Modern Gaming is a Scam

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In the past few years the gaming industry as a whole has taken a nose dive in quality. The modern day gaming landscape is aiming to exploit us and ironically itself to the fullest extent. They use varying strategies to squeeze every last cent out of our pockets while also attempting to cut corners at every opportunity. In other words: They are scamming us all.
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@ItsHawx Месяц назад

Hey there people! I know it has been a while and I do apologize for that but work has been keeping me from working on this video a LOT and in addition to that I had to figure out how to even make a video that has next to no gameplay so that took me a little while too. Well I do hope you like the end result. Feedback is as always appreciated! I am currently in the process of gathering all the sources I cited in this video (guess who never once thought of bookmarking even a single one of them) and once I am done I will be posting them in the description of this video. Ok turns out I cannot fit all my sources in the description so....I may just add them to this comment....maybe

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

I haven't been able to add half of my sources to the description and I don't wanna clog this comment with even more sources so the latter half of the video has no sources in the description T-T

@chickenwings6172 Месяц назад

Yoshi's Island

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

I said macro intentionally LOL

@EdwardG-el9fd Месяц назад

How stupid is this video? 40 years ago, games of pixel art, low-quality music, and made by less than 10 people, cost 60 dollars. Nowadays, games of beautiful graphic, massive open world, engaging stories, cinematic music and voice acting, made by near 1000 people, even after 40 years of inflation, yet still cost 60 dollars. And you are complain about price and microtransactions.

@jordancambridge4106 Месяц назад

The issue is not the industries. They are not the cause. The people are the cause. If hundreds of millions of people stopped buying the trash that is only when companies will give good games again because as of right now we don't deserve good games when we keep spending quadrillions on buying this crap. Don't blame the assholes giving away poison blame the endless hordes that keep stupidly believing the poison is fountain of youth water. As long as the masses keep buying crap the companies will sell crap because they are giving what the people want. People want garbage so these industries sell it for billions. Pal World is a tiny nearly worthless drop of hope in the endless oceans of garbage but most people still refuse to play it because they want more garbage. Stop defending the players that buy the crap.

@stevejackson4340 Месяц назад

People...... just stop spending your money on *crap* (insert whatever annoys you) games and the problem will die a natural death.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

I wish it was that easy for the gaming community. Alas it is not

@Xerxes20xx Месяц назад

@ItsHawx agreed you can not get new games MTX, etc but we are the minority and wouldn't affect them. I have alot of retro games so I barely play new ones I had more fun playing nfl blitz than most of the new games I have

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

this is a thing really prevalent in the destiny community. Yes they may have lost 45% of revenue but that is because they had way too high goals set for themselves. They are still making bank. Admittedly less bank now with game fatigue but there are still people that endlessly spend money in it. I new someone who could not stand not having every single item in the store and they kept buying everything season over season.

@camotero1718 Месяц назад

It's never going to happen. People nowadays are so desperate for constant content that the thought of not having a new game RIGHT FREAKING NOW is not an option to the ADHD rattled mind.

@TheDragonLegacy Месяц назад

It is morally acceptable to pirate games.

@B-26354 Месяц назад

_"Games are a service."_ They arent, they're a product...

@neolynxer Месяц назад

Don't pay for the service. Close the game when you read EULA and delete it from your system. It's that simple. Games are services until players stop paying.

@B-26354 Месяц назад

@@neolynxer I rarely play modern titles these days. Staples are Fallout 1 & 2, Deus Ex, System Shock & Sim City franchise.

@neolynxer Месяц назад

@@B-26354 good for you. Those are all excellent choices.

@3DCommando Месяц назад

That will soon be the standard, thats what theyre trying to tell you.

@B-26354 Месяц назад

@HOTCHIXBRO Games are developed in today's market as services rather than a completed product. 20-30 years ago they were developed as products.

@drewmantheoriginal3106 Месяц назад

It’s hilarious that AAA games spend millions of dollars on there games. Just for indie games to kick the snot out of them each time.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

You love to see it

@A1stardan Месяц назад

Sadly it only happens in steam

@i3lackfusion Месяц назад

@@A1stardan“only“ on the largest platform for the most common platform to play games on

@torgrimhanssen5100 Месяц назад

@@A1stardan it's sad, but true, 10-20 years ago you where presented with a choice, PC or console. I experienced the PS1 to PS2 to PS3 anti consumer problems and chose to go PC over PS3. It was nice to have a console back when a PC cost a fortune in the 90's to early 2000, but from 2004-2006 and on that changed. The system I build in 2006 that could play Battlefield 2 at near max settings cost less than 2 times the launch price of the PS3. Pondering on the difference between the 2 groups I realize, I have not bought a hard copy of a game since 2006. (besides Elder scrolls collectors edition that sits unopened on the shelf). And I have never been in a situation where a game is forever backward incompatible with my system. (except games that require mods as they use GPU and give AI infinite APM)

@dannycampbell7294 Месяц назад

They say they spend millions! most are just copy and paste of old games!

@uberwayz Месяц назад

The worst part is that these games aren't even good. Most of them are just high graphics, poor gameplay clones of one another. An endless torrent of overpriced under performing, unfun dross

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

This is mainly due to the high cost of development. Because it costs so much the developers cannot take many risks to innovate in their product so they stick to tried and "true" methods, which leads to stagnation and for some reason they then also get mismanaged which is honeslty impressive

@therealjaystone2344 Месяц назад

Video games are going for the Hollywood blockbuster movie type and Sony started it all

@dcx1169 Месяц назад

@@ItsHawx How high cost can a repaste of a FIFA or Madden be? Yes, I understand the cost of ground up projects, but a repaste?

@dcx1169 Месяц назад

IMO.. and this goes for all yearly releases, madden, 2k, sports in general. If you bought last years version, you should get the new one as a 30$ dlc. Buying new? Then full price. This seems fair for the repaste stuff. It's not like you're creating an all new game. I'm not that current on team rosters and such. A game from 5 years ago is the same to me.

@bullylowenthal2683 Месяц назад

Baldurs Gate 3, Spiderman 2, Alan Wake 2, Armored Core 6, Elden Ring, Totk, etc. You just say the most boomer ass argument just retire gaming at this point if all you guys do is complain more. Go find another hobby

@zebare726 Месяц назад

The era of broken products

@leunam3004 Месяц назад

Feels more like 'the era of broken everything'.

@notinterested8452 Месяц назад

Don't worry it's not so bad 😂

@DJAloneAtNight Месяц назад

@@leunam3004 100% correct.

@pstm53 Месяц назад

less product for more money (irl too)

@inquisitive5418 Месяц назад

@@notinterested8452are you prefer to eat a $hit?

@LigmaBawlsYoutube Месяц назад

"There's not an unlimited amount of money" Tell that to the U.S. federal reserve.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

is that why inflation is so high

@Colossus01-07 Месяц назад

Nah fam thats cus of our current A-hole of a president.. who just raises taxes & increase inflation, as he pleases. @@ItsHawx

@eyespyyourspy1328 Месяц назад

There is literally no money in there. All spent and or accounted for by private parties. Our Government is Trillions in debt

@dcx1169 Месяц назад

@@eyespyyourspy1328 Crooked politicians don't know how to say no when so much is going into their pockets.

