Rework the slotmachines so you can't win actual money, just more tokens that are only good for gambling more. "We're not a casino sir, we're a surprise mechanics emporium and we're really quite ethical and fun!"
@@sa-mp5iw I've never been to a casino, cause I'm horribly sensitive to addiction, but do they seriously charge that much? That would be pretty sickening...
@@Petrico94 How is it that after seeing ads and clips of this fucking game, I see AAA games only as a casino with different theme (Sci-fi, WW2, fantasy...) and an entrance fee?
Video game gambling explained for parents: Imagine going to a casino on a friday evening. You get a fresh bunch of poker chips, also refered to as virtual currency. After a short stroll you find yourself at a blackjack table. While loosing more and more chips you wonder if you should get more. You leave with $500 less on your savings account. After night at the hotel, you are down $750. After the drive back home, you find your child has spent twice that, without ever leaving the house or having an experience worth talking about.
Oh no you can run out of fake money. What's the problem exactly? You can't use shark card money to buy chips so you can't spend real money for gambling.
@@lolonoazoro420 It's comment's like yours that convince me that idiots will believe what they want about their preferred games regardless of the mountain of facts. Did you even watch the video? Or that it's too harsh on Rockstar that you'd internalize the criticism if you did?
Lolonoa Zoro it was said in the video that as it is now it seemed it was region specific so some portion of players could use shark card money to buy chips
@@lolonoazoro420 We hear in the video that this varies by region. Rockstar clearly wanted it to be a fake-money-bought-with-real-money casino, but were unable to do so legally in some countries (just like how they had to block the casino completely in some places).
@@assassinxex well in honesty pokemon is projected to kids and teenagers, where as things like gta etc are marketted for 18+ etc, although we know most kids do still play games in that range.
EA：It's not gambling, the items have no financial value... Me: Then give them to me for free. EA: Did someone say pre order bonus! Me: No I said give me the worthless items for free. EA: They are with the Diamond Edition! Me: Which is free because it has worthless items yeah? EA: But games are so expensive to make! Me: Stop making stuff with no financial value then!
@Abe Cedeefgee I think you are missing the point. The point is that everybody KNOWS that there is financial value, yet they the publisher themselves pretend like there is NO value involved. They try to dodge scrutiny cause "It doesn't have any value" and "It isn't for profit!" and nobody is buying it. Everybody knows they are a for profit company, they are earning money via this and thus will be put under scrutiny cause of it. Yet according to them that isn't the case cause they say it isn't. Even though it is incredibly obvious that it is.
@Abe Cedeefgee the real problem is that companies are actively blocking attempts to put parental warnings on games so parents cant make informed decisions.
Abe comes here to bitch about viewers being shocked and informed on the topic. Then bitches about viewers not being informed. Mounts high horse and fucks off to more "valuable channels"
i like to think that their are still some good employees that are actively pushing for these things. ridiculous pricing for in game cars because they want you to fall in the rich consumer cycle of desire, spending, disappointment. Till you realize what you have become and think twice in real life. The one thing that about it that is 100% bad is the fact you can buy shark cards but even the name of those is very honest.
I almost believe they looked at lootboxes and thought "this is real life parody, how can we beat that? Let's do real gambling as a parody to that parody."
If this was truly Grand Theft Auto I wouldn’t gamble in a cacino. I’d pull out a rocket laucher, blow the slot machines out, and take the prize inside. For free.
Your comment made me realise just how much this undercuts the games premise. I was focused on the fact it is unethical and should be illegal but from a purely in game perspective it breaks immersion completely. So it ruins immersion, ignores the satirical nature of the game itself, and is utterly immoral. Oh, also: we're getting these unnecessary online add-ons, that are little more than joyless incentives to continue playing and thus spending, instead of GTA 6. GTA 5 was released 6 years ago - we are experiencing the longest gap between GTA games. While the gap between GTA 4 and GTA 5 was 5 years, the second longest gap, you at least had two massive single player story DLCs developed and released in that period. I'd even wager that the relative lack of success of the online mode will cause Red Dead to go on ice as a series; much like LA Noire or Max Payne, if it can't be monetised with relatively little effort Rockstar wave the franchise goodbye. Go Rockstar, I guess.
The workaround excuse for video games using 'virtual currency' to avoid gambling regulation is as much a bollocks defense as all their other excuses. You don't use real money in real life casinos, you exchange that money for the in- house currency of poker chips, tokens or whatever they use. There is zero difference between the two - aside from one can be exchanged back for real money - and it isn't the video game version.
This is exactly why I sift through indie games. Plenty of passion projects that are no more than $30, don't ask for more money, and are simply wanting to make what they wanted in games when they were younger.
every time you see everyone make the "it's optional" argument read: AAA publishers are not literally rounding you up into prison camps and forcing you to spend your life savings on microtransactions so it's fine. That is essentially all "it's optional" means.
CheffBryan ok I support Indie games too but as far as games go gta5 has upwards of 80 hours of content to 100% the single player game as well as a huge multiplayer draw. Most games now might have a campaign that is 8 hours and even that is a stretch. It’s by far the best bang for your buck. I think this whole situation is just an outrage wagon by people that were never going to buy or play it anyways. It’s really not an issue.
Sadly for me also applies to Ratchet & Clank, just look at the stories for the 1st and 2nd game for these undertones versus its recent installment pandering to the very thing it mocked a decade and a half ago
Weird, that's the thing that irks me. I've never thought of it as a parody of anything. Same with Ratchet & Clank, Vermilion, could you expand? (the newest one is mediocre though I have to agree)
@@Adowrath 1st & 2nd had semi anti-corporate undertones in the good old form of parody. 1st one's villain is basically a greedy landlord that wanted to build a superplanet, all in the guise of "helping" his people because of the old home planet (Orxon) being so polluted it's become inhospitable to their people. Right at the end of the game he literally states how he intends for people to move onto the planet, profit from the people living there then start to pollute it, and then continue the cycle indefinitely. 2nd game you have to save a galaxy from a defective product that was intentionally shipped out by "Fizzwidget". The thing's even advertised and everything with its defects present and sure enough it wreaks utter havoc on one of the places you go to (Damosel). Both games also have numerous instances of having to pay random fees to progress, service fees for Clank's upgrades, to even one time a character forces you to pay for a prize because you "disgraced" an obstacle course. Second game had some as well, including one instance were Ratchet says "That's it, this galaxy blows." for one fee that came out of literally nowhere to waste time (Dobbo, you needed to break into an area, turn the power on, then you get the notice of the fee to see the video to progress.)
So Game Freak removes the Game Corner from all future Pokemon games.... Because "it's too close to gambling".... But this and loot boxes are aok. Cool.
Ironically, Gambling in video games in the 90's put me off ever wanting to gamble! Fuck that Porygon in Red and Blue! Screw the gambling in Sierra Games!
Many Casinos around here have figured this trick out and have made tweeks to counter; 1.) Buffet price is quite high compared to your local restaurant. 2.) No booze for free, only watered down soda.
Most casinos know this is happening but they also know they're not really losing money on those players. So people playing for comps just means the casino is never empty and the big spenders always have company at the tables. That's easily worth it.
@@Artificial-Insanity Yeah, the cost of a watered down Jack and Coke from time to time, some half way decent seafood at essentially cost or just enough above cost to barely make it worth it... all that is peanuts in comparison to the number of people who are going to walk through the door with the best of intentions, and then pull out "just another 100." Really the key trick to enjoying a casino is this. Depending on your level of self control, either get money out of an ATM and keep it in a seperate pocket, or get money out of an ATM and then all charge cards in a place where you cannot easily get them while inside of the casino (hotel room, car, etc). Your hard physical cash is your limit. Any money you make its up to you whether to put that aside or to add it to the gambling pool but once your hard cash is gone, you STOP IMMEDIATELY. That way you know precisely how much you lost, and precisely what you can budget for. And hell, if you get lucky you still might be able to walk out with some extra, and some crab.
Adamant Forge that’s the twist. You’re character talks about what a wasteland dump it is, then the first NPC says “We’re so lucky the bombs never hit us!”
You say that like Bethesda isn't pathetic enough to make a live service sequel so you can gamble with your friends in casinos against robot NPCs. LMAO!
