Gaming is in Trouble... 

as long as people accept mediocrity things will only get worse

A closed off niche hobby becomes mainstream and it becomes ruined. I’ve heard this story all too often.

Its the game market crash all over again. Ive been saying it for months now. Game market us getting flooded with low effort games and here soon its gonna crash

I grow increasingly more picky of what modern games to play nowadays, not only because of expenses but because of greedy practices by companies. I once tried to get invested in a free to play game, but eventually got sick of the grinding and left it behind, despite the gameplay itself feeling fun. Whenever I see that a game relays too heavily on things like free updates or day 1 patches I become extremely wary of it, usually preferring to just not buy it. This has motivated me to go out of my way and buy more indie games instead.

This guy preaches how he's better than everyone by not leaving angry comments but then makes a whole ass angry video lol

Everything you said I totally agree with. Really makes me glad I grew up in the 16 bit era. I miss being able to just pop in a disc or a cartridge and just start playing. Now I have to pop in the disc wait about a day just for the gang to install and wait another day or two for that day one patch.

Very valid points if you are gaming on PC or Xbox.... I generally avoid those platforms. I find Nintendo and PlayStation still have some standards, I am hoping they do not go down the same route as Xbox and other publishers in the future..... Good video.

Every reason you stated is why I now only buy indie games. AAA is not gaming anymore, it's a second job. The only time I've ever bought microtransactions is if I had $2 in my steam wallet and I've got nothing else to spend it on. Even then it won't be from a AAA game. Keep fighting the good fight, majority of gamers got your back!

I play Genshin Impact. I know I'm part of the problem. But at least the experience in the game is fun and the live service works. But.... there are times I wished the weapons/characters weren't locked behind RNG. But its all I play now because I know how far gone 'modern gaming' has regressed. And I do feel I'm getting a lot of fun out of the game, far better than Halo Infinite.

The shift to predation has been gradual enough that we gamers have been begrudgingly accepting of the change. Tbh, it's the poor treatment and undervaluing of employees doing grunt work on games that disturbs me the most about the current state of gaming. Some of the most successful and loved games are made by broke and starving artists that never receive due credit or compensation. It is _not_ okay.

You have to remember that halo is the laughing stock of the gaming industry nowadays the franchise is already dead

To paraphrase from that that fake gabe newell interview Q: Where do you see the gaming industry in the next few years? A: Down the shitter. its fucked beyond belief. I never really considered the predatory industry practices or that the kids now teenagers who grew up playing fortnite et al in todays world would be normalised to that sort of stuff unlike the games I played when I was growing up. I would add to the point that maybe people are intentionally entering creative roles to fuck up projects to get some sick twisted satisfaction from it, its one of the only reasons why I can explain how when a project has everything right going for it, but it still ends up in failure. With infinite, you have the backing of one of the worlds richest companies, thousands if not 10s of thousands of contractors/support staff, unlimited resources yet you still produce a product that is underbaked and unfun. Compared to bungie who could release a functional game (THERE WERE NO DAY 1 PATCHES, EVERYTHING ON THAT DISC WAS FINAL) and then release some expansion packs/dlc afterwards that genuinely improved the game. it astounds me. People say "go try indie games" well thats all good and fun but the games I like require somewhat of a budget and somewhat of a crew to pull off, an indie game ala halo 3 could spend years in development 5-10 in which the contributers could be burned out, or worse the game is canceled because they think they have bit off more than they can chew. There are other reasons why I think gaming has gotten worse but Its not worth mentioning them all, I am sure others have and you probably know of it since you're clearly pationate about it. Thanks for the vid, sorry for the blog

I have got myself a Wii, a 360, and plan to get the 1-2 backward compatible PS3 to collect older games as the 7th generation of consoles was the last good era of gaming before mandated online, day one updates, MT saturation, and woke trash infected everything in the 2010's. The 80's and early 90's were the golden age of gaming with the late 90's-late 2000's being the silver age. Now we live in the trash age of gaming.

I don't think gaming per se is in trouble it is way easier to make games now a days considering people have free access to engines like unity or UE. There is also way more selection of games in any genre you name, but I 100% agree that there is no reason for AAA industry to change when stupid people are willing to do the PR for them for free.

A good rule of thumb is to estimate what is the maximum amount of money you can spend on a game. If there is for example 3 map packs a 15 dollars each, then it is 45 dollars, maybe a bit high but not too bad if there are loot boxes, battle passes and currencies then that number is probably very, very high. what was it someone estimated 800k to unlock everything in diablo immortal if it is unlimited or close to it then stay far away

PREACH!