@nonjaninja4904 Месяц назад

Technically currency, not money. Money would have intrinsic value like gold or silver, industrial use.

@Sreyness Месяц назад

Prices have increased... and digital copies cost the same as a physical one, makes asbolutly no sense at all.

@CaptainBloodsail Месяц назад

Technically it does, they own the product they can make it as high as possible (I think it's dumb asf too. That's just the reality sadly)

@lunalildragon241 Месяц назад

Physical exists?

@CoDSucks Месяц назад

They're taking in lots of profits if you don't take in account the costs of making physical and shipping them to retailers. Digitally.

@prezzeruk4054 Месяц назад

Wen digital games were being first talked about, they told us without packaging, disc burning, store space, digi games will cost at least 30% less! Never even dropped a penny and in a lot of cases, digi games cost more than disc versions!

@Anonymous-wb3nz Месяц назад

@@lunalildragon241do you have an IQ below 70? Grow up, troll.

@MrROTD Месяц назад

The problem started when a bunch of idiots decided pre ordering games is a good idea. In addition to that the ability to update games afterwards gives the publishers another excuse to push out unfinished garbage.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

Pre-Orders are such a bad trend man....Though I do not see them going away at all anymore. I mean I guess I hope people at least just pre-order from studios they can trust at this point

@formes2388 Месяц назад

Pre-ordering from reliable companies, with a proven track record is fine. Continuing to pre-order from companies that provide a crap launch experience time after time is a problem. The real problem? MBA's and Marketing Executives having over represented influence on the budget, and development decisions. Steve Jobs from Apple Understood you can't go ask what people want - people are GREAT at recognizing a problem, they are TERRIBLE at making a good suggestion of how to fix it, and it has to do with the fact that MOST people (those marketing execs and MBA's included) don't consider second order consequences; and good decissions need to think about second, and third order consequences. If you want a prime example? Go look at World of Warcraft Pre and Post Activision buyout of Blizzard. It is Activision that shoved the dungeon finder in - which immediately lead to increased toxicity in the game. It is Activision that pushed for casualization of core systems to be more accessible - and the end result was taking an already fairly easy to master game and trivialize it. And beyond this, more changes pushed ultimately lead to a growing chore list to push for more Daily Active users and push people to play more - until, people got frustrated, fell behind (because they say, went on vacation for a week) and they quit the game - some people would go back for the next expansion but less, and less over time. So the real answer? Avoid games from the big conglomerate publishers (ex: Ubisoft, Activision, and EA).

@therealjaystone2344 Месяц назад

I never believe in pre orders at all and I was called old timer

@c4scompsmith Месяц назад

The only excuse preorders has to exist, was to "ensure" you could get a physical copy on release. Even that failed tho.

@smileydude12 Месяц назад

The only way I can see to fight this trend is to simply never buy the game. Even if they fix it later, if it's broken at launch, they will not get my money. Policy I made for myself after Battlefield 2042 came out. Gotta fight these guys by keeping your money.

@mariuszmoraw3571 Месяц назад

Problem: Solution: Ignore AAA devs, buy indie? That simple.

@artemiseritu Месяц назад

Indie games have the problem of sulking really bad most of the time.

@mariuszmoraw3571 Месяц назад

@@artemiseritu That's why you do research? See reviews, don't immediately jump on bandwagons. I assumed people did that when it came to AAA games but fact AAA industry is still alright and kicking prove me wrong. Quality of indies is most of the time on par or better than AAA games when it comes to gameplay.

@tomsmolinski9833 Месяц назад

Correction: Just buy GOOD AAA games. 🤷 Correction: Just buy GOOD GAMES. I like most of the Sony stuff (not into the games for little teenagers though). I like FromSoft, Rockstar, ... yeah, I'm not good with company names. I like "cheap" games, too. ...Deep Rock, Ender Lillies, Steamworld, Sea of Stars, ... still can't remember the dev's names. 😅

@freeweights101 Месяц назад

Stop buying live service games and buy single player

@timroberts986 Месяц назад

The AAA company's are now making indie sized teams and a lot of them in order to combat this AAA bad movement. Big business always sucks the joy outta anything good for their own benefits. Hopefully this fight last long enough to wake all corners of gamer community up to this madness.

@Psychx_ Месяц назад

This is why indie games are becoming more and more popular. They don't pull of the same blatant shit that AAA studios do. Many indie titles are also offered through GoG, allowing consumers to really own their purchases.

@mechboltxl4591 23 дня назад

I emulate older games and still play them to this day such as ps2 games.

@maitreyajambhulkar 20 дней назад

Owner of GOG : ☠️☠️☠️☠️.

@SL4PSH0CK 4 дня назад

AA is becoming the new AAA. being able to offer indie new concepts and refreshing takes reinvigorating the genre, while also having the budget and manpower.

@jinenjuce Месяц назад

We're gonna go through a second video game industry crash, like what happened in the 80s long before I was born

@jonathanwatkins6951 Месяц назад

It was good for the industry.

@ClearGalaxies Месяц назад

We need it.

@ryanistooconceited Месяц назад

I've been praying for the videogame industry's downfall

@therabidscorpion Месяц назад

I went through the last one. It got rid of the bloat in the industry (for a while). It'll be good for it in the long run.

@jonathanwatkins6951 Месяц назад

@@therabidscorpion old enough to have been through all of them. The industry always came out better on the other side. Loving alot of these new indy games and watching these bloated mega corps that have destroyed games the last 20ish years choke on it.

@dantehajime709 Месяц назад

Its not just the gaming industry. Everything gets more expensive but the quality or service lower. Luckily for them this planet is filled with codependant consumers that blindly consume any garbage presented to them.

@oxfordeducatedhighschoolhe6989 13 дней назад

Yes.

@Nightstriker995 Месяц назад

this is why I never buy AAA games on release anymore. not only are they overpriced but they are unfinished full of bugs or MXT or a mix of all 3. Meanwhile indie games are destroying these supposid AAA games and are actually fun and worth their price.

@CloudWalkBeta 22 дня назад

"this is why i dont buy AAA games at all"! XD fixed.

@chrisl3336 Месяц назад

Modern American life is a scam I remember life before the internet, I prefer that age.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

I remember life before smartphones...man that was stressful

@chrisl3336 Месяц назад

@@ItsHawx I don't recall being stressed before cell phone s quite the opposite

@phxsisko Месяц назад

As someone who also remembers it, I prefer the here and now. That being said, I do agree we are being scammed, but that's because we have no regulations on corporations. Regulations are the antidote to capitalism's corporate takeover.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

different upcomings I suppose?

@murderman8578 Месяц назад

I don't Those times were BORING

@sykesknife4496 Месяц назад

Yeah, as an OG gamer myself, I just stopped playing games altogether recently. I’ve had more than enough of these scammers disguised as companies.

@headphonesz6527 Месяц назад

I've been a longtime competitive gamer, lately I've been playing Helldivers 2, flight simulator, and frostpunk. Amazing breath of fresh air

@nordicwarriorgaming4953 13 дней назад

I just play old games. Problem solved.

@pointfrogg 11 дней назад

@@headphonesz6527 Frostpunk is awesome!

@r3tr0sp3ct3r 4 дня назад

I've been gaming for over 25 years and I'm done with modern games

@nordicwarriorgaming4953 4 дня назад

@@r3tr0sp3ct3r Same here. I don't get why people even bother reviewing modern games since we know the deal with them. Old games are where its at. God Bless.

