User blog comment:Hawki/The StarCraft fanbase, or, how I learnt to stop worrying and love StarCraft II/@comment-4817-20150708000249

I'm a big fan of Dungeons & Dragons, and have been around long enough to see Second Edition turn into Third into Fourth into Fifth. Fourth was my fave.

Going from 2e to 3e was easy, because 2e had gotten stale and tired at that time. However, 3rd was still popular when 4th came out, and 4th was still popular when 5th came out. Each time there were flame wars, oddly enough prompted by the marketing teams, which thought a great way to sell a new edition was to trash the old one. The flame wars are actually still going on, usually simmering but occasionally boiling over on one forum or another.

I remember people hating on StarCraft II during development because "boring" parts of the game were being cut (eg being required to go to your home base and tell a worker to do something incredibly obvious three or four times per minute; automine removed this (lack of) decision-making).

Naturally lots of "fans" have jumped on StarCraft II's storyline too, sometimes inventing things to be ticked off about. It's pretty sad.