History WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings / VideoGames

* Creator/EricaLindbeck, who voiced characters like Futaba Sakura of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', deleted her Twitter and Instagram accounts after being harassed by people when she expressed displeasure at an ArtificialIntelligence cover of "[[Film/BoBurnhamInside Welcome to the Internet]]" that converted Creator/BoBurnham's voice to Futaba's and asked that it be taken down. This also led to Creator/CheramiLeigh (who voices Makoto Niijima in Persona 5) shutting down her Cameo account (which she set up during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic due to conventions being cancelled).

* Creator/EricaLindbeck, who voiced characters like Futaba Sakura of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', deleted her Twitter and Instagram accounts after being harassed by people when she expressed displeasure at an ArtificialIntelligence cover of "[[Film/BoBurnhamInside Welcome to the Internet]]" that converted Creator/BoBurnham's voice to Futaba's and asked that it be taken down. This also led to Creator/CheramiLeigh (who voices Makoto Niijima in Persona 5) shutting down her Cameo account (which she set up due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic due to conventions being cancelled).

* Creator/EricaLindbeck, who voiced characters like Futaba Sakura of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', deleted her Twitter and Instagram accounts after being harassed by people when she expressed displeasure at a video that used an AI to make her sing an inappropriate song while voicing the aforementioned character and asked that it be taken down.

* The indie dev title ''Bear Simulator'' had all of its work stopped and its creator calling it quits after a LetsPlay/PewDiePie video featuring it ends with [=PewDiePie=] trying to uninstall the game, getting a refund from Steam, then not-so-subtly ''giving him the middle finger''. To PDP's credit, he did realize he went way too far, took down the video, and apologized.

* Publishers for fighting games with cosmetics shop system are against [[GameMod user-created mod costumes]] such as ''VideoGame/StreetFighter6'' & ''VideoGame/Tekken8'' to prevent jeopardizing the cosmetic [[{{Microtransactions}} microtransaction costumes and Battle Passes]].

* A lot of developers have cited high piracy rates as a reason for including [[UsefulNotes/DigitalRightsManagement draconian DRM]], flat-out [[NoPortForYou not porting their games to PC at all]], or [[NoExportForYou refusing to export their games to other regions]]. For example:

** Late in 2012, it was rationalized that he would intentionally dodge some questions because he had inked a deal with Nintendo behind the scenes to create a sequel of ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' for the UsefulNotes/WiiU and didn't want many details leaking out. However, fan rage over the game being released for the Wii U angered Kamiya.

* For [[Creator/HumbleBundle Humble Indie Bundles]], UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} keys were originally given for any amount donated. However, one bundle was running concurrent to a Steam promotion. Some people abused the system and bought many bundles for a penny each, and used the keys to legitimize accounts to gain an unfair advantage in the promotion. [[http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/14549340777/1-min-price-for-getting-steam-keys As a result]], every bundle onward would require a donation of at least one dollar to get the Steam keys.

* After one idiot groped and stripped his drunk wife on camera while playing ''The Playroom'' for the [=PS4=], Sony has blocked total support for the game when it comes to streaming with the built-in Twitch function of the console. And if you try to broadcast via the capture card, the broadcast will be taken down and the video will be removed, resulting in the player being banned on UsefulNotes/PlaystationNetwork.

* People who stream their multiplayer games live have been known to stop doing so because someone they were playing against was using their stream to spy on them. This is ''especially'' prevalent in games like ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'', and ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''. Similarly, people who do a LetsPlay of a game or stream games live can get harassed by trolls and certain fans alike until they disable comments entirely or refuse to finish their LetsPlay. This can get upsetting for the rest of the fan base who legitimately like the content.

* The ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' developers were known to take sabbaticals from the forums due to particularly intense fans. In fact, this got so bad that the original powers designer was permanently driven from the forums due to extremely rabid fans.

** Moderator burnout is apparently a very real problem due to the game's vast vitriolic fanbase. Many serious players refuse to read the official forums entirely, preferring to read the official Blizzard posts through third-party websites. [[http://www.wowpedia.org/Tseric Case in point]], [[http://www.wowpedia.org/Jar_of_ashes with a jar of ashes.]]

** 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.

* After one idiot groped and stripped his drunk wife on camera while playing ''The Playroom'' for the [=PS4=], Sony has blocked total support for the game when it comes to streaming with the built-in Twitch function of the console. Worse, if you try to broadcast via the capture card, the broadcast will be taken down and the video will be removed, resulting in the player being banned on UsefulNotes/PlaystationNetwork.