@Ketchup_And_Rice Месяц назад

Modern Gaming is the Next Hollywood

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

This could mean so many things

@nolanduarte Месяц назад

Kid touchers billionaire government agents, lfg 🇺🇸🇺🇲 the patriots are in control

@jf2849 Месяц назад

@@ItsHawxnone good if we’re talking about hollyweird.

@3ofSpades Месяц назад

I don’t care about the developers who make these crappy games. They got the blood on their hands too. If they get fired, good. Maybe the business men should buy some talent instead of buying hookers. Attitude reflects leadership. And developers with terrible attitudes give everyone bad games.

@DiabolicCrusher Месяц назад

It really fucking is, shit's being made for investors, not costumers. Luckily, unlike in hollywood, there's still indies.

@Ruriko-Is-Playing Месяц назад

This is why my reason for pirating a game is valid I don't own a game I bought? then company don't own my money for the shit they pull off

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

If anything I'd say this gives more validation to emulation as companies cannot be trusted with keeping games alive rather than piracy but I see where you are coming from

@Wierie_ Месяц назад

No not just emulation, fat quadruple A games. I’m glad i didnt waste money on cp2077 for example

@benjamintudor9475 Месяц назад

It’s stealing no matter what label you put on it it’s illegal period.

@mobbs6426 Месяц назад

@benjamintudor9475 you say that like we care any more. Their actions should have been made illegal long ago. Unjust laws deserve to be broken. The letter may not be unjust. But the spirit certainly is

@GloomToon Месяц назад

@@benjamintudor9475some laws are meant to be broken

@Mantelar Месяц назад

20 years ago, we were all playing FarmVille and mafia wars, wondering why anyone would pay money for progression. Meanwhile psychologists got it right back then (for once) and raised the alarm on how the business model was weaponized gambling. Naturally the gaming industry said “So you’re saying it has tremendous potential to make money? You’re saying we can release absolute crap games, just good enough to get people to the online store, and make even more money whilst doing it?” They then took this information and acted accordance with their values. Back in the day, the tobacco industry grew under the genuine false impression that smoking was harmless. Their sin was the propaganda campaign they built to defend their bottom line after they learned how bad it was for people. The gaming industry is far worse. They knew what they were doing up front and built an industry around it.

@ClearGalaxies Месяц назад

I don't understand who is actually spending money on these things.

@CoDSucks Месяц назад

@@ClearGalaxiesIf you look at the content and who it is catering to then you will see the age they're targeting

@CoDSucks Месяц назад

@@ClearGalaxiesLike There's no 40 yr old man who is gonna buy a skin on fortnite though. Most of em are 7-13 year olds depending on the skin/content. There are a few older ones who grew up with fortnite spending on there just because.

@CoDSucks Месяц назад

@@ClearGalaxiesCoD is targeting low IQ teenagers who this is the only thing they know because they can't see past the window at this point. They beg their mommy much like the fortnite children to buy mtx. You can tell bc of the Cod RU-vidrs/Streamers finessing them with their content.

@doltBmB Месяц назад

@@ClearGalaxies whales, people who are especially susceptible to gambling

@MechMK1 Месяц назад

A crash is necessary and inevitable. It happened before, and was followed by a golden era of gaming.

@thecompareablezombie Месяц назад

The Golden Era lasts for 2-3 decades. I presume it can be extended for longer periods of time. Unsure how that will happen.

@justletmelistthese Месяц назад

I can't remember the last AAA game I bought. Seriously, looked up my Steam library and what is installed and looked up my physical library. They are all either indie or re-releases. dude, I was "upgrade your patato to keep up" PC master race.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

Recently bought Forbidden West on PC but only was able to play it today. Cutscenes with more than 3 characters in them make the fps drop to 8 to 14fps. Some of the optimization settings cause lower fps and stuttering, like what the hell and to get a stable 60fps I had to mod in a better version of DLSS. I have more headaches with trying to enjoy these games than....enjoying them. I am now just skipping the cutscenes in my game cuz I refuse to look at cutscenes with 8fps and just pause the game and look at them on youtube. I am so glad I started playing more indie games since I started RU-vid cuz I would most likely still just be playing Destiny 2 because of how crappy most other triple A releases are now.

@smileydude12 Месяц назад

Actually though. My library has mostly older games that were finished products or indie games. How bad BF2042 was at launch was the last straw and I'm glad I didn't buy it. They didn't deserve my money.

@lordofcinder8884 Месяц назад

The last new AAA game I got was in 2022 after that I only played indie and old AAA titles

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

Oh I did. All said "oh what a stellar port" or "the optimization is great". None of the ones I looked at mentioned that a specific setting makes it worse. The cutscene thing was mentioned but I didn't know it was THIS bad

@murderman8578 Месяц назад

Persona 5 was for me

@testtube173 Месяц назад

I reject the numbers they give. I don't think they are spending billions on game development because the games they are making are either remakes or of such poor quality they must cost a fraction of proper development from the past. They are laundering this money for other projects or motivations. If they are firing competent employees and replacing them with incompetent ones it's safe to assume they are paying them far less money or like I said laundering the money through these avenues.

@CloudWalkBeta 22 дня назад

Interesting perspective, I always thought the budgets were wasted on purchasing assets, copyrights and licences, especially when they always use the same game engines as eachother. These garbage dev’s certainly dont build their terrible games from scratch, it always looks copy pasted.

@wellingtonribeiro847 16 дней назад

You guys have no idea how much costs to make the high graphics 3d models you love so much. Games cost a lot and are bad because they spend all budget on high-end graphics.

@oxfordeducatedhighschoolhe6989 13 дней назад

@@wellingtonribeiro847 Consumer detected.

@TowerWatchTV 11 дней назад

Chances are they are putting out the numbers cause those are paid to the CEOs instead of the game they should be developing x D

@kittenfan7664 10 дней назад

@@oxfordeducatedhighschoolhe6989 he's condemming the graphics. they cost too much time and money for what they are.

@lechiffre5078 Месяц назад

Any game that has micro transactions is a game I will never buy.

@quinnhasse9170 Месяц назад

take a look at helldiver2

@-chase- Месяц назад

100%

@shadowninja1275 Месяц назад

This is why I give up playing Halo Infinite, these microtransactions were so overwhelming, that was the moment I stopped playing.

@edwn00005 Месяц назад

correct. technically microtransactions are for the games that are free to play, but you pay for some perks. even still...

@Krombopulos Месяц назад

Damn I feel u on that but very soon there will very few games for you to play

@neolynxer Месяц назад

15 years of whining about this on RU-vid. I've seen the numbers... a game with microtransactions and lootboxes makes so much doe, no amount of whining will change anything. Stop gambling with lootboxes, stop paying, stop hyping up games before it's obvious they won't have additional monetization. It's there because it works.

@therealjaystone2344 Месяц назад

Useless idiots are too many out there

@benn8793 18 дней назад

That's what I always say. If it didn't work, the publishers wouldn't do it. We players are the only ones to blame for the situation. There's no point in us bitching about the evil games industry in whatever online forums and then buying the games anyway.

