wp/core-design/ pestered Core Design]] [[http://kteb.net/wp/core-design/behind-the-scenes/ to rush the game in spite of the fact that Core were unhappy with it]], and if they didn't get it out on time, they would be fired. They released the game, it failed, and Eidos fired Core anyway.
* While {{Konami}} has displayed their fair share of incompetence in handling {{Bemani}} games outside of East Asia, they also tend to get blamed for things that weren't actually their fault -- many of the screwups with ''DanceDanceRevolution'' series from ''DDR [=SuperNOVA=]'' onwards in the US are the fault of Betson, which Konami contracted to handle distribution of the series stateside. Others were because they were ScrewedByTheLawyers of the music industry. Then there was the disastrous attempt at a nationwide official DDR tournament in 2009, where they made the mistake of partnering with [=GameWorks=], which then proceeded to screw up the tournament in every way imaginable and then some.
* Jack Thompson attacked Take-Two on two occasions for content in games it published. Both times he insisted that Take-Two was the company to create the content, rather than the independent publishers.
** The first incident was the infamous "Hot Coffee" discovery in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas''. The game was developed by Rockstar Entertainment.
** The second incident was the less famous "Nude Mod" for ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion''. The game was developed by Bethesda Softworks and, as mentioned previously, it was the product of a fan, not the studio.
* {{SNK}} and other associated companies aren't exempt from this, either. As one of the chara designes for TheKingOfFighters, Nona often flak for the most recent entries in the series, due to their new art designs. While he ''was'' the art director for XII (and draws for the pre-fight exchanges in XIII), it's actually Ogura Eisuke, the artist for ''Neo Geo Battle Coliseum'', who handled the artwork. For some odd reason, Nona is also being blamed '''for the story developments''', an area that he has minimal influence in at best.
* Overkill Software is heavily blamed for removing some musical pieces in the game ''PAYDAYTheHeist'' and how they should have just paid the music composer of those tracks when it came to the release of the game's soundtrack. In actuality, the 2nd music composer in question is most likely already compensated for his work and the game's main music composer himself had to step in and say that in order for him to release the soundtrack, they had to have all the music be under his name in order to simplify the legal stuff surrounding the soundtrack release since the 2nd composer is not affiliated with Overkill anymore. People still demand for the old tracks to return.
** Playstation 3 players that own the game also blame Overkill Software for dragging their feet with updates and patches for the system. While Overkill had promised in the past to try and get the updates out, many players don't realize that Sony charges a ''lot'' of money to developers that wish to update their game on the Playstation 3 (Microsoft has a similar policy with the Xbox 360) and Overkill Software isn't a big budget developer like other game studios such as Valve. Since Overkill was also developing Payday 2 at the same time, it's easy to see where the resources went.
* ''FinalFantasyVII'' gets blamed a lot for making Cloud a whiny emo since it's all people remembered him for apparently. The Cloud character rarely broods over his past problems in the game and he gains a ton of confidence in himself by the end of the game and makes peace with Tifa and Aerith. It was ''FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'' that depicted Cloud as gloomy and depressed because Square-Enix believed that is what the fans remembered him as, despite the fact that it wasn't even part of Cloud's character in the original game! To give Cloud some slack, he was infected with a disease that affected his emotional state.
* During the 1980s and 1990s, Nintendo of America was heavily known for forcing censorship in many games published their name, which had dubbed Nintendo as a company that only makes "kiddy" games. One of the most common things that got censored was religion, but this was due to potential backlash from parents who would have thought that Nintendo was forcing religion down their kids' throats and religious groups that would have found the content in the games offensive. The religious concerns popped up in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' where the Fire Temple had Muslim chanting in the background music while the symbols around Gerudo Fortress and on Link's Mirror Shield were also related. People complained about it, which forced Nintendo to remove the chanting and replace the symbols in later versions of the game. The true blame behind some of Nintendo's censorship were the people outside of Nintendo.

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