So in some videogame related news, Atlus just announced and posted a trailer for a remake of Persona 3. Pretty normal gaming news right? Yet the response I've seen on reddit and elsewhere has literally been batshit crazy.
They announced that it was gonna be a straight up remake and not include any of the portable content (Which added a female main character route). This has people I guess losing their fucking minds calling it misogynistic and "heteronormative" or other crap about how they're gonna boycott Atlus and not buy the game and yada yada yada.
Like who cares? It's a remake, they can make it however they want. Not to mention the female mc they're creaming over was only in the portable remake and never mentioned in any of the official works. Yet these people are foaming at the mouth over it? Have videogamers always been this crazy, like is a portable spinoff character from 14 years ago worth to sperg over? I just don't understand it and wonder if I'm alone in it.
I don't think you're really familiar with the Persona franchise's fanbase.
Imagine you're playing minesweeper and you click the first cell and it comes back "8", and then you click another cell and it also comes back "8".
That is Atlus's experience with the Persona fanbase. There is nothing they can say in any direction that will not piss off someone. Every installment they manage to put themselves on a hill where every possible move is downwards so their only recourse is to build the hill even higher next time around.
We can assume that a hypothetical Persona 9 will be the end of all computer gaming because it will be everything for everybody and any change will alienate half the fucking world.
The SJW angle of criticism really heated up after 5's release, which brought in a ton of mainstream attention from the twitter/tumblr-style audience.