@wellingtonribeiro847 16 дней назад

Also, don't play a game that has microtransactions. As long as the game has a player base, it will attract the people that buy microtransactions. So just by playing the game, even without buying microtransactions, you are already supporting this practice.

@smileydude12 Месяц назад

The solution to this is to stop preordering, wait to see how the game plays at launch, don't buy it if it's broken or borderline unplayable. Even if they fix the game, say 'Nope. Release a complete game if you want my money. Better luck next time.'

@LAGator-qu7tc Месяц назад

It's not that simple

@smileydude12 Месяц назад

@@LAGator-qu7tc It's very simple. Keep buying and preordering, they will continue to release it whether it's ready or not and figure they can fix it later. Gotta fight these large companies by not opening your wallet if they launch a subpar or broken product.

@LAGator-qu7tc Месяц назад

@@smileydude12 how would you know if the game is broken or unplayable at launch ?

@smileydude12 Месяц назад

@@LAGator-qu7tc Early access betas. Plus there are always gonna be a group of die hards that will buy on launch day. Let them be the guinea pigs.

@Alex-ff1mk 29 дней назад

@@LAGator-qu7tcwatch other people play it

@noonenowhere877 Месяц назад

I feel like indie games don’t spend this much on marketing, I’m fairly certain only big established companies think putting that much money into marketing is acceptable.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

Which is insane if you think about it. Most indies I have played merely use gameplay for trailers, which alone saves money and pleases customers too as we prefer gameplay trailers over cgi trailers that say literally nothing about a game and waste way too much money

@CloudWalkBeta 22 дня назад

It’s because their game is so terrible they have to spend so much money marketing the game otherwise nobody would care, if these triple AAA games went without marketing, their game would financially fail miserably since every gamer would be talking about the GOOD games like hollow knights.

@Poketroid23 4 дня назад

That’s survivorship bias. Indie games are great because you’ve only heard of and played the good ones. There’s thousands of dead indie games that either got no traction, or more likely just completely sucked.

@demoral3030 Месяц назад

Games wouldn't be so broken and full of propaganda if people would stop preordering and buying them before reviews come out...

@nordicwarriorgaming4953 13 дней назад

That's why I only play and review old games. Modern gaming is an absolute waste of time and the companies hate you and are honest about it.

@PowerfulRift Месяц назад

Stop buying all video games that are modern problem solved

@shadowninja1275 Месяц назад

Facts

@Retro-beat-em-up-games Месяц назад

Buying older games now lol

@nordicwarriorgaming4953 13 дней назад

Yep. Buy and play old games only and tell your friends about it. I have been saying this for years now and on my channel I only review old games.

@SL4PSH0CK 4 дня назад

lean towards indie and AA

@MegabyteRedSector Месяц назад

Gonna agrue against crapcom... DRM added to 10 year old games people bought well before it was added? Crapcom can bite me.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

Totally valid. I hesitated adding capcom to the script but I couldn't in good conscious leave them out simply because I like them. While they are slower to introduce anti consumer practices they still add them and that needs to be called out

@therealjaystone2344 Месяц назад

Naked Chun li mod broke Capcom lol

@MegabyteRedSector Месяц назад

@@ItsHawx they may be slower, but I would also argue more severe. DRM basically means there is now a server somewhere with an additional switch that must stay on for you to play your game you did NOT agree to be restrained by. THAT ALONE makes it unforgivable in my eyes. Slower or not.

@MegabyteRedSector Месяц назад

@@therealjaystone2344 that it did... but when them breaking can potentially kill the games I bought from them... Im just done with them.... they can do what they want or release the greatest game ever... they will never get another dime from me.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

god I forgot about that LOL

@pontusvongeijer1240 Месяц назад

The battle for videogaming as a hobby cant really be permanently lost as long as it operates in a free market. Companies that somehow make their money from the videogaming hobby needs money rolling in, consumers hold the ultimate power by simply buying what they like and avoiding what they dislike.

@wellingtonribeiro847 16 дней назад

The problem is that people complain about this games and play it anyway. The guy in the video complained about pre-orders and admitted to buy pre-orders. He complained about Bungie, because he still plays Destiny 2.

@gahzicoh1622 Месяц назад

The moral of this video seems to be: "Only trust companies that aren't in a strong enough financial or good-will position to take advantage of you." Sad but true.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

Oh no not at all Fromsoftware is one HUGE counter example

@xdepapepon7810 Месяц назад

Example of companies that aren't in a strong enough financial to take advantage of you. Team Mica/XD Indie who recently released a day 1 full game without mtx called, Reverse Collapse on Steam.

@gahzicoh1622 Месяц назад

@@ItsHawx I agree with you. I wish it didn't seem like the exception makes the rule though.

@j.j.9511 Месяц назад

The fact that Sony doesn't allow refunds is why I am very very picky about my purchases & I escaped the Cyberpunk PS4 issue by pre ordering it physically & once I saw the PS4 leaks I returned the delivery box unopened & purchase later for $10.

@lenerlink Месяц назад

...Publishers want me to pay $20 bucks for the "color blue" when modders take the time out their day to create something of higher quality for free. This is why I play on PC and sometimes support Modders on Patreon which for some reason is still cheaper than getting the color blue.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

Reminds me of Angry Joe getting enraged at the color blue as a micro transaction

@deoxysandmew2162 Месяц назад

@@ItsHawxliterally what i was about to type lol.

@energydragon1147 Месяц назад

IS THAT FUGGIN BLUUUUUUUUE?!!!!

@JustSomeDude848 Месяц назад

Crazy how they'll spend all this money developing a game just for it to be shittier that a indie game made by a small handful of people.

@f1r3hunt3rz5 Месяц назад

Piracy is understandably frowned upon if you place yourself in the shoes of the devs. But with the shit that game publishers (not devs, most of the time) pull off, it's giving more and more valid reason to sail the seven seas.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

While I will never support piracy myself I do not see a single reason why others shouldn't sing some sea shanties

@therealjaystone2344 Месяц назад

Laws against piracy is just corporate propaganda for us to give them money

@MegabyteRedSector Месяц назад

@@ItsHawx ALMOST completely agreed. Im not against abandonware or if the publisher does something that turns off the game for you, going out to reclaim it. (Hell I am hunting a few titles that fit BOTH AT ONCE) But aside from those, I pretty much just say go ahead, guys... Im not gonna argue... just.. not interested myself

@Hajimeme7 Месяц назад

You must pirate to play good games thats how trash modern gaming is

@user-wr6zt9lh7n Месяц назад

Sometimes, if i get dissapointing solo games that requires microtransactions, I 'might've got ones with all stuff unlocked. Or at mod it anyways.

@heikkint Месяц назад

Capcom may have held out long but they are on nasty down streak that has just started recently some less than 6 months ago. Their retro stuff prices gone up. ex: Arcade Stadium games are no longer sub euro prices anymore on sales and then the DRM inclusion suddenly retroactively has made me ice all capcom purchases. I am a collector so i bought and paid for the old stuff to get 'legal copies' as i in reality have the stuff on other media such as handhelds. No more. Piracy it seems is the only way forward if you are a collector. Literally no options again unless you want to be milked and then removed from your games some day since clearly 'you dont own the games you buy'. Game pass people don't care and i understand but us Collectors care. A lot. Of course there is the millionaire streamer route if you want to pay eBay prices for real stuff. Can't do that, spent my time and money on a specific retro already. Unable to do that again for others i want as there is literally no limit to top price to pay and i still would not be able to get what i want even if i add a lot more to the budget. Capcom may be rolling good right now particularly after latest SF success that was pure genius in my opinion with the casual control but there are cracks on the surface elsewhere.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

I have noticed Capcom going down a worse route lately. Hence why I didn't wanna leave them out of this video either. Them cracking down on mods after declaring PC to be their main focus platform going forward and then delivering a rather bad release version of DD2 really makes their committment to PC sound iffy.

