Why do people make fangames?

[Cloak of Laser Cannon]

Well, I usually get obsessed and stuff with the games and their characters, so making fangames just feels normal. It's a strange form of tribute. The problem is, most of my fangame ideas are crossovers. None as ridiculous as the ones an earlier poster mentioned, but still kinda silly. They are usually limited to just "game" crossovers. Even as a kid, sometimes I loved comparing similar things, that weren't actually related. In a crossover, I can take that to a new level. Like, Mega Man X getting a new power from defeating a member of Foxhound. I can make three completely different characters named King all appear in the same game. I don't know, stuff like that amuses me a little. Of course I have my own ideas, but well...when I tried my own game, it's like...MUSIC. It was a pretty big blow. I can do almost all of the other work myself, but my musical attempts are horrendous. I don't want to settle for RTP music (even though I like it) and so far I'm too "proud" to ask for help (and I'm not willing to spend money on that, and I don't want to take up someone else's time, and maybe no one would help me anyway, and maybe they'll get burnt out from the work, lose interest, and not contact me for years...?)

-Making a FanGame is easier then an original because the Characters and the world allready exist.
-Making a FanGame is harder then an original because the Characters and the world allready exist.

That's the way I see it too! Sometimes it's really hard to get a character's personality right. If you have your own character, you don't have to worry as much about getting things right (but if you are careless you might make unrealistic characters) I usually do a bit of research when I'm gonna to write a character in for a fangame (play the game again, look up text dumps from the game, see what other people have to say about the characters...it's a lot of work!)

Tell that to Square Enix. They have a history of cease and desist orders.

Well, wasn't that mainly just for two Chrono Trigger fangames? One being a complete remake and the other being a rom HACK? Neither one was simply a "fangame". One was making a copy of the original in a somewhat different form (3D) and the other was using hacked ROM files to make a game. I don't know how much difference it makes to them, but to me, that says something.