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People feel threatened by what they don't understand.
When Pokemon Go exploded you had a lot of people who were all confused, didn't understand why it was popular and threw as much shade onto it that they could. Maybe not here, but everywhere else.
Why do people do this? Because people don't like feeling left out. It makes them uncomfortable. Seeing a lot of people enjoy something you don't understand makes you feel like you are missing something. Human beings are social creatures after all.
In the absence of understanding, what do these left-out human beings do? They try to tear down the thing that makes them feel like an outsider.
The point is that games which are more popular are subject to the "left out" effect. Meaning those people who don't understand the game want to magnify its flaws, announce them from the rooftops, finger point and ridicule, all in an effort not to feel like an outsider. "See? See? That thing I don't understand and therefore don't like that is popular is shit after all! Hahahaha!"
Because the outsiders go to such hyperbolic ends to bring the game down, the people who actually enjoy the game for what it is have to go to equally hyperbolic ends in order to prop it up and justify their enjoyment of the game. We have reached the point where the outsiders are actively going through post histories and making fun of posters who dared to get excited about the game.
Do we honestly have to go through this shit every time a popular game launches to disappointment? Is it so bad that we let people feel excited by something that we have to tear them down because we feel disappointment ourselves (or in some cases just drive-by shit-posting for "fun").