@ClearGalaxies Месяц назад

I'm not reading all that. I just wanted you to know. Give me $200.

@liamcollinson5695 Месяц назад

The gaming industry is the only one were a company can make more than ever of things like micro transactions only to turn round and fire the people who got them there because investors always want growth it is a disgusting practice

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

these people make life changing money in a year and yet they still want more I don't even understand how they can spend that much money that they'd require more

@wellingtonribeiro847 16 дней назад

@@ItsHawxIt doesn't matter how much you make. If you invested in something, you would want profit from it. If it didn't give you increasing profits, you would stop investing.

@playalot86 Месяц назад

I just stick to my N64. :D

@deoxysandmew2162 Месяц назад

18:24 - Coincidentally, when the whole debacle happened about "digital = you dont own it" i literally thought of the same quote from hercules lol.

@archerbascha8757 Месяц назад

It is kind of funny how it all comes full circle. The gaming industry startet with game developers who made games from their garages and elswhere before they became what they are now, crushing everyone else under them. And now people who start like them make better games than they do now. For the most part. On the other hand I fear that those small studios become the same way.

@vkermodekumav8949 Месяц назад

This is one reason I'm just modding my current consoles and going PC. The only companies I will really be buying from at this point is Nintendo, GOG and then Steam. Everything else like the Xbox and PlayStation can fuck off. Ownership to them is a joke. If I have to deal with BS ownership and consoles that depend on the Internet so much that they hardly function without it, go to PC. There are restrictions there but AT LEAST things like GOG exist. Where you don't have to worry about your digital games being at risk. Like seriously. The only things we can do is to stop buying them and voice how we feel. I'm also going backwards at this point. I just Modded my PS3 and have been playing older games with private servers and having an absolute blast! But man. I'm fine with gaming this way. No worries about games be fucked up, I have more control and I can mod new games too? The idea of a console is a joke nao... Like seriously. The benefits of them have been washed away and people are more worried about brands than the rights they have as a consumer. But whatever. I'm going to get back to playing Halo 2. Did you know that you can play the original Halo 2 online right nao In All it's glory? Through insignia and a modded original Xbox you can. Lol don't need new games at all when there are SOOOOO many games I haven't even played yet from years ago.

@therealjaystone2344 Месяц назад

You can play current Nintendo games on pc too

@vkermodekumav8949 Месяц назад

@@therealjaystone2344 I'm well aware of that but I'd rather keep my switch, I find Value in the way the switch works and the games that I enjoy on that platform. Unless Nintendo start doing BS online restrictions like the Xbox and Playstation, I'm stay with them and PC.

@ThatKidTony Месяц назад

I'm at the point where I went from being okay with cosmetic only mtx to not even wanting to give them that much. Mostly because it seems like games are just being made now to sell that stuff. Where things that could've easily just been included in the base game are available for purchase within weeks of the game being released.

@quinnhasse9170 Месяц назад

the era of the emulator is rising again. some things/fixes can be done.

@49gamer51 12 дней назад

This is why I mainly started playing emulated games alongside pretty old games like Aliens versus Predator the Remake not any of the older games but if I ever do you get any of the older games I'm definitely going to play them

@UnitedWeStandFreedom Месяц назад

I stopped buying games if i can't play offline and without updating! I don't like people changing my game every few weeks . I also only buy physical games only . Give me 15 million and i can make a AAA game myself in 4 to 5 years easy .These guys i don't know wtf they are doing lol .

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

I have so many pysical games from when I still was on console and for the nintendo switch I do not know where to put them now. It is actually a problem for me to find space for them

@wellingtonribeiro847 16 дней назад

Gamedev is not that easy. Just watch how many Kickstarters fail, not because it was a scam, but because the people behind the project didn't knew how to manage it.

@LocustaVampa Месяц назад

It's wild also how homogenous the graphics to these games all look. I'd rather play PS2 era games bc they were somehow just more fun while looking more like actual games

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

The need to go more and more photorealistic is kinda...weird cuz photorealism keeps getting pushed making your game look weird at some point. Giving your game a proper artstyle will future proof it and give it more personality

@iditrirajan 17 дней назад

@@ItsHawx Video games which have distinct artstyle or are cell-shaded hold up against time. I think one of the best examples is POP 2008, if it were released even at this year with similar type of artstyle, people would've liked it because of how visually appealing that is. Only thing that photorealism does is to make all the games look and feel same

@fubarexress6359 Месяц назад

AAA gaming is falling, AA/INDIE is crushing. Look at hell divers 2! Absolutely gaming done right. I believe it will have a positive profound impact on the gaming industry.

@zerascarlet8733 Месяц назад

You know Hell Divers 2 has micro transactions, right?

@user-it3xy2cw1t Месяц назад

@zerascarlet8733 and the micro transaction Is actually micro And you can found the premium currency in game And the premium warbonds only advantage is it looks cool

@user-it3xy2cw1t Месяц назад

@@zerascarlet8733 Aleast the micro transaction is actually micro And those currency can be found in game And the premium war bond can be purchase without paying and they're only advantage is that it look cool but other than that they're meh compared to the free one

@phxsisko Месяц назад

@@zerascarlet8733 - seriously. I bought it and regret it. The grind on it is too much for a paid/non-f2p game, plus the amount of people griefing teammates is so bad I recently uninstalled and moved on. There's no way to even block griefers. I wish everyone would stop suck that game's dick like it's "microtransactions done right" - no way.

@albertoserrano67 Месяц назад

@zerascarlet8733 if you played it you know you can also get those credits to buy the "microtransactions" in game instead of having to shell out money from the get go like AAA games like gta and fortnite

@CH-vv2hr Месяц назад

Games these days are pay to play and pay to win TRASH

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

eeeeh some of them but def not all of them

@cedricdavis513 18 дней назад

Simply wrong

@colt45lmer Месяц назад

They just embezzling or wasting the money. Def not the real cost

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

I am guessing a lot of the money just goes into a blackhole of mismanagement thanks to greedy execs

@stevenseibel9216 Месяц назад

oh a gaming crash is definitely coming

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

I am interested to see if that actually will happen or not. I am more tending towards it will be cushioned out by new studios getting the spotlight forcing the old guard to step their game up

@therealjaystone2344 Месяц назад

Not really

@unitybeast7648 Месяц назад

It's honestly share holders problem. Every game must make sure the bar goes up or else the stocks crash and share holders pull out. It's not a sustainable business practice. Since people are turning away to play indie games.

@nibs991 Месяц назад

I started getting into trophy hunting on PSN and any game with battlepass/lootbox transactions instantly flies off the list of games I’m gonna purchase because a majority have “online only” trophies and I’m not paying $15 for an online mode anymore.

