Originally Posted by
stumpy
I get more annoyed by the growing perception that video games should be made-to-order. There's the increasingly annoying refrain of "We're your customers, you wouldn't even exist without us, so you have to do what we want!" from people who, by and large, refuse to actually exercise that customer privilege by walking away.
People talk about how companies like Blizzard have strayed from "their roots" or "the old days." You know how we dealt with terrible games in the old days? We read reviews, played demos, and didn't buy the damn games. Now people preorder games years in advance, don't read a thing about them or else buy them anyway, and then expect to have the games redesigned to fit their whims once they're out.
I'm not sure what the biggest factor is in this, but one likely candidate is the growth of company forums and the perception that because gamers can post in them, they now have the developers' ear and should get what they want.