10 Things That Are RUINING Video Games 

I don't buy single player games that require an internet connection. I've skipped many games I wanted to play due to that.

Same here, even gran turismo 7, never used online features but still have to adhere to them. Utter bullshit won’t catch me paying for similar games again

@@artstudent1237 same, if it requires internet, it's a hard pass. I have the internet, but I cannot support that. Principles.

Whhhhhaaaaa lol.

@@TheFi1thyCasual Everybody gangster til the internet is out.

I can’t stand it man it’s bullshit

People that don’t make games are making alot of the decisions too it’s bullshit

This 10000%. They don't have a pulse on the customer at all cause they aren't one

@@connerSphotography That's literally how capitalism works. A CEO only has ONE job - to make a return on the investment(s) of the shareholders. I'm an accountant and that's one of the first things you learn - A CEO only has a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders. Not the customer - who buys the product or service, not the employees - who make the product or provide the service - ONLY to the shareholders. I'm old enough (50+) to remember when America was known for quality products that would last. Now it's just hurry up, make it fast and make it break just as fast so they have to buy a new one. Capitalism ruins everything for the average person. Everything from healthcare (when healthcare is for profit there is no incentive to heal) to utilities are for profit when they shouldn't be - nothing required to survive should be for profit. Capitalism is great for those who have the capital to be capitalists but that is NOT the working class!!!

they play games, but not videogames. making money and living their lives are games.

"If I put TTV in my clan tag people will definitely start watching me on Twitch, it's guaranteed!"

How?

? What, lol?? Just don't watch them, then? I'm not really seeing how this is at all relevant. Just sounds like you have a personal vendetta against streamers.

No, it just turns most people into super sweaty players. When some people want to just enjoy the game after actually having a life and not make the game their entire life.​@@Adelaide_Cuthbert

This reminds me of an issue I had with a small-time streamer several years ago on Gran Turismo sport. I smoked him with a 45 second lead in his own race. When I turned the console on the next day I had 10 or so hate messages from him/her that popped up.

Embracer has really screwed over every company they acquired

@@mayteexxis yeah, I heard a lot of people are now miserable because of Embracer

What's "Embracer"? Like what have they made 🤔

@@djrosette I don’t have all the details, all I know is it’s some business conglomerate that tried to buy up hundreds of game studios, and there was something about some Saudi deal that was going to make them rich, but it all failed and now they have all these game studios they don’t know how to run, and can’t afford - so, yeah, it’s chaos.

​​@@larrywalsh9939ah d'accord. Merci beaucoup. So Embracer is just a greedy company who has tried and failed a bunch of "get rich quick" schemes PS this is my opinion but Embracer should quit while their not ahead then give the game studios to real game developers that both knows what they are doing and can afford to run the studios

It never did, and I mean both statements.

This is the dumbest argument ever. Obviously IP theft is still a thing.

@@rsh650it’s true though. Paying for a game no longer gets your ownership of that game. They will take it or shut it down whenever they want. I agree Piracy should no longer be considered theft then.

@@idontlikeyouyo But you not stealing the IP. I recommend watching the video called "Video Game Piracy Is Good, Actually".

@@rsh650 Only if they're making a profit out of it. If I download a game for free, it's like borrowing it from a friend, so it shouldn't be considered illegal. Not everything the laws say is correct.

Don't forget WEF dictatorship...

Corporations have always been greedy. Nothing new there. Customers are the ones who forget the power they have.

I don't blame the company for predatory practice. I blame the naive weirdo that keeps buying the same game🤦‍♂️ the unsocialized shut-in's armed with their Grandma's credit card, the young or naive that jump on a pre-sale because they are just *that* giddy about a video game. In fact I wish I could come up with a way to transfer their money to my account as well. Theres a sucker born every second of the day just waiting and ready to be preyed upon.

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@@jamesmiller5331shut-in's arent automatically idiots unlike people that tar it with the same brush.