* This is a common issue in the ''VideoGame/TalesSeries''. The American fanbase had a bad issue of NoExportForYou for a while, and a lot of fans complained about it. When the games did come out, some fans complained that the localization was "[[TheyChangedItNowItSucks not like the Japanese one]]". This caused sales to decrease and fewer ''Tales'' games to be localized. From Namco's perspective, it's a case of "if people are going to complain no matter what we do, why bother?"

** The official forums worked like any other forum, and Square Enix needed people to test it in its beta stages. Naturally, people started to clog the forums with spam, flame wars, and other annoying things, prompting Square Enix to slap down a heavy posting restriction where every user has a limited amount of posts they can make in a day based on their character's level and a 1000-character limit was also thrown in to prevent people from filling posts with text walls (whuch was eventually increased to 3000 characters). Then again, Square Enix wanted to test how the forums would work, and it could be argued that [[GoneHorriblyRight they got exactly what they wanted]].

** The final two ''A Realm Reborn'' dungeons, Castrum Meridianum and The Praetorium, are the only two dungeons which feature mid-dungeon cutscenes. Veteran players grinding for tomestones or experience points would rush from boss to boss, skipping every cutscene as they did. This left newbies with a MortonsFork choice: watch the cutscenes and potentially get kicked for slowing everyone down, or skip the cutscenes and rob themselves of the emotional climax of ''ARR''. Either way, they'd be missing out on something. It wasn't until patch 4.2 where the cutscenes in these two dungeons were made unskippable for every player, regardless of if they had run the dungeon or not. As compensation, the rewards for the two dungeons were also increased since they now had a much longer time investment, and they were given their own "Main Scenario" rotation in case veterans didn't want to get hit with an unexpected time sink. While there was some grumbling about this among the playerbase, it was generally accepted as the only plausible solution to the problem. Patch 6.1 further smoothed out the Main Scenario roulette by reworking the two dungeons in several ways -- several areas which were essentially {{padding}} for the runtime were removed, the fight against the Ultima Weapon was made as a separate trial in two parts, the fight against Lahabrea was made into a solo duty after fighting the Ultima Weapon, and the content was reduced from 8-man to 4-man in both dungeons so that there wasn't as many human players to worry about.

** Ultimate trials are meant to be [[HarderThanHard ''the'' most difficult content]] at the time they are launched. Some player teams were caught cheating, which had Yoshida basically telling everyone to not cheat. When the trial for Omega Ultimate was released, the team that gotten world first clear were discovered to have been cheating by using a camera hack that let them zoom out way farther than it was possible to do normally. Not only did Yoshida declare he would not acknowledge the team being the world first, he expressed [[DisappointedInYou how disappointed he was]] to see people resort to cheating in something that was meant to be hard and stated that if people were going to cheat, then he might reconsider making future ultimate trials.

** The ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps Black Ops]]'' series allows players to create custom decals attached to their player card and emblazoned on their weapons in-game. So, again naturally, everybody used it to make [[http://kotaku.com/5972276/call-of-dutys-biggest-problem-penis-swastikas?popular=true swastikas made out of penises]].

* ''VideoGame/Tekken7'': Katsuhiro Harada [[TrollingCreator trolled American fans]] after their negative reaction to Lucky Chloe by claiming he would replace her with a generic, bald, muscleman with a very limited moveset for the U.S. release. This, of course, never happened.

* Due to streamers complaining about not being able to monetize their content, the developer of the Industrial Revolution mod for ''VideoGame/{{Factorio}}'' [[https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=83197 announced that he was stopping work on the mod]], then attempted to ''delete the mod entirely''. On December 2020, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/kixxyx/industrial_revolution_2_is_out/ the creator eventually relented]] but can't be directly contacted. Also, rules about financial gains are still enforceable.

* In late 2012, the fan-made game ''VideoGame/MyLittlePonyFightingIsMagic'' underwent a closed beta, with the developers having their testers sign Non-Disclosure Agreements. One of the testers leaked the build onto the internet anyway, causing developers [=Mane6=] to discontinue betas entirely and to start completely reworking the game, delaying the game's intended release. In early 2013, the charity auction for EVO 2013 opened up, with users donating money to see a fighting game they wanted as a sort of side game. ''Fighting Is Magic'''s leaked build was nominated as an option, but the game did not receive a significant number of donations (it was always a contest between ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' and eventual winner ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee''). Despite the developers begging their fans to stop donating to the game, fans did so anyway. The influx of donations meant that Hasbro's legal department was no longer able to "ignore" the project, so they had to step in and issue a Cease and Desist letter. [=Mane6=] would eventually recover and go on to release ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'', heavily based on the work they did for ''Fighting is Magic'', seven years later.

