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Even though Stardock has gotten some deserved flak for the state of Elemental at launch, the bill of rights does make sense. If a game is released in a state where there is a lack of quality, than the consumer has every right to demand changes from the designer.Д«ut as you probably guess by now there is a big problem: what do we define as quality? Is it considered quality that every game released comes with modding tools? Or the ability to quick save and load at any point?ДЄ few years ago Stardock announced the GamersвЂ™ bill of rights- a set of guidelines that all game makers should abide by in terms of releasing a game. We have seen plenty of cases where games were released too early, and were filled with bugs or broken design.

Obviously there are no life or death quality issues with video games, but that doesn't absolve designers of not making a quality product.

The company will fix that problem and provide some form of compensation to those that bought it. But what happens when the quality of the product is less than standard? Such as when a car is released to only discover afterwards that there is a defect in the airbags.

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Anything else created either free or DLC, should be considered a bonus.ДЄt this point, things sound reasonable, however there is another side to game content that needs to be discussed.ДЄs mentioned at the start: Consumers are entitled to get a quality product with their purchase. Buying a game entitles you to whatever content came with the game at launch. Now that doesn't mean that the designer could add it at some point, but demanding additional content to be made after launch is unwarranted.

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Creating a new unit or level for a 2D platformer, is a completely different scope when compared to a full 3D game using the latest version of the Unreal engine. Just because one game adds new content, doesn't mean that every designer can or should. This is where the negative definition of entitlement comes from. For example: because one game changed their AI around or added in new difficulty settings, that means that other games should do the same. But then we have people who demand that things get added. So far things are fine, as it's normal for consumers to make suggestions about their favorite products. Better menus, more weapons, cleaner UIs are just some of the many requests that players ask of the designer. And when one game does something incredibly right, it's not long before gamers ask that other designers do the same for their games. Thanks to the rise of digital content, more and more games are being released with DLC or have new content developed over time.

The problem and part of this debate is that there are more parts of a game product than there are in other consumer industries. When you go to the store, you are entitled to buy products that have been through quality control and are how they are advertised.Д«ut in our industry, when someone mentions entitlement, it is used as an insult to shut people up who complain about parts of a game or want more done to it. In other consumer based industries it's a sign of respect and verbal contract from the seller to the consumer. Entitlement is a funny word in the game industry.