Ebert wrote:A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself. It's all about them. They have mastered the "Star Wars" or "Star Trek" universes or whatever, but their objects of veneration are useful mainly as a backdrop to their own devotion. Anyone who would camp out in a tent on the sidewalk for weeks in order to be first in line for a movie is more into camping on the sidewalk than movies.
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This pretty much says everything. It has long been my conviction that fans of any specific aspect of videogames: genres/systems/companies are not really fans of videogames, for if they were, they would not be able to confine their interest within such narrow categories.
This is also why I have always found format-specific publications distasteful.
