People who ninja for their companions

I agree. Group content is going to ruin the community. Its for the best to build the community upon spam in general chat.

Who has an entitlement issue, the person who will pass on items that another player can use and expect the same courtesy in return, or the person who wants everything?

Personally I agree with the argument that a player who needs on everything is entitled to do so as he pays his subscription, just as I believe other players are entitled to kick for it, or leave a group when people do it and blacklist them.

Anyone else getting tired of hearing claims of entitlement issues left, right and centre? It's the new internet buzz phrase.

It's the generation that's coming up the pipe right now. Generation E(ntitlement)

Whichever one of them feels entitled to the gear because of some arbitrary condition (ie, it matches the stats that he likes, for example).

In your example, I'd say that the former clearly does, the latter may or may not (not enough info).

Edit: "the person who will pass on items that another player can use" isn't really accurate; the correct version would be something like "person X who will pass on items that another player can use in a way and/or for reasons that person X finds acceptable"

Well, that's a lot of what this comes down to, so it's going to get mentioned; the idea of "I'm entitled to X because it matches Y criteria, so it's wrong of you to roll against me for it" is what NBG is all about.

Personally, I don't care what other people roll on; it doesn't bother me if I don't win the stuff I want, since I don't think that I'm entitled to it until I've won the roll.

If more people could get rid of their entitlement issues, we'd stop seeing these threads so often.

Notice I said "Cross-Server" or were you too eager to vomit that hyperbole?

I'm obviously completely out of touch with the new generation, I would have thought it meant somebody feeling they were entitled to something just because "it's me", from my reading of most claims, it seems to mean "you have a different opinion from me, so now I'm going to use a clever sounding phrase to demean you".

Oh wow.. Thats not exactly being polite is it? If we really wanted to go down that path everyone could need on everything since we few companions.

Use your brains for christ sake, i guess im just lucky but i havent seen even 1 person rolling need on companion gear on purpose so far.. You know why? Because they dont want to be *******es like you.

Its no different than needing for an alt.

Why isn't it polite? He has a use for the item; he's going to equip it in a way that benefits his character.

/shrug

Not that it's true (since most, if not all, classes don't get all armor/stat types), but that doesn't actually bother me.

No, it's totally different. Rolling for an alt does not, in any way, benefit the character that wins the roll. Rolling for a companion does indeed benefit the character that wins the roll.

How do you know if he is going to equip it? Or even use the companion he needs it for? There's no way to tell, some people just need because they can.

Besides, companions wont help you in any group content or battlegrounds = the major part of the game after levelling. So if you really cant gear your companion in any other way than needing stuff that other people have much more use for then its just sad.

Need for main greed for comp/off spec.
Greedy people will roll need for a comp they never even use otherwise.
Now if only Bioware would institute master looter it can be prevented. Hopefully BW will put that in before cross server.

I've just had to resort to blacklisting anyone that does it after dropping group, I'm not gonna heal some greedy lil punk and support his journey to deny others loot... amazingly it's always useless dime a dozen dps classes. You can and will be replaced, make sure to call out in general chat as well. Eventually no one will group with em.