Sometimes game developers and publishers say the exact opposite of what most gamers want to hear. Here are some hilarious examples. Subscribe for more: www.youtube.co...
I can't be the only person who still has a huge problem with the concept of "always online" because 100% unless it is strictly a multiplayer experience, there is no consumer-friendly excuse that our games or consoles should require on online connection to play, period.
Also when servers eventually shutdown you lose access to the game you paid for. That’s another gripe of mine. I always felt like there should be a law stating that if you shutdown an online-only game, you have to release the source code so that fans can make their own community servers like with NFS:W, Drift City, etc. or at least play offline worst-case scenario.
Sorry, "consumer-friendly"? Wait, you actually think they understand...let alone give a single shred of a damn...about 'consumer-friendly'? After all this time, I would think that the AAA gaming companies would have made their intention clear. Slowly drag everyone's expectations to simply *always paying*. Want to reload? Pay me. Want to play? Pay me. Want to level up? PAY. ME. How many examples do we need? Shit, Diablo Immoral should have been a showstopper....but if you're wondering, that made *all* of the money it took to generate the game back **IN 24 HOURS**. With that sort of showing, there's literally nowhere to go except towards more of these predatory practices. Why? Because as long as you open that wallet, you can talk as much shit as you want about a game, or gaming company...at the end of the day, the Dollar will always drown you out. Because these companies aren't in it to make good games, ever. Did you think it was coincidence that they constantly "remaster" old games just so you can play them on modern systems and they look good? Hell no! It's because bringing the graphics up to snuff for a modern system costs them almost nothing compared to making a new game. So it's just....pure $_$ PROFIT baby! And pure profit is exactly what they want, what they care about, and literally the *only* think that they will go towards in the future. If y'all thought D:I was a microtransaction hell, just wait for Diablo 4: Return o --- [to get the rest of this game title, purchase the "Full Title" DLC now for only 0.99!!]
I hate it on The Switch. My internet went down for a bit and I felt like a fucking caveman, not being able to play all my downloaded games. I bought them. They are ON THE DEVICE... I need to start buying hard copies again...
HUGE credit to Geoff Keighley for immediately challenging Don's statement! That has to be tough for a then-younger journalist to recognize the issue in a second and come back at the HEAD OF XBOX!!
The simple fact that EA went thru the process of researching the mental breakdown side of charging a dollar to reload. Very scary stuff. Should be a really big eye opener to people that AAA companies are strategically doing things to part you with your money.
It isn't just EA, I feel this is important to state. Almost every AAA company does this if not all. Even Nintendo has shown itself to be predatory in the past and this is ignoring opening a physical theme park during a pandemic to make a quick buck before it got shut down.
@@indestructible247 Obviously lol There's a big difference between a CEO making a statement that almost everyone knows is bad, even murderers. And them expecting you to agree with morally corrupt practices like they love doing these days
I have 2 quotes/moments that I find appropriate for this topic: 1. when the man, the myth, the legend Todd Howard said that they knew they were releasing FO 76 with lots of problems but they knew the people would buy it anyway 2. when EA released a statement where they said single player games are dead, multiplayer is the future
The thing about "do you guys not have phones?" is that it wasn't about the phone, it wasn't even about the platform that it was on. The outcry from the crowd was not about whether it could be run on a phone, but rather that phone games are known for being insatiably predatory. People knew the monetization of diablo immortal was going to be bad. It had nothing to do with it not being on PC, really, it had a lot more to do with the fact that they were making a phone game, targeting the phone audience, of which are taken advantage of on a regular basis. Everybody probably as a phone, but that's not why people were upset which is what made the comment so rediculous.
@@utubeiskaren7796 Neat, so because they want to be sure that you have a form of security verification you lose respect? I honestly hope you lose all your information one day due to your own delusions.
@@utubeiskaren7796 Love how the other comments are calling you out on that, but I'm in the same boat. I'm not here to give companies my phone number, I'm here to give them money for a _product_ . They don't need my full name or phone number.