@DjDuskOfficial Месяц назад

This is the best work of art you have ever made. Keep it up! Cheers

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

Thank you!

@realmoftheouroboros8313 Месяц назад

Modern gaming is like modern radio, i don't bother turning it on

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

Depends on the radio tbh Here radio, depending on the radio station, is pretty good

@DelbertStinkfester Месяц назад

I don't pre-order anything...I don't buy games at launch...I wait a year or two or longer and buy the $70 game for $15 to $20...I just bought Assassin's Creed Valhalla for $15

@Gwar-Deth Месяц назад

so many people have forgotten that the idea of updating a game was to release a unfinished game that way they can finished the game after its release the dlc concept was for that very reason to . microtransactions should alow you to buy the items because we all cant do some of the super hard things that require to get some of the cool items

@robdom91 Месяц назад

You guys: We can't fight this downward spiral of micro transactions and pay-to-win ripoffs! Me: You cannot win, but there are alternatives to pir... fighting. Fighting! Alternatives to fighting!

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

LOL

@Dodsodalo Месяц назад

Instead of the crazy guy screaming for chocolate in SpongeBob, i just imagine him screaming "Games as Service!" , or "Money!" or "Micro transactions!" or "Always online!" Honestly now that i think about it, theres alot of inane and insane shit game execs have been pushing out for years like an addiction.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

God that is the funniest image ever

@ClearGalaxies Месяц назад

I never knew if he was screaming because he liked it or he didn't like it. 🤔

@AlexSummary Месяц назад

2:57 anyone know the background music??

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

Yoshi's Island OST - Flower Garden

@Artemisthemp Месяц назад

One thing I adore Final Fantasy XIII (can't recall if XIII-2 had it also) for, was giving players who earn certain trophies a theme for your PS3. Did it impact your gameplay experince? - No Did it give you an advantage over other players? - No. Did it make you happy? - Yes. And it was free (outside the price of the game).

@burnsynyy5833 Месяц назад

I’m still proud of Nintendo for giving me a refund for Battlefront. I got in touch with customer service, explained how the game is Poopballs and I got my money back

@LocustaVampa Месяц назад

I once got a refund for Street Fighter Vs Tekken lol. I played it once and felt cheated, and somehow the store I bought it from understood completely.

@MegabyteRedSector Месяц назад

If you literally called it "poopballs", mad respect, man. XD

@burnsynyy5833 Месяц назад

@@LocustaVampaSometimes people are just cool and it's awesome like that, right?! I'm surprised Nintendo was, honestly lol

@burnsynyy5833 Месяц назад

@@MegabyteRedSectorOh yeah! The rep played it really straight too since it was over the little Nintendo help text chat. But I assume if I said it over the phone, there would've been laughs lol. I believe I wrote "the game doesn't function nearly as well as advertised on the Nintendo Direct, and is 'poopballs'" and I still got a full refund :)

@ToBy11334 Месяц назад

Wow they did the bare minimum

@HitBit_Gaming Месяц назад

All those developers with their experience that got laid off will be the competition that the AAA market should be afraid of. Games doesn't cost millions to make, only the handful people at the top are causing this issue, while the people working on that game won't even get close to 1% of that. Game companies that deal with investors aren't there to give you a great game experience, but they exist to try and squeeze ever single dime out of your pocket and still give you that empty feeling wanting you to spend more to get that happy feeling for one second. That is why I support Indie game companies more and more and enjoy their games a lot. In the past I would buy almost every single AAA game from the big companies, but now it all turned to shit.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

Honestly yea! I really want to see what these newly formed studios made up of industry veterans come up with. Privately owned dev studios, such as larian and arrowhead also just show how public studios are not getting any benefits from going public. Also man indie games have been stepping up lately. Genuinely insane quality and quantity from them. I cannot wait to see more

@lycanwarrior2137 Месяц назад

Most of those developers will likely leave the industry altogether. There are simply far too many games, period. On Steam alone, 14000 games were released on that storefront last year. Completely unsustainable.

@cedricdavis513 18 дней назад

@@lycanwarrior2137highly doubtful. The gaming industry is bigger than movies and music combined and almost half of the world are gamers. So no, there aren't too many games, you saying this is actively going against the consumer. The more options and choices a consumer has, the more control they possess. Imagine a world where there's only a few games to pick from, all under 2-3 major corporations. Oh wait that's basically how it is in other industries. Yeah so more games is the best solution to fight against AAA.

@sonlaxx Месяц назад

the clip you used at 8:11 was actually ripped from Blizzcon 2018, not E3.

@KevSon29 Месяц назад

What's the point about paying over $100 for GTA 6? It had been 10 years for nothing, but DLC's and shark cards in GTA 5 online. There's no Bully 2, Manhunt 3, Red Dead 3 and etc. We deserved a better than paying $100 game as a rumor which the fans agreed on that price.

@TimeDagar Месяц назад

The dumbest part is a truly great game really will sell itself. Gamers talk about what they love to play because of their passion. Just spend your damn money making a solid product and your ROI will be through the roof.

@PuffinPass Месяц назад

This is absolutely fueled by FOMO. The people who want to skin every character with every skin available to it gain nothing by doing so, there is no stat increase that comes with them, but they have been sold on the "completionist" mindset and if the next person has it then they will feel like they are the lesser player for some reason. This is the kind of stuff that needs a psychiatrist to talk to about the issue. I am not by any means defending the game industry for predatory practices, but come on if you feel that is really something you need then you have other issues going on that need addressed. "Paying $30 extra to get it on actual launch day"...no actual launch day is the day it is launched to the public at the original price agreed upon, if you want early access because again you feel you will miss out on something then that is on you and your shrink to work out together. The gaming industry is stupid, but gamers aren't too far behind them honestly.

@coganaj 12 дней назад

25:45 What's the name of that cave-digging game shown at 25:45 ?

@ItsHawx 12 дней назад

The Riftbreaker. The footage shown is from the second story expansion. It is a base building, tower defense horde based game. Lots of fun and the game can be extraordinarily difficult

@danieljones2936 Месяц назад

Im really glad that im behind when it comes to games. Just a few months ago i bought a used copy of The Witcher 3 for $8 and ive been loving my first play through just like many people did 9 years ago lol

@TheDarkWyvrenKingishere 5 дней назад

Nice. I got The Witcher 3 in late 2019 and it has become one of my favorite games of all time.

@intalek305 Месяц назад

So past few years I have played Mass Effect Trilogy, Nier Automata, Persona 5 Royal, Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core, Remake, and Rebirth, Final Fantasy 16, Elden Ring, Armored Core 6, Warframe, Baldur's Gate 3, Death Stranding, Dragon's Dogma 2, Spiderman Miles Morales, Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption, Tales of Arise, Jedi Fallen Order, Hades, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon, Witcher 3, and GranBlue Fantasy. Based on that, I do believe I should be loving gaming right now and not knowing wtf you guys are even talking about. Feeling like this is more people regretting very poor purchasing decisions.

@parisulki729 Месяц назад

The thing is, with every year, games like this are starting to become outlier rather than standard. Those practices, like endless battle passes, in game currencies, dlc content that could've been part of the game and etc.should stop

@intalek305 Месяц назад

@@parisulki729 Dude if you actually have enough time to even ONLY play truly great games I question you. There are so many good games it's hard to even do that much.

