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My thoughts on the matter...

Generally a lot of 90's games had a lot of that during the 00's. Hell, the Mortal Kombat fans were in my opinion even worst then Sonic fans. At least Sonic fans were just stupid, MK fans were bias towards any progress at all away from what they wanted. In other words, MK fans would only accept the franchise itself if it STAYED the same and only made a few minor tweaks per game... It was often worst bias then Vocaloid fans, though never on the scale we have. :-/

Plus games that "worked" on consoles like the Genesis/Megadrive didn't transfer well over into the newer consoles and we lost a number in the process. EA was responsible for several games disappearing forever when they started buying up a lot of studios... And then NOT producing anything new for a decade and relying on a few titles that sold well like the Sims games. Its only now their considering the possibility of bringing out of the dark some of their old titles. >_<

First person shooters suddenly became THE no.1 game to produce too... Which spoiled the 00's even more since we slowly saw a loss of variety. And the loss of good single player games have left a gap in many games. Thanks to the success of some of the indie games though, varsity is slowly returning, though still not with the big AAA titles. Then again, a LOT of the indie games are produced under the same set-up the 90's AAA games were produced under... :-/

Also with the raise of the internet, the culture which once hung around the arcades was transferred on-line with bad consequences for a long of the fandoms. To be "in" with a lot of the fandoms you needed to appear to have the same minds-set as the others. So be a bidding Sonic fan, you needed to be with the most dominate thoughts of its fandom. Fans who didn't necessary believe the series sucked suddenly had to share the same opinion and often that actually represented in truth a small 0% of the fandom. So you experienced a loss of individual fan opinions...

Not only that, but unlike the 90's, in the 00's more fans on-line meant fans could share their experiences more, often leading to things being brought up not one knew or thought of. Instead of a franchise failed through common media means that didn't appeal to the masses, it could fail because the hordes of fans on-line didn't "buy it". On the other hand, some games got really popular because of the net... Like Minecraft. So on-line access is kinda a thing that went either way depending on the situation. Hmm... :-/

Sonic was just caught up in the fury of the 00's... And Sonic fans were one amongst the surviving fandoms from the 90's, caught up in all this they clang to their childhood memories of "what things used to be like". But things are different now and expectations from investors versus demand of the industry are NOT the same. This is what I tried to explain to a few of the fans and got pretty much ignored or told to "shut the hell up I don't know what I'm talking about". Ditto with the MK fans, I'm not saying either franchise was GOOD during the 00's as oppose to the 90s... But honestly whatever "progress" was made went largely ignored anyway by circles of fans. Makes being a developer harder I suppose.

Honestly though, its harder to find a good solid thought out fan. In the MLP fandom I've recently become of this guy for his more thought out arguments;

http://www.youtube.com/user/DigibronyMLP

But guys like this don't get much of a spotlight... :-/

So yeah... Fans are annoying and honestly, look what we the Vocaloid fandom has to deal with. ^_^'