Well I mean if I was playing against him I would definitely think he's cheating and would report him. It's so absurd to think you can now basically get cheats by just spending money in the in-game shop that I probably wouldn't even consider that.
Paying to upgrade items a massive mark on an otherwise really fun game, i'd say I hope they walk it back but there's no way they will now after people are already spending money on it. Microtransactions should be cosmetic only, it'd still make bank
The sad thing is Nintendo is merely licensing its brand Tencent is running the operations and destroying Pokémon’s/Nintendo’s image. (Although it already going downhill due to recent games)
The team only getting two kills because they had to stampede charlie to get him away from their spawn is fucking hilarious, at least two of them uninstalled the game after that
To be fair, literally the only stat in this game is level, so by being 4-6 levels over the entire team means nobody can match him. Of course, the credit card move meant he got that lead much easier, but it’s not ‘impossible’ free to play. The game is still pay to win garbage though.
@@malazan6004 10:52 OMG, this part was the most funniest thing I have ever seen in a Poke'mon Unite 5v5 battle...that Snorlax got all the way back to his base, only to get grabbed at the doorstep & get slammed head 1st to immediate death...was fuckin' hilarious lmfao
I was so confused when my whole team couldn't take down one Snorlax the entire game. We ended the game with only two kills and were trying to figure out how the hell our opponents bodied us with default attacks while we threw unite moves at them. Now I know you can just buy all the upgrades. Pretty lame.
@@gabrielbrock659 usually companies monetise cosmetics as it doesn't really affect gameplay and it's for personal flex. but to monetise gameplay is so stupid and it's gonna turn a lot of players off.
Those held items tokens can be purchased with tickets you get from ranked play and the battle pass and also challenges. I have two items almost leveled up and I havent had to spend a dime
They should make a new pokemon just for this game. Argent, money in french, looking somewhat like a piggy bank or a safe or maybe a old japanese coin that you can only buy with irl cash.
@@saltwater7366 No they are expanding faster because we have so many rules, regulations, permit processes. Not that its all a bad thing but when China doesn't have any environmental regulatons..... it changes everything.
It's funny how he blames Nintendo for this game when Gamefreak, The Pokemon company and Tencent are responsible 😂 I still don't know why people think Nintendo has any say in the Pokemon I.P just because the mainline games are on Nintendo systems
@@RK-lo2nw nope, I’m free and I have the same stuff as any one paying. It’s just an exaggeration to make people who are gullible think the games actually p2w
@@NekoinaBox2000 the game's been out less than a week and they cap the amount of in-game currency you can get per week. By design, the game does not allow a free player to have level 30 items yet.
Cool more fun for the rest of us that aren't gamed by a vid displaying an adult thrashing, more than likely, children in a video game. It's a 2% difference having no items versus high level items
Dude don't worry, it really isn't that impactful, like it does give you more power but a very small amount. Also u really think everyone has this much money to wast on this game? You get tons of upgrade points for free just by leveling up and doing missions
i grind this game frequently, due to a recent update anyone playing before mobile release (and i think some mobile players idk) got 3 special tokens that upgrade any item to grade 30 instantly. there is also a quest/task/event that gives 150-160 grade tokens for playing different roles (Support, attacker, speedster- so and so) the pay to win aspect is still apparent but thanks to this update a lot more players can catch up. that or Nintendo saw this video and got spooked
Yeah game isn't pay to win anymore tbh. I am f2p reached masters and I started playing after mobile release. U can pay to get a very small tiny advantage but it doesn't guarantee win anymore.
@@AniGaAG i am aware of what context are in the video. it was posted before said update i had mentioned that helped even out the game. its still p2w but its not insanely difficult to play due to items released and balance changes that constantly affect pokemon added.
@@ghowost0214 My point is more that I find the distinction of "more" or "less" pay-to-win harmful in itself; it does nothing but give such developers and publishers leeway - giving them an inch, and therefore the opportunity to take the mile. In other words: We need to stop lowering the bar on what we'll accept; A being worse doesn't make B any better than it is.
Yet league (their biggest money making game) doesn’t have pay to with stuff. Best fucking player in the world didn’t even use skins. Sadly this gives advantages to the player in pokemon, when i saw the items i instantly knew people would do this. But over time people will have items maxed.
@@xxargonautxx9790 that's because tencent bought league after it was already established, they actually made this one and they have NO concept of restraint when it comes to pay to win.
no no no.. 7.5% attack speed AND +15 AD. like wtf thats fucking ridiculous. from the start of the fucking game too. you literally come out of the gates 1 shotting lanes.
