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Disagree. Light is simply the world's best disinfectant. NONE of what is going on right now is new. We're just more aware of it because there is greater transparency because of media...and we're at a societal tipping point. People are frustrated and angry at institutions of business and government because they are seeing...increasingly...that they don't serve the needs of the average person. People are also less and less willing to tolerate the abuses that unaccountable power used to take as its RIGHT. Was having this conversation with a colleague a couple of weeks ago. I work in a profession where----just a generation ago----department heads would ROUTINELY get away with throwing on-the-job tantrums that would make a toddler red-faced with embarrassment. Shouting. Swearing. Objects being thrown.... ...and nothing was done about. it. Acting out like that was just seen as one of the perks of their power....and underlings just needed to shut up and deal with it....or go work somewhere else. The culture has changed....because the society has changed....but OH BOY, did they NOT give up that power willingly...easily...or QUIETLY. But that pendulum also swings both ways. Gamers have become entitled....as society has become entitled. Gamers want all the BENEFITS of fast internet. Cheap mass storage...and the ability to continuously update games. But they don't want any of the problems that go with it....and they don't want PAY for it. Which is just an unreasonable expectation....and when unreasonable expectations (predictably) fail to get met....people get mad. The irony is that this is the Golden Age of Gaming. I played through the remastered-for-PS5 version of Uncharted 4 this weekend. If you had told me 20 years ago that I'd be playing something like this IN MY HOME? I'd have looked at you like you had lost your mind. But when you're always focusing on what is not there, and what expectations are NOT being met.....you blind yourself to what is...and how good it all really is right now.
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  • Nah this isn't the golden age of gaming because literally everyone is constantly complaining about the games. Also gamers should be entitled and they have always been entitled. If I pay 60$ for a game I wanna play my moneys worth simple. Stop releasing things for dlc that should already be in the game.

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  • Edited by kellygreen45: 2/2/2022 1:01:53 PM
    Okay. Only problem is whose definition of “$60 worth” are we going with…and why? And a smart consumer…if they feel they aren’t getting their money’s worth stops shopping at that store and takes their business elsewhere. They don’t keep showing to eat at a restaurant while constantly complaining about how lousy the food and the service are. At some point—-if you keep doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result—it stops being the other party’s fault. Like the old saying: [i]Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. [/i]

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  • Edited by o_____________o: 2/1/2022 2:27:58 AM
    [quote]Okay. Only problem is whose definition of “$60 worth” are we going with…and why? [/quote] I think what he's referring to is the practice of releasing a broken game that did not live up to what was advertised, yet still charging $60 for it. You never put the onus on the customer for falling for a scam, you put the onus on the scammer. Yes, they should wise up, but your logic is similar to victim-blaming. If a company says that "this game will have x, y, and z," but then we only get "x" after paying up $60, then we are entitled to a refund since the product we received was not the product advertised.

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  • Exactly and y and z is for dlc. 40$ a pop.

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  • Stop buying from the devs who do that. I got burned a number of times by Ubisoft games, and I stopped buying from them until they cleaned up their act. I’ve also stopped buying most EA games as well. Battlefield 2042s trailers looked great. But I remembered most BF games release in a buggy, half cooked state under in the best years. But with a pandemic slowing things down for the last two years? No way. Only to have EA sink below even my limited expectations. Gamers need to understand that their power lay in closing their wallets and walking away….

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