Dude Forza horizon 5, which was fun, just lacks so much content. I've never played a racing game that was done in 3 weeks. Then you have to buy the DLCs as well as cars locked behind paywalls. I playing it for free so I'm not really complaining but if I paid full price I'd feel robbed.

Indie's are where it's at.

2020? 😂🤣 you gotta be joking. Gaming dies after BO2 and halo reach.

It's not. There's plenty of things that are out there for people to play more than at any time ever really. And now with the ability to emulate practically every system on your phone.. there's more games than ever to play. Clickbaiti titles from content creators Talking about the downfall of things is what the real problem is.

“Gaming will become a virtual arcade, pay to play” That actually already happened. A battle royal called The Culling 2

It's all up to the indie devs now Devs who are actually passionate rather than greedy

You are right about all the points in the video, however on your point about the gmaers themselves I think you overlooked something. Its not solely the people who defend these comapnies and practices. There are a lot of people (myself included in this so Im not putting myself above others) who will shit on games while also buying them and complaining. They get burned every release and continue to buy games from people who destroy their favorite franchises. Microsoft (and 343) had massive layoffs among other companies. People celebrated this not because we are happy people lost their jobs, but in the vein hope that they MIGHT get the message and enough people have stopped buying these games to make it less profitable for them to do it. Do not pre-order. Do not buy crappy games just because its the newest one. Do not defend people who destroy franchises. Make it known your opinion AND VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET.

Agreed. As long as this keeps happening, nothing will get better. It will only get worse. I am saddened by how low Minecraft has fallen. It was one of my favorite games. Halo is still one of my favorites, but I only play MCC, and then I don’t play Halo 4. Gaming is succumbing to the darkness of mega cooperations. In other news, I found an interesting game called Rain World that is a very good game. Honestly, it feels like how Minecraft once felt. Endless hours of fun. Plus, a very good community. Might want to take a gander at it.

I haven’t bought any recent games, but I got out the original Xbox and been playing some old pc games and I have been having more fun these last few months than the last 5 years lol. At the end of the day as long as I have fun with friends and family while playing some video games… that’s a 10/10 in my book lol. Great vid boss. So great to see the channel grow and I hope for great success. Also stalker is a classic lol love that game.

I’ve been having the most fun in gaming the past 6 years than I’ve ever had. By playing new games made by small developers and newer releases from different genres, connecting with the developers and giving constructive feedback you’ll have a blast, Trust me. I remember playing Fortnite on release before it was popular and remember it being completely different from what was on the market and having a blast with my friends learning new mechanics and trying to survive, then it got crazy popular and the quality declined. That’s what happens to most games such as Halo upon getting popular and Microsoft getting full control over it. Halo is dead and have been declining since the release of Halo 2 very sharply, COD is a rollercoaster, Battlefield is dying, so many other mainstream titles are dying or are dead. Indie and small titles trying to attempt something different is the way to go. 🤷🏽‍♂️

i 100% agree...d biggest issue is u have people that i personally dont consider t b trues gamers , come in spending insane amounts of money on predatory systems and by doing so further encourage greedy game companies to keep designing their games with such systems in mind, even as far as abandoning their core fanbase for a few whales...and with gaming becoming so popular now , u got more and more casuals supporting this horrible predatory systems while core fans and gamers suffer d consequences, and lets not forget d brainless shills with their brainless takes like "if u dont like it, don't buy it" cos that going to solve anything. For a time i used t b someone that spent lots of money in games, but not cos i wanted to, but bcos sometimes u get to a point were d game company sayz "fuk u" and u can almost cant make progress in d game unless u spend money or wait a million years while waiting and hoping that RNG favors u or make d game a second job......Things like this this are everywhere now but used t b exclusive to mmo games which used t b my fav games n now i have zero interest in almost all upcoming ones cos i already know what to expect and it sickens me that it has become like a norm now. Sure i cud just keep flushing money down d drain by supporting such game companies, but i got t a point were i just cud not do it anymore ....LOL, i swear one day i woke up and decided no more and now we got d same crap even in single player games too so no place is of limit. I dont mind spending a bit of money long as d games are really good, not buggy, quality....honestly even if there ws monetization, i understand that companies have to make money, but it has t b fair and reasonable but at this rate only government intervention can bring an end to this , but that comes with its own set of serious problems too..remember when they used to blame violence on video games ?? sure seems like a losing war, like trading one evil for another.

Halo Infinite just broke my heart. It was 20 percent of a Halo game at best. Not doing that again.

i feel you so much on these things. Me my uncle and other xbox friends talk about this topic litterally every single day. Sad.

