I want to be frank and I want to get straight to the heart of the matter. Most of the Filipino "gamers" are just nutcase fanboys. Yeah and I am not kidding, even my friends from other online gaming community are saying these kinds of things. And by mean fanboys(and fangirls), as in, real fanboyish over something that they are so deluded that games like Ragnarok Online was dubbed by most of them as the first "MMORPG"(I call it MMOPG because it doesn't qualify to be as a RPG to me, if you know what I mean), and ignoring the fact that Runescape(1996) was the first true MMORPG, followed by Odyssey Online(1997) which are still in existence, until to this day.
When it comes to anime, Filipino "nerds"(by this I mean fanboys too), Naruto, One Piece and Bleach are the best animes ever conceived. Wow, that's totally fanboyish, but I'm sure when their cosplay royalty introduced something new, they will not think twice and ride on the bandwagon. They also think that the TV show "Glee" is what nerds is all about, when they don't even have any idea what nerd culture is, and what it is like in other countries. Such delusion, it makes me puke, and it's also a sad thing that I have to defend that most of the time, while these miserable go-with-the-flow mediocre peoples' ears and eyes closed, because they think they are better than everyone else.
They(Filipino "gamers") also think, if most of the players of an online game, even it's an international or any non-Philippine server, are Filipinos then they will just ignore the fact that they are other nationalities playing and will flood the chat gates with Tagalog or any other dialects from the Philippines and going to say they "dominate" that game, which is by the way, one of the biggest, most arrogant, most hideous, narcissistic statements ever said by such group of people that call themselves "gamers", even though their gaming knowledge and awareness are limited, like a glass of drinking water.
Fanboyism, is bad, as in BAD(Powerglove reference, eh?), but my fellow Filipino gamers don't see it that way. They think it what makes them "cool", and "fashionably-in". Little that they know, that if you are a self-proclaimed gamer/nerd, you have to be open to new ideas, and face the fact that there are other games/animes/TV shows out in this world called the internet that are better than what they are used on seeing at. This have to be toned down, because fanboyism can lead to elitism, and if you don't get it, search on how many fansites are there, I'm sure it's not that difficult to do. You don't want to face this when you say something like: "Ragnarok is the first and best MMORPG evah!" or "DOTA is the best game in the WORLD!"
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