Everytime I see loot boxes pop up in a game I ask myself: How many tacos can I buy with that loot box money? Because tacos are always better than a loot box without real tacos.
@@MatrixExpress Problem is that they'd be fucking raw unless you were lucky enough to get them cooked with the Hell's Kitchen Edition... you might also find the lamb sauce in that as well.
My boy Jim knows the secret to casinos. Cheap drinks and still a chance to win money. Last time I checked, microtransactions never made it possible for me to get hammered.
I worked at a Canadian casino that didn't offer cheap drinks or have a buffet and people still lined up every night to lose money. People are dumb as hell.
@@ChrisJohannsen Seriously? Even in Oklahoma, they still give out free drinks at most casinos for just being at the machines... Unless you go to the really podunk ones, like in Watonga, OK. That one looks like a bunch of mobile homes pushed together to make a big room.
@@shelbysteiner in Vancouver casinos are mostly used by Chinese multi-millionaires to launder their money and get it out of China so I guess that's the big difference. There's no need for regular local customers. The one I worked in started losing $100+ million per year when the left wing government won the election and cracked down on money laundering. It'll probably go under soon.
@@ChrisJohannsen Let's hope it does. Here in Oklahoma the casinos are generally run by Native American tribes. If anything, there's a bit of ironic justice considering that the tribes are now taking money away from the same types of folks that would've been stealing from them back in the day.
In GTA3, you could press a cheat code and a get a million dollars in fake currency. Now with GTA5, you can spend real money in fake currency, and gamble it without any real reward. Juicy slots!
@@wallacewisdom I was just making my own point. As someone who has put 100s of hours into GTA V and not spent a single extra dollar. Iv made 100s of millions in game currency, I know micro transactions are a problem and don't belong in games. But it's not hard to make money in this game either. As far as the casino goes it's just another way players can spend that easy to obtain cash, and it's literally bin requested by the community for years now.
@@gozzilla177 If you see micro transactions as a problem, why are you defending Rockstar for this move in the last sentence of your comment. It doesn't matter how much it has been requested, Rockstar put a casino in a game where you can use microtransactions to buy in game currency which will exploit people with gambling problems.
@@zappelins8942 honestly, it's grand theft auto 5... and it's been requested for a long time and was rejected time after time for 'making money too common' it's far from out of place in the game about 'breaking the law"
Shotgundam009 hey shill here, while you guys are hating and losing your minds I’m having a good time playing my blackjack and poker after a long day of murdering and robbing and racing. Gonna kick it in my new penthouse. Haven’t spent a dime. Funny thing is you can buy all this stuff and chips with ingame money and every in game day you can buy more without even touching the games in the casino. Enjoy being mad though.
@@Hangnailer47 nobody is saying you shouldnt be able to play blackjack in GTA. Theyre saying its immoral to take legitimate money(shark cards) for in game gambling. The way you play doesnt seem to involve shark cards so how does this even effect you? Kind of narcisistic though, to assume everyone plays and has as much time to accumulate in game currency the same way you do.
While the casino is hardly the most money-intensive aspect of GTA Online, you have to admit that they've seriously throttled the value of GTA$ over the years. On release, 2 million dollars or so could buy you a tank, the most coveted vehicle in the game. Now, the 10 million dollar reward from the Criminal Mastermind achievement (a one-time bonus that's very difficult to earn) is a drop in the goddamn ocean. Seriously, try translating GTA$ into real world currency (use the most generous one with the Great White card) and see how much Take Two thinks your virtual car collection is worth, because it's seriously abhorrent how much money you need to spend for that stuff. The issue here is that Take Two have a *financial incentive to throttle spending, fuck up your play experience, and get into your head to encourage you to spend,* and that *GTA$ have a direct, immutable real world value according to 2K, and they are facilitating gambling with that currency.*
Its because everyone over 45 is still stuck in the "video games are for kids" and "only nerds & lonely single adult men still play them" mindset. Yet real casinos are ok because where else are the old bastards gonna get smokes & scotch while having an affair?. And they cant have that messed with.
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Rockstar lived long enough to become its own villain.
@@MikoyanGurevichMiG21 The regression really is amazing. Look at everything they added in each sequel from GTA III to San Andreas. GTA was the standard in how to make a sequel in those days
Let me tell you as someone whos recently picked GTA back up the casino is a warzone for griefers and just a mess and tou do some missions there amd you are a customer of the casino and get a penthouse there
Originally a hacker found data about heist for the casino. The casino was supposed had been added in shortly after multiplayer launched. Before shark cards were added or even thought of. Heist were supposed to have been added but they kept pushing them back. We got some quick lame updates instead that took up too much space. That's why heist were the last update on last gen and pretty much used up the rest of the space. I'm guessing they dropped the casino and other updateds as well. We were supposed to been had low riders, casino, mansions, jet packs, stunt races, gay tony's night club, and single player DLC.
@@THIZZAVELI so the only things we didnt get was really mansion's and single player dlc and jet packs (although the oppressor is pretty close a motorcycle jet) cause night clubs have been added along with low riders which was years ago at this point....unless you still play on a last gen console and in that case F for respects
This... This is genius... They'll get money from players like a casino would, but they will never have to give some of that money back to winners like a casino would. Just... Genius...
Sure but kind of moronic on the players side. Why go bet in a virtual casino with made up currency and no option of cashing out when you can just go to a real casino?
Actually it's kinda not genius. Casinos paying out real money is a bigger thrill and since the odds always favour them in the end they always end up getting it back anyway. Any big payout someone might rarely actually take away is gonna be squashed by the fact that other customers rode the thrill further than they should, a hundred times over. If video games could get away with paying out real money, they absolutely would in a snap. It would make it even more addicting.
@@arenkai yep, that's an advantage of the format. One actual physical places don't have. So I hope they never get to combine that with the power of promising the possibility of actual monetary rewards, because that would be even more potent.
Jane Ross give it 5 years or so. I’ll bet you one bitcoin that micro transactions will be using cryptocurrency in the future, the question really is which one, rather than if.
"You can only spend money you've earned in-game." "How do you earn in-game money?" "By playing the game successfully." "Which you can make far quicker and much more successful by spending real money on it, right?" "Right." "And that's still allowed, outside of the confines of the casino?" "Right." "I spot an imperfection in this solution."
And yet some are still vigorously defending this kind of shit because “people should make smarter decisions about how they spend their money” or some nonsense like that.
Actually the casino was supposed to have came out shortly after multiplayer launched. Before microtransactions were even added lol. That was years ago before EA and others went to far. It just looks crazy because of the time they chose to release it.
When I lived in Michigan and my Sister lived in Illinois, we would meet halfway at a nice Casino to hang out. We enjoyed the Casino exactly as you described. 1) buffet 2) $60 for gambling 3) free drinks. I always left with $0 and my Sister left with $100
Purchase the Golden ultimate edition of [insert rehashed for 257th time sports game] and get a certificate for a free week of appetizers at Denny’s - EA
@@whydowelivejusttosuffer7704 Think for a moment how easily game companies will whore out for Totinos and Pepsi, how Dennys partners with movie studios all the time, and realize that this is inevitable.
I never thought there would be a situation where I could say the following: The GTA virtual casino is substantially more reasonable than multiple other monetization schemes we have seen in the last few years. The "AAA" industry should be very ashamed that a literal casino in-game (that you can buy tokens for with real money) isn't at the top of the worst offenders pile.
Appalling, the most profitable entertainment product in history now creates a gambling black hole where you can only cash in and not cash out: evil genius.
@@BartvG88 youre completely wrong, its 50000 per a gta day which is 48 minutes and you can cash out whatever amount, where the hell did you even get that from.
The fact that loot boxes are exempt from regulations because you don't actually get anything back... doesn't make any sense. Imagine if I open a casino, where you spend REAL money, to buy fake money, but you can't use this fake money to get real money. Does that mean it's not gambling? Cause that's fucked.
There was this show where the host would take certain sites to task. E.g. advertising a kid's play house on spare room to show the site's lack of standards. It would be amazing if they did something like that though I don't know how it would work.
See, if you tried doing that with a physical presence, you would be is real trouble. Instead, put it into a game that minors can play, and you are just fine.
*Its time to plan a heist to rob the Diamond Casino.* Oh wait GTA community mods get players banned *I parked a jet in my garage back at launch, that was fun.* Pity how a great game is ruined by Organized Crime.
