Man Behind Earth 2 Exposed | Asmongold Reacts 

That dude's office waaaaay to clean for an office that is actually used for work. Every room he is screams "rental office space"

Most commentary channels: "This is all wrong, we want to critique this so that the final product is a better game." Asmongold: "This is all wrong, I want to critique this so that the final product is a better scam."

I stumbled upon Asmongold in my recommended about a month ago. Dude is ridiculously entertaining and gives intelligent commentary. Listening to him breakdown scammers dialog is just perfection.

"Hasn't pulled off the packaging plastic on his monitor." Idk if this is a joke or not but it's kind of very real. It really does say a lot about how you interact with and view tech. Honestly a huge brain take.

The fact Asmongold started to react to Earth 2 will be the ultimate death of the project. Good job, bro.

People: "why does E2 have no 3d gameplay?" Shane: "the technology we want to use doesn't exist, but give us your money!"

These scams always go the same way. They sell hopes and dreams and the hype just gets bigger and bigger. And eventually they have to let everyone down one way or another.

I see Asmongold has been inducted into The Shadow Council. *mumbles melodic prayer in Latin*

I absolutely love how Asmon is just pissed off that this guy is making money while doing the scam badly... :D

This guy is trying to say they are star citizen without actually saying it. What they don't realize is that in it's Kickstarter even SC had gameplay videos. And they were consistently releasing gameplay videos. (Regardless of how bare bones they actually were.......)

Imagine running around in a world, where you are utterly alone and is void of content. We already have that, it's called Shadowlands.

I love how its filmed with a pen in hand, at his desk, with fat notebook. Give an illusion of being busy and hard at work.

I love your coverage of this stuff. You may not be doing any research but your providing something no one else is by simply sharing your perspective. Your far from the only person who talks about the psychology around scams on this platform, but your the only one I've found who seems to have first hand experience with scamming people. Keep up the good work.

I find it hilarious that they are so hung up on the "1:1 replica of Earth" thing. I't clearly a marketing bullshit for people who are not gamers (or game developers). Like bitch please, there is nothing special about the shape of the Earth, it's being Earth and not whatever planet nr 2137 does not change anything and has no impact on either the gameplay and the development process apart from the world creation itself. And you cannot create the world without knowing what gameplay will be. Earth 2 is fucking hilarious

“Who gifted him a sub?!?!” Killed me XD

Welcome to the Shadow Cabal Council. You're first quest is to destroy Earth 2 and other metaverse "games"

The number 1 sign of not being someone who plays video games "I'm a gamer." It's a phrase that has nothing behind it, because people who play video games let their achievements or cosmetics speak for them.

Based on the detail level they claim to be going for, the game would be several petabytes in storage volume needed. You cannot stream that level of detail on minimum broadband in the US so it would need stored locally. ARK: Survival Evolved with all maps downloaded is almost half a Terabyte. That's maybe all of Tokyo at the same detail level. The world? HA!!! Obvious scam is obvious.

You just know when Shane is ready to cash out, he is shaving that beard, moving to the Cook Islands and that monitor will be back on ebay.

Didn't think I would see/hear new thoughts on this (I have been watching Callum, Bigfry, Josh, Kira etc.) but Asmongold seems to nail it down pretty well, especially regarding promises being intentionally vague so people can fill the gaps with their fantasies.

35:30 And his main monitor isn't even turned on, the only light source hitting him is the sun and not the monitor light, AND the smaller one is still on the main setup screen, and the keyboard is just turned on. . . Just wow o-0

Isn't Microsoft Flight Simulator "Earth 2" with airplanes?

He doesn't even really work in that office , the cover on the monitor joke was actually spot on. The pen in his hand with the ledger in front of him is my favourite thing.

fatal mistake from Shane to have attracted big youtubers attention imo

Any game developer will tell you that the platform first, gameplay second angle is beyond wrong. You always prototype gameplay first to make sure you have a playable game to build around BEFORE you start building a gigantic world to put that gameplay in. Otherwise, you risk wasting a ton of time and resources building an environment for something that sucks or is fundamentally broken. Even if you look at this in good faith, the entire process is ass backlwards and doomed to fail from the start.

