I bought the game. Can I play it? "No" I deleted another game to clear space. Can I play it now? "No" Alright it finished a combined 7 hour install and update, may I PLEASE play now? "No" Why? "No internet" Ok, I'm back online. Now? "Ok but only the 5 hour campaign" Right. Gold membership. "Yep" Okay. I've purchased a gold membership. Why is everything locked to me? "Gotta buy the other 80% of the game through DLC" Okay, I've spent a total of $173.28 on this game and sacrificed two other games for space so I can play it. Why can't I play it? "Bug" What? "Game's broken"
By “The Decline Of Gaming” he doesn’t mean that gaming is dying, it’s more popular than ever, he means that the quality of games is decreasing ( I said this because I saw comments that said that gaming isn’t dying)
It's to prevent pirating, thank the thieving scumbags on PC for that ha. It's a bummer but like everything, it's the few rotten apple losers who ruin it for everybody
I think the developers thought process are like this: "We will just release the game unfinished and then wait and see if it's popular enough for us to finish..."
Being a developer (not a game dev though) I can tell you that cutting corners is the manager's decision. No developer would publish a half worked project unless he is forced to. Unrealistic deadlines, undermanned teams, feature creep mentality, monetisation ontop of the original progression, greed.
@@kassios Nonsense, developers are not slaves. They can speak out, state a protest or internal strike, quit the company or be whistleblowers, there is NO excuse for developers releasing shitty games and only blame management.
That's why I'm OK with EA even if I prefer a 100% at launch. These small developers need the upfront cash, and they get tons testers. EA gave rise to indie games. It's given us some great games. Yes, including PUBG and 7 days to die.
did ea actually help out indie games? anyways yeah act man never mentions indie games which is a injustice! before this decade indie games wer considered a 'serious' side of gaming
@@formarkv Thanks man. Some of the greatest times I have on Xbox one are 4 player co-op on Overcooked 2. That game usually ends up a glorious shit show with most friends 😂There are still quality options, but it does make me nervous to see the availability of same-screen multiplayer being strangled by an obsession with profits on the part of the game makers. I also like your point, it's bad for society overall. We need to game with thy neighbor, break hot pockets, and whatnot.
Thats mostly because being a gamer today costs A SHIT TON OF MONEY,so you cant say "hey buddy come to my house so we can play X game"cause you would need to buy game X for your friend to play with you,so its cheaper to make an online system to put people that are away from each other play together.
We still LAN almost weekly, Quake 3, UT2004, Counter Strike, TOCA..... Hearing your opponent sqerm in the same room is pricless and you can't capture that with an online MP. Games like Toxikk is our new FPS that we LAN on and we need more games like that.
One area that no one talks about is AI. No game studio is trying to push the boundaries for AI anymore. AAA games will develop the hardest bones, hardly passable AI just to sell the product and nothing more. Look at something like Cyberpunk - beautiful game, NPCs still run into walls. I am very tired of never being impressed.
@Nessim Yohros It's a very true anology dick head if game developers & publishers want their games to sell then they have to make good games people want to buy without any bullshit they aren't entitled to our money.
Worst part is, there’s an entire generation of gamers that see this as the norm, which ultimately will create a norm of all these problems listed in the video. There’s no turning back.
I disagree. I, 14, have seen the worldwide uproar over battlefront 2 loot boxes. I think that most gamers around my age agree that companies like: Bethesda, EA, and Activision are super scummy and don't deserve to be profitable.
It's the times we live in. Every modern media avenue suffers from the same affects of complacency. 99.9% of everything is boring, cloned, soulless, and beaten to death like a rental car to milk every ounce. It's even happening outside of media, nobody is reaching for the stars anymore.
"nobody is reaching for the stars anymore." Thats honestly a good analogy. Over a decade ago it felt like they continously tried to improve a product, make it bigger, remove issue from previous versions, etc. These days you wait 3-4 years and the product is pretty much the same in a new package with new marketing.
Im glad I never decided to dream big. And now, I see the reality I tought about becoming true. I made a promise to myself to keep on playing games even that It all seens harsh, because there will be always a small experience that it's worth my time and I really don't care about how things are today. If games make me happy, Ill stay with it. But I can't deny, the real good time I had with my Wii seemed to be worthy.
I agree, but it's also important to vote with your wallet. I stopped preordering games years ago and shit like Battlefield 2042 vindicates that sentiment. Don't give these greedy corps your money if they don't want to give you a good product.
@@GameTheGalaxy Good for you. I've never been in the pre-order camp honestly. I've been lucky to keep myself busy enough until I see a game is out for a while, that has great reviews or is something I want to try, and on like a 50%+ sale on steam. My library is so big I have tons of games I'll likely never get to for a long while.
Star Wars: Empire at War, probably the oldest Star Wars game that still has a solid, wonderful fan base. Hell, the devs came back last January to help the modders with bug fixes. Like holy hell, this shocked the hell out of everyone
Thanks for the info. More OG Star Wars deserve more justice to the OG Games made before 2010. Thankfully TT games made it possible for the lego complete saga to be more avaible to mobile users. Imagine if the 2005 Battle Front 2 was genuinely remastered minus the microtransaction crap of the modern era
What's happening to gaming is what happened to both movies and music decades ago. Once something becomes popular enough to be an industry dominated by corporations instead of people, it gets stripped of it's creativity and innovation and becomes a soulless for profit money making mechanism. Everything has a Golden Age, and sadly, it has now come and gone for video games. Goodbye story and immersion, hello battle royale and microtransactions.
Basically corporatism is killing artistic industries. Music is sounding the same, movies are being rebooted or franchised, games are remastered, DLC, Microtransactions, etc. Its sad, but inevitable. The good news is great stuff does exist, but you have to look for it now, and that can be hard for people who don't know how or don't have time.
I call B.S. Corporations are a lazy scapegoat, but they are the symptom not the source. Of course they are going to be risk-averse, but that doesn't mean most consumers would rather prefer low-budget indie titles. It is always up to the consumers to push back against companies and refuse to accept something. That's why micro-transactions in paid games have become a big no-no after that infamous EAfront 2 remake. But when people not only buy the same crap in droves but then BEG the companies for more of the same, what do you expect? When it comes to movies and tv shows, sure I'll agree. Whoever owns the IP can and will kill creativity, even not-for-profit fan productions that put the real deal to shame. But video games? I feel there is less of a barrier to entry, with free access to the state of the art Unreal Engine for e.g. and easy online distribution via Steam, GOG, etc. Thing is, indie devs not only compete with each other and not only compete with massive AAA big-budget productions, but they also compete with pretty much all of video game history that is now available online. Similar reason why it's hard for new bands to compete when Spotify or TH-cam let you experience all the great music groups from every decade.
noticed the same thing.. I used to download movies.. now it seems they make only some fkin marvel and comic films that fit into 1h30 min time frame or are maisntream dumb. Game of thrones - last season. Everything is so bad.. that there is nothing to buy or to pirate. Maybe im just old..
@@andrespodra8459 yeah, I watched a lot of japanese anime, but not anymore, a tip for you that worked for me was starting reading books, classics of philosophy and medieval fantasy, it's great
@@2555Edu I read Dumas Ascanio lately, Dunno i think i have to go and read Tolstoys War and peace with its 1250 pages, it will give a boost for a week or some xD. But thx for advise!
I have no idea what you guys are talking about. Everything is keep looking better: * Movies has never looked better. * There never was more music to choose from than today. * There are so many shows to choose from thanks to platforms like Netflix. * Today is a really great time to be an artist! With growth of youtube and platforms like Instagram, it is so easy to find artists you like and support their work. * Gaming: Making a game is very easy now. There is plenty of games to choose from Indie developers. Also AAA games has never looked better. Now the bad things: * The media has always been trash, since forever (so no change here)
I somewhat understand it, its frustrating but in the moment when you see the item or whatever it may be and really want it but know you shouldnt buy it and support the micro trans model, but you still really want it and know that boycotting it wont make them change for a long time if ever, so you just bite the bullet and buy it, you feel bad but you got that thing you wanted and really enjoy it even with the bitter taste it leaves in your mouth giving in to the asshole company. I feel bad for some of these people I hate those people out there who spend $100s even $1000s on those random packs, I hate that shit so much, I hate when I see you tubers making videos based on just buying a shitload of them and the whole video is just them unpacking them with their dumb ass "humorous" commentary.
Politics, greed, lack of passion for games, the unwillingness to take risks, lack of customer lash back for unfinished games releasing, and the cost of making a AAA game with modern graphics is hurting gaming.
agreed, i don't even want to know what future generations will have... only triple A titles with microtransactions everywhere while being rushed with no actual effort. finding good games is starting to become a challenge.
I don't know if I'd say lack of back lash... Some of these crazy nutters send actual death threats to devs. I'm sure they get very creative in how they explain what they would do to them and their family.
It’s hard to create backlash in the era of dude bro gamers that are like “stfu dude I don’t give a fuck. I just wanna play Fortnite and cod with my bros”
As a kid I recall playing so many different awesome single player game that I could get lost in. Nowadays im lucky if even one video game comes out per year that can give this feeling.
@ObzPotato same here. My top favorite game, literally #1 for me is Team Fortress 2. I played that game back in 2009 until today. I had like 9k hours on my first account and got almost 7k on my current account. And I can't stop playing it. Its F2P and also has micro transactions(luckily not DLC's and not that extreme) but its acceptable and in my opinion still alot of fun. The community is holding together. Since fucking 2007. The games between 2005 to 2014 were the best. Now they just hide all their BS like mentioned in the video behind their "shield". All a hidden scam.
@jagdish joshi Kingdom Come Deliverance has a real old school vibe to it. It doesn't really hold your hand throughout the game and its challenging. Its an open world story driven RPG game with a focus on medieval historical accuracy. It may not sound as exciting as a fantasy game but it really is a lot of fun. The game is not afraid to take it slow nor does it feel the need to add a pointless fight to everything. What I really like is the game's quests are designed to be fun. One of my favorite quests is going out drinking with a pastor and doing drunk shenanigans and having to giving mass service for him while being hungover. Good game
You are right about that. But what can they do. They need money to survive and big companies like EA promise them bigger pay than they will go for that option.
That extra profit from micro transactions dlc etc is not going to the devs. That isn’t money for the company to survive i guarantee. That is money for the stockholders and executives of those companies not at all the devs. They will push the boundaries on how much they can exploit the consumer until sales start to drop. Greed plain and simple greed or the need to constantly grow to constantly get that bonus for the investor and exec. In an capitalist market this will always happen eventually until the consumer stops spending and changes are forced through financial consumer decisions.
@Coolest It is so easy to get a following on youtube / instagram as an artist right now. And if you have a following you can convert it into a business. If you are good at art, and people like what you do, you will get noticed! I really doubt it, if an artist, who is good enough at we he does, he wont be able to find a better job, or even start his own business... I am really waiting for a counter argument. I am really not seeing it. If you have any example of any recent bad / missused art please let me know (I will know where you are coming from)
@Coolest Nice counter argument. I see you cannot even defend your point of view. "Purged from"? Yes especially artists like: * rossdraws * loish * kuvshinov ilya * cyarine * zeronis * anninosart and many more~
I miss the days of unlockables, large post games and cheat codes. I don't mind DLC packs for costumes, story and more maps/game modes, but I HATE loot boxes. If I'm giving you my money, give me what I paid for.
Fwuffycodbunny Dude loot boxes are fucking horrible, it totally destroys skill gaps and the need to even become better. Why become good and grind out the time when you can type in some digits from a credit card and start facing people that have a much higher skill area because they actually worked for it. Fucking stupid
As I hear each point and correlate it with my own experiences, for some reason Return of the Obra Dinn kept popping up in my head. I realized it's because that was the latest game I've played that truly felt like the antithesis of all the complaints enumerated in this video. That game was complete, bug-free as far as I'm aware, trailblazing, highly unique and instantly memorable. And it didn't waste any energy trying to convince you to play it forever or even more than just once. Just "here's this great game, play it, like it. wasn't that cool?"
Like gta 5 online it started off good with business and many features that you can experience, they had a great start but then they released flying bikes,cars tanks and much more fucked up stuff... it ruined the experience for me, from a good roleplaying game it became a tryhard fest....
@@hazaltiger5601 You've gotta admit though that they've been doing good keeping it alive for so long, I even see them investing in ads that I occasionally pop up for me when im scrolling through social media. But I agree on your point, the only thing that keeps me going on that game is me and my friend creating a private lobby and using a trainer tool to spawn in all the new cars etc. they keep adding.
It's a case of "be careful what you wish for". I remember back in the early 2000's during the (IMO) the peak PC gaming years, gamers were complaining about the video game industry not getting the same respect or treatment as the music and film industry. Some gamers wanted their hobby to be legitimized by having video games go mainstream. Not seen as just for nerds. Well, video games are now mainstream. Can we honestly say things have gotten better because of it?
Agreed. Sometimes, things are better left as niche hobbies, because the environment of the mainstream media tends to denature the quality of the hobby, with the over saturation of memes, political activism and scapegoating, corporate shilling, and predatory gambling mechanics
@@makmedia_tv Yeah. We could get a ps5 for 80 bucks if the company who made it wanted to operate at a huge loss. Can you cite where you got this information from? Because frankly, what you just said is incredibly idiotic.
@@SwarumtheForum If you use ur brain and just break it down to all the parts not having to cost so most because some greedy fucks make them overpriced and too expensive then there would be no problem with the prices of a ps5 i just told.
For some reason it feels that when company faces too many problems with the game they just give up and release early access to get as much money as possible by making fake trailers and then run away from their creation as far away as possible without a second thought to finish the game.
This is an effect of the democritisation of game dev tools and engines. Small studios can make games, which results in gems that would mot have been possibly under the old game dev model but there is also the risk of broken, unfinished or just bad games. Publishers would just shut these projects down while these smaller companies can release that scam on Steam amyway and cash enough money to be successful. Sadly big companies like EA and Bethesda are getting on that trend aswell. A decade ago, a game like Fallout 76 would have been impossible to get released. It would never have seen the light of day.
I remember when the decayed state of ‘incomplete releases’ finally dawned on me was when my wife and I eagerly awaited Lego Hobbit as the previous release, Lego LotR was seriously *INCREDIBLE* with its huge open world that let you traverse Middle-earth straight outta Hobbiton right down through Gondor and into Mordor. HOWEVER, Lego hobbit only had parts 1 & 2 in it. The third and final act that was going to conclude the story, ‘The Desolation of Smaug’ WHICH ABSOLUTELY SHOULD’VE BEEN INCLUDED TO BEGIN WITH was instead promised as an additional patch. Well guess what? After they bent the fans over and collected their money, the lazy bastards at Warner Bros. Interactive just shat all over the game by never doing anything to it. No updates, no additional content, zilch! Utterly disgusting how all passion and creativity has drained out of what at one-time looked to be the future of entertainment for everyone. Very very sad.
@@MichaelSmith-cb8gg Especially that put in! Physical copy. Not this update evey week crap. If they can't get things reasonably right in 3 updates, maybe it should be asked why are they bothering to make games.
Juan-ton Soup I miss the City super intendant and it’s little face emojis while I constantly got slapped by golden brutes on LASO (Literally gonna go play now)
Absolutely. People need to stop paying for the scammy in game purchases and also just stop buying games until you know they’re going to be worth playing. In an age of overly abundant garbage games don’t buy at release. Wait a while to see gameplay and then buy if it looks good. We need to stop rewarding producers for pumping out trash. It’s the only way to fix this mess.
