The reason gaming "sucks" now is because gaming as a whole is now taken seriously to the point where major investors have the final word on games,not those who actually play them. Back when games were kinda a niche hobby? well its now a lucatrive "hobby" for companies to milk and have the content we actually want behind a paywall.
@@GLENC0C0 Not every Indie game is some absolute priceless, flawless game, and not every AAA title is shit. Baldur's Gate isn't on the same level as FIFA. But your solution would see no support go to the former, because you hate the latter, while blanket supporting indie. Instead, use your head.
Mostly true but there is ways around it: if you do your research you can find some really good indie games. the other option is rather than going AAA studio is to go AA since they’re normally from smaller studios they have a lot more freedom and aren’t seen as the big money maker in the stable so are allowed to do good stuff. Outside of that we’re getting a lot of remastered collections like the capcom fighting,brawler and marvel bundles, tomb raider collection, super Mario bundle (unfortunately now probably hard to get at a reasonable price due to it timed release window) and bioshock collections to name a few so we can always head back to our favourites.
No The reason gaming "sucks" is because theres a much clearer budget divide in how games are marketed and sold, paired with the higher volume of game releases causing it to be harder to stumble on good games The ratio of good to bad game is roughly the same as its always been
In Belgium, lootboxes and gatcha mechanics are banned but it is not enough. Games like Genshin Impact simply don't exist there because the developers don't mind if only a couple of countries are forbidding it. We need the EU to make such decisions. A whole continent not playing your game is another story.
Wizard101 is quite awful. What's worse is that the game is marketed for kids and is advertised as free-to-play, yet 10 levels in you get hit with a paywall and can't progress the story unless you fork over some money.
yeah i feel like every kid ever got that far and as soon as you wanna go through that tunnel, NOPE! gotta pay to play, then quit forever lol, mostly everyone back then had parents who wouldnt even consider paying for that unlike today were any 5 year old has an iphone
Now in the defence of Sims 4, it just has a shitton of DLCs and realistic you don't want all of them, you go threw the massive list and pick what you want
^good one, but false micro=tiny/minuscule Therefore, the word microtransaction = a small transaction, that has nothing to do with the amount of content that is being offered for said transaction
Unpopular opinion, but if I pay full price for a game, I feel that I should get everything included in that game… Imagine if you bought a car and they told you “oh, it’s gonna cost you a subscription fee to activate your seat warmers”
Someone's gotta find a way to crack that. Not usually a fan of piracy but you should pay for what's equipped in the vehicle when you buy it, not a subscription for the privilege to use it
Definitely not a "micro" transaction. In reality that is more like the Train Simulator example they mentioned in that almost nobody is buying all of the content for a game like that but rather most players just gradually spend a lot over the course of years. There are still whales who pay that ridiculous amount of money though.
@@theknifesongi mean before i got banned i was in a group of people i met there. One dude was telling me he spent 7k and hes a welder making good money and 2 of his irl friends spend over 30k into the game. Bruh over 7 years i spent 2k on cs and have about 600$ in inventory who tf spends 7-30k on ships you can buy in game and have 0 resale value. 😂 glad i got banned (wrongfully too)
@@RangerxTurbo They do have resale value, the initial founders ships being sold or the ones before any kind of development took place had the SC team preselling ships at a discount that can't be had anymore. I recall the owners being able to trade/sell them since a clan member of ours sold one on ebay but that was like 5-8 years ago
had a buddy that used to spend ATLEAST $300/month on Fallout Shelter for a solid year and a half straight, all while complaining ab his aunt and uncle who he still lived w 🤦♂️
Exactly. I bought that game for advertised songs that wound up only being on GHTV so I was super pissed on both finding that out and hearing it was shutting down. Dlc was perfectly fine up til Warriors of Rock, what in the goddamn
I was heavily invested into Destiny. Both time wise, and financially. Started out playing D1 Beta on ps3- enjoyed it so much and bought it on Xbox 360. I played it for several hundred hours. Bought it on the Xbox One and again invested hundreds of hours buying all of the dlc that came out for 20.00 a piece. I pre ordered D2 and loved it, but it got to the point where to grind all of the content was too overwhelming when they were churning out dlc faster and faster. It just got to the point where it just wasn’t healthy stressing over completing everything before the new dlc came out. It was hard to stop playing Destiny, but I felt free when I just stopped playing it.
Its in a lot better state now then it was. But I do agree the state of the game when it first came out was horrible and the expansions felt super bad and rushed
I stopped playing when the content vault was announced a couple of years ago. I genuinely had a noticeable improvement in my mental health when I quit. I have not been back since.
The toothpaste trick was clutch back in the day! I had a well off friend that had all the new games day1, they would always end up scratched and his parents would buy him new copies. i would take all his old copies, and do the toothpaste trick shit that’s how I played Skyrim for the first time
2007-2012 was peak gaming. Everything was much better. Better communities, better games, better DLC, and fully complete games at launch. We had Mass Effect 2 , Halo 3, Fallout New Vegas, Black ops 2, and Gears of War during that era. Barley any AAA games come close to having the same love and quality as we did back then.
I mean not really because the map packs killed the multiplayer in many video games Because it's split the player base in half between the have and the have nots.
actually youngster pong was peak your new games are shit and cant even be played at the bottom of the ocean gaming was doomed once they started with those silly gameboys
Yes, it *IS* the worst time to be alive. Now MTX is everywhere. And the companies are out of control because the masses are, for some reason, ok with this. The people need to understand that the only way to counter that - is by voicing your opinion with your wallet. Remember, as a customer you deserve better.
No lol. The "masses" aren't responsible. It's whales, institutional incentives, finance capital, and the existence of intellectual property. It's not surprising to me that the American in the video is the one saying "oh, consumers have to fight against massive institutions by not buying games with mtx," while the substantially less atomized European (German?) correctly says the solution to the problem is state intervention. Throw people who put predatory systems in games to exploit gambling addicts and rich kids in prison. Put the gambling addicts in a reeducation camp. The capitalist hyperexploitation of whales has privatized profits and socialized costs. "Voting with your wallet" doesn't work. It's never worked. It's cope.
