tbf i played quite a bit of the cookie run game and paying is Wining dont get me wrong, but not required. i dont think i have spent a dime, yet i still have quite good stuff (with most of my skillissue being due to not continueing the story like i should) so the only reason its buring a wallet in the hole (yes i know i reversed it, i funny) is because of the challenge
in regards to the Cookie Run game which will definitely appeal to kids this should be a major warning to any parents handing them an ipad/phone of any kind especially if your card details are saved to it. One supposedly harmless little game you think will keep them occupied for even 30 minutes could turn into a really expensive mistake.
Yeah seeing how predatory these games (and social media in general) I think I have decided that if I ever have kids they aren't getting access to a smartphone/iPad until they are a teen.
I remember playing cookie run when it first came out on an iPod touch. It was free and it was just the endless runner, one level, escape the kitchen, get as far as you can. There were no extra modes. No powerups. No different cookies to unlock. No rewards for winning. No micro transactions. Nothing. You'd just try to get to the end and keep playing. To see it turned into a gacha franchise with multiple games while still advertising to kids is disgusting.
@@chargenari the original cookie run which was called ovenbreak from 2013 had 0 pay to win mechanics or a cash shop period. The original cookie run does not exist anymore. The current game called cookie run:ovenbreak is an entirely different game.
my friend plays it too lmfao, he's actually really into the series and not the gooner stuff, its a niche lmfao, I was so scared of clicking onto this video cuz I used to play cookie run kingdom and now im playing cookie run tower of adventure cuz I lost my kingdom account ToT
I'm halfway trough the cookie run video segment. Does our hero escape Cookie Run, or will he be extending playtime untill he has unlocked every character?
There are gacha games like Cookie Run Kingdom that just bombard you with transactions, and then there are gacha games like Arknights, that don't even let you access the store until a certain story stage is cleared. That's a gacha that would survive the 30 minute timer, without extending it in any way.
@@callumprice1710arknights is pretty much f2p if you spend the time to increase your weekly cap of the premium currency it's an absolute hell of a grind but is something you can do. The daily resource missions are probably the most annoying part tbh because sometimes you forget the schedule and have to basically wait a week.
@@cranberrysauce61 It's an established science. You don't need annoying pop ups all the time if you can get an audience of guys and gals hooked on choice waifus and husbandos.
Limbus Company is a Gacha/Mobile game that might not fit this video format. To my memory, it doesn't give pop-ups trying to have you spend money, but it does have a fanbase of sleeper agents that spawn from nowhere at the mention of the game or any of it's connected series.
I mean GFL2 is part of a bigger series and they are already working on a Call of Duty style Game in the series as well. Also during Cookie Run Kingdom "A viewer was kind enough to tell me i missed out on Gacha..." Translation: "I banned a guy for making me lose even more money"
From being someone who plays Monopoly Go, if Kaif played that he would spend SO much money, popups for events, popup every time you run out of rolls. Sometimes a ton of popups when you run out as well as if you get lucky to go through stuff quickly or spend a bunch of money to then it gives even more popups.
I calculated the money Kaif spent in total over every video (£1090.72)($1353.04) and he's so extremely close to the cost of every sims 4 dlc that the difference is laughable (£1091.61)($1354.14)
That's the cost for every single dlc for the sims 4?? Not that it's anything but damn expensive, but I genuinely thought it'd be somewhere on the $2k+ 😂
Me, a long time SKK: "Oh cool, another one of these videos. I love to see more scummy, predatory and badly made mobile games I would never ever play!" Kaif: "So let's start off with GFL2." ...oh. :´)
£33 for a character upgrade pack is freaking nuts. I'm playing Palworld while watching the video - a really fun game that gives someone that enjoys survival games a few dozen hours of gameplay every few months (at least). On sale from steam it costs about £16.50 - literally half the price... OF A CHARACTER UPGRADE PACK. Mobile freemium games are freaking nuts. Even for people that can comfortably afford to drop that much money frequently, I'm still surprised - I know I wouldn't do it just on principle.
I gave up on mobile gaming years and years ago. I could play something amazing like Elden Ring, or a piece of garbage slot machine "game" and possible spend more for way, way, way less "game" on the mobile slot machine. There might have been something worthwhile to mobile gaming at the very start, but it's all mostly total garbage skinner boxes now.
I found your channel recently through these videos and was pleasently suprised finding out the proceeds were given to the MS Society which my mother deals with so thanks so much not many people understand what people with MS go through! Keep up the entertaining videos
I imagine Coin Master's success is less to do with actual good gameplay, and more to do with how popular slots are with... certain crowds. The sheer fact that there are countless slots games on the app store that all do well and make money despite basically costing money and offering nothing back is wild, but speaks to the fact that some people just love (or get addicted) to slots gameplay.
