And how is it racism by diagnosing a fanboy as one whom is obsessed by a lump of plastic?

Keep up the good work. Seems pretty accurate to me.
Thanks.

Fanboys are not confined to a certain age group. Some are in their late 40′s. They are not overburdened by logic, correct reasoning and common sense and will use colorful words about homosexuality, sexual/anal intercourse and oral sex to aptly describe anyone who slightly disagrees with them.

And what is a fanboy’s favorite tagline? ” I am NOT a ( insert console name here ) fanboy but I think……”.

Lastly, only a fanboy will be offended by this site. Obviously, Jeff is one of them.

You play too much WoW.

To begin, i own a PC and several consoles, and have played PC online MMO’s for aprox 8 years now, and have read more forums than i care to recall. i’ve seen many fanboys and trolls post across a range of forums, seen how games can (and do) become esqued by ranting and shouting matched between fanboys and trolls. even between people who play the same game on the same format. ( class’ist arguements and balancing issues tend to bring both out in droves)…

…something i refer to as the ” cry NERF and unleash the trolls of war ” effect

in effect, one class in a game believes it’s underpowered compared to another, …usually to the forum cry of ” so and so a class is OVERPOWERED / imbalanced / better than my class…NERF IT!!!!!”

NERF = to fix/reduce the overall effectiveness of a class so as to bring it in line ( in the eyes of the other player) so as to be of a level playing field.

little or no consideration is given by the offending party to such aspects of gaming or possibilitys such as …the other person may have a better specification of machine, or be better at playing his/her class than the offended person is at playing theirs.

this leaves the game provider with a difficult position
( highly simplified here, by myself)

do they …
A) leave things as they are , and risk alienating a percentage of the paying fanbase

B) “fix /nerf” the mentioned class by lowering it’s stats and risk alienating a (different class)percentage of the paying fanbase

c) lock down any offending part of the game forum and hope the issue goes away….

these being the 3 most common answers.. ( and also ” to my mind” kneejerk reactions)

when what they should be doing is

1) investigating the class in question and seeing if it is
” comparible” with the abilities of the other class’s
2) taking the findings of point 1 , and seeing how this reflects vis-a-vis on the other class’s , AND ALSO the overall balance of the game
and 3) balancing the other class’s up , if need be , to the level of the aformentioned class. (and maybe even the PvE world /npc mobs as well)

comparing B) to 3)

B) if you nerf the class , some will be happy , but the whole of the class that is nerf’d gets up in arms and itself cry’s nerf …most aimed at the class that cried nerf on it , but some will also cry nerf on the other class’s as well.

this rapidly becomes a viscious cycle with class after class hit by the “nerfbat” until the whole game becomes a pile of bovine excrement.
(i wont mention the name of any online game so as not to offend anyone , and more precisely so that i dont get sued for liable)
suffice to say that most of you will probably be able to name 2-3 in the privacy of your own minds.

whereas
3) the game dev’s balance the other class’s in the game UPWARDS. this tends to have the following
(again i’ve simplified) effect.
all the other class’s get to “feel the love” as it were, and the (players of the) class that got the cry of nerf called against it tend to (generally)think…
” they all got the love…we didn’t , but at least we wern’t nerf’d… maybe we were a little overpowered afterall”….

they ( the entire gamer/fan/paying customer base) are then either happy to be stronger in their class , or content that their class wasn’t nerf’d.

and generally the entire community is happier for the balance that has been made.
( or at least until the next patch or X-pac )

so whats this got to do with fanboys ?
or trolls for that matter?
well… it’s the fanboy nature to call nerf on anything they percieve to be better than themselves for SELFISH reasons,
and the nature of trolls to stir things up to cause the most chaos they can for their own SELFISH ammusement.

between them, and with the (unwitting) help of any games company willing to give an expedient , rather than a considered responce,
they break games, gaming communities, and end up driving the very game they enjoy, into the ground…and destroying it forever.

