(Well, I won’t be starting more threads for now, but I am still looking for any posts I should reply to!)
But if Sega actually cared about how people viewed Sonic, wouldn’t they have NOT decided to do some of the things they’re doing? Not that they haven’t made some good choices before, and even now, but personally I haven’t gotten past the way they destroyed some characters’ proportions when it comes to BOOM.
I think that most fan-games out there aren’t intended to be hate messages to Sega. I think several Sonic fan-games are simply efforts by the community to express their love for a game that they have played.
At least, that’s what I want to do when I make fan-games.