I bet you anything they rehearsed that line and they were confident it would shut people up. Now that guy can't show his stupid face anywhere near gamers for fear of being ridiculed lol
@@Frost4Real I was one of them, I bought it as a Blu-ray player first as it was very close to the cheapest Blu-ray player I could buy at the time, but it could also play games. It came with GT5 which I promptly gave away:-)
No. 10 = What the then EA CEO said is the same business models that drug dealers use. The drug dealer will first give you free or discounted stuff and then when you are addicted, they charge you full price.
You can't spell steal without EA. EA remains around because many gamers love when they stick it up their butt. It's the same reason people keep buying iPhones.
One that I still think about years later because it pissed me off so much: In an interview in either EGM or Game Informer (can't remember which) the director of the first Dead Rising was asked about the font size for tutorials and subtitles being so small - basically anything you'd need to read onscreen - and when the interviewer commented that it could be almost impossible to read for someone without an HDTV, his response was something like "you shouldn't own an Xbox 360 if you don't have an HDTV". Today that comment might not seem so egregious given that every TV made is HD, and they're so much cheaper than they used to be. But back in 2006? They were so damn expensive. And as somebody who grew up poor, and had to wait two years after the 360 originally released to be able to afford one, that comment just rubbed me the wrong way. Like, f**k you dude! If I paid for the console and your game, I should be able to read the onscreen font! HDTVs weren't nearly as ubiquitous as they are now, and my experiences with 360 games on my old, heavy-ass CRTV were just fine. It just seemed like such an out-of-touch, elitist thing to say. And I still stand by it being a dick move lol
yep I remember my first Flatscreen upgrade in 2010 I had been playing on a tube tv N64 and gamecube and stuff. I had upgraded finally to a 22 inch and it ran me I think 450 bucks. Now the same one would probably go for 50 bucks its so outdated. Even my 4k 58 inch I bought for $550. Times are changing. But back then Games were actual games instead of casinos with a game built around it.
Another Blizzard moment: At a WoW segment, they were doing a live Q&A, and one of the audience members asked something along the lines of "Would you ever make servers that run Older versions of World of Warcraft as they were at the time." To which the guy running the Q&A (Who's supposed to be a PR guy for Blizzard) responded "You THINK you want that, but you don't!"
The 1$ per reload was the former EA CEO, he is currently Unity (game engine) CEO. This puts Unity developers, like myself, in an awkward position. Because now the engine focuses more on ads and monetization, than news features like better rendering etc. What should you do as a Unity dev for 10 years+? Try to move my skillset to Unreal? Or just ignore it?
So this is the same guy who said devs who don’t think about monetization are ‘F*ing Idiots’? Expected that one to be on here. They need it for the part 2.
I wasn't even that mad about it tbh. They're not a massive corporation like Ubisoft they just needed money to develop the game (FROM UKRAINE) and thought it would be an interesting way to give back to the people that donate.
I'll never forget the iconic moment when some dude working on the Xbox said that if you can't have internet connection all time you should stay in the old generation
I was actually considering switching to Xbox for that generation, after being fed up with the PS3, but after hearing the always-online talk, the back and forwards, it scared me away.
Xbox lost so many potential customers to Playstation. Even all these years and an entire generation later the demand for Playstation makes them unavailable for sale, while Xbox's sit on shelves unbought. They definitely demonstrated they had a completely unrelated to game production strategy. The fact that they butchered Halo infinite the way they did truly angers me and saddens me, I don't trust Xbox to release a single player game at the level of Horizon, Ghost of Tsushima or God of War any more.
This channel is mostly clickbait garbage and completely uninformed takes on technology while trying to sound like an authority. It's fun to look at a couple of their top 10s but this place is bottom of the barrel.
number 8 was the most ludacris thing to me... calling lootboxes surprise mechanics just showed the ignorance towards the subject and the rats tail, that comes with it. maybe i think this way cuz i remember times when i bought a game... and then i owned it without online requirements, further payments or spoonfed content in form of dlc. good times.