Does this guy not realize the actual gameplay *is* the foundation? It doesn’t matter how vast or detailed a world is if you can’t actually interact with it or any of it’s elements. Anyone can create a vast open world in Unity and stick a First-Person plugin on it. The real question is what we’re actually supposed to be paying for.

He's using a temp office ( know as some of my clients a have used that actual room lol)... So fake...

This is only my second Asmongold video so I don’t know if this happens all the time. But I’m a guy watching a video of a guy watching a video of a guy watching a video of a guy talking about his game (which is just a video)…

I love how he was holding a pen on an empty notebook. Basically says they're all talk with no substance lol

Star Citizen costs only 45$ to start with then earn the rest in game. Everything else is just support for the game. The big ships are not required to buy at all. But to skip some grind maybe a startership of 100$ will be better. But no need to do that from the start. Just buy the 45$ aurora the ntry the game and if its cool for you buy a bigger one you like. Maybe the mining ship to make quick money or a ship for bounty hunting. Star Citizen has a somewhat bad reputation from trolls and old accusations that still are spread in the internet mostly from hear saying and not people who actually tried it. But who ever gets into SC now. Be warned it is still in Alpha and whole new gameloops are still beeing added. So things sometimes are a bit buggy even thos since about a year they really put effort in stabalizing it. Now they added also a crash recovery so we dont lose our goods anymore in rare cases of server crashes that were one year ago still very much present. Now more a rarity. I wouldnt say its fleshed out enough yet to have it as a game that you will play day by day. But it is enough to get 50h+ of excitment out of it just trying out what it already there. Like the feel of size and the eyecandy is awesome. The love for detail and other things you cant find in other games i think.

Their intentions were clear when they said there was gonna be an economy - this isnt being developed for the love of development or the love of games its being made (not made) purely for the cash

This is why I don't buy things that aren't made and in my hands. I'm a customer, not your funders.

Asmon is definitely right about one thing. They really should teach statistics in highschool. To put it bluntly- The house always wins. Gambling is *always* statistically stacked in favor of the house- if you play long enough, you will *always* lose more than you earn. Like, maybe you gamble once, make a decent winning, and walk. That's the best-case scenario. But if you were to keep gambling, it's guaranteed that you will lose more money to the house than you win from the house in the long run. Its why casinos are so profitable.

I love how Asmongold actually pauses the video when going afk and unlike Hasan and Denims fear the chat is still there and doesn't complain.

Man his notebook is also full of ideas for E2.... oh wait, it´s blank.....

_"We need the 1:1 world for 3d gameplay to work."_ Dude basically admitted to not understanding scale/scaling without even realizing it.

Oh this’ll be fun!

I know he was joking, but ships in star citizen generally cost between 40-300usd .. most of which around the 100-150 range.. but you can absolutely buy a starter game package for 45-65$ and then purchase any ship you want in game with in game currency. In example, a ship that would cost 240$ irl would be about 4-5m in game currency. You can fairly easily make 200-300k in game currency per hour just playing the game.

And a slots machine in the netherlands i heared ones from one dude opening one that the loss win rate is more like 60 till 75% loss instead of wins. but that was years ago tho

We're going to be watching an Internet Historian video on this one day.

To the people arguing that if you're lucky in a casino, you can win. Sure, you can. But consider this: Giving away money is the WORST business model possible. Casinos can only stay in business if they are taking more money from the players than they give out. Also consider the fact of how big and expensive casinos are to build and operate, and how they continually do big giveaways for absurd amounts. How do they pay for that?

All I’m hearing here is the defining qualities between a business person and an artist. Finance and business infect everything and do exactly what this guy is doing. This only feels new to us because we the consumer are now the product being bought and sold. In fact, to call us a consumer anymore is a pretty inaccurate term. We’re now a second tier currency.

"a great idea if you don't think about it" - the quote of 2022 from Asmongold right there

Star citizen is fun for like 120 hours. After that you're just waiting on patches. Also, all the ships that cost that much money need multiple crew members and are really not viable in game

For what little this is worth, Star Citizen starts at $45, and a bigger more expensive ship just means you have to have friends with you to run the thing. You can't just pay $3000 (the most expensive ship) and lord it over everyone. You'll have a huge ship that's very slow and nobody to shoot things. And the biggest reason, fuel costs scale with the size of your ship. Most ships are available to earn in game as well, so there's no reason to spend more than the base price unless you just wanna throw money at the game (do not recommend).