0:00 Intro + Rules 0:50 GAME 1 - Girls Frontline 2 12:09 GAME 2 - Seaside Escape 21:53 GAME 3 - Coin Master 26:24 GAME 4 - Cookie Run Kingdom 48:55 GAME 5 - Tropical Merge (?) 52:26 GAME 6 - Marvel Heroes Strike Force 1:04:55 Outro + Total
I know people say Gacha games are a shameless cash grab and it may or may not be true for many gacha games but the real cash grab are all these merge games no matter if its farm heros, gardens scapes, etc... they dont even try to hide it and they send you more stuff the more you buy. My mom was around level 3000 in garden scapes and couldnt beat it for days and failed the level again and bought for the very first time when the game offered a 1,99€ bundle with infinite lives for 1 hour and the two extra turns she needed to beat it. after that the game keep showing more and more bundles and boosters mind you she rarely got offers after level 300 most of them only being event stuff but after that first purchase it just sends them after every 3 or 4 levels Edit: Also the idea for coin master is that you connect to facebook and destroy your friends village that they then have to repair with coins meaning you steal coins from them and then they have to use even more coins to repair and then even more to upgrade mean a lot of spins will be used later on meaning if you really want to progress you have to be lucky that you dont get attacked/have good spins so you can upgrade and get rid of your coins before the next attack on your base. I played it with friends for about a month and lived on the high of getting high spins with a mechanic that comes later that lets you spin a x50 or even x100 based on the number of spins you can make and that was the most fun i had laughing at my friends as i spin a x100 perfect steal on their base stealing all theyr coins and getting it multiplied by 100 as he threw his phone against the wall. "Best" thing is the game send him a bundle with a 24 hour shield and 200 mil coins(basically nothing at the point we where at) so he quit and shorty after we quit one by one as its not fun without friends to piss off Also i dont know if it still sends adds but girls x battle 2 was my first gacha and its very *coughs* "interesting* with the character desings as all of them are female and yes i played it for 2 years am between account level 230~250 and my story mode is nightmare (i think) and only stopped because of work stress. (yes i paid money for a few skins and maybe a single wedding ring for my fave character Sapphire whos a fox girl)
@@chargenari Not to mention the storys can range form bad to good with cash grab gachas and good to amazing world building and story telling for the well known gacha games like genshin impact, honkai star rail, Fate/GO with all the heroic spirit storys and that are connected with the story of someone else, etc...
Man and I heard people singing that Marvel game's praises. Not only does it not live up to the hype, but it also doesn't even live up to other scummy mobile games lmao
Fun Fact: Most games with a speedup battle mechanic like Marvel: Strike Force, actually just slow down the normal battle animations and make you wait or buy to unlock the "Speedup" which is actually just the normal good feeling animation speed. Like watch the animations at 1x speed, and they feel so insanely slow and clunky, and then the speedup feels like how it should feel. And they get you by presenting it to you like a cool new unlock because it's really hard to notice till you've watched it move sped up for a while, then go back to 1x and see how slow and clunky it feels.
crk is the only mobile game im really able to play and i havent spent any money on it and im still able to do things (tho much less than the ppl who full max our their stuff). it honestly is pretty generous with its f2p rewards with the arena/guild stuff.
24:26 The higher bet is actually the best mechanic in coin master! At higher villages you get like x100 all the way up to bets of x10,000, and you get crazy amounts and more luck leads to more spins for more coins for more upgrades in a cycle! I ended up with over a trillion coins a couple times and almost broke the bar at the top😂
she cookie on my run till kingdom (come) I mean... she run on my cookie till I spend money... wait-- she kingdom and till I'm broke and homeless....... uh oh.... side note, as someone who has played CRK as a f2p, this hurts my on a spiritual level to watch, DAMN YOU POWER CREEP!!!
as a long time Cookie Run Kingdom fan god this hurt to watch💔💔 do NOT tell this man about the 100$ package for a single copy of moonlight cookie that exists
I guess it has to be said... _that's how the cookie crumbs._ I will always watch these, if not for your misery in having to deal with this shit, then for your dealing with it as a perfect "mockumentary" on how predatory these kinds of games are and why players/parents of players should be wary of them.
Fun fact about cookie run kingdom: even if you flat out refuse to spend the money from the ads it keeps shoving in your face it will continue to shove multiple ads in your face, there's even ads on pages where there's freebies and in fact for a game that's "free to play" it's had multiple complaints because it didn't used to be so f2p friendly and even after it's update that made it a bit better it's just become a huge cashgrab 😂
I am playing cookie run kingdom activaly and never spent a cent... and i can tell you... you buying all those popups... made you pull MORE new cookies... i barely pull any FULL cookies, only fragments cause I dont spent money... they cookie games, as fun they might be, are so optemized to get your money, the more you buy, the more they take...
Im a f2p in Cookie Run Kingdom since launch. And. Its a grind. But i can just take some days off or months if i dont like the update. But. Yeh. A TON of pay pop ups
i've also been playing since launch and i've never had to grind too much, i'm f2p as well they're rather generous when it comes to diamonds, but everything else is a bit of a pain to get. time-related stuff is also really annoying, but does that count as grinding? other than upgrading characters, maybe??! but yeah CRK is awesome but also super annoying with the pop-ups.
I used to play Coin Master every day! I only recently uninstalled it about a month ago due to storage, not playing as much or being interested and I did spend a bit much lol. But at least there's a game I actually played!😂 Oh and Strike Force! I used to play that a ton too but also uninstalled maybe just due to storage or I wasn't playing as much? I don't remember but I played it a ton before!