The goal in calling them "surprise mechanics" was to downplay what they actually are. They knew what they were but outright telling people "we want you to form a gambling addiction and spend all your money on us" is a lot worse than just saying they're surprise mechanics.
No, the problem isn't EA. EA is a business, their goal is to make money. If you are willing to buy something that EA put no time and money into producing, that's your fault, not EA's. If you spend $10,000 in microtransactions in one game that's your fault, not EA's. Business models like this could not exist without the blind stupidity of their costumers. This isn't even a problem unique to EA or the gaming industry, it's Apple, Google, Amazon, etc., etc., etc. So long as you are stupid enough to keep paying more for less, they will continue to offer even less and charge even more. Do you remember when Star Wars: Battlefront 2 launched and the idea of spending a measly few grand to unlock everything was enough to start an online riot? Now, we have Diablo: Immortal, a game were you can spend literally SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS and still not unlock everything. YOU, THE GAMER, ENABLED THIS, NOT EA.
It would be easier to laugh off EA's tweets if they didn't then go on to say bad practices are "industry standard" because they do them. They have deliberately targeted single-player and offline games, repeatedly, all in the name of pursuing control and capitalization of their player-base, and their occasional recent nod to single-player (Fallen Order, Dead Space re-make) are not a recognition of customer desires so much as a recognition of just how badly some of their attempts to squeeze their customers have blown up on them. They don't GET to joke about it.
They KNOW but they are so cynical that they don't care, also call me a hater if you want but somewhere inside me I know that they will f*ck it up with the remake of Dead Space though at the same time I hope they for once don't bloat the game with stupid paywalls after they charge you full price for the it but we're talking about EA here. I'm anti piracy when it comes to Indie game studios because they are small and need the money, specially if they made a great videogame and they deserve that you buy their game, but for billion dollar giant companies if they go greedy and start to bloat the game with tons of micro transactions and special characters blocked by paywalls then The Pirate Bay is the way.
They do get to joke about it because they are still a company. Do I need to point out how every time something became corrupt in history it was stopped by attacking it, dismantling it, and likely killing the leader/head of it? History shows us that unless we do something akin to a French Revolution or join WW2 that the bad people will continue to do bad. You can't just wait patiently for them to get tired. You actually have to force them to stop.
@@Buglin_Burger7878 That's why I pirate my games when the companies who made them start to get greedy, it's my way to raise my middle finger to companies like EA and Ubisoft to mention the most popular but there are more like that obviously for their predatory practices against the consumers who play their games, we are in an era where private companies sell shit to people and they blame them if they don't like their shit as if they had an authority over our lives to tell us ¨take this shit I made and you gonna like it¨. We can't keep them being like this anymore, we have to respond in some way that hurt their business like downloading their DLC's via torrent when they are a ton of separate items instead of a full pack, or the full game if they block the half of it behind a paywall, they think they are too big to fall but the more they keep being so shitty the more I will promote piracy, they treat us as if we are stupid sheep that blindly buys whatever crap they have half made and expect us to fall in their next insult to the gaming community in general when they announce their next ¨big hit¨ with more micro transactions and permanent online mode in single player or a grinding nightmare ¨free¨ multiplayer game, they don't deserve our money, better use it to support indie studios that deserve it.
