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Dave · 02-14-2007, 02:13 PM

A Negative Fanboy.

First of all, I have no problems with fanboys. Everyone is a fanboy of something... your country, the type of jeans you wear, a sports team, the laundry detergent you use, television stations you watch, all that fanboy means is someone with loyalty to a brand or entity. This website is based upon "fanboys" of Square-Enix video games, so naturally there will be people that are "fanboys" of consoles... The Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii namely.

And why is there anything wrong with this? Why are there so many people that hate fanboys?

Its negative fanboys that ruin everything, someone who doesn't neccessarily have a loyalty to a brand... as much as a hate-on for a brand. Point and case: Playstation 3. There is an incredible number of media outlets and individuals who have nothing much better to do than to rag on the Playstation 3, creating rumours and damaging its reputation.

Not so say this isn't also true for the Xbox 360 and Wii, there are plenty of haters for those too, but I'd say the most is for the Playstation.

Now what is the point of this? What do people achieve by just spending their time talking **** about something they don't own, have very little if any experience with? I don't go on about how much the Xbox and Wii suck, because I have only played each once or twice, so I can't really form a valid opinion on them. Why do so many morons feel the need to downtalk things they know nothing about?

Heres a good blog article I found while surfing: http://threespeech.com/blog/?p=276

So what are your opinions on this? To me its a really bad trend on the internet and abroad, that really needs to go.

02-14-2007, 02:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
Dave Former FFExtreme Owner Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ottawa Age: 22 Posts: 706 Rep Power: 6	Whats Worse than a Fanboy? A Negative Fanboy. First of all, I have no problems with fanboys. Everyone is a fanboy of something... your country, the type of jeans you wear, a sports team, the laundry detergent you use, television stations you watch, all that fanboy means is someone with loyalty to a brand or entity. This website is based upon "fanboys" of Square-Enix video games, so naturally there will be people that are "fanboys" of consoles... The Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii namely. And why is there anything wrong with this? Why are there so many people that hate fanboys? Its negative fanboys that ruin everything, someone who doesn't neccessarily have a loyalty to a brand... as much as a hate-on for a brand. Point and case: Playstation 3. There is an incredible number of media outlets and individuals who have nothing much better to do than to rag on the Playstation 3, creating rumours and damaging its reputation. Not so say this isn't also true for the Xbox 360 and Wii, there are plenty of haters for those too, but I'd say the most is for the Playstation. Now what is the point of this? What do people achieve by just spending their time talking **** about something they don't own, have very little if any experience with? I don't go on about how much the Xbox and Wii suck, because I have only played each once or twice, so I can't really form a valid opinion on them. Why do so many morons feel the need to downtalk things they know nothing about? Heres a good blog article I found while surfing: http://threespeech.com/blog/?p=276 So what are your opinions on this? To me its a really bad trend on the internet and abroad, that really needs to go.