There absolutely are, every other digital media. Movies you buy on Amazon or whatever, e-books, anime on Funimation just got taken back. Class action lawsuit never gonna happen tbh because it’s right in the TOS of all these services

SOFTware is not a physical thing. You dont own shit. Ever. You only buy a license to use this Software. You are not allowed to change, copy or sell that Software. Only the Media which the software is stored on. Why do you idiots never understand that easy concept?

No lawsuit can happen because people's concept of ownership is flawed. People make assumptions about what they own and rarely look further than surface level. Games purchases have never granted ownership. Companies can absolutely revoke "ownership" if they feel the need or want to. I had a Galaxy Note 7 and planned to keep it because I wasn't concerned about them blowing up, but Samsung basically bricked it, and I had to get a new phone.

@@ThisPandaWasHere "Property tax" tells you who owns your property.

Read the TOS like you're told to when you sign up to Steam and other game services. You don't "own" the game because you are agreeing to a limited service whereby Steam does all the downloading, patching, collating and storage for you, along with social features. You agreed to wave any "ownership" in order to use this service. If you don't like this, stop using Steam. Very simple concept. The closest you will come to "owning" a game is GOG or an old console. Even then, you're forced to make many concessions in order to use them and even then you still do not "own" the games. Again. Read. The. TOS.

You can turn ON subtitles in english ,so when falcon pronounces the games name in his monologue it will be spelled at the bottom of the screen in English!

i think he meant the background gameplay@@nestibeats4221

You can always ask what one is. Especially with a timestamp. Someone who reads the comments will generally help.

This is a problem anywhere it goes. The person making the decision needs to know and care about the problem, otherwise it just makes it worse always.

Just as much if not more blame should be stacked on the players for buying into it. Gacha wouldn't be widespread if gamers didn't get suckered in so easily. Games wouldn't be so buggy and broken on release if gamer idiots didn't buy games Day 1.

@@-T--T- 🤡

The majority of high budget media is committee designed unfortunately. In gaming, developers and artist are the last considered while a bunch of suits make decisions with focus groups and metrics. Imagine going through school to learn coding and you have some jerk in a suit that doesn't even play videogames telling you to shove microtransactions in a project.

​@@-T--T- I love how in an industry full of predatory shit for profit maximization and mass consumption, people like you think what's ruining games is "I saw a brown person in too many games."

Corporations and greed will destroy everything.

Not indie games

Shit is so sad bro

They were never made for players lol. Games have always been about making money because its a business. Are you people really this naive?

@@keynanmartinezYeah except indie games don’t have the capabilities to have the same potential scope and vastness in experience. I am not interested in the millionth souls-like, 2D side scroller, retro graphics, or rogue-like. Indie cannot give me another Skyrim or Metal Gear. The extremely rare exceptions have been CD Projekt Red and Larian who are arguably AA studios by this point do their massive size for an indie studio and don’t represent the indie scene.

DRM has never really hindered piracy, it just punishes people that buy the game legitimately.

it makes it MORE worthwhile to just pirate the game.

​@@McSomething15that's not true, DRM usually gives games a window from 1 dayuntil cracked 😂😂

@@blasiankxngIn that case, it would de no problem if they'd patch out the DRM after a week or so...

DRM is basically spyware

Not like they have input on their job, just doing what they are told to create

@@joselara147 Maybe they should try to get in touch with the gaming community and try to understand what players actually want?

I don't blame the company for predatory practice. I blame the naive weirdo that keeps buying the same game🤦‍♂️ the unsocialized shut-in's armed with their Grandma's credit card, the young or naive that jump on a pre-sale because they are just *that* giddy about a video game. In fact I wish I could come up with a way to transfer their money to my account as well. Theres a sucker born every second of the day just waiting and ready to be preyed upon.

​@@Dwaxxx The gaming community is bullshit. Ppl online with their "gamers opinion" barely make 10% of actual sales. Year after year the internet would convince you that the next cod won't sell a single copy yet it make billions. There is a silent majority which don't voice their opinions.

Better yet writing a story thats “not for the fans” or to intentionally anger the fans. SBI looking at you.