Why would any cash transactions for performance bonuses EVER be put in a MOBA? Let alone one specifically targeting little kids? This is disgusting. If this existed in League of Legends that franchise would die overnight, but the little kiddies won't have the knowledge or context/background to understand how incredibly corrupt this is.
League had runes/rune pages that were p2w in essence because it took a long ass time to grind them, and the flat bonuses especially in jungle were massive early game. The item effect are the main part of the item and u can level 10 everything really easy, and level 20 is comparable to the rune grind
For the people saying "you can just grind" yeah dude, in maybe 2 years I can max out 1 item to level 30 and I'm sure they'll increase the level cap by that point.
Why the heck would you level to 30? The effect is the actual benefit and that stops at 20. It's literally I have 200 hp extra oh wait I died to a combo that did 6000 damage to me don't waste resources
@@killu2later you clearly don't pay any PvP game. That 200 extra hp would be what saves you in multiple situations compared to the occasional 6000 damage you take.
I doubt Nintendo had much to do with the game directly other than making sure there was nothing offensive in there. This is made by TiMi, whose parent company is Tencent(the company that owns League of Legends). But yeah. Don't give your money to Tencent. They're horrible and predatory.
Even if you couldn't spend real money on it, having items upgraded outside of gameplay is just a terrible system. Will only create a wall for new players to overcome that gets worse as the games life goes on, worse than unlocking different characters in other MOBAs.
like I rememebr back with League of Legend's old rune system there was SOME pay to win with ya know...having run pages and innate power just by spawning in over new palyers but like. it was mostly just a few early game stats to make surviving the laning phase easier. this is literally just...pay or dont be new (but still if you pay you're better) to ACTUALLY play the cahracter
@@0MidnighttheDragon0 Agreed. Runes had impact, but way less. And Riot realized it was a shit system years ago. But Pokemon is new - they should have learned
@@MisterAssasine like I would have been a bit more okay with it if it WAS minor amounts of pay to win (like runes were) but this is LITEARLLY needing to pay to be allowed even entry level into the game proper. the dif between fully leveled items and not is MASSIVE.
@@JewTube001 really? they must be a diehard pokemon apologists cos this game is clearly p2w and its absolutely disgusting that they are marketing this to children
@@lecheconfleisfr I'm not trying to “show game freak” anything. I just personally don't want to play it because P2W makes an unfair landscape. I don't really see the point in playing a game where someone can outperform me because they paid extra. Nintendrones man.
@@slothful2039 your call, but honestly charlie makes it seem worse than it actually is. I have level 10 items without paying and am at 61% winrate soloqueing on the worst mon in ranked over 70 games. still a scummy model but missing out on a fun game based on your principles of not playing anything p2w is pretty dumb.
@@DinoBat But it seems like he thinks P2W makes it less fun. That's super reasonable. It also makes sense not to compromise on mechanics that make it less fun AND are morally questionable. I think subjecting myself to a game like this would be more than "pretty dumb" unless I actually found it mind blowingly fun. Which it isn't, it's just a standard moba (imo of course)
@@DinoBat yeah try to get lv 30 for SIX Items due. No way hahahaha and yes for some Pokémon you need to chance items because they have different Attack typer (special and normal) That's game suck so hard now..bleah...very discustings
@@SushiBurritoPapi hm ill have to disagree. League is pretty boring with minimalistic combat. I cant find anything that has less then 5 skills even remotley skill based when MMOs function similar in pvp and you get 30-40 skills.
“Did they not think about this at all, letting you pay for all of these boosts?” Dude, Tencent made this game. Any morality or consideration towards f2p players went out the window of a moving car onto a busy highway.
As Silent Shadows said, old League Of Legends runes system was basically stat boosts that you would have to grind out influence points for. You also couldn't even use the whole page until you were max level (30 at the time).
@@spicywings4614 a small amount and on a game that is not made by Nintendo, of which Nintendo holds no rights, and Nintendo does not Market for. But yes, I guess I should still blame Nintendo for Unite.
@@_Aidelweiss_ I really doubt that. Not to say he’s not influential, but there’s a MASSIVE market of Pokémon fans he doesn’t reach that will still play it. It’ll be plenty of people’s first MOBA, plenty of kids will play, and plenty will whale the game.
@@_Aidelweiss_ unless Charlie keep this up for 2 years, there is no way he meet every single player. All they got to do is left the match when they see his name. There is a fan, there also the Pokemon Fans.