There is definitely a decline in gaming, I noticed it especially when I started playing older games again. Yeah everything looks pretty these days, but are mostly shallow experiences. Everything has to be open world, to justify the pricetag games are filled with busy work. It doesn't feel like games are made to be fun or entertaining anymore. You do the same thing over and over again. There is less variety in the genres of games, because a game needs to make all the money in the world or else it's not successful. It's this kind of mindset that ruins the final product. They have to keep shitting out new games so release them in a broken state, patch them later. Who cares people have pre-ordered it anyways, the companies have your money so they don't need to care about quality. It's not like there aren't any good games anymore, but because of corporate meddling people can't make games they want to make anymore. Not with fun in mind but always with money, and it shows.
maybe it's just because people got old with responsability etc and there are too many games to choose from, so it's no big deal to play these games like it was 20 years ago
@@josephmueller3752 That's what I used to think. This is very subjective, obviously this is all opinion based. For me that reasoning falls short because that doesn't explain away why I fell in love with gaming again after playing games from older generations. Games I never got around to back in the day, ones I have no nostalgic feelings towards. Comparing how games were made then and now you can see big differences. It also can't be explained away with only one explanation, there are multiple factors. One that also contributes to how developers make games these days is with digital distribution. Without other forms of monetization older games had more of an emphasis on fun, there may be less content but what was there had better quality. Nowadays games are designed more to keep you busy, there are a lot of things to do but what's there is more and more of the same. People want to think they're getting their money's worth, so every game is turned into something bigger than it needs to be. I like open world games, but not everything needs to be open world. There are still many games I enjoy from this generation, but I can't help feel like things are getting more and more the same. We've figured out what works and there is less innovation because of it. Of course there are indie games, and I do enjoy those a lot too. But I would like to see more innovation with AAA games too.
@@RawrItsJuul what I am saying is, if you take one of games of today, and you put it in the past like 20 years ago, it would have been the best game ever and you'd have said today "they dont make games like X anymore"
@@josephmueller3752 I don't think I agree with that. Games from today should be judged by today's standards. Most importantly, of course people from back then would think a modern game would be the best thing they played, but how is that a fair comparison? That ignores the progression other games have made to push the genre forward. It's a limited perspective. Compare this to movies, let's say you go back to the 80s and show people the Hobbit trilogy. It would probably blow their minds, but what does that have to say about the original lord of the rings trilogy? We now have the power of hindsight, like I said I have no nostalgic attachment to a lot of the old games I'm playing right now, yet there is a quality that I find lacking in modern games.
I don't understand why are you guys always bashing EA. Yeah they are the DLC kings but at least many of their DLCs are worth it with not just 1 map or a piece of clothing in it. And Origin is most likely the best online game shop ever existed. I have a few diferent titles there and I have most of them for like 15-30€... titles like FIFA, Battlefield, NFS while retarded shitSteam is offering GTAV for 50/60€??? 5 years after release? Not gonna happen with EA, their games are full price up to half a year or so and then they always go down on price and with constant sales you can get their titles basically for free. I have full BF4 Premium content for free... I haven't got anything like that on Uplay or Steam which are the worst online shops ever with almost no useful discounts and prices sky-high but yeah keep bashing EA... When Steam did the monstrous PD2 DLC shit noone cared and it was far worse than anything EA did ever. I really wanted the big bank heist for example but no, you want it? 50€ for bunch of useless stuff I didn't want at all...
Peter Kolesár you are literally saying you like EA because they make so many dlc that they cost less and the part about discounts is a lie I can get gta for £8 about 10euro and the dlc is inexcusable for it to cost so much for the pay day dlc but at least it adds a lot compared to EA selling rng loot boxes recently they even took daily loot boxes away
Indie is where the innovation and passion is at. As long as people keep relying on AAA industry to deliver them good stuff, they will keep getting screwed over.
Indie also has a lot of trash, blatant asset flips, or games that never get finished. Yet still, its also the place where you find innovation, or good reuse of old mechanics and style.
@@harrycoin5900 Every single person who starts at game dev independently starts at indie. Therefore, substandard products are expected to be a thing. But what indie projects have that the majority of AAA projects dont have is the passion, so even in evidently lower quality products, you can witness thought and innovation.
Alduizard Also, indie games tend to be cheaper, so I’m more forgiving if it’s less than perfect. Obviously, it still needs to be functional, but things like graphical issues, glitches, or fewer features are easier to overlook in the context of a $10-$20 game than with a $60+ game.
@@ReturnToSenderz And the majority of indie games DO NOT have BS monetization systems and offer complete value for money. Look at games like Mordhau that offer such an extensive cosmetic customization with 0 microtransactions, where you always feel like every single element of the customization could have been easily held behind a paywall but it wasn't. Sadly, while we criticize AAA games for bad monetization, we don't highlight such games to the audiences to show the opposite end of the stick.
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@braingazer... Nah.. gaming was fine up until 2013 Now it's all "blatant reinventing the wheel" , "target addicts" and microtransactions all over the place.
Do I'm the only that seeing this decrease on everything? From movie, tv show, song and other. Companies becoming more greedy to be the big one but they don't know they just hurting themselves
but, see, they're not hurting themselves. they know that people will just buy the same old shit, over and over again. it's really just sad. the quality is bad, yet they still make millions of dollars.
I used to lose myself in games. Pick up a game, play for hours and feeling like I had to take a break cos I've been playing too long. Today, I play a game for an hour or less and I'm bored. I rarely finish the games story cos I get bored. Games are getting worse.
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GPS08 Exactly what i feel like. Might just be that we have seen it all already. Especially people over 30 , that been through the 90’s and old next gen.
With respect I take issue with hating on remasters to such a degree, and the general lack of new IP (which I agree with), and in the same breath praising Nintendo for "sticking with what they do well". They have Mario and Zelda, they'd had Mario and Zelda for decades, they cash in on that crap every. Single. Day. How is that different/better?
@@rogergilmour8805 I don't know anything about Mario and Zelda but aren't they releasing new games even though they're still the same franchises? it's not the same as Bethesda or Rockstar milking one particular game
@@phatlewt2932 They're racing games, RPGs or SMUP/platformers. It's the same formula over and over, although I take your point. So many games would benefit from remakes rather than remasters. Black Mesa was different enough that even as a person who made their own custom PC just to play Half Life back in the day, there's enough changes to it to feel like it's a new challenge, but it retained enough of its DNA to not feel too far out of field.
As someone who played games like RE, Tomb raider, COD with my dad back when I was 5..its sad that I have to say that frickin Genshin Impact ( a gacha game) has better story than 90% of the games today. Playing games always gathered my family together as we all tried to crack puzzles in TR, hide behind dad as he was playing RE3 and 4, and oh man..Wolfenstein return to the castle! The game I was so terrified of because of that one level with like catacombs and zombies in it.. Quake 4 like omg such nostalgia. Again, its sad that Genshin is giving me more emotion and I am so invested in GATCHA game than triple A titles…
One of the biggest problems is the online side of things. I used to buy a game, put the disk in and be on my way. Now I’ve gotta buy a game, update my console, renew my membership, buy an extra $100 worth of internet and then wait for an 80gb update to install before I can even play it. Is having fun really worth all that effort?
well, for those of us who have a computer and internet (and everyone does), its much simpler this way. I can pretty much install a game+updates within a few minutes, whereas you going out to buy a physical disk and then installing takes much longer. Plus, you might always lose the disk or damage it, whereas my steam account is basically for life Your inability to adapt to the new environment is moreso your fault
Artyom Arty well no lad, most of the people in my situation have consoles because they are a cheap entertainment system and they can’t afford power, internet and a good PC just to play a few games. My family uses my Xbox more than me, and I prefer to have a console that my family can enjoy rather than a PC that only I use and keeps me away from them.
@@Rayray-ww4zv Just because I am able to adapt to new environment does not make me young. I was born in 87. I travel a lot. I lose things. There is wifi everywhere. I can play all my games anywhere I have my laptop, regardless if I have wifi (because on steam you save them to your hard drive). I complain about technology too, but gaming is not one of them. Gaming is so much more simple these days. All my laptops/computers have all my games everywhere I go at any time. If you are unable to learn how to use steam or connect to wifi (just to download a game), then its your fault
I remember "DLC" as far back as the 90s. It came in a box, had a manual, was usually complete, and had hours of gameplay value. It was typically bug-free (or nothing game-breaking) and you felt like you got your dollars worth. They called them "Expansion Packs". We are to blame for the way the gaming industry is evolving. Vote with your wallets.
if you had a computer in the 90s you wernt worried about spending money on an expansion pack lol.... pc gamers were people who were wealthy and middle class... console gamers have always been traditionally people who cant afford to game on pc. I think the problem now is because now poor people are being priced out of the console space now as well. I cant even play smash because you have to buy so many characters lol. i cant in good conscience spend that money on something like that when its above my means. it doesnt matter what i do, or how little i play and buy, this is only going to get worse and worse, so voting with your wallet doesnt do anything. the wealthy people with disposable income take priority and they dont have the same scarcity sense about money that i do, because i have to budget carefully to keep food on the table and a roof over our heads. wealthy people get drunk and order things on amazon they dont even remember they ordered, because money means nothing to them. these types like the gaming industry how it is, because they dont care about paying more money to have a better experience than everyone els, they are wealthy. the feel entitled to have a better experience than someone who isnt wealthy.
Voting with your wallet is quite literally the reason it has taken this form. Companies follow what makes them profits. If you have people bitching about micros for cosmetics while also buying them, why should they change the business model?
There's a few things I want to say. Here's something that has been mentioned countless times, and it's been mentioned countless times because it makes total sense: if game developing companies nowadays only care about the amount of money that goes into their account, why would they not use the games that they've made in the past as blueprints and apply everything they built into those successful games into new games? If they develop and finish refining a game into its best form, how does it make any sense to make something new and not integrate the concepts of your most successful products into the new products to achieve an enhanced version, using the same parts. If gamers want something better than your most successful products, don't throw those concepts out, upgrade them by building on that same concept. If something works, why make something entirely new and unfamiliar that risks being a failure? These companies are sabotaging themselves. To summarize in a scenario, if you make a wheel, and it turns out successful, but now the public want a wheel with better traction, don't reinvent the wheel, just enhance the traction on your already successful wheel. I understand what companies are trying to do: they're trying to revolutionize gaming. Absolutely, revolutionize gaming, but make sure your product has a solid foundation behind its building so that when it's done, it does fall apart. That's like making a never-before-seen building that has no solid structural integrity; all your innovation, time investment, money, resources and other stuff is wasted when your building falls to the ground. This Gaming Revolution is a rushed revolution. Look at every successful and beneficial revolution in history (the French Revolution was a mess, and you see that revolution produce a monster: Napoleon's French Dictatorship) and you'll see that from start to finish these revolutions followed a slow and steady process. The same must be with this Gaming Revolution. Every game developer is rushing to revolutionize the industry, but every single one of them sooner or later stumbles, and when they do, they stumble hard. Revolutions of any kind cannot and should not be rushed, for just as a blacksmith shows and practices enduring patience to create a revolutionary sword that becomes a well refined and polished weapon, so too must the gaming industry show and practice enduring patience to create well refined and polished games. That is why patience is a virtue. Look at Cyberpunk 2077, it looked good on the outside but rotten on the inside. The game was the first of its kind (can you really count BioShock?) A game that's the first of its kind doesn't have the luxury of having a past game backed as its foundation, so because it was a brand new game in every way in the gaming industry, the developers should have been utmost patient with developing it. Its failure was because its developers were rushing unnecessarily. Look at Red Dead Redemption 1, it was a big success, and it was a brand new idea, why was it successful? Because Rockstar took their time developing it. *Edit*: I've erased what I previously said about why Cyberpunk 2077 was a failure. Which was, "Look at Cyberpunk 2077, that game had no foundation underneath it whatsoever, and what happened? It fell apart" and put what I should've said at the bottom.
because corporates threw out those creators who only knew how to enhance their games, how you could make a minecraft without notch? how you can make a cod game without zampela? how you can make a sims game without will wright? answer is - you can't
I've been playing a bunch of old games from the mid 90s to 2009 and they're a bunch of games I've never played before and I had more fun playing those games than today's modern games. It's not always nostalgia that makes the game good
@@KrisVic91 You could go for PC if you don't mind playing around with them and you have the cash. You can play pretty much any game from any generation.
@@KrisVic91 I mean, you could build one, which is pretty cheap, especially if you don't go for the newest and best hardware. It would be more complicated, but it would save a lot of money.
As somebody who spent the first 10 years of his career as a game developer, I can tell you it's not better on the inside. I got into it to try and make the best thing I could as an artistic pursuit. In practice, after the first couple years at broke but creative start ups, you spend most of your time trying to understand broken convoluted and extremely tedious to follow mazes of $#!!y legacy code, not actually building stuff. It's literally soul crushing.
I kinda felt the same about the animation industry, but I never even came close to the amount of time you spent in said industry. The worst part is, you try and vent your frustrations with people you know, and they say "You were the one who went to college. This is your fault." And you try to explain what's wrong with the system, and they just write it off as if they knew about it more than we could.
Tbh these days I take pride in rocking my boring stock cosmetics, it feels really good stomping a lobby looking like an average joe but knowing I didn’t spend a cent more than what the game cost me. It gets problematic tho when there are blatant advantages in loot boxes that you basically have to pay for(bo3 shotgun pistol for example, best sidearm in the game)
I think pre orders also made a huge impact in releasing broken games, once publishers realized that millions of people would pre order a game after just watching a teaser with the logo and no actual gameplay, publishers knew they could exploit these hardcore fanbases.
Daniel Jones I want to say the same for the music industry. People say that rock and roll used to be better because the artists were free to do what they wanted without concern for business. Now, there's still artists that do that like Tyler the Creator and tons more, but then there's Drake who just released an unoriginal song for the sole purpose of becoming a profitable Tik Tok trend.
No. These "dlcs" are actually pretty darn good. Lets take the mcu for example: great movies, except for a few sour apples, and they all tied back into a climatic conclusion. Honestly, if the quality is good, I love these cinematic universes. I love returning to and seeing developers expand upon these amazing worlds. Plus, these cinemtaic universes are practically non existent outside of DC and Marvel.
@@klementtiini1 They're not nice though. Mostly they're pay to win money grabs; unless you want some extremely shit game like Fortnite (which including their newer "bush" skins is also slowly becoming pay to win)
@D Shillabeer Reviews aren't always as they seem. You can literally buy positive reviews or subscribers these days like TH-cam/Twitch subscribers, Amazon reviews. You really got to rely on your gut feeling or the company reputation.
@@fNelHaLibE Fucking definitely. Like how Bethesda Studios did with their Whiskey, had tons of 5 star reviews before the damn thing was even out. (I love Bethesda don't get me wrong, but they've really fucked up a lot recently.)
This was an excellent expose filled some great points. Valid points. I appreciated how you started off with letting the audience know this comes from a place of love from your personal experience. Hopefully industry insiders will see these challenges and step up and consumers find their voice to call these things out. Wonderful job.
I wanted to say LBP2, but there is a lot of dlc costumes. The good thing is, most of them come with extra levels for the game. And besides the dlc, there is a lot of costumes
@Yu Tubaru game glitches, Easter eggs, exclusive content, etc. We always had good stuff with experiences back then. I'm not saying some games aren't great back then but games now don't create that seem feeling anymore. I'd be more excited for the next COD if I new the next one might be the last installment or the only one in the franchise.