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation has been unfolding since Jesus died. The Popes have claimed to be equal to God and set themselves in Jesus' place (antichrist(s)). Vatican City (Which is its own nation BTW) have risen up to fulfill the role of the false prophet Regarding the man of lawlessness or antichrist, 2 Thessalonians 2:4 says “Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” The restrainer that the Apostle Paul was referring to in 2 Thessalonians was the Western Roman Emperor, who held back the Popes from taking power. Once the last Western Roman Emperor was removed from power in 476 AD, the Pope was given civil and ecclesiastic authority over Rome; healing the deadly head wound of the beast in Revelation 13, as they took the Emperors title of Pontifex Maximus, leader of the church and state. “We may according to the fullness of our power, dispose of the law and dispense above the law. Those whom the Pope of Rome doth separate, it is not a man that separates them but God. For the Pope holdeth place on earth, not simply of a man but of the true God.” (Source: “Decretals of Gregory IX,” Book 1, chapter 3.) Pope Pius V blasphemed, “The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.” (Source: Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Cities Petrus Bertanous Chapter XXVII: 218.) Pope Leo XIII declared, “We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” (Source: Pope Leo XIII Encyclical Letter, June 20, 1894) The antichrist sea beast of Revelation points to the office of the papacy, the Popes of Rome, who controlled the Roman beast for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. Daniel 7:25 says “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” The Popes of Rome spoke against Elohim and proclaimed to be God. They reigned for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. during which they caused tens of millions of saints to be killed. The Pope’s title is Vicar of Christ, which in Latin is ‘Vicarius Filii Dei’, and equates numerically to the number 666
I reckon that a good one to add is back when they tried to release SimCity as an online only game and when people were calling for an offline mode they claimed that it wasn't as easy as flipping a switch only for a hacker to come along and make it playable offline.
i remember someone on reddit did the math to "unlock Vader thing" in the #1 spot. without paying EA a dime, a player would have to sink something like 400 hours into the game to unlock vader. i dont remember the exact # of hours/points you needed. i just remember being absolutely floored.
I would be able to understand the "The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment..." if it wasn't backed by paid loot boxes. Now if the heroes were locked behind challenges that you had to complete in game, then yes, pride and accomplishment. Youd feel like you earned that hero, but you dont feel that wasting potentially hundreds of dollars, then be slapped with this quote.
If BF2 was a free to play game, people probably won’t have cared. But for a AAA release, it’s inexcusable to have so much content locked behind hundreds of hours of grinding or hundreds of dollars you already paid $60-$80 for
@@Sircreepington9th If it's a grind where you can't buy in, and isn't for something OP (so generally a skin/icon) it's perfectly fine. It's like mounts in old school mmorpgs that you got from raids and whatnot.
Another thing about the Diablo Immortal reveal is that within a few hours of being uploaded the video of the reveal became the most downvoted video not only on the Diablo YT channel but on all of RU-vid. They took it down after less than 24 h and a few days later posted an edited version where the boos were a lot more quiet and cheers from other parts were badly mixed in to make it seem everyone was cheering for a mobile game and almost all of the Q&A was cut. That didn't get as many downvotes and lasted a few days before they took it down and since then there are no official Diablo Immortal reveal video posted by Blizzard anywhere.
Rly? "the most downvoted video on all of YT"? That sounds off. I know since the DiabloYT video was deleted we can't check, but knowing 'RU-vid Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind' got 20M dislikes (20,000,000) seems to throw doubt onto that. (I know YT Rewind was after, but still. "Baby" is probably a better example. Baby had 1.2M dislikes in 2011). EDIT: after some research, it seems the video only hit around 600-700k dislikes (vs ~23k likes), but at the time that was the THIRD most disliked video on YT. Not the most. It was, however, the most disliked gaming video on YT.
@@lunarjellyfish5538 What about the Like/Dislike ratio? To be honest, I'm not sure if that's a real thing, but if it is, it would make sense to use it to calculate what is the most Disliked or most Liked video on RU-vid.
My favourite thing with the always online stuff was the response from Microsoft's Larry Hryb of "you can't just flip a switch" with the DRM to turn it off... Then within weeks it was flipped 👀
I dunno... most switches I've flipped have only taken a fraction of a second to flip. Def not weeks. (But I agree, he was definitely BS-ing, trying to keep those features.)