A Flight simulator game asking for money for specific planes is weird but for runways? Like actual places to land and they range from 2 bucks to 50? what the fuck is going on
44:32 you are misevulating Fortnite. It set the standard for a $20 skin, arguably one of the worst standards in gaming and top and topics of this video, completely brushed over
Damn, I remember a time in the 90s when you bought a game and then a few months later, this thing called an expansion pack came out that added a lot of replay value…
That "not enough Microsoft points" in the thumbnail is a common computer bug, that big number starting with 4294 is the largest possible 32-bit integer (and also equals -1 funnily enough)
5:02 I used that recon helmet for the longest time, right up until my 360 red ringed. After replacing it, I still had my account but the helmet was gone forever. So much for buying new.
the problem with Shadow of War was the true ending was locked behind a grind of some of the hardest content in the game, that will make up over 1/3 of ur total playtime, with absolutely NO new story beats until the end. It was called the shadow war, and it required you to have super badass uruks to win most of the fights, which took hours of grinding, or of course, the lootboxes. super manipulative
I'm surprised you didn't mention Deus Ex Mankind Divided, you can buy items for real world money but those items are tied to that save, so if you start a new save you wont receive those items, also if you pay for the Season Pass which comes with a couple of items and decided to play the game but you forget about it and so play on another device but you start over then you wont get those items.
to be fair, character passes for fighting games are inevitable and hard to talk about. the glaring issue when it comes to tekken, and honestly all other fighting games is mostly the battle pass and Lobby avatars. 10-20$ for stuff you realistically would almost never see is kind of insane
Unless I missed it, surprised you didn't mention the new Tekken at the end. The game released with the typical multiple edition thing for the season pass but the game was really well made so it got good reviews. About a month or so after release they then announced an in game store with premium currency (that of course is always just not enough for an item). Then after that, maybe two weeks after, they announce a battle pass system is being added as well which -by the way- we were told WASN'T going to happen before the game released. It's ok though, we can get a grey ball that looks like a game asset and put it on our characters :)
Since I've seen this phrase pick up steam lately, here is a friendly reminder that these games like CoD and Fortnite are not AAA games. They are "Corporate" games now. They are exclusively made to please shareholders and don't give a sh*t about the quality of the content. They just want to empty your wallet.
personally, I never understood the idea behind paying for a cosmetic, I just really dont get it. why does people pay, sometimes way more than an actual clothing pieces, to get a different visual or their character! I hate the excuse of "but its to give to the dev because they did a good job", ok? so its just like the tip at the restaurant? why are you giving more money for the same thing just because its was "good" exactly? if you like something you buy more from the same dev or similar, but paying 20$ for a skin? I just dont get it.
I knew The Sims 4 was gonna make an appearance 😂 that shit went insane. Having a life sim game but then calling fucking SEASONS for the price of a new game is ludicrous
The geoguessr one is so damn shameless. They didn't waste time, the moment they realized some big streamers found their game they IMMEDIATELY hamfisted monetization to capitalize on the popularity. If it were any other kind of game I could kinda admire it but its literally just Google maps lmao
I remember that shit! The guy who really spend over 100$ grand on a fucking video game got his money back though but lost all his rights to the account that had his insanely overpowered character. I don't know what is worse, the company who even charged that much for just a fucking video game character or the mindless consumer who will spend so much on a video game that shouldn't cost much to play at all.
Ohmygod that doesn't surprise me at all. Need activision to put blizzard out of its misery already, they're driving all of Blizz's best IPs into corporate cashgrab hell
I paid for destiny 2 back in the day and felt massively put off during the osiris dlc. Promised a planet and got half a map and some procedural generated shit I couldn't even use my sparrow on. Figured I'd return later when the game has more content. Who the fuck decided on a content vault for a full price game? Fucking Wild. Never logged off so quickly in my life
For me its how i paid for 2 of the dlcs and game before they annouced they are switching launchers. 😂 so basically all my shit was worth 0$ idk if they even put it back on the old launcher but at this point all the contents gone, 0 story board to what's first just bombard with missions and cosmetics
@@510DeshawnPlays yeah me too like whenever id get one itd be like that shitass garand, and then the account id be playing on would get reset since i was a kid at the time sharing one and id lose EVERYTHING I THUGGED OUT FOR IN MULTIPLAYER
Battlefront 2 is STILL a fantastic game, and it had huge revenue opportunity. Imagine how much people would pay for Clone Wars or Mandalorian map DLCs. The way it was mishandled is embarassing.
As a long term Destiny player, one thing I will never do is recommend the game to friends specifically because of the entry price point and time sink to get caught up. However, as a long term player I don't think $100 for a year is the worst monetization scheme around, especially once they start releasing season content all at once. It's only bad when the expansions are bad.
EA did a pretty scummy thing back in the early 2010s to make money off of used game sales where you could buy a game used but would have to spend ten dollars to get an online pass. Each game came with a code to redeem to play online and by the time you bought it used the code was almost always used. It bit me pretty hard when I bought BF3 used from GameStop to play with my cousin but then found out I needed to buy an online pass and the cost of the used game + online pass cost more than the game did brand new 🙃
World at War was one of the worst games for DLC. If you or your friend didn't own the map pack then you were being sent back to the main menu and waiting for them to finish their match. Then if you were unlucky which most of the time I was, they'd go back into another DLC map.
Back in the day, I couldn't afford buying DLCs (even if I had the money, I had no means of paying for digital goods), now that I can afford buying stuff, map packs and proper DLCs aren't that common anymore, and, besides that, all we have left is just in-game currency that we can use to buy cosmetics (instead of earning them through playing the game).
Gaming sucks because it became too big, it’s all about money and not passion anymore. The big companies that own these studios just try to milk as much money as they can out of the customer instead of making art.
I remember free character skins in CS 1.6, and when you played against someone with a skin you didn't have, it was downloaded automatically to your pc..
A think they jus didn’t even think of that back then tbh, because it was fixed in BO1, I went thru this issue on WaW and decided to buy the dlc but I don’t feel forced or robbed like new games.