People really don't understand early access. Games take a fucking long time. Pubg is great now. 7 days to die is great. He's a little too harsh sometimes.
Though I will always prefer the old way. Keep your title in development, don't do EA at all. But if we played rd2 since alpha, we'd be talking shit about it. For 8 years.
1. Customers' wishes, requests 2. Laziness 3. Graphics "importance" 4. No unique ideas left 5. Technical problems 6. Everything else you may mention by replying to this comment :)
@@timur5241 k then: 7.dlcs that cost the full price of the game 8.pointless cashgrab online subscriptions 9.devs controlling their fanbase for money(star wars bf2 for example)
@@user-ok4du7nj5n Games shouldn't be launched with this amount of bugs and glitches, and the fact that it happens so often that we normalized it is a problem. Yes, compared to Skyrim and DA Its not that bad, but the problem here is that those games and other games with similar problems were released decades ago, and the same thing keeps happening today.
Sadly, this is happening everywhere. Gaming, music, movies you name it. The quality of everything is declining, making room for cash-grabbing garbage that for some reason the majority of people love. In what time we live in boys.
@@lardoy2509 The only solution is for truly devoted indie developers to unite and create their own upstart game companies, and in order to rival the big companies that nowadays spit unlikeable garbage clothed in popular titles they must create games that the populace REALLY wanted and needed
@@VentiVonOsterreich yeah but when people create something good, big compagnies are there to buy them or their work. Think the issue is the influence of money overall.
It really isn't. You just need to look a little deeper for the good stuff in a lot of cases. There's more good games, movies and music out there than ever before. It's just edgy to say that these things suck now.
Let’s sell these corporate guys cars and when they get it they have to pay extra for tires, and paint while the engine DOesnt work, so we take a year to fix it.
Dude all those cars are already shit to begin with lol should see the planned flaws purposely built in by engineer so the consumer has to hand more cash over to fix them same thing because why would they make a product that works and lasts? That's bad for business
@@aliceakosota797 I hear the same shit about computers and this "planned obsolescence" people mention. "They deliberately design components to fail after 5 years so you should get a new one!" My computer is still running parts I bought back in 2012 (and 2013 when the power supply was faulty). Hell, it could just be a sleasy mechanic trying to sell you stuff like headlight fluid and the car works just fine with a bit of an oil change and new filters.
@@jumpman2326 you're right. However I didn't like some of the later cod titles from infinity ward on ps3 and some fifa games from EA. Online became trash. But 8th Gen had already started by then too.
I actually prefer 7th gen over ps2. Yes, ps2 has the best and the biggest game library alone and hit many records in the industry, but 7th gen gave us a rivalry that reminded me of snes vs genesis competition. To me it was a short Renaissance of gaming And also 7gen brought us "next gen" wording for a good reason. 8th gen is exactly where I quit playing video games for nearly 3 years. After selling my ps4, I got xbox 360 since couple of months and now I am quite happy revisiting all those great franchises from the past.what I also always liked in xbox 360 or ps3 while bringing new online gaming experiance it still was about buying a physical copy of a game. Now this is fading away, and games are looding its resale value.
@@alexanderpopov4691 I agree. The physical copy thing is spot on. Getting rid of physical copies means taking away control from the consumer. Ps4 took some time but it definitely had good gmes later on like uncharted and God of War. Xbox pretty much made bad decisions. Phil Spencer came very late to rescue them. Ps3 and Xbox 360 had a war because pc gaming was sill only becoming popular and ps3 had early development problems. Xbox360 exclusives and Xbox live is what sold Xbox but all their exclusives are on PC too which is why this 8th Gen they lost. They need to know what "exclusive" means. 8th Gen was pretty boring but it did have God games. As for now, Sony is making bad decisions with the whole ps5 scalping fiasco and production. Also the ps5 does not have 1440p as an option which most user want since frame rate is gonna be key for most gamers. And not to mention the 825GB ssd. That's only gonna hold about 2 AAA ps5 games because it has no external SSD support yet. I still remember and want the 7th Gen days back too but now they're just greedy. There were awesome games in 8th Gen like uncharted 4,rdr2,horizon zero dawn, AC origins, God of War, infamous second son to name a few.
@@vergil1155 I feel like the 8th generation was the last good years for gaming specifically 2016. 2016 was just truly the last good year for gaming overall because developers actually cared about releasing their games in a complete and non buggy state, while also marketing their games towards hardcore gamers and not some lame fortnite crowd.
Well said sir. As a 42 year old gamer that remembers playing jump man on my intellivision and space invaders on my Atari… I’m afraid of infecting my child with gambling addictions instead of enjoying gaming like I did 35 years ago.
Don't give them access to your wallet and instill in them the idea that spending money on a game after you bought it is the gayest thing a human can possibly do. That's the best way to go about things.
Just don't let them buy loot boxes if you don't want them to become gamblers. I hate loot boxes as much as the next guy but I'm so sick of gaming fans blaming these companies and not the parents.
@@cheesemccheese5780 That is the most asinine statement made about parents by someone with no kids I have heard in a minute. Congrats! Do you think parents have 100% control over their children who want to raise a healthy well developed child? You have to let them explore. On top of that you absolutely forget about the thing called peer pressure. Something every parent should try to warn their children about, but is not always a successful endeavor. How about instead we just ban gambling mechanics in games? It’s a win-win if you, as you stated, truly abhor loot boxes in games.
@@AethyrPrime Yes, you have to let them explore but maybe don't give them money if you don't know what they're going to spend it on. If a parent doesn't want there child to spend money on loot boxes don't let them buy it. Same with card packs. If parents don't want their children buying them because of their similarities with gambling then don't give your child money to buy them. It's not that difficult. Have tight controls over how they spend their money until they reach an age where they can make their own decisions. Edit: I can understand wanting games with loot boxes to have an adult only rating but banning them is incredibly stupid and also, using the logic that loot boxes should be adult only, doesn't that mean card packs should be treated the same.
Excellent analysis about the state of the video game industry and equally relevant now in 2023 as it was in 2019. I think one huge reason for stagnation and complacency in the business is because the only real field where the games have been pushing the envelope in the past two decades has been their graphics and presentation. And I feel like that has been a major double-edged sword for gaming. While all the visual flare, motion captured Hollywood actors and high budget cinematics look nice and they are an easy way to hype up the crowds, them becoming part of the big gaming titles has increased the difficulty of content creation in a severe way. Back in the 90s, Bob the Content Creator could single-handedly whip up a passable side quest for a major RPG title in a weekend by re-using some existing assets and just writing up some dialogue. Now, you gotta go through a pitch meeting, bring in the artists, allocate funds, call up the voice actors... I personally don't really care about all that additional detail and I'd like to think I can see past the superficial gloss of the presentation, so the current state of things really saddens me. But putting myself in the shoes of the major game studios, I can easily see myself settling for less and becoming complacent, when the presentation standards they have set for themselves have made everything into a major pain in the ass.
that's exazctly what i do, after 20 + years of buying games, probably 95% of which was money wasted for one reason or another - I never buy a game on release. The chances of the game being scary good, life changing and all that + tato chips are very slight, maybe 1 in 100 games tops, so why buy on release day? Wait a year and it drops in price, wait two, even cheaper - if you can delay gratification for a while you save a small fortune.... and the more games i play the easier this gets...
I bought Horizon Zero Dawn on launch day and I still can't play the game due to it not starting. It is now half the price on sale... COD MW 2019 had so many bugs that I was only allowed to finish 1 game out of 10 without it crashing. I've now adopted this mentality of waiting at minimum a month so I can see if patches come out and reviews etc, also it'll be cheaper. It's time to take control of this, they are taking advantage of us.
I don't think publishers are actually good at defining what a good reaction sounds like compared to a bad one. As long as people make some kind of vocal noise, they see it as hype.
well, half life alyx ended up being exactly what you're asking. extremely experimental, innovative and fucking awesome. the problem is that it was a one-off and we're at a valve drought again.
Maybe the market once again like in the 1980's, is oversaturated. Maybe the publishing titans that have been around for so long need to come crashing back down to earth so visionaries can reinvent what videogames can be.
we had a crash in 2009 that lead us here. Go look up how many titles released per year on a graph and you'll see. The crash killed all the good companies and got them bought up/shut down by big producers that own everything now.
I think also it's from the salaries of game developers still lagging behind all other software developers. Mainly in part for the game industry operating more like showbiz than traditional software. The greed affects every person working involved in the project and takes advantage of someone's passion. Because you need a ton of passion to work for half the salary of a web developer and making a much more technically complex piece of software.
Boeing outsourced their coding to minimum wagers. Shareholders care about profits and little else. Most politicians are lawyers, not business people. Most board members are experts in finance, marketing, business, management, law. They may know nothing about the product itself. They will sacrifice long-term goals/benefits for short-term profits because they do not intend to work there long. They want to cash-out with as much profit as possible. Same goes for politicians.
Nintendo Wii: Play for free. A great way to escape reality. Nintendo Switch: Pay us so you can have fun online. PS3: PS plus is a choice. PS4: PS plus is required in most games. Xbox 360: Xbox Live was a success. Xbox One: Xbox Gold is unfairly priced.
Profits have gone up, morality has gone down. I feel like the reason gaming HAS gone downhill is *because* of how main stream and popular it has gotten. It makes FAT $$$, so companies will always prioritize that cash.
@@mrlambet9565 We have to make it the norm in gaming culture to hold companies accountable for utilizing insidious practices designed to leech money off of us instead of giving us the products we actually desire. Otherwise, nothing will ever change. I'm honestly shocked that EA of all companies has taken at least a *step* in allowing their developers to create more single player experiences.
I don’t mean to sound like one of those “it was better in my day” people, but back when you couldn’t make patches to games, the devs actually had to released finished and (relatively) bug free products if they wanted them to be popular. But a lot of AAA game studios have become lazy now that they don’t _have_ to finish a game, they can just rush it out with the promise of a finished product later down the line, and they’ll still make money because people will pay for early access. It’s like paying to play-test a game.
Well back in the 6th generation of gaming not every home in America was connected to the internet unlike now where basically everything is online. So many games had you play offline which most of the time involved replaying single player campaign over and over again. Many games that had multiplayer forced you to play with 1 or 3 other people on split screen. Many games didn't have bots to play with (from my knowledge). The only game I knew from that generation that had bots was Medal Of Honor Rising Sun (2003). Also, if you had many other people over at you're house, you used System Link to link up you're consoles to play 16 player matches which btw, is anyone gonna talk about the fact that many games lack 4 player split screen now and the fact that Systen Link is non-existent due to everyone connected to the internet?! In the early 2000's, there was a huge lack of internet use which where if devs were making a game, they needed to check and fix any glitch or bug that makes they're game unplayable. Imagine all the buggy triple A titles being released during the 6th generation? yeah...what a fucking mess it would be or already is.
You have clearly not watch enough of AVGN and others channel like his to said that. The Pac-Man port, E.T and alot of Atari games can be considered equivalent to EA pratice of buggy game (obviously no loot crate possible back then) just to make a quick profit. And while you mostly remember good games from the previous eras, you forget that alot of playstation 1, 2, 3 ; Xbox(S) are shit. Remember Kinect? Saying that things were better in the past is false. And if you really want to be nick picky, just watch speedruns, PLENTY of bugs there (some even skipping entire games).
Also let me add something as well. I never grew up with 80's consoles like Atari and all the other consoles and I can't remember any other ones. I also know that what I'm about to say is not gonna make sense or I'm not gonna have anything to back up my point and not have a lot of information so if I make a mistake, just tell me and also I don't know a lot of the 80's consoles. From what I've read on the internet, games in the past even before the PS2, Xbox and GameCube generation came, many games had suffered from memory card glitches, or half the time your memory card ended up breaking completely forcing players to just keep rebuying the same thing over and over hoping too never have to pay for another one again. What I'm trying to get at here is that there were games out there that suffered from saving glitches, shitty controls, and other bugs too. I'm not sure what else to say now.
What Act man thought too. I am not saying that he can't, but it's a bit crude that your video is interrupted 5 times by ads in a video about how money is ruining the world.
@@martijnprinzen7124 i don't think that's really fair. Its a free video thats 30 mins long that god knows how long it took him to put togather. If you give me free entertainment ill watch an add no issue or buy a cosmetic i like. Where i personally draw the line is when a game gives someone else an unfair advantage cause they gave extra $ even if the base product is free OR when I pay 60$ and the game i got feels incomplete and diced up just to sell it back to me later. When i walk into gamestop and hand the cashier 60$ i expect it to be the full game. I expect these companies to try new things even if it doesn't always work out. 10 years ago i could depend they would and now i cant. When i whatch a TH-cam video with ads i expect to either be entertained or informed and act man did both
@@dallasbailes7347 But that's what I am thinking too, and Act Man as well and these corporations as well. He is trying to make a buck out of the work he put in, like these companies do as well. I feel like in the end quality will prevail and the people that enjoy these games will stick with the companies that are not trying to screw them over. Or not, and that's fine too. Personally, I love the diversity of Indies, one hitters, mega conglomerates, nostalgia IPs and everything that comes with it. Games are the way they are, because of the world they live in.
It's unfortunate but it's just not going to happen. The video game industry is more profitable than any other entrainment industry by a mile. So long as people buy it, they will sell it, and people are buying it en masse.
Me:whats new in this update? Companies:nothing new to gameplay just more micro trashsaction that contain OP weapons and dlc's that cost buying the whole game. Oh and did we mention online subscriptions? Update size:all of your ps4 storage
This is exactly me. I logged at least a couple hundred of days of gaming time from 2004-2017, I haven’t plugged my Xbox in since 2018 because whenever I look to see what new games there are, there is nothing new or interesting that isn’t freaking battle royale
@@kylejarmolych thats why I have a PC. Havent touched an xbox in ages. Pc always has New games with mods as long as youre not only looking for AAA titles.
I LOVED My Official PlayStation Magazines. Most contained posters, and fun demo discs I'd play repeatedly. I wish I still had them, honestly. (If you're wondering why I don't have them anymore, it's because everything I own was either stolen or left behind when I moved out in my late teens)
I wish newer games released demos more. A LOT of 3D games give me motion sickness, especially games that have the camera head bob effect. A demo would let me see if the game would trigger my motion sickness or not before burning money on it. For example in Fire Emblem 3H, I'm fine playing the battles but the monastery triggers my motion sickness because of the camera head bob. Skyrim was one of the worst for my motion sickness. I only played a few hours of it. At least with PC it's a little easier to download "demos" for the games before buying them.
Capitalism is all about trying to get infinite growth in a finite space. It will not stop this route. It will continually get worse and worse, until we hit a wall. I don't know what that wall will be and what the consequences will be, but at this point, I think that's the only realistic way to reset the way, the global economy works. Planned obsolescence, for example, is effectively destroying our Planet, by only selling trash, that was, in many cases, proven to be intentionally designed to break faster than it should (Phoebus cartel, Apple chips, to name the most commonly known), creating waste polluting the world and having it's resources dwindle by the day. All of that, because of the never ending greed of capitalism.
Restaurants were the original DLC shitfest. Long as the food is food really doesn't matter. If that chicken in a 5 star Michelin restaurant isn't going to make me fly for real I'm not paying 200 bucks for it.
The fun fact I remember, it was actually interesting to find and discover bugs, since games were more or less stable. Finding or even trying to repeat a bug was a fun experience. Right now it is a daily routine... Thanks for hte video!