@cedricdavis513 18 дней назад

@@parisulki729This has always been the thing though. Most games in the past were trash, or lack luster. The standard has never been amazing games.

@wellingtonribeiro847 16 дней назад

FF7 Remake and Rebirth, FFXVI, Death Stranding, Spiderman, Cyberpunk 2077, Jedi Fallen Order, Ghost of Tsushima and Horizon all have big problems. It may have not bothered you, but it sure bothered other people.

@intalek305 16 дней назад

@@wellingtonribeiro847 Every single game ever has "problems" you look hard enough, that should not in of itself measure anything for anybody

@slenderhatesmillennials195 9 дней назад

The Gogmazios music at the beginning did a good job in setting the tone.

@videoman001894 15 дней назад

Physical copies I do not think give you game anymore either cause those day 2 updates being so big it basically half or more of the game files being downloaded meaning that the store goes down you lose access anyway cause the discs are just not big enough to hold the whole game so the disc is just to to start the download at a higher percent

@Lizard11ify Месяц назад

I always pirate games not because am poor but it is only way i can punish companies.

@Theninjagecko Месяц назад

Based, ma man.

@flpndrox Месяц назад

The last AAA-ish game I bought was Dirt Rally from 2015. I havent paid over $50 for a game in over a decade. There's a lot of good indies nowadays.

@KrolKaz Месяц назад

There's almost no reason to buy games on release. You're getting an inferior product for full price when you can just wait a year or two for the game to be fully patched, all dlc released and sold all at a discount.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

The fact that this seems to be the right thing to do is...disappointing. Especially on pc this is just...infuriating

@MegabyteRedSector Месяц назад

@@ItsHawx XD its not just PC. It's been the way to handle AAA since game patches went mainstream on consoles. Wait at least a month to avoid the nastiest bugs that (at least back then) were allowed into the game because they were relying on the time between going gold and release date to fix bugs in a day 1 patch.

@TowerWatchTV 11 дней назад

OMEGA based!

@90sGasPrices Месяц назад

I’m personally really happy that so many of these live service games are in the toilet.

@zeekay9941 Месяц назад

95% of the gaming community does not support these practices, but the 5% that do spend enough to justify publishers to continue this path. These companies tell themselves to continue the live services path because they believe the revenue from one success will make up for the 10 previously failed ones. Is it bad for the industry? No doubt. They do not care though. At least I’m saving money.

@wellingtonribeiro847 16 дней назад

That's not true. 95% of the gaming community don't pay for microtransactions, but they still play the game. Having an active player base is what attracts the 5%, the so called whales, to pay for the 95% that don't pay. So as long as you play a game that has microtransactions you are supporting this practice.

@ammar2316 Месяц назад

I literally lost all of my hype and intrest towards buying any new game, I'm sticking to my old collection.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

I find myself being more weary of games. But there are still great games out there. A lot of them too! The horizon forbidden west pc port is great for example

@Anonymous-wb3nz Месяц назад

Same

@fluffypinkpandas 4 дня назад

What annoys me more than the state of the gaming industry Are the consumers who buy the following psyops hook line and sinker and try to propagate the following nonsense to other people: -"free community Mods dont immortalize a game's lifespan or benefit its creators in any way" -"you need cosmetics or some form of p2w, lootbox, ads, dlc, or microtransaction for the game to make money" -"piracy is stealing and hurts the game" -"Buying extra stuff and preorders all support the devs and not the publisher" -"it has to have a progression or XP system to be a fun longterm experience" -"you shouldnt just 'have everything' out of the gate" -"you need centralized servers, because if a player were able to buy dedicated servers and host them it would have constant unplayable connection issues" -"stop complaining" -"paying a premium to play online is necessary" -"something requiring a link to your email, phone, and common password is necessary" -"since devs are overworked and under paid, maybe if you just shut up and buy more from THEIR PUBLISHER, you'd help them out. don't you wanna support the devs and their hard work?" -"A kernel level anticheat is necessary." -"its in alpha its supposed to be shitty - stop complaining" -"its in beta is supposed to be shitty - stop complaining" -"if course it needs a day one patch. thats normal. - stop complaining" -"its only JUST came out - its supposed to need a week 1 patch - stop complaining" -"its only been out for 6 months - they are working on updates to fix all that stuff - stop complaining" -"Optimization? stop being so entitled. it runs great on MY PC, maybe you should stop being poor and just upgrade your potato ass 1080ti rig"

@frankdiaz1978 Месяц назад

The problem is content creators. They buy all this crap and create videos on it driving up the demand for this kind of thing. Most of the popular creators don't even spend their own $$ but drive their followers to do so. It's going to crash the market again as for some reason we are incapable of adjusting in real time to avoid a pitfall. We have to slam into the ground n burn everything down before realizing it's not the best method. All game studios are held hostage by their boards to maximize profits, not deliver a quality product to consumers. If they could charge for a game being in color, believe me they would

@nordicwarriorgaming4953 13 дней назад

Yep. I have been saying this for years. Which is my as a small content creator myself I have long been reviewing and promoting old fames and telling people to avoid modern games.

@joshm3484 Месяц назад

That's mostly only AAA (and AAAA 😂) gaming. What about Palworld, Helldivers, etc?

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

God the audacity of that one ubisoft guy to call Skull and Bones quadruple A is both astonishing and laughable. Like bro the game has less content than some games from the launch era of the ps3 and xbox 360 Palworld is releasing a dating sim if you haven't heard yet. Yes you can date the pals as well...dunno how to feel about that but it will certainly make some people happy. The game itself wasn't really something I enjoyed but I can see why people like it. Helldivers I made a video on. I like it quite a lot!

@Namminamm Месяц назад

@@ItsHawxI believe the dating sim thing was an april fools joke.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

You know....I somehow doubt that. Even if it is with how it was received they most likely are making it now LOL

@Dodsodalo Месяц назад

@@NamminammHey, give the fans what they want, and what do they want? Unholy smut and romance. People played Skyrim and mass effect. People don't mind dating other races in games anymore. Besides, who Wouldn't want a human pokemon, I mean human/pal dating game. Give the fans what they want damnit!

@MICKEYrenraw Месяц назад

Now i'm no genius, but maybe, just maybe, it would cost less in the long run to not fire half your staff the moment a project finishes, to then start a new project and hire more staff and train them up I moved to Indie game over 5 years again and am much happier for it As for sports games fans? well i try not to generalize about a group of people no matter how **cking stupid they are :P

@Equizition21 Месяц назад

It took me 3 months after playing my first game to notice the unistall button, it's like renting you don't have to keep it. Anyway, even if a player does start to like a game, that doesn't mean their account is safe 😆

@laguaridadesyx Месяц назад

You just stole the words from my mind LMAO. Great video!

@p.jonaitis7952 Месяц назад

Shout out to all the ethical pirates out there! Arrrrg

@l.3626 Месяц назад

Paradox statement

@better-shotgun1686 29 дней назад

Pirating games is justified when you don’t legally own the product you’ve bought. Or when you don’t have the means to play the game due to exclusivity.

@l.3626 29 дней назад

@@better-shotgun1686 no, there is simply no excuse for stealing, if it's a shitty deal then people should stop buying those games and the market will simply shift towards what people want There is no justification for pirating other than it's theft for your advantage

@better-shotgun1686 29 дней назад

@@l.3626 I’m not saying I’ve pirated anything. The only game I’ve considered pirating is Helldivers 2. Fuck Sony (the publisher).