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
The worst thing about John Ricciatiello is the fact that he got fired from EA for being basically "too greedy", then he became the Unity CEO and got into this huge mess about the "charging devs for download" stuff
Dude, you realize when John Carmack made the quote about stories and video games, he was making stuff like Doom and Quake. That quote is completely applicable to those games, and any old school shooters. There are many games focused on gameplay and not the story.
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
its kinda interesting to think about the 1 dollar for a reload thing . when i was a small child i used to play games at the arcade with my pocket money . i was young and dumb so i prettymuch lost at those games almost immediately . yet i'd keep feeding that machine coins regardless . its totally unacceptable when you own that game (like bought a full game for 60-70 dollars) . but in some way we still did it back in the day
It was very expensive to operate arcades, so it makes sense that arcades were paid that way. Gaming companies have next to 0 cost to entry physically. Its purely about squeezing money.
Carmacks quote does make sense, its not that story can't or does not drive the game but gameplay can make or break any game. There are ip with amazing or compelling writing and design but fails because mechanics are just not good. Some games are considered good and fun because even though there is not much story, bu the gameplay is still dynamic and intense.
In the case of loot boxes, Overwatch 2s switch from loot boxes to battle pass + store got me a bit worried. In the loot box system, enough farming would eventually get you everything (except for a few promotional paywalled stuff), but under the new system, I feel like the free farmable credits would basically be worthless and the things 100% paywalled would represent most cosmetics. This especially under the free to play model.
When OW1 had lootboxes, you could earn every single cosmetic for free, it was so sad when they moved to a battlepass system and locked new skins behind premium, unearnable currency. I stand by the fact that OW1 had the best lootbox system for any game at the time. Unlike OW2, you couldn't just earn knife skins in Counter Strike or even *all* of the skins in Apex (since a earnable 250 lootbox cap), and many other games were even more predatory with lootboxes.
"Pay to reload." Yeah, if they ever do that, I'll be done with those games. Guaranteed. Anybody stupid enough to allow that level of greed by companies _already making billions the way things are_ deserves to have their bank account fleeced.
@@blakejohnson5270 I hate that mechanic. Rather than spending time on collecting new resources to upgrade or build you also have to split some for repairs of your current tools/builds.
The thing about "pride and accomplishment" is when there are locked characters that you need skill and time to get unlocking them actually does feel good. The problem is they locked core characters everyone would want, dramatically increased the amount of grind required, and then offered to let you bypass it with real money. No one feels "pride and accomplishment" about using their credit card, and the people who do actually earn it no longer feel a sense of accomplishment because anyone with money could get it.
No it's when they say they do it for the players, bringing them more content blah blah. I feel the higher up you are in the game industry the less say you should have considering that the lower you are the more they seem to care.
I agree to an extent...many "RPG players are depressed and sit alone in dark rooms and play slow games." Yes, explore, puzzles, logic, etc much better than shooters, side scrollers, platformers, etc. It is where the story is as important as other parts.
All this NFT and blockchain crap is why I love that I'm so heavily invested in indie devs, who are in it for the love, rather than AAA devs who just seen dollar signs
Elden Ring, God of War, Mafia Definitive edition, Insomniac's Spider-Man, Doom & Doom Eternal, Metro Exodus, RE games, Dishonored etc. all those games are AAA games with zero microtransactions and a lot of fun content and passion poured into them, so I understand what you're saying but there are ton of legitimately good AAA games that aren't cashgrabs full of microtransactions.
I imagine the main reason for my thinking is I'm an old gamer. But I want to buy a game, have it be the whole game, and play the game. I understand that technology changes and a huge amount of it improves games. But for companies to sit back and say, "Hey! Loot boxes, NFT's, Free to Play, microtransactions! They're just what games are now!" Look, I have no problem with a game coming out and cool DLC coming later on. But when it's Day 1 stuff, something integral to the game (paying for the ability to play 2 players in Resident Evil 5 was it?), paying for alternate endings and such, it's ridiculous. Taking apart a complete game and making the player pay for pieces of it to complete it is straight up greed. If there's DLC, it should be optional and extra. And worth it.
