THE MOBILE INDUSTRY IS A SCAM!!!!! || Upper Echelon React
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Funnily enough all the waifu gacha games are probably the most honest of all mobile games.
Also I doubt these garbage games actually have that many players. Over 100 million downloads...but how many uninstalls after immediately finding out that the game is typical mobile trash.
Fr, I can't count the amount of shitty mobile games I've uninstalled over the years. The over 100 million downloads is totally a scam
@@peartry Totally like Genshin and Nikke
Most of the mobile games I stayed cuz they’re interesting, enriched with a good story, soundtrack etc like Nikke and both Honkai games, couldn’t get into Genshin or stayed cuz it’s of a favorite long running series like Yugioh Duel Links. Some I got bored with and uninstalled.
Same as phishing scams. You WILL get something, so cast the widest net possible for the best chance to get as many suckers as you can.
@archshade7891 Those are real, just need to look at China instead of US. CN mobile gaming is way bigger over there than here.
It is amazing that in this age of education people are so easily exploited.
*miseducation
I think the problem IS this age of education.
Intelegence and erudition are not connected in any shape or form. Education can only provide one with erudition, no matter the quality or level of said education. I personaly know professors who wrote multiple books on their subjects yet believe in shit like chem-trails and gay frogs. Absolute overwhelming majority of people are braindead NPC, always have been and always will be.
unfortunately people are taught what to think, not how to think.
channels like upper echelon and sir swag started out as gaming channels and turned into irl topic and does great job at it, they are underrated as hell
I think this is for the best as they hated Doom Eternal for playing it
Upper Echelon screwed himself over by having a dumb drama saga with Griffin Gaming. I barely remember much from it but Upper made themselves look stupid at one time.
@@ultralink17 yeah, he suffered a massive drop off cuz of that. Rn, I think he found a niche audience
UEG can be pretentious as fuck. Also he sucks at Doom
@@ultralink17 Upper Kekchelon is now getting attack again when he compared Grummz to Zoey Quinn bcoz Grummz was involved on the EM8ER game
The games in the ads are what the game on steam "YEAH! YOU WANT "THOSE GAMES," RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET'S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM!" is as it's meaning to be is to be the games in the mobile ads. The games are kind of good but they are the mini games you see in the ads. also a pay once own it until steam goes away thing.
Really it is more fun than most mobile games but it is what the ads are. It doesn't lie to you on steam either.
An Alana game would be cool though i wouldn't spend 1k on a gacha game to get it. ... Naked is allowed on the Google Play store you just need to follow censor ship rules. So nude but censored.
17:22 Funfact: I got interviewed to work on the companion app Ubisoft advertised with that trailer, the one where you were supposed to be able to control on drone on mobile and help players ingame.
I got the interview 3 months after the trailer dropped.
They presented in trailer a feature that they didn't even have properly designed, they didn't have a team working on it, it was 100% vaporware.
Didn't got the job in the end probably because they realized pretty quite this thing could never be done anyway. They still wasted my time doing a lot of pretty long writen test (non remunerated, ofc) for that shit.
*incoming min-rant, but not really negative, read if you want,* It's always hilarious when people claim that all mobile games are garbage or scams based on these games that false advertise their own game for some weird reason or these people never even lay a finger on it lol. Like bro all because games like rAiD sHaDoW lEgEnDs rely HEAVILY on paywalls doesn't mean every gacha is like that too. Drives me crazy when people say that RSL is the #1 best gacha out there, like how? The only reason that game has made it's buck and is #1 on the "successful gacha list" is literally because of it's Whale, Kraken and Titan population, I bet 100% if they stopped spending it wouldn't be #1 lol.
When it comes to gachas, the best way to approach them is this, to me it's like try them first before making said judgement positive or negative. I at least give games a week or two or even a full month before making a judgement if I actually want to continue with it or even spend on it. 9/10 I'm satisfied and feel I can comfortably progress as FP2 without really spending or in some cases drop the game altogether due to not having fun with it.