GFL and GFL2 are actually really fun once you get past all the gooner bait and usual mobile game bs (which even then its not as bad as other mobile games)
@SpecsWitched the first one is not perfect (far from it, in fact), but it's has a pretty good premise. I like the gameplay it's kind of turned based on what i remember, not nearly as good as the XCOM style but not terrible. Now, compared to the second game, it definitely doesn't hold up
I love playing Cookie Run to the point I’m a subscription holder but I will never defend how atrocious its pop ups and monetization is. You can get surprisingly far f2p depending on how good your luck is.
Cookie Run Kingdom is actually really fun to play and even if you don't spend a penny it is a relaxing game but even I knew as I saw Cookie Run in the thumbnail I could hear your wallet crying!
Oh god cookie run... CR Kingdom and Love Nikki drained me 3k in like 4 years. Which ain't as bad in most countries but in sweden its 30k in our currency where you could easily get a big-ass apartment AND buy 4 cats
I kid you not, 5 minutes after reading this comment while watching the video, what do I get an ad for? *Infinity Nikki.* Not Love Nikki, but it’s one of the Nikki games it seems.
coin master is probably very populair for the boomers. since its facebook intergrated. so its a lot of old people that wouldnt want to get into more complicated gameplay. there is also a card collection part you get to later that has entire facebook groups for trading and selling. the rabbithole goes deep on this one.
God magically summoning 110,821 Project Moon fans to this comments section because he played one gacha game not even related to Limbus Company (the hit game by Project Moon, glory to Kim Ji Hoon)
The more these predatory practices are put on show the better. For most of us clicking away is easy but there are those that are vulnerable who can easily be taken advantage of by these practices. It needs far more regulation in place, even spending caps like (in the UK) gambling companies have to offer would be a step in the right direction.
"Poludnitsa" (also "Południca/Poludnica" and various other spellings) isn't a weird name, it's a slavic demon 😭 most gamers likely encountered it too: if you've ever played the witcher, it's the original name for a noonwraith. Multiple characters have slavic language based or inspired names, like Krolik (Rabbit), Groza (depending on specific language: terror, dread or storm), and Mechty (dream) and probably more that i can't find from a quick look through the characters. (I also don't speak russian, which seems to be the primary language they're using) What i DO find weird is that one of the characters is basically named "finland" in finnish (Suomi)
ayyyy GFL2! been loving the game so far, and waiting for my fav T-Dolls to make a return. also, the FOMO in the game really isn't all that bad. in the month since the game released, it's been VERY generous with the "premium" currency. at least 250-300 pulls worth of it. i've only gotten the battle pass since i like the company and the other GFL universe games they've made, and even after pulling 3 limited characters (2 Suomi, 1 Makiatto) and losing 1 50/50, i still have 130 pulls left right now
i use to play cookie run back when oven break was the only app and it was more of just an endless runner. they still had gatcha but little pop ups and you could get everything with just playing the game. I would get thousands of gems just playing once a month and they didn't have all this event overload. i love the game but i hate what it's turned in to. i can't even find the endless run mode if it even still exists and that's what i liked most about the game.
@@Kekekekennthey have one of the most horrible rates specifically genshin the others are more lenient, they also have more limited banner units which create a sense of heavy fomo and urgency, gacha currency is extremely limited(F2P) and have to be farmed hours just to get a few pulls, so yeah that's where their gacha hate comes from
The total for this series so far is £1,090.72, with over a quarter of that being Cookie Run Kingdom. Leave a like or Kaif may never financially recover from this lads
So the names in the first game are weird. Another one of "mashup the languages to make it sound cooler" From what I've seen: Groza - in Ukrainian/Russian = гроза/гроза -> Thunder or Thunderstorm; Krolik - (depending on how you want to pronounce the "i" it's also the case of-) Ukrainian/Russian = кролик/кролик (yes, those 2 words are pronounced differently) -> Bunny or Rabbit; Poludnitca(?) - purely Ukrainian word ("d" is unnecessary here) = полуниця -> Strawberry; Edit: nope, not strawberry lol, old Russian myth. Papasha - purely Russian word = папаша -> Daddy. (Calling anime girl(?) Daddy lol) So some names are just other languages words with English spelling.
Doesn't Poludnitca represent person who wander around in the noon like (Полуденница), in similarity to Polunochnik(Полуночник) -person who wanders in midnight?
i thought groza and królik were in polish when i saw those names, didn't know they were words in ukrainian/russian too. the meaning for królik is the same but groza in polish means terror instead.
I'm so used to ignoring pop ups that i never noticed just how many and how expensive kingdom's were lmao. Also a game suggestion if you do another video in this series is AFK Journey, it's a good game, but man does it have a shit ton of pop ups
I'm someone who used to play Cookie Run kingdom daily but sadly this game gave me a really bad gacha addiction to the point I had to quit for my own health. In total on my time playing I ended up spending around 1800USD thanks to the game constant promotion of "cheap" packages and the stupid difficulty spikes at the later half of the game. While the game, story and characters were fun the gacha was what ruined it for me to the point I had to genuinely step back and completely distance myself from it because it was harmful for me
Cookie Run huh... I've heard of it before but oof... all those microtransactions is beyond ridiculous. Word of advice if you do a part 4... I'd honestly avoid Valkyrie Connect. Been playing for way too long and dear god has it gone to hell in a handbasket. Pop ups have started to get common too (and not cheap) so uh... yeah. I like the characters and splash arts but I would NOT recommend it. Also side note but the Gacha rates are so bad. People think Genshin is bad at 0.6% with a guarantee at 90 pulls? That game outside of select banners, on average, is 0.080% for a featured unit and requires 30 sets of 10 pulls... 300 pulls effectively.
