Was about to make my own post today on the utterly pathetic fanboy crowd-following of the totalwar subreddit up until last year's launch and now. Two of the top twenty posts are just a Two Minutes Hate on Arch and Volound, two of the the harshest but constructive critics of the franchise. Many old-school genre enjoyers (not the artificial historical vs fantasy division), modders, etc were either pro Arch or otherwise unenthusiastic about the company before it was cool to hate on them.