History WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings / VideoGames

* In response to Nintendo's Community Tournament Guidelines in terms of prohibiting unauthroized third-party accessories (including controller converters) usage, Microsoft is disabling the option on the One and Series X/S consoles starting on November 12, 2023.

* After anonymous individuals operating through Website/FourChan made patches for both ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsIntoReverie Trails into Reverie]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesKuroNoKiseki Kuro no Kiseki]]'' that inserted the spreadsheet translations created by translation group [=ZeroField=] into the games themselves (rather than ZF's intended method of simply running scripts through an external overlay program) without their consent, [=ZeroField=] was forced by [[Creator/NipponIchi NIS America]] (the current license holders for the ''Trails'' series) to [[https://noisypixel.net/nis-america-kuro-no-kiseki-spreadsheet-creators-cease-work/ remove their spreadsheets for all of the games they translated]] from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure Trails from Zero]]'' all the way up to ''Kuro''.

* ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'''s reason why the game went online-only for most functionality (aside for Arcade Mode) in ''Sport'' and ''7'' as the game's save system tied to your PSN account (via the internet connection) is according to the series creator Kazunori Yamauchi, he was aware players hacking and cheating their saves cause unfair disadvantages to make their progress quicker via the unauthorized [=PS4=] Save Editor or the USB trick in the GT Simulation Mode, as well for the [=PS5=] version via PS Plus cloud saving method.

* ''VideoGame/FortniteBattleRoyale'' had a location during Chapter 1 called "The Block" where fan-created buildings would appear, which did not return for any future chapters. While an official reason was never given, most point to a controversy where one of the maps contained a [[DrivenToSuicide hangman noose next to a kicked-over chair]].

** For over a year on the ''Star Trek Online'' forums, there was a highly popular topic called "What's your beef with the Galaxy Cryptic?" in which players complained about the [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Galaxy-class]] series of ships for the Federation, a TierInducedScrappy due to a flawed CharacterClassSystem implementation. When Cryptic revealed a "reboot", fans were ecstatic over it... until they found out that they just modified the class to be able to perform a certain skill while moving and most of the modifications went into the Galaxy-X ship and even ''that'' wasn't much. Players were livid and the topic quickly turned sour, especially when Cryptic began performing moves that certain players absolutely hated. When threats against Cryptic, PWE and its workers were made, the topic was locked and deleted, but a new one was put up by mods and told the players under no uncertain terms that if they pulled that bullshit again, discussions like that might be banned along with them. [[WinBackTheCrowd The Tier 6 upgrade released in 2015 was much better-received.]]

** Creator/MikePollock, the current English voice actor of [[BigBad Dr. Eggman]], once used his Eggman voice in a fan interview to say [[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog "Snooping as usual, I see" and "I hate that hedgehog!"]] by request. Once he figured out the significance of the former, he declared that he wouldn't do vocal requests again.[[note]]In the ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'' episode "Boogey-Mania", Dr. Robotnik puts unusual emphasis on "Snoo''ping as'' usual, I see", causing it to sound like he's saying "Penis". This became very popular among the WebAnimation/YouTubePoop crowd.[[/note]] While Pollock would later ease up on this sentiment, he did add some rules for future vocal requests.[[note]]5 lines; 50 words; Eggman voice can't be used for fan projects; it costs a $5 Starbucks Gift Card.[[/note]] Pollock later [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqUEjGYD3DU voiced the line]] as Eggman in ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' in reference to the meme, but took care to not emphasize the memetic syllables.

* The constant harassment, demands and even ''death threats'' received by emulator developer Tahlreth led them to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZBZ0Sgr35I shutter any further development]] of [=AetherSX2=], which is a semi-proprietary fork of [=PCSX2=] for smart devices, much to the consternation and dismay of ''bona fide'' emulation enthusiasts who lament about the toxic attitudes exhibited by some gamers.

* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': Being one of, if not ''THE'' biggest gacha fandom, the Genshin community ''especially'' the English-speaking Genshin community from ''Twitter'' has a reputation of being rabid, fanatical and toxic. The amount of Eng VA's either leaving or making their Twitter account private is astronomical due to various factors, all of which in the end, is relatively out of their control. When even the VA for Diluc despise the Eng Twitter fanbase, you know things are getting hectic. It is to the point where other subsections of the fanbase, largely those from Reddit, actively view the Twitter fanbase with open disdain.