** The comment sections under games and catalog items were removed in 2016 because of the massive amount of spam comments that were advertising "Free Robux" scam sites, which go against Roblox's terms of service (along with almost all of those sites being nothing but Phishing sites).[[note]]Comments ''are'' still allowed in a few places on Roblox, such as contents in the Library (etc. models and decals and audio) and Group Walls, so it's not as bad as it could have been.[[/note]]
** Another thing removed in 2016 was the non-premium tickets currency, better known as "Tix". While no official reason was given as to why they were removed, one of the most common theories was that, due to being a non-premium currency, tickets were incredibly easy for players to exploit/gain (for example, a person could make another account and repeatedly join their own game, which would essentially give them unlimited tickets since each join gives a ticket).

* 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 [[GarbagePostKid toxic attitudes]] exhibited by some gamers.

** To try and curb some of the vitriol on the official forums, Blizzard proposed a "Real ID" system where people would have to post with their real legal name instead of a user name. This idea was met with instant backlash, as people argued that this could be used to stalk people. As if to prove their own point, when one developer posted with his own real name in an attempt to cool the flames, he was doxxed with all of his personal information being revealed less than fifteen minutes after the poast was made. Blizzard abandoned the idea just three days after the announcement, partly because the fandom went on an InternetCounterattack to prove why it was such a bad call.

** 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 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.

* Creator/CristinaValenzuela, who has voiced characters in ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'', deleted her Twitter account after one user compiled a list of voice actors for the game who supposedly supported Israel in the 2023-24 Israeli/Hamas War, which included Valenzuela's name. This list ended up prompting harassment and death threats from others towards Valenzuela, despite the fact that Valenzuela had made no statements whatsoever about the war, one way or the other. In turn, the user who posted the list in the first place was driven off the site after they admitted that they screwed up , but this ''mea culpa'' was rejected by Valenzuela's fan base.

* Creator/CristinaValenzuela, who has voiced characters in ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'', deleted her Twitter account after one user compiled a list of voice actors for the game who supposedly supported Israel in the 2023-24 Israeli/Hamas War and her name was listed, prompting harassment and death threats from others. In turn, the user was driven off after their ''mea culpa'' was rejected by her fan base after it was pointed out she had done no such thing.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 7'': Katsuhiro Harada [[TrollingCreator trolled American fans]] after their negative reaction to Lucky Chloe by claiming he would replace her with a generic, bald, muscleman with a very limited moveset for the U.S. release. This, of course, never happened.

* This heavily damaged the ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater'' fandom. Back in the days of ''Tony Hawk's Underground 2'', a bug was found where, by connecting a USB keyboard into the [=PS2=], a player could exceed the online chat's mail restrictions on symbols. Said bug, when the player received an email filled with the symbol, would ''[[GameBreakingBug instantly freeze the console]]'' when the email was merely received. After trolls logged onto lobbies, quit then mass-PM'ed the people they were just online with, [=GameSpy=] responded by shutting down the online servers for the games and disabling the online game feature.

* When ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' was still in its Kickstarter phase of development, one donor had given enough money to put a character of his into the game as an EasterEgg. The donor in question decided to use his [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom fursona]] as the character, heavily toning his features down and renaming him to make him more suitable for the game. When people found out about the character, he generated a massive backlash for several reasons[[note]]namely the high amount of money the donor paid, the fact that [[BleachedUnderpants the character was used in fetish art outside the game]], and a perception of the character's inclusion as a self-promotion attempt[[/note]], which only got worse when anti-furry trolls jumped on the bandwagon. The overwhelmingly negative reception led to harassment directed at the donor; Creator/TobyFox himself made a (now-deleted) tweet asking them to stop, but the donor nevertheless stepped away from both the furry and online art communities in the end.

* The [[UsefulNotes/DigitalRightsManagement always-online [=DRM=]]] also occured in ''[[VideoGame/{{Forza}} Forza Motorsport (2023)]]'' which standardized [[FollowTheLeader racing game server-based progression system]], in addition for saving the Free Play settings to the cloud.

** The [[UsefulNotes/DigitalRightsManagement always-online [=DRM=]]] also occured in ''[[VideoGame/{{Forza}} Forza Motorsport (2023)]]'' which standardized [[FollowTheLeader racing game server-based progression system]], in addition for saving the Free Play settings to the cloud.

* The [[UsefulNotes/DigitalRightsManagement always-online [=DRM=]]] occurred in ''[[VideoGame/{{Forza}} Forza Motorsport (2023)]]'' standardized [[FollowTheLeader racing game server-based progression system]], in addition for saving the Free Play settings to the cloud.