Gamers rise up!!!

Then Hi Fi rush comes out and it is a complete game with little to no bugs I have seen so far.

and then you get games like darktide, which easily could have been one of the best coop games, which then get literally castrated by higher ups trying to pick the parts of the game that they want to dlc in the future... but at least the command and conquer remasters can give us a little ray of sunshine, even if its only for a bit lmao

The AAA Industry is completely riddled with cancerous and rampant GREED. I truly believe I was lucky enough to live through the golden era of gaming and its sad to have to admit a little. Mark my words, there is going to come a time here within the next 5-10 years, when the new trend for the "kids" will be "Retro Games" aka, all of the old good stuff. AAA publishers will be sitting and scratching their heads wondering why they would want to play a game with such "poor" graphics. They will play them because... wait for it... FUN. We are seeing just the fringes of it right now on Twitch. The Indie Devs have caught a bit of that magic already. I guess what I'm saying is: The corporate cake is a lie... you are now figuratively eating frosting topped shit with sprinkles "Not cake"... plz stop. :D

Yeah, the halo infinite xp pass was abysmal. I wasted 20 bucks on the hero’s of reach pass, only got to level 20. But they gave us the option to continue using xp for the pass, after that season is over, but I got so bored of halo infinite, I didn’t care for the grind.

infection is added 3 years later, pay for colors, pay 20 dollars for armour, half baked campaign is 60$ alone, but hey! they added mk 5, so its all worth it.

There’s so many amazing games that have been released for a few decades now. I’ll always enjoy those games to some extent in life. If gaming keeps taking this nosedive I’ll just enjoy some games from the good old days and not spend too much on new games in the future.

I vibe with what you’re saying. There are too many men making excuses and justifying emotional behavior

forspoken comes to mind through out this video

No matter how these people look at it , it is paid to play a very good friend of mine who plays world of tanks and that’s all he plays has since day one has been keeping track of Contant purchases battle packs, skins, tank packages, gold coins, repair boxes, special ammo, etc. that he has paid for over the years and he is now north of five grand He’s an adult and he has a very good job and only hast answer to himself . but remember world of tanks is free to play? Developers will continue to produce garbage games because they can these new gamers are brainwashed and unfortunately there’s no recourse. You have different, RU-vid channels that preys these crappy games, no matter what they put out because whether they admit to it or not, they are owned by that particular franchise halo being one of them. Very sad 😔

That's why I'm done I only bought a Xbox series x cause my PC wasn't good enough anymore I like the system but I don't feel as invested into modern gaming anymore I feel more satisfied playing games like grounded over the more modern titles and I feel more compled and excited for indie titles than triple A games.

Sign of the times sadly, greed, selfishness, deceit, and a general uncaring attitude towards the customer but if people buy this rubbish they will continue to take advantage and rake the money whilst giving as little as possible. If only people would wake up and refuse to buy these products.

Guys i'm going to be building a game, I want it to what games use to be. Although customization wont be a thing due to it being single player historic shooter. Cheat codes will exist tho. The reason for no multiplayer is because it might not be worth the time to build, if it takes off i'll set up a multiplayer to take over CoD and be what it use to be.

As a Pokémon and Halo fan, it’s been rough lol. FYI I didn’t buy Halo Infinite.

finally sombody that said what i am thinking all the years i hate what games become and everything you said i told my fiends for years now because they are buying everything even if its a shit fest

It's true they always screw the pooch on a remaster. Meanwhile, indie game devs are going hard nowadays, and I believe that's where you should spend you money.

Im honestly glad I don't buy into a lot of the garbage that gets shilled out by companies nowadays like 343, Activision, Blizzard, Ubisoft and EA. There are very few gems that come out by them, and I mean *_few._* Indie games seem to be where it's at. There are few triple A devs that are around that can be considered good now.