"We are so far fetched in our vision that we don't even know if 3 are enough dimensions when we get to the game loop. Maybe we need to plan for 6 or 7D? Creating 2D or 3D now is only limiting us!"

13:00 Chronicles of Elyria LMAO

I'm amazed that anyone who isn't in on the scam, put money in this. I wouldn't let these people on my wifi network, let alone give them money.

Superbouncing to the top of ascension, the building on Zanzibar, those were the days brother.

I would like to mention that the server cost to keep such a large project going would be insane. they would have to implement a monthly subscription of like 1000$ to keep their vast network of servers online. But we all know this shit will never come out

This is essentially them handing you an empty cup and promising to put some sort of liquid into it but you never know what kind of liquid or when

The concept of a full scale replica of earth already exists. It is Microsoft Flight Simulator.

He’s basically trying to be the federal reserve. It’s “borrowing” money with the promise that what they’re giving you will hold value in the future.

Hope this guy will be as famous as BitConnect guy.

I can HIGHLY recommend Star Citizen. I'm an ex Blizzard Dev and I haven't been so excited about a project. This is the MMO that I've been wanting to play since I started playing Everquest back in the day. The basic gameplay loops that have already been implemented are INCREDIBLY fun! Just EXISTING in the universe is fun. And as far as the ship prices? Better than 90% of the ships that are available can be purchased with in-game credits. I've been playing the game for months and I got started for $45. The only reason to pay actual money for a ship is that if you don't, you'll lose it if they do a server wipe. Seriously, though, give it a shot. I guarantee you won't be disappointed.

Can't wait to play a 9 to 5 job on earth 2

I'm pretty sure when god made a Earth 1 he, at least, removed all the plastic packaging out of his computer

Hey, at least Star Citizen did "something". I mean, I'm aware they're light years away from the thing they promised to build at the beginning, but at least they built something that exists and is real. They did a bunch of fund raising, they did a bunch of presentation and then they showcased the technology they built. Yeah, the game will never be "finished" (and if they actually release a final version it'll be in 2050 or something like that) and some stuff costs a thousand dollars, but at least it's something right? This Earth 2 scam is just smoke and mirrors and when they finally set a deadline to showcase some actual progress they'll either disappear or make up some bullshit as to why the project is cancelled due to outside interference or something like that

The slots analogy : you know you can’t climb ladder with a negative win rate.

Reminds me of those developers that always brag about how big the maps are in their open world Skyrim clones while forgetting why people play those games in the first place. Nobody cares how many square feet your map is if the game isn't engaging.

Minecraft with infinity randomly generated worlds be like...

"resources are coming soon!" one year later... no resources

Most Native American tribes that own casinos, ban their own tribe members from playing in the tribes casino……because they know that slots are a losers game, and playing them long enough results in you getting wrecked.

Why is there no gameplay? Because it's not a game, it's a scam.

“But what if they get lucky?!” For every Tesla, there are a million Theranos. They COULD be lucky, sure, but the odds of “lucky” are so low that you’ll never have a chance. Invest in projects you actually believe in, not on projects that rely entirely on luck.

Slot machines have a system inside them where you can set the percentage given back to the customer. I learned that when I was six years old :)

Star Citizen is awesome Asmo should try it. All you need is the starting $45 package everything is easy to get ingame.

Of course I know what tech that works with future hardware means! It’s obvious! It means they have to start over at the next singularity in the computing world and since they’re starting over you need to give them more money now and no you can’t see what has already been accomplished because we already deleted it for not being aligned to the new hardware.

If you roll a fair d6 a billion times in a fair way is it possible that it will land on a 5 every single time? Yes, yes it is. Is it likely? Well, exactly as likely as any other combination of position-restricted combinations. The "law of large numbers" is of course in effect, but there is a difference between 0% chance and >0% chance. That being said, gambling knowing that the odds are against you and especially doing it over and over again will lose you money with a chance that almost reaches 100%.

This is the Chris Roberts pitch, laying foundations for the 'future'. Star Citizen realistically is smaller than the area of the entire earth, and look how long that's taken Chris with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding.

