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| Pat the NES punk controversy. Thoughts on Pat's "gamers are entitled" remarks? |
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| marvelvscapcom2:
Hello everyone :) To keep it short and to the point for those who aren't caught up on everything. 1. Diablo Immortal (mobile diablo) gets announced. Everyone rages about it because they didn't like it. 2. Pat the NES punk refers to those getting upset about it as cry babies and claims gamers are entitled. 3. PewDiePie (70 million subscribers) picks up the story, essentially giving Pat (250k subs) the ermac fatality. Just off his sheer fanbase scale. Now all his fans are ravaging Pat's channel with dislikes and unsubs. 4. Everyone hates Pat now. To stem beyond that a lot of people don't like Pat to begin with, they say he did his pawn stars thing and only went on there to flex his NWC gold and grey carts and that he is very mean to his friend Ian sometimes and really just jumps into topics he doesn't know much about to give half assed opinions and has a fake superficial personality. I however disagree with this and like Pat a lot and want to meet him at an expo soon. I like Pat and I think Pat was also 100 percent right with his statement. As a gamer I can admit I fall into this category sometimes. I am 100 percent a whining, hard to please, entitled gamer sometimes as all gamers are I think. We all tend to demand things of Devs without taking consideration intangibles or their feelings, we critique anything and everything we don't like way too harshly almost in a cult like way, we are very over reactive as a community and very unaccepting of things that don't tailor fit our preferences. Which can be frustrating at times. Where do you stand with Pat the NES punk? Have you met him? Do you like him? :D Or do you not know who he is? |
| hexen:
Pat has always been kind of a slimey hypocrite. As long as no one is physical assulting him or harassing him, calling him out for his dumbass opinion on his channel or Twitter is fine. Any defense of Diablo Immortal is basically just willingly giving up consumer power, so calling it 'entitlement' is kind of moronic. So, I totally disagree with you, and you should well know if this happens to other things in other industries it is not called 'entitlement', but quality control. |
| marvelvscapcom2:
--- Quote from: hexen on November 17, 2018, 07:20:00 pm ---Pat has always been kind of a slimey hypocrite. As long as no one is physical assulting him or harassing him, calling him out for his dumbass opinion on his channel or Twitter is fine. Any defense of Diablo Immortal is basically just willingly giving up consumer power, so calling it 'entitlement' is kind of moronic. So, I totally disagree with you, and you should well know if this happens to other things in other industries it is not called 'entitlement', but quality control. --- End quote --- I never thought of it like that :). As the quality control. I guess the gamers being up in arms and being so vocal has also saved us from a lot of thing. 1. Digital only 2. Kinect always on watching you fap 3. Online Only games with no single player 4. Motion control dependency 5. No pandering Although we are losing our grasp on so many of those, the constant fight keeps us in control. I think Pat should have worded better looking back. |
| sworddude:
It had to be done as far as the booing goes, at least now they might avoid the mobile market since otherwise mobile gaming could be the main thing in the diablo franchise. |
| kamikazekeeg:
I don't pay attention to him much anymore since he mostly stopped doing his regular show as far as I can tell for awhile now. Watched some of his podcast stuff and flea market stuff awhile back, but there were times where he didn't seem overly knowledgeable about the topics unless it's very retro related and his podcast is very off the cuff, so it's gonna usually lead to regular hot takes on things. That said, he most likely doesn't deserve the shit he's getting, especially from a nasty mob like what PewDiePie is gonna be sending his way, but I'd probably not agree with Pat also, just going off the premise put out as I'm not gonna watch the video. The uproar might be overblown, it usually is (Battlefield V is a good example of how fucked up it gets), but looking at the information, this was Blizzard just completely doing everything they could wrong. This wasn't the audience that was waiting for some weak looking mobile game, the fans who paid to watch it at home didn't want that, this wasn't the game you ended the keynote on, they had both teased and downplayed Diablo being at the show, it only got worse afterwards when it was noticed that the developer for the game had previously made a mobile Diablo knockoff and was just re-skinning it and adding some extra stuff to make a Diablo game. This was not something that serious fans wanted at all and this was reflected in the feedback. There's not a single thing wrong with them making a mobile Diablo game, but as EA showed earlier this year with Command & Conquer: Rivals, not keeping your fanbase in mind with these things can go real bad. |
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