History YMMV / RichMan

* PowerUpLetdown: Wu Mhi's second talent in ''10''. It reduces the duration of turtle status on her for two turns regardless of source. While intended to prevent her from being used on turtle by other players, it massively hinders her potential of using turtle cards to grab many tiles at once.

* CommonKnowledge: Some people might mistake ''4 Fun'' as the mobile remake of ''4''. It's merely a mobile spinoff with most of ''4'''s voicelines, special building and cards; a lot of core features like hiring special agents from hospital and jail, as well as owning a company by buying stocks, are absent. Anyone who's actually played ''4'' will probably get [[FandomEnragingMisconception pissed]] if you insist that ''4 Fun'' is that [[SacredCow classic masterpiece]] or its worthy remake.

** Some players don't like Kimchi from ''8'' because her actions would come across as arrogant and selfish, even though her intended design was just another person who wants to become stronger: Not only did she get the entry to Richman tournament by beating up Miyamoto and getting the ticket from him by force, she also forces Igloo to watch her performance with the Monster after befriending the latter by threatening to beat him up, without any friendly negotiations. The only redeeming action she does is to give her tournament prize to Xiaomei, and that's because she doesn't really need them. Her design is slightly improved in the discontinued ''Richman Universe Online'' in which she founds a gym to help people training.

** Sherry gets a audit (which now drains 30% of your current cash) and a missile every time she gets a good god, which is part of her ability. Automatically getting good gods from the map is dangerous enough (especially if the god in question is God of Fortune, Angel or God of Properties), she can and will also shoot missiles at the player whenever possible until the players have got a handful of houses for her to target (since AI will also fire missiles at houses). This combined with the cash loss from audit, makes the EarlyGameHell of hard landlords all the even worse. Think beating her on Brawl Mode will be easier? Her missiles will melt your characters just as quickly after she gets a few of them.

** Sherry gets a audit (which now drains 30% of your current cash) and a missile every time she gets a good god, which is part of her ability. Automatically getting good gods from the map is dangerous enough (especially if the god in question is God of Fortune, Angel or God of Properties), she can and will also shoot missiles at the player whenever possible until the players have got a handful of houses for her to target (since AI will also fire missiles at houses). This combined with the cash loss from audit, makes the EarlyGameHell of hard landlords all the even worse.

** Related to above, sudden changes in character voices tend to have poor reception even if they're in the same language. An example includes how Wu Mhi suddenly sounds more mature in ''6''.

*** Some players, mainly fans of ''2'' and ''3'', also think that the artstyle of ''4'' isn't as good as those of ''2'' and ''3'''s and think that the change from the more realistic style to the "cuter" artstyle is a bad thing. There were particularly a lot of complaints about how Xiaomei was made from a 18-year-old anime-like MsFanService lady to a 9-year-old girl .

** While not getting nearly as much backlash as other examples because of the game's success, many people, mainly fans of ''2'' and ''3'', view the way ''4'' and future games focusing more on using items and cards instead of focusing on the market and economic aspects, as well as making the game more [[SuperDeformed cartoon-y]] instead of {{Animesque}}, a bad thing of the franchise. There were particularly a lot of complaints about how Xiaomei was made from a 18-year-old anime-like MsFanService lady to a 9-year-old girl.

** ''8'' has "Places of Interests" which can be built after 10 investments are made, with the last character invested in it owning it. It will give a benefit to the owner and a disadvantage to other characters. Also some interesting cards like Swap and Seal never make a return.

* TheScrappy:
** Some players do not like Baby King from ''4'' not only because of annoying experiences with her bombing the players' houses, but also how she was potrayed as a [[EnfantTerrible dangerous baby]], thinking that she is nothing but annoying and dangerous. Her design was softened in future games as she would either be villainous because of other influences, or does not have malicious intentions towards others at all.
** Salonbus is not very popular despite being one of the series' veterans because of his obsession with Miss Money despite the fact it's clear that Miss Money does not like him. It doesn't help that many of his dialogues shows that he isn't the nicest person either. In fact, in a popularity poll of the 6 starter characters in ''10'', he was in the last place.
** Big Gamester, because of his villain-like appearance and his nature, is not very well-received among the fanbase either.
** Princess Sarah is often disliked for being snooty and incompetent, especially after ''8''.
** Some players don't like Kimchi from ''8'' because her actions would come across as arrogant and selfish, even though her intended design was just another person who wants to become stronger: Not only did she get the entry to Richman tournament by beating up Miyamoto and getting the ticket from him by force, she also forces Igloo to watch her performance with the Monster after befriending the latter by threatening to beat him up, without any friendly negotiations. The only redeeming action she does is to give her tournament prize to Xiaomei, and that's because she doesn't really need them. Her design is slightly improved in the discontinued ''Richman Universe Online'' in which she founds a gym to help people training.

** Lin Yueru in ''7''. Some players find her hard to deal with when she's a CPU character, so they imagine her to be the most powerful and feared character there.

