History YMMV / TheGamersHandsOfFate

* TheScrappy: Lodge and Joanna in extended cut due to listed above problem, along with Gary and his Chibi-chan antics didn't won any favours from audience. General consensus among the fandom is that cutting their subplots would improve the movie greatly and remove almost all of its heavy-handed preaching without losing anything plot-important.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The previous two ''Gamers'' movies parodied tabletop roleplaying games. This one has virtually nothing to do with those and instead is about collectible card games instead. Just like the film characters, only a subset of gamers play both.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Did you enjoy how the previous two ''Gamers'' movies parodied tabletop roleplaying games? How would you like a sequel that has virtually nothing to do with that is about collectible card games instead?

** The Meach is suprisingly popular, most likely because he combines many traits of professional player with CoolOldGuy tendencies and a bit of InsufferableGenius, who easily plays everyone like pawns to reach his own goals.

** In regular cut, what's left out of Logde-Joanna arc is an incomprehensive mess, but still takes running time.

* TheScrappy: Lodge and Joanna in extended cut due to listed above problem, along with Gary and his Chibi-chan antics didn't won any favours from audience. General consensus among the fandon is that cutting their subplots would improve the movie greatly and remove almost all of its heavy-handed preaching without losing anything plot-important.

* DorkAge: Extremely non-subtle moralism, combined with slugish plot and generally having nothing to do with tabletop roleplaying lead to lackluster reception and so far is the weakest entry in entire franchise, including shorts. Ironically, the previous movie was subtitled "Dorkness Rising".

** In regular cut, what's left out of Logde-Joanna is an incomprehensive mess, but still takes running time.

** In regular cut, what's left out of Logde-Joanna

* RomanticPlotTumor: Lodge and Joanna's relationship issues take up a fair bit of runtime in the extended cut, and have so little to do with anything else that the regular cut removed it entirely without a trace (and reduced both to cameos).

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Did you enjoy how the previous two ''Gamers'' movies parodied tabletop roleplaying games? How would you like a sequel that has virtually nothing to do with that is about collectible card games instead?

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Did you enjoy how the previous two ''Gamers'' movies because of how they parodied tabletop roleplaying games? How would you like a sequel that has virtually nothing to do with that is about collectible card games instead?

* {{Anvilicious}}: The movie has been described by some viewers as "30% story, 70% preaching." Many viewers (both male and female) applauded the film's strong stance against sexism in the gaming world. Some gamers (again, of both genders), however, were put off by the film's heavy-handed tone, and expressed disappointment that the franchise's theme of gaming seemed to take a backseat to the moral message in the third film. This was especially true of the extended version, in which the moral dominated both the main plot and one of the two subplots (the Lodge/Joanna relationship storyline, which was all about the moral and had nothing to do with gaming at all).

* AscendedFanon: A big part of the game. Negotiations between players make it into the plot, and the head writer is seen hanging around the player LARP with a notebook.
* {{Anvilicious}}: "Women are not prizes to be won."