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
Being online to play just blew up for Suicide Squad. It destroyed their game. It needs an update for Ubisoft's CEO saying "Subscription to play games need to be more accepted."
That EA tweet was hardly surprising when you remember the time they said single player games are dead, and actually believed it. Can't remember exactly when it was, but it was definitely right before a big single player release, possibly Uncharted 4.
Gameranx is my go-to Game News Channel! It has been for years, I love the Team and the work you guys put out! I may not agree with everything but it's so well delivered that I am neither offended nor deterred from the channel; I keep coming back time and time again. One of the few channels that have my bell rung
0:21 And now John Riccitiello is having Unity charge indie developers 20 cents PER INSTALLATION OF THE GAME BY PLAYERS for games that make $200,000 over the previous 12 months. So it's a retroactive fee that they're applying without consent of the developers after-the-fact. From their FAQ that Unity just published: "Who does the Unity Runtime Fee apply to? Unity Personal and Unity Plus: The Unity Runtime Fee will apply to games that have made $200,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 200,000 per-game lifetime installs." What an absolute toolbag.
I think one controversial thing a dev could say, is that old game franchises (like the early 90s to mid 2000s eras) should stay dead, fans need to let go of the past, move on and there's nothing to learn from them anymore.
I was expecting this list to get progressively worse, instead it was funny stuff sandwiched between greedy corporate boondoggles. I enjoyed specifically because it gave me the opportunity to use the word boondoggles, that is a great word
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire. Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power. Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes. Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved. Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed. Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions. Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope. Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome. Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
2:30 funny thing is that Riot games referenced that quote when they announced mobile version of league and said "turns out you do have phones after all"
Yes I love single player campaign and story modes. I enjoy multi-player at times but my heart is in single player story modes and if that ever stops then I will quit gaming cuz there is too much BS that comes along with online multiplayer games that I wouldn't strictly play only that. Like hacking, cheating and I'm just not as good as some at multi-player and I enjoy single player and get the most enjoyment from that type of game. It's more immersive also. Anyway, good video, keep it up. Thanks
I also love single player, though I don’t really have a problem with multiplayer, provided that I can play co-op. So I suppose I just love PvE, with and without friends.
How did I know EA and Activision were going to feature heavily. I am still amazed people spend money in either of these companies as they actively squeeze their player base for cash at every turn. I can’t think of any other industry that would get away with their attitude to consumers, except maybe Tesla.
10. If a game asks me to pay anything for a reload, I uninstall the next minute and that game company and publisher are forever blacklisted. Edit: 9. Diablo runs total crap on mobile.
Regarding diablo, that's because you're not their target audience. All the whales that will give them insane money have top-model phones that can run the game smoothly.
@@Misakyz I have the Redmi Note 8 Pro, it's not the greatest out there, but I can run Cross Worlds on Max at 50 FPS and Genshin Impact on High at 30 FPS at native resolution. Most small games I can just put on Max. I don't play much other big games on the phone, but they "hard" locked my phone on lowest resolution, my phone doesn't even get hot when running Diablo, it gets as hot as I'm watching a 720p RU-vid video on the RU-vid app. That's how bad it is.
@@bhuvangunessee Wow, this is the first time I hear a game doing hard lock on graphic settings 🤔The language lock was already bad enough. Let's hope other companies don't decide to copy this bad decision. 😞
@@generic_tough_guy.4830 what if they add an option where there is a cooldown on the ammo boxes and it's pay to accelerate? They are no longer blocking the player from moving forward, they are allowing the player to pay real money to go quicker than the game intended.
honestly we need to remember this and throw it in their faces to remind them not to do it, but unfortunately causal players just buy up all the microtransactions
Thousands of talented people put in Thousands of hours to create games and you'll have a heart attack over $1? Do you not expect to pay for other things like food, clothing 🤔 shelter?SMH.
