The sense of entitlement that comes with being a gamer

HumbleBundle.com, in case you’re brand new to the internet (in which case, I congratulate you on making it this far) is a website that puts together bundles of DRM-free digital content, usually games, and lets you name your price for the whole thing.

The first Humble Bundle that I bought was the Double Fine bundle. I don’t know why I didn’t buy any of the previous bundles, and I’m genuinely sad I missed out on them.

Since I signed up to Humble Bundle, I get newsletters every week letting me know what’s going to be on their Bundles and Weekly Sales. The latest bundle is a Humble E-Book Bundle, where you’ll get four e-books in three different formats, and beating the average will unlock an extra two. Right now, that bundle is sitting at an average of $9.45, and I was genuinely surprised by how high the average was, especially for an e-book bundle. On closer inspection though, why should I be surprised that it’s that high? This has gotten me thinking about the sense of entitlement some of us gamers have.

The point of Humble Bundle, as I see it, is that the creators of the content, be it PC games, Android games, authors or musicians, come to us as a community, and humbly ask the brutally honest question, “What are you willing to pay? There’s no DRM, there’s no set price, there’s no big greedy corporation behind this, so what are these things worth to you?” Boy, if there was ever an indication of the sense of entitlement that gamers have, this would be it.