Games like Azur Lane, Nikke, Destiny Child (sad times) are perfect examples of gachs who balance whales and F2P's perfectly, still selling stuff (Ie, skins, bundles etc) for reasonable prices while also giving those F2P's a chance to experience the game entirely without having to pull out the wallet like in these cases, summoning. You also spend knowing what your getting, you reap what you sow, not throwing thousands randomly just because which a lot of people tend to do and then get mad which is hilarious.
Also yes, I've played the meme-lord RSL, literally when it launched to global, as much as CC's try to make it that it's a "F2P game" over the years it's not at all, all of the recent patches have proven this heavily and yet you still have CC's & Whales, Krakens and Titans who think nothing is wrong lol. Sure you can play it F2P, but good luck progressing, it will take you literal years, I have, and my account isn't even considered "end-game" yet and I've been playing it daily until recently, because I'm just sick of it lol. I've played gachs for like 10 years now, can't tell ya how many games I've come across over the years as a fully 100% F2P player, and best part is that I'm still enjoying the games to this day.
The only gacha that made me take out my wallet was Honkai Star Rail, mostly because I love the characters, the designs, the story, and the gameplay, and soundtrack. Every other gacha has been F2P lol, which also proves another point that you don't have to spend money on certain games to progress or enjoy it, it does depend on the game *cough, fck you Raid,* but again most, like waifu gacha games, you really don't need to pull out the wallet and to me that's nice.
I have played the X-hero or epic hero game, the ad was one of the draw a line around the dog to keep it safe from bees. It had a section of it to play the game fore like 10 levels then you had to grind out the hero summon game to unlock more levels. I played Hero wars years back, never got into it since it was one of those facebook games.
I kinda want to make mobile games, but I don't have the skills/too lazy to learn. An Alana mobile game could be an idle tower defense style game, with your model as the tower in the middle of the screen shooting the mini frogs as they come closer trying to cling onto the tower. You could sale skins for the different towers, which can give a small bonus to the tower's stats. You know to encourage them to buy skins more.
I'm a coder. I'm making a game right now that I was thinking of making you a skin for.
Not saying that I know, but asking the question... Are mobile games held to the same legal standard as console games? If not, it's no wonder we have this.
Happy Christmas Eve sorry I missed your stream, but I hope you have a merry Christmas too crazy to make it just right😂
the mobile gaming being a scam isn't a surprise in my opinion
Only spent my money on CODM because they had a collab with Girls Frontline and released a limited skin of M4a1
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Only money I've spent in a mobile game was on Genshin.
They have a $5 thing that gives you far more value than any of their direct buy-ins and works over a full month.
I considered it a monthly sub for how much I was enjoying the game as a F2P player aside from that and it gave me enough of the gacha currency to summon all I wanted.
Nikke, Call of Duty Mobile, and League of Legends Wild Rift ~ Zero spend self control
Spending $5 was a weak move 😆
@@archshade7891 I spent $5 a month to support a game I like. I spent it as a monthly sub because I played it daily and had fun. How's that a lack of self control?
Edit: How about your dumb ass spell "legends" properly before acting smug?
@@archshade7891 Yes, I spent $5 once a month while I was playing it daily and got my value out of it. You know, like it's a game subscription.
Let me put this down in a way that'll work out for both of us. You've spent more than 0 seconds on League of Legends. Only one of us is mentally ill.
Have a nice day lol.
Edit: Lol the idiot deleted his comment.
I spent $5 or so for Honkai Impact 3rd, since they have a pass that gives you gems for 1 month. I used Google Rewards tho, never actual money. Same with Nikke.
