There is that part of the community yes, that's why i don't engage, i on all games i play, am a lurker. Because i'm a supporter but also a critic that's just not the best place, there is quite the criticism on the forums towards the game/CIG but the aggressive attitudes end up on different views of several points of something that is being developed. It scaled to ridiculous levels when the project started being attacked constantly, and people who didn't agree or defended the project were called "Deluded Cultists", that brought hell. But honestly i see one kind of "Cult" to Hate on the game as well, like when i saw Derek Smart re-posting tweets of SC fans about CitizenCon (that didn't mentioned him) on his feed so his followers could "group-insult" the person, humiliating, etc... It's incredible ridiculous, this say this several times, most recent one was just someone who asked on Twitter "So guys, what do you think was the best part of CitizenCon?".... =/SC fans were very aggressive long before DS came along.
Just go to the SC forums and find some of the first posts critisizing AC flight mechanics.
The subreddit was better in the beginning but since the DS drama, it has also started going downhill as far as fans vs critics is concerned.
It probably has to do with so many people being critical of the project. Fans overreact to overacting critics and vice versa.
I've never seen so much vitriol as far as a game is concerned and I was playing EvE for years and years.
I mean things will only calm down with future content releases to keep the community more busy on the game, than on flame wars / drama. Elite had faced something like this when it had to readjust its scope and some people gone bananas over it.
Then there's the worse part, a VERY impatient community (not as a whole ofc), personally with me, if it's time they need i'm more than willing to wait for it.
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