Industry of LIES - Last War 

I have been using keeps for maybe 6-8 months, I get the pills and foam. I feel like it’s stopped my bald spot from getting bigger, not sure about regrowth tho. Also my junk still works

I had to sit through an ad for a fake game to watch this video.😅

Congrats, you've learned about the bot/scum mobile game industry. Many man MANY fake companies have been making these virus shovelware "games" since the earlier 2010's.

Thanks for being a fucking reasonable voice among all this crazyness. I appreciate it man.

Thank you for bring this up these adds were driving me nuts

Problem is: it also reminds people about blockers too...

Plus they get paid to run the ad, so they get money either way

While I get that, what baffles me is that it's hosted on the playstore

​@@CameronB773 Chinese investment in alphabet what else do you expect?

​@@CameronB773 Why does that baffle you? They're owned by the same parent company, same unethical principles.

Good call.

@@FuckingChrisKupina Awesome username 😂😂😂 👍🏻 😎

Yeah, I've seen this culture of "respect the hustle", or "get that bag" nonsense in the last few years. As if someone making money is all that matters, so it doesn't matter if they are being dishonest, outright lying, even literally stealing or committing fraud. I don't understand this thought process at all. If someone is willing to lie for money, that makes it even worse that they then take the money and do that. We should 100% call out and blame people for that. Not call them out, but try to soften that by saying we "respect the hustle". We shouldn't respect them at all.

Your right, these RU-vidrs choose to willing get in bed with a scam Ad, they ain't innocent.

@@EarthboundX I can’t agree more 👍🏻

And double that if the person infront of the camera wont say who he is 😂

thats the most annoying thing about this. those shill youtubers know its fake but gaslight the viewers for a paycheck, frauds!

It's just like the whole "(NOT CLICKBAIT)" thing on clickbait videos.

How can it be fake? Clearly that's a person, or persons, playing the game. With dialogue like "wow do we want the gun or the rpg oh no we didn't get the rpg oh wow I got more troops" *all in one breath and with no inflection* -> you can't claim it's fake....

@@Lavthefox Did you watch the full video?

There was a recent release of a game which made a series of minigames based on many of the "popular" fake game ads

FatDino here on youtube does this from time to time.

I forgot who it was, but several months ago I did see someone make a real game with that kind of gameplay using more complex equations (to actually add difficulty). That was awhile ago, yet I still see these fake ads smh

They did that already. There was a "pull the pin" ad popping up everywhere and someone made a game that was the real thing....for a while,then he started advertising on his app too.

Gamergate 2.0

I remember seeing a game called Royal Match doing that a lot on mobile ads. It's like a slimy, natural evolution of the maxim of mobile game ads are all purposely played terribly to annoy you into wanting to "show them how it's done."

Did you watch the vid...? That's kinda what he covered exactly.

@Styles_Breez well there's multiple versions of these ads, that one is the most cringe inducing to me. Some don't talk at all, some have clearly ai made vocals with that distinctive robotic intonation "you won't be able to stop playing this game" stuff like that.

Is there any similar game like this?

I don't like it when the gameplay is soooooo bad, like a 2 year old playing, making you want to play it just to see what it looks like when a good player plays.

Cannot stress this enough.

Its sad because theres so much potential with the power of modern devices. The android port of open morrowind is an unofficial project that i would put in my top 5 favorite games on any system. Star traders frontiers is a great sandbox trading/turn based combat rpg game that ive sunk a ton of time into with no microtransactions after the purchase of 7 dollars. unciv is a free open spurce copy of civ5 that plays almost identically. cataclysm dda which is FREE with no microtransactions at all and is fucking massive and probably one of the deepest games of all time which i had on pc and android and prefer the portability of the android version

Depends premium ports are fun touch playing the entire ace attorney series on my phone is fun so is deadcells minus the touch controller and half a dozen other ones I have Mobile games like all other form of games is just your better of buying it then dealing with freemium garbage

Mobile "games" aren't games

Mobile gaming is not a cancer, the people who make them so, are.

