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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 4023072" data-attributes="member: 27051">I'd say it's just People + Internet.  Gamers, changing editions or repeating history has nothing to do with it.  Plenty of folks have pointed this out in plenty of threads, namely that gamers don't have a monopoly on behaving in an outrageous manner over things that matter to them.  There was a mention in another thread about Starcraft II receiving similar attention from the pro and con camps, for example.Elsewhere online I visit a board for bassists, Moorcock's board and a couple of large sites for fans of Nine Inch Nails (of which I am one.)  Let me tell you that gamers have nothing on rabid NIN fans for snark, hyperbole or downright nastiness.  Bassists too can get all up in arms over the relative merits of the Musicman Stingray or whatever.  (Folks at the Moorcock site tend to be pretty chilled out, though, unless the subject of Chaosium comes up, and then it can get a bit tetchy, heh).  And I'm sure that other posters have similar experiences in other areas of fandom.  Point is, we're no different as a community.  We're more open-minded than some, and less open-minded than others.  Could be worse.  Could be better, too.So I'd say the current furore is to be expected.  Maybe WotC could have handled some things differently from the PR side of things.  But the fanbase is ultimately responsible for its own reactions, good and bad.  It's just part of being online as far as I can tell.</blockquote>

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