They Just Didn't Care: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''Tristan:''' "Don't be hating on my blackface, playa!"}}

* When ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' was released on VHS in the UK, volumes 1-5 contained the first 15 episodes of the original series, but volume 6 skipped straight to ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]''.

 

== Comic Books ==

** Of course, ''RPM'' is a positive case of They Just Didn't Care. Disney point-blank told the producer, "The show is ending, do what you want," which led to the creators to just swing for the fences. It didn't work to save the show (at least in Disney's eyes), but it did become one of the best ''Rangers'' seasons so far.

* [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s short-lived game show ''[[Set for Life]]'' omitted the ''qualifying rounds'' that determined how much each contestant would be playing for in the rest of the game — resulting in a lame ''[[Deal or No Deal]]'' knockoff with arbitrary cash values.

* The writers of ''[[24]]'' notoriously admitted that they started each season with no idea where that season's complicated conspiracy plot would end up. This led to characters who would end up being in on the villains' plot being performed and written as though they were good guys, because it hadn't actually been decided that they were bad guys yet. Which, of course, led to them doing things that made absolutely no sense when you knew where their loyalties truly lied. Hey, why would you expect a series whose episodes are supposed to be taking place over the course of a single day to have tighter continuity?

 

 

== Professional Wrestling ==

* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|At Wrestlemania XX]], a truly Godawful match between Bill [[Goldberg]] and [[Brock Lesnar]] occurred. Goldberg and Lesnar were, at the time, two of the biggest names in the WWE. However, both were also leaving the company, and thought they could phone in their last match, so instead of a great battle, the fans got a slow-paced, boring match.

** There's been a lot of discussion on why that match was so bad. The fans had started booing both men vociferously before the match even started, so neither likely felt inspired to perform. It's also been claimed that the WWE match planners deliberately designed the match to be as boring and shitty as possible in an attempt to sabotage their careers. Also, [[Stone Cold Steve Austin|Steve Austin]], who was more popular than either of them, was involved in the match as a referee because he wasn't in physical condition to work a match, but this irritated Austin fans who wanted to see him do stuff.

* Interplay tried to cash in on its ''[[Fallout]]'' franchise by creating ''[[Fallout Brotherhood of Steel]]'', a knock-off of its successful ''[[Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance]]'' series. The gameplay bore no resemblance to the original ''Fallout'' roleplaying games and made only passing references to the ''Fallout'' world. At the same time, Interplay canceled the highly anticipated ''[[Fallout: Van Buren|Fallout 3]]'' game and jettisoned its entire Black Isle Studios division, which had masterminded the real ''Fallout'' series. Fans reacted in outrage before the game even released, prompting the developers to insert a snarky [[Take That]] into the credits. The fans had the last laugh, however, when the game performed poorly and the company folded soon afterward. Interplay did recover from that... by selling the ''Fallout'' franchise to [[Elder Scrolls]] developer [[Bethesda Softworks]], who went on to release an actual ''[[Fallout 3]]'' game to enormous critical and commercial acclaim.

** The amount of negativity from the fans reached such heights that Interplay ''locked their own discussion board for the game'', possibly the only time ever that has happened with any game and developer.

** That error is prevalent in a lot of sports games - backup goaltenders in hockey games and bench players in basketball and football don't play nearly as much in simmed games as in real life, because there's no such thing as a "day off" in the simmed version.

** The ''Madden'' games include injured reserve, a real NFL device which allows teams to open a roster spot by disqualifying an injured player for the rest of the season. In the game, unfortunately, placing a player on IR does not open a roster spot. It still prevents the player from seeing the field the rest of the year, making IR a worse-than-worthless feature. This has been pointed out to EA countless times and would seem a remarkably easy fix. The bug continues, however, and the only possible explanation is laziness.

** ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'''s gib textures, Ubercharge effects, and HUD icons for the classes and weapons use beta textures as well. The worst part about this is that the beta Ubercharge textures are misaligned on the final models.

** In the ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' games, the pair of legs left behind from a blown-up male Boomer have the wrong pants and sock colors. Female Boomers use male Boomer arms when you control them in VS mode (Male Boomers have boils on their bodies while females don't). Females Boomers also use a voice clip from their male counterpart when they are falling.

* ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]] [[Third Is 3D|3D]]'' has its share of problems, but special mention goes to the [[Gender Flip|Earthworm Kim mode]], unlocked after [[100% Completion|collecting all 1,000 marbles]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TykwZsVbs4 This video] demonstrates the carelessness of the whole thing beautifully. Try pointing out the flaws!

* The US arcade version of ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]] X'' came with a truly awful new arcade cabinet that eventually ended up being recalled. The construction of the pressure panels and sensors within the dance stage was so bad that sensors would start sticking within hours, the HDTV display had a considerable amount of lag, the cabinet was covered with very gaudy strips of LEDs, and the computing hardware for this entire setup was a Dell Optiplex PC. Japanese arcade operators were provided with much better quality new-style cabinets, and they also had the option of purchasing upgrade kits for existing arcade cabinets instead, [[Bad Export for You|neither of which, of course, ever made it Stateside]].