I think a fun game that could maybe last the 30 minute timer is Dino Hunter: Deadly Shores. The game has you hunt dinosaurs (who woulda thunk), but, iirc, the only transactions it gets out of you are if you run out of energy.
The cookie animations of the gacha look really good, but man if the gameplay makes me wanna run from the game so far away Best video of this series so far
Just to suggest one game that I've been seeing EVERY single time I watch a video on youtube it's "Hero Wars", it has gooner bait on the ads and tbf some of it looks like "The Writer's Barely-Disguised Fetish" meme thing. Love this videos, they are interesting and fun to see your suffering but, yeah, if they stop being profitable I will not miss them lmao.
Man imagine how freaking awesome the cookie game could be... like all of those voice actors and well made animations, they could have made something so much better than an autoscrolling slog
oh man, he is so glad he didnt play during a crk anniversary. as i frequent crk player (like 355 days played in 2024 i think) and a frequent spender (over $200 from 2021-now) the anniversary updates will absolutely flood your screen with popups, as well as new year deals. do i regret how much i spend? not really. crk is a truly great game as long as you ignore the popups.
Coin master gets worse with time If u log off and go online again and u are high village u get like 5 pop ups before playing, same after spending all spins, all these da** Pop ups again I think with level 4 u are able to collect cards in card sets, which can be achieved by buying chests or in a clan but high gold cards can't be obtained in a clan u need to get a joker card So this system might be so addictive cause u spin to get up and get cards with complete card sets u get spins so idk
Kaif I thank you for playing Cookie Run so I could see the game for myself. I started playing it and turns out when you're not under a geas to spend money it's a fairly decent game/idler. Also pretty good stories. Eventually, takes a bit.
I'm not really sure how I feel about you continuing this series tbh. Don't get me wrong, I have watched all the videos and enjoyed your insight on them, it's just that (as you've mentioned) all these games have the same loop, so it will not be more fun to watch you go through the same things over and over. I'm also still iffy on the fact that you are giving money to these scammers (even if I acknowledge that it's nothing to them). The charity idea feels better even just comparing the amount you donated vs the amount you paid people that don't deserve it, although I understand that it makes the experience different, I'd still rather have you give them less and give charities more. Maybe there could be a new rule concerning repeat bundles or some form of a bingo card that once a line has been completed, you start donating to a charity instead of paying the game. This would keep it entertaining (the game would still register that you've paid for a bunch before so it would still behave like you're a good cash cow) while making sure that they don't profit as much.
I've played all of GFL2's story content without spending a dime, and the gameplay was more enjoyable than any other f2p mobile game I've tried. Maybe it's that strategy/turn-based just feels better on a touchscreen for me, but whatever, it's my subjective opinion. The only issue is that you sometimes get level-walled, and your characters' level is walled by your player level, which only adequately rises with daily grinding. Nonetheless, I did not feel outgunned even with base (i.e. not SSR) units a few levels below the enemy, and tactics can make up for _some_ discrepancy. Bosses are a bit... nyeh, some were pushovers and some healed more in one turn than I could pump out damage, so it's a mixed bag. Lastly, because it's a live service game, you're of course egged on to log in every day and do the events and stuff... not for me, tbh, and apart from some FOMO equipment/characters, I'm not missing out on much. Still, I think if you want to play XCOM-style skirmishes and don't want to pay the $10.99 for XCOM1/2 on android, it's worth considering.
thankfully cookie run doesnt actually ever take characters out of the rolls at least the odds just change, honestly not bad but yeah everything is suuuper overpriced
The amount of Polish words as names in first games is making me laugh (Krolik/Królik - Bunny, Groza - Fright, Poludnica/Południca - Lady Midday (ghost from folklore)) XDD
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Getting Kaif to get that "free" Ancient cookie will forever be one of my proudest moments :]
... fitting name...
"Chaos"...
Lmao, the true agent of chaos
I'm surprised he never clicked the Mileage popup. Dude had 8k points to spend and never pressed it. Buahahah
well done and im sorry that you play the game enough to know about it
Cookie Run is going to end with Kaif's wallet in flames isn't it?
100% He may have to take out a mortgage
He could make a series of just buying all cookie characters and his $1000+ income per video he could keep making more and more videos
Definitely not cause you’re stupid .
@@Haz4lera third one
tbf i played quite a bit of the cookie run game and paying is Wining dont get me wrong, but not required. i dont think i have spent a dime, yet i still have quite good stuff (with most of my skillissue being due to not continueing the story like i should) so the only reason its buring a wallet in the hole (yes i know i reversed it, i funny) is because of the challenge
in regards to the Cookie Run game which will definitely appeal to kids this should be a major warning to any parents handing them an ipad/phone of any kind especially if your card details are saved to it. One supposedly harmless little game you think will keep them occupied for even 30 minutes could turn into a really expensive mistake.
