When I'm on gawker sites, the sarcasm is pretty high, but it is still jarring when I end up reading a Kotaku story: the distinct air of spoiled entitled teenager runs through their comments and stories in a way the other gawker sites do not, and considering the trashrag nature of most of the gawker stories, that says a lot.

But that is the nature of their target demographic. Why can AAA studios drop a repolished doomclone/shooter turd each year and do good sales? Same reason there are always preteen pop groups every couple of years: because there's a new crop of kids each year to sell your crap to.

I almost like the fact that these games are now polluted with lootboxes, it just lays bare the contempt the studios have for the players, even if it probably is producing a generation of gambling addicts.