@@nonstickpansexual4540 ohhhhh man remember the glitch where it made a giant version of your character appear in the sky? I cant rightly remember the other ones right now but oh man id go into a match and we'd end up all working together to do glitches. I vaguely remember using the tank to get on top of blood gulch or maybe it was a diff map?.
The main problem with gaming is that it has became far too cinematic. Like you stated in the video the graphics, story telling, animation's have exploded in quality, but this has led a lot of the AAA studios down the wrong path trying to turn games into movies, so mass audiences can consume them. Games are games their biggest pillar's will always be the physics engine they use, and the options and tactics they give to the player to overcome the games challenges and puzzles. The gameplay is the horse and the storytelling is the buggy.
Sony is probably one of the worst offenders of giving us over-glorified interactive movies masquerading themselves as "video games with cinematic cutscenes".
Not helping is that you'll have to go to the graphics settings to correct poor default settings, and arm your skip cutscene key so that you'll get to the exciting part. Playing video games is like playing toys, but in a digital space, and if the game doesn't give you interactive pieces to play, then it no longer is a video game.
This upload only becomes more and more relevant...After Cyberpunk 2077, I really am saddened by this industry. As a 35 year old gamer who has been through every console release since Atari, the state gaming is in nowadays is ASTOUNDING. And with younger and younger generations of kids playing and normalizing this behavior by studios and developers, it just feels hopeless to see a positive change any time soon, and thats whats even sadder...
This has been happening for the last 10 years. I play FPS primarily and I noticed this with Battlefield. The launch of BF3 was really bad and they didn’t fix the game until the march update, almost 5 months after release. For some reason, others did not learn and bought BF4 which was broken for a year. I liked black ops 1, MW3, and Black ops 2 but these games always release with bad connection issues. Why hasn’t cod gotten true dedicated servers? Battlefield Bad company 2 had dedicated servers and good connection in 2010. Its the same issues with this genre every year. Cold War is so laggy due to SBMM and yet the community has not wanted SBMM for pubs yet they still put it in. I may not be up to date with other shooters cause I’ve stayed away from AAA games since 2013 cause they seem to not learn. Its a symptom of capitalism and now AAA games are corporatized beyond redemption. EA ruined Mass Effect. Look at ME2 and how great it was, they then fucked ME3 and now andromeda was trash. Sorry rant over but basically its been going on for a good amount of time we as consumers don’t call this bullshit early enough until its Cyberpunk bad and thats a shame
I'm on the same boat as you. I "solved" my problem buying a bunch of old consoles and old games. If you want to play something actually GOOD nowadays you'll need to stick with Nintendo or Indie devs. Zelda Breath of the Wild and Celeste was some of the most recent masterpieces I've played, it's on par for what you expect for a modern game with a soul. Most recently it seems Hades is very good to.
Dont worry man many of us younger folks resent this shit too, im only 18 and I agree with this video wholeheartedly. I remember when games were actually finished on release.
I would say this is why i now enjoy watching reviews way more now than back in the day. I am too tired to go through the amount of trash that exists nowadays. This is why i appreciate independent reviewers and their craft so much: They will call the industry on their shit. People like the Act Man, Jim Stefanie Sterling, Zeropunctiation, Raycevick, Alanah Pearce and so many more are voices that we need now more than ever.
Really. If anyone played WAW... It makes us feel how war is so brutal and can give us PTSD. Ww2? Just paintball fight and just too many fucking dlc....
Resident evil village is like the only game I can think of recently that is just "pay once, have fun, bye". Why did they stop making games like this....
@@Aycheffe idk I love the last of us 2 with all my heart no matter how much people shit on it. One of the only games that left a lasting impression on me. That and uncharted. Naughty dog kills it
Even though tons of videos exists on this specific subject, i watched your version for longer than 5 minutes anyways because the music you chose to inject into this video was spot on! love your content and face, dude. what's the western sounding song around 3:00? i know i heard it before, but my mind doesn't know which game to tie it to... nintendogs? loz? wild arms?
You forgot one of the most important factor as to why gaming has declined. "The consumers" - Who blindly finance a developer even though there's no real proof of a game working or is finished yet - Who will buy shitty games from a shitty company, even though they KNOW that the game is shitty and made by a shitty company - Who are also complacent and too trustful of the "brand" game companies are/were known for - Who will spend a fuckton of money just to be ahead of everybody else who's playing the game - Who are blinded by nostalgia and experience of the past that people crave - Who have parents that don't know how to properly "parent" their children and just leave or give their credit cards hanging around for them to be used. - Who just simply don't care at all It is, as much as, the consumer's fault why quality in video games has declined and will continue to decline until they realize that they are part of the problem, and stop giving these companies a reason to screw them over.
Take Yandere simulator,the game has existed for 6 years and it runs at 15 frames on high end PCs. The creator has a patreon for the game,yet he has used the money to buy Nintendo switches.
You know what that sounds extremely similar to? Addiction. Companies have been milking addicted consumers in many markets for ages. Sad thing is, asking for consumers to change is like asking smokers to all quit at the same time, literally impossible at this point. It's a dark future my friend
@@deathdeathx let us not forgot Alex,the dev of YS has threatened to kill himself because Lovesick was created,a fan game that is better then his game,yet uses similar character assets.
@@deathdeathx its funny how the gaming audience can constantly pass the buck to someone else, refusing to take any responsibility. The consumers are 99% of the problem, and its entirely on them.
@@lightzpy8049 that sounds more interesting than "adman ruins everythign" tell me do they actually share real facts? x_x (this is a joke btw i know china ruins everything with pollution)
Rise and shine, Mr. Act Man... Rise and shine.
In what ways has gaming declined in your opinion? Let me know in the comments below!
One word:
Microtransactions.
Game journalism
Me reading the title: My god is it the end of gaming act man save me!
uhhhhhhhhhh..........3:56 ur welcome
I get the reference. This is a man of good taste.
I bought the game. Can I play it?
"No"
I deleted another game to clear space. Can I play it now?
"No"
Alright it finished a combined 7 hour install and update, may I PLEASE play now?
"No"
Why?
"No internet"
Ok, I'm back online. Now?
"Ok but only the 5 hour campaign"
Right. Gold membership.
"Yep"
Okay. I've purchased a gold membership. Why is everything locked to me?
"Gotta buy the other 80% of the game through DLC"
Okay, I've spent a total of $173.28 on this game and sacrificed two other games for space so I can play it. Why can't I play it?
"Bug"
What?
"Game's broken"
Basically Modern Warfare but add in a shitty dev team and bugs.
This
* bug count intensifies with “patches”
So fucking perfect it hurts
@@TheActMan Yeah no kidding
By “The Decline Of Gaming” he doesn’t mean that gaming is dying, it’s more popular than ever, he means that the quality of games is decreasing ( I said this because I saw comments that said that gaming isn’t dying)
exactly this, my man!
@@TheActMan honestly I've also been noticing it in the movie industry as well.
You obviously dont play pc plenty of quality games
That's why gaming companies that put quality over quanity are so much loved and praised as they are a dying breed.
WOOWWW DUDE THATS CRAZY I COULDN'T FIGURE THAT ON MY OWN WOOOOOWWW!!!!
THIS IS WILD !!!!
The online only is a scam. There is no reason that I should need internet for Residentevil 1 remastered when it has no online functionality.
maybe its spyware xD
Well you can always crack it.
It's to prevent pirating, thank the thieving scumbags on PC for that ha. It's a bummer but like everything, it's the few rotten apple losers who ruin it for everybody
They could have put an anti piracy failsafe on it though.
@@captaincrunch1707 It doesn't even stop the pirating most of the time lol.
I think the developers thought process are like this: "We will just release the game unfinished and then wait and see if it's popular enough for us to finish..."
Lmao that’s so accurate it’s scary
They either stick around to milk it or run away with the money
Being a developer (not a game dev though) I can tell you that cutting corners is the manager's decision.
No developer would publish a half worked project unless he is forced to.
Unrealistic deadlines, undermanned teams, feature creep mentality, monetisation ontop of the original progression, greed.
*publishers
@@kassios Nonsense, developers are not slaves. They can speak out, state a protest or internal strike, quit the company or be whistleblowers, there is NO excuse for developers releasing shitty games and only blame management.
This is another reason why indie games have been on the rise for a while.
That's why I'm OK with EA even if I prefer a 100% at launch. These small developers need the upfront cash, and they get tons testers. EA gave rise to indie games. It's given us some great games. Yes, including PUBG and 7 days to die.
🤮
did ea actually help out indie games? anyways yeah act man never mentions indie games which is a injustice! before this decade indie games wer considered a 'serious' side of gaming
SQUE Graphix Pubg was indie before it got big
too bad you can't play any of them because they're on the f**king computer. >_
I miss local multiplayer being way more common.
This deserves way more likes. Counterintuitively, gaming is more of a neckbeard solo hobby today than it used to be
@@formarkv Thanks man. Some of the greatest times I have on Xbox one are 4 player co-op on Overcooked 2. That game usually ends up a glorious shit show with most friends 😂There are still quality options, but it does make me nervous to see the availability of same-screen multiplayer being strangled by an obsession with profits on the part of the game makers. I also like your point, it's bad for society overall. We need to game with thy neighbor, break hot pockets, and whatnot.
Thats mostly because being a gamer today costs A SHIT TON OF MONEY,so you cant say "hey buddy come to my house so we can play X game"cause you would need to buy game X for your friend to play with you,so its cheaper to make an online system to put people that are away from each other play together.
We still LAN almost weekly, Quake 3, UT2004, Counter Strike, TOCA..... Hearing your opponent sqerm in the same room is pricless and you can't capture that with an online MP. Games like Toxikk is our new FPS that we LAN on and we need more games like that.
Wouldn't want to have basic features that have been around since the 90s, now would we?!?!
"Art is never finished, Only abandoned."
-Leondaro Da Vinci
Yeah but he was just lazy
@@lettherebegames8 My boi was also a genius
That makes sense, I never feel like I finish any of my art.
wait im confused. does this mean that all art is abandoned, or basically saying that art is never truly finished?
@SenseiSeth Both
One area that no one talks about is AI. No game studio is trying to push the boundaries for AI anymore. AAA games will develop the hardest bones, hardly passable AI just to sell the product and nothing more. Look at something like Cyberpunk - beautiful game, NPCs still run into walls. I am very tired of never being impressed.
It's sad that AI from Half Life 2 is more intelligent
Void Interactive is actually doing pretty well in this aspect for Ready or Not, arguable the best Shooter on the market
Wasn't the FPS FEAR from 2006 the last game that really pushed AI in games?
ah yes, insert fake shitposter remark here common trope. Smh
even Half-Life:Alyx had poor Ai, dumber than the older HL games.
it's like the programmers have lost the code that make good Ai.
Imagine giving your test to the teacher and saying "its in early access ill update it"
Made my day
Jukson fuck you give me money by angry joe
@Niko Umicevic good luck
@Nessim Yohros its a joke
@Nessim Yohros It's a very true anology dick head if game developers & publishers want their games to sell then they have to make good games people want to buy without any bullshit they aren't entitled to our money.
Worst part is, there’s an entire generation of gamers that see this as the norm, which ultimately will create a norm of all these problems listed in the video. There’s no turning back.
The system is screaming and decaying right now anyway. Greed can only go so far so who knows what’ll happen in the next couple of months.
I despise Fortnite for just that . Kids playing it for 12 hours straight on the same freaking map while also suffering from a digital lobotomy.
@@micahcook2408 hell yeah! EAT THE RICH!
I disagree. I, 14, have seen the worldwide uproar over battlefront 2 loot boxes. I think that most gamers around my age agree that companies like: Bethesda, EA, and Activision are super scummy and don't deserve to be profitable.
I also think that 3D games are stagnating and VR is the future
One positive of the past decade in the gaming industry is independent developers making a comeback
They never left. They were just hidden.
@@leatheryfoot6354 their comeback = being less hidden
This is the age of indie devs and theyre doing great.
I'm already done. Game industries have humiliated and deceived me.
what about rdr2 , one of the best games
It's the times we live in. Every modern media avenue suffers from the same affects of complacency. 99.9% of everything is boring, cloned, soulless, and beaten to death like a rental car to milk every ounce. It's even happening outside of media, nobody is reaching for the stars anymore.
I always thought the feeling was due to depression. But maybe you're right. Alot of stuff is shittu nowaday's.
"nobody is reaching for the stars anymore." Thats honestly a good analogy. Over a decade ago it felt like they continously tried to improve a product, make it bigger, remove issue from previous versions, etc. These days you wait 3-4 years and the product is pretty much the same in a new package with new marketing.
Im glad I never decided to dream big.
And now, I see the reality I tought about becoming true.
I made a promise to myself to keep on playing games even that It all seens harsh, because there will be always a small experience that it's worth my time and I really don't care about how things are today.
If games make me happy, Ill stay with it.
But I can't deny, the real good time I had with my Wii seemed to be worthy.
I agree, but it's also important to vote with your wallet. I stopped preordering games years ago and shit like Battlefield 2042 vindicates that sentiment. Don't give these greedy corps your money if they don't want to give you a good product.
@@GameTheGalaxy Good for you. I've never been in the pre-order camp honestly. I've been lucky to keep myself busy enough until I see a game is out for a while, that has great reviews or is something I want to try, and on like a 50%+ sale on steam. My library is so big I have tons of games I'll likely never get to for a long while.
Star Wars: Empire at War, probably the oldest Star Wars game that still has a solid, wonderful fan base. Hell, the devs came back last January to help the modders with bug fixes. Like holy hell, this shocked the hell out of everyone
Thanks for the info. More OG Star Wars deserve more justice to the OG Games made before 2010. Thankfully TT games made it possible for the lego complete saga to be more avaible to mobile users. Imagine if the 2005 Battle Front 2 was genuinely remastered minus the microtransaction crap of the modern era
@Wyatt Peck who gives a duck about metacritic scores? I don’t think I’ve ever thought to look at a Metacritic score when buying a game
A good game
Oh boy you just activated the nostalgia. Time to Download and play that great game!
@Wyatt Peck i hope your comment is a troll bait
What's happening to gaming is what happened to both movies and music decades ago. Once something becomes popular enough to be an industry dominated by corporations instead of people, it gets stripped of it's creativity and innovation and becomes a soulless for profit money making mechanism. Everything has a Golden Age, and sadly, it has now come and gone for video games. Goodbye story and immersion, hello battle royale and microtransactions.
Basically corporatism is killing artistic industries. Music is sounding the same, movies are being rebooted or franchised, games are remastered, DLC, Microtransactions, etc. Its sad, but inevitable. The good news is great stuff does exist, but you have to look for it now, and that can be hard for people who don't know how or don't have time.
old is gold
I call B.S. Corporations are a lazy scapegoat, but they are the symptom not the source. Of course they are going to be risk-averse, but that doesn't mean most consumers would rather prefer low-budget indie titles. It is always up to the consumers to push back against companies and refuse to accept something. That's why micro-transactions in paid games have become a big no-no after that infamous EAfront 2 remake. But when people not only buy the same crap in droves but then BEG the companies for more of the same, what do you expect?
When it comes to movies and tv shows, sure I'll agree. Whoever owns the IP can and will kill creativity, even not-for-profit fan productions that put the real deal to shame. But video games? I feel there is less of a barrier to entry, with free access to the state of the art Unreal Engine for e.g. and easy online distribution via Steam, GOG, etc. Thing is, indie devs not only compete with each other and not only compete with massive AAA big-budget productions, but they also compete with pretty much all of video game history that is now available online. Similar reason why it's hard for new bands to compete when Spotify or TH-cam let you experience all the great music groups from every decade.