Would be Nintendo but they’re very anti-consumer. So I’d say Capcom’s probably the best current publisher. A lot of their games are priced pretty well, stuff goes on sale a lot, have a pretty good track record of preservation, good maintaining a community (Resident Evil, MH, and SF mostly), games are usually polished, and still make niche things and put time/effort into a lot of it. Now if I could just get a dang Viewtiful Joe remaster… Also government intervention does actually change a lot gameplay wise. Battlepasses started because the EU was on lootboxes, the advent of refundable games on Steam is because of the EU regulating it, and even the ESRB is around because of the US govt. Likewise maybe EA wouldn’t care if Madden weren’t sold in Europe but they would have a heart attack if their soccer game wasn’t allowed to be old there because of the amount of money it rakes in.
As a Destiny 2 addict, let me help you understand why the dungeon keys are not include in the big bundle. Before The Witch Queen, dungeons were included as part of the DLC, for example the Shattered Throne dungeon came with the Foresaken (nowadays Forsaken pack) DLC, with the exception being the Beyond Light DLC (nowadays Beyond Light pack). Witch Queen did not feature a dungeon in the DLC purchase, and Bungie decided that they would create two dungeons based on the season they would release in and put it behind a "dungeon key". The problem is that Bungie are greedy wankers and put these dungeon keys in the in-game store, usually used for cosmetics and season passes, instead of the device store. They did this a second time for Lightfall, and will do it again. On one hand, by moving to another decice I would not need to buy the keys a second time unlike other DLC. On the other hand, they will never go on discount.
Saying Nintendo is the best AAA publisher is a great piece of evidence for Nintendo Brainwashing. They constantly show that they don't care about game preservation, they activly and openly hate their players, they've sued A LOT of their own customers, they've managed to sue a Switch hacker to the point that the hacker will be forced to pay Nintendo for the rest of his life, etc. Etc. That kind of evil is a high price to pay so that we can play a new Mario game every once in a while.
every company has their own way to make a profit. their exclusivity and game preservation is weird, but they don’t make live services and they rarely rush out games. the few games they had which did have micro transactions did awful so they surely won’t do them again. most of their practices aren’t great but better than what companies like activision blizzard and ubisoft do.
I recently got into playing Ghost Recon Wildlands and it's so lame that the vehicles in-game are tied to loot boxes. Cosmetics are as well but that seems less egregious even though without loot boxes all of that content would be earnable in-game via progression. I was lucky enough to get the rocket helicopter in the lootboxes that were included when I bought the game on steam but it's SUPER lame that there's no other way to unlock vehicles other than spending real money and gambling on loot boxes.
The thing with the skins overall is what made me throw the call of duty series in the trash. I love what Cod is at its core not whatever circus they got going on there.
I have skin variants on Cold War where I literally can't unlock them now since it has Warzone requirements. It's a random Stitch skin. Very frustrating.
The keys aren't included in the destiny legacy pack so they don't have to charge the full amount all at once to avoid media backlash. Its harder too explain the multiple charges in a tweet.
If developers offer microtransactions that grant XP boosts or allow you to level up faster, what does that say about their games? To me, it's publishers acknowledging that their games aren't as fun as they could be, as they think gamers will pay to skip their game!
7:50 reach actually had a system where dlc maps were in most playlists, but were only playable if everyone in the lobby had the specific dlc. Otherwise, it would only select default maps.
The way they were hyping up the free map at the beginning of the video, I honestly thought they were gonna announce they remastered every map from Halo 1.
Not making Fortnite a main point in this is kind of wild when it is easily one of the worst examples of incredibly predatory monetization directed very purposefully to children
I remember Mass Effect 3s Micro-transactions, they were only present in the Cooperative Multiplayer side from my knowledge and they were used to acquire Characters and Weapons, and you weren't Guaranteed a character or actual good weapon per roll. Like I've played Gacha games like Genshin Impact or Wuthering Waves, but the Gacha system of guaranteeing a 4 star per 10 pull was much better than whatever ME3 had.
That opening clip was so horribly cringe inducing, I almost had to look away. Like the physical, visceral cringe that just makes you want to curl up into a singularity and disappear from existence. "Finally, after half a decade, just for you, here it is, we're presenting it now, here it comes, let's take a look, who can guess what it is, what could it be, all for the fans, made by Bungie, the new map, here we go, I'm about to show it, check it out, we're presenting now, for the first time, look at this, what could the new map be, let's look at this new map, it's gonna be epic, here we go, we're presenting, just for you, all by Bungie, just for the fans, here it is...." Fuckin hell
Games went from how "state of the art" can I make this to How much can we rob from each individual now that we've perfected the dopamine hit and turned gamers into literal addicts
I don't play Call of Duty, but hearing you explain the cycle of cosmetics and modes that they utilize-- OVERWATCH MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE NOW. The specific flavor of its decline- Activision literally just put their CoD shop into OVW. Absolutely sickening. Especially with the 'extra items being added just to be included in bundles'. Overwatch didn't need name cards, didn't need weapon charms or 'souvenirs' whatever the hell those stupid semi-emotes are supposed to even. Be for. Don't think I've seen anyone use a souvenir in-match ONCE. New bundles in the shop are minimum like $20 and really like including sprays/namecards that used to be STANDARD WHITE ITEMS in the old lootboxes? Like if a skin came out the icon would just come out with it and you'd probably get it on the way to the skin you want, or end up with enough overflow currency to afford it- but now? If you want the matching spray and icon for your favorite skin GOTTA SHELL OUT BUD. and the OVW premium currency is priced SOOO WEIRDLY. edit: i've also never played destiny, only warframe, and HOOOLY? WHAT? my friend plays destiny 2 and the latest update had him quitting, the PRICE OF IT makes it make sense it didn't sound like a horrible update when he was talking about it but if you have to PAY 20 BUCKS JUST TO GET IN... jesus lord edit 2: I BEG you two to go on a deep dive about the sims 4 DLCs. $300-$500 is VERYYY low for all the DLCs it's upwards of like 2k. The DLCs themselves are extremely varying in quality, but the issue comes in with all the various types of packs they added. Back in the day, it was Expansion Packs and Game Packs. Now there's Kits and Stuff Packs also. Kits are dubiously 'cosmetic' in that they tend to just add items, like clutter or bathroom stuff or something. Stuff Packs are similar but can have more gameplay, like ah. The one bowling kit. But it's just insane. They're splitting furniture packs across DLC so in order to get a full kid's bedroom set you gotta have Pets, My First Pet (the name of the DLC for the DLC) and one of the generations packs too I think. It's absolutely criminal what EA gets away with on the Sims and with their cancellation of Sims 5 I'm waiting for them to shoot themselves in the foot with one of their upcoming packs because they're building TONSSS of hype around it all. I also love Shadow of War, but only played it after the microtransactions were pulled away LOL
I think a massively overlooked aspect of the death of physical games is being forced to download from disk. I feel like people just forget the fact that you didn't USUALLY have to do this on a console in the past, you shoved the disk in and played 99.9% of the time, occasionally you had to download something from a DLC, or download like a patch if you were connected to the Internet, but for the most part you could literally just play off the disk drive, and this was actually an advantage of Disk media that I feel like nobody talks about. The disk is LITERALLY a storage medium, now when you download from disk, you are limited by the storage space of the internal storage, the SAME as if you bought it online, this entirely negateds the functionality of the disk also being a physical storage medium. I understand that performance is generally better when playing off of internal storage, but it's almost feels like an inevitability that physical games would die when you cut out one of the main advantages of the medium, and make physical media the exact same experience as buying online, only with the inherent disadvantages of the medium still intact, now it just has the disadvantages of both ways of playing, instead of being a reasonable tradeoff and different experience.
