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* ''[[VideoGame/MarioKart8 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'': Most of the track selections in the [[DownloadableContent Booster Course Pass]], barring those from ''[[VideoGame/MarioKart64 64]]'', ''[[VideoGame/MarioKartSuperCircuit Super Circuit]]'', ''[[VideoGame/MarioKart7 7]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/MarioKartTour Tour]]'', are tailor-made to pander to fans of ''VideoGame/MarioKartWii''. Not only does ''Wii'' have the most retro courses in the Booster Course Pass at a grand total of 8, but many of the retro courses from other games are ones that also happened to be retro courses in ''Wii'' itself, including [[VideoGame/SuperMarioKart SNES]] Mario Circuit 3, [[VideoGame/MarioKartDS DS]] Peach Gardens, [[VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash GCN]] Waluigi Stadium, and GCN DK Mountain.
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* ''[[VideoGame/MarioKart8 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'': Most of the track selections in the [[DownloadableContent Booster Course Pass]], barring those from ''[[VideoGame/MarioKart64 64]]'', ''[[VideoGame/MarioKartSuperCircuit Super Circuit]]'', ''[[VideoGame/MarioKart7 7]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/MarioKartTour Tour]]'', are tailor-made to pander to fans of ''VideoGame/MarioKartWii''. Not only does ''Wii'' have the most retro courses in the Booster Course Pass at a grand total of 8, but many of the retro courses from other games are ones that also happened to be retro courses in ''Wii'' itself, including [[VideoGame/SuperMarioKart SNES]] Mario Circuit 3, [[VideoGame/MarioKartDS DS]] Peach Gardens, [[VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash GCN]] Waluigi Stadium, and GCN DK Mountain. By the end of the game's lifespan, combined with the three ''Wii'' stages included in the base game, only 5 out of 16 Nitro Tracks from said game were unrepresented in ''Deluxe''.
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* The "[[Advertising/GetAMac I'm a Mac/I'm a PC]]" ads for Apple can be seen as an inverse case of this. The ads seem to exist to reassure prospective Apple newbies that they're cool rather than providing a reason why knowledgeable Mac users (those interested in more than making fan videos on Website/YouTube, and someone likely to use Photoshop) would want to stay. Not with much success - many people (across the OS divide) [[MisaimedFandom see the Mac guy as a stuck-up poseur and the PC guy as, well,]] [[Literature/CompleteWorldKnowledge John Hodgman]].
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* The "[[Advertising/GetAMac I'm a Mac/I'm a PC]]" ads for Apple can be seen as an inverse case of this. The ads seem to exist to reassure prospective Apple newbies that they're cool rather than providing a reason why knowledgeable Mac users (those interested in more than making fan videos on Website/YouTube, Platform/YouTube, and someone likely to use Photoshop) would want to stay. Not with much success - many people (across the OS divide) [[MisaimedFandom see the Mac guy as a stuck-up poseur and the PC guy as, well,]] [[Literature/CompleteWorldKnowledge John Hodgman]].
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* In its later days, ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'''s side stories and expanded universe practically ran on this, by having certain story elements, names of animals and upcoming characters depend on fan polls (mainly members of Website/BZPower). It didn't help that many fans had a blasé attitude on that site, which meant that more critical fans tended to get overshadowed. After author Greg Farshtey was denied further access to the site due to Toys/{{LEGO}}'s policies, this trend continued on the official LEGO Message Board (this time mostly without polls), then on [[WebOriginal/PandemicPanda the TTV fan forums]], retroactively adding details to canon and defining character appearances over a decade after the franchise had ended. This has also lead to lots of fan controversy, until Greg was laid off from LEGO in 2022, nullifying further fan canonization efforts.
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* In its later days, ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'''s side stories and expanded universe practically ran on this, by having certain story elements, names of animals and upcoming characters depend on fan polls (mainly members of Website/BZPower).Platform/BZPower). It didn't help that many fans had a blasé attitude on that site, which meant that more critical fans tended to get overshadowed. After author Greg Farshtey was denied further access to the site due to Toys/{{LEGO}}'s policies, this trend continued on the official LEGO Message Board (this time mostly without polls), then on [[WebOriginal/PandemicPanda the TTV fan forums]], retroactively adding details to canon and defining character appearances over a decade after the franchise had ended. This has also lead to lots of fan controversy, until Greg was laid off from LEGO in 2022, nullifying further fan canonization efforts.
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* According to this [[http://arvindn.livejournal.com/96382.html blog post]], Website/LiveJournal did this constantly, which prevented the site from becoming mainstream.
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* According to this [[http://arvindn.livejournal.com/96382.html blog post]], Website/LiveJournal Platform/LiveJournal did this constantly, which prevented the site from becoming mainstream.