@Yasuo The unforgiven Everything is and always has been about money. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Simple. That's how capitalism works.
Indies still exist. Stop buying AAA.
if the decline was only restricted to gaming... Movies, Music, TV Shows, almost every piece of media and art is losing its soul to bloody money
noticed the same thing.. I used to download movies.. now it seems they make only some fkin marvel and comic films that fit into 1h30 min time frame or are maisntream dumb. Game of thrones - last season. Everything is so bad.. that there is nothing to buy or to pirate. Maybe im just old..
@@andrespodra8459 yeah, I watched a lot of japanese anime, but not anymore, a tip for you that worked for me was starting reading books, classics of philosophy and medieval fantasy, it's great
@@2555Edu I read Dumas Ascanio lately, Dunno i think i have to go and read Tolstoys War and peace with its 1250 pages, it will give a boost for a week or some xD. But thx for advise!
I have no idea what you guys are talking about. Everything is keep looking better:
* Movies has never looked better.
* There never was more music to choose from than today.
* There are so many shows to choose from thanks to platforms like Netflix.
* Today is a really great time to be an artist! With growth of youtube and platforms like Instagram, it is so easy to find artists you like and support their work.
* Gaming: Making a game is very easy now. There is plenty of games to choose from Indie developers. Also AAA games has never looked better.
Now the bad things:
* The media has always been trash, since forever (so no change here)
@@Uzabi well, thats just your opinion man (et al The dude)
The golden years of gaming are behind us. Corporations may be able to mass produce a product, but only passion can produce meaningful art.
Depends on what you want. I want cheap indie games so this is the best age in gaming
In AAA games? Yes, absolutely. But we're now in the golden age of indie games.
Indie... I'm done with every gaming.
@@zackjones8802 Well too bad for me I guess. I've never cared for the indie side of gaming at all.
@@leonecartelreborn9628 Why not?
People who purchase all those micro-transactions in games only prolong this problem!
lol if they're having fun its okay
@dragonsder good choice mate
I somewhat understand it, its frustrating but in the moment when you see the item or whatever it may be and really want it but know you shouldnt buy it and support the micro trans model, but you still really want it and know that boycotting it wont make them change for a long time if ever, so you just bite the bullet and buy it, you feel bad but you got that thing you wanted and really enjoy it even with the bitter taste it leaves in your mouth giving in to the asshole company. I feel bad for some of these people I hate those people out there who spend $100s even $1000s on those random packs, I hate that shit so much, I hate when I see you tubers making videos based on just buying a shitload of them and the whole video is just them unpacking them with their dumb ass "humorous" commentary.
I think microtransactions are popular not because most people like them, but because the few people that do buy them buy a lot of it
Though on big games where more money is needed to keep updating it even after launch, Micro-transactions or paid dlc.
Politics, greed, lack of passion for games, the unwillingness to take risks, lack of customer lash back for unfinished games releasing, and the cost of making a AAA game with modern graphics is hurting gaming.
agreed, i don't even want to know what future generations will have... only triple A titles with microtransactions everywhere while being rushed with no actual effort. finding good games is starting to become a challenge.
I don't know if I'd say lack of back lash... Some of these crazy nutters send actual death threats to devs. I'm sure they get very creative in how they explain what they would do to them and their family.
@@Cringe_Anarchy they should have sent death threats to the businessmen running the company
It’s hard to create backlash in the era of dude bro gamers that are like “stfu dude I don’t give a fuck. I just wanna play Fortnite and cod with my bros”
@@i_likemen5614 death threats aren't going to do shit but land you in jail and on a watch list.
When you see that one of the selling points on a single-player game is "No Microtransactions." You understand that gaming has just gone down.
That is easily changed by selling mods to the game.
Greed And Advanced Technology is The Main Reason's Not To Mention Were Spoiled With Gaming in 2022
I'm convinced AAA games are now AI generated
I mean, balan wonderworld was in a sense
I think that AI can actually save the gaming.
redfall?,more like redfail
Negative it's the overpopulated geriatrics that want more and more even though they're dead in 5 years. Why can't we just speed it up
@@phoenyx555no absolutely not lmfao
As a kid I recall playing so many different awesome single player game that I could get lost in. Nowadays im lucky if even one video game comes out per year that can give this feeling.
I feel the same way
I think there’s maybe one of these games every 3-5 years now. It’s pretty sad.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels like this
@ObzPotato same here. My top favorite game, literally #1 for me is Team Fortress 2. I played that game back in 2009 until today. I had like 9k hours on my first account and got almost 7k on my current account. And I can't stop playing it. Its F2P and also has micro transactions(luckily not DLC's and not that extreme) but its acceptable and in my opinion still alot of fun. The community is holding together. Since fucking 2007. The games between 2005 to 2014 were the best. Now they just hide all their BS like mentioned in the video behind their "shield". All a hidden scam.
@jagdish joshi Kingdom Come Deliverance has a real old school vibe to it. It doesn't really hold your hand throughout the game and its challenging. Its an open world story driven RPG game with a focus on medieval historical accuracy. It may not sound as exciting as a fantasy game but it really is a lot of fun. The game is not afraid to take it slow nor does it feel the need to add a pointless fight to everything. What I really like is the game's quests are designed to be fun. One of my favorite quests is going out drinking with a pastor and doing drunk shenanigans and having to giving mass service for him while being hungover. Good game
The most heartbreaking part is the amount of beautiful art and talented design wasted on overall mediocrity...
You are right about that.
But what can they do. They need money to survive and big companies like EA promise them bigger pay than they will go for that option.
That extra profit from micro transactions dlc etc is not going to the devs. That isn’t money for the company to survive i guarantee. That is money for the stockholders and executives of those companies not at all the devs. They will push the boundaries on how much they can exploit the consumer until sales start to drop. Greed plain and simple greed or the need to constantly grow to constantly get that bonus for the investor and exec. In an capitalist market this will always happen eventually until the consumer stops spending and changes are forced through financial consumer decisions.
What??? Today has literally never been a greater day to become an artist (not counting the corona), what you all guys are talking, literally?
@Coolest
It is so easy to get a following on youtube / instagram as an artist right now. And if you have a following you can convert it into a business. If you are good at art, and people like what you do, you will get noticed!
I really doubt it, if an artist, who is good enough at we he does, he wont be able to find a better job, or even start his own business...
I am really waiting for a counter argument. I am really not seeing it.
If you have any example of any recent bad / missused art please let me know (I will know where you are coming from)
@Coolest Nice counter argument. I see you cannot even defend your point of view.
"Purged from"? Yes especially artists like:
* rossdraws
* loish
* kuvshinov ilya
* cyarine
* zeronis
* anninosart
and many more~
You know, I didn’t really notice HOW MUCH lootboxes are in games nowadays
A decade ago, it would have seemed crazy but now it’s normalized.
I miss the days of unlockables, large post games and cheat codes. I don't mind DLC packs for costumes, story and more maps/game modes, but I HATE loot boxes. If I'm giving you my money, give me what I paid for.
a decade ago they didnt exist :D
@@chironthecuddley6144 Agreed. I am iffy with costumes tho, but maps/gamemodes/ACTUAL CONTENT I am good to pay for.
I miss grinding challenges with friends to flex on who unlocked what first
Fwuffycodbunny Dude loot boxes are fucking horrible, it totally destroys skill gaps and the need to even become better. Why become good and grind out the time when you can type in some digits from a credit card and start facing people that have a much higher skill area because they actually worked for it. Fucking stupid
As I hear each point and correlate it with my own experiences, for some reason Return of the Obra Dinn kept popping up in my head. I realized it's because that was the latest game I've played that truly felt like the antithesis of all the complaints enumerated in this video. That game was complete, bug-free as far as I'm aware, trailblazing, highly unique and instantly memorable. And it didn't waste any energy trying to convince you to play it forever or even more than just once. Just "here's this great game, play it, like it. wasn't that cool?"
Modern gaming is like fast food. Focusing on profits and quickness rather than quality.
I've never thought of it like that
Like gta 5 online it started off good with business and many features that you can experience, they had a great start but then they released flying bikes,cars tanks and much more fucked up stuff... it ruined the experience for me, from a good roleplaying game it became a tryhard fest....
@@hazaltiger5601 You've gotta admit though that they've been doing good keeping it alive for so long, I even see them investing in ads that I occasionally pop up for me when im scrolling through social media.
But I agree on your point, the only thing that keeps me going on that game is me and my friend creating a private lobby and using a trainer tool to spawn in all the new cars etc. they keep adding.
Jmad0113 Gaming has always been like that since the Atari 2600.
Cringe Lord I said quality. Not taste. What a chef would critique.
It's a case of "be careful what you wish for".
I remember back in the early 2000's during the (IMO) the peak PC gaming years, gamers were complaining about the video game industry not getting the same respect or treatment as the music and film industry.
Some gamers wanted their hobby to be legitimized by having video games go mainstream. Not seen as just for nerds.
Well, video games are now mainstream. Can we honestly say things have gotten better because of it?
Agreed.
Sometimes, things are better left as niche hobbies, because the environment of the mainstream media tends to denature the quality of the hobby, with the over saturation of memes, political activism and scapegoating, corporate shilling, and predatory gambling mechanics
@@makmedia_tv Yeah. We could get a ps5 for 80 bucks if the company who made it wanted to operate at a huge loss. Can you cite where you got this information from? Because frankly, what you just said is incredibly idiotic.
@@SwarumtheForum If you use ur brain and just break it down to all the parts not having to cost so most because some greedy fucks make them overpriced and too expensive then there would be no problem with the prices of a ps5 i just told.
Any hobby getting mainstream will always eventually be diluted and suffer a slow but very painful death
Hence why the comic book industry is a joke now.
For some reason it feels that when company faces too many problems with the game they just give up and release early access to get as much money as possible by making fake trailers and then run away from their creation as far away as possible without a second thought to finish the game.
This is an effect of the democritisation of game dev tools and engines. Small studios can make games, which results in gems that would mot have been possibly under the old game dev model but there is also the risk of broken, unfinished or just bad games. Publishers would just shut these projects down while these smaller companies can release that scam on Steam amyway and cash enough money to be successful. Sadly big companies like EA and Bethesda are getting on that trend aswell. A decade ago, a game like Fallout 76 would have been impossible to get released. It would never have seen the light of day.
Cube World.
Go ooon, take the money and ruuun.
I remember when the decayed state of ‘incomplete releases’ finally dawned on me was when my wife and I eagerly awaited Lego Hobbit as the previous release, Lego LotR was seriously *INCREDIBLE* with its huge open world that let you traverse Middle-earth straight outta Hobbiton right down through Gondor and into Mordor. HOWEVER, Lego hobbit only had parts 1 & 2 in it. The third and final act that was going to conclude the story, ‘The Desolation of Smaug’ WHICH ABSOLUTELY SHOULD’VE BEEN INCLUDED TO BEGIN WITH was instead promised as an additional patch. Well guess what? After they bent the fans over and collected their money, the lazy bastards at Warner Bros. Interactive just shat all over the game by never doing anything to it. No updates, no additional content, zilch! Utterly disgusting how all passion and creativity has drained out of what at one-time looked to be the future of entertainment for everyone. Very very sad.
When I want to play single player I don't want to have to connect to the internet to be able to play.
Me to I just want to put in a game and play
@@MichaelSmith-cb8gg Especially that put in! Physical copy. Not this update evey week crap.
If they can't get things reasonably right in 3 updates, maybe it should be asked why are they bothering to make games.
dark souls would like to know your location
We have GOG for playing offline
I think that’s for new updates and patches for the game
You know, there's an old saying my gramps used to tell me:
"If it ain't broke, it's been 2 years and 3 $40 DLCs"
Wise man.
Juan-ton Soup
I miss the City super intendant and it’s little face emojis while I constantly got slapped by golden brutes on LASO
(Literally gonna go play now)
@@Bryanmiester Haha, now I want to!
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That's doki doki is the best or gta san
The problem is that “consumers” and “gamers” let them. The fans are part of the problem, too.
Absolutely. People need to stop paying for the scammy in game purchases and also just stop buying games until you know they’re going to be worth playing. In an age of overly abundant garbage games don’t buy at release. Wait a while to see gameplay and then buy if it looks good. We need to stop rewarding producers for pumping out trash. It’s the only way to fix this mess.
@@pysixguy8119 What you're asking for is for people to stop being stupid which is a tall order
@@ultraheaven8968 I like the words u used
The fans are less eager to risk buying a new game
@@gabrielbay9739 games aren’t even whole when they come out anymore.
There is definitely a decline in gaming, I noticed it especially when I started playing older games again. Yeah everything looks pretty these days, but are mostly shallow experiences. Everything has to be open world, to justify the pricetag games are filled with busy work. It doesn't feel like games are made to be fun or entertaining anymore. You do the same thing over and over again. There is less variety in the genres of games, because a game needs to make all the money in the world or else it's not successful. It's this kind of mindset that ruins the final product. They have to keep shitting out new games so release them in a broken state, patch them later. Who cares people have pre-ordered it anyways, the companies have your money so they don't need to care about quality.
It's not like there aren't any good games anymore, but because of corporate meddling people can't make games they want to make anymore. Not with fun in mind but always with money, and it shows.
maybe it's just because people got old with responsability etc and there are too many games to choose from, so it's no big deal to play these games like it was 20 years ago
@@josephmueller3752 That's what I used to think. This is very subjective, obviously this is all opinion based. For me that reasoning falls short because that doesn't explain away why I fell in love with gaming again after playing games from older generations. Games I never got around to back in the day, ones I have no nostalgic feelings towards. Comparing how games were made then and now you can see big differences.
It also can't be explained away with only one explanation, there are multiple factors. One that also contributes to how developers make games these days is with digital distribution. Without other forms of monetization older games had more of an emphasis on fun, there may be less content but what was there had better quality. Nowadays games are designed more to keep you busy, there are a lot of things to do but what's there is more and more of the same. People want to think they're getting their money's worth, so every game is turned into something bigger than it needs to be.
I like open world games, but not everything needs to be open world.
There are still many games I enjoy from this generation, but I can't help feel like things are getting more and more the same. We've figured out what works and there is less innovation because of it.
Of course there are indie games, and I do enjoy those a lot too. But I would like to see more innovation with AAA games too.
@@RawrItsJuul what I am saying is, if you take one of games of today, and you put it in the past like 20 years ago, it would have been the best game ever and you'd have said today "they dont make games like X anymore"
@@josephmueller3752 I don't think I agree with that. Games from today should be judged by today's standards. Most importantly, of course people from back then would think a modern game would be the best thing they played, but how is that a fair comparison? That ignores the progression other games have made to push the genre forward. It's a limited perspective. Compare this to movies, let's say you go back to the 80s and show people the Hobbit trilogy. It would probably blow their minds, but what does that have to say about the original lord of the rings trilogy? We now have the power of hindsight, like I said I have no nostalgic attachment to a lot of the old games I'm playing right now, yet there is a quality that I find lacking in modern games.
"Is this good for the Player?"
EA: "There are no Players. Only Payers now."