@@nolives You clearly don't know the definition of Capitalism. If you think capitalism is organized crime, then you must think Communism is the solution, even with over 300 million dead in China alone. nb4: wE hAvEn'T tRiEd ReAl cOmMuNiSm yEt!
Yea I remember thinking I could get wasted for cheap at the casino. They never offered me any drinks. I truly wonder if Jim has ever actually tested this theory. Im pretty sure the staff is trained to avoid cheapskates.
"Hey Billy what did you like about that episode ?" _I really like how Jim exposes these corporations to be the kind of paracitic scum I want to work for when I grow up_
Hey, so out of curiosity, where is this joke from? I distinctly remember hearing it somewhere, but can't for the life of me remember where. I'd really appreciate the help here if you remember yourself. ^^;
"As long as you leave the casino filled with more booze (and crab) than money you put in the machine, you win" Will keep that in mind next time I'm in Reno
You don't even need a real account for that. You can just type a fake email. Shows how much effort Bethesda puts into their work. They can't even include their forced bullshit right.
@@boatstall9855 At first I was winning and then I started losing, but I cut my loses and started buying stuff on Amazon instead, if you wanna throw away your money why not buy something you can use instead.
People like to think that they are above things like gambling addictions, but Its that mindset that you believe yourself to be infallible that often puts you dangerously close to forming an addiction
At least with the Pokemon Casinos, they are actually, 100% optional due to using the game's virtual Money to buy the Casino Currency, the currency used to play the machines AND exchange the coins for prizes This is why in the PAL version of Pokemon Platinum, blocking the machines was almost meaningless due to how easy it was to earn money from a set of trainers met earlier in the game. You can just buy the coins and then buy the prizes
Honestly the main problem of the pokemon casino is that you could actually earn prizes from playing them, you were expected to get more coin than what you input into the machine. Which definitely isn't a lesson you want to teach kids. (I actually thought for a long time that you could make money with slot machine because I did it in pokemon red x) good thing I actually got to learn about statistics before I turned 18)
Hey Jim, I think it's high time you, because it really would have to BE you, do a complete history on Gambling in Video Games. Because as we often note; the actual Gaming Theory, the history of Video Games, curation of it's history and cataloging might be the most glaring area of weakness as an art form it has. And like it or not, you are one of the bigger voices in that situation and I think having as complete of a history as possible presented, including ACTUAL online gambling like poker websites, the rise of DLC/Project $10, to the first real serious push for what we would call Gambling Mechanics, i.e. lootboxes, in Team Fortress 2 (not the *first* but the first to be wildly successful (to this day)), would do well as there is often confusion on how big and concerted the effort to get us to where we are today has been. They didn't wake up one morning and decide to do this, this has been A LONG build up over the last decade. And while I adore and always have adored TF2, the MannCo crates really were the Canary in the Coal mine and somehow Valve has escaped much of the attention it deserves for largely instituting on a large scale the very problem plaguing the medium as it exists today. And TF2 actually highlights both an existing problem, and a direction I fear things will go, as you *can* make money off of those lootboxes by selling items through trade servers to other players, and it is no in-game secret that ACTUAL Criminal Organizations DO in fact launder money through TF2 and have done so for several years now.
I wholeheartedly agree. Jim I hope your are backing up and safely keeping an archive of these videos with you internet references intact... Cause this daft millennial way of "I forget" is going to be the downfall of us all as a society.
@@Celestialbeing21 let's not be jeering old men blaming our problems on the millenials. Humanity's been forgetting its hardest learned lessons ever since it gained the ability to remember those lessons. You're dealing with an issue in our species, not in just one of its generations.
@@kappaross6124 Not really an issue in species, an issue in certain specimens. Efforts to preserve history have been around since cave paintings, efforts to erase history have been around since someone thought the preservers are giving them a bad name.
Beau Rivage Resort & Casino 875 Beach Blvd Biloxi, MS 39530 Aunt Jenny's Catfish Restaraunt 1217 Washington Ave Ocean Springs, MS 39565 See you at the bar! ^_~
Rockstar is trying to be a parody of the gaming industry while simultaneously being the very thing they are parodying. They are playing 4D chess while we're here playing checkers.
Kupo Warkson that’s Rockstar in a nutshell. They parody pretty much everything that’s currently in the news. For instance there’s a reason why the GTA equivalent of Facebook is called LifeInvader.
The limit of 50.000 buy in per day and 15.000 cash out are so low, that the casino becomes one of the worst ways to make money in gta online. You can use the chips for some decorative items for your penthouse. You can make about a million per hour, so the money here is peanuts.
Rockstar is a mere game maker which sometimes adds funny stuff and parodies to their games. Take 2 Interactive are the one's that orders them how to make those games and to add shark cards and casinos.
Oh, don't forget. Casinos can't randomly decide that you are guilty of something and without arbitration or appeal magically strip you of all of your experiences and money, resetting you to noth... OH MY GOD.
@@NekoDalian it wasn't outcry. It was Korean gambling laws first, then the EU making it so games with gambling like mechanics had to be rated 18. Literally no one was outraged or complained about the game corner. Even in Japan where gambling is basically illegal to the point that parents complain about competitions for children based on random chance as being too close to gambling.
As long as it doesn't look like a casino or isn't explicitly a blackjack or craps simulator then those in a certain demographic won't even notice. Never underestimate the shallowness of self-righteous people.
I mean... you say that casinos aren't better than videogames, but where else will you meet a crazy Texan throwing hundreds away, in the middle of Manchester? Yes, that's a thing I've seen.
Been enjoying going back through some old Jimquisitions between mondays. I hate gambling and casinos, but I feel like a wet weekend with the commander at a casino would be a fun time for all.
Just turned 21; mom and dad took me to vegas for my birthday to see Cirque Du Soleil. In Las Vegas, there are PSA ADs around the place warning about gambling addiction. So no, Jim Sterling. Real Life gambling IS better than the modern gaming industry.
I was thinking the same thing. Let's make it a subscriber's weekend in Biloxi and see how many of us show up. I could go for bottomless shrimp... even paying S H R I M P P R I C E S
Cute how you think it wasn't. Only difference was there was stuff you could only get from the Gold saucer and you actually WANTED some of it to be useful ELSEWHERE in the game. Let's see if THAT factor holds up to the remake...
Final Fantasy 7 is practically Square Enix's baby, the prodigal child. They're aligning all the stars to make sure this game looks and feels good. I don't think they will throw legit gambling into it to practically kill both the remake and retroactively the original game. If they do, you can bet there's gonna be some seppuku being performed in the office.
you could always vandalize his wikipedia page. i once got todd howards french wiki page blocked from being edited cause i changed his name to todd coward
Jesus. I go on social media, Facebook, instagram, whatever, to find that people are praising rockstar quite a bit saying how much they love the new Casino update and how they're frustrated with the fact their country blocks portions of it. Blows my mind.
Casinos offer nummy food, good drinks, and the possibility to take home a casino waitress for a night of sexual lick licks. This alone makes it better than the game equivalent
Better not let your waifu find out. You have been spending an awful lot of time lately offline and blocking the gps cookies on your phone....are you seeing another console?!
Hey Jim, any plans to cover the shitshow known as Mechwarrior 5 going with an Epic bait-and-switch after taking preorders? They've kept reassuring customers that they do not plan to switch to Epic... until last week when they announced Epic exclusivity and eventually slipped up disclosing that the exclusivity deal was signed *when the preorders for Steam version were still running* .
Never preorder video games. They just wanted people to learn a valuable life lesson. I have less problems with Epic then most people, but I agree this sucks big time. Also would you kindly stop preordering video games and putting your trust in people that don´t deserve it?
@@EriesAston As long as they haven't taken payment the contract hasn't been finalised and can be unilaterally cancelled by either party without penalty. A contract requires consideration on both parts, the seller has provided consideration but you have not, as you have not paid any deposit.
Every gambler know that the secret to surviving is knowing what to through away and knowing what to keep, 'cause every hands a winner and every hands a loser and the best that you can hope for is some free crab
Waiting for Las Vegas to rebrand their machines to "surprise mechanics" that are ethical and quite fun.
And put them in high schools
Rework the slotmachines so you can't win actual money, just more tokens that are only good for gambling more. "We're not a casino sir, we're a surprise mechanics emporium and we're really quite ethical and fun!"
