Every single MMO has its own unwanted and unnecessary defense force. We could run a story tomorrow about Final Fantasy XIV selling your credit card information to the yakuza or The Elder Scrolls Online’s latest patch literally melting your hard drive, and there would be people willing to claim in the comments that maybe the yakuza should have your credit card, or hard drives are better when melted. So it goes.
But then there are the games whose defense force isn’t just confined to defending the game in question but relishes in pushing down every other title.
You know exactly the sort of person, the vocal Star Citizen fan who shows up in threads about any other related game (or wholly unrelated game) to shout about how this game is dumb and Star Citizen is better. Or the World of Warcraft fan quick to tell you that your chosen game is hot garbage compared to WoW regardless of whether or not that bears any relation to objective reality (like people arguing straight-faced that WoW has deeper crafting mechanics than EverQuest II). So which MMO has the most toxic fan-based defense force? People not just focused on defending the game but going out of their way to denigrate other titles?
Every morning, the Massively Overpowered writers team up with mascot Mo to ask MMORPG players pointed questions about the massively multiplayer online roleplaying genre. Grab a mug of your preferred beverage and take a stab at answering the question posed in today’s Daily Grind!