@@basti__ either your moba experience is lacking or you are just diehard Nintendo supporter. A few percent can make a champ being B tier to broken, literally they added 1 movespeed per level to illaoi and it significantly helped her. That or you just think its ever acceptable to monetize gameplay
It's really not a crazy boost compared to just playing the game but no one wants to hear that. They just want to hear "it's pay to win smh horrible game takes no skill"
@@alexmark6580 obv I was paid. I've been playing the game and gotbto veteran already without spending a cent and got multiple items to rank 20 without trying. But obv I don't know anything at all.
@@vannchansenany10d32 well that's sad.. I know from the beginning they fought an uphill battle against Mobile Legends back in the day.. in my country, ML is very popular because of its low spec requirements, but I don't like it because it's slightly p2w like you get bonus stat for using a costume..
I'm pretty sure it was developed by a chinese mobile dev, not nintendo tbf (Edit, I'm not defending Nintendo, idk why they would let that company develop it)
@@marcelostringer Nintendo had to hire a company like that to make a game like this, nothing in this game is happening without their knowledge and consent
This was obvious the second the pokemon release a free moba... Of course it's pay to win,they don't care about this game, so it's just a money dumpster
It was super obvious when tencent glt involved. That was a HUGE redflag, idk why ppl are so surprosed but still freely spend their money on a shit company like tencent
@@AoiFlame02 The irony, Tencent is mainly know in occident for one game, a moba that isn't pay to win (Now that I remember there was the old rune system, but even then it was tiered by levels so a lvl 1 player with a credit card wouldn't stomp playerq who still had to grind to get their runes )
@@tanatep23 how is it pay 2 win tho? If you're talking about the arcana system that thing ain't pay 2 win at all, you can't buy those arcana point or golds with vouchers at all unlike what they did here in Pokemon
@@tanatep23 clearly you’ve never played AoV, that game isn’t pay to win at all The things you pay for are skins and new characters, neither has significant impact on the gameplay. You can reach legendary ranking without paying a dime, if you don’t know shit, shut up
@@PeterPetahPetah More like a pay to unlock, most meta viable heroes are expensive Garena in thailand used to lock OP characters behind paywalls (WuKong/Murad/Superman/Quillen)
Same. Its fun but getting stomped by people who do insane damage from microtransations on Items aint fun. I use a so called "Defender" just to die in 3 hits smh
Nah. We will be okay. Truly competitive games will not ever do this because it ruins competitive integrity. Who wants to grind a ranked mode when you can literally spend money to be better? Stuff like League lets you unlock more characters with real money as well as in game currency but most people only play a handful of champions anyway. Even when Paladins tried to do this they made ranked mode not use the system, and players got so mad they removed the p2w system all together. There is hope.
Mobile Gaming industry : Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!!, Darth Vader costs money to play?, our entire games characters require money to play.
@@masterlinktm The majority of triple A studios know that the gaming community hates Tencent and they know for damn sure that’s it’s not right. Here’s the problem though, Tencent makes SO MUCH MONEY that they are too valuable to them. So instead of getting rid of their practices and doing something major about it, they just get a little slap on the wrist and Tencent continues to do what they do. Fucking hate it man.
@@pascalsimioli6777 Nah, that's really not the problem. I wanna point out how many times Charlie has gone out of his way to donate to small streamers just out of the goodness of his heart. I would give him money too if I could because he's genuinely an awesome human being
@@King-Giygaz 'Why not?' is a good question. The main reason is that most viewers donate to entertainers/content creators we enjoy. For me, Charlie is an entertainer whom I very much enjoy and appreciate, which is why (if I had the money, which I very much don't) I'd donate specifically to him. The fact that he donates to others isn't to say that it's a reason to donate to him, however it is an exemplary showing of the goodness of people. That's something I greatly value, and only gives me more reason to do so. Again, this is assuming I even could in the first place
“Charlie, why is there a $10,000 bill from Nintendo?” “Sorry babe, I used that money to stomp some kids in Pokemon Unite.” Edit: The replies are cancer. Dont bother looking at them.
For the record they were under leveled by at least 5 or 6 levels ive done the same with snorlax without maxed items, items do not affect that genuine much of gameplay besides maybe a 1v1 the game in general is just snowball heavy and Charlie is legitimately playing really well
well stop thinking they won't fix ot lol it's a new game so expect some unfair thing there's something called update when they want to add something or fixed something ¯\_ಠ_ಠ_/¯
Pretty much every micro transaction game except Fortnite is pay to win nowadays. Fortnite actively changes items so they aren’t P2W, while games like this do the opposite