6:30 I think a certain game company whose name is related to plumbing got so pissed off by that that they revolutionized the entire gaming industry. Twice.
FIFA, Madden and MLB games keep them afloat. Literally nothing more. If those "gamers" (read whales spending literally thousands on MUT) didn't buy their shit year after year and pump it full of cash by buying packs, EA would Chapter 11 in three months flat.
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire. Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power. Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes. Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved. Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed. Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions. Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope. Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome. Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
@@0x0michael I think a lot of times that's true, but there are many games where the story completely outshines the gameplay. Take my favorite game, Fallout: New Vegas, for example. FNV has terrible gunplay. It's unresponsive, clunky, enemies are meatsponges, etc. Besides just that, the engine was dated on release, the game's a buggy mess, it looks bad, and so at best the game feels mediocre to play. There are fun moments to be had, sure, but it's pretty clear that nobody plays FNV for the gameplay itself. So why do so many in the Fallout community (particularly the hardcore/veteran side) consider FNV to be the best modern Fallout game? The story, the characters, and the world. For many, having quests with interesting stories and clunky gameplay is preferable to quests with generic stories and amazing gameplay. In RPGs especially, a good story is often more important than good gameplay. There are many genres where the inverse is true, and that's fine too, but having a good story can make even bad gameplay more fun, simply because your motivation for playing can come from immersing yourself as the protagonist and imagining the world of the game, rather than just whatever fun the gameplay provides in of itself. The gameplay can't be completely awful, because the story requires at least mediocre gameplay to shine, but it doesn't have to be particularly good either. And none of this even mentions genres with practically no gameplay, such as visual novels.
@@ChorfTV Given that the previous game was Fallout 4, I don't see any great increase in detail level in 76. It's worth noting that 76 was originally supposed to be an optional multiplayer mode for FO4.
#8 - One of the darkest jokes that was said about this was, "It's not r@pe, it's Surprise Sex!" Considering what went on at some game companies, not cool man.
I still think it's worthwhile to buy games like It Takes Two and Jedi: Fallen Order to communicate to them that there's still a market for _good_ games.
I thought the Star Wars entry was going to be about when they said something along the lines of "You guys wouldn't want a pink Vader", which immediately caused Pink Vader to become the SINGLEMOST DESIRED THING IN THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET, so the devs relented and put it in the game.
gameranx: * Explains the concept of not playing games on mobile * Me who just played Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga on mobile, Subway Surfers, The Amazing Spider-Man, etc. like 5 minutes ago: * Visible confusion *
#6 is a great quote and fairly true. If the gameplay is there, the story can be second fiddle. If the gameplay isn't that great, the story better be amazing.
@@bestaround3323 crap story with solid gameplay gets you Xcom, but pairing an amazing story with crap mechanics just gets you a bad game. You will always get more personal investment out of players by having engaging gameplay than a story will ever bring to the table. Imagine MGS, but instead of a competent gameplay loop, you're playing Bubsy 3d with stealth mechanics...
@@andrewamann2821 depends how bad the gameplay is. I would put up with a lot of bullshit if I really enjoyed a games story. Look at the visual novel genre, they have practically no gameplay, but a lot of people love them.
For the Carmack quote, you should have also mentioned that the quote was from the very early 90's, when the story of a game was often "Save princess from monster" Context is important guys
I think EA's tweet meant that they only like playing alone and so you can't play with your partner. it does come off as taking a poke at single player gamers lol
@@hiigherup Not if you saw the arguments we'd have in the 90s playing Goldeneye, Mario Kart, Micro Machines, etc. Or how annoying it was trying to play Halo with a few cousins online and one would dick around constantly, annoying everyone else. Fuck that, single player for me.
Reminds me of a bank president in my country. When mobile banking was becoming a thing and touchscreen phones were becoming a necessity he said: if you can't keep up with the technology, you should settle at retirement house"