@rocket sloth I noticed what you took down in the back there 👀👀!!!!😂😂😂😂😂 I can’t believe you did it huge W best youtube creator that’s awesome you actually took it down 🤘🤘
43:27 I bought the Sims 4 to mod the game. But then I realized that you need all the dlc's to have a smooth modding experience. And I didn't wanna drop like 200$ to buy everything. I wish this game was worth my time to care to play anymore.
The funniest thing about the Assassins Creed origins and valhalla mtx shop was that it was so poorly coded you could install a tiny mod or script to unlock literally everything for free on PC. I feel so bad for any smoothbrain who bought that shit
The reason gaming "sucks" now is because gaming as a whole is now taken seriously to the point where major investors have the final word on games,not those who actually play them. Back when games were kinda a niche hobby? well its now a lucatrive "hobby" for companies to milk and have the content we actually want behind a paywall.
@@GLENC0C0 Not every Indie game is some absolute priceless, flawless game, and not every AAA title is shit. Baldur's Gate isn't on the same level as FIFA. But your solution would see no support go to the former, because you hate the latter, while blanket supporting indie.
Instead, use your head.
@@elizapony8736 so only get good games that's worth your money? Got it boss!
Mostly true but there is ways around it: if you do your research you can find some really good indie games. the other option is rather than going AAA studio is to go AA since they’re normally from smaller studios they have a lot more freedom and aren’t seen as the big money maker in the stable so are allowed to do good stuff. Outside of that we’re getting a lot of remastered collections like the capcom fighting,brawler and marvel bundles, tomb raider collection, super Mario bundle (unfortunately now probably hard to get at a reasonable price due to it timed release window) and bioshock collections to name a few so we can always head back to our favourites.
If you think "gamers" had the final word decades ago, I have a bridge to sell you.
No
The reason gaming "sucks" is because theres a much clearer budget divide in how games are marketed and sold, paired with the higher volume of game releases causing it to be harder to stumble on good games
The ratio of good to bad game is roughly the same as its always been
Microtransactions for Geoguessr is insane. That’s like if you had to pay a subscription for the Google Dinosaur Game.
It's a very popular and successful game and it even has a competitive scene these days with a world cup.
20:50 Dr. Disrespect founded MINOR studios?!??!?!?!! Bro fr was always a predator.
Their only game was also a NTF battle royale game full of "Predatory" microtransactions, He was trying to tell us something
💀why was I thinking the same thing
it's called foreshadowing
Lmao
You consume too much slop.
In Belgium, lootboxes and gatcha mechanics are banned but it is not enough. Games like Genshin Impact simply don't exist there because the developers don't mind if only a couple of countries are forbidding it. We need the EU to make such decisions. A whole continent not playing your game is another story.
Gacha but yeah
Cant even play diablo 😢
No Genshin Impact allowed in Belgium?! I’m packin my bags
@@HUNGRYGAMES24You make it sound like you're forced to play this game
@@HUNGRYGAMES24bros biggest OP is genshin impact 💀
Government oversight is not the solution, how about you gain some balls and just don’t buy the game
Wizard101 is quite awful. What's worse is that the game is marketed for kids and is advertised as free-to-play, yet 10 levels in you get hit with a paywall and can't progress the story unless you fork over some money.
i was obsessed with it as a kid. let me tell you that paywall was soul crushing as a poor 11 year old
Good thing I never really played it.
damn never heard of this game
@@ChArLie360115 It was advertised to kids a lot.
yeah i feel like every kid ever got that far and as soon as you wanna go through that tunnel, NOPE! gotta pay to play, then quit forever lol, mostly everyone back then had parents who wouldnt even consider paying for that unlike today were any 5 year old has an iphone
Cold storage sucked that build up was crazy
Cold storage was a good map with the most unexpected hiding spots if you remember hidden ninjas from back then
Yeah@@elijahfriesen8111 but they were hyping it up like it was the second coming of Christ.
It’s a good map, it just shouldn’t have been hyped up like that at all.
Cold storage is one of my fav maps in H3. But yeah it shouldn’t have been hyped up to that degree.
Just say your were trash bro it's ok
Sims 4 All DLC is between $600-700
Way more than that, it’s in the thousands now
Tht's why I pirate
paradox interactive's games are around $200 to $300 with all their dlc they charge so much for
Now in the defence of Sims 4, it just has a shitton of DLCs and realistic you don't want all of them, you go threw the massive list and pick what you want
@@embrixcandray6073 Sims 4 is stupid easy to pirate lol
Can we just start calling them what they are now? Macrotransactions.
