It's Popular, Now It Sucks: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Glee]]'' times a million. To be fair, the back nine episodes are quite uneven, but plenty of people were hating on it before the season even officially started because the pilot was shown at the beginning of the summer of 2009, kicking off an extremely aggressive and relentless ad campaign by Fox (the most amusing facet of which was when they came up with the term "Gleeks" and them tried to pretend that hardcore fans had christened themselves that).

** This can also cross over with music elitism, too, since there are many people who despise [[Glee]] for the simple fact that it causes a [[Newbie Boom|surge in popularity]] for whatever classic rock songs are features in a given episode.

* Kids TV shows tend to get this the most. Most likely a major cause of [[Hatedom]] and [[Periphery Hatedom]] towards shows such as ''[[Barney and Friends]]'' and ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]''.

* This seems to be happening to ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]''. Many original fans have complained the latest series is too mainstream and lacking in invention. Whether there's been an actual drop in quality is debatable.

* The ''[[Resident Evil]]'' series after the release of [[Resident Evil 4|Part 4]]. The style change, while making the series more popular, has caused many fans of the series's original style to feel betrayed, cheated, and forgotten. The same fans that until ''Resident Evil 4'' was released were complaining that [[It's the Same, Now It Sucks|the series had grown repetitive and stagnant]].

* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' Would you believe that this series is starting to show signs of this? ''[[Persona 3]]'' was well-received, bringing in newcomers to the series and thus making the entire ''[[Persona (video game)|Persona]]'' franchise eclipse the popularity of the main series. Which of course leads to people complaining that [[Atlus]] has "sold out", leaning more towards making their games tailored to the mainstream. Of course, complaints like this are tinged with a hint of irony, as the whole reason the ''Persona'' spinoff series was created in the first place was to make a ''[[Shin Megami Tensei|MegaTen]]'' game that was tailored to the mainstream. These complaints are intensifying with the popularity of ''[[Persona 4]]'' and the upcoming PSP remake is similarly getting trashed for proof that Atlus is "selling out".

* ''[[Space Channel 5]]'' has been getting this treatment ever since the announcement of the HD port of Part 2. Most of the internet has cried about Part 1 not coming out, even though [[Fan Dumb|Part 1 couldn't be released due to pre-rendered backgrounds and STILL look nice.]]

* The ''[[System Shock]]'' series was beloved but never commercially successful. In 2007, ''[[Bioshock]]'', a [[Spiritual Successor]], was released, and actually managed to become successful, becoming a commercial success even while competing with giants like [[Halo 3]]. ''[[Bioshock]]'' was very much like ''[[System Shock]] 2'' , unfortunately, a very similar plot <ref>although with the differences that [[SS 2]] is about the horror of being alone, while ''BioShock'' is about the horror of having zombies climbing all over the place. There are also some good points about Objectivism being made, but these tend to be glossed over.</ref> and a relatively clunky interface for the PC version as well (as well as the [[Copy Protection|DRM and technical issues]]) as well as a respawn mechanic that, unlike System Shocks, had no cost for use, removing any sense of difficulty. Guess what the ''[[System Shock]]'' 2 fans focused on.

* Among the many haters of ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' are people who say that say because it is so popular, that it sucks. (That is, the people who [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|have actually seen more than the box art.]]) Another large group of haters are people who complain that Blizzard has ruined the game by catering to the casual players, and believe the game was better back when raiding was still "hardcore". This is where it overcrosses with the [[Nostalgia Filter]]; since some of these same people were complaining about spending months getting their characters attuned. Typically, it's a ''very'' bad financial decision to have a game that locks out a good 75+% of its gamers from content and ''only'' cater to that ≤25% of the playerbase, since players typically ''quit'' when there's nothing for them. (Of course, if you're one of the [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|elitists]], then that's what you want.) A large proportion of the time some people spend on message boards is taken up by claiming Blizzard's subscription figures are bogus and thus the game is not as popular as it is claimed to be, because xyzabcblahblahblah (insert personal bugbear or whatever here). Well-reasoned ''legal'' arguments with copious citations have not stopped this train of thought.

* This is starting to happen to ''[[Dragon Quest]]''. There are people who scoff at you if you played ''[[Dragon Quest V]]'' and ''[[Dragon Quest VI]]'' via the DS versions, or heard of the series through ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'' or more recently, ''[[Dragon Quest IX]]'' after the ''massive'' marketing campaign. However, it can be hard to tell how much of this overlaps with the typical [[Square Enix]] [[Hate Dumb]] given how many people hate ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' because it's got the Square-Enix logo and not much reason why.

* ''[[Angry Birds]]''. Mention it in a crowd of hardcore gamers, or mention that it's one of the best-selling games of all time and they'll go on some kind of rant about how it's a sign the gaming industry is in trouble, mentioning "Casual" games.

* ''[[Diablo]]''. So much that its [[Spiritual Successor]] ''[[Torchlight]]'', which isn't as popular, bears [[Immunity to Criticism]]...just because ''it's not Diablo''.