"Any time you say something sucks around someone who disagrees, they try to validate their taste in shitty music/movies/clothing by reminding you that you still only speak for yourself, as if their opinions are in jeopardy of being monopolized by your own. Everyone already knows it's my opinion by virtue of the fact that I said it, no need to restate the obvious you dopey twat."
-Maddox
"Whats Wrong with Sega?"
One of the very first pages I added to my website was an FAQ page. It was long and detailed, with every question on it being a real question I had been asked at some point by a real Sega Fanboy. I noticed almost as soon as my quest began that Sega Fans would hide behind the same questions and arguements time and time again, so the FAQ became a vital part of my page. But the most common question by far was one that I got from both Sega Fanboys and normal sane people as well...
"So, Whats wrong with Sega anyway?"
Short anwser: NOTHING
Atleast, that is to say, nothing that isn't wrong with every other game developer and publisher out there. Sega is no worse than any other evil and vile company like Ubisoft or Eletronic Arts. In fact, back during its heyday Sega pretty much WAS the Eletronic Arts of the gaming industry, a fact which is reflected by every single one of their major advertising campaigns being based on total lies and hoaxes like "Blast Processing" and Beta-7. Not to mention the fact that their hardware was exorbitantly expensive and offered very little entertainment in comparison to what other less expensive consoles were offering (example: Sega Saturn vs Sony Playstation OR the Sega 32X and Sega CD vs a clump of coal).
Over the course of time I've come to realize that the problems with Sega aren't problems with Sega per-say, but rather are problems with the gaming industry as a whole. This idustry, like nearly every other aspect of our lives, is driven exculsively by the desire for profit. Game developers and publishers care only for making more money at the expense of their customers. They are only as creative as they need to be in order to move their product, never any more than that. Many young and creative game developers have been ruined by their love of money. Once they release a successful and big name title, begin to rake in the money, their creativity suddenly dries up and they spend the rest of their lives shitting out the same bland sequels to that original game that sky rocketed them to the big time. The Elder Scrolls series (which heasn't been improved any since number III) and the Grand Theft Auto series (also not improved any since number III) are two great examples of this. In our world money is power and power corrupts. As soon as a small developer starts to actually make money it corrupts them and they cease to be creative. This is how a company like Sega can start out as the under dog just trying to make ends meet and by the time all is said and done they will be just another soulless machine pumping out mindless sequels to games nobody has really liked in over a decade.
Atleast in ancient times with nations like Egypt this ass-backwards system made some sort of sense because they thought they could take their wealth with them when they died. But in today's modern world where we know our money just ends up in somebody else's pocket when we die it baffels me to no end that we still base our entire lives around the acquisition of material wealth. But I guess that is a theological debate for another day.
"So if you have no specific complaint with Sega, why make this site?"
The site was never made for Sega. I had no illusions that I was going to put Sega out of business or force them to clean up their act. Sega wasn't going to clean up their act because game developers never learn, never get better once they begin their downhill slide. And as another Sega fan once said "Sega ran blindfolded into hell after 1993" so I didn't need to put them out of business, they were doing a good job of putting themselves out of business. Sega only still exists today because they were bought out by Sammy who has kept the name alive because people know who Sega is, most have never heard of Sammy (they made only one or two games that actually got released outside of Japan).
The site was not created for Sega. It was created for Sega Fanboys. I already told the story of the Sega Fanboy "Damocles" who earned the ire of an entire forum of gamers after suggesting that the Dreamcast was going to crush PC games forever. When you deal with a company which advertises products exculsively with lies and hoaxes, you end up with a fanbase that is composed of only the most ignorant and gullible members of society. Sega Fanboys have always been one of the most obnoxious groups of idiots on the internet. Now days they are few and far between thanks to Sega themselves and the "new" Sonic games where he kills people with guns right before turning into a werewolf and riding away on his motorcycle. But back in my day Sega fanboys were everywhere. No matter where you went on the internet you could be sure atleast one Sega fanboy was lurking in the shadows waiting for the proper moment to strike. Then one day, without warning, you would be assaulted with a long rant about how Sega's next piece of hardware wasn't going to be a total failure like all the others were and you better buy it or Sonic the Hedgehog will drive to your house in the Crazy Taxi to kill you with a Chao or some wacky shit like that.
So I decided that if Sega fanboys were going to drive the entire internet insane with their constant ranting then I was simply going to have to fight fire with fire by trolling every Sega fanboy on the internet until they finally leanred to shut the fuck up. And THAT is the real purpose behind this website.