Yeah seeing how predatory these games (and social media in general) I think I have decided that if I ever have kids they aren't getting access to a smartphone/iPad until they are a teen.
I have a 1 year old, I can't agree more.
I remember playing cookie run when it first came out on an iPod touch. It was free and it was just the endless runner, one level, escape the kitchen, get as far as you can. There were no extra modes. No powerups. No different cookies to unlock. No rewards for winning. No micro transactions. Nothing. You'd just try to get to the end and keep playing. To see it turned into a gacha franchise with multiple games while still advertising to kids is disgusting.
@@madzi9574 the first ones were extremely pay to win lmao
@@chargenari the original cookie run which was called ovenbreak from 2013 had 0 pay to win mechanics or a cash shop period. The original cookie run does not exist anymore. The current game called cookie run:ovenbreak is an entirely different game.
all shits n giggles until one game you actually kinda like is the first one on here
good game go play it
the only mobile game i like has like 0 predatory ways to get money out of you
It's not like XCOM 3 is has a chance of ever being developed.
my friend plays it too lmfao, he's actually really into the series and not the gooner stuff, its a niche lmfao, I was so scared of clicking onto this video cuz I used to play cookie run kingdom and now im playing cookie run tower of adventure cuz I lost my kingdom account ToT
-rolls a single 10x
-gets event 5star
-never plays the game again
absolute sigma
Oh god Cookie Run. This can only go downhill...
It was painfull to watch
I'm halfway trough the cookie run video segment. Does our hero escape Cookie Run, or will he be extending playtime untill he has unlocked every character?
There are gacha games like Cookie Run Kingdom that just bombard you with transactions, and then there are gacha games like Arknights, that don't even let you access the store until a certain story stage is cleared. That's a gacha that would survive the 30 minute timer, without extending it in any way.
Its kinda terrfying that something like genshin or arknights is less money grubbing than a cookie game.
@@callumprice1710arknights is pretty much f2p if you spend the time to increase your weekly cap of the premium currency it's an absolute hell of a grind but is something you can do.
The daily resource missions are probably the most annoying part tbh because sometimes you forget the schedule and have to basically wait a week.
@@callumprice1710 You'd be surprised, it's a Korean game, it's either money-grubbing like CRK, or very generous like Limbus Company, no inbetween
@@RenShinomiya121YOU HAVE ALERTED THE HORDE⚠️!!!
Did i hear limbus company??!!!
I didn't expect GFL2 to be here. I expected bad mobile games at the start but that was a good start.
yeah, GFL2 is one the higher end of gacha games, where they know people will open their wallets without having to ask.
@@cranberrysauce61 It's an established science. You don't need annoying pop ups all the time if you can get an audience of guys and gals hooked on choice waifus and husbandos.
Limbus Company is a Gacha/Mobile game that might not fit this video format. To my memory, it doesn't give pop-ups trying to have you spend money, but it does have a fanbase of sleeper agents that spawn from nowhere at the mention of the game or any of it's connected series.
SLEEPER AGENTS ASSEMBLE.
We will see if this comment gets flooded with Project Moon fans
LIMBUSSY!!!
LIMBUS COMPANY
Holy shit limbus company mentioned
Kaif’s bank account : Why must you make me suffer
Kaif: Cookie run kingdom
Who would have thought that the sexy soldier game would have been the most reasonable?
I mean GFL2 is part of a bigger series and they are already working on a Call of Duty style Game in the series as well.
Also during Cookie Run Kingdom "A viewer was kind enough to tell me i missed out on Gacha..."
Translation: "I banned a guy for making me lose even more money"
Lmao
Ooo now that Kaif has covered a gatcha game on here, he is one step closer to Limbussy Company.
PROJECT MOON PROTOCOL.
LIMBUS COMPANY MENTIONED
LLLLLLLIIIIIIMMMBUS COMPANY GLORY TO KIM JI HOON
WITH EACH ADDITIONAL MENTION THE CHANCES GROW HIGHER AND HIGHER WOOO🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I love the Charity aspect, good addition Kaif
Kaif being stunlocked by GF2 makes me happy
4:25 I legit forgot the main reason why Kaif was playing that game lmao, I thought he was just playing through Girls Frontline lol.
well, it was the only actual game in the video
From being someone who plays Monopoly Go, if Kaif played that he would spend SO much money, popups for events, popup every time you run out of rolls. Sometimes a ton of popups when you run out as well as if you get lucky to go through stuff quickly or spend a bunch of money to then it gives even more popups.
I was getting a ton of ads for that game not a surprise that there are a ton of pop ups
I calculated the money Kaif spent in total over every video (£1090.72)($1353.04) and he's so extremely close to the cost of every sims 4 dlc that the difference is laughable (£1091.61)($1354.14)
That's the cost for every single dlc for the sims 4?? Not that it's anything but damn expensive, but I genuinely thought it'd be somewhere on the $2k+ 😂
@@farahmau
Give it another year or two and EA will certainly get it there!