Exactly, they are payers not players. Is this good for the player? no its not its good for fat cats pockets
Maybe it was a typo in the script
I don't understand why are you guys always bashing EA. Yeah they are the DLC kings but at least many of their DLCs are worth it with not just 1 map or a piece of clothing in it. And Origin is most likely the best online game shop ever existed. I have a few diferent titles there and I have most of them for like 15-30€... titles like FIFA, Battlefield, NFS while retarded shitSteam is offering GTAV for 50/60€??? 5 years after release? Not gonna happen with EA, their games are full price up to half a year or so and then they always go down on price and with constant sales you can get their titles basically for free. I have full BF4 Premium content for free... I haven't got anything like that on Uplay or Steam which are the worst online shops ever with almost no useful discounts and prices sky-high but yeah keep bashing EA... When Steam did the monstrous PD2 DLC shit noone cared and it was far worse than anything EA did ever. I really wanted the big bank heist for example but no, you want it? 50€ for bunch of useless stuff I didn't want at all...
Peter Kolesár you are literally saying you like EA because they make so many dlc that they cost less and the part about discounts is a lie I can get gta for £8 about 10euro and the dlc is inexcusable for it to cost so much for the pay day dlc but at least it adds a lot compared to EA selling rng loot boxes recently they even took daily loot boxes away
Jetson George fuck you give me money by angry Joe
Indie is where the innovation and passion is at. As long as people keep relying on AAA industry to deliver them good stuff, they will keep getting screwed over.
Indie also has a lot of trash, blatant asset flips, or games that never get finished. Yet still, its also the place where you find innovation, or good reuse of old mechanics and style.
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Every single person who starts at game dev independently starts at indie. Therefore, substandard products are expected to be a thing. But what indie projects have that the majority of AAA projects dont have is the passion, so even in evidently lower quality products, you can witness thought and innovation.
Alduizard Also, indie games tend to be cheaper, so I’m more forgiving if it’s less than perfect. Obviously, it still needs to be functional, but things like graphical issues, glitches, or fewer features are easier to overlook in the context of a $10-$20 game than with a $60+ game.
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And the majority of indie games DO NOT have BS monetization systems and offer complete value for money. Look at games like Mordhau that offer such an extensive cosmetic customization with 0 microtransactions, where you always feel like every single element of the customization could have been easily held behind a paywall but it wasn't. Sadly, while we criticize AAA games for bad monetization, we don't highlight such games to the audiences to show the opposite end of the stick.
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"Some remakes are just a shameless cash grab"
*Stares at Rockstar in 2021*
*stares at all of EA's FIFA games*
@@MariOmor1 you could just stare at 75% of EA's games.
@@bambam4857 how about all of them 😈
Also need for speed hot pursuit, literally identical to the original. No graphical change.
Stares at call of duty
The golden age of gaming is long gone, we have to be thankfull to have witnessed it
I'm Glad I Was Born in 1993 So I Got To Experience The Best Year's in Gaming
@braingazer... Nah.. gaming was fine up until 2013
Now it's all "blatant reinventing the wheel" , "target addicts" and microtransactions all over the place.
Once women are subjugated and not in the gaming space again it will flourish.
If thats the opitome thrn I'm dissappointed and am glad I moved on. Its bittersweet but its best for me.
Yeah what an amazing journey it was, now I mostly just do Japanese, Indie stuff or older games from way back, gaming is garbage now
Do I'm the only that seeing this decrease on everything? From movie, tv show, song and other. Companies becoming more greedy to be the big one but they don't know they just hurting themselves
but, see, they're not hurting themselves. they know that people will just buy the same old shit, over and over again. it's really just sad. the quality is bad, yet they still make millions of dollars.
@@spaceshipearth481 Will it ever end..
@@highnoon2535 only if we rise up and demand that these stupid practices end.
@@spaceshipearth481 vote with ur wallets comrades! i think its the only way to outplay them in their own game!
@@geotch9685 Boycott. but, we can only do it if everyone agrees, which the EA sports players certainly don't.
I used to lose myself in games. Pick up a game, play for hours and feeling like I had to take a break cos I've been playing too long. Today, I play a game for an hour or less and I'm bored. I rarely finish the games story cos I get bored. Games are getting worse.
GPS08 Exactly what i feel like. Might just be that we have seen it all already. Especially people over 30 , that been through the 90’s and old next gen.
I can only play for about 10 minutes at a time
Thats just you getting desensitized
Or you're growing up?
@ im 23 same shit i liked games more from 9 till-15 after just some multiplayer games
Funny thing is, now in 2021, they're still making another skyrim PS5 version for the 10 years anniversary..
@kc korea It's a great game, defiantly deserves several play-throughs
@@Peter_Parker69 i bought skyrim two times i just can't finish it
With respect I take issue with hating on remasters to such a degree, and the general lack of new IP (which I agree with), and in the same breath praising Nintendo for "sticking with what they do well". They have Mario and Zelda, they'd had Mario and Zelda for decades, they cash in on that crap every. Single. Day. How is that different/better?
@@rogergilmour8805 I don't know anything about Mario and Zelda but aren't they releasing new games even though they're still the same franchises? it's not the same as Bethesda or Rockstar milking one particular game
@@phatlewt2932 They're racing games, RPGs or SMUP/platformers. It's the same formula over and over, although I take your point. So many games would benefit from remakes rather than remasters. Black Mesa was different enough that even as a person who made their own custom PC just to play Half Life back in the day, there's enough changes to it to feel like it's a new challenge, but it retained enough of its DNA to not feel too far out of field.
As someone who played games like RE, Tomb raider, COD with my dad back when I was 5..its sad that I have to say that frickin Genshin Impact ( a gacha game) has better story than 90% of the games today. Playing games always gathered my family together as we all tried to crack puzzles in TR, hide behind dad as he was playing RE3 and 4, and oh man..Wolfenstein return to the castle! The game I was so terrified of because of that one level with like catacombs and zombies in it.. Quake 4 like omg such nostalgia. Again, its sad that Genshin is giving me more emotion and I am so invested in GATCHA game than triple A titles…
you forgot the ultimate insult
"What, don't you guys all have phones?" - blizzard
Don't you guys want another P2W mobile games with gems, micro-transactions and energy system?
One of the biggest problems is the online side of things. I used to buy a game, put the disk in and be on my way. Now I’ve gotta buy a game, update my console, renew my membership, buy an extra $100 worth of internet and then wait for an 80gb update to install before I can even play it. Is having fun really worth all that effort?
These new biz models is biggest reason I’ve stopped playing games. It is screwing over the consumer.
i bought a mountainbike...
well, for those of us who have a computer and internet (and everyone does), its much simpler this way. I can pretty much install a game+updates within a few minutes, whereas you going out to buy a physical disk and then installing takes much longer. Plus, you might always lose the disk or damage it, whereas my steam account is basically for life
Your inability to adapt to the new environment is moreso your fault
Artyom Arty well no lad, most of the people in my situation have consoles because they are a cheap entertainment system and they can’t afford power, internet and a good PC just to play a few games. My family uses my Xbox more than me, and I prefer to have a console that my family can enjoy rather than a PC that only I use and keeps me away from them.
@@Rayray-ww4zv Just because I am able to adapt to new environment does not make me young. I was born in 87. I travel a lot. I lose things. There is wifi everywhere. I can play all my games anywhere I have my laptop, regardless if I have wifi (because on steam you save them to your hard drive).
I complain about technology too, but gaming is not one of them. Gaming is so much more simple these days. All my laptops/computers have all my games everywhere I go at any time.
If you are unable to learn how to use steam or connect to wifi (just to download a game), then its your fault
I remember "DLC" as far back as the 90s. It came in a box, had a manual, was usually complete, and had hours of gameplay value. It was typically bug-free (or nothing game-breaking) and you felt like you got your dollars worth. They called them "Expansion Packs". We are to blame for the way the gaming industry is evolving. Vote with your wallets.
if you had a computer in the 90s you wernt worried about spending money on an expansion pack lol.... pc gamers were people who were wealthy and middle class... console gamers have always been traditionally people who cant afford to game on pc. I think the problem now is because now poor people are being priced out of the console space now as well.
I cant even play smash because you have to buy so many characters lol. i cant in good conscience spend that money on something like that when its above my means.
it doesnt matter what i do, or how little i play and buy, this is only going to get worse and worse, so voting with your wallet doesnt do anything. the wealthy people with disposable income take priority and they dont have the same scarcity sense about money that i do, because i have to budget carefully to keep food on the table and a roof over our heads. wealthy people get drunk and order things on amazon they dont even remember they ordered, because money means nothing to them.
these types like the gaming industry how it is, because they dont care about paying more money to have a better experience than everyone els, they are wealthy. the feel entitled to have a better experience than someone who isnt wealthy.
Voting with your wallet is quite literally the reason it has taken this form. Companies follow what makes them profits. If you have people bitching about micros for cosmetics while also buying them, why should they change the business model?
@@RyukyuStyle lol that game comes with 40 playable characters what are you talking about?
Doom 2 is the most famous expansion pack ever
Amen
There's a few things I want to say.
Here's something that has been mentioned countless times, and it's been mentioned countless times because it makes total sense: if game developing companies nowadays only care about the amount of money that goes into their account, why would they not use the games that they've made in the past as blueprints and apply everything they built into those successful games into new games? If they develop and finish refining a game into its best form, how does it make any sense to make something new and not integrate the concepts of your most successful products into the new products to achieve an enhanced version, using the same parts. If gamers want something better than your most successful products, don't throw those concepts out, upgrade them by building on that same concept. If something works, why make something entirely new and unfamiliar that risks being a failure? These companies are sabotaging themselves. To summarize in a scenario, if you make a wheel, and it turns out successful, but now the public want a wheel with better traction, don't reinvent the wheel, just enhance the traction on your already successful wheel. I understand what companies are trying to do: they're trying to revolutionize gaming. Absolutely, revolutionize gaming, but make sure your product has a solid foundation behind its building so that when it's done, it does fall apart. That's like making a never-before-seen building that has no solid structural integrity; all your innovation, time investment, money, resources and other stuff is wasted when your building falls to the ground.
This Gaming Revolution is a rushed revolution. Look at every successful and beneficial revolution in history (the French Revolution was a mess, and you see that revolution produce a monster: Napoleon's French Dictatorship) and you'll see that from start to finish these revolutions followed a slow and steady process. The same must be with this Gaming Revolution. Every game developer is rushing to revolutionize the industry, but every single one of them sooner or later stumbles, and when they do, they stumble hard. Revolutions of any kind cannot and should not be rushed, for just as a blacksmith shows and practices enduring patience to create a revolutionary sword that becomes a well refined and polished weapon, so too must the gaming industry show and practice enduring patience to create well refined and polished games. That is why patience is a virtue.
Look at Cyberpunk 2077, it looked good on the outside but rotten on the inside. The game was the first of its kind (can you really count BioShock?) A game that's the first of its kind doesn't have the luxury of having a past game backed as its foundation, so because it was a brand new game in every way in the gaming industry, the developers should have been utmost patient with developing it. Its failure was because its developers were rushing unnecessarily. Look at Red Dead Redemption 1, it was a big success, and it was a brand new idea, why was it successful? Because Rockstar took their time developing it.
*Edit*: I've erased what I previously said about why Cyberpunk 2077 was a failure. Which was, "Look at Cyberpunk 2077, that game had no foundation underneath it whatsoever, and what happened? It fell apart" and put what I should've said at the bottom.
because corporates threw out those creators who only knew how to enhance their games, how you could make a minecraft without notch? how you can make a cod game without zampela? how you can make a sims game without will wright? answer is - you can't
I've been playing a bunch of old games from the mid 90s to 2009 and they're a bunch of games I've never played before and I had more fun playing those games than today's modern games. It's not always nostalgia that makes the game good
Agreed, although not 2009 my personal favorite is starcraft 2 released in 2010
I just have an xbox 360. Never upgraded.
I do feel im missing out on amazing graphics sometimes. Maybe upgrade in a bit duno.
@@KrisVic91 You could go for PC if you don't mind playing around with them and you have the cash. You can play pretty much any game from any generation.
@@OutlawedPoet PC much more expensive.
@@KrisVic91 I mean, you could build one, which is pretty cheap, especially if you don't go for the newest and best hardware. It would be more complicated, but it would save a lot of money.
As somebody who spent the first 10 years of his career as a game developer, I can tell you it's not better on the inside. I got into it to try and make the best thing I could as an artistic pursuit. In practice, after the first couple years at broke but creative start ups, you spend most of your time trying to understand broken convoluted and extremely tedious to follow mazes of $#!!y legacy code, not actually building stuff. It's literally soul crushing.
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I love you. Believe in me and be saved
@@ACowIsHuge Yes RealLifeBear
@@Justadudeman22 Not the place nor time to be evangelizing random people. Probably never a place or time for that.
I kinda felt the same about the animation industry, but I never even came close to the amount of time you spent in said industry. The worst part is, you try and vent your frustrations with people you know, and they say "You were the one who went to college. This is your fault." And you try to explain what's wrong with the system, and they just write it off as if they knew about it more than we could.
Remember the old wrestling games where you had so many ways to customize a character. But now all clothing items are locked behind loot boxes
the only thing that costed money was the game itself
Tbh these days I take pride in rocking my boring stock cosmetics, it feels really good stomping a lobby looking like an average joe but knowing I didn’t spend a cent more than what the game cost me. It gets problematic tho when there are blatant advantages in loot boxes that you basically have to pay for(bo3 shotgun pistol for example, best sidearm in the game)
For real though!!
Smackdown vs raw 2010 lmfao
@@aizen9693 Smackdown Here Comes the Pain
I think pre orders also made a huge impact in releasing broken games, once publishers realized that millions of people would pre order a game after just watching a teaser with the logo and no actual gameplay, publishers knew they could exploit these hardcore fanbases.
Funny how this exactly parallels the state of films today..
both are entertainment,so...
Daniel Jones I want to say the same for the music industry. People say that rock and roll used to be better because the artists were free to do what they wanted without concern for business. Now, there's still artists that do that like Tyler the Creator and tons more, but then there's Drake who just released an unoriginal song for the sole purpose of becoming a profitable Tik Tok trend.
No. These "dlcs" are actually pretty darn good. Lets take the mcu for example: great movies, except for a few sour apples, and they all tied back into a climatic conclusion. Honestly, if the quality is good, I love these cinematic universes. I love returning to and seeing developers expand upon these amazing worlds. Plus, these cinemtaic universes are practically non existent outside of DC and Marvel.
@@bobsonbobbybobson6888 lmao pls tell me you're kidding
@@bobsonbobbybobson6888 I think he's more so talking about sequels that generally don't add to the story or create anything original
You've gotta be more smarter these days with your gaming purchases. Never preorder, wait for some reviews and 99% of the time you wont get burnt.
Now we have nice free-to-play games and you can use money for it if you want.
@@klementtiini1 They're not nice though. Mostly they're pay to win money grabs; unless you want some extremely shit game like Fortnite (which including their newer "bush" skins is also slowly becoming pay to win)
@D Shillabeer Reviews aren't always as they seem. You can literally buy positive reviews or subscribers these days like TH-cam/Twitch subscribers, Amazon reviews. You really got to rely on your gut feeling or the company reputation.
@@fNelHaLibE Fucking definitely. Like how Bethesda Studios did with their Whiskey, had tons of 5 star reviews before the damn thing was even out. (I love Bethesda don't get me wrong, but they've really fucked up a lot recently.)
@@fdjahksglkfaj What kind of games are you into?
the saddest part is that this is what newer generations are stuck with. they'll think that this shit is normal.
