What’s the difference between the two? Genuinely curious. Plz don’t get wrapped up in a fight with your fellow WoW players…agian
The two words aren’t related, simply put.
Entitlement is when you feel you’re owed something.
Criticism is when you explain how something could be better.
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Hmm entitlement would be believing you deserve something (in the game that others can get). Criticism would be more like thinking the game should reward more things to everyone because every bodies time matters.
For example Invincible or piece of gear?
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Well considering they have two distinct definitions, I’m not sure why you are having trouble.
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Yep! But the items should vary to a degree. I think that because then we can show off things that are unique to our playstyles. Mythic transmogs and mounts shouldn’t be the same as profession transmogs or rep mounts.
I would heavily criticize Blizz for not rewarding non instanced content well enough.
Torghast is great shining example of that. Even the rep mounts were way too similar in coloration. It’s a little lame. The covenant armor was beautiful and interesting, but a million of those same sets in a slightly different tone for different content isn’t exactly interesting.
Enemies take forever to kill. Be great if they could create scaling gear so that we all play at the same simply obtainable gear level that doesn’t make the outside world feel like a burden and could scale up in instances. Could earn it through any gameplay option.
Those are things I’d criticize as a solo player.
If it’s directed at me, it’s entitlement.
If it’s direct at you, it’s constructive criticism.
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I’m laughing at that more than I should lol xD
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In a videogame, the word has the opposite meaning of what it does in real life. In real life an “entitlement” is something you actually earned and deserve. In a videogame it’s a matter of whiny people calling each other names, each claiming that the other is demanding something that they aren’t asking for, and don’t deserve.
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For Invincible, I have seen “requests” that a person should get it no matter what after something like 100 tries (which can be done in 2 weeks with only one account). Many of us have tried hundreds w/o any luck, and continue to do so. Another spin on the mount is people wanting the chance to drop to increase with each try. Simply put, entitlement is when somebody feels they are owned something after what they perceive is a suitable amount of work.
Criticism is basically universal for somebody doing anything that you feel is insufficient/incorrect regardless of the situation. It is opinion driven and the same situation will not be seen the same way by everybody.
An example of criticism - Telling somebody they need to get Invincible by the existing drop setup vs their want to be guaranteed the mount - which is entitlement.
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It can’t. They changed the lockout in BfA to the modern mythic lockout. You can no longer reuse lockouts. Every character who kills Arthas must do the entire raid themselves.
I did this about 4 months ago. In 3 weeks. It was a colossal pain in the butt.
“Entitlement” is when elitists and shills tell you that you should have low standards, and that you shouldn’t dare ask for the game to be more fun.
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Looks like I have been out of the loop on something for years. I run individual toons through the entire raid from the spin doctor to Artie - full clear. Good for mogs, bad for time since you spend most of your time in ICC in transit. Sounds like the method you mentioned would also save time, but like I said never knew about it, so no skin off my back.
People used to talk about using shared lockouts. There were a lot of complaints when they changed it. I brute forced Arthas by running as many alts through the entire raid as I could each week. It was not a fun 3 weeks.
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This is accurate.
In the context of how people have been using it in the forums lately consider entitlement as the Big Love Rocket (I’m not calling it the new snowflake name). Everyone has an equal chance at it. Some have more time to go after it with alts, but ultimately it is just getting lucky. I’ve seen people swap to all their alts after it and I’ve seen people just get it because they were bored and ran SFK that one day for kicks. We had a lot of entitled people cry about how they are going another year without getting a totally cosmetic item lately to the point it was brought up to a developer. Total entitlement.
Now criticism can be both entitlement and legitimate. A point that was legitimate lately was the legendary powers in Castle Nathria. This is content that is not intended to be soloable, which means anyone who did not do it before it was abandoned for later tiers of content were, if not locked out of getting these legendary powers, definitely significantly restricted. This was an unnecessary barrier of entry to current content. Worthy of criticism.
It’s that on the forums (especially from a certain set of players): a lot of their criticism comes from a sense of entitlement.
Sums it up simply and succinctly.
I might point out that criticism and complaining are not always the same thing. One critiques, the other is often just an explosion of emotion.
Customers feeling entitled to stuff when they pay things like a subscription, IE i payed one year of subscription for zero new patches in shadowlands i think is a valid entitlement to have as a customer.
Then you can Criticise what we did get after 1 year. So after one year of waiting we got 9.1 which i thought was a underwhelming patch and lackluster.