To this day I still think about that game. It could have been an Overwatch killer, or at least the direct competitor, but they also messed up with their in game economy. Beat the story 6-8 times just to have enough currency to unlock 1 new character. They tried charging full price AND using the F2P model. If they chose one it would've been amazing. But yea, severe lack of marketing, and greed and stinginess in-game contributed to it's unnecessary downfall.

truuuu

And yet there are plenty of games (like BG3) that use Early Access correctly. And the fact of the matter is, you go into buying an early access game knowing what it is. If not, you're either blind or stupid, period.

Yea its ridiculous

I'm fine as long as they are constant updates and communication. But I think if a game goes a certain length of time without one of those, Steam should revoke the tag.

Agreed. Steam should make a time limit for how long games can stay in early access.

I know countless people have already said this in the comment section, and that you basically implied it by mentioning this case. But yeah, we can determine that "most" of the problems any video game industry has is directly related to the executives. Hell, any industry whatsoever.

You only have to look at since the start of the Ukraine war, everyone said they had to raise their prices and every company made record profits doing it, if they’re making record profits then they’re probably putting prices up by so much that they’re just exploiting consumers, the oil companies especially, they can set whatever price they want and people literally have to pay it, I bet half these scummy fuckers already have more money than they know what to do with and they’re always wanting more.

Welcome to capitalism - Profits over People!

The Expendables.

​@@3nertiano. *corporatiam* well regulated capitalism works fine. But its been poorly regulated for so long its turned into corporatism.

nvm i found it, it's death's gambit for anyone wondering

Merica

Yah pretty much and it doesn't just apply to games. Any consumer product's quality is ruined by greed.

Its not nearly that simple no matter how much you want it to be. The reality is that game development has gotten so ridiculously expensive its really hard to justify making one that doesn't have potential to generate alot of money in return. Its not "greed" as much as its what you have to do to stay in business these days. Unless something drasticly changes, its all very unsustainable and we are likely heading for a crash or an environment where everything is consolidated under 1 or 2 companies who can actually afford to make games.

@@AD-df5tm I see your point but it doesn't help when companies know what the fans want but ignore it and do what the company wants which is to make games that milk gamers. They have to realize overtime that will tarnish their image. But playing devils advocate I think new age gamers don't care about being exploited because it's the culture now so companies are gonna appeal to them.

​​@@MicroWave233even the fans dont know what they want lol. Ask 5 gamers about a game and you get 5 different opinions. This weird idea that gamers are just one large uniform block is silly. You really think game companies are intentionally not making games they know people want instead of making them and getting hundreds of millions in sales? Come on, man.

good idea. lower price and the game will run better

Same here. Why spend 70+bucks for the crappiest version of a game when you can get a goty edition a year later for half the price?

There are other ways to get games too you know. For free even.

Crazy how we've come to this point, eh?

It is extremely rare I buy a game on launch. TotK was the only one in years that I knew I was going to play and was excited for. But with exclusivity deals, I couldn't even buy most games new if I wanted to. It's probably going to be two years before I can play FF7: Rebirth.

Heavy hitting just for it to be #10. I kinda wanted battle passes to had been explicitly mentioned but I do think that covers it at least. Too crazy to think about what's happened and going to happen with WB, Rocksteady, Hogwarts outselling CoD (and that's another thing, mentioned in the vid as well, half the major triple A devs/companies have just been giving us remasters, recycling old classics)

I almost got whiplash nodding in agreement. That came from the heart

And then an indie out sells them and they're like "whaaaat... let's do that" and fail again

You're not wrong but its more execs are beholden to shareholders to maximize profits. It is about $ not art that creates an experience. Like most things, corporations screw it all up but maaaan I love seeing my 401k climb!... It's us, we're the problem 😂

So the issue isn't execs, it's execs not int touch with fans

@@krenshaw82 You are right, when it comes to execs, it is about money and nothing else. When it comes to devs tho, I assume it is ego? Because we see it more and more lately when AAA game fails, some devs start flaming fans and gamers on twitter and whatever. Unable to accept they did something we do not like, they start looking for excuses such as "bigotry" or low IQ and what not.

