What? You think I'm some naive child?
Calm the fuck down.
Why must you throw around that word "entitlement" like it means a goddamn thing? Its a buzzword.
No, it isn't. Entitlement refers to the sense many gamers have that they are "owed" something by game developers - that their personal needs ought to be catered to (often exclusively!) and that developers who don't treat them like the special snowflakes they believe themselves to be are committing some sort of grievous offense. For instance, the belief that you have somehow been wronged by game developers because you were disappointed by pre-orders - that's entitlement. You weren't wronged. They didn't harm you. They didn't commit fraud. They just gave you a game that wasn't what you wanted. Your poor thing.
Don't trust corporations, Gotcha bub. Thanks mom, love your condescending tone. The word "entitlement" was brought up when one shithead on the Mass Effect writing team took 3's script into a room and threw out everyone else's ideas.
Christ, you're obnoxious.
What game companies at least managed to do before was PRETEND they weren't nickel and diming you at every turn.
Gaming companies aren't doing anything of the sort. We enjoy one of the least expensive modern hobbies in the world, and you still somehow find room in your brain to imagine that you're being taken advantage of.
Now modding is limited and DLC is rampant, and every purchase has strings attached.
Of course every purchase has strings attached. It's software.
There's only AAA games and "indie games"; there's no AA scene like there was in the PS2, GC, and Xbox gen. It was when major devs and publishers didn't feel like they were the same entity.
"AA scene" is a term you literally just made up.
Trust is necessary,
Nonsense.
a good community that devs actively encourage and develop is fantastic, look at Bungie in their Halo 2-Reach days. Look
Devs do encourage and develop communities. Even the ones you choose not to be a part of. The problem is that you've confused "good communities" with "communities I personally am interested in being a part of". Get your head out of your ass and it will be much easier to see that your personal whims don't dictate some objective scale of quality.