Has anybody else noticed this lately? Amongst the gaming community there certainly seems to be a lot of people who feel they deserve more and more. The Mass Effect 3 "scandal" has fans who believe they deserve a revision to the game's ending because they didn't like it. Diablo III fans complain that the graphics have too much color and put together a petition to have it changed to their liking. Sonic fans who don't like how the latest title controls because it feels different from past iterations. Silent Hill fans have even condemned the latest Vita title before even getting a chance to play it. At some point all of this became something normal and now I don't even think twice when I see stories like this all over the internet, it's become the norm.

Many of us have gotten to the point where we complain so regularily that it's become as commonplace as breathing. I'm a little afraid of socializing on the internet, chatting about games, because it's become so negative. We can't even talk about the things we love without it becoming a debate. And yesterday, when GOG decided to give away a free game, some people got upset because they had it already. You'd think everyone would be jazzed that one of their favourites was getting out to a wider audience, but then again, hardcore gamers love to exclude outsiders from their past-time.

Where does it all end. Don't some people realize that we're making it hard for people to do their jobs and make a living. I know that we all want our favourite games to be as good as possible and we all want as much as we can get, but when does it become too much? When are people crossing a line?

Lately? No. It has been like this for years and years.

I'm still happy and have no reason to complain! :-D

Smile to the world and the world smiles to you!

I demand that people have MORE self-entitlement and negativity!!!

No, I'm lying. Frankly I find it all silly. The gamers are going to play the games regardless after all, even if Diablo happens to be a little bright or Mass Effect didn't have full closure or Monkey Banana Fighter 2 didn't use real bananas. And then of course the pop-up in this forum. Yeah, from what everyone was saying I got into the hype a bit too, and I also expected a new title, but oh well. Fallout, I have it. GOG gives out free games every few promotions anyway, there was one during the Bulder's Gate sale, there's a Buy 1 Get 1 Free deal going right now, we got a new freebie title a few weeks ago and they handed out a free title over the Christmas sale. Just put your pants back on (meaning, stop showing your ass side) and have fun with what you have and what you can get, not what you aren't getting.

By "lately" I guess I meant this generation. I'd agree that things like this have been normal for a while but perhaps that they have elevated to a new extreme in recent memory. Wait!?!? Monkey Banana Fighter 2 didn't use real bananas!?!?! But the first one advertised how real bananas were used for motion capture. This goes against everything the series is known for!

Maybe, but it certainly has gotten worse here in the past few month.

But appeatently that's gamers nowadays. I'm boycotting... uhm... everybody right now!

Perhaps it has to do with the fact that the internet has made it extremely easy to talk to the people behind the games you love. Everyone has an opinion and suggestion for them now. Everyone feels they need to be heard and pleased.

Welcome to the internet.

The point isn't that people express their opionion, it's how they do it. And, to be honest, you can't complain about an artistic decision, you can like it or not. I certainly didn't like all aspects of the ME ending, but I'm not demanding anything. This whole petitioning and demanding trend of recent years is childish and pointless.

... where the future is always bleak ...

People are ten times* more likely to complain about something than they are to praise it and the ease of communicating on the internet has also made it ten times more likely they'll voice it loudly. Whenever you see a mass outpouring of dislike about something, it's always worth considering that they are almost certainly the vocal minority, and that the silent majority are enjoying whatever it is just fine.


* probably not the actual figure, but close enough

It makes me wonder how different the internet would be if none of the really big and famous Internet petitions had seen any success. Certainly there are many noble ones like the one addressed to Activision to allow the release of The Silver Lining or the Nintendo one called Operation Rainfall, But some causes aren't worth fighting for.

gog owes me 5.99 because I already own fallout!!!!!!!!!!!

Yea, the actual figure is 11.27 times. I know, I did the research.

Gog owes you a round in the silly noise hammer box. Now go in there and get hit by silly noise hammers!