When Las Vegas has somewhat more ethical standards than vidyum gaems
EA would sue them tho.
@@sa-mp5iw I've never been to a casino, cause I'm horribly sensitive to addiction, but do they seriously charge that much? That would be pretty sickening...
AAA Games: We aren't gambling, that's just silly
Also AAA Games: Here's our casino
PMW3 yup LoL
Awesome observation.
@@Petrico94 How is it that after seeing ads and clips of this fucking game, I see AAA games only as a casino with different theme (Sci-fi, WW2, fantasy...) and an entrance fee?
@@akaiyoru2681 you gotta say it like "TRIPLE AAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY"
@@Myrea_Rend Like AAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY, WHAT IN THE FUCK IS THIS?
Video game gambling explained for parents:
Imagine going to a casino on a friday evening. You get a fresh bunch of poker chips, also refered to as virtual currency.
After a short stroll you find yourself at a blackjack table.
While loosing more and more chips you wonder if you should get more.
You leave with $500 less on your savings account. After night at the hotel, you are down $750.
After the drive back home, you find your child has spent twice that, without ever leaving the house or having an experience worth talking about.
Underrated
AAA Publishers: It's not gambling because you can't cash out.
It's even worse than gambling because all I can do is run out of cash.
Oh no you can run out of fake money. What's the problem exactly? You can't use shark card money to buy chips so you can't spend real money for gambling.
All gambling is gambling where all you can do is run out of cash. The house always wins.
@@lolonoazoro420 It's comment's like yours that convince me that idiots will believe what they want about their preferred games regardless of the mountain of facts. Did you even watch the video? Or that it's too harsh on Rockstar that you'd internalize the criticism if you did?
Lolonoa Zoro it was said in the video that as it is now it seemed it was region specific so some portion of players could use shark card money to buy chips
@@lolonoazoro420 We hear in the video that this varies by region. Rockstar clearly wanted it to be a fake-money-bought-with-real-money casino, but were unable to do so legally in some countries (just like how they had to block the casino completely in some places).
Adds casino in 18+ rated game: *Gets banned in 50 countries*
FIFA Ultimate Team E for everyone: *It's not gambling*
Wut.
Yup a casino that doesn't even allow you to blow your stack as far as I'm aware.. the lootboxes are the real villain This comment needs more upvotes:D
Technically it’s 17+
Pokemon with a virtual casino that you can't spend real money in. BANNED EVERYWHERE SO THE GAMES CORNER HAD TO BE TAKEN OUT
@@assassinxex well in honesty pokemon is projected to kids and teenagers, where as things like gta etc are marketted for 18+ etc, although we know most kids do still play games in that range.
@@kylecampbell565 And?
"but it isn't gambling because you can't win real money".
No, you ONLY LOSE.
you can literally rob banks for more
It's a scam.
Just reading this like "you know that's _worse,_ right? You _do_ get how that's worse?"
EA：It's not gambling, the items have no financial value...
Me: Then give them to me for free.
EA: Did someone say pre order bonus!
Me: No I said give me the worthless items for free.
EA: They are with the Diamond Edition!
Me: Which is free because it has worthless items yeah?
EA: But games are so expensive to make!
Me: Stop making stuff with no financial value then!
if there was a TH-cam award you’d win it🥇
Yes exactly lmao
@Abe Cedeefgee I think you are missing the point. The point is that everybody KNOWS that there is financial value, yet they the publisher themselves pretend like there is NO value involved. They try to dodge scrutiny cause "It doesn't have any value" and "It isn't for profit!" and nobody is buying it. Everybody knows they are a for profit company, they are earning money via this and thus will be put under scrutiny cause of it. Yet according to them that isn't the case cause they say it isn't. Even though it is incredibly obvious that it is.
@Abe Cedeefgee the real problem is that companies are actively blocking attempts to put parental warnings on games so parents cant make informed decisions.
Abe comes here to bitch about viewers being shocked and informed on the topic.
Then bitches about viewers not being informed.
Mounts high horse and fucks off to more "valuable channels"
Rockstar has become the thing that gta used to parody .Very well said my dude, very well said indeed
i like to think that their are still some good employees that are actively pushing for these things. ridiculous pricing for in game cars because they want you to fall in the rich consumer cycle of desire, spending, disappointment. Till you realize what you have become and think twice in real life. The one thing that about it that is 100% bad is the fact you can buy shark cards but even the name of those is very honest.
"Rockstar has become the thing that gta used to parody .Very well said my dude, very well said indeed"
What a time to be alive
"You either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain", perfect fucking summary...
I almost believe they looked at lootboxes and thought "this is real life parody, how can we beat that? Let's do real gambling as a parody to that parody."
If this was truly Grand Theft Auto I wouldn’t gamble in a cacino.
I’d pull out a rocket laucher, blow the slot machines out, and take the prize inside. For free.
Until admin from Rockstar bans your online account.
@@magnuscritikaleak5045 yes Rockstar, ban me for pulling a heist in a game that uses heists as a main mechanic of the game. Makes sense.
man, this makes me miss the old GTA formula before all the online, "social" , drm, MTs.
And when you just played a simple (relatively) bad guy.
Your comment made me realise just how much this undercuts the games premise. I was focused on the fact it is unethical and should be illegal but from a purely in game perspective it breaks immersion completely.
So it ruins immersion, ignores the satirical nature of the game itself, and is utterly immoral. Oh, also: we're getting these unnecessary online add-ons, that are little more than joyless incentives to continue playing and thus spending, instead of GTA 6. GTA 5 was released 6 years ago - we are experiencing the longest gap between GTA games. While the gap between GTA 4 and GTA 5 was 5 years, the second longest gap, you at least had two massive single player story DLCs developed and released in that period.
I'd even wager that the relative lack of success of the online mode will cause Red Dead to go on ice as a series; much like LA Noire or Max Payne, if it can't be monetised with relatively little effort Rockstar wave the franchise goodbye.
Go Rockstar, I guess.
@@ScoundrelDaysSon It's been 6 years already? Damn...
The workaround excuse for video games using 'virtual currency' to avoid gambling regulation is as much a bollocks defense as all their other excuses. You don't use real money in real life casinos, you exchange that money for the in- house currency of poker chips, tokens or whatever they use. There is zero difference between the two - aside from one can be exchanged back for real money - and it isn't the video game version.
T^hat is essentially the outright Con going on .. Ring Fencing is how they ascribe it
I don't understand the "it's optional" argument, casinos are optional, but it is still gambling.
The Senate
Agreed. Accepting cosmetic MTX is just as bad, because that's literally where thus debacle started. Remember Oblivion horse armour?
This is exactly why I sift through indie games. Plenty of passion projects that are no more than $30, don't ask for more money, and are simply wanting to make what they wanted in games when they were younger.
every time you see everyone make the "it's optional" argument read:
AAA publishers are not literally rounding you up into prison camps and forcing you to spend your life savings on microtransactions so it's fine.
That is essentially all "it's optional" means.
Very good comment.
CheffBryan ok I support Indie games too but as far as games go gta5 has upwards of 80 hours of content to 100% the single player game as well as a huge multiplayer draw. Most games now might have a campaign that is 8 hours and even that is a stretch. It’s by far the best bang for your buck. I think this whole situation is just an outrage wagon by people that were never going to buy or play it anyways. It’s really not an issue.
"I always stagger out of the casino with a belly full of profit"
Jim, you're the best.
Rember when pokemon had a virtual casino (BUT YOU COULDNT SPEMD REAL MONEY)
This is not gambling or lootboxes, these are:
Secondary Content Acquisition Mechanics
SCAM
Ooh, thats good...
We need to boost this one up for the lads to see.
This is beautiful and quite ethical.
Excellent.
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That theme is 10/10 for this episode.
That was the theme song from the Podquisition at the time, if I recall correctly.
@@timothymckane6362 it is a GTA V song from Gav, used in the Podquisition intro yeah.
Is that song an original? If so or not it’s great... definitely put in the rotation if you can. Hell yeah
@P.M. You probably didn't buy enough Jimbucks to increase your chances.
@@AntonShields it is. Hard Cash by Miracle of Sound. Inspired by Michael from GTA V.