It sounds like its google translated

AhAhAhhAhahAH!!! Oh my man.... You hit a spot there :)

This comment is more insightful than the video.

Nah. 1. I want to make money. 2. O, there is no punishment for scam. 3. SCAM!!! 4. ... 5. Profit?

Would you say you're maybe even sharing your.. Tencent?

​@@volisderg9463He's explaining how the scam works, not just that there is people doing a scam

Well, in bigger studios ad department is probably bigger than dev department (especially if you count all the freelancers) and gets about the same budget (if not bigger, depends on the project and it's life cycle stage).

About 2 months since this video, and it's only getting worse. They're really doubling down on the "Gais, eet nawt fayk!" BS, all while being unaware of how even more insufferable they've become.

The actual game won't get them any money, they need to make a bs game so they can make lots of micro-transactions

Also likely lots of metrics being collect on the users to track them, get buying habits, install malware, etc.

@@MDNQ-ud1ty Install malware ? Nah, you'd risk getting heat, it's much more profitable to just gather email adresses and phone numbers and sell them to whoever.

Cool comment, highly underrated

Well there's also the thing where their game looks like one of those highly optimised skinner boxes designed to make as much money as possible using micro transactions. And these things usually run on a very small percentage of players getting extremely addicted and wasting an incredible amount of money. In that business model it would make sense to try to get as many people as possible to sample your supply in the hopes that a few suckers get hooked.

The worst part is that seems like it'd be a good game to play on break or lunch at work, or rather the first one shown did.

I'm guessing because they cannot target whales with that core gameplay as much as they can with the actual game.

I actually played this game this week and uninstalled 4 days later, and it baffled me the absolute stupidity of it. The game is a bait and switch, it starts just like the ad I got, with shooting zombies and math puzzles in a street, but the the game starts to slowly become a base builder/defender and starts getting very grindy to force you to spend money, if you're smart you can do everything without wasting a cent...then it become as pvp with other players attacking you base all the time and you having to form alliances with other players to survive, but there is no level balance so high level players starts cannibalizing starter players that keep losing their resources trying to recover from the attack...unless they pay to get stronger. The game is a mess, the gameplay is all over and everything in it is made to make you want to spend money on it, entertainment be dammed. If you go to the the app reviews, a lot of people were voicing their discontent with the game changing direction suddenly. I think they would have made more money if they managed to keep the player base playing for longer periods, but it seems people drop the game as soon as they realise the game became something else.

You see, they pick your attention by the fake add, and with that you might install the game from there they give you a level like in ads to play so you say invested and after the ad you understand that the games was a fraud. How do they operate in such situation, they don't care about the normal people, they only hope that they somehow will hook a whale to the game, and he/she will through thousands dollars or any other currency every week. Don't ask me how does it work, there is a video: /watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4 I don't know the link policy so just in the main page just copy what's above. and maybe you'll get an understanding.

New video when

But it's called Keeps! So obviously it takes your money from you and keeps your hair too

Oh the irony

Keeps is legit backed by FDA. I assume you know what the FDA is

@@yoursilly2106of course, it’s that corrupt government agency that gives approval to tons of drugs and medical devices that later get recalled for killing and maiming people

@@yoursilly2106 yeah it’s that government agency that keeps approving Big Pharma products and medical devices that maim and kill people “If you or someone you know has been injured by transvaginal mesh, you may be entitled to compensation--“

Exactly. This is _what_ they do. Gaming is not the first industry to deal with their scamming and lack of creativity.

@@slicedtopieces CHEEAI NAH

More people should be calling out what you’re calling out. It’s an undeniable trend at this point, and to not talk about it is to be complicit

Um, US also scams.. E.g., Fraud market, government war scams, big pharma scams, etc.

Yeah, and they call the West "corrupt". Hypocrites! The lot of 'em.

Yeah, it seems like Chinese corpos really love to keep the stereotype of "Made in China = Crap" alive.