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** The game's Hero Mode is dedicated almost entirely to pandering to Marie[[note]]who won the Callie vs. Marie Splatfest in the last game[[/note]] fans--she's your MissionControl, she gets a ton of character development, and [[TheWoobie it's honestly hard not to feel sorry for her]] when she starts worrying about where her cousin is. Of course, this [[OutOfFocus came at the expense of Callie]] (at least as popular as Marie), who is kidnapped right off the bat and, for a very long time, was almost completely absent from the game even after being rescued. This in turn led to more pandering, this time to Callie's largely dissatisfied fanbase, once it was revealed that the 3.0 update would add her to the Octo Canyon hub after completing the game. ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'' would also later feature both Callie and Marie in the story mode, with Callie in particular being the one who follows you around in the overworld.
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** The game's Hero Mode is dedicated almost entirely to pandering to Marie[[note]]who won the Callie vs. Marie Splatfest in the last game[[/note]] fans--she's your MissionControl, she MissionControl who gets a ton of character development, and [[TheWoobie it's honestly hard not to feel sorry for her]] development throughout the story, which is kicked off when she starts worrying about where sets out to look for her cousin is. missing cousin. Of course, this [[OutOfFocus came at the expense of Callie]] (at least as popular as Marie), Callie]], who is kidnapped right off the bat and, for a very long time, was almost completely absent from the game even after being rescued. This in turn led to more pandering, this time to Callie's largely dissatisfied fanbase, once it was revealed that the 3.0 update would add her to the Octo Canyon hub after completing the game. ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'' would also later feature both Callie and Marie in the story mode, with Callie in particular being the one who follows you around in the overworld.
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** Lockers are quite obviously supposed to be the interior design mechanic for players who wanted customizable apartments since the first game.
** The Inkopolis DLC caters to ''Splatoon 1'' loreheads, who were curious about what happened to Inkopolis Plaza and its residents during the seven-ish years since that game released. After the DLC's announcement hype died down, everyone else was left scratching their heads, wondering what justifies the $5 price tag[[note]]While Inkopolis is only available as part of a $25 expansion pass alongside ''Side Order'', the previous game's expansion, which didn't include a new hub, was only $20, leading people to assign the extra $5 as the cost of Inkopolis.[[/note]] for an alternate hub, which -- while cool -- is one of the less-essential parts of the game, especially given that Inkopolis Plaza is far smaller than Splatsville and so doesn't work as well as a place to explore or chill out after a battle.
** From the beginning, the ''Side Order'' DLC was ''quite'' open about pandering to fans of Off the Hook, who lamented how OutOfFocus they were in the base game (the only thing saving them from being outright DemotedToExtra at first was the promise that they would return eventually). When the DLC released, it brought with it an ''enormous'' amount of [[PortmanteauCoupleName Pearlina]] ShipTease, with their dialogue and behavior doing everything short of explicitly denoting them as a couple, indicating Nintendo was ''perfectly'' aware what many of Off the Hook's fans wanted out of the campaign. Shiver/Frye is hinted at too, for good measure.
** Lockers are quite obviously supposed to be the interior design mechanic for players who wanted customizable apartments since the first game.
** The Inkopolis DLC caters to ''Splatoon 1'' loreheads, who were curious about what happened to Inkopolis Plaza and its residents during the seven-ish years since that game released. After the DLC's announcement hype died down, everyone else was left scratching their heads, wondering what justifies the $5 price tag[[note]]While Inkopolis is only available as part of a $25 expansion pass alongside ''Side Order'', the previous game's expansion, which didn't include a new hub, was only $20, leading people to assign the extra $5 as the cost of Inkopolis.[[/note]] for an alternate hub, which -- while cool -- is one of the less-essential parts of the game, especially given that Inkopolis Plaza is far smaller than Splatsville and so doesn't work as well as a place to explore or chill out after a battle.
** From the beginning, the ''Side Order'' DLC was ''quite'' open about pandering to fans of Off the Hook, who lamented how OutOfFocus they were in the base game (the only thing saving them from being outright DemotedToExtra at first was the promise that they would return eventually). When the DLC released, it brought with it an ''enormous'' amount of [[PortmanteauCoupleName Pearlina]] ShipTease, with their dialogue and behavior doing everything short of explicitly denoting them as a couple, indicating Nintendo was ''perfectly'' aware what many of Off the Hook's fans wanted out of the campaign. Shiver/Frye is hinted at too, for good measure.
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** Another reason ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' is such a ContestedSequel is that it suffered almost as badly as X & Y did from this. In spite of the game's limited roster, Galar somehow managed to fit in a significant portion of Kanto Pokémon with the Champion's ace being a Charizard while Pokémon that actually fit the British theme like Stoutland were excluded (prior to the DLC). Not to mention that of the 32 Gigantamax forms in the game (counting DLC), 12 belong to Kanto Pokémon and 19 belong to Galar Pokémon, meaning that out of all the previous generations of Pokémon, ''only two'' do not hail from Kanto, these being Gen V's Garbodor and Gen VII's Melmetal.