That first sentence about Rockstar becoming the thing they paraded is gold. Definitely the quote of the year.
Sadly for me also applies to Ratchet & Clank, just look at the stories for the 1st and 2nd game for these undertones versus its recent installment pandering to the very thing it mocked a decade and a half ago
parodied
Weird, that's the thing that irks me. I've never thought of it as a parody of anything.
Same with Ratchet & Clank, Vermilion, could you expand? (the newest one is mediocre though I have to agree)
@@Adowrath 1st & 2nd had semi anti-corporate undertones in the good old form of parody.
1st one's villain is basically a greedy landlord that wanted to build a superplanet, all in the guise of "helping" his people because of the old home planet (Orxon) being so polluted it's become inhospitable to their people. Right at the end of the game he literally states how he intends for people to move onto the planet, profit from the people living there then start to pollute it, and then continue the cycle indefinitely.
2nd game you have to save a galaxy from a defective product that was intentionally shipped out by "Fizzwidget". The thing's even advertised and everything with its defects present and sure enough it wreaks utter havoc on one of the places you go to (Damosel).
Both games also have numerous instances of having to pay random fees to progress, service fees for Clank's upgrades, to even one time a character forces you to pay for a prize because you "disgraced" an obstacle course.
Second game had some as well, including one instance were Ratchet says "That's it, this galaxy blows." for one fee that came out of literally nowhere to waste time (Dobbo, you needed to break into an area, turn the power on, then you get the notice of the fee to see the video to progress.)
So Game Freak removes the Game Corner from all future Pokemon games.... Because "it's too close to gambling"....
But this and loot boxes are aok.
Cool.
Well, Game Freak nearly got sued, so that's part of it.
Plus, gambling laws in Japan are WAYYYYYYYYYY more strict.
To be fair, the game corner was a boring grind.
Ironically, Gambling in video games in the 90's put me off ever wanting to gamble! Fuck that Porygon in Red and Blue! Screw the gambling in Sierra Games!
I haven't played pokemon for a while... but wasn't Game Corner just slot machines?
I came in outraged about gambling in video games, I left the video craving seafood
So Becky seafood, Becky eat? I had to make that cheesy joke...
I really fancy some crab, I don't even like seafood normally.
Dammit, now I REALLY want crab
I think that qualifies as mission accomplished 😁
I haven't finished watching it as I'm writing this. This should be interesting.
I've never been to a real casino but the "crabby granny drinky winky" strategy has convinced me.
Many Casinos around here have figured this trick out and have made tweeks to counter; 1.) Buffet price is quite high compared to your local restaurant. 2.) No booze for free, only watered down soda.
Most casinos know this is happening but they also know they're not really losing money on those players. So people playing for comps just means the casino is never empty and the big spenders always have company at the tables. That's easily worth it.
@@Artificial-Insanity true a "irl whale" wouldnt never go to a empty casino
I loled so hard at this!
@@Artificial-Insanity Yeah, the cost of a watered down Jack and Coke from time to time, some half way decent seafood at essentially cost or just enough above cost to barely make it worth it... all that is peanuts in comparison to the number of people who are going to walk through the door with the best of intentions, and then pull out "just another 100."
Really the key trick to enjoying a casino is this. Depending on your level of self control, either get money out of an ATM and keep it in a seperate pocket, or get money out of an ATM and then all charge cards in a place where you cannot easily get them while inside of the casino (hotel room, car, etc). Your hard physical cash is your limit. Any money you make its up to you whether to put that aside or to add it to the gambling pool but once your hard cash is gone, you STOP IMMEDIATELY.
That way you know precisely how much you lost, and precisely what you can budget for. And hell, if you get lucky you still might be able to walk out with some extra, and some crab.
Man, can you imagine how salty Beteshda must be that've already used Fallout: New Vegas for a game?
At least you could save your game before you went and lost all your in game money.
Always Fallout: Atlantic City. Course it will be a little hard to see what got hit by the fallout compared to it's current status.
The one game that routinely makes me gamble, having to play low luck charters because slot machines are so op
Adamant Forge that’s the twist. You’re character talks about what a wasteland dump it is, then the first NPC says “We’re so lucky the bombs never hit us!”
You say that like Bethesda isn't pathetic enough to make a live service sequel so you can gamble with your friends in casinos against robot NPCs. LMAO!
EA: it's not gambling! It's Suprise Mechanics!
Rockstar: It's gambling.
Rockstar: I am Iron Man.
This is what I believe rockstar is doing. Opening the discussion. Rockstar is the Martin Skhrelli of videogames. Chaotic benevolence
@@DWAC 100%
"So blurred they're singing Song 2."
^ This needs more appreciation.
Everytime I see loot boxes pop up in a game I ask myself:
How many tacos can I buy with that loot box money?
Because tacos are always better than a loot box without real tacos.
What if the loot box is taco themed or has taco-based rewards from opening it?
If ^We^ really _Gordon Ramsay_ "the box" up we can probably sell V-Tacos
@@MatrixExpress
Problem is that they'd be fucking raw unless you were lucky enough to get them cooked with the Hell's Kitchen Edition... you might also find the lamb sauce in that as well.
You mean heroin?
Change that to pints of beer or hangover cure of double jager and coke.
My boy Jim knows the secret to casinos. Cheap drinks and still a chance to win money.
Last time I checked, microtransactions never made it possible for me to get hammered.
It's a different tool box.
Here you only get screwed.
I worked at a Canadian casino that didn't offer cheap drinks or have a buffet and people still lined up every night to lose money. People are dumb as hell.
@@ChrisJohannsen Seriously? Even in Oklahoma, they still give out free drinks at most casinos for just being at the machines...
Unless you go to the really podunk ones, like in Watonga, OK. That one looks like a bunch of mobile homes pushed together to make a big room.
@@shelbysteiner in Vancouver casinos are mostly used by Chinese multi-millionaires to launder their money and get it out of China so I guess that's the big difference. There's no need for regular local customers.
The one I worked in started losing $100+ million per year when the left wing government won the election and cracked down on money laundering. It'll probably go under soon.
@@ChrisJohannsen Let's hope it does. Here in Oklahoma the casinos are generally run by Native American tribes. If anything, there's a bit of ironic justice considering that the tribes are now taking money away from the same types of folks that would've been stealing from them back in the day.
Ahh the "Crabby Granny Drinky Winky". A technical term all aspiring gamblers should know.
In GTA3, you could press a cheat code and a get a million dollars in fake currency.
Now with GTA5, you can spend real money in fake currency, and gamble it without any real reward.
Juicy slots!
Or do a few heists literally make 1 mil every 30 minutes with a single friend lol
@@gozzilla177 i can't tell if you're purposely missing the point or not.
@@wallacewisdom I was just making my own point. As someone who has put 100s of hours into GTA V and not spent a single extra dollar. Iv made 100s of millions in game currency, I know micro transactions are a problem and don't belong in games. But it's not hard to make money in this game either.
As far as the casino goes it's just another way players can spend that easy to obtain cash, and it's literally bin requested by the community for years now.
@@gozzilla177 If you see micro transactions as a problem, why are you defending Rockstar for this move in the last sentence of your comment. It doesn't matter how much it has been requested, Rockstar put a casino in a game where you can use microtransactions to buy in game currency which will exploit people with gambling problems.
@@zappelins8942 honestly, it's grand theft auto 5... and it's been requested for a long time and was rejected time after time for 'making money too common' it's far from out of place in the game about 'breaking the law"
Gaming industry: No it's not gambling... it's far worse we promise. It probably shouldn't be legal at any age but that's ok our shills will defend us.
I hate that the last part of your comment is a real thing.
And when you are down, our "Advanced A-Gambling Algorithm" will keep on pummelling you until you are out.
Shotgundam009 hey shill here, while you guys are hating and losing your minds I’m having a good time playing my blackjack and poker after a long day of murdering and robbing and racing. Gonna kick it in my new penthouse. Haven’t spent a dime. Funny thing is you can buy all this stuff and chips with ingame money and every in game day you can buy more without even touching the games in the casino. Enjoy being mad though.
@@Hangnailer47 nobody is saying you shouldnt be able to play blackjack in GTA. Theyre saying its immoral to take legitimate money(shark cards) for in game gambling. The way you play doesnt seem to involve shark cards so how does this even effect you?
