Almost immediately after the news broke 𝄹that the remastered 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2 will be releasing in September, people ඣtook to social medi🍸a to complain about the fact that Skate 4 is still missing from the🅘ir gaming libraries. While it’s fine to want the fourth iteration in theꦛ Skate series, especially following the success of the w🃏idely-ado🎃red Skate 3, it is unfair (and poin🦩tless) to direct any complaints or hostility towards the release of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2 - two 📖titles, specifically, that arguably kicked off the genre of skateboarding video games and molded it into what it eventually became.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2, its publisher, Activision, an🧸d the developer, Vicarious Visions, owe literally nothing to the Skate franchise or its fans. Unfortunately, that won’t put an end to the misdirected hostility that spoiled gamers seem to constantly throw around at will. Not just within the skateboarding genre, either. Instead of being happy for what we have - in this case, an exciting remaster that no one was expecting - a startling number of gamers always feel like it’s not enough, with a mentality of false entitlement ra☂ther than gratefulness. And that’s a 🃏problem.
Entitled Vs. Spoiled
Often, there is confusion between gamers being entitled and gamers being spoiled. The difference is small, but worth di📖scussing𝕴. In the case of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2’s release, it’s fair for players to expect a solid, bug-free♏ release featuring everythi♔ng that made the original games awesome. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2 living up toಞ player's 🍎incredible memories is a taller order - and a different discussion - but fans are entitled to a good game after purchasing it.
Spoiled gamers, on th♏e other hand, are the ones who feel deserving of Skate 4 or (for some reason) even Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3's release coming before Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2. The difference here is that rather than expecting a good experience from something that has been paid for, these spoiled gamers are complaining about something that doesn’t even exist. It’s the latter mentality that creates misdi🍎rected hostility and a more troll-y community✅.
Review Bombing’s Part In It All
The entitled versus spoiled conversation extends into the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:consumer tactic of review bombing, which is when a statistically s𓂃ignificant number of negative game ratings/reviews are posted within a♔ short amount of time.This tactic is used within gaming a few different ways, namely with players being unhappy with broken promises from a developer, or simply as a result of gamers boycotting a company as a whole.
Such an occurrence 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:happened as recently as March 2020, following the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which came as a result of ❀unexpected limited gameplay that differed from what had been originally announced. This is a different situation than when players review bombed Grand Theft Auto V, which was more of an attempt to voice displeasure in the companies of Rockstar and Take-Two Interactive, following t꧃he cease-and-desist orderꩲ against OpenIV’s in-game modification tool.
The Animal Crossing: New Horizons situation involved gamers feeling ent🔯itled to in-game promises that had been♐ officially announced - and rightly so. The latter situation was basically just GTA players throwing a tantrum for Take-Two removing an unauthorized application. Ye🌟s, the discussion can go deeper than that, but that is ultimately what it boils down to.
Be Grateful
Thanks to the anonymity of the Internet, it’s unlikely that the spoiled mentality of some gamers will end anytime soon, if ever. This is all just to sa🦩y that, maybe, gamers can just be happy with the awesome surprises that come their way, rather than seeing the bad in every♑ situation or new reveal. If you want to be miserable complaining about things that are out of your control, that’s fine, but it seems exhausting. Just know that it is okay to enjoy things, too. Heck, perhaps this resurgence in the skateboarding genre will be just what’s needed to get EA to finally put out Skate 4. If that happens, all of those whi𒅌ny players will hav🎃e Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2 to thank. Again.