Not quite a month bump, and I'm changing the prompt, I'm a terrible person.
Well, other people do hate this, but it's still very popular and well-received. Still: Games That Are Objectively Bad But You Still Like Them.
Fucking Blood Bowl. I defy anyone to explain to me how Blood Bowl is a well-made game. It's probably mostly a result of its age, there's been rule updates but I don't think anybody's seriously reimagined the core game functionality which is the problem.
Extremely dice-centric. Yeah, you can manage the risk but the sheer anti-fun of the dice means that when everything goes your way the most you can muster is a numb "yeah, good, it's working." Lukewarm highs and abyssal lows.
Badly balanced. Goblins are fun and all but there are some seriously garbage teams in Blood Bowl, and meanwhile you've got wood elves prancing through the leaderboards. People cry about clawpomb but without clawpomb to keep them honest minmaxed elf teams would sweep everything.
Degenerate tactics. I guess this is a personal thing but I know I've heard a lot of people echo this sentiment. Standard strategy for competitive play is mind-numbing and terrible. It feels more like extreme contact soccer than football. 2-1 is the most boring shit in the universe and the general "hold the ball as long as you can" theme takes all the insane fun out of the setting. It's why I usually only play with AI.
All that being said, I can't stop playing this fucking game. I love it. I have stockholm syndrome. Even though I hate the competitive meta and I think it's boring as fuck, I'll probably get on FUMBBL and start playing for real before long.
And judging by the popularity of sites like FUMBBL and GW's incoming rerelease, I'm far from the only one who loves this awful broken garbage game.
Edit: The game's at its best when it's a comedy of errors, where both teams are rolling so badly strategy becomes impossible and you can't even be mad anymore, when it turns into a tangled mess of people fumbling for the ball and tripping over their own feet.