Why is game entitlement a thing and people think they deserve every item in the game?

[Yeol]

People who got the mounts and titles before Echo/unsynced deserve them? Yes.
People who got the mounts and titles after Echo/unsynced deserve them? Yes.

It is the matter of when you got them. If you got them at the beginning of the patch where there are very few people with it. You will stand out. But when Echo and unsynced are available, no one really cares anymore whether you have it or not. That is the fun of it.

[Seig345]

People who got the mounts and titles before Echo/unsynced deserve them? Yes.
People who got the mounts and titles after Echo/unsynced deserve them? Yes.

It is the matter of when you got them. If you got them at the beginning of the patch where there are very few people with it. You will stand out. But when Echo and unsynced are available, no one really cares anymore whether you have it or not. That is the fun of it.

This is exactly it; however, the original argument seems to imply a desire for that beginning-of-patch feeling to last forever.

I actually feel like this may be a lazy desire though; the current method means you must continuously play and stay on top of each patch as soon as it comes out if you want your super fancy special hard-to-get gear to keep you in the spotlight, rather than be able to sit there in full coil gear 3 expansions later hoping to get an "ooh" or an "ahh" from a new player.

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