** ''Sport'' averts this as [[https://icon-era.com/threads/gran-turismo-sport-receives-a-final-patch-to-allow-single-player-modes-to-be-still-playable-offline.9235/ the online requirement is removed in the final update after servers shut down on January 31, 2024.]]

** The [[UsefulNotes/DigitalRightsManagement always-online [=DRM=]]] also occured in ''[[VideoGame/{{Forza}} Forza Motorsport (2023)]]'' which standardized [[FollowTheLeader racing game server-based progression system]], in addition for saving the Free Play settings to the cloud.

* A number of voice actors have understandably gotten sick and tired of being pestered by fans into divulging info about the next ''Grand Theft Auto'', to the point that actor Ned Luke [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-CJ3vO18vA roasted]] [=YouTuber=] [=MrBossFTW=] for his clickbait videos about the series. While Young Maylay did run amok and went on a very foulmouthed-laced tirade at the {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s running the industry as a result of being coaxed about ''GTA 6'', Maylay's cousin, Shawn Fonteno, explained his side and clarified his cousin's sentiments over the issue.

** Creator/{{Capcom}} updated their [=PC=] games to include Enigma Protector [=DRM=] to prevent modding and Cheat Engine usage, after all of the mods cause cheating for giving bad publicity such as nude mod incident by the streamer's [=PC=] tournament of ''VideoGame/StreetFighter6'', [=PR=] headaches which increases the cost to develop the patch such as Netcode Mod having issues against vanilla players in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' and modded quests cause corrupted vanilla saves in ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld'', [[ScrewedByTheLawyers/VideoGames as well for taken down mods with [=DMCA=] weeks ago]].

** Creator/{{Capcom}} updated their [=PC=] games to include Engima Protector [=DRM=] to prevent modding and Cheat Engine usage, after all of the mods cause cheating for giving bad publicity such as nude mod incident by the streamer's [=PC=] tournament of ''VideoGame/StreetFighter6'' and [=PR=] headaches which increases the cost to develop the patch such as Netcode Mod having issues against vanilla players in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'', modded quests cause corrupted vanilla saves in ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld''.

** The ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps Black Ops'' series allows players to create custom decals attached to their player card and emblazoned on their weapons in-game. So, again naturally, everybody used it to make [[http://kotaku.com/5972276/call-of-dutys-biggest-problem-penis-swastikas?popular=true swastikas made out of penises]].

* A lot of developers have cited high piracy rates as a reason for including draconian DRM, flat-out [[NoPortForYou not porting their games to PC at all]], or [[NoExportForYou refusing to export their games to other regions]]. For example:

* The exploitation of a {{Good Bad Bug|s}} in a multiplayer game can be considered this when people start to report it, which causes it to get fixed in an ObviousRulePatch the following weeks, days, or even ''hours''. However, for every person who stormed on the boards complaining about an exploit being fixed, there were about one or two others thanking people for fixing it.
* People who stream their multiplayer games live have been known to stop doing so because someone they were playing against was using their stream to spy on them. This is ''especially'' prevalent in games like ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'', and ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''. Similarly, people who do a LetsPlay of a game or stream games live can get harassed by trolls and certain fans alike until they disable comments entirely or refuse to finish their LetsPlay. This can get upsetting for the rest of the fan base who legitimately like the content.

* Video game magazines who release trial [=CDs=] of games or special promotional codes often have to either give people codes or release it in a plastic bag. This is because some people would go into stores and take the [=CDs=] or codes out of the magazines without buying them. Thus, the codes and bags were created to make people buy the magazine first.
* The ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'' series allows players to create custom decals attached to their player card and emblazoned on their weapons in-game. So, again naturally, everybody used it to make [[http://kotaku.com/5972276/call-of-dutys-biggest-problem-penis-swastikas?popular=true swastikas made out of penises]].

* One reason for why pre-release video game demos have become rarer is that, if a demo includes DummiedOut data from the final game, data miners can uncover spoilers for the final game and release them in the Internet. While removing said data is an option, it can greatly increase the work needed to create a demo since it requires the demo to go through additional testing to ensure the removal of supposedly non-required assets doesn't have unintended consequences.

* Nemlei, the creator of ''VideoGame/TheCoffinOfAndyAndLeyley'', completely erased their online presence due to being harassed and doxed over the game's overt allusions to unhealthy-in-story BrotherSisterIncest. While they are still working on the game's art and story offline, development and community management has been given to a different studio, and the visual novels they made in the past are now a case of KeepCirculatingTheTapes.