Urh said:
DVS BSTrD said:
This episode could have been a lot worse.
...but I'm not sure if it could've been better. I also find that people who espouse the "it could be worse, so shut your trap and take another dick in the arse" attitude are usually the ones who piss and moan about "entitlement" when people air legitimate grievances about a particular game/business model/whatever.
As a person who see's an issue with entitlement among gamers, I resent that. People do throw that buzz word around a bit too much, but it is a problem in some cases.
When gamers chastise a developer about a game for being "consolised" or being dumbed down, arguing that the developers don't care about their franchise and fans that follow them, ignoring the fact that the "streamlining" is intended to make a game more accessible to people with less tolerance to inefficient/unwieldy designs, and that audience being just as entitled to the games as you (but not as patient with games as you) since they will pay for it with money that is of equal value to your own... . Ergo, Entitlement. Your investment is equal to theirs, you have no real ground to argue otherwise (beyond feeling entitled).
Or gamers who complain about DLC in a general sense, associating all DLC with CoD map packs and weapon/armour/skin packs, while plenty of developers who have released complete games and merely want to extend playability post release and offer substantial DLC in place of the old Expansion pack system. These gamers think that DLC is intrinsically bad because they have to pay for more content and feel as though they deserve that content for buying the full game they already have. No you don't. It's optional, you don't need it unless you want to play more of that game but with NEW content. These are Entitlement issues.
*An example of this one would be the Deus Ex: HR game. When the "Missing Link" DLC was released, it added finished piece of content was cut entirely from the original release. The Developers figured the content was worth having in the game so reworked it into a full DLC (with 3-5 hours game play added to the game) and took on criticisms from the main game and experimented with solutions in the DLC.
However, people argued that because the content, in one form or other, was originally intended to be in the game in order to flesh out certain plot points, they were somehow entitled to the DLC at no cost. I have many problems with that.
However, situations where people throw the entitlement card down and in the process promote and praise bad Producer/Consumer relations, should be checked and confronted. When a Company treats it's customers like sheep or cattle of some form, seeing them as something to be exploited rather then being their only lifeline... that's when shit becomes a problem. On Disk DLC (as sterling argued before), Online passes, actions that diminish consumer power (attempts to demonise the used game market), Intrusive DRM, regional price differences... all these things are detestable and are only pushed by Companies who think they can get away with pull the rug from under us by telling us it's for our own good or that we don't understand...
No, YOU don't understand mister business man... you're here FOR US. If your very presence upsets the blood of your business (the consumer and their wallet) then you are doing something fucking awful.
