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They Owe Us
There has been a rather interesting conversation going on in the comment section of my Class Warfare post. Essentially, the question is: do game companies owe their early fans anything? According to...
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Entitlement
“Entitlement,” like “casual” before it, is such a loaded word these days that I consider any gaming argument in which it is included to be a lost cause. How can you reason with someone who sees no...
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SimCity and Meta-Criticism
After a long period of reflection, I had originally decided to not join in on all the schadenfreude surrounding the SimCity debacle beyond my post two weeks ago. Not out of any moral sensibilities –...
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Parity as Entitlement
I wrote a post about Entitlement and the problems surrounding its (ab)use in gaming discussions back in 2012. Nothing has changed since then – I still consider anyone who uses it in a semi-serious way...
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PR Disaster Watch: Destiny Edition
June has not been a good month for game company PR departments. Or maybe it has been an excellent month in demonstrating the necessity of their existence in the face of designers with a bad case of...
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Apparently I write about (gamer) entitlement every two years. Well, here is the 2018 version, inspired by this section from MMOBro’s recent post: The problem with trends is that businesses chase them...
View ArticleGame Developers as Chefs
Estebon had an interesting comment on my prior Entitlement Culture post, in defense of the experts: There is, unfortunately, a general zeitgeist of mistrust toward expertise in the world today, which...
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