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** Another reason ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' is such a ContestedSequel is that it suffered almost as badly as X & Y did from this. In spite of the game's limited roster, Galar somehow managed to fit in a significant portion of Kanto Pokémon with the Champion's ace being a Charizard while Pokémon that actually fit the British theme like Stoutland were excluded (prior to the DLC). Not to mention that of the 32 Gigantamax forms in the game (counting DLC), 12 belong to Kanto Pokémon and 19 belong to Galar Pokémon, meaning that out of all the previous generations of Pokémon, ''only two'' do not hail from Kanto, these being Gen V's Garbodor and Gen VII's Melmetal. And even Melmetal debuted in ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'', making it techinically a Kanto Pokémon!
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* This was one of the primary reasons the ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' series was stopped at the third installment.
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* DeathIsCheap: A common reason for characters who were killed off to be resurrected afterwards is in order to appease fans who weren't happy about what they saw as the work unfairly scrapping interesting characters.
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** One criticism leveled at ''[[Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker]]'': Not only does it bring back the original trilogy's BigBad and declare that he's been behind everything all along, but it also [[spoiler:makes him Rey's grandfather, undoing the previous movie's decision to make her TheUnchosenOne]]. Many critics have noted that it undoes/downplays several other elements of ''Film/TheLastJedi'' that upset what they call a VocalMinority of the fanbase, e.g. Rose Tico is DemotedToExtra and the core new characters are together for most of the story whereas they were split into groups in the previous film. Other critics (who, of course, call fans of the hotly ContestedSequel the VocalMinority), claim that it doesn't go ''far enough'' in undoing the sweeping changes TLJ brought to the series in the name of "subverting expectations". What is interesting about this is that ''both sides'' of the ''Star Wars'' BrokenBase see ''The Rise of Skywalker'' as an example of this, but which demographic they see it as pandering to varies depending on which side of the TLJ debate they're on. A rare few other reviewers, meeting in the middle, say that the film tries its hardest to pander to ''both'' groups, which predictably satisfied neither.
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** One criticism leveled at ''[[Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker]]'': Not only does it bring back the original trilogy's BigBad and declare that he's been behind everything all along, but it also [[spoiler:makes him Rey's grandfather, undoing the previous movie's decision to make her TheUnchosenOne]]. Many critics have noted that it undoes/downplays several other elements of ''Film/TheLastJedi'' that upset what they call a VocalMinority of the fanbase, e.g. Rose Tico is DemotedToExtra and the core new characters are together for most of the story whereas they were split into groups in the previous film. Other critics (who, of course, call fans of the hotly ContestedSequel the VocalMinority), claim that it doesn't go ''far enough'' in undoing the sweeping changes TLJ brought to the series in the name of "subverting expectations".expectations"[[note]]Which themselves may have been the result of criticisms that TFA hewed too close to ''A New Hope''. TLJ also drew on the KOTOR games, which are possibly the most popular example of a non-traditional, deconstructive Legends work outside of the Thrawn trilogy.[[/note]]. What is interesting about this is that ''both sides'' of the ''Star Wars'' BrokenBase see ''The Rise of Skywalker'' as an example of this, but which demographic they see it as pandering to varies depending on which side of the TLJ debate they're on. A rare few other reviewers, meeting in the middle, say that the film tries its hardest to pander to ''both'' groups, which predictably satisfied neither.
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* ''VideoGame/StepManiaX'', a CreatorDrivenSuccessor to ''VideoGame/InTheGroove'' and, like ''ITG'', featuring gameplay similar to ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'', features a lot of songs added in post-launch updates that are clearly aimed at longtime ''DDR'' fans, either being Dancemania licenses well-known for their inclusion in ''DDR'' ("So Deep"), remasters/remakes thereof ("Music & Police", which is almost exactly like "Rhythm & Police (K.O.G. G3 Mix)") or by artists known for older DDR songs ("MAX428" by NAOKI).
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* ''VideoGame/StepManiaX'', a CreatorDrivenSuccessor to ''VideoGame/InTheGroove'' and, like ''ITG'', featuring gameplay similar to ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'', features a lot of songs added in post-launch updates that are clearly aimed at longtime ''DDR'' fans, either being Dancemania licenses well-known for their inclusion in ''DDR'' ("So Deep"), remasters/remakes thereof ("Music & Police", which is almost exactly like "Rhythm & Police (K.O.G. G3 Mix)") or by artists known for older DDR songs ("MAX428" ("[=MAX428=]" by NAOKI).
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* ''VideoGame/StepManiaX'', a CreatorDrivenSuccessor to ''VideoGame/InTheGroove'' and, like ''ITG'', featuring gameplay similar to ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'', features a lot of songs added in post-launch updates that are clearly aimed at longtime ''DDR'' fans, either being Dancemania licenses well-known for their inclusion in ''DDR'' ("So Deep"), remasters/remakes thereof ("Music & Police", which is almost exactly like "Rhythm & Police (K.O.G. G3 Mix)") or by artists known for older DDR songs ("MAX428" by NAOKI).