35:00 I agree with him 100% after seeing his ultra luck there

I know this is a bit old, but with slotmachines? Chance to win goes down when amount goes up. They do this because you'll win a lot on the low amount machines to get you to go to the expensive machines where you will almost never win.

take google map of the planet Earth and AI 3d render construct everything from the atom size to up! and we all can jack in like the matrix!

If they really wanted to, they could have made a 1:1 replica of Rhode Island to show that they do indeed have some gameplay. But as Asmon said: It's better to release nothing because anything they make will not live up to what they promised.

Earth 2 better be flat if they're planning a accurate representation of the real world

3:00 Blank pages with a pen in hand and it's turned 2/3rd's giving the illusion he's spent hours writing. He's practically ripped off interviews and speeches of Elizabeth Holmes who owned theranos, and her father- the man who owned Enron. I'm just waiting on a future video where he rips off one of Leo's speeches from the Wolf of Wallstreet lol

Just seeing the Thumbnail I thought this is julian assange, lol.

In my opinion they should open it with a few countries and then expand it with updates that would add my countries. Add maybe more things to do. After finishing one continent. They would start working on other. After finishing it they would focus on oceans and islands. It would give second earth long live and people would pay more money.

Getting some major deja-vu right about now

how many people does he expect will play the game? 100k? 200k? a more realistic number will be 30k online at once and i'm super over estimating this number for the sake of argument. most of those people spread out, they will spend a lifetime in the game without running into another player. more than likely, they will all congregate around a few colonies that take up about 20k square km.

gameplay is where a game becomes immortal and a work of cult, that's why gameplay is the most difficult and important aspect of a videogame

That smirk when people started gifting subs, after you gave the ranking speech looool

"Lucky's a factor" Oh right. I forgot that we're living in a Fallout game and i can just put ten points in my luck stat.

the new content starts at 35:00

Love how he gloats about other games and is a game company. Not very comforting. Btw love the phrase "Beardy beard" . Great explanation Asmodgold. Just subbed

The biggest flaw in the logic of "oh we know this will take ten years to make because technology isn't where we need it", that means they want to do this when it's already the main stream thing. They wont be first to the party if they are waiting for someone else to develop the technology they need. By the time they can make a game the size of earth, RDR2 detail, with no loading screens and is completely seamless, most devs will also be able to do the same. So they will just be another face in the crowd.

28:18 they literally say "we're going to steal your money"

Watch Shane challenge asmon to build a game like earth 2

for a second i thought we were talking about EMPIRE EARTH 3 lol

it makes sense that the that you lose most of the times, but its not guranteed. you could play slots for a million times and win every single time. its possible, but the possibility is near 0. so while the stament makes sense its not correct

1:46 "i thought i just like to sh*t" can't hear anything else

Once something concrete comes out, the investments will stop coming in.

A bit about slots gambling - my uncle was a professional gambler and explained the process when I was very young but the basic gist is this: slot machines in casinos at least are required by law to pay out certain dividends. My understanding is that groups of savvy individuals would be able to spot certain indicators that a group of machines was about to pay out big. At that point they would sit down 5-10 at a time on a group of games and start plugging and chugging this increasing the chances of someone from their team hitting the jackpot. While I don’t think it’s technically illegal they have certainly been banned from their share of casinos over the years 😅

lol i spent some cash in earth2 but it was like 1 or 2 months old, put 80$ and have approx. 4500 $ land value but must sell to another user and withdrawal is suposedly very hard...but for the price of a game comparatively to someone who invested thousands ....

"Believed his own hopium", great off the cuff remark.

Would I be wrong in saying this is like Star Citizen but if they never made it playable?

look what happened when we saw early 3d gameplay of halo infinite.. it never ends well

star citizen is actually not bad and legitimitely offers gameplay you cant or wont get anywhere else. frustrating and slow yes, but it has its golden moments.

As long as people give these guys money, these guys will exist

The idea for slots isnt how many times you lose it's how much you lose to how much the payout is. You can lose 99% of the time and keep going if that 1% payout is more than the cost of the tries. If I play a dollar slot and get back 100 on a win then i can in theoretically keep going. But I will say that requires me not losing 100 times in a row.