I have to admit this has happened to me a few times. I was interested in the game but nature of its fans and community were just too irritating to deal with so I avoided getting into it. I won't say which games; it might insult some of fans of them that post here. And it was rarely every single person that liked but what seemed to be majority of them.

Actually no. As the rabid fans that I don't care for tend to be fan boys for games I don't care for anyways. So no harm, no foul for me.

Actually yes.  I had games I wanted to try and the fans just ruin it for me because I don't want to play with them.  The reason why I don't want to play with them is because their are assholes that talk, but don't do the walk.  A lot of these fanboyz tend to be social justice warriors that would screech out diversity one second and tell a black person to shut the fuck up the next second.  There is a reason I don't play a lot of FATE and avoid narration games these days.

Yes! Back in the 90's, even though I was already running it, I quit Vampire: the Masquerade thanks to the local fans and the "game culture" they created for themselves and imposed upon everyone else by virtue of "having the grown-up game women liked" where I played.

My Vampire games were just like regular RPGs, so I got labelled the "imature" Vampire GM (Oops, sorry -- Storyteller!) for not creating the free form improv formless thing they liked to run. Vampire "adventures" with tombs and the mob and fighting werewolves were forbidden! You had to play through these pointless meetings, parties and conclaves and rejoice in this amateur theater of bad dialogue. It was dreadful. It was a dreadful time. Please stop asking random people inside the store "what clan are you." Stop. JUST FUCKING STOP I'M GOING TO FUCKING BRAKE YOUR LEGS IF YOU

Sorry, had a flashback there.  

This makes no sense to me. I already have a gaming group. If I want to try a new game, I'll just play it with them. The state of the game's fanbase out in the wild makes no difference to me at all.

1) During the Clinton Administration the White Wolf WoD games crushed all other role-playing around my Illinois college town. I very quickly grew very sick of the whole damn thing. It didn't help that the local LARP was very serious, very hardcore, almost "Cultish". The local WW fans all chain-smoked too, (It was part of this whole insufferable "We're the cool nerds" attitude) which made playing with them unpleasant and later, as my health declined, impossible. Like the music of Nirvana, I can appreciate the game line more now that it's no longer an overbearing presence sucking all the oxygen out of the room but just another thing.  

2) Every single time I've ever played Shadowrun the GM and/or the other players have been wretched and/or douchey creepazoid mutants. I know that this is just bad luck on my part, that there is nothing "Wrong" with the game itself, but still...

Hell yeah. So much of the experience of game is the local players, and if you can't mesh with the fans of a game, its hard to get into the system and setting.

And vice versa. I've played a few lame games because the fans were fun people to game with and their enthusiasm for this so-so game plus their demeanor as people worth hanging out with made it much more fun than RAW.

I'm completely oblivious to any game's fanbase.

When I read TBP more often I'd often find myself getting annoyed at the giddy exuberance of the fans... recommending the game-of-the-week for every purpose, finding fault with the character of anyone who spoke ill of it and generally sucking all the digital air out of the room.
Fate and Savage Worlds were both victims of that... though I'd had an interest and played both of them. I'd still like to play some more Fate, but not with the sorts of folks I usually see pushing it.

Quote from: Nexus;823976I have to admit this has happened to me a few times. I was interested in the game but nature of its fans and community were just too irritating to deal with so I avoided getting into it. I won't say which games; it might insult some of fans of them that post here. And it was rarely every single person that liked but what seemed to be majority of them.

Yes!

Vampire LARPers have irritated the fuck out of me so much that I lost interest in trying the tabletop game.

Transhumanist wankers. Their wacky quasireligious worship of technology and how it will solve EVERYTHING has turned me off of GURPS: Transhuman Space and Eclipse Phase.

4rons turned me off of 4E completely. I could see playing the game for certain adventures because it didn't suck as bad as some, but fuck the 4rons.

Quote from: jeff37923;824010Vampire LARPers have irritated the fuck out of me so much that I lost interest in trying the tabletop game.

There was a group of Vampire fans who pretty much took over a coffeehose I used to go to. They annoyed the crap out of everyone but I associated their disfunction more with the fact that the bulk of them were 'thespians' in the Theater dept. at the university across the street.

Another vote for/against creepy ass White Wolfers in the great heyday

Quote from: jeff37923;824010Transhumanist wankers. Their wacky quasireligious worship of technology and how it will solve EVERYTHING has turned me off of GURPS: Transhuman Space and Eclipse Phase.

My friend who's trying to run GURPS: Transhuman Space has run headlong into that. It drives her out of her tree.

Quote from: Nexus;824017My friend who's trying to run GURPS: Transhuman Space has run headlong into that. It drives her out of her tree.

How so? I've seen some far out quasi-religious stuff from transhumanists but not in connection to any of the RPGs.

I seen people who cut open the tips of their fingers to shove magnets into them and stitch back their fingers.  I am not fucking lying about that and I wish I was.  That is some mess up people in real life.  How is that for transhumanism wankers?