They're named for the amount of content they add in, not for what they cost or the amount of problems they cause, alas.
^good one, but false
micro=tiny/minuscule
Therefore, the word microtransaction = a small transaction, that has nothing to do with the amount of content that is being offered for said transaction
The high ranking guy with default skins is always the scariest mf in the lobby, if he's not a cheater, he came out to PLAY
Wii would like to play. 😁😁
Unpopular opinion, but if I pay full price for a game, I feel that I should get everything included in that game… Imagine if you bought a car and they told you “oh, it’s gonna cost you a subscription fee to activate your seat warmers”
Ask BMW from 2022 how much they charged for their seat warmers each month
They do that now lmao I have to pay a monthly subscription to use my gps in my ldv
Someone's gotta find a way to crack that. Not usually a fan of piracy but you should pay for what's equipped in the vehicle when you buy it, not a subscription for the privilege to use it
he doesnt know
Should we tell him
Star Citizen has to be *the* worst micro transaction ever. $48,000 is beyond indefensible.
Definitely not a "micro" transaction.
In reality that is more like the Train Simulator example they mentioned in that almost nobody is buying all of the content for a game like that but rather most players just gradually spend a lot over the course of years. There are still whales who pay that ridiculous amount of money though.
@@theknifesongmacrotransaction
@@theknifesongi mean before i got banned i was in a group of people i met there. One dude was telling me he spent 7k and hes a welder making good money and 2 of his irl friends spend over 30k into the game. Bruh over 7 years i spent 2k on cs and have about 600$ in inventory who tf spends 7-30k on ships you can buy in game and have 0 resale value. 😂 glad i got banned (wrongfully too)
Star Citizen is less a game and more an elaborate system for idiots to pay for the upkeep of Chris Roberts’ mansion and cocaine habit.
@@RangerxTurbo They do have resale value, the initial founders ships being sold or the ones before any kind of development took place had the SC team preselling ships at a discount that can't be had anymore. I recall the owners being able to trade/sell them since a clan member of ours sold one on ebay but that was like 5-8 years ago
had a buddy that used to spend ATLEAST $300/month on Fallout Shelter for a solid year and a half straight, all while complaining ab his aunt and uncle who he still lived w 🤦♂️
One of the worst imo was paying for plays in Guitar Hero Live
Exactly. I bought that game for advertised songs that wound up only being on GHTV so I was super pissed on both finding that out and hearing it was shutting down. Dlc was perfectly fine up til Warriors of Rock, what in the goddamn
Doa: wanna change a chicks hair.
1 buck please. And i dont mean unlocks....
8:13 343 definitely took the cake with that line. When your selling halo reach helmets and the color pallet. Ya, that's down bad.
Oh god not the comment bots
agreed them and the reply ones are annoying
real
FR. I we could delete them from our comments
Where?
My 🐱 in bio.
games $60.00 = full game
microtractions 1 outfit = $200.00
Thats doa in a nutshell these days
Cod then 70 bucks
70 more or u cant play with friends
So 140 for one game. Fuck cod
@@miciso666they don't charge you 70 to play with friends
Never heard of a microtraction before but it sounds expensive
Surprised you didnt mention Star Citizen. Has DLC ships for literally thousands of dollars, for a game that isnt even finished
I was heavily invested into Destiny. Both time wise, and financially. Started out playing D1 Beta on ps3- enjoyed it so much and bought it on Xbox 360. I played it for several hundred hours. Bought it on the Xbox One and again invested hundreds of hours buying all of the dlc that came out for 20.00 a piece. I pre ordered D2 and loved it, but it got to the point where to grind all of the content was too overwhelming when they were churning out dlc faster and faster. It just got to the point where it just wasn’t healthy stressing over completing everything before the new dlc came out. It was hard to stop playing Destiny, but I felt free when I just stopped playing it.
Its in a lot better state now then it was. But I do agree the state of the game when it first came out was horrible and the expansions felt super bad and rushed
Beta d1 was insane.
I stopped playing when the content vault was announced a couple of years ago.
I genuinely had a noticeable improvement in my mental health when I quit. I have not been back since.
Welcome to the safety of warframe.
@@stok5445 That’s basically how it went. I don’t play video games anymore and feel so much better in the long run.
The toothpaste trick was clutch back in the day! I had a well off friend that had all the new games day1, they would always end up scratched and his parents would buy him new copies. i would take all his old copies, and do the toothpaste trick shit that’s how I played Skyrim for the first time
2007-2012 was peak gaming. Everything was much better. Better communities, better games, better DLC, and fully complete games at launch. We had Mass Effect 2 , Halo 3, Fallout New Vegas, Black ops 2, and Gears of War during that era. Barley any AAA games come close to having the same love and quality as we did back then.
I mean not really because the map packs killed the multiplayer in many video games Because it's split the player base in half between the have and the have nots.
Nostalgia goggles hitting hard today
>better communities
don't fucking lie to yourself
actually youngster pong was peak your new games are shit and cant even be played at the bottom of the ocean gaming was doomed once they started with those silly gameboys
@@V2ULTRAKill 100% "better communities" I'd say they were MORE hostile back then because no one took online bullying seriously.
Yes, it *IS* the worst time to be alive. Now MTX is everywhere. And the companies are out of control because the masses are, for some reason, ok with this. The people need to understand that the only way to counter that - is by voicing your opinion with your wallet. Remember, as a customer you deserve better.
No lol. The "masses" aren't responsible. It's whales, institutional incentives, finance capital, and the existence of intellectual property. It's not surprising to me that the American in the video is the one saying "oh, consumers have to fight against massive institutions by not buying games with mtx," while the substantially less atomized European (German?) correctly says the solution to the problem is state intervention.
Throw people who put predatory systems in games to exploit gambling addicts and rich kids in prison. Put the gambling addicts in a reeducation camp. The capitalist hyperexploitation of whales has privatized profits and socialized costs. "Voting with your wallet" doesn't work. It's never worked. It's cope.
A Flight simulator game asking for money for specific planes is weird but for runways?
