Of course, once could argue that an insular community of grogs or indie gamers might buy too much into their own hype. There are people over on the Mount & Blade forum who were absolutely incensed over the official (non-user) Gamespot review of their own pet game, despite that most of what Gamespot said about it was absolutely true (combat is great, macro stuff is a chore, little to no help for new players, etc.).
Of course, putting on the whole "young people today" airs won't exactly help either. Has that ever worked? When I started playing this series of ours, it wasn't because some grog told me that I wasn't playing the "correct" wargames.