Same phenomenon goes for movies too. Everything sucks now
i feel sorry for the youngins of this generation, from covid , to shitty jobs,games and movies smh
@@TopFlightSecurity415
And public education pushing Social Democracy (aka fascism/communism).
@@TopFlightSecurity415 they have to face 7 hours of school every day of their childhood
Yup
This was an excellent expose filled some great points. Valid points. I appreciated how you started off with letting the audience know this comes from a place of love from your personal experience. Hopefully industry insiders will see these challenges and step up and consumers find their voice to call these things out. Wonderful job.
Remember those days where you can customize your character without paying for it. Same goes with the storyline without extensions.
it's one of the things I love about DOOM Eternal, plenty of skins and customisation with 0 monetization in sight
I wanted to say LBP2, but there is a lot of dlc costumes. The good thing is, most of them come with extra levels for the game. And besides the dlc, there is a lot of costumes
@Yu Tubaru game glitches, Easter eggs, exclusive content, etc. We always had good stuff with experiences back then. I'm not saying some games aren't great back then but games now don't create that seem feeling anymore. I'd be more excited for the next COD if I new the next one might be the last installment or the only one in the franchise.
2 years later: Guys I swear we are still in Early Access our game isn't shit
*Laughs in fortnite early access*
Meanwhile, last game update 21 months ago...
Star Citizen
People really don't understand early access. Games take a fucking long time. Pubg is great now. 7 days to die is great. He's a little too harsh sometimes.
Though I will always prefer the old way. Keep your title in development, don't do EA at all. But if we played rd2 since alpha, we'd be talking shit about it. For 8 years.
1. Customers' wishes, requests
2. Laziness
3. Graphics "importance"
4. No unique ideas left
5. Technical problems
6. Everything else you may mention by replying to this comment :)
7.200 gigabyte of storage
@@_2know1 it's 5 (technical problems)
@@timur5241 k then:
7.dlcs that cost the full price of the game
8.pointless cashgrab online subscriptions
9.devs controlling their fanbase for money(star wars bf2 for example)
@@_2know1 yeah
@gamer time agree
man this vid really still is up to date in 2022
More relevant than ever with the Cyberpunk release.
came back for this
Cyberpunk launch isn't that bad if you compare it to skyrim and dragon age inquisitions launch
Well people kept bitching and moaning about the delays so there's shit on both ends of the stick i think
Not to mention XIII remake and Marvel´s Avengers...
@@user-ok4du7nj5n Games shouldn't be launched with this amount of bugs and glitches, and the fact that it happens so often that we normalized it is a problem. Yes, compared to Skyrim and DA Its not that bad, but the problem here is that those games and other games with similar problems were released decades ago, and the same thing keeps happening today.
Sadly, this is happening everywhere. Gaming, music, movies you name it. The quality of everything is declining, making room for cash-grabbing garbage that for some reason the majority of people love. In what time we live in boys.
Blame politics and, most importantly, the big corporate twats that monetize over it
Neoliberalism at its finest
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@@lardoy2509 The only solution is for truly devoted indie developers to unite and create their own upstart game companies, and in order to rival the big companies that nowadays spit unlikeable garbage clothed in popular titles they must create games that the populace REALLY wanted and needed
@@VentiVonOsterreich yeah but when people create something good, big compagnies are there to buy them or their work.
Think the issue is the influence of money overall.
It really isn't. You just need to look a little deeper for the good stuff in a lot of cases. There's more good games, movies and music out there than ever before. It's just edgy to say that these things suck now.
Let’s sell these corporate guys cars and when they get it they have to pay extra for tires, and paint while the engine DOesnt work, so we take a year to fix it.
no they have to get each part in loot boxes
Michael Yeager no they get half the car first. Then get the radio, speedometer, interior in loot boxes so it’s mismatched
And the seats should be made of nylon trash bags and not the leather promised.
Dude all those cars are already shit to begin with lol should see the planned flaws purposely built in by engineer so the consumer has to hand more cash over to fix them same thing because why would they make a product that works and lasts? That's bad for business
@@aliceakosota797
I hear the same shit about computers and this "planned obsolescence" people mention. "They deliberately design components to fail after 5 years so you should get a new one!"
My computer is still running parts I bought back in 2012 (and 2013 when the power supply was faulty).
Hell, it could just be a sleasy mechanic trying to sell you stuff like headlight fluid and the car works just fine with a bit of an oil change and new filters.
EA Interviewer: It seems your application is only half filled out.
Applier: The other half is $19.99
EA Interviewer: You're hired.
It just works
What an incredible comment
@@faketoddhoward7280 with 16 times the details
@@zexfafa2794 yes.
yes
Ps2 Era was the best. Each game you bought, you were excited for it. Soon as the late 7th Gen hit, greed took over.
I would say as soon as the 8th gen started it all got ruined from there
@@jumpman2326 you're right. However I didn't like some of the later cod titles from infinity ward on ps3 and some fifa games from EA. Online became trash. But 8th Gen had already started by then too.
I actually prefer 7th gen over ps2. Yes, ps2 has the best and the biggest game library alone and hit many records in the industry, but 7th gen gave us a rivalry that reminded me of snes vs genesis competition. To me it was a short Renaissance of gaming And also 7gen brought us "next gen" wording for a good reason. 8th gen is exactly where I quit playing video games for nearly 3 years. After selling my ps4, I got xbox 360 since couple of months and now I am quite happy revisiting all those great franchises from the past.what I also always liked in xbox 360 or ps3 while bringing new online gaming experiance it still was about buying a physical copy of a game. Now this is fading away, and games are looding its resale value.
@@alexanderpopov4691 I agree. The physical copy thing is spot on. Getting rid of physical copies means taking away control from the consumer. Ps4 took some time but it definitely had good gmes later on like uncharted and God of War. Xbox pretty much made bad decisions. Phil Spencer came very late to rescue them. Ps3 and Xbox 360 had a war because pc gaming was sill only becoming popular and ps3 had early development problems. Xbox360 exclusives and Xbox live is what sold Xbox but all their exclusives are on PC too which is why this 8th Gen they lost. They need to know what "exclusive" means. 8th Gen was pretty boring but it did have God games.
As for now, Sony is making bad decisions with the whole ps5 scalping fiasco and production. Also the ps5 does not have 1440p as an option which most user want since frame rate is gonna be key for most gamers. And not to mention the 825GB ssd. That's only gonna hold about 2 AAA ps5 games because it has no external SSD support yet.
I still remember and want the 7th Gen days back too but now they're just greedy. There were awesome games in 8th Gen like uncharted 4,rdr2,horizon zero dawn, AC origins, God of War, infamous second son to name a few.
@@vergil1155 I feel like the 8th generation was the last good years for gaming specifically 2016. 2016 was just truly the last good year for gaming overall because developers actually cared about releasing their games in a complete and non buggy state, while also marketing their games towards hardcore gamers and not some lame fortnite crowd.
Well said sir. As a 42 year old gamer that remembers playing jump man on my intellivision and space invaders on my Atari… I’m afraid of infecting my child with gambling addictions instead of enjoying gaming like I did 35 years ago.
Don't give them access to your wallet and instill in them the idea that spending money on a game after you bought it is the gayest thing a human can possibly do. That's the best way to go about things.
Just don't let them buy loot boxes if you don't want them to become gamblers. I hate loot boxes as much as the next guy but I'm so sick of gaming fans blaming these companies and not the parents.
@@cheesemccheese5780 That is the most asinine statement made about parents by someone with no kids I have heard in a minute. Congrats! Do you think parents have 100% control over their children who want to raise a healthy well developed child? You have to let them explore. On top of that you absolutely forget about the thing called peer pressure. Something every parent should try to warn their children about, but is not always a successful endeavor. How about instead we just ban gambling mechanics in games? It’s a win-win if you, as you stated, truly abhor loot boxes in games.
@@AethyrPrime Yes, you have to let them explore but maybe don't give them money if you don't know what they're going to spend it on. If a parent doesn't want there child to spend money on loot boxes don't let them buy it. Same with card packs. If parents don't want their children buying them because of their similarities with gambling then don't give your child money to buy them. It's not that difficult. Have tight controls over how they spend their money until they reach an age where they can make their own decisions.
Edit: I can understand wanting games with loot boxes to have an adult only rating but banning them is incredibly stupid and also, using the logic that loot boxes should be adult only, doesn't that mean card packs should be treated the same.
@@cheesemccheese5780 It isn’t about paid loot boxes, it is about psychological gambling triggers.
Excellent analysis about the state of the video game industry and equally relevant now in 2023 as it was in 2019. I think one huge reason for stagnation and complacency in the business is because the only real field where the games have been pushing the envelope in the past two decades has been their graphics and presentation. And I feel like that has been a major double-edged sword for gaming. While all the visual flare, motion captured Hollywood actors and high budget cinematics look nice and they are an easy way to hype up the crowds, them becoming part of the big gaming titles has increased the difficulty of content creation in a severe way. Back in the 90s, Bob the Content Creator could single-handedly whip up a passable side quest for a major RPG title in a weekend by re-using some existing assets and just writing up some dialogue. Now, you gotta go through a pitch meeting, bring in the artists, allocate funds, call up the voice actors... I personally don't really care about all that additional detail and I'd like to think I can see past the superficial gloss of the presentation, so the current state of things really saddens me. But putting myself in the shoes of the major game studios, I can easily see myself settling for less and becoming complacent, when the presentation standards they have set for themselves have made everything into a major pain in the ass.
At least we experienced the innocent good old days. Where you just bought a product and that was it.
No Micro transaction existed.... Yeah...
@kipskip_ oh I did that with the PS1. Had allot of good copied games. 😂
Imagine if people didnt buy a game on launch day, expecting it to be broken and all wait until the patches roll.
Their investors would shit a brick
Yeah! Exactly. But people are too stupid to do something like that.
Remember, not buying a game literally costs $0
that's exazctly what i do, after 20 + years of buying games, probably 95% of which was money wasted for one reason or another - I never buy a game on release. The chances of the game being scary good, life changing and all that + tato chips are very slight, maybe 1 in 100 games tops, so why buy on release day? Wait a year and it drops in price, wait two, even cheaper - if you can delay gratification for a while you save a small fortune.... and the more games i play the easier this gets...
I agree just find reviews for the game and if you think it is good then buy it
I bought Horizon Zero Dawn on launch day and I still can't play the game due to it not starting. It is now half the price on sale...
COD MW 2019 had so many bugs that I was only allowed to finish 1 game out of 10 without it crashing.
I've now adopted this mentality of waiting at minimum a month so I can see if patches come out and reviews etc, also it'll be cheaper.
It's time to take control of this, they are taking advantage of us.
That crowd reaction to the Artifact reveal is exactly how I felt when Fallout 76 was announced
Try 999% of games now
I don't think publishers are actually good at defining what a good reaction sounds like compared to a bad one. As long as people make some kind of vocal noise, they see it as hype.
That doesn't make any sense though.
Tried looking for a time stamp to post, got annoyed and gave up 🙄
Hella agree
Even before launch I was like "Oh no......."
well, half life alyx ended up being exactly what you're asking. extremely experimental, innovative and fucking awesome. the problem is that it was a one-off and we're at a valve drought again.
Maybe the market once again like in the 1980's, is oversaturated. Maybe the publishing titans that have been around for so long need to come crashing back down to earth so visionaries can reinvent what videogames can be.
exactly and that will come as NFT games, you will see
you said everything
@@carlbergelcias Well that's interesting.
I love 80s and 90s games
we had a crash in 2009 that lead us here. Go look up how many titles released per year on a graph and you'll see. The crash killed all the good companies and got them bought up/shut down by big producers that own everything now.
Money took over. Suits replaced hoodies in the top floors of production studios
^ microtransactions...
not a bad thing, you really need money, you don't pay your lunch with a hug,
you can prove me wrong tho, pay your lunch only with a hug from now on
I think also it's from the salaries of game developers still lagging behind all other software developers. Mainly in part for the game industry operating more like showbiz than traditional software. The greed affects every person working involved in the project and takes advantage of someone's passion. Because you need a ton of passion to work for half the salary of a web developer and making a much more technically complex piece of software.
Boeing outsourced their coding to minimum wagers. Shareholders care about profits and little else. Most politicians are lawyers, not business people. Most board members are experts in finance, marketing, business, management, law. They may know nothing about the product itself. They will sacrifice long-term goals/benefits for short-term profits because they do not intend to work there long. They want to cash-out with as much profit as possible. Same goes for politicians.
@@electronresonator8882 Well, I could hug someone tight until they go unconscious and steal their lunch:/
The biggest problem for me is that games are no longer considered finished product on day one.
yeah but, that isn't always an inherently bad thing.
Then play indie games
4 years later and things have only gotten worse...
Nintendo Wii: Play for free. A great way to escape reality.
Nintendo Switch: Pay us so you can have fun online.
PS3: PS plus is a choice.
PS4: PS plus is required in most games.
Xbox 360: Xbox Live was a success.
Xbox One: Xbox Gold is unfairly priced.
luckily i just bought a pc , i used to play on ps4 but those psn susbcribtion make me pissed alot so i bought a pc and now im happy with it
Vita dead that is not even mentioned xD ;) 2013 released
To be fair, the switch is like 30 bucks for the entire year. It sucks, but VERY cheap.
@@afrobebryant6266 i'm still mad that Canada has 30$ / year when US has 20$ / year
Kyle Duy Nguyen I’m not smart with money but that’s due to inflation in Canada like $30 in the US is like £20/£15 in the UK
Profits have gone up, morality has gone down. I feel like the reason gaming HAS gone downhill is *because* of how main stream and popular it has gotten. It makes FAT $$$, so companies will always prioritize that cash.
my like isn't enough to tell you how perfectly you said that. dark times indeed.
It’s almost like this is a fault inherent in a Capitalist system.
@@trailmix2062 or a fault of the new generation of consumers which prioritize entertainment over thinking. trying not to get political here.
That and we, the gamer don’t hold companies accountable... instead we complain and don’t actually do anything
@@mrlambet9565 We have to make it the norm in gaming culture to hold companies accountable for utilizing insidious practices designed to leech money off of us instead of giving us the products we actually desire. Otherwise, nothing will ever change. I'm honestly shocked that EA of all companies has taken at least a *step* in allowing their developers to create more single player experiences.
I don’t mean to sound like one of those “it was better in my day” people, but back when you couldn’t make patches to games, the devs actually had to released finished and (relatively) bug free products if they wanted them to be popular. But a lot of AAA game studios have become lazy now that they don’t _have_ to finish a game, they can just rush it out with the promise of a finished product later down the line, and they’ll still make money because people will pay for early access. It’s like paying to play-test a game.
And even there people are definitely going to make it popular all over the internet too. Free marketing as it were
@Aaron Moore I'm 22, and I totally agree with this fully knowing that back then games were MADE not PROCESSED.
Well back in the 6th generation of gaming not every home in America was connected to the internet unlike now where basically everything is online. So many games had you play offline which most of the time involved replaying single player campaign over and over again. Many games that had multiplayer forced you to play with 1 or 3 other people on split screen. Many games didn't have bots to play with (from my knowledge). The only game I knew from that generation that had bots was Medal Of Honor Rising Sun (2003). Also, if you had many other people over at you're house, you used System Link to link up you're consoles to play 16 player matches which btw, is anyone gonna talk about the fact that many games lack 4 player split screen now and the fact that Systen Link is non-existent due to everyone connected to the internet?! In the early 2000's, there was a huge lack of internet use which where if devs were making a game, they needed to check and fix any glitch or bug that makes they're game unplayable. Imagine all the buggy triple A titles being released during the 6th generation? yeah...what a fucking mess it would be or already is.