​@@Syrin23Nah, execs are cancer. I work in medical and the CEO makes over half the money all the clinics makes and he doesn't even have a nursing degree. Your healthcare isn't expensive because your doctor drives a BMW. Same with gaming. You think Bobby Kotick knows how to code?

Is not that deep little bro

Pretty much my biggest issue is too many things now being live service/having battle passes. It was heavy hitting for it to be #10 when I thought it would've been like top 4. The gaming job layoffs and studio closings have definitely been depressing and kinda like Falcon was saying, it's been contradictory seeing companies boist about making so much at year's end and milestones yet same day letting plenty of game devs know via twitter/online they don't have a job anymore. It doesn't seem quite inspiring for dev interns/college students looking to get into the field

Every game you like probably has these things so that isn't the issue.

​@@Syrin23If you only play AAA, that's true. Indie usually doesn't have overhead like that to worry about. Larian is pretty much an indie studio and their passion project became one of the greatest made games in our lifetime

@@Syrin23 if the NBA has double dribble issues, which it does, and people say there's an issue in basketball, no one points to the WNBA and says it's not an issue. Stop it.

@@solblackguy Fair point

@@tullock13 This analogy is so bad that I am embarrassed for you. Truly.

Vimms layer 🙌 all his preserved games are checked and verified so no risk of viruses (I mean someone could hack his site but he does good job at keeping all downloads clean)

@@connerSphotography, I used to download PS2 games from there. A very good website indeed…

Nintendo Exec: Sorry honey, sorry kids. Can't afford food tonight. Someone pirated a game we made in 1997

Luffy?

​@solblackguy "Oh, he posted a fan made mod on his RU-vid channel and didn't publicly release it" "Sue him immediately"

Bears we got bear problems they eat people

capitalism

That's actually the real reason for "inflation". There's not any reason other than greed for price gouging. No oil shortage or short supply. No boats stuck in the Panama Canal. OPEC sets gas prices not the US president. Booming economy but wages stagnant and homelessness increasing. It's so gross. 🤢🤮

Greed isn’t exclusive to the super wealthy. People demanding that the super wealthy give them their wealth because “income inequality” are more greedy than the super wealthy.

And Incompetence.

It just reminds me of South Park.

'Based' used to mean "addicted to cocaine", so I get many chuckles these days.

Jesus, this thread makes me feel old 😂

Capitalism in a nutshell

@st.haborym Yeah. It's why when there's talk of privatizing currently public institutions (such as libraries) I'm so against it.

@@GoddessPallasAthena Yeah no screw that. They'd charge you an hourly fee just to sit there and read the books.

​@@st.haborym Private libraries could also make age restrictions on books and content

@@MPHswayze Yeah no I hate censorship too.

This list breaks down the majority of the issues that are affecting the gaming industry and if they do not reverse course, it can only become disastrous!

Your comment isn't necessary when there's already chapters for the video.

@@kingzingo1784 I was trying to save you time if you've heard it all before, the chapters dont have titles that tell you what problem is discussed

NEITHER IS YOURS!!!!!!!!!!@@kingzingo1784

@@wigi426have RU-vid shorts and the like lowered your attention span that badly?

That's why i buy physical... if it aint physical i dont want it, unless it's free

@@lovegodessmls28hardly matters when physical just means all you have is the base layer and you need an 80gb download to have the final version of the game 😂🤬

@@jasonrafael5945that is a problem. Physical often seems just a key for a download. Like latest COD games. I don’t want the multiplayer. I wait a while and buy a used copy for the single player. But single player isn’t on the disc!

Moral Kombat 😄 Sorry but that was funny typo. But anyway. Doing that kind of shitty move because of licencing is very bad. That should only be applied to new stuff and not to stuff which has already being done. Some common sense would be needed in those cases.

That's why I pirate all my games. I buy less than 1 game per year

That's a hella throwback

This ^ games that reward effort, not fools who spend money on paywalls in full price games

I don't play shooters anymore but I always look back on something like halo reach. You see someone in cool armor with nice armor effect and think wow that guy played alot to unlock the armor and have enough entirely in game credits to put that look together. Now you see a cool gun camo and just think wow I wonder how much money that cost. You used to be able to determine a good bit about a player by what cosmetics they had on, now you can just determine that they were willing to pay real money.