I almost can't believe that Xbox & Microsoft even care about game's anymore? Which is CRAZY because I LOVED the original Xbox and the Xbox 360. *How is Xbox putting so much time & money into producing nothing & never coming off like they even CARE? What happened? They bought all these companies FOR WHAT? Ever since Xbox has bought companies, they haven't produced anything.. why is Xbox "satisfied" with the state of things? They should be very vocal about they are Not okay with this and They should be open to the public about how & what they are thinking about doing to improve this... They literally gave 343 so much money to drive a staple game into the ground. Yet Xbox seems fine with continuing to fund them, to not communicate to the public and to not listen to fans and their customers. It really isn't difficult to find ways to improve this situation. Just look at what made so many people love things and have so much fun and tap back into that. Give players options. Give them different modes. Give them abilities to play against bots. Offline modes. Co-op modes, local split screen multiplayer. Creative unique story mode. A sandbox of options and custom game modes to play. The ability to customize their character. (Charge for the game instead of making a "free to play game" with everything else being locked behind a paywall or just completely lacking from the game entirely. Even tho in previous years games they included so much more options and diversity.) People just want to have fun. Is it THAT HARD for gaming companies to put aside Greed that ironically is causing so much failure *Instead of just remembering that if a company makes a FUN GAME, people will LOVE to play it and share it with their friends and talk about it and it all comes back around to equal good things. Why has modern gaming forgotten so much about what made gaming successful? I have been going back and playing my old games on my old consoles and realizing just how much I loved gaming before this new era came out. I really hope that game companies can realize that because the potential is limitless with today's current capabilities hardware/software wise. With the right mindset and approach, some of the best games ever could be created.

I want to point out that the main reason why MW2R dint have an MP is cuz of MW22 Speaking of MW22 its such a bad game That i had to buy MWR insted and yet people just accept it and activison keep saying this is the most "Advanced" cod in history with 3K devs when in reality CODM (and Advanced warfare) is more advanced than MW22 Side note they also claim MW22 theme is better than OG when OG theme made by Hans zimmer is always superior they just used the MW2 brand for marketing when the game itself dint feel like a Modern warfare game with no factions and American missions In terms of BF2042 it should have been a game changer like BF1 simply combined 3 4 Hardline 1 and V but they just had to copy cod

Well said man. I’ve argued with many of these ‘manchilds’ you speak of. I’ve argued with COD fans for example who will defend Activision’s predatory business practices, such as aggressive Skill Based Matchmaking (sbmm). They will say that I’m bad and that I just need to get better at the game even though I’m at least in the top 5% of players in terms of skill. It’s funny how all these fortnite kids have been subdued by these large corporations, defending them completely for free like they have some kind of emotional attachment. It’s fucking weird man. It’s consumerism at its worst. Spending hours on end grinding for loot boxes isn’t enough, so they argue with people online because it provides yet another thing for them to do, more stimulus for their craved minds. Definitely a Reddit/discord moderator type beat.

I hope these people can understand what they are doing their doing bad like really bad like really really bad if don't understand it get worse because i now that go see 343 what they have done to halo

Your absolutely on the money, modern gaming is mostly garbage just to squeeze your wallets. I don’t play games like halo/Fortnite/etc cause thankfully there not my thing but I can see how kids can get suckered into thinking this is normal. I’ve been playing elder scrolls online for the past 8 years and the greed in the cash shop has just gotten to the point I don’t want to play it anymore. It used to be that the game rewarded you pretty well for doing stuff (like complete a certain raid/dungeon etc) but now you get nothing and it’s all straight to the cash shop, and yet you see on social media people lap it up as soon as any decent cosmetic is put up for sale. People willingly spending £20-30 weekly on absolute rubbish again and again. I’ve got to say I’m happy I’ve never brought myself a battlepass though Great video, subbed

Hollow Knight and Terraria are the best values I’ve ever ever had in a game and they will forever be my favorite titles. Why? Because they let me buy their game and then proceeded to just let me enjoy it. Nothing after the purchase was nagging me to buy anything else or tempting me with micro-transactions. Hollow Knight had great DLC and I was happy to buy it. Terraria released on multiple platforms and I continued to buy it and play it and sink hundreds of hours into it. It has given almost a decade of free updates and it still gives. Those developers cared about making something beautiful and they deserve your money, because they weren’t trying to rob you. Many modern companies are trying to rob you and they’re not even hiding it anymore

Honestly modern gaming is That bad if rather spend £200 on all the old pokemon games and relive my childhood with a brand new 2DS, than spend £500 on a new console like they can bugger off honestly.

You forgot Sony one of the biggest gaming companies that have proven they are anti consumer and people still defend them I could not agree more with everything you said it’s getting out of hand there is zero reason in 2023 we are getting less in games for 70 dollars then we were getting in the ps2/xbox days with out downloadable dlc for far less money I don’t even think we can go back it’s too far gone unfortunately

Companies also don't care that this affects the psychology of children. Besides making them into a bunch of little gamebeling addicts, some kids actually gett bullied or ostracized if they don't buy the newest fortnite or roblox skins

Farming simulator gives me hope. Sure, they have DLCs but nothing like whats going on else where. On the other hand they have thousands of mods available to even console players

Nostalgia and we growing up, this is exactly what the boomers say about the shit we liked as children ane teenagers, timea change, genrratioan grow older, etc. And we are getting old, this is nothing but nostalgia talking for our own "old good times".

