I remember back in 2008/9 when Minecraft was in beta or whatever and nerds loved it for being a sandbox game with lots of freedom and I saw no hate online. Then kids started latching onto the property and opnion in enthusiast forums turned upside down.
Different people? I never liked it as I don't like sandboxes and most open world games are simply devoid of fun to me. I still think it's very possible to enjoy a game somewhat and dislike aspects of it: it's ugly, the youtuber worship culture it created sucks and promoted a lot of shitheads, etc. Also, there are people here who said they like Minecraft, but they don't care or want a character in Smash, which seems pretty normal -- I love Shin Megami Tensei, but I don't want any character in Smash.
Most of the stuff I like is considered childish too anyway, which I guess is the same for many here considering this is a Nintendo thread.
People are simply pointing out the realities of character popularity as it pertains to the Smash roster; I'm the one jerk who is still repping Saki Amamiya in this thread but I don't let that cloud my expectations. No need to get defensive about it.
But character popularity isn't everything. This game is still a Nintendo crossover, so wanting to see Nintendo characters isn't a "purist" thing. You can play as most big third party characters in several games, they get lots of sales, are promoted to hell, etc -- while this is the only chance for fans of stuff like Wonderful 101 to get some representation.
This industry is already way way too focused in a few big games and it's certainly not healthy. It's boring to take a look at sales charts every month and see "GTA, FIFA, Minecraft, CoD". Smash not being more of the same is cool.
Not antagonizing, just sharing my view of things. You're free to share your (same) opinion as many times as you want.
I don't go namedroping you "man, you can't even want nintendo characters anymore without chauzu calling you a purist".