Like actual places to land and they range from 2 bucks to 50?
what the fuck is going on
44:32 you are misevulating Fortnite. It set the standard for a $20 skin, arguably one of the worst standards in gaming and top and topics of this video, completely brushed over
Damn, I remember a time in the 90s when you bought a game and then a few months later, this thing called an expansion pack came out that added a lot of replay value…
This was a thing until the late 2010s, with some games...
@@bldontmatter5319True, but a lot fewer and far between.
WHAT did Dr. Disrespect name that studio?
Yeah I was mortified when I found that out
hey wait a minute...
@@Schiznophrenia found out what?
I said the same thing lol
She was 17 grow up
That "not enough Microsoft points" in the thumbnail is a common computer bug, that big number starting with 4294 is the largest possible 32-bit integer (and also equals -1 funnily enough)
1:26 is where he stops yapping and drops the maps
5:02 I used that recon helmet for the longest time, right up until my 360 red ringed. After replacing it, I still had my account but the helmet was gone forever. So much for buying new.
the problem with Shadow of War was the true ending was locked behind a grind of some of the hardest content in the game, that will make up over 1/3 of ur total playtime, with absolutely NO new story beats until the end. It was called the shadow war, and it required you to have super badass uruks to win most of the fights, which took hours of grinding, or of course, the lootboxes. super manipulative
I did that grind and never purchased a microtranaction orc, and that was before the store was removed. Hard trophy but got it legitimately no P2W😂
@@Lyoko42o Less P2W and more "pay to skip a grind we forced into the game to make you tempted to buy these loot boxes"
@@hackermangage1703 yeah true
One thing riot is very sneaky about is releasing skins every 2 weeks, on payday.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Deus Ex Mankind Divided, you can buy items for real world money but those items are tied to that save, so if you start a new save you wont receive those items, also if you pay for the Season Pass which comes with a couple of items and decided to play the game but you forget about it and so play on another device but you start over then you wont get those items.
Didn't they also try to do a campaign where the more people that preordered, the more DLC those preorders would be bundled with?
Yep @@greenhowie
This is what happens when investors become the final voice of games, not developers.
Should have included a segment on Tekken 8. They've got character dlc passes, battle passes, character skins, and lobby avatar skins.
Isn't tekken $70 usd? That's insane tbh
to be fair, character passes for fighting games are inevitable and hard to talk about.
the glaring issue when it comes to tekken, and honestly all other fighting games is mostly the battle pass and Lobby avatars.
10-20$ for stuff you realistically would almost never see is kind of insane
I'm really bummed to see what GeoGuesser became :(.
Unless I missed it, surprised you didn't mention the new Tekken at the end. The game released with the typical multiple edition thing for the season pass but the game was really well made so it got good reviews. About a month or so after release they then announced an in game store with premium currency (that of course is always just not enough for an item). Then after that, maybe two weeks after, they announce a battle pass system is being added as well which -by the way- we were told WASN'T going to happen before the game released. It's ok though, we can get a grey ball that looks like a game asset and put it on our characters :)
And in order to sell these recycled costumes they cracked down hard on the modding scene out of nowhere
Since I've seen this phrase pick up steam lately, here is a friendly reminder that these games like CoD and Fortnite are not AAA games. They are "Corporate" games now. They are exclusively made to please shareholders and don't give a sh*t about the quality of the content. They just want to empty your wallet.
this like honestly a game being called a "Triple A game" is just a corporate money grab
personally, I never understood the idea behind paying for a cosmetic, I just really dont get it. why does people pay, sometimes way more than an actual clothing pieces, to get a different visual or their character!
I hate the excuse of "but its to give to the dev because they did a good job", ok? so its just like the tip at the restaurant? why are you giving more money for the same thing just because its was "good" exactly? if you like something you buy more from the same dev or similar, but paying 20$ for a skin? I just dont get it.
I knew The Sims 4 was gonna make an appearance 😂 that shit went insane. Having a life sim game but then calling fucking SEASONS for the price of a new game is ludicrous
CSGO was horrific but when CS2 released I made hundreds in profit selling all my skins
The geoguessr one is so damn shameless. They didn't waste time, the moment they realized some big streamers found their game they IMMEDIATELY hamfisted monetization to capitalize on the popularity. If it were any other kind of game I could kinda admire it but its literally just Google maps lmao
diablo immortal. $110k to upgrade ONE CHARACTER. 100% worst mtx in the last decade 💀
I remember that shit! The guy who really spend over 100$ grand on a fucking video game got his money back though but lost all his rights to the account that had his insanely overpowered character. I don't know what is worse, the company who even charged that much for just a fucking video game character or the mindless consumer who will spend so much on a video game that shouldn't cost much to play at all.
Ohmygod that doesn't surprise me at all. Need activision to put blizzard out of its misery already, they're driving all of Blizz's best IPs into corporate cashgrab hell
I jump back onto Battlefront 2 all the time and there's always people playing (on ps) it's still a lot of fun!
The thing i dislike most is that i buy a game for 60 bucks with worse microtransaction then a free to play game
I paid for destiny 2 back in the day and felt massively put off during the osiris dlc. Promised a planet and got half a map and some procedural generated shit I couldn't even use my sparrow on. Figured I'd return later when the game has more content.
Who the fuck decided on a content vault for a full price game? Fucking Wild. Never logged off so quickly in my life
For me its how i paid for 2 of the dlcs and game before they annouced they are switching launchers. 😂 so basically all my shit was worth 0$ idk if they even put it back on the old launcher but at this point all the contents gone, 0 story board to what's first just bombard with missions and cosmetics
@RangerxTurbo what when they swapped to steam you got everything you owned from bnet tf you on about
Selling halo 3 rank 50s for 1600msp
those guns in Advanced warfare/Blackops3/Infinite warfare are all locked behind a paywall still
you can at least unlock them for free with challenges in infinite warfare but not in bo3 or advanced warfare lmao
@@AmyCherryLMAO yea the black ops 3 ones made me mad😂
@@510DeshawnPlays yeah me too like whenever id get one itd be like that shitass garand, and then the account id be playing on would get reset since i was a kid at the time sharing one and id lose EVERYTHING I THUGGED OUT FOR IN MULTIPLAYER
The Sims 4 DLC is crazy $1,785.