Then some people wonder why piracy of this game is so popular lol.
i hope this blows you up so you can keep the content coming. pure gold concept
Me, a long time SKK: "Oh cool, another one of these videos. I love to see more scummy, predatory and badly made mobile games I would never ever play!"
Kaif: "So let's start off with GFL2."
...oh. :´)
Yes! I have been waiting for this glorious cookie run video xD
(I know there's other games but let's be real, the main spectacle *is* Cookie run lol)
Exactly same
£33 for a character upgrade pack is freaking nuts. I'm playing Palworld while watching the video - a really fun game that gives someone that enjoys survival games a few dozen hours of gameplay every few months (at least). On sale from steam it costs about £16.50 - literally half the price... OF A CHARACTER UPGRADE PACK.
Mobile freemium games are freaking nuts. Even for people that can comfortably afford to drop that much money frequently, I'm still surprised - I know I wouldn't do it just on principle.
I gave up on mobile gaming years and years ago. I could play something amazing like Elden Ring, or a piece of garbage slot machine "game" and possible spend more for way, way, way less "game" on the mobile slot machine.
There might have been something worthwhile to mobile gaming at the very start, but it's all mostly total garbage skinner boxes now.
I found your channel recently through these videos and was pleasently suprised finding out the proceeds were given to the MS Society which my mother deals with so thanks so much not many people understand what people with MS go through! Keep up the entertaining videos
I imagine Coin Master's success is less to do with actual good gameplay, and more to do with how popular slots are with... certain crowds. The sheer fact that there are countless slots games on the app store that all do well and make money despite basically costing money and offering nothing back is wild, but speaks to the fact that some people just love (or get addicted) to slots gameplay.
Every time someone says yes to a micro transaction, a bankers headache gets a little stronger.
Coin master is forced on most samsung phones when you first get it so that's probs why it's still played
As a strike force player, never in a million years did I expect to see it in one of these videos and NOT be the worst of the lot
0:00 Intro + Rules
0:50 GAME 1 - Girls Frontline 2
12:09 GAME 2 - Seaside Escape
21:53 GAME 3 - Coin Master
26:24 GAME 4 - Cookie Run Kingdom
48:55 GAME 5 - Tropical Merge (?)
52:26 GAME 6 - Marvel Heroes Strike Force
1:04:55 Outro + Total
Oh good lord, they also announce when people pull new cookies in Cookie Run to encourage you to pull stuff.
I know people say Gacha games are a shameless cash grab and it may or may not be true for many gacha games but the real cash grab are all these merge games no matter if its farm heros, gardens scapes, etc... they dont even try to hide it and they send you more stuff the more you buy. My mom was around level 3000 in garden scapes and couldnt beat it for days and failed the level again and bought for the very first time when the game offered a 1,99€ bundle with infinite lives for 1 hour and the two extra turns she needed to beat it. after that the game keep showing more and more bundles and boosters mind you she rarely got offers after level 300 most of them only being event stuff but after that first purchase it just sends them after every 3 or 4 levels
Edit: Also the idea for coin master is that you connect to facebook and destroy your friends village that they then have to repair with coins meaning you steal coins from them and then they have to use even more coins to repair and then even more to upgrade mean a lot of spins will be used later on meaning if you really want to progress you have to be lucky that you dont get attacked/have good spins so you can upgrade and get rid of your coins before the next attack on your base. I played it with friends for about a month and lived on the high of getting high spins with a mechanic that comes later that lets you spin a x50 or even x100 based on the number of spins you can make and that was the most fun i had laughing at my friends as i spin a x100 perfect steal on their base stealing all theyr coins and getting it multiplied by 100 as he threw his phone against the wall. "Best" thing is the game send him a bundle with a 24 hour shield and 200 mil coins(basically nothing at the point we where at) so he quit and shorty after we quit one by one as its not fun without friends to piss off
Also i dont know if it still sends adds but girls x battle 2 was my first gacha and its very *coughs* "interesting* with the character desings as all of them are female and yes i played it for 2 years am between account level 230~250 and my story mode is nightmare (i think) and only stopped because of work stress. (yes i paid money for a few skins and maybe a single wedding ring for my fave character Sapphire whos a fox girl)
yeah, at least most gacha games have mostly a fun gameplay and a shit ton of effort and polish put into it.
@@chargenari Not to mention the storys can range form bad to good with cash grab gachas and good to amazing world building and story telling for the well known gacha games like genshin impact, honkai star rail, Fate/GO with all the heroic spirit storys and that are connected with the story of someone else, etc...
Man and I heard people singing that Marvel game's praises. Not only does it not live up to the hype, but it also doesn't even live up to other scummy mobile games lmao
GFL2 is feet heaven, Kaif is gonna be so happy lmao
Fun Fact: Most games with a speedup battle mechanic like Marvel: Strike Force, actually just slow down the normal battle animations and make you wait or buy to unlock the "Speedup" which is actually just the normal good feeling animation speed.
Like watch the animations at 1x speed, and they feel so insanely slow and clunky, and then the speedup feels like how it should feel.
And they get you by presenting it to you like a cool new unlock because it's really hard to notice till you've watched it move sped up for a while, then go back to 1x and see how slow and clunky it feels.
