A derogatory term used by trolls to make baseless statements about a game they no longer like or have never played, usually for attention seeking purposes. A typical difference between a troll and someone who is objectively criticizing a game is that the troll is unwilling to engage in debate, expecting others to accept his opinion as fact.
When countered with simple argument such as: You are wrong and here is why... a troll's response will be "Stop being such a fanboy!
Still waiting for your Holy Grail MMORPG? Interesting...
for me, a fanboi is a person who is getting namecalled ( fanboi) from a person who just can´t get into his/her head that other people might not feel/like/enjoy the same stuff as him/her.
far to often is it used to show the namecallers ignorance of other people oppinions.
the namecallers often see things in black and white. "i love this game, hence every other game must suck and the persons who play them must be fanbois.
A derogatory term used by trolls to make baseless statements about a game they no longer like or have never played, usually for attention seeking purposes. A typical difference between a troll and someone who is objectively criticizing a game is that the troll is unwilling to engage in debate, expecting others to accept his opinion as fact.
When countered with simple argument such as: You are wrong and here is why... a troll's response will be "Stop being such a fanboy!
FanBOIS used to mean Fan Body (forgotten the rest it was over 20 years ago) and reffered to a body of fans that signed up to a fan club (usually a pop band/star) and got the regualr fanzines and badges/posters and all that crap.
The average person who was a member of a FanBOIS was a teenage girl who wanted to marry Simon Le Bon and pretty much worshipped their band/star as a God. Naturaly these people would hear no wrong spoken of their chosen deity and would defend anything negative reported in the news and give vulgar abuse to anyone critizing their music.
This I believe is why this word came in to use to describe the gamer who would fit the description, just replace the pop band with the game they defend. I had two Aunts who were members of the Duran Duran FanBOIS when I was a kid, they wanted to marry Le Bon. It just seems that many younger people don't know the meaning and translate it to Fanboy, since you don't seem to have many FanBOIS today due to the fact that fame has been seriously cheapened and watered down since the early '80s.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
To me it means someone who will defend a game or gaming platform no matter how bad it gets in the future. They will not try anything else no matter what.
Being a fan of a game is not derogatory. Being a fanboi is derogotory because that person so blindly supports something they ignore logic, fact, and well thought out arguments.
To me a fanboi is someone who follows a game so closely and is extremely obsessed with it. If anyone says anything bad aobut their game, they will totally flip out and use every type of verbal abuse possible. Also, they may go to other game's forums and start saying stuff like "This game is gunna suk, (their game) is gunna pwn (censored)!"
To me a fanboi is someone who follows a game so closely and is extremely obsessed with it. If anyone says anything bad aobut their game, they will totally flip out and use every type of verbal abuse possible. Also, they may go to other game's forums and start saying stuff like "This game is gunna suk, (their game) is gunna pwn (censored)!"
But I think this dont refers only to games, there are lot of "fanbois" on consoles (yes xbox is better than you ps!!, xbox sucks ps rulz) Think you tell right enought what is a fanboi, but add not only with games, and, that they are talking, and "dreaming" about their game/console etc... and gets really aggresive in front of others that dont share their mind.
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Fanboy (Noun)
A derogatory term used by trolls to make baseless statements about a game they no longer like or have never played, usually for attention seeking purposes. A typical difference between a troll and someone who is objectively criticizing a game is that the troll is unwilling to engage in debate, expecting others to accept his opinion as fact.
When countered with simple argument such as: You are wrong and here is why... a troll's response will be "Stop being such a fanboy!
Still waiting for your Holy Grail MMORPG? Interesting...
for me, a fanboi is a person who is getting namecalled ( fanboi) from a person who just can´t get into his/her head that other people might not feel/like/enjoy the same stuff as him/her.
far to often is it used to show the namecallers ignorance of other people oppinions.
the namecallers often see things in black and white. "i love this game, hence every other game must suck and the persons who play them must be fanbois.
And the fanboi's response, stop being a troll.
FanBOIS used to mean Fan Body (forgotten the rest it was over 20 years ago) and reffered to a body of fans that signed up to a fan club (usually a pop band/star) and got the regualr fanzines and badges/posters and all that crap.
The average person who was a member of a FanBOIS was a teenage girl who wanted to marry Simon Le Bon and pretty much worshipped their band/star as a God. Naturaly these people would hear no wrong spoken of their chosen deity and would defend anything negative reported in the news and give vulgar abuse to anyone critizing their music.
This I believe is why this word came in to use to describe the gamer who would fit the description, just replace the pop band with the game they defend. I had two Aunts who were members of the Duran Duran FanBOIS when I was a kid, they wanted to marry Le Bon. It just seems that many younger people don't know the meaning and translate it to Fanboy, since you don't seem to have many FanBOIS today due to the fact that fame has been seriously cheapened and watered down since the early '80s.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
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There is so little known about that game (release date?) that I find it incredible that Darkfall has fanbois.
To me it means someone who will defend a game or gaming platform no matter how bad it gets in the future. They will not try anything else no matter what.
QFT
a fanboy is someone who replaces god with a product(or company) of any kind(iPhone, dark&light...)
do not try to argue with them, ever!
to me "fanboi" refers to a person who is so besotten with a particular game that they refuse to see the bad in it.
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To me a fanboi is someone who follows a game so closely and is extremely obsessed with it. If anyone says anything bad aobut their game, they will totally flip out and use every type of verbal abuse possible. Also, they may go to other game's forums and start saying stuff like "This game is gunna suk, (their game) is gunna pwn (censored)!"
But I think this dont refers only to games, there are lot of "fanbois" on consoles (yes xbox is better than you ps!!, xbox sucks ps rulz) Think you tell right enought what is a fanboi, but add not only with games, and, that they are talking, and "dreaming" about their game/console etc... and gets really aggresive in front of others that dont share their mind.
funny how MMORPG is included and not just the term `games` persay lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanboy
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