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I am not going to continue this big argument, all I'll say is that MrLama was actually one of the people I thought of because I do watch his streams regularly.
And he has never said that he hates Diablo 3 he has acknowledged that it's not a bad game.
It's just not his thing, he doesn't enjoy it like he enjoys Diablo 2.
And he says the same about other games of that genre too.

I dunno why some people have to be so freaking extreme about everything where either something is the best thing ever created or it's the worst and you HATE it.
'' Hate '' is a very strong term and is very different than not enjoying something.
Just because MrLama was disappointed with Diablo 3 doesn't mean that he hates it.

Also there are very few games where the point is to please a hardcore audience, most games aim for a wide audience and that's who most game journalists also aim their content to.
I dunno why you're bringing up reviews from the 90's too as if the industry hasn't grown and changed substantially since then, video games nowadays is the largest entertainment industry in the world and reviews are going to adapt to that.
This applies to the whole industry too not just reviews and game journalists.

People disagreeing with you also doesn't make them not fans.
You keep trying to monopolize the term and act as if you're the arbiter of it.

Edit: I also adressed the Metacritic thing, the reviews from back then are almost all about the connectivity issues and funnily enough also people complaining about it being grindy.
Extreme reactions do happen that doesn't make a game bad, zeros and ones are just ridiculous and not a serious score but this is what happens when a game has technical problems especially at launch and when people get overly emotional about things.
There's also people reviewbombing because of the Hong Kong and Diablo Immortal thing etc.



Fair enough.