You have clearly not watch enough of AVGN and others channel like his to said that.
The Pac-Man port, E.T and alot of Atari games can be considered equivalent to EA pratice of buggy game (obviously no loot crate possible back then) just to make a quick profit.
And while you mostly remember good games from the previous eras, you forget that alot of playstation 1, 2, 3 ; Xbox(S) are shit. Remember Kinect?
Saying that things were better in the past is false.
And if you really want to be nick picky, just watch speedruns, PLENTY of bugs there (some even skipping entire games).
Also let me add something as well. I never grew up with 80's consoles like Atari and all the other consoles and I can't remember any other ones. I also know that what I'm about to say is not gonna make sense or I'm not gonna have anything to back up my point and not have a lot of information so if I make a mistake, just tell me and also I don't know a lot of the 80's consoles.
From what I've read on the internet, games in the past even before the PS2, Xbox and GameCube generation came, many games had suffered from memory card glitches, or half the time your memory card ended up breaking completely forcing players to just keep rebuying the same thing over and over hoping too never have to pay for another one again. What I'm trying to get at here is that there were games out there that suffered from saving glitches, shitty controls, and other bugs too. I'm not sure what else to say now.
This is an amazing reflection over the status and decline of gaming! Thank you for putting so much time and effort into this
“You cant rush art” - Old guy from Toy story
“A delayed game will eventually be good, but a rushed game is bad forever” -Miyamoto
Too late!! Just patch the broken toy! It will be better.
His name is Geri
I just read that in his voice
izucc I just finished watching toy story 2 lmaoooo
"If its broken but makes a sh*t load of money why fix it?" -every large corporation ever
Dallas Bailes that ea manager that hears one of his workers say that “ Write that down WRITE THAT DOWN”
@@Tarking434 "this man needs to go straight to the top!"
What Act man thought too. I am not saying that he can't, but it's a bit crude that your video is interrupted 5 times by ads in a video about how money is ruining the world.
@@martijnprinzen7124 i don't think that's really fair. Its a free video thats 30 mins long that god knows how long it took him to put togather. If you give me free entertainment ill watch an add no issue or buy a cosmetic i like. Where i personally draw the line is when a game gives someone else an unfair advantage cause they gave extra $ even if the base product is free OR when I pay 60$ and the game i got feels incomplete and diced up just to sell it back to me later. When i walk into gamestop and hand the cashier 60$ i expect it to be the full game. I expect these companies to try new things even if it doesn't always work out. 10 years ago i could depend they would and now i cant. When i whatch a TH-cam video with ads i expect to either be entertained or informed and act man did both
@@dallasbailes7347 But that's what I am thinking too, and Act Man as well and these corporations as well. He is trying to make a buck out of the work he put in, like these companies do as well. I feel like in the end quality will prevail and the people that enjoy these games will stick with the companies that are not trying to screw them over. Or not, and that's fine too. Personally, I love the diversity of Indies, one hitters, mega conglomerates, nostalgia IPs and everything that comes with it. Games are the way they are, because of the world they live in.
The quality of singleplayer games is decreasing, i honestly have more fun playing old games over and over rather then the new ones.
The quality of gaming is dead.
Well at least we have sony for quality aaa titles
As gravity rush 2 to prove that game sold poorly
*laughs in Modded Minecraft Combined Power of Community*
totally agree with you...old games were better than new games
This video will age well. 2021 was a huge step back for gaming and 2022 hasn't faired much better
The AAA Gaming Industry needs a Crash harder and more destructive than the Videogame crash of the early 80s.
It's unfortunate but it's just not going to happen. The video game industry is more profitable than any other entrainment industry by a mile. So long as people buy it, they will sell it, and people are buying it en masse.
Why not Spyro harder?
Fucking right Crash that Bitch
Pretty much.
Me: looks for new games because I'm bored with the ones I have
Companies: There are none, but here's a new update for the games you're bored with
Me:whats new in this update?
Companies:nothing new to gameplay just more micro trashsaction that contain OP weapons and dlc's that cost buying the whole game.
Oh and did we mention online subscriptions?
Update size:all of your ps4 storage
Buy Frostpunk dude, it's a good game.
This is exactly me. I logged at least a couple hundred of days of gaming time from 2004-2017, I haven’t plugged my Xbox in since 2018 because whenever I look to see what new games there are, there is nothing new or interesting that isn’t freaking battle royale
@@kylejarmolych thats why I have a PC. Havent touched an xbox in ages. Pc always has New games with mods as long as youre not only looking for AAA titles.
This is how I ended up here again I just don’t see nothing I wanna play man smh
Remember the days when you could get a CD with demo versions from a fresh issue of your favorite gaming magazine? Ancient history.
razaalak it gave companies/teams a chance to really FLEX on each other.
I LOVED My Official PlayStation Magazines. Most contained posters, and fun demo discs I'd play repeatedly. I wish I still had them, honestly.
(If you're wondering why I don't have them anymore, it's because everything I own was either stolen or left behind when I moved out in my late teens)
Those $15 magazines 😂
Yup. Still got my Splinter Cell and The Getaway discs lying around somewhere
I wish newer games released demos more. A LOT of 3D games give me motion sickness, especially games that have the camera head bob effect. A demo would let me see if the game would trigger my motion sickness or not before burning money on it. For example in Fire Emblem 3H, I'm fine playing the battles but the monastery triggers my motion sickness because of the camera head bob. Skyrim was one of the worst for my motion sickness. I only played a few hours of it.
At least with PC it's a little easier to download "demos" for the games before buying them.
I don't wanna imagine what steam will end up being after Gabe passes on
greed is ruining everything in our world. medical care, housing, food, it's so hard to find a good restaurant now
Quality decline
And those who have the power to fully articulate their greed will be the last to suffer. The rest of us pay the price.
Capitalism is all about trying to get infinite growth in a finite space. It will not stop this route. It will continually get worse and worse, until we hit a wall. I don't know what that wall will be and what the consequences will be, but at this point, I think that's the only realistic way to reset the way, the global economy works.
Planned obsolescence, for example, is effectively destroying our Planet, by only selling trash, that was, in many cases, proven to be intentionally designed to break faster than it should (Phoebus cartel, Apple chips, to name the most commonly known), creating waste polluting the world and having it's resources dwindle by the day. All of that, because of the never ending greed of capitalism.
It's capitalism. There is no cap with capitalism
Restaurants were the original DLC shitfest. Long as the food is food really doesn't matter. If that chicken in a 5 star Michelin restaurant isn't going to make me fly for real I'm not paying 200 bucks for it.
“...where launching a complete game is an urban myth.”
This shit had me rolling 😂
TGS Grass it’s not that funny kid
@@chiraqg1374 you're so tough!
It wasn't funny at all
It was hilarious as fuck
TheLegend its because hes from chiraq😂
Chiraq G13 no one likes you
The fun fact I remember, it was actually interesting to find and discover bugs, since games were more or less stable. Finding or even trying to repeat a bug was a fun experience. Right now it is a daily routine...
Thanks for hte video!
The***
@@punished4890 ok english major guy
@@punished4890 ****grammar nazi spotted****
Breaking out of maps in modern warfare and Halo 2 are some of my best memories of the old era of gaming.
@@nonstickpansexual4540 ohhhhh man remember the glitch where it made a giant version of your character appear in the sky? I cant rightly remember the other ones right now but oh man id go into a match and we'd end up all working together to do glitches. I vaguely remember using the tank to get on top of blood gulch or maybe it was a diff map?.
The main problem with gaming is that it has became far too cinematic. Like you stated in the video the graphics, story telling, animation's have exploded in quality, but this has led a lot of the AAA studios down the wrong path trying to turn games into movies, so mass audiences can consume them. Games are games their biggest pillar's will always be the physics engine they use, and the options and tactics they give to the player to overcome the games challenges and puzzles. The gameplay is the horse and the storytelling is the buggy.
Sony is probably one of the worst offenders of giving us over-glorified interactive movies masquerading themselves as "video games with cinematic cutscenes".
Not helping is that you'll have to go to the graphics settings to correct poor default settings, and arm your skip cutscene key so that you'll get to the exciting part. Playing video games is like playing toys, but in a digital space, and if the game doesn't give you interactive pieces to play, then it no longer is a video game.
2000s was the golden time for personalized gaming
True. Even I'm 25 years old guy, I prefer xbox1 and 360.
I m literally 15 but I prefer the old 2000s games they were pure gold and showed creativity
@@Slevind Great global reset.
gen 7 and 8 are the best IMO
@@Slevind I'm Am FiFtEeN aNd I hAtE mY gEnErAtIoN!
This upload only becomes more and more relevant...After Cyberpunk 2077, I really am saddened by this industry.
As a 35 year old gamer who has been through every console release since Atari, the state gaming is in nowadays is ASTOUNDING. And with younger and younger generations of kids playing and normalizing this behavior by studios and developers, it just feels hopeless to see a positive change any time soon, and thats whats even sadder...
This has been happening for the last 10 years. I play FPS primarily and I noticed this with Battlefield. The launch of BF3 was really bad and they didn’t fix the game until the march update, almost 5 months after release. For some reason, others did not learn and bought BF4 which was broken for a year. I liked black ops 1, MW3, and Black ops 2 but these games always release with bad connection issues. Why hasn’t cod gotten true dedicated servers? Battlefield Bad company 2 had dedicated servers and good connection in 2010. Its the same issues with this genre every year. Cold War is so laggy due to SBMM and yet the community has not wanted SBMM for pubs yet they still put it in. I may not be up to date with other shooters cause I’ve stayed away from AAA games since 2013 cause they seem to not learn. Its a symptom of capitalism and now AAA games are corporatized beyond redemption. EA ruined Mass Effect. Look at ME2 and how great it was, they then fucked ME3 and now andromeda was trash.
Sorry rant over but basically its been going on for a good amount of time we as consumers don’t call this bullshit early enough until its Cyberpunk bad and thats a shame
AAA gaming has a ton of issues indeed. There are a lot of great games still coming out and keep this industry fresh, but the mainstream is very shaky
I'm on the same boat as you. I "solved" my problem buying a bunch of old consoles and old games. If you want to play something actually GOOD nowadays you'll need to stick with Nintendo or Indie devs.
Zelda Breath of the Wild and Celeste was some of the most recent masterpieces I've played, it's on par for what you expect for a modern game with a soul. Most recently it seems Hades is very good to.
Dont worry man many of us younger folks resent this shit too, im only 18 and I agree with this video wholeheartedly. I remember when games were actually finished on release.
Im pretty young, and i gotta admit the quality of games are decreasing. I usually find myself playing some indie games cause they're made with passion
We need more single player games
Singleplayer games are not profitable only Hyperdimension GachaVerse is profitable. Laol
Rafael Cassol tell Yoko Taro to make another masterpiece
@@freelanceart1019 What about the new single player Star Wars title?
WE DO. a decent elder scrolls game please! And a Fable followup
Noah Kinard that ones aight, tho I prefer the force unleashed and other Star Wars games over Fallen Order, but that’s just my opinion of course.
I would say this is why i now enjoy watching reviews way more now than back in the day. I am too tired to go through the amount of trash that exists nowadays. This is why i appreciate independent reviewers and their craft so much: They will call the industry on their shit. People like the Act Man, Jim Stefanie Sterling, Zeropunctiation, Raycevick, Alanah Pearce and so many more are voices that we need now more than ever.
Gaming then: an experience
Gaming now: marketing strategy
Omg exactly
Really. If anyone played WAW... It makes us feel how war is so brutal and can give us PTSD.
Ww2? Just paintball fight and just too many fucking dlc....
Resident evil village is like the only game I can think of recently that is just "pay once, have fun, bye". Why did they stop making games like this....
@@Aycheffe idk I love the last of us 2 with all my heart no matter how much people shit on it. One of the only games that left a lasting impression on me. That and uncharted. Naughty dog kills it
What about Indie games
Remember when EA was "challenge everything" not pay for everything !!!!!
Logging on to Battlefield 2 and having that logo pop up.
Judah Davis NOSTALGIA!!
@@chewsdaytea6129 you mean the old one or the new one?
The old one was good
The new one is bad.
@@arandomhungarian1659 Old 100%
Yeah...
This isn't just with gaming. It's with everything. At least in the United States.
Amen to that “” movies , dating & woman, job market ect ,,
True but stop being an anti-sεmite
@@JasonMatsoukas The only thing I can do is... Ignore this generation and world.
Same here in Korea. Well I don't care about Kpop. Everything looks ugly and bad.
Because the country is becoming less white.
Even though tons of videos exists on this specific subject, i watched your version for longer than 5 minutes anyways because the music you chose to inject into this video was spot on! love your content and face, dude.
what's the western sounding song around 3:00? i know i heard it before, but my mind doesn't know which game to tie it to... nintendogs? loz? wild arms?
You forgot one of the most important factor as to why gaming has declined.
"The consumers"
- Who blindly finance a developer even though there's no real proof of a game working or is finished yet
- Who will buy shitty games from a shitty company, even though they KNOW that the game is shitty and made by a shitty company
- Who are also complacent and too trustful of the "brand" game companies are/were known for
- Who will spend a fuckton of money just to be ahead of everybody else who's playing the game
- Who are blinded by nostalgia and experience of the past that people crave
- Who have parents that don't know how to properly "parent" their children and just leave or give their credit cards hanging around for them to be used.
- Who just simply don't care at all
It is, as much as, the consumer's fault why quality in video games has declined and will continue to decline until they realize that they are part of the problem, and stop giving these companies a reason to screw them over.
Take Yandere simulator,the game has existed for 6 years and it runs at 15 frames on high end PCs.
The creator has a patreon for the game,yet he has used the money to buy Nintendo switches.
You know what that sounds extremely similar to? Addiction. Companies have been milking addicted consumers in many markets for ages. Sad thing is, asking for consumers to change is like asking smokers to all quit at the same time, literally impossible at this point. It's a dark future my friend
@@deathdeathx let us not forgot Alex,the dev of YS has threatened to kill himself because Lovesick was created,a fan game that is better then his game,yet uses similar character assets.
You forgot me!
- Who trusted a certain developer (treyarch) and bought the deluxe enhanced edition because I believed the game would be great..
@@deathdeathx its funny how the gaming audience can constantly pass the buck to someone else, refusing to take any responsibility. The consumers are 99% of the problem, and its entirely on them.
*"We are concerned that Gaming is replicating the experience of 1973 Oil/Gas Crisis is known for"*
Ouff
China ruins everything
@@lightzpy8049 that sounds more interesting than "adman ruins everythign" tell me do they actually share real facts? x_x (this is a joke btw i know china ruins everything with pollution)
@@Nezha_Main Yes, human pollution
@@Nezha_Main china shits on economy all over the world and the world itself. But honestly without it we would be equally screwed.
whenever you say "the good stuff" or "the good games" you show gameplay of games made by respawn entertainment..(I agree)
Have you played Titanfall 2 It's fucking amazing
@@Propaganda9999 who do you think i am? TITANFALL 2 IS LIKE THE BEST GAME EVER MADE.
Yeah you're right
The devs at respawn have spinal issues due to carrying EA on its back
@@Propaganda9999 Titanfall 1 was better, which is sad
Honestly the player base holds 50% of the blame. Because they continued to buy and make these companies money with subpar quality and choices