Can't wait for Hades 2

I'm working on it! Just give me 4 to 5 years! I miss the old days too. I think only indie devs will go for this though cos everyone else has to answer to someone else (shareholders and publishers etc).

@@imALazyPanda it's gone from recognizing skill and having respect to recognizing douchebags with zero self-respect

Watch Dogs and Anthem broke the camel's back for me. Such a shame

You forgot predatory mtx

They're not going to do that because people aren't going to stop buying games. If people would back off and actually draw a red line, companies would have to adjust because there is a shitload of money still to make in the game industry... they are just trying to make more more more more because they have basically already had it proven to them that there are people out there that will top hundreds if not thousands of dollars into a game they already bought, will pay for a live service, will give the company an interest-free loan just so they can have the game the second that it launches and so on and so forth. Blame the dumdum consumer. Their idiotic Behavior has convinced investors that there may be a way to change the gaming industry more and more and more into this type of thing. And you know what? They are probably spot on.

@@jamesmiller5331 I used to buy games at launch all the time. Now I buy *maybe* one or two a year, if even that. It's just generally not worth buying games on release to me anymore. You've got buggy releases, shoving in cash shops a few months after release to avoid reviewers being able to comment on them, live services that are DOA, etc. I buy games during sales, 6 months to a year after launch and all that stuff is out in the open and the game's cheaper. Only game I bought full price last year was D4, and that was because they caught me with the Beta making it seem like the game was gonna be good. Lesson learned and taken to heart on that one.

​@@jamesmiller5331 and then there was a piracy spike... imagine how many more ppl are gonna feel the call to Crack these

@@LuvLie999 people that know how to and are able will for sure. People with money to blow and or Grandma or Daddy's credit card will continue to do what they're doing as well.

Digital receipts for digital products that have monetary value... videogames = NFTs!?!?

it allready has in the 1980s once before by the way so its going to happen agen and nientdo won't be saveing us from this one by the way.

like an explainer (my FAVORITE type of falcon vid) "Why are publishers miserable scumbags for consumers of video games?"

or in other words corporate greed, at some point the line simply cant keep going up man its going to cause problems. Doing stuff for your shareholders instead of your customers is a big problem

There is no way thats accurate lol. You are basically saying the Australian govt made bootlegging and IP theft legal 😂 Im sure there is alot of nuance there that you are missing.

Honestly tho at a gameplay level they nailed it. Its just the additional content thats lack luster.

@@Caedes-rex wat?

The only thing that works is not buying them and teaching your kids not to like them.

Sameee 😭😭😭

That was actually a pretty fun game, enjoyed the platinum grind on that one.

Good game

Yeah that one had an excellent story and characters. It is still the closest thing we have to Mass Effect.

Absolutely.. Had alot of fun with it..

Hope the layoff hammer doesn’t drop on you! Stay good bro

Sounds like blizzard

oh man good luck, that company seems like its always in hot shit

​@@basicwm9🍪

Why L3 to sprint? That seems fairly logical, if the Left analog makes you move, then pressing it harder makes you move faster. It’s a lot better than the dopey “keep tapping x” rockstar uses, that shit sucks ass

This is a very optimistically ignorant comment. I respect it.

Same here, even though I own and play on a PS5 I still have a bunch of old games in my library that are offline single player that I can load up anytime I want in case the Internet goes kaput.

Not necessarily, there are plenty of ps4/ps5 games that don’t require downloads.

Same, still have all the PlayStations, and games. What kind of gets me not honestly is that emulation is now possible on phones, so I usually download a ROM and play it there before plugging everything in and grabbing the disk. At least my PS3 gets used, can't do that on a phone yet really

I have burnt so many PS1 games and got my Ps1 chipped back in the early 2000s. Best 75$ ever.

The high seas offer solutions to such problems.

That's their job. They need to also appoint people in touch with the fan base and game development

They know more about how to do a line of coke than a line of code

"The problem is the people who know how to run a profitable business are the ones who get promoted" 😂😂 Tell me you have zero understanding of business lol.

