Take a long look at US culture and it should explain where the entitlement comes from. Everyones a winner and should get something for nothing no matter what. The young adults now think the world owes them.

People didn't overhype themselves, Bungie did. I can even say they lied because they said there is something new in the game after maintenance, AND especially the 26th. It means we should have something when servers restarted and we didn't. I'm still glad to play the game and it's one of the most stable beta i played but sadly it's also a beta with the weakest content i ever played. It sounds more like a marketing demo. Also they are not clear about what will carry over, and we should know it since beta started.

It IS a marketing demo! Do you think Bungie actually wanted us to find bugs? No! They are creating hype for the game. The game that has been presented to us so far is very clean and polished. Pff "beta"

People have lost all ability to hold reasonable expectations it seems. They can't ever look at the developer's intent and baseline their own expectations, they think whatever thought or inclination for improvement or feature they can conceive is instantly valid, because they are these entitled gamer gods and if Bungie does not appease them, they are going to spam never ending "Farewell" posts to go to other games (but never actually tell you what games they are going to go play without us) They are virtually like those kids that dream up a game for everyone in the neighborhood to play and when the other kids think its lame, they take their toys and leave. When the other kids ask them why they're no longer playing, they defensively reply "I've got better games to play" in between sobs as they cower in their closet all alone. It's just runaway narcissism. Consumerism caters to it, now its this unstoppable monster and individuals who lack objectivity simply feed off it.

In general the sense of 'entitlement' comes from a couple things. First off, gamers still want something for their money. Maybe you don't work for yours so you don't care if you spend $65 for a piece of crap, but a lot of us are getting tired of shelling out cash for crap game after crap game. Myself, I've just stopped buying so many games and live on Steam now, but others don't want to transition to the PC so they complain. Simple fact is your most powerful complaint tool is to NOT BUY something, cause in the end that's all companies care about. So they get pissed because they're paying into things and not getting something that satisfies. 2nd is that this new 'generation' of gaming is the most pathetic technological jump in gaming history really, so older gamers like myself were expecting a much bigger technology jump from last gen to this gen than really happened, unless you switched to PC's which ARE as awesome as this new generation was SUPPOSED to be. Video gaming is becoming an insanely expensive hobby to up keep and it is becoming more and more disappointing almost every year. Finally with the advent of Kickstarters and Early Access content, gamers (especially PC gamers) are becoming much more used to and comfortable with interacting with the developers during the development process and giving feed back and ideas. It's OUR game after all, sure the developers make it, it's their baby, but in the end it lives or dies with US, not them. Ideally everyone should benefit from a transparent Developer - Consumer relationship, they can cater to the gamers more exactly but in exchange they have a product that sells better and longer. The problem comes with things like Destiny, which is a great game thus far, however if the Beta is any sign it's going to be monetized as hell and suffer horribly from the DLC curse of you only really get half a game and the rest comes on DLC so in the end the true WHOLE product cost more than $100. There's also the issue of expectations. It's fine to hope with lofty and unreasonable expectations, that's called dreaming, and dreaming is what makes awesome games. However when/if those EXACT expectations aren't met there are a good amount of people who flip their $h!t and go crazy. Myself, I just shrug and laugh and add the game to the massive list of crap that isn't worth my money. Issue is a LOT of people feel obligated to spend their money in this day and age, I don't understand it myself, but a lot of people get angry because they can't believe they paid so much for something which doesn't fulfill their expectations/desires, even though they're totally denying the REALITY that they didn't HAVE to buy the damn thing. They could have waited for reviews, tried it at a friends or who knows what else. In the end though their impatience coupled with an inability to accept that reality often falls short of expectation often creates a hostile and undesirable situation. Companies fail to price their product well in a failing economy, fail to listen to player input and fail to produce a complete product good enough for you to WANT more DLC. Players however fail to understand reasonable realistic expectations, fail to hold onto their money and wait to buy a product and fail to say NO to monetizing bastardized DLC centric business models. As a species we define ourselves through our hate and rage, the world is falling apart and a lot of us are angry about it, we're just misplacing that rage because it's easier to ignore the problem and be mad at something you have no control over than to get angry at something you obviously should be getting up off your @ss and doing something about.

A: It's come from liberalism. People teaching their kids that they "deserve" everything - and most of it for nothing.

One short and sweet answer the money, if you are dropping $60+ on a game you should feel entitled to something( unless ur using ur parents money)

I haven't raised my torch or pitchfork, been enjoying the day early start and will be sad to see the beta end.