Kind of narcisistic though, to assume everyone plays and has as much time to accumulate in game currency the same way you do.
While the casino is hardly the most money-intensive aspect of GTA Online, you have to admit that they've seriously throttled the value of GTA$ over the years. On release, 2 million dollars or so could buy you a tank, the most coveted vehicle in the game. Now, the 10 million dollar reward from the Criminal Mastermind achievement (a one-time bonus that's very difficult to earn) is a drop in the goddamn ocean.
Seriously, try translating GTA$ into real world currency (use the most generous one with the Great White card) and see how much Take Two thinks your virtual car collection is worth, because it's seriously abhorrent how much money you need to spend for that stuff.
The issue here is that Take Two have a *financial incentive to throttle spending, fuck up your play experience, and get into your head to encourage you to spend,* and that *GTA$ have a direct, immutable real world value according to 2K, and they are facilitating gambling with that currency.*
"It's optional!"
Funny, so are real casinos are real gambling, and yet one is still regulated...
Its because everyone over 45 is still stuck in the "video games are for kids" and "only nerds & lonely single adult men still play them" mindset. Yet real casinos are ok because where else are the old bastards gonna get smokes & scotch while having an affair?. And they cant have that messed with.
Rockstar lived long enough to become its own villain.
Given the company culture, they always were.
Was just thinking that
@@MikoyanGurevichMiG21 In those olds games the aim was fun not to get players to spend longer online and the sale of shark cards.
@@MikoyanGurevichMiG21 they would've monetized that thing if in-game purchase was a thing back then.
@@MikoyanGurevichMiG21
The regression really is amazing.
Look at everything they added in each sequel from GTA III to San Andreas.
GTA was the standard in how to make a sequel in those days
Government: " It's not gambling"
Rockstar, to other developers: "Hey hold my beer, watch this..."
Those very words, I'm sure. The problem is that it probably IS gambling, but that they're splitting hairs out of fear to commit to anything.
When the "think of the children" arguement actually becomes valid. Oh, how games have fallen...
The real question is...can you heist the casino and steal virtual currency?
Give it back to the players with this idea, Rockstar.
Let me tell you as someone whos recently picked GTA back up the casino is a warzone for griefers and just a mess and tou do some missions there amd you are a customer of the casino and get a penthouse there
Originally a hacker found data about heist for the casino. The casino was supposed had been added in shortly after multiplayer launched. Before shark cards were added or even thought of. Heist were supposed to have been added but they kept pushing them back. We got some quick lame updates instead that took up too much space. That's why heist were the last update on last gen and pretty much used up the rest of the space. I'm guessing they dropped the casino and other updateds as well. We were supposed to been had low riders, casino, mansions, jet packs, stunt races, gay tony's night club, and single player DLC.
@@THIZZAVELI so the only things we didnt get was really mansion's and single player dlc and jet packs (although the oppressor is pretty close a motorcycle jet) cause night clubs have been added along with low riders which was years ago at this point....unless you still play on a last gen console and in that case F for respects
It's a no gun zone. First thing I tried was seeing if I could rob it
There are already mods to always win the gambling games lol
"The line has become so blurred it's singing Song 2."
Can we take a moment to appreciate how brilliant that line is?
Right? Next we just need a Gorillaz pun and this video would need an Emmy. Lol
This is a very British line to say)
Wahoo!!
This video has been a constant comedy goldmine
All I can say is WOO HOO
This... This is genius...
They'll get money from players like a casino would, but they will never have to give some of that money back to winners like a casino would.
Just... Genius...
Sure but kind of moronic on the players side. Why go bet in a virtual casino with made up currency and no option of cashing out when you can just go to a real casino?
Actually it's kinda not genius. Casinos paying out real money is a bigger thrill and since the odds always favour them in the end they always end up getting it back anyway. Any big payout someone might rarely actually take away is gonna be squashed by the fact that other customers rode the thrill further than they should, a hundred times over. If video games could get away with paying out real money, they absolutely would in a snap. It would make it even more addicting.
@@Torthrodhel
But this touches WAAAAAAAAAY more people than any casino could ever dream to.
@@arenkai yep, that's an advantage of the format. One actual physical places don't have. So I hope they never get to combine that with the power of promising the possibility of actual monetary rewards, because that would be even more potent.
Jane Ross give it 5 years or so. I’ll bet you one bitcoin that micro transactions will be using cryptocurrency in the future, the question really is which one, rather than if.
I...I kind of want to hit up a casino with Jim Sterling now
Me too.
Seems like great fun.
WET WEEKEND AT THE BEAU!!!
I'm down, as long as he wears the hat and glasses too.
Jim Con 1- Casino Royale. Let's make it happen.
Welp time to start a gofundme!
Crabby Granny Drinky Winky is my new favorite Jim Sterling quote.
"You can only spend money you've earned in-game."
"How do you earn in-game money?"
"By playing the game successfully."
"Which you can make far quicker and much more successful by spending real money on it, right?"
"Right."
"And that's still allowed, outside of the confines of the casino?"
"Right."
"I spot an imperfection in this solution."
Gambling where you can't get a payout
Las Vegas wishes they thought of this!
Vegas did "think of it" though .. they just could not find a _legal way_ to get away with it.
Casinos are better than video games, this is how bad the industry has become.
We need it to crash!!!!!
Someone finally dropped the act, and just literally put a casino in the game. I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.
And yet some are still vigorously defending this kind of shit because “people should make smarter decisions about how they spend their money” or some nonsense like that.
@@drachmalius6126 my brother wouldn't last ten minutes.
Actually the casino was supposed to have came out shortly after multiplayer launched. Before microtransactions were even added lol. That was years ago before EA and others went to far. It just looks crazy because of the time they chose to release it.
When I lived in Michigan and my Sister lived in Illinois, we would meet halfway at a nice Casino to hang out.
We enjoyed the Casino exactly as you described. 1) buffet 2) $60 for gambling 3) free drinks.
I always left with $0 and my Sister left with $100
Careful Jim, once they start giving us crab vouchers for lootbox purchases it's all over. Don't give them ideas.
Purchase the Golden ultimate edition of [insert rehashed for 257th time sports game] and get a certificate for a free week of appetizers at Denny’s - EA
@@whydowelivejusttosuffer7704 Think for a moment how easily game companies will whore out for Totinos and Pepsi, how Dennys partners with movie studios all the time, and realize that this is inevitable.
gambling being in GTA isn't new, but it never cost real money.
I still remember in GTA:SA going to the betting joint and winning 74 million.
It still doesn't cost real money. You can't use shark card money to get chips, therefore making it impossible to gamble away your real money.
Except you can use real money in some regions. Probably in the regions where gambling isn't as regulated as in the regions where you can't.
Difference is in the older games you couldnt buy more in game money to keep gambling.
@@lolonoazoro420 Please inform yourself before spreading misinformation
Also is right on the video that you can
Lolonoa Zoro you literally do though
I never thought there would be a situation where I could say the following:
The GTA virtual casino is substantially more reasonable than multiple other monetization schemes we have seen in the last few years. The "AAA" industry should be very ashamed that a literal casino in-game (that you can buy tokens for with real money) isn't at the top of the worst offenders pile.
Appalling, the most profitable entertainment product in history now creates a gambling black hole where you can only cash in and not cash out: evil genius.
Not true. You can cash in 50.000 per day, and cash out 15.000. both are peanuts. you can make 1.000.000 an hour playing other activities.
@@BartvG88 youre completely wrong, its 50000 per a gta day which is 48 minutes and you can cash out whatever amount, where the hell did you even get that from.
The fact that loot boxes are exempt from regulations because you don't actually get anything back... doesn't make any sense. Imagine if I open a casino, where you spend REAL money, to buy fake money, but you can't use this fake money to get real money. Does that mean it's not gambling? Cause that's fucked.
There was this show where the host would take certain sites to task. E.g. advertising a kid's play house on spare room to show the site's lack of standards. It would be amazing if they did something like that though I don't know how it would work.
In Japan, the Pachinko machines dont pay out money but prizes. That's how they skirt the gambling laws over there.
See, if you tried doing that with a physical presence, you would be is real trouble. Instead, put it into a game that minors can play, and you are just fine.
Vaultboy101 At least the pachinko parlors will (usually) step in and stop you before you do something stupid.
