I’ll stand by it.

At the risk of sounding cliche - social media is a big part of it. Every time some dumb-dumb does something viral, all the other kids think the same rules/forgiveness/fame/etc apply to them when they do the dumb thing, too.

Or in real life.  This is essentially a universal constant. Some people stuck,  but what are you going to do? Lock the doors and hide from it, or get out and live life?

It is why my wife quit her teaching job at a University. A lot of students would come to her EXPECTING a certain grade since they were paying for it. I came from the “You usually deserve the grade you received” era of schooling. 

Yep. Learned behavior from prick and asshole parents who enable horrible behavior from the “My child is precious and can do no wrong” school of thought.

It’s a great game no doubt, and it’s different enough to make a greta case for it. But seeing as were piling God of War into the action adventure heap without nuance at all. I doubt Zelda wouldn’t be called a towery open world if we play it like that.

Fellow person who works in schools here...

That’s a very rosy image you have of people, but there’s a reason that we have chat functions being taken out of games that would traditionally have the function in the last few years.

Man, Kotaku could do a regular feature of these stories, kinda like on that blog that preceded The Takeout.

You almost feel bad for poor PATRii0T. Almost.

In the past and at my current company, people have emailed us asking for help getting their hacking mods to work on the in-game store. They sincerely and legitimately don’t understand that they’re committing a crime.

I’ve banned a lot of people in my 10+ years working video game support, so I’ll submit two stories, both from the same company:

I think it’s genuinely sad most of these offenders appear to be legit stumped as to why they are banned and seem to think what they have written in their bios should be totally fine. What a world we live in now...

Y’know, I think it might be good practice to publicize bans.

I finally watched it on a flight (admittedly the options were underwhelming) and found it perfectly entertaining, FAR more so than the general comments around here had led me to believe. 

Agreed, meanwhile on the x-box it seems there’s always going to be another Halo and another Gears. Everybody likes to milk their cash cows. I am really hoping developers find a way to innovate the samey open-world formula most frequently found in Ubisoft games, that’s the real innovation I hope to see in the next gen

Its why competition is great! The Xbox One found itself in such a hole it had to be a little mad to be able to do anything and good stuff was born of that. While Sony just stayed the course because why not stay a course that will get you to 100,000,000 units sold in under six years. Honestly I have a PS4 and a Switch…

It’s beating a dead horse to mention PS4's remarkable run, I know, but I will say that it’s Xbox that has made the most impressive moves over the past couple of years. The adaptive controller, the Game Pass, the new first party studio purchases...and the X. The One X is outstanding, and you can roll your eyes if you…

Yes I agree too. It was revolutionary and yet it was poor message and horrible marketing at the same time. It was great idea that we were able to lend the games to our friends digitally and bad idea when we could lend it on limited number of friends. Not all great idea is smooth sailing in the beginning. All they needs…

Yes, Don Mattrick leaving was the best thing to happen for Xbox after they royally messed up their message when everything was unveiled.