It all started with the experiment of pvz garden warfare

The one that annoys me to a large degree is Sony's monopoly that allowed them to change the price of games from $60 to $70 despite gaming never being more profitable than it is now

The only time I ever play the big "Triple A "games are the old ones, I only buy the new ones if its in a super cheap steam sale or if I feel like it. The only safe haven on where you can find good games is the indie scene.

TB was clear why preordering is a bad idea. Don't do it.

The greatest example is rockstar not fixing gta online on pc and instead put out limited time only cars and 2x cash to make people play with the risk of all their pc getting corrupted and passwords stolen

Quality video man. Subscribed

All I can think of is RDX podcast and colt Eastwood when you were talking about Halo

Thank god for the master chief collection

This video needs signal boosted. You had so many nails and historical references right on the head.

well said.

You should make a video on Ghost Ship Games and Deep Rock Galactic. A true gem in the modern gaming age. Heck even the battle pass is free. Rock and Stone!

It sure is brother. I remember being a kid in the late 90s early 2000s and gaming was I would say nearing its peak. Half life hit the market and i was playing that game for hours. Halo ce came out and we had Return to castle wolfenstein and enemy territory which was pretty big back then. I played the snot out of that game for years. Then I kinda lost touch with gaming until the mid 2010s. A lot has changed. But now, forget about it. Games are coming out and they are garbage right out of the gate. The AAA games now are just a joke. Completely empty, but you can spend tons of money on stuff that you used to get for free. Greed will eventually kill gaming.

I've come to similar conclusions myself with me having to fallback on games that were made before that whole controversy started there are a few exceptions in my book including Cyberpunk 2077, ESO, and a few others but still other games that came out like recent including Forspoken have lost that sense of immersion and diversity that they once had in the past mostly being either rushed for full of microtransactions and now especially with a gaming Titian such as Halo pretty much gone I am not really that hopeful for the future. And I also get what you mean by people acting like man children my generation has been brainwashed in a way that it doesn't make any sense to me at least. It's not all of them but some of them. I do agree with pretty much all the points you make and I do think this issue does need to be addressed more sense it has been a problem and would definitely explain the quality of some games. They aren't all bad like the new Dead Space Remake was pretty good from what I hear but well said we do need more people like you addressing this issue.

Halo infinite campaign is free on xbox game pass

I thought that it is I am who is broken, watching where it all goes and how entertainment just flushed away in a toilet, yet seeing all these kids enjoying shit as if it is candy. Totally agree with you bro, thank you for your video!

great video, couldn’t agree more.

I'll just play old stuff

He’s right.

what about indie titles

I don’t think it’s a matter of how much effort devs put in but rather what they’re putting effort into…

Keep up the good work, dude.

Excellent vid brother !!

I have been playing halo and I have actually gotten lots of cosmetics, such as the special Oreo skin. Now I don't see that problem with having the game free, but with a store it makes the game free to new generation and spreads the enjoyment of halo. Here is an example, I was a kid and really didn't know or actually care about halo bc I thought it was a boring shooter game. With there not being a pay wall it open up halo and introduced it to me, which I am truly thankful. Have a wonderful day 😀

I haven't purchased a video game in a long time. I honestly don't care about it anymore. I got recommended this video since I'm watching a few halo videos to see what happened to the franchise. Back when I was a kid, I looked forward to games like Halo Reach and Black ops 2. Looking back it's a stupid hobby anyways. These people look down on you and your community because you're literally giving cash away to play pretend in a world they created. The creators of these games work horribly long hours, and are treated like crap by corporate executives, and the reason why is because they're halfwits who can only produce a pig slop product. If they could do any better, they'd be making $300k as a professional software engineer instead of $60k producing a bug ridden mess on a crap timeline. "Gamers" are the only people who will consume pig slop. Same shit with movies. I'm sorry but to be honest, I'd say you should just pick a different hobby. Start reading, maybe start playing guitar or something and then make some music. Have the world listen to your soul rather than complaining about an empty corporation who would murder you on live television if it raised their stock price.

the problem is whales, it's a very, very small number of players that spend any meaningful amount of money on these scams, but they spend so much it's insanely profitable blaming the "gaming community" as a whole is wrong

I think you shouldnt use the term 'man children' since observably, women can be corporate shill idiots too. Other than that, good video.

Turn a negative to a positive; video games for the most part are a waste of time. Focus on making your life better than affirm derived attention from greedy publishers and developers.