@better-shotgun1686 29 дней назад

@@l.3626 the only game I have “Pirated” is Helldivers 2, and put it on a homebrewed/modded Series X. And even then, I still payed full price in Sony’s store. I haven’t stolen a game, I’ve only played the game a way that Sony (fuck semi-exclusives. I’ve been saying that since I realized that the MCC isn’t going completely cross-platform) didn’t intend. Playing games in a way that the publishers didn’t intend is common nowadays, Doom has been played on everything that can possibly display gameplay (but ID has basically given the internet free reigns to classic Doom. Finding a way to play the game without paying is extremely easy.)

@Ixaglet Месяц назад

Vote with your wallet people! I've bought 3 games over the last 2 years: Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and Helldivers 2. Don't pre-order games, don't buy mtx. Helldivers 2 has mtx, but it's only cosmetics, and they usually have WORSE stats than the regular items, making it more like pay-to-lose, or just a cool way to support the devs. Plus, literally everything can be bought with currency which can be earned in-game. Stop giving these crappy companies your money people. Let their companies fail, force them to provide a good service to their customers

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

Gonna be honest I highly doubt that "Vote with your wallet" will work. It hasn't worked for years. Hence why I didn't say that myself. But I like the enthusiasm!

@SCHMALLZZZ Месяц назад

Back in the day we spent a lot of money at arcades. The Golden era of gaming is the time between the microtransactions of the aecades and the microtransactions of live service games.

@skv0ra Месяц назад

Oh man, Destiny burned me pretty hard on its initial launch - realizing that to "level" you'd have to RNG grind the same exact bs unholy number of times turned me completely off. Dipped into D2 after it went f2p, and it honestly wasn't all that either.

@theshadowman8801 Месяц назад

I rather pirate ps1 games than pay 70 dollars for a ps5 game.

@wingmandecrayt8932 Месяц назад

Dude you need way more attention. Kannst du deutsch ?

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

Thank you! Jap kann ich

@occultnightingale1106 Месяц назад

The only games I've pre-ordered is Dark Souls 3 (though I am considering it for Stellar Blade). The only microtransactions I've paid for were in free-to-play games (like Warframe or Genshin Impact), or were cosmetics-only (like Overwatch or Dead by Daylight). The only Deluxe/Premium/Special Editions I've bought were for Soul Calibur 6 and Elden Ring. I have no regrets for my spending practices in games, because I don't need a lot of games to enjoy myself. I've just been buying games less and less as the years have gone on, and spending more of my time in the ones I already own, and especially with physical copies that can't be revoked later on.

@Cute_Maxi 11 дней назад

I am fighting back... I sold my consoles, sold my gaming PC, sold all my physical game copies then bought a Steam Deck and started working on my backlog. I won't be buying any new games any time soon unless it is part of a Humble Bundle sale and most likely an indie title. The AAA industry is just a hard pass for me right now.

@jrddoubleu514 Месяц назад

Piracy for the win.

@AB-bh6rb Месяц назад

This is what happens when capitalism takes over what we love.

@DarkForestEscapes Месяц назад

And AI added on top of that is only going to make this even worse.

@jmcclain8237 Месяц назад

Your comment makes absolutely no sense.

@ToBy11334 Месяц назад

Why are you bringing politics into this

@AB-bh6rb Месяц назад

@@ToBy11334 capitalism isnt politics.

@ToBy11334 Месяц назад

@@AB-bh6rb capitalism is a social, economic and political system

@Aryanwood 21 день назад

The gaming industry is not what it used to be.

@YaaSalty...0_o Месяц назад

Could somebody please tell me what game this is? 25:28

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

The Riftbreaker. I have a pretty old video on it if you are interested. But do expect cringe cuz I did not know how to youtube

@dunkelwalde695 Месяц назад

Guys, there isnt a single triple A developer out there that deserves your money right now. From Software might be the only one.

@ItsHawx Месяц назад

there are a few I would wager. I wouldn't say there are none. A lot of the sony first party studios are superb. Larian while independent has made a game so good it may be the best game ever made. Capcom, although it is starting to go down a more....suboptimal path has reached new heights of quality. Guerilla (creators of horizon and killzone) have also got an almost perfect track record and a lot more but sadly the ones that want to scam you are more numerous

@joevaghn457 Месяц назад

Yeah, FROM makes some of the best games in these recent years.

@zwidowca1 Месяц назад

From is not what they used to be. While Elden Ring is doing well in terms of overall sales and stuff it is also a balance mess, with multiple bugs and issues that the Souls community has identified and documented. No fixes for most of said issues so far. No balance improvements. No nothing. Arguably patch 1.10 has REALLY thrown a spanner in the works of the game itself since it made poise/hyperarmour a massive issue to deal with. Seriously, study the patch cycle for ER and you will see that from has cocked it up. It hurts the game in terms of longevity. According to steam charts ER has one of the worst average player retention out of all their games.

@joevaghn457 Месяц назад

@@zwidowca1Dude, come on now, you're being erroneously silly over there acting like they haven't made balance improvements.

@zwidowca1 Месяц назад

@@joevaghn457I played this game for over 600 hours. Roughly 100 was devoted to pure PVE and world exploration. All the rest was PVP and some further area exploration. Sadly I know what I am talking about. There were balance patches, but each and every one of them broke something while fixing something else. In some cases the changes were beyond absurd. At one point (1.06 patch methinks) light roll was better for moving around than sprinting... It completely trivialised spacing and dodging as well. The game is in an awful state as far as balance goes. Like, to a point of actual tournament level players/content creators pointing it out and making a videos about the issues they consider the most egregious. So yeah it really is not great.

@dailyhubranx Месяц назад

I like how u transition from thumbnail into the video. U adapting well to the new RU-vid design. I did a few like this too. It's a nice immersion technique and it's also a way for us to tell RU-vid ... Nah nah nah.. you're not gonna skip the thumbnail I worked hard on, so the first 5 seconds of my video is my thumbnail, hahaha.

@elaRRman Месяц назад

The scariest thing imo is that this pattern of pricing everything comes from the society itself , the gaming industry just followed along . Working a regular job will barely afford you a house ( probably not without a roommate ) and everything has become stupid expensive overall compared to our grandparents who they worked part time in McDonald’s and could make a decent living even buy their own house and make some money on the side . The funny thing is that if a price goes up and the consumer still buys it it will never go down . And this is not me speaking it’s coming from a lot of economists . Idk everything is so frustrating expensive and out of reach . The only way to balance things out is by boycotting a product so the seller has to basically drop the price . But this is also a very rare scenario

@legendarygodzilla3577 Месяц назад

Or pirating it and cutting the money the developer makes, furtherly, refuse to go to court.

@liquidsweg4858 Месяц назад

you hit it so hard on the nail about the destiny 'free' armor looking so bad but the payed for armor looks great

@Christopher-po8pt Месяц назад

Guy on another channel was talking about tech companies and what kind of CEO the have. Engineers tend to be more focused on the product, but businessmen tend to work for the shareholders. The tech companies are making the mistake of thinking shareholders are their customers was the argument and for me it works here too.