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Entitled Gamers - Gaming's Big Fat Diaper Babies Need to Shut It

The internet has no shortage of complainers and right here in our own gaming community we sadly have more than our fair share. Will entitled gamers ever be happy or are we doomed to listen to them moan until the end of time itself?

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uth113771d ago

Hey, It's not their fault! if these companies would just give them everything now, and for free, then it would almost be enough!

DarthZoolu3771d ago

How on earth is wanting your moneys worth being entitled? I pay $65 or more for my games!

Karnalsyn3770d ago

Maybe you should make smarter purchasing decisions? Videos games depreciate in value within a few months of release. Noone forces you to pay full price...nor do you have to.

3-4-53771d ago

* All complaints DOES NOT = Entitlement

Some can = that though.

Christopher3771d ago (Edited 3771d ago )

The problem is who decides when it's entitlement and when it's legitimate criticism. It's not like there aren't stupid decisions made in gaming or entitled gamers. But, where is the line drawn? Who is making that decision?

You mention Destiny and the "free item". Great, I got a free item. Here's the problem, Destiny "likes" other gamers more than me because what I got was garbage and what they got was pretty freaking nice.

Now, is that a complaint about getting a free item? No, it's a complaint about how their flawed system of completely random things can happen and determine how effective you are in the game has impacted something that is meant to be a gift of equal value to everyone. But, it's not that. To me and many others, it was another 3 ascendant energy that can go right in my stack of 80+ ascendant energy. To others, it was a weapon that I worked two weeks to earn and is actually useful or even better results.

That's not a complaint about getting something for free. It's a complaint about a flawed system. A flawed system that shines through even when they are trying to be nice and give you something for free.

As I said in another article on this: This is like me giving my oldest son a $1 allowance and my youngest a $20 allowance even though they both do all their chores as requested. Should my oldest son never complain even though I'm obviously paying my youngest more for the same time and effort? Of course he should. I'm being a jerk to him and thinking lesser of him.

Edit: In short, I think it's really easy for people to lump people with some legitimate complaints into the entitled category. I don't think there are that many entitled people in the gaming community as we make it out to be. I just think some complaints are skewed towards that because others disagree and lump them all together. Kind of like how people lump people into one side of the fanboy war based on a single comment made in a single submission.

Godmars2903771d ago

Meh, ME3 is still the best example of entitlement and criticism. Bioware made many compromises, not just the ending, then expected to only be praised for something that was rushed out of the door. And more AAA devs have only done the same thing.

Christopher3771d ago

I still hate the ME3 ending, even the "extended" version that just showed people doing things of no importance. But I never jumped on the bandwagon for it. I loved almost everything up to that point. But, it was a shite ending that won't change until they decide to not leave it so open ended and generic in response to the decisions you made through the three games.

I hope the criticism they got for that game will do for ME4 what DA2 criticism did for DA: Inquisition.

randomass1713771d ago

Lots of people demanded refunds over Mass Effect 3. I disliked the ending but I loved the rest of the game up until that point. I don't see why everyone basically said the ending ruined the entire trilogy when most people would agree the games are legitimately fun and well written until the very end.

uth113771d ago

The difference is in attitude, I think. A legitimate beef can be defended with reason, as opposed to entitlement which is usually justified with something like "I pay money, I only deserve everything"

The real entitled people, it's really part of their personality. In life they complain about everything. Everyone and everything does them wrong. They'll twist vague statements into promises and they'll get mad that these promises (which were never actually made) were broken, and they deserve something for that.

Christopher3771d ago

I can totally see your point on that. Good reply.

ziggurcat3771d ago

it's entitlement when you (i don't mean you, personally!) cry about putting X amount of time, and spending X amount of dollars on a game, and expecting to get a unique, custom-tailored ending because you somehow think that every little decision you've made over the course of the other two games in the series is supposed to have some kind of butterfly effect on the last installment's code.

loganbdh3771d ago

Lol chris, u didn't have to write a rebuttal article over this.

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WeAreLegion3771d ago

Do some babies not wear diapers?

Digital_Anomaly3771d ago

As evidenced by a lot of the N4G populace I feel pretty good about saying yes... haha

bleedsoe9mm3771d ago

pooping all over n4g , disagree and tagging as trolling even the most reasonable even handed comments .

N4g_null3771d ago

There is too much agenda here. It is hard to separate real issues from fake ones or just your competitors loading comments sections.

This effect actually causes a niche to form that culls gamers away eventually.

I think alot of this is coming from the development teams in this industry also. It is spilling into public now.

This is all fixed by just talking about games rather than the gamers.

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remixx1163771d ago

I do feel like some gamers take it a little far with their self entitlement, can't please everybody but god I know its hard to be a developer and have to decide what you feel like your audience deserves and what can be offered later at a price without tarnishing your image and being labeled as greedy.

IGiveHugs2NakedWomen3771d ago (Edited 3771d ago )

Some people complain because the sun is shinning too bright. You'll be able to tell who the entitled cry babies are. Watch their posts. They rarely ever have anything positive, interesting, or constructive to add to a conversation. Take a look at their comment history and all you'll see are nothing but negative comments about everything and anything that they don't have or own themselves. They are miserable people and they thrive on making others miserable. They bring nothing of any real substance to the gaming community as a whole other than chaos.

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