Battlefront 2 is STILL a fantastic game, and it had huge revenue opportunity. Imagine how much people would pay for Clone Wars or Mandalorian map DLCs. The way it was mishandled is embarassing.
lmao what are you smoking?
As a long term Destiny player, one thing I will never do is recommend the game to friends specifically because of the entry price point and time sink to get caught up. However, as a long term player I don't think $100 for a year is the worst monetization scheme around, especially once they start releasing season content all at once. It's only bad when the expansions are bad.
Y’all really did an amazing job transitioning from halo to general content. I love putting these vids on
20:50 got that reference
Lmao I can still hear the advanced warfare crates screaming “ELITE!!”
EA did a pretty scummy thing back in the early 2010s to make money off of used game sales where you could buy a game used but would have to spend ten dollars to get an online pass. Each game came with a code to redeem to play online and by the time you bought it used the code was almost always used.
It bit me pretty hard when I bought BF3 used from GameStop to play with my cousin but then found out I needed to buy an online pass and the cost of the used game + online pass cost more than the game did brand new 🙃
World at War was one of the worst games for DLC. If you or your friend didn't own the map pack then you were being sent back to the main menu and waiting for them to finish their match. Then if you were unlucky which most of the time I was, they'd go back into another DLC map.
Back in the day, I couldn't afford buying DLCs (even if I had the money, I had no means of paying for digital goods), now that I can afford buying stuff, map packs and proper DLCs aren't that common anymore, and, besides that, all we have left is just in-game currency that we can use to buy cosmetics (instead of earning them through playing the game).
I love the part essay/part discussion style of these videos.
Gaming sucks because it became too big, it’s all about money and not passion anymore. The big companies that own these studios just try to milk as much money as they can out of the customer instead of making art.
How is cod still 60 dol- 70? WHAT!
black ops 2 is still $60 on steam, its 12 years old and still full price
@@b8r :(
I remember free character skins in CS 1.6, and when you played against someone with a skin you didn't have, it was downloaded automatically to your pc..
world at war you couldnt play online if a map was picked and if u didnt have the dlc youd be kicked from lobby
A think they jus didn’t even think of that back then tbh, because it was fixed in BO1, I went thru this issue on WaW and decided to buy the dlc but I don’t feel forced or robbed like new games.
i love just some times i can just look in the corner and see how high the sound is
funny enough only period where DLC really felt like a genuine “extra” instead of missing game content was with the Dreamcast of all things.
Horse armor dlc doesn’t sound so crazy now
Would be Nintendo but they’re very anti-consumer. So I’d say Capcom’s probably the best current publisher. A lot of their games are priced pretty well, stuff goes on sale a lot, have a pretty good track record of preservation, good maintaining a community (Resident Evil, MH, and SF mostly), games are usually polished, and still make niche things and put time/effort into a lot of it. Now if I could just get a dang Viewtiful Joe remaster…
Also government intervention does actually change a lot gameplay wise. Battlepasses started because the EU was on lootboxes, the advent of refundable games on Steam is because of the EU regulating it, and even the ESRB is around because of the US govt. Likewise maybe EA wouldn’t care if Madden weren’t sold in Europe but they would have a heart attack if their soccer game wasn’t allowed to be old there because of the amount of money it rakes in.
Capcom are pretty good apart from their insane anti-modding stance.
As a Destiny 2 addict, let me help you understand why the dungeon keys are not include in the big bundle. Before The Witch Queen, dungeons were included as part of the DLC, for example the Shattered Throne dungeon came with the Foresaken (nowadays Forsaken pack) DLC, with the exception being the Beyond Light DLC (nowadays Beyond Light pack). Witch Queen did not feature a dungeon in the DLC purchase, and Bungie decided that they would create two dungeons based on the season they would release in and put it behind a "dungeon key". The problem is that Bungie are greedy wankers and put these dungeon keys in the in-game store, usually used for cosmetics and season passes, instead of the device store. They did this a second time for Lightfall, and will do it again. On one hand, by moving to another decice I would not need to buy the keys a second time unlike other DLC. On the other hand, they will never go on discount.
This is why I refuse to buy skins and also why im not a fan of Call of duty anymore and havent been since Black ops 2
Y'all are soo underrated
“Dr Disrespect funding minor studios” lmfaoo
I love these types of videos. 🎉Keep them coming
Saying Nintendo is the best AAA publisher is a great piece of evidence for Nintendo Brainwashing.
They constantly show that they don't care about game preservation, they activly and openly hate their players, they've sued A LOT of their own customers, they've managed to sue a Switch hacker to the point that the hacker will be forced to pay Nintendo for the rest of his life, etc. Etc.
That kind of evil is a high price to pay so that we can play a new Mario game every once in a while.
every company has their own way to make a profit. their exclusivity and game preservation is weird, but they don’t make live services and they rarely rush out games. the few games they had which did have micro transactions did awful so they surely won’t do them again.
most of their practices aren’t great but better than what companies like activision blizzard and ubisoft do.
20:50 HA HA HA HA HA
I recently got into playing Ghost Recon Wildlands and it's so lame that the vehicles in-game are tied to loot boxes. Cosmetics are as well but that seems less egregious even though without loot boxes all of that content would be earnable in-game via progression. I was lucky enough to get the rocket helicopter in the lootboxes that were included when I bought the game on steam but it's SUPER lame that there's no other way to unlock vehicles other than spending real money and gambling on loot boxes.
The thing with the skins overall is what made me throw the call of duty series in the trash. I love what Cod is at its core not whatever circus they got going on there.
I have skin variants on Cold War where I literally can't unlock them now since it has Warzone requirements. It's a random Stitch skin. Very frustrating.
The keys aren't included in the destiny legacy pack so they don't have to charge the full amount all at once to avoid media backlash. Its harder too explain the multiple charges in a tweet.
If developers offer microtransactions that grant XP boosts or allow you to level up faster, what does that say about their games?
To me, it's publishers acknowledging that their games aren't as fun as they could be, as they think gamers will pay to skip their game!
