Pat the NES punk controversy. Thoughts on Pat's "gamers are entitled" remarks?

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98dgreen:
Pat needs to stay away from modern stuff or else he gets too swayed by whatever Ian says.

grahf16:
I 100% think gamers are overly entitled. Other than sports culture (mainly NFL), the gaming fanatics are the worst, since they constantly cry about literally everything. The Diablo news, PSOne Classic games list, loot crates, day 1 DLC, the XBox One launch, literally any kind of bombshell gets blown way out of proportion, and then gamers feel like they are owed something as if they have common stock with that particular video game company. Think of literally any other hobby that you are into, now imagine :insert lead company: dropping a dud, can you imagine its fans reacting anywhere near as bad as gamers?

I have been playing games since the NES era, and have collected everything from NES all the way up to the current generation, and it is very embarrassing hearing grown adults reacting over something so insignificant in the grand scheme of their lives.

Just my .02

bikingjahuty:
I unsubbed Pat a little over a year ago because of his obnoxious, smug, know it all attitude that permeated nearly every video he made. To be honest the only reason I stayed subbed for a while was because of the occasional Flea Market Madness video and I thought the Frank videos were entertaining. On that note, I HATE Ian! He is an obnoxious POS just like Pat and almost everything he says it just as annoying, if not more annoying than what Pat says. I guess the transition of his channel to more of a podcast really made me realize how much of a dick he was in real life and how many of his opinions are garbage.

So this controversy is essentially his comeuppance for his shitty attitude that many have been aware of for years. This isn't the first time he attacked gamers for not being happy about something while ironically half his podcast is complaining about various things that happen within the gaming and collecting world. He is a flat out hypocrite and this video is no different.

I completely understand the backlash towards Blizzard; mobile gaming is a casual, watered down experience and to reduce one of the most competitive, complex franchises to a mobile game is worthy of backlash and hate. The Diablo fanbase is experiencing what many others within the gaming community are seeing which is the rapid casualization and watering down of the gaming industry for the sake of making their games accessible to everyone via a mobile game. I have nothing wrong with mobile games, but when a game like Diablo is being made into one I truly believe that is something to get pissed about. It isn't entitlement, it's making your opinions known on how you feel about something and that you don't support it. I hate that mentality that as consumers you should bend over and accept whatever mediocre product is made available to you, and that you should just be "grateful." No, that's not how a consumer/business relationship works! My money is your life's blood and if I choose not to buy your shit than you go out of business! If anything, businesses should be grateful for your business, not release crap that they feel you're expected to buy no matter what. Pat is 100% wrong about this and I hope this experience makes him think twice before spewing stupid shit on his podcast and thinking there are no consequences for it. The viewers have spoken Pat, and think your channel is bullshit.

oldgamerz:
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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.

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OLDGAMERZ REPLY

I am not too sure what happened. But this looks like a classic case of the bigger guy "Pew Dew Pie" taking advantage of the smaller guy on the internet. of "Pat The NES Punk's" mistake. I don't watch much YouTube anymore or lately. BUT

But one thing you have to consider is sometimes being famous in the world today, does a lot of inflation to the average persons ego. It is vary easy to get a high ego and think you're God, when you're famous. but sometimes we all need to come back to reality and consider what made us famous, and that answer involves the people we're trying to impress. and the fact is if you say something blankly and with an inflated ego you could upset your fans. and you could end up back to where you started. I'd say, Consider where you once were before you were famous, and try to regroup and humble your ego. it happens to the best of us.

both were wrong in my own opinion

soera:
In the immortal words of Phil Anselmo "Fuck em all". Pat and Pew are both garbage. I watched the Pawn Stars episode he was on the day it was aired. It was all over Nintendo age and I knew that he wasnt going to sell and he went on there just to get his name out there more. It was so staged and what not. Hes a self righteous ass who lost his way years ago.

Pewdiepie isnt even a gamer. Hes a loser that has a lot of bigger losers following him cause they dont know any better. Part of the reason Youtube is a cesspool is morons like him.

Are gamers entitled? Fuck yeah they are. Should we be? Fuck yeah we should be. Why should we settle for junk when we dont have to? Diablo Immortal is just a waste of time mobile game. Not really what Diablo fans were waiting for. Its a path a lot of the bigger game companies are going to. Blizzard, Bethesda, EA, Activision, etc ... all are turning into greedy ass corporations who are set to get the most money for the smallest amount of work releasing buggy ass games to the public essentially having the community as a whole be their beta testers.

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