Fucked up indeed
You're casino weekend sounds delightful.
Lasercorn oh shit you’re the dude from smosh games
@@Paperoni yor*
man... you are?? really?
Yor's World he's the man!
*Its time to plan a heist to rob the Diamond Casino.*
Oh wait GTA community mods get players banned
*I parked a jet in my garage back at launch, that was fun.*
Pity how a great game is ruined by Organized Crime.
great
When your organized crime game gets ruined by organized crime. Sigh.
P l
You spelled capitalism wrong.
@@nolives You clearly don't know the definition of Capitalism. If you think capitalism is organized crime, then you must think Communism is the solution, even with over 300 million dead in China alone.
nb4: wE hAvEn'T tRiEd ReAl cOmMuNiSm yEt!
Did i just get a how to gamble for very little money while getting hammered as well as fat tutorial by jim sterling?
Best video ever.
Thank. God. For. Him.
Yea I remember thinking I could get wasted for cheap at the casino. They never offered me any drinks. I truly wonder if Jim has ever actually tested this theory. Im pretty sure the staff is trained to avoid cheapskates.
I love how you change the tone of your voice when you say "Triple A Games" and also "Live Service." Please don't ever change.
"Hey Billy what was your favorite Jimquisition episode?"
_I really like the one where Jim talks about casinos for a looong time_
"Hey Billy what did you like about that episode ?"
_I really like how Jim exposes these corporations to be the kind of paracitic scum I want to work for when I grow up_
You need to be more specific. There is like 98 of them
Hey, so out of curiosity, where is this joke from? I distinctly remember hearing it somewhere, but can't for the life of me remember where. I'd really appreciate the help here if you remember yourself. ^^;
@@GeneralEverywhen Game grumps. Something like, "Hey Billy, what's your favorite episode? The one where they talk about cheese for a loooong time."
One of the earlier Sonic Adventure DX episodes.
"As long as you leave the casino filled with more booze (and crab) than money you put in the machine, you win"
Will keep that in mind next time I'm in Reno
In Reno you might walk away with crabs, not crab, but I think it counts :P
i have more fun with a slot machine in borderlands 2
and that has a chance to kill my character.
Easy source of Eridium. I can keep playing that thing until I go broke.
I came into a video about virtual gambling and left with a mass craving for seafood, thanks Jim
@XAndroid1 oh my god, Atomic Betty. What a nostalgia punch that was.
@XAndroid1 Blast to the past, been about 12-13 years since I watched that show.
Dammit, I don't have my Bethesda net account details handy. I can't watch.
Drink verification can.
You don't even need a real account for that. You can just type a fake email. Shows how much effort Bethesda puts into their work. They can't even include their forced bullshit right.
@@CeHee123 HAHAHA WHAT?! I hadn't heard that bit.
@@mjc0961 Yeah, you could literally type Domino's Pizza (just for example as GameXplain showed) and it will work.
@Halcyonacoustic Actually, I just remembered that the message was specifically "you need an account to continue." on the page.
I finally stopped Gambling, never Gamble kids, it will take all your money.
Why did you start in the first place?
@@boatstall9855 At first I was winning and then I started losing, but I cut my loses and started buying stuff on Amazon instead, if you wanna throw away your money why not buy something you can use instead.
@@OmegaVideoGameGod This is dangerously relatable
People like to think that they are above things like gambling addictions, but Its that mindset that you believe yourself to be infallible that often puts you dangerously close to forming an addiction
@@OmegaVideoGameGod Here I am throwing my Money at "safe" video games and pay per chapter webnovels
Time to bring back the Pokemon Casinos, boys!
At least with the Pokemon Casinos, they are actually, 100% optional due to using the game's virtual Money to buy the Casino Currency, the currency used to play the machines AND exchange the coins for prizes
This is why in the PAL version of Pokemon Platinum, blocking the machines was almost meaningless due to how easy it was to earn money from a set of trainers met earlier in the game. You can just buy the coins and then buy the prizes
Honestly the main problem of the pokemon casino is that you could actually earn prizes from playing them, you were expected to get more coin than what you input into the machine. Which definitely isn't a lesson you want to teach kids. (I actually thought for a long time that you could make money with slot machine because I did it in pokemon red x) good thing I actually got to learn about statistics before I turned 18)
Hey Jim, I think it's high time you, because it really would have to BE you, do a complete history on Gambling in Video Games. Because as we often note; the actual Gaming Theory, the history of Video Games, curation of it's history and cataloging might be the most glaring area of weakness as an art form it has. And like it or not, you are one of the bigger voices in that situation and I think having as complete of a history as possible presented, including ACTUAL online gambling like poker websites, the rise of DLC/Project $10, to the first real serious push for what we would call Gambling Mechanics, i.e. lootboxes, in Team Fortress 2 (not the *first* but the first to be wildly successful (to this day)), would do well as there is often confusion on how big and concerted the effort to get us to where we are today has been. They didn't wake up one morning and decide to do this, this has been A LONG build up over the last decade. And while I adore and always have adored TF2, the MannCo crates really were the Canary in the Coal mine and somehow Valve has escaped much of the attention it deserves for largely instituting on a large scale the very problem plaguing the medium as it exists today. And TF2 actually highlights both an existing problem, and a direction I fear things will go, as you *can* make money off of those lootboxes by selling items through trade servers to other players, and it is no in-game secret that ACTUAL Criminal Organizations DO in fact launder money through TF2 and have done so for several years now.
I wholeheartedly agree. Jim I hope your are backing up and safely keeping an archive of these videos with you internet references intact...
Cause this daft millennial way of "I forget" is going to be the downfall of us all as a society.
@@Celestialbeing21 let's not be jeering old men blaming our problems on the millenials. Humanity's been forgetting its hardest learned lessons ever since it gained the ability to remember those lessons. You're dealing with an issue in our species, not in just one of its generations.
@@kappaross6124 Not really an issue in species, an issue in certain specimens. Efforts to preserve history have been around since cave paintings, efforts to erase history have been around since someone thought the preservers are giving them a bad name.
Hearing Jim getting genuinely happy talking about the food put a smile on my face
But Jim it's just a surprise casino. Who hasn't seen one of those before?
I've not gotten that in my lootboxes yet. What's the drop rate for the casino?
@@reyntime1950 They surprised him with ridiculously high repair costs.
"It's not gambling, it's surprise casinos". Brilliant.
I found one in my toilet once.
Yes just like some "surprise NUCLEAR POWER PLANT"!
"every slope we've seen has arrived pre-oiled" damn! 9:53
Beau Rivage Resort & Casino
875 Beach Blvd
Biloxi, MS 39530
Aunt Jenny's Catfish Restaraunt
1217 Washington Ave
Ocean Springs, MS 39565
See you at the bar! ^_~
oh shit its real!? i thought tha was just a really long joke
Thank you so much! I literally looked through the comment section hoping to find someone to post what he mentioned. 😁
Rockstar is trying to be a parody of the gaming industry while simultaneously being the very thing they are parodying.
They are playing 4D chess while we're here playing checkers.
Kupo Warkson that’s Rockstar in a nutshell. They parody pretty much everything that’s currently in the news.
For instance there’s a reason why the GTA equivalent of Facebook is called LifeInvader.
The casino was supposed to be an update years ago on last gen before EA fucked everything up lol. Before they even added shark cards.
The limit of 50.000 buy in per day and 15.000 cash out are so low, that the casino becomes one of the worst ways to make money in gta online. You can use the chips for some decorative items for your penthouse. You can make about a million per hour, so the money here is peanuts.
12D Pokemon Go!
Rockstar is a mere game maker which sometimes adds funny stuff and parodies to their games. Take 2 Interactive are the one's that orders them how to make those games and to add shark cards and casinos.
"I wouldn't call it..."., "i'd never say..."
Well done Jim ! That's the tricks they understand !
Remember to liberally pepper your statements with "Allegedly"
Did you seriously go this whole video without making a single reference to *J U I C Y S L O T S* ?
Now that's an outrage !
Oh, don't forget. Casinos can't randomly decide that you are guilty of something and without arbitration or appeal magically strip you of all of your experiences and money, resetting you to noth... OH MY GOD.
It's a robbery you pay for.
Where are all those angry mothers that were mad at Pokémon for putting “gambling” games in the Game Corner?