Well I guess so. I work in this sort of industry and in a position of decision making based on pricing and strategy (business development analyst). The thing is we work by sales data, and the data - contrary to the majority of the comments here - tells us that people are very willing to spend a lot on subscribtions, skins, microtransactions, DLCs, merch, anything apart from the game itself. The pipeline and margins are just too good to not profit from. I'm a cheap gamer too, but I just want to share what it's like from the inside.

That’s almost always a big Red Flag that you should AVOID that specific game.

These things only exist because gamers buy into this stuff. Just don't buy them and devs will learn sooner or later.

@@G1ingy the thing is though, if the game works the way it should and I am fully enjoying my time spent I will gladly give more to play more. It’s normally easy for me to tell pretty quick if I’m going to enjoy a game and want more of it. But that’s just me

@@G1ingy but I 100% see where your coming from

The AAA bubble is bursting

AI AI AI These video game companies are making record profits, yet they lay a bunch of people off. Just as AI is starting to mature. 🤔

@@tonecapone8021 Then those corpo bigwigs find themselves replaced by AI who turn out to be much, much better higher-ups than the dopes themselves.

They rehire people. If someone needs a job, they are going to take it regardless of the fact that company just laid off a bunch of people. The reality is this is the gaming industry. They know what they are getting in to when they enter it. It's always been like this. And most of these publishers own multiple dev studios. They could make record profits while also having a dev studio spend tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to make a game and it flop. That dev lost them money while another one made enough money to cover what they spent and what the dev who made a shit game spent. They can't just say well you did terrible, but luckily one of our devs made a ton of money, so go ahead and make another terrible game that makes no money. Not to mention, a lot of these devs hire a bunch of extra people to help get a game to the finish line. Once it's done and out the doors, they don't need that many people so they figure why pay them to sit around and do nothing. It's kind of like doing turnarounds for a plant. You might have a job for a month or 2 but then be out of work for a couple weeks and then find another one. For the games industry, once they ramp up production, they will hire a bunch of people.

That’s gonna be the light at the end of the tunnel for Ubisoft firing Hideo Kojima. While it sucks that we aren’t gonna be getting a proper Metal Gear Solid game made by him with the help of Ubisoft, he’s now free to do whatever he wants and not be bound to anyone or anything except his passion for making games. He’s currently working on a new, original IP called Physint and it’s the first game I’ve been genuinely excited about in years. Hopefully he bucks all these garbage trends, takes his time and makes a game that he’s proud of, that’s stable upon launch and not a blatant cash grab

I feel that he genuinely cares about the video game medium in general, he knows the story telling aspect and is not afraid to take advantage of it! Good comment, I appreciate your response!@@butcheredalive

@@comfychairgaming that’s his best quality, and he shouldn’t be held back from making great games with awesome storylines. I love how he went half independent. He’s getting help from Sony but the dev studio is mostly his. And thank you :)

I concur! half-indie is still fully awesome, especially if the budget is decent. personally I am looking forward to more indie games in the future! especially because it is games being made by gamers still@@butcheredalive

Don't engage. Only buy games that don't have a contract attached to them. It limits the games you can buy, but at least you don't have to worry about some ceo taking away your access to the product you paid for!

I thought a few years back, a law was passed where the "terms & agreements" are supposed to now be more organized/comprehensible and idk if it's the original or only for updates to it, but they headline the changes and/or significant terms that change or have...idk, and yeah foolish for me to think/hope so, but humanitarian/safety highlights right at the start so you don't have to go to page 5 paragraph 8 to "protect us"?

​​@turbo8628 which means... all of them?

It sucks because even if you don't agree to their terms, they lock you out of the game until you change your mind.

@@TheHudsonPhoenix This is also why these ToS things are not enforceable. They are what is known as shrink-wrapped contracts.

Ya I agree I feel like anime will be next to get the gaming treatment 😭 I’d like my niche to stay a niche Getting popular is a bane

Alot of my ideas have been made but I'm still sitting on several original IPs. They will probably never materialize but they are mine and have yet to be done.