this is just one way an established and well loved game can fail, there are many other ways it can fail too. most can be considered in part or in total to be in responce to the game company not getting a handle on the wants/needs and preferences of it’s paying customers, and/or a failure to upkeep and provide the gaming experience this customer base desires.

one possible example of this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Galaxies.

so, whats the definition of a fanboy?
well, to be honest , i’m not going to point the finger here.
reason? well , i’m hardly whiter than white or holier than thou. i’ve had my share of /rants on forums and can hardly go pointing the finger without feeling some sence of hypocracy.

suffice to say, fanboys can be likened to religious fundamentalists. if you dont share their point of view, or make comment that they take offence to , then you are , or become, THE ENEMY.
it’s another form of mental extremism, and in time , i’m sure , some psyciatrist will label it as some form of obsessive/compulsive behaviour.

me ? well, i had a boyhood dream, it was long, long ago, and in a galaxy far away. someone broke that dream, and i have NEVER forgiven them, and i’m ashamed to say , that i think i never will.

suffice to say, i have not brought any form of sony product in the last 6 years, and i doubt i ever will.

Yes they can be annoying but this is pretty much as low as they are. It’s pretty much a gigantic waste of time.

as for your facts…
“So games developed for both systems tend to look better on the 360.
Now those are the facts.”

i think you will find, although you are correct about the 360 being easier to code for, the PS3 still has the SLIGHT graphical advantage and if anything, the ps3 looks a little better. Take mercenaries 2 for example, theres about a billion fanboy and comparison videos, although as i said the improvements only slight if at all so really its just another line for fanboys to spout.

in truth i think you need to just enjoy whichever console brings out whichever games you like, and stop blogging about fanboys.

1. Fanboys are actually harmful to the industry, as their lack of objectivity is the equivalent to a mass consumer “yes-man”. If only fanboys purchased games there would be no need for improvement.
2. Fanboyism, sadly, does not disappear with age, marital status or sexual activity. Getting laid won’t stop a PSP fanboy from accusing all DS owners of being “kids” or being “too poor to afford a PSP”. It takes a conscious effort to accept that what one likes isn’t always “best” and does not have to be and that video game criticism isn’t directed at oneself.

Jeff wrote –
“I could care less what the dudes opinions are. He looks to be about 90 and obviously has no idea what to think when he sees a person who dedicates time and money to a HOBBY. I could care less that he tries to make another group of people feel insignificant to heighten his own self esteem- I am just pointing out that he is no better than a racist, summarizing an entire group of people into one mass and pinning his little cartoon on them.”

1. No one believes you don’t care. If you did you wouldn’t have posted, TWICE.
2. Attacking his age/appearance? Good job.
Apparently desperate ad homonym insults > generalizations.

Again, you have no idea what you are talking about. You want to be the self righteous hero even when you don’t understand who you are defending.

If you like a game lot and devote a ton of time to it? Guess what? That doesn’t make you a fanboy.

Fanboys spend all their time online invading forums, chatrooms and blogs preaching about whatever currently is believed to be the “best”.
Any criticism toward that affection, no matter how constructive, is viewed as a personal slight and met with insults and ad homonym attacks (kinda like your own posts!)
Fanboys devote themselves to corporations that don’t care about them. They only care about forcing their own skewed, biased and unyielding opinions on others as fact and bully people into either agreeing or leaving.

Fanboys often refuse to admit ANY flaws inherent in their obsession. They use circular logic, hyperbole and hypocrisy to win arguments in their own minds.

Fanboys make big money purchases based entirely on empty loyalty and berate anyone who thinks objectively.

Fanboys would rather fight.

Example:
Sony fanboys last generation claimed that power wasn’t everything. (Which is true) XBox had a more powerful system but less games. Power made XBox better claimed the MS fanboys.
Now that things are reversed, fanboys on both ends have literally taken up the others’ previous stance.
PS3 is technically more powerful but 360 has more games.
That is “fanboy mentality” (or, I’m always better than you no matter what.)

The thing is, the only people offended by this are people who it applies to. Most of the members of GameFAQS or Gamespot for example.

Go visit Gamespot’s ‘Console Wars’ section to understand fanboys.