User blog comment:MTP97/Will Sonic Adventure 3 Be Announced This Year?/@comment-1669199-20120916053409/@comment-1669199-20120916073817

"if you don't like what a video game company is doing with a franchise, you're not a fan...

That's a little too extreme of a claim in my opinion. I don't see how logic like that works. Like you stated, what they could do is leave the fandom if they honestly can't stand the direction the series is taking. There's nothing wrong or strange about that. It doesn't make sense to keep following something if all it does this day is drive you up the wall. As for gimmicks, I don't see what's the big deal about gimmicks in general when it comes to this fandom. Sure, some of them could've probably been executed better but concept alone doesn't automatically make it bad. Besides, gimmicks usually make things interesting for me when playing Sonic games.