** Players can join a duty with several other players in a quest or raid through the use of the duty finder. Players can either start the duty from the beginning or join another group that's already making progress so that they can continue without dealing with the loss of another member that had previously left. When the party is completely formed, a window pops up to confirm if everyone is ready. However, due to how certain awards/loot/etc are distributed at the end of a quest, many people would fish for in progress duties and quickly withdrew from the duty if it wasn't an in progress one, which meant the rest of the party now had to sit through the queue again as the system looked for another player. For highly populated raids, it was very common to sit in the queue for 10 minutes or more with the system constantly spamming the "A player has withdrawn from the duty finder. Finding new member" message every single time people backed out. A patch tweaked the duty finder by giving a player a 30 minute lockout from the duty finder if they withdraw more than 3 times in a day and the penalty applies again if the player withdraws yet again. While it greatly deters people from trolling others in the duty finder, other players who withdraw for legitimate reasons also suffer if they withdraw too much.
** Because of the massively rampant RealMoneyTrade, many restrictions were put into place on trial accounts so that RMT bots can't harass other players, which include being unable to send private messages, unable to use the yell or shout channels, and other features. This also means legitimate players trying out the game will have a much harder time trying to communicate with other players.
** Thanks to many players in PVP that [[SeriousBusiness explode whenever their team doesn't do well enough]] or [[{{Troll}} verbally attack their own party for shits and giggles]], patch 3.5 disabled ''all'' forms of chat during the Feast PVP.
** The launch of the ''Stormblood'' expansion was met with a massive surge of DemandOverload to the point of queue times just to log in took several ''hours'' on the more congested servers. The developers put in an auto-kick feature that boots out anyone who is idle for 30 minutes. People got savvy about it and got around the system by idling in a menu, running in place, or crafting without actually progressing on the craft. This in turn made the queue problem worse since now people had to deal with even longer wait times. To counter the problem, the developers had every single server kick everyone out at a random time once a day with no one being allowed to log in for 10 minutes afterwards. Even servers that don't have the congested queue problem were forced to be rebooted with everyone else. In short, people not wanting to deal with long queues spoof their AFK status to stay logged in, which did nothing but contribute to the problem.
** Because MMORPG players tend to complain about being stuck playing a support, tank, or healer, ''FFXIV'' has no dedicated support role, and tanks and healers function essentially like damage-dealers aside from their secondary abilities--especially given that the healing requirements are considered shockingly low compared to many other [=MMOs=], and that [[RedMage some DDs can even heal.]] Unfortunately, because the game is also balanced to account for tank and healer [=DPS=], this has resulted in the same elitism and parse-obsession associated with [=DDs=] in other [=MMOs=] spreading to those roles--often to the detriment of the party as a whole. There are tanks who will flat-out refuse to use their [[ForceField cooldowns]] during tankbusters just to try to squeeze a couple more [=DPS=] out--and then blame the [[ButtMonkey healer]] for the resulting insta-kill! And if you think you can escape parser hell by playing a healer, think again--most of the time, healing simply isn't needed, so you'll be expected to nuke, because while healing requirements are low, ''damage'' requirements are rather steep. You'll ''have'' to parse to be sure you're dealing enough damage--it's the only metric that can tell you whether you're pulling your weight or not--but parsing is against the rules, so you'll be banned if you're found out.
** Every major patch has some sort of update to the battle jobs, whether it be tweaking potency numbers or changing effects of certain skills. Additionally, expansion releases also give jobs major overhauls as the battle system changes and evolves over the development cycle. The developers used to have pre-patch notes that were posted a few days before a patch went live and contained changes to the jobs made. Without fail, players complained whenever their favorite job either got nerfed or didn't get a buff they thought it needed. Eventually, the devs announced that they would no longer post information on job changes until a patch went live.
** In the ''A Realm Reborn'' story, there are two dungeons that show the climax of the story, and both dungeons require a party of eight players in order to run it. For years, players that were farming for either experience points or tomestones would skip cutscenes and rush ahead while newbies were either left behind or kicked from the party. The developers eventually made the cutscenes in those two dungeons unskippable, so anyone doing those dungeons are now forced to watch the rather lengthy cutscenes back to back.

* After the "Hot Coffee" scandal with ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'',[[note]]The game contained a sex scene that was disabled from accessing but not deleted; a {{Game Mod}}der then enabled it by just changing a single bit. Rockstar Games naturally MisBlamed the modder in question until said modder proved in a press conference that he didn't do anything but enable it, which caused a massive controversy that hurt Rockstar's reputation.[[/note]] the "Second Edition" re-release removed mod support entirely. Of course, gamers already found a way around version 2.0, so when that happened, Rockstar released version 3.0, making it even more harder to mod.

** Cliff Bleszinski of Creator/EpicGames announced that the sequels to the original ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' would not be released on PC, as the PC version of the first game had been so thoroughly pirated. He also hates the nickname [=CliffyB=] now since people used it so often as a form of insult.[[note]]Ironically, he was the one who first said "call me [=CliffyB=]."[[/note]]

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* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Being one of, if not ''THE'' biggest gacha fandom, the Genshin community ''especially'' the English-speaking Genshin community from ''Twitter'' has a reputation of being rabid, fanatical and toxic. The amount of Eng VA's either leaving or making their Twitter account private is astronomical due to various factors, all of which in the end, is relatively out of their control. When even the VA for Diluc despise the Eng Twitter fanbase, you know things are getting hectic. It is to the point where other subsections of the fanbase, largely those from Reddit, actively view the Twitter fanbase with open disdain.

* The [[ArtShiftedSequel art-style change]] in ''VideoGame/ReturnToMonkeyIsland'' sparked quite a few outcries of TheyChangedItNowItSucks with some parts of the ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' fanbase. Some of the louder detractors went as far as to go to series-creator Creator/RonGilbert's personal blog to attack him over the art style in the comments. After receiving tons of harassment and personal attacks, Gilbert closed down the comments on the blog and declared that he wouldn't share any more details about the game through it.