Kaif developed a gambling addiction.
crk is the only mobile game im really able to play and i havent spent any money on it and im still able to do things (tho much less than the ppl who full max our their stuff). it honestly is pretty generous with its f2p rewards with the arena/guild stuff.
24:26 The higher bet is actually the best mechanic in coin master! At higher villages you get like x100 all the way up to bets of x10,000, and you get crazy amounts and more luck leads to more spins for more coins for more upgrades in a cycle! I ended up with over a trillion coins a couple times and almost broke the bar at the top😂
she cookie on my run till kingdom (come)
I mean...
she run on my cookie till I spend money... wait--
she kingdom and till I'm broke and homeless....... uh oh....
side note, as someone who has played CRK as a f2p, this hurts my on a spiritual level to watch, DAMN YOU POWER CREEP!!!
She cookie on my run till I crumb.
playing any gacha game as a f2p can range to mild to serious masochism
@@Void637 its called CBT... and WE LIKE IT
@President-of-Funnywhat’s cbt?
played when the game was released, never spent on the game because i don't wanna spend money on gacha games
as a long time Cookie Run Kingdom fan god this hurt to watch💔💔
do NOT tell this man about the 100$ package for a single copy of moonlight cookie that exists
"Make him poor! Make him really really poor!,
Oh go go, go spend more!"
In the theme of tell me lies
Kaif directly went for the feet, respect lol 👍
I guess it has to be said... _that's how the cookie crumbs._
I will always watch these, if not for your misery in having to deal with this shit, then for your dealing with it as a perfect "mockumentary" on how predatory these kinds of games are and why players/parents of players should be wary of them.
I'm being shown a 20 minute long ad for this video and I'm going to let it run so maybe Kaif will recover from gingerbread hell
Fun fact about cookie run kingdom: even if you flat out refuse to spend the money from the ads it keeps shoving in your face it will continue to shove multiple ads in your face, there's even ads on pages where there's freebies and in fact for a game that's "free to play" it's had multiple complaints because it didn't used to be so f2p friendly and even after it's update that made it a bit better it's just become a huge cashgrab 😂
I am playing cookie run kingdom activaly and never spent a cent...
and i can tell you... you buying all those popups... made you pull MORE new cookies...
i barely pull any FULL cookies, only fragments cause I dont spent money...
they cookie games, as fun they might be, are so optemized to get your money, the more you buy, the more they take...
Its so crazy that you chose the MS society. My nother suffers from ms so im very grateful.
Kaif… it’s okay as long as YT can cover it. Please never do this out of your own pocket
Im a f2p in Cookie Run Kingdom since launch. And. Its a grind. But i can just take some days off or months if i dont like the update. But. Yeh. A TON of pay pop ups
i've also been playing since launch and i've never had to grind too much, i'm f2p as well
they're rather generous when it comes to diamonds, but everything else is a bit of a pain to get. time-related stuff is also really annoying, but does that count as grinding?
other than upgrading characters, maybe??!
but yeah CRK is awesome but also super annoying with the pop-ups.
I used to play Coin Master every day! I only recently uninstalled it about a month ago due to storage, not playing as much or being interested and I did spend a bit much lol. But at least there's a game I actually played!😂
Oh and Strike Force! I used to play that a ton too but also uninstalled maybe just due to storage or I wasn't playing as much? I don't remember but I played it a ton before!
GFL and GFL2 are actually really fun once you get past all the gooner bait and usual mobile game bs (which even then its not as bad as other mobile games)
If you only said that about GFL2 I'd believe you
@SpecsWitched the first one is not perfect (far from it, in fact), but it's has a pretty good premise. I like the gameplay it's kind of turned based on what i remember, not nearly as good as the XCOM style but not terrible. Now, compared to the second game, it definitely doesn't hold up
I love playing Cookie Run to the point I’m a subscription holder but I will never defend how atrocious its pop ups and monetization is. You can get surprisingly far f2p depending on how good your luck is.
Cookie Run Kingdom is actually really fun to play and even if you don't spend a penny it is a relaxing game but even I knew as I saw Cookie Run in the thumbnail I could hear your wallet crying!
"Oh, i can make a custom main menu background?"
*immediately proceeds to set Krolik's feet as a background*
Oh god cookie run... CR Kingdom and Love Nikki drained me 3k in like 4 years.
Which ain't as bad in most countries but in sweden its 30k in our currency where you could easily get a big-ass apartment AND buy 4 cats
I kid you not, 5 minutes after reading this comment while watching the video, what do I get an ad for? *Infinity Nikki.* Not Love Nikki, but it’s one of the Nikki games it seems.
@TheSpitefulAngel I get genuine ptsd from seeing those ads now
I wasn't expecting a half hour of cookie smash or pass. Haha
coin master is probably very populair for the boomers. since its facebook intergrated. so its a lot of old people that wouldnt want to get into more complicated gameplay. there is also a card collection part you get to later that has entire facebook groups for trading and selling. the rabbithole goes deep on this one.
CRK is a fun game that i enjoy, but i absolutely agree that the popups really make it a lot less enjoyable than it could be.
