Entitled Gamers and Other Logical Fallacies

Er, no, it doesn't. Unless your definition of 'good product' is 'popular', in which case you're using a value system I can't relate to at all. Lilya 4-Ever is a spectacularly good movie, no matter how badly it did in US theaters.

I suppose I should have qualified "commercially good" since art is entirely subjective. Regardless the point holds. Console and PC are two different markets and the consumers have different concerns, even if there is some overlap. Just because the PC market wouldn't accept a game without keyboard and mouse support doesn't mean anyone is acting "entitled". That's just how markets work.

Yes. Glad we agree. I put it to you that this community is lousy with people that do exactly that.

It's really not. If you bother to engage people they'll likely tell you the reasons for their opinions, just like I'm doing.

Why is that exploitation? They don't have a gun to your head forcing you to buy it. If they remove content from the game and you think what's left isn't worth $60, don't buy it. That's a sale lost.

Exploitation is all about fairness. If a company has a finished product they originally intended to sell for a certain price, then lock part of it behind a separate paywall, I consider that unfair because they are misleading consumers. The reality of the situation is that the producer wants to charge more without appearing like they are charging more, I consider that to be an unfair practice. A fair practice would be setting whatever the producer feels is an honest price on the product.

I've asked this hypothetical before on reddit, and the person I was talking to dodged it and dodged it and then made a fool of himself. See if you do better: Imagine a game is released next week. Every single mainstream review, every single user review, every single Steam comment, is overwhelmingly positive. The game costs 60 bucks, plays like a dream, is amazing fun, runs on all sorts of hardware, has no microtransactions, and takes 500 hours to complete without ever requiring you to grind. Just before you buy it, you discover 10 hours of finished content were cut before release for a DLC, and so instead of 510 hours of amazing gameplay you are only getting a piddly 500. Do you buy the game?

Depends on if it's a game I'm interested in playing. If I'm interested and feel it's worth the money, sure. Would I still think what they are doing is fair? No. Personally I would rather they just stick a $70 retail price tag on it in the first place and leave all the content in.

Like I said, I must be reading a different version of this subreddit than you. Even in this very thread there is someone using the words "it is totally reasonable to demand".

You're leaning very heavily on semantics here. If someone has a reasonable argument behind their statement then they are not acting "entitled". If you don't bother to ask them "Why do you think that?" then you can't say for sure whether they are acting entitled or not.

It's perfectly reasonable to demand that an online game marketed to children should censor profane or offensive speech. It is reasonable because if the game is marketed to children that creates the expectation that it doesn't include "adult" or profane language. Someone making that demand, even if they add a bunch of unnecessary exclamation points, is not acting "entitled".

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