** The base game of ''6'' and ''8'' made everyone speak Chinese Mandarin, including characters who originally speak other languages, such as Baby King who only babbles, or Miyamoto who speaks Japanese. Much of the fanbase found this change unacceptable. Probably because of the backlash, ''6 Expansion'' and ''10'' would voice characters in different languages again. The [=WeGame=] version of ''11'' also made everyone speak Chinese and gets similar reactions from many players, but other Chinese players who own the international version of Steam or Nintendo Switch can play the uncensored version with different languages and don't care anyways.

** A lot of fan-favorite elements in this franchise gets removed, such as coupons, endings and stories, and to some extent, active time mode. Nearly all of their removals are met with backlash, and it doesn't help that [[WordOfGod the devs]] have stated that these features are removed because they want to make the game more fast-paced and fitting the modern gaming era, and some fans are outraged because they think they are removing what's exactly making the series great.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Some players like to pretend that the series ended in ''4'' with none of the future installments ever existed.

* SequelDifficultySpike: ''7'' is the hardest game since ''3'', having very large maps with more expensive land prices, so not only is entering the shop much harder, it's also easier to run out of cash. Without SaveScumming, the danger of going bankrupt from poor luck even if you take everything under consideration exists. Not to mention how the AI in this game [[SpitefulAI really enjoys attacking you while ignoring other characters]]. In fact, it's almost impossible to unlock one of the secret characters as it requires the player to have 5 million total assets, which requires excessive market investments.

* StopHavingFunGuys: You can get looked down upon for not knowing how to properly invest in stock markets (if at all) by some players, even in ''4'' and some later games where stock markets are not as important as in ''2'' and ''3''. They think that blazing your way through your enemies with cards and properties are... lame.

** ''The missile''. If you happen to approach an opponent with a car or a motorbike, say goodbye to it (as well as a level of your house caught in the radius, or ''all of them'' in ''7''). Using them against the [=CPUs=] is satisfying but it's definitely not the other way around. In ''4'' it can target anywhere on the screen but luckily the [=CPUs=] don't seem to know too well how to use it.

* IKnewIt: When the trailer of the [=WeGame=] version of ''11'' was dropped, some players immidiately noticed that Daniel, October, Ninja and Miyamoto all do not have voice clips shown in the video. When they notice that every single English word was removed (such as the "On Sale" and "Go") as well, they guess that these characters will not have their GratuitousForeignLanguage and talk in Chinese as well. It turns out to be correct, though given how the Chinese censorship would completely ban any foreign language, this is not too surprising.

** The base game of ''6'' and ''8'' made everyone speak Chinese Mandarin, including characters who originally speak other languages, such as Baby King who only babbles, or Miyamoto who speaks Japanese. Much of the fanbase found this change unacceptable. Probably because of the backlash, ''6 Expansion'' and ''10'' would voice characters in different languages again.
** Related to above, sudden changes in character voices tend to have poor reception even if they're in the same language. A example include how Wu Mhi suddenly sounds more mature in ''6''.

** ''The missile''. If you happen to approach an opponent with a car or a motorbike, say goodbye to it (as well as a level of your house caught in the radius, or ''all of them'' in ''7''. Using them against the [=CPUs=] is satisfying but it's definitely not the other way around. In ''4'' it can target anywhere on the screen but luckily the [=CPUs=] don't seem to know too well how to use it.

** ''3'' has the casino from ''2'' which isn't used again in future games. There is also a Credit Card tool, and a mysterious girl NPC who can exchange cash with coupons. There are also special properties that can be "owned" by a character by owning its stock, and when anyone other than the user enters it, they'll be penaltized in various ways. and Energy Center and Water Center that ultilizes something similar to stocks but can't be sold once bought. The former only returned in ''4'' (where you can now buy stocks anywhere rather than having to enter the building yourself) and the latter only appeared in ''8''.

** While not getting nearly as much backlash as other examples because of the game's success, many people, mainly fans of ''2'' and ''3'', view the way ''4'' and future games focusing more on using items and cards instead of focusing on the market and economic aspects, as well as making the game more cartoon-y instead of realistic, a bad thing of the franchise. There were particularly a lot of complaints about how Xiaomei was made from a 18-year-old anime-like MsFanService lady to a 9-year-old girl.

** A lot of complaints on ''11'' is about how there are too many path splits and the map being too big and people who criticize them would prefer to play ''4''; what these people fail to realize is that maps that are large and complex has already existed in as early as ''2'', where there aren't even as many ways to control movements. ''4'' also has some large maps with unpredictable splits in the expansion pack. Technically ''7'' also has very large maps with many path splits, but no one talks about that either.
** Some players don't like how ''10'' and ''11'' change the characters' tones and some of their lines and take these changes very seriously. Changes to characters' dialogues technically happened in as early as ''5'', but there were no complaints about these until ''10''. Even then, the "untouched" dialogues in ''6'', ''7'' and ''8'' did differ in tones comparing to ''4''.

** While not getting nearly as much backlash as other examples because of the game's success, many people, mainly fans of ''2'' and ''3'', view the way ''4'' and future games focusing more on using items and cards instead of focusing on the market and economic aspects, as well as making the game more cartoon-y instead of realistic, a bad thing of the franchise. There were particularly a lot of complaints about how Xiaomei was made from a 18-year-old anime-like lady to a 9-year-old girl.