Labreya

@A Sandwich

But by calling them "entitled" like it's a bad thing IS denying people their right to complain. They're also entitled to react by giving money to charity, or try pay for a new ending, much like how you're entitled to disagree with their course of action.

I'm not arguing for or against their actions, and I'm not arguing that you should stop disagreeing with them. I'm arguing against a false definition of the term "entitled" that seems to have generated due to this whole mess. If you want to remove their right to be entitled to a viewpoint on a product but keep your right to complain about their actions or motives, you're just being hypocritical.

@A Sandwich

When you spend around $180 and dedicate many hours over five years to a product, you have a right to complain about an ending, and you can want it changed. You're entitled to have a response to your investment/purchase.

To act like people don't deserve the right to complain about a product they put time and money into is absurd. You're a mirror image of what you claim to be against. OF COURSE people are entitled to a reaction. You just hopped on a bandwagon that has decided "entitled==bad" and ran with an extremists view on the word. You're just as guilty of being in the wrong as the people you argue against.

@sonicspike41

If you're going for the legal definition of steal, then you do have to remove the item.

Legal definition would be "To take an item, without the consent or knowledge of the owner, with the purpose of depriving the owner of said item".

@chispito

His game was pirated, actually.

This is an open and shut case of piracy.

@Mazrael

I would, but the house is rented. I can't see my landlord being cool with me hacking holes in the door.

@BrianZeluz

Hate to be the one to break this to you man, but...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9001753/HMV-to-scale-back-video-games.html

Honestly, I think we'll be screwed for choice here. I'll probably be ordering online from here on, even if it does mean dealing with the fools at An Post, who near break my games pushing them through my small letter box rather than knocking like I've asked.

I'll just wait six months for Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City: Super Awesome Mega Happy Kawaii Turbo Remix, with all the DLC from this game plus some new thing that could have also been DLC, but they decided it warranted a full price tag.

@Faceless Troll


I absolutely adore FF7, and I agree with you 100%.

After all these years of waiting and demanding, it'd never live up to the unreasonable expectations people would have for a remake.

Keep text boxes for talk? "It's 20XX! Get voice artists!"
Get voice actors? "Cloud/Barret/Yuffie/The chocobos don't sound exactly as I'd have liked! Awful game!"
Not to mention the number of people saying "Character X/ Object Y/ Location Z doesn't look as amazing as I'd expected. Cheap cash-in. I hate Square" blah blah blah...

It'd just be messy, to say the least.

It's better that they leave Jak and Daxter. Do the HD upscale release and leave it at that.

If they make a new game, fanboys will overhype themselves to oblivion, and the game will never meet their unreachably high standards, complaining about every little thing they deem unacceptable with the new game. Meanwhile, people who aren't fans of the series will be wondering why ND is working on a game from a series they've already moved on from.

Better to avoid it.

All I'm seeing from people complaining is a false sense of self entitlement to use a product.

If you don't like these methods of product control, then avoid the product at all costs. Playing these games is not some right bestowed upon you because they exist. It's a luxury.

If you don't like online codes, then avoid playing the products at all costs. It's as simple as that. Don't buy it, don't borrow it, don't rent it, don't touch it. If you do that, you've hit EA in the only thing it cares about. the quarterly profit.

If your answer is "I'll pirate it", congratulations. You've just given EA a scapegoat for their actions. If the game flops because it's bad? Pirates. That's all they'll say, and then the cycle starts again.

If your answer is "Next they'll charge you every time you want to play!", no they won't. I won't buy those games. If all games do it, I'll stop playing games, period. I'll invest more in one of my other hobbies. Maybe I'll take up painting. Who knows?

If you have an issue with online codes, but honestly have such poor levels of self control that you can't boycott a developer who acts in a way that you disagree with, then I have news for you. You have way bigger issues in your life than an online code, and there isn't a single games developer or publisher who's the root of the problem.