7:50 reach actually had a system where dlc maps were in most playlists, but were only playable if everyone in the lobby had the specific dlc. Otherwise, it would only select default maps.
The way they were hyping up the free map at the beginning of the video, I honestly thought they were gonna announce they remastered every map from Halo 1.
Not making Fortnite a main point in this is kind of wild when it is easily one of the worst examples of incredibly predatory monetization directed very purposefully to children
I remember Mass Effect 3s Micro-transactions, they were only present in the Cooperative Multiplayer side from my knowledge and they were used to acquire Characters and Weapons, and you weren't Guaranteed a character or actual good weapon per roll.
Like I've played Gacha games like Genshin Impact or Wuthering Waves, but the Gacha system of guaranteeing a 4 star per 10 pull was much better than whatever ME3 had.
I miss the bo2 days. I was in high school when it came out and dam lol 😂
That opening clip was so horribly cringe inducing, I almost had to look away. Like the physical, visceral cringe that just makes you want to curl up into a singularity and disappear from existence.
"Finally, after half a decade, just for you, here it is, we're presenting it now, here it comes, let's take a look, who can guess what it is, what could it be, all for the fans, made by Bungie, the new map, here we go, I'm about to show it, check it out, we're presenting now, for the first time, look at this, what could the new map be, let's look at this new map, it's gonna be epic, here we go, we're presenting, just for you, all by Bungie, just for the fans, here it is...." Fuckin hell
Train sim fans: those are rookie numbers
Games went from how "state of the art" can I make this to How much can we rob from each individual now that we've perfected the dopamine hit and turned gamers into literal addicts
I don't play Call of Duty, but hearing you explain the cycle of cosmetics and modes that they utilize-- OVERWATCH MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE NOW. The specific flavor of its decline- Activision literally just put their CoD shop into OVW. Absolutely sickening. Especially with the 'extra items being added just to be included in bundles'. Overwatch didn't need name cards, didn't need weapon charms or 'souvenirs' whatever the hell those stupid semi-emotes are supposed to even. Be for. Don't think I've seen anyone use a souvenir in-match ONCE. New bundles in the shop are minimum like $20 and really like including sprays/namecards that used to be STANDARD WHITE ITEMS in the old lootboxes? Like if a skin came out the icon would just come out with it and you'd probably get it on the way to the skin you want, or end up with enough overflow currency to afford it- but now? If you want the matching spray and icon for your favorite skin GOTTA SHELL OUT BUD. and the OVW premium currency is priced SOOO WEIRDLY.
edit: i've also never played destiny, only warframe, and HOOOLY? WHAT? my friend plays destiny 2 and the latest update had him quitting, the PRICE OF IT makes it make sense it didn't sound like a horrible update when he was talking about it but if you have to PAY 20 BUCKS JUST TO GET IN... jesus lord
edit 2: I BEG you two to go on a deep dive about the sims 4 DLCs. $300-$500 is VERYYY low for all the DLCs it's upwards of like 2k. The DLCs themselves are extremely varying in quality, but the issue comes in with all the various types of packs they added. Back in the day, it was Expansion Packs and Game Packs. Now there's Kits and Stuff Packs also. Kits are dubiously 'cosmetic' in that they tend to just add items, like clutter or bathroom stuff or something. Stuff Packs are similar but can have more gameplay, like ah. The one bowling kit. But it's just insane. They're splitting furniture packs across DLC so in order to get a full kid's bedroom set you gotta have Pets, My First Pet (the name of the DLC for the DLC) and one of the generations packs too I think. It's absolutely criminal what EA gets away with on the Sims and with their cancellation of Sims 5 I'm waiting for them to shoot themselves in the foot with one of their upcoming packs because they're building TONSSS of hype around it all. I also love Shadow of War, but only played it after the microtransactions were pulled away LOL
The thumbnail is straigh fire
We gave them an inch, and they took miles and miles.
Destiny 2 I can't think of a single actual new enemy since D1, and D1 recycled enemies like a MF
I look forward to these videos every week.
I know it’s not too popular but I’ll always miss how the Xbox 360/PS3 games did DLC like all the cods and Battlefields, red dead, etc
"Even Dr. Disrespect founded a Minor studio..." 💀💀😂
I havent played Geoguessr in years. I didn't know about the play time limit lol damn 😂
I think a massively overlooked aspect of the death of physical games is being forced to download from disk.
I feel like people just forget the fact that you didn't USUALLY have to do this on a console in the past, you shoved the disk in and played 99.9% of the time, occasionally you had to download something from a DLC, or download like a patch if you were connected to the Internet, but for the most part you could literally just play off the disk drive, and this was actually an advantage of Disk media that I feel like nobody talks about.
The disk is LITERALLY a storage medium, now when you download from disk, you are limited by the storage space of the internal storage, the SAME as if you bought it online, this entirely negateds the functionality of the disk also being a physical storage medium.
I understand that performance is generally better when playing off of internal storage, but it's almost feels like an inevitability that physical games would die when you cut out one of the main advantages of the medium, and make physical media the exact same experience as buying online, only with the inherent disadvantages of the medium still intact, now it just has the disadvantages of both ways of playing, instead of being a reasonable tradeoff and different experience.
I remember when they made way too many of those recon codes for Halo Reach and saw them in GameStop and Walmart for years after release
@rocket sloth I noticed what you took down in the back there 👀👀!!!!😂😂😂😂😂 I can’t believe you did it huge W best youtube creator that’s awesome you actually took it down 🤘🤘
43:27 I bought the Sims 4 to mod the game. But then I realized that you need all the dlc's to have a smooth modding experience. And I didn't wanna drop like 200$ to buy everything. I wish this game was worth my time to care to play anymore.
Its like AAA developers are TheSpiffingBrit, just trying to find the 'infinite cash glitch' in the gaming market.
"Dr disrespect founded a minor... Studio" 💀
The funniest thing about the Assassins Creed origins and valhalla mtx shop was that it was so poorly coded you could install a tiny mod or script to unlock literally everything for free on PC. I feel so bad for any smoothbrain who bought that shit
Dr Disruspect "Minor" Studios erm...🤣