Ever wonder why developers no longer make free content, and usually quit their jobs or close their doors?
Well, you can all blame that on the fan base's. These "fans" belong to game series's and developement groups that get yelled at by their "fans" because of such "crimes" as:

-Asking for money for content after already handing over TONS of free content.
-Cutting support for a game after it's deemed WAY too costly, and dangering the company.
-Making what's considered "downloadable content" into an actual expansion.
-Canceling things that they were CONSIDERING doing.
-Trying something new with a franchise.
-Taking over a franchise after the original developement group closed down.

The most recent and common victims of such fan abuse are EALA and Valve, although this behavior is VERY common.

Developers work their asses off on games and updates to games, I know companies like Blizzard do update games (such as Starcraft) after billions of years of it being out, but everyone knows Blizzard's the only company that can still manage to shovel in cash from games that were made in the late 90's and early 2000's, for most companies, they have no such luck.
Recently, Valve released news of a game it was working on, entitled, Left For Dead 2, usually, Valve takes millions of years to release a new game, in which the time period between that and the release of the game Valve keeps releasing updates with new content and such, even though the money they receive from this new content barely meets the money it takes to develope it (not to mention, the 1,000,000 graphical updates to Half Life 2 that don't generate any profit at all.) But for once, Valve decided to do what most companies do and NOT develope an entirely different game, but instead, build on an existing one and create a sequal.
Valve fanboys were angry at this, and DEMANDED that the content be released for FREE. A SEQUELS WORTH OF CONTENT RELEASED FOR FREE. Think about that, does that sound logical AT ALL? This embarassed Valve, and I can only imagine how developers right there are thinking, either loose your hard work for free, or loose your fan base.

Honestly, show some damn decency.
Another example of this is EALA, in October, EALA released a new game, Red Alert 3, this caused a stir in the fan base. You see, Red Alert 2 was developed by Westwood, a company that was liquidated by EA and replaced by EALA. So immediatly, the forums were FLOODED with angry letters, petitions, and all that crap that EALA had done a shitty job and all that. But the thing is, RA3 could be considered by MANY to be quite the masterpeice of RTS games, managing to acheive almost perfect balance, a more skill oriented but still strategy driven gameplay, and able to provide some of the easiest and most usable mod and map making tools around.
But litterly, ALL OF THIS WAS DISMISSED just because EALA was EALA, and the fact that they tried somethings that were new that ended up balancing the game even further and ultimatly making it a more enjoyable experience, oh also, they weren't Westwood.
18 MONTHS worth of hard work, millions upon millions of dollars spent, ALL DISMISSED because the company was who they were.

Sad, isn't it?
But it's true, and this can all be attributed to FAN IDIOCY. This is the epitome of failure, this is the worst of the worst, this is just an embarrassment to game communities everywhere.

DEVELOPERS DESERVE CREDIT BECAUSE THEY ARE WHERE CREDIT IS DUE.

And that's why this group exists.

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L4D2 Has Twice The Amount Of Pre-Orders As The Original
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L4D2 Has Twice The Amount Of Pre-Orders As The Original

Jul 03, 2009 Anti Fan Idiocy Assosciation News 29 comments

Also, Valve made claims that they were still working on L4D1 DLC Official.

The L4D Boycott Is A Showing Of Disrespect
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The L4D Boycott Is A Showing Of Disrespect

Jun 28, 2009 Anti Fan Idiocy Assosciation News 16 comments

We are a community of game and mod developers, and we've all shared the experience, yet, some of us still haven't learned anything from such an experience...

Comments  (0 - 10 of 165)
MrTambourineMan
MrTambourineMan Nov 20 2009, 5:30pm says:

Well all I want to say is that thanks GOD almighty that these people are boycotting L4D2 - at least we'll get to play it on-line with less trolls.

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jjawinte
jjawinte Nov 11 2009, 10:44pm says:

I hope you might read my blog and have a clearer understanding of this boycott issue.http://www.moddb.com/members/na323/blog/edit/understanding-boycotting

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xonone
xonone Nov 9 2009, 3:34pm says:

hmm a Anti-EA group eh? I love the idea.

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MMBNmaster
MMBNmaster Nov 5 2009, 7:08pm says:

Those assholes!

+1 vote     reply to comment
Redexodus
Redexodus Oct 31 2009, 3:38pm says:

This group is a mess!

+1 vote     reply to comment
havoc_frost
havoc_frost Oct 30 2009, 2:59am says:

Lol all the left 4 dead2 boycotters come her and put our comments into the negative region pa-thet-ic!

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ZombieTerminator
ZombieTerminator Oct 23 2009, 11:46pm says:

Well Boycott group give up now!

+3 votes     reply to comment
Frohman11
Frohman11 Oct 27 2009, 5:48pm replied:

NEVER ! We stay and WE FIGHT !

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dr_ice27
dr_ice27 Nov 10 2009, 8:01am replied:

we will boycott it thru out our lives..

PS! anyone up for L4D2 Demo co-op? :P

+3 votes     reply to comment
Marcus500
Marcus500 Oct 17 2009, 6:21am says:

i hate boycotters they are so annoying ITS JUST GOOD THAT THEY RELEASE NEW GAMES FUCK THEM!

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