The Flappy Bird dev was getting death/suicide threats on Twitter after he announced he was taking it down. https://twitter.com/EliLanger/timelines/432588181611892736
I hope these people aren't the majority, but there are a lot of people who are abusive about games that don't measure up to their definition of a 'game'. It's unfortunate.
I am under the impression that a sizable group of people on the internet regularly gets legitimately angry about any given video game issue. Why would this be different? I remember people being genuinely upset with Nintendo's "betrayal of its fans" with the Wii.