Am I still F2P since I’m throwing virtual money rather that use my own money? Like I’m not getting the best of the best lol I save up only for the RNGods to F me over 😂 Least Nikke is a bit more generous when it comes to pulling characters compared to Mihoyo games but holy hell, they’re over monetized to hell with their cosmetics like $20 to around $60!? WHO DAFUQ THEY THINK THEY ARE!? 😂 I wouldn’t even spend that much for cosmetic crap be it in a AAA game like CoD or Siege let alone a mobile game, one that I enjoy. Least with CoD you can save up CoD points, until you find an interesting skin or battle pass. At least those don’t go away completely that is until the next CoD and it’s back to, “Sorry your skins are staying here for good. No transfer”
@@J0kerHecz Genshin has the same system and the math works out that it's far better value than any direct purchase of the crystals they have and much cheaper.
I have godlike gacha luck though, and I cannot compute "fomo" so I've never even considered buying anything else, just the trickling in of support for a game that's fun.
That said, I haven't played Nikke, it doesn't look fun to me, but from what I've heard it's pretty nice. Genshin is easily the least predatory Gacha game I've seen. I played a few that outright block you from doing major plot or events until you've got a certain character and paywall essential stuff like DBL which I would say is the MOST predatory I've seen.
Genshin doesn't even push you to summon that often, you get so much of the resources you just do eventually. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If there was a Smug Alana game I would try it, but only if it weren't false advertising. I haven't played a mobile game in years, I just download educational apps when I want to learn something.
I play raid, The constant memeing of its ads got me to step in, and its my go to controlled distraction now, never put a penny into it because even dropping 10,000$ on the bastard can get you fucking nothing, but its fun to play as a character leveling 'stratagy' game
22:00 there is a saying that goes like this "an idiot and their money are soon parted"
Yeah 🌚rivers in Russian TH-cam for some reason decided that I needed to come here, I know that your parents seem to know russian~ 😅 Happy holiday ✨, looks like it’s your 25th Christmas today
Merry Christmas SmugAlana 【VTuber】
I miss the Gene machine channel. They used to make videos of fake videos and misleading adds on mobile. Some of their vids are supper kool for learning about this...
I think back to the Yeti Sports times, the City Bloxx times, the Gravity Defied times, and feel ultra sad that the face of mobile gaming is now this, this scammy, widespread, infamous, rotting scene.
The redeeming games now in mobile are the ports, not free games, netflix port games, apple arcade games, and hidden gems.
Alana just discovered where the money is.
Only game I put on my phone is solitaire for something to play when I am bored and don't have to constantly play
Smug Alana Undressup game! I also have some ideas for false advertising already. Let's divide the profit 20 / 80. We gona be rich.
Ok, but when will we see an actual Gopnik Alana outfit for real tho?
What is the opposite of a whale? Twice in my life I've spent money on a game other than buying it: A character related to a charity campaign in Arknights and a mega-fast tank in World of Tanks. Both were years ago. Both cost a euro or two. And both small purchases I made primarily to support the free game because playing had been quite fun and I wanted to give at least Something. I mostly play strategy games, role-playing games and simulations... so all videos talking about monetization in mobile games or certain AAA games just bewilders me. Or maybe it's more the people who play them that confuse me.
Not sure if there is any standard lingo for these terms, but I've heard f2p or "less than 10 total" referred to as "minnows." also people who spend a lot but aren't at the top are sometimes called "dolphins"
F2P is litterally in the name ... you spend 0$ ... there is no range of f2p
there is ranges to being a whale tho owo
Tech companies that keep these ads up need to be fined like how is television the only medium with ads that arent fake 100% of the time youd think since television had this on lockdown itd be common sense how is having 5% of your game being used as 100% of your ad not lying to the face of your customer god bless the ftc
Google: HEY DON'T USE ADBLOCK REEEE
Also Google: [Without Adblock] Hey do you want.... porn for your kids? Malware? Scam app? GTA6 ransomware? :)
32:36 If I had the money that these mobile game developers have I would commission a mural of Godzilla fighting MEGAS from MEGAS XLR sure i could’ve used it for subjectively better things like cars or a mansion but the end product would look amazing plus I would have bragging rights about it until the day I die I consider that money well spent
UE…. last time I heard of this goober was how bad he was at Doom Eternal, blames the game but not himself 😂
8:23 Hear me out. Smug Alana fighting game. Gopnik alana has an ak, goth alana has a knife, and cat alana would have claws as weapons. We just need a story line and enemies. Maybe it could be set in a multiverse.