Ah, Evony. I tried that once. A case of "the ad only shows the mini-game, not the main game". The puzzles to get treasure are technically in there, but they're just bonuses to supplement the base-building main game. I left a rather unfavourable review.

..but, but the +10 and -5 options really add a lot of challenge for the average mobile game user

Yeah, the other gameplay footage looked way better (though I still wouldn't play it). Up until the base building part, anyway.

RU-vid staff doesn't need to be on the take in order to become badly biased in favor of the advertisers that pay Alphabet's bills. It's clear TenCent pays millions in advertising to YT and its parent company. While losing Last War as an advertiser alone wouldn't harm YT, losing all of TenCent absolutely would.

@@Slipknotyk06 Yeah, but here's the thing. Most of Google's AdSense is extremely harmful to the point I just want to pay for adblock in order to avoid clicking on scams or unsecured websites by accident. What I mean by that is when I look up "crypto scams" on my search engine for either RU-vid or Google, I get various results that eventually let me here. What I also get is crypto advertisements that are blatant scams that I just want to skip. Example? When I was trying to watch one of Echelon's videos on false advertising I got an a crypto ad that was sponsored by none other than Mario Nawfal himself (I still have the screenshot to prove it). I'm not trying to blow smoke anywhere, but this is just revoltingly disgusting. It's why I keep going on a tangent about kickbacks because they may be drops in the bucket, but there shouldn't be any buckets in the first place if they're potentially dangerous. Sorry for the rant. I just wanted to say my piece for multiple reasons.

Life has a bad habit of just beating morals out of people.

​@@thereseemstobeenanerror1219 do you picture the assholes that try to "pay artists in visibility", guess what, just like landlords usualy don't accept payment in exposure, they don't accept moral and intergrity as a payment method either. All you're saying is that you're life's easy enough you don't have to care about comprometing your moral, wich is good for you I guess, but not everyone's have it as easy.

Yeah. I'm either getting Trailers for movies I don't want to see, Temu ads, or some form of fake game. It's fucking wild

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UE is not and never was and never will be suicidal.

Chinese Government?

@@randomaccount53793I’m gonna have to see your social license

I got the ad for the game right after he finished the segment regarding Keeps. There is some irony for you. Edit: as a result of clicking to not see the ad again (which never seems to work but it is my attempt to give RU-vid the finger), I learned that the game is from Hong Kong before EU even mentioned Beijing. 2nd Edit: Oh look, Tencent is involved. I should of known. 😂😂

Yeah but I doubt it'll survive. Let's be honest, they'll get a few gambling addicts but actual fans of those games will skip it for Shadow of the Erdtree

Well its a rumor. So imma take it with a grain of salt. But I wouldn't be surprised if they do that

damn thought I had it

@@ClittyAFacelessGod The only way to tell if your first is from the likes, the views counter is unreliable and comments takes forever to update.

FiRsT 🙄🙄

@@ttpechon2535 right except now theres places where we can see the likes and places where we can not

Sadly, and people will pay all the shinny microtransactions.

"This ad for vaping/tobacco products is completely illegal in your country bu... BET WITH MATES NOW (skip in 5... )t it's perfectly within our guidelines so it's fine. Ple... PLEASE YOUR FAMILY WITH A LUXURY HOLIDAY TO DUBAI (skip in 5... )ase kiss our multinational ass... AS SOON AS YOU GET HOME, YOU DESERVE A GOOD COLD BEER (skip in 5... ).

Probably because the ads work just as well either way. People still pre-order AAA games despite being shown time and again how foolish that is, and mobile gamers have even less investment, savvy, and (let's face it) intelligence than console and PC gamers.

@@Bacteriophagebs Nearly fell for a pre-order the other day. Remaster of Braid showed up on Steam at 50% off. Went to go and buy it, but noticed it was actually a pre-order just after hitting Add to Cart. Nope. Not encouraging that. Removed it and wishlisted it for when it gets its Linux version the forums say is coming later.