The Game Corner was removed from Pokemon due to strict Korean gambling laws. I'm fairly certain it had nothing to do with anyone being outraged.
Feller, the game is 18+
@@NekoDalian it wasn't outcry. It was Korean gambling laws first, then the EU making it so games with gambling like mechanics had to be rated 18. Literally no one was outraged or complained about the game corner. Even in Japan where gambling is basically illegal to the point that parents complain about competitions for children based on random chance as being too close to gambling.
As long as it doesn't look like a casino or isn't explicitly a blackjack or craps simulator then those in a certain demographic won't even notice. Never underestimate the shallowness of self-righteous people.
@@medes5597 Hilarious how FIFA games aren't 18+ then, EU is sure odd
"So blurred theyre singing Song 2."
I got that.
"Lines have become so blurred, they're singing Song 2"
I understood that reference... woohoo.
Wahoo!
Now I dooo tooo ;-)
Do you feel heavy metal?
13:04 Actually, endorphines mask physical pain due to activity. What neuro-chemical you meant was dopamine.
Tru dat
I mean... you say that casinos aren't better than videogames, but where else will you meet a crazy Texan throwing hundreds away, in the middle of Manchester?
Yes, that's a thing I've seen.
"So blurred, they're singing Song 2"
I'm stealing that.
Booze, Crab and Jim Sterling. Now that's a weekend we'll spent
Been enjoying going back through some old Jimquisitions between mondays. I hate gambling and casinos, but I feel like a wet weekend with the commander at a casino would be a fun time for all.
Doing a wet weekend at the Beau with Jim sounds like pretty much the best experience I could experience.
Hey Jim, if you haven't seen it yet, the crash of the TF2 "economy" may be of some recent and relevant interest to your points in this video
Just turned 21; mom and dad took me to vegas for my birthday to see Cirque Du Soleil. In Las Vegas, there are PSA ADs around the place warning about gambling addiction.
So no, Jim Sterling. Real Life gambling IS better than the modern gaming industry.
Wet weekend with Jim Sterling, getting crabs.
Did we ever have any doubt about Jim having crabs?
Well the good news is, this means we might get the Game Corner back in Pokémon games
BioticNinja what is dead may never die
@jbiehlable the game corner? That cosine in red and blue you know?
No thanks that place was alway trash.
The game corner sucks because it hides valuable TMs and Porygon behind its overpriced coins. No thanks.
My party of Meowths with PayDay is ready.
I don't eat crab, drink, or gamble, but Jim painted a picture of a gambling weekend that makes me want to do all three. Bravo
I, for one, would love an entire Jimquisition episode dedicated to Aunt Jenny's.
I was thinking the same thing. Let's make it a subscriber's weekend in Biloxi and see how many of us show up. I could go for bottomless shrimp... even paying S H R I M P P R I C E S
Watch as the Golden Saucer in FFVII Remake becomes a literal casino.
Guaranteed.
Great as if I needed another reason to be afraid the remake will suck.
Cute how you think it wasn't. Only difference was there was stuff you could only get from the Gold saucer and you actually WANTED some of it to be useful ELSEWHERE in the game. Let's see if THAT factor holds up to the remake...
Final Fantasy 7 is practically Square Enix's baby, the prodigal child. They're aligning all the stars to make sure this game looks and feels good. I don't think they will throw legit gambling into it to practically kill both the remake and retroactively the original game. If they do, you can bet there's gonna be some seppuku being performed in the office.
@@jacobsmith4428 It's impossible to retroactively hurt the original game.
I honestly never thought I'd ever watch a Jimquisition and end up hungry. Well done, Ser.
Spending a wet weekend with Jim Sterling at a casino sounds like a one hell of a way to spend a weekend
16:25 why does this silhouette look like a drunk phoenix wright?
Glad im not the only one who saw that
He's been hitting the grape juice again
Jim's explanation of how to be at a casino is how I casino
EA: so guys can we fit a casino into our next FIFA game? Actually, I think I know the answer.
I don't follow football but I'm sure there are real life stadiums that already have casinos in them.
Footie games at a casino.
EA Sports introduce Sports Betting. Which FIFA ultimate team will win, the lower strength has more of a payout.
Wait, I think they already do this.
Bet on matches, win nothing.
Imagine roulette with FIFAs wonky physics.
If I had any hacking experience I would definitely add "baby-thrower" to Strauss Zelnick's LinkedIn page
you could always vandalize his wikipedia page. i once got todd howards french wiki page blocked from being edited cause i changed his name to todd coward
"15 years experience of baby throwing. Only throwing the cutest and brightest babies off the highest bridges for $2.49/per."
Rex
I hate how believable this is!
Please, someone change his name to Strauss "Go for distance!" Zelnick.
I keep coming back here to listen to Jim describing his ideal weekend at a Casino
So.. upcoming next Sterdust fan meet at the crab buffet ?
Nice.
"What's your favorite Jimquisition episode, Johnny?"
"I like the one where Jim talks about the Beau Rivage and R. Kelly for a looooooooong time~!"
What do you mean R. Kelly?
When did Jim start talking about R. Kelly???
Jesus. I go on social media, Facebook, instagram, whatever, to find that people are praising rockstar quite a bit saying how much they love the new Casino update and how they're frustrated with the fact their country blocks portions of it. Blows my mind.
I really enjoyed Diamond casino. Hasn't spent a dime of real money on it. It's really good to have a fun time at blackjack with your friends.
They are braindead morons. The world is full of them
@@loganreed23 You could just... Play blackjack at home with your friends....
@@Zeverinsen well now you can't because of the quarantine...
This episode of the Jimquisition was sponsored by Aunt Jenny's: Aunt Jenny's: Shrimp Lovers pay Shrimp Prices... _Or Else._
Or else the ghosts will getcha, some people claim its haunted.
This video has crabs.
Great video Jim. I'm glad you keep "banging this drum". It needs to stop.
You are right Jim, an actual casino is better and more consumer-friendly than lootboxes and virtual gambling.
Casinos offer nummy food, good drinks, and the possibility to take home a casino waitress for a night of sexual lick licks. This alone makes it better than the game equivalent
While the other option is chewing Doritos, drinking Pepsi and fapping in the dark while opening lootboxes XD
Better not let your waifu find out. You have been spending an awful lot of time lately offline and blocking the gps cookies on your phone....are you seeing another console?!
make sure she doesnt work for red john though.
Lets be real here people
If you give me 500$ and tell me " You either spend it on GTA online casino or a real casino " I wont think twice...
...you'd play gta, wouldn't you? Smh, bloody millenials killing the casino industry.
@@Haan22 Sure you can't win anything and you're just throwing money away....but at least you don't have to leave your house :D
@@_Piers_ You have better chances at a real casino.
@@delta1525 You have chances at a real casino
I won't think twice either. $60ish to buy GTA online and then I've got $440ish to buy seafood.
At least I have the potential to make actual money when I gamble at a casino! That is how I fund my microtransaction/lootbox addiction after all! 🙃
Does it give payouts of pride and accomplishment when you hit the jackpot?
Hey Jim, any plans to cover the shitshow known as Mechwarrior 5 going with an Epic bait-and-switch after taking preorders? They've kept reassuring customers that they do not plan to switch to Epic... until last week when they announced Epic exclusivity and eventually slipped up disclosing that the exclusivity deal was signed *when the preorders for Steam version were still running* .
Wait, this can't be legal can it?
Never preorder video games. They just wanted people to learn a valuable life lesson.
I have less problems with Epic then most people, but I agree this sucks big time.
Also would you kindly stop preordering video games and putting your trust in people that don´t deserve it?
Fraud is Fraud, and Epic is Fraud........ but meh, Gambling in games so ?
(and here I thought fraud was illegal) _"its a small world after all,"_
@@EriesAston As long as they haven't taken payment the contract hasn't been finalised and can be unilaterally cancelled by either party without penalty. A contract requires consideration on both parts, the seller has provided consideration but you have not, as you have not paid any deposit.
*sigh* As a former BattleTech writer, I am very sad to see how far that entire series has fallen.
Every gambler know that the secret to surviving is knowing what to through away and knowing what to keep, 'cause every hands a winner and every hands a loser and the best that you can hope for is some free crab
Jack Daniels and crabs, eh ?
Yeah, I might go out for a bit ...