Gacha games are probably the most truthful out of all the mobile games ad
But still, i play mobile games cuz their fun. Not the trash kind of mobile game though.
Here are my recommendation. Guardian tales, mobile legends (LOL ripoff bit still fun),and prob genshin impact? Why not.
It's crazy how the mobile industry is sustainable. Mobile games are why I feel gambling shout be outlawed
Let's make something like Pou, but with Smugalana instead :D
Just buy real video games and play them on a pc or console, play dinky little candi crush type games or just root your phone and run emulators play old NES and SNES games
Got sucked into a waifu game because of a dark pokemon type game advertisement that wasn't in the game at all. I still wish I had got the ad game though.
Speaking of money on mobile games I probably spent $300 on a game called mobile legends
The only money i have spent on a game (outisde of buying some) was around $7.00 and the benefit it gave me is permanent.
Two words: Money Laundering
Yep, this hasn't been much of a news to anyone in the know for the past decade or so. What baffles me is the fact that this is still going on as freely as it has been.
I think I've found my calling in life.
total war is a watered down traced copy of hero wars, its bad
Whales and greedy game devs destroyed mobile games. It used to be so much better.
Netflix games and Apple arcade games still exist
Erm
The hero wars game is even crazier than it seems.
Every so often they will run a new bait and switch add with a different bait and switch puzzle game in it.
So at one point they had the save the doge (from the bees) puzzle game, I guess they have the screws, and I think I remember at least one other puzzle for it.
Oh and Hero wars actually lets you play the puzzles. But sadly you have to progress in the core gacha game to unlock more puzzle levels.
Ah I see he researched that.
stop screaming, you saw ears
Soft fluffy fox ears TSKR ❤
baka AHHHHHHHH
I eventually stopped playing and uninstalled the mobile game hero wars solely due to how bizarre strange and weird they're adds we're getting
Damn, uperechelon somehow managed to sound even more nasally.
i only spent on dokkan and dragon ball legends gotta be careful
I sadly spent $100 ish on mlbb and I do/don't regret it
Got to love Upper Echelon
Especially the Doom Eternal content ❤
Yes and no. He generally does good work and I agree with him most of the time. But he is also fairly arrogant, or at least that's how it can come across. He brings up how he thinks people that play these games are stupid. While I think that's true in many cases, throwing them all together and labelling them stupid isn't going to help the situation. I'd also say it's more A question of dopamine and addiction than intelligence.
29:30
Late stage capitalism go brrrrrr
Alana, if you ever take a mobile game advertisement deal, I promise to play it and reach whichever level it takes for you to get paid. Let's milk them mobile companies dry!
By "milk them dry" you mean "help their business"? Cause they get waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy more benefit out of any sponsorship than the partner.
@@StainlessPot not if the community that gets advertised to is not spending any money
Hero Wars is actually pretty fun. I played it for a while (browser version on pc) and it has a decent amount of gameplay. It's a little like a puzzle game where you have a set of tools (heroes) and you try to mix and match them to pass certain levels. If you have self-control you can play it without paying. There are way worse mobile games out there.
I agree, it's surprisingly fun. As someone who started playing at the start of the year, I got in because the ads looked like a fun casual game, but I stayed for the RPG mechanics, the story and characters, and the various activities and events available. The fact that Nexters even bothered to do lore-related stuff like Keira's origin comic or the animated short for Galahad shows that they want to make something worthwhile out of this game. And while the prices for bundles and deals can be expensive and tempting, I like to earn the resources through the gameplay and only spend occasionally; that makes me more of a gacha dolphin than a whale.
If you spend money on any mobile game you already lost and your arguments are not valid.
I spend on Dead Cells, GTA port games, Bully, Max Payne, Shovel Knight Puzzle, and other paid games
I offer myself as workforce for the idle Smug Alana mobile game
Let's
Make
It
Happen XD