Watching kaif have to spend so much money is the only relief o got after he pulled a legendary cookie
God magically summoning 110,821 Project Moon fans to this comments section because he played one gacha game not even related to Limbus Company (the hit game by Project Moon, glory to Kim Ji Hoon)
"do you know how cookies are made?"
"Yeah"
top teir commentary sub has been earned
Throughout this video every advertisement I got was all cookie run ones, every single one. Great video btw, I feel bad for the wallet...
The more these predatory practices are put on show the better. For most of us clicking away is easy but there are those that are vulnerable who can easily be taken advantage of by these practices. It needs far more regulation in place, even spending caps like (in the UK) gambling companies have to offer would be a step in the right direction.
"Poludnitsa" (also "Południca/Poludnica" and various other spellings) isn't a weird name, it's a slavic demon 😭 most gamers likely encountered it too: if you've ever played the witcher, it's the original name for a noonwraith.
Multiple characters have slavic language based or inspired names, like Krolik (Rabbit), Groza (depending on specific language: terror, dread or storm), and Mechty (dream) and probably more that i can't find from a quick look through the characters. (I also don't speak russian, which seems to be the primary language they're using)
What i DO find weird is that one of the characters is basically named "finland" in finnish (Suomi)
Can't believe he spends this much money on these games and then doesn't use this account for them if he plays them later.
ayyyy GFL2! been loving the game so far, and waiting for my fav T-Dolls to make a return. also, the FOMO in the game really isn't all that bad. in the month since the game released, it's been VERY generous with the "premium" currency. at least 250-300 pulls worth of it. i've only gotten the battle pass since i like the company and the other GFL universe games they've made, and even after pulling 3 limited characters (2 Suomi, 1 Makiatto) and losing 1 50/50, i still have 130 pulls left right now
i dont wanna feed your addiction spending money on mobile gam.... who am i kidding, of course i want! keep em coming!
i use to play cookie run back when oven break was the only app and it was more of just an endless runner.
they still had gatcha but little pop ups and you could get everything with just playing the game.
I would get thousands of gems just playing once a month and they didn't have all this event overload.
i love the game but i hate what it's turned in to. i can't even find the endless run mode if it even still exists and that's what i liked most about the game.
Kaif is gonna have the strongest Rebel cookie known to man
Groza is a combat doll, its like an AK-47 breaking, you get another one, the personality gets uploaded into the new one. and carry on
One entire hour of this?! Awesome!! 🎉
Sneaky kaif spending his gamba money bcs its a “rule”😂
It’s so fascinating watching this bc the only gacha games i play are hoyoverse so i guess ive been spoiled by it not actually having popups 😭
yet hoyoverse is the gacha company that gets criticized the most lol its kinda ironic
@@Kekekekennthey have one of the most horrible rates specifically genshin the others are more lenient, they also have more limited banner units which create a sense of heavy fomo and urgency, gacha currency is extremely limited(F2P) and have to be farmed hours just to get a few pulls, so yeah that's where their gacha hate comes from
@@KekekekennBecause hoyo is a greedy company, i have no idea why yall like it
The total for this series so far is £1,090.72, with over a quarter of that being Cookie Run Kingdom. Leave a like or Kaif may never financially recover from this lads
So the names in the first game are weird. Another one of "mashup the languages to make it sound cooler"
From what I've seen:
Groza - in Ukrainian/Russian = гроза/гроза -> Thunder or Thunderstorm;
Krolik - (depending on how you want to pronounce the "i" it's also the case of-) Ukrainian/Russian = кролик/кролик (yes, those 2 words are pronounced differently) -> Bunny or Rabbit;
Poludnitca(?) - purely Ukrainian word ("d" is unnecessary here) = полуниця -> Strawberry; Edit: nope, not strawberry lol, old Russian myth.
Papasha - purely Russian word = папаша -> Daddy. (Calling anime girl(?) Daddy lol)
So some names are just other languages words with English spelling.
I wonder if Papasha is something they chose because she uses a PPSH and thought it was clever (PaPaSha)
Doesn't Poludnitca represent person who wander around in the noon like (Полуденница), in similarity to Polunochnik(Полуночник) -person who wanders in midnight?
@@Tsunkai_Emtico she is
i thought groza and królik were in polish when i saw those names, didn't know they were words in ukrainian/russian too. the meaning for królik is the same but groza in polish means terror instead.
@@Tsunkai_Emtico could be, yes, and it's probably more appropriate for a game like that
I'm so used to ignoring pop ups that i never noticed just how many and how expensive kingdom's were lmao.
Also a game suggestion if you do another video in this series is AFK Journey, it's a good game, but man does it have a shit ton of pop ups
Of course Kaif gets a panda character. Somehow he always finds his way to a panda.
really enjoying this seris Kaif , i think the donating to chairty is a great idea great work
I'm someone who used to play Cookie Run kingdom daily but sadly this game gave me a really bad gacha addiction to the point I had to quit for my own health. In total on my time playing I ended up spending around 1800USD thanks to the game constant promotion of "cheap" packages and the stupid difficulty spikes at the later half of the game. While the game, story and characters were fun the gacha was what ruined it for me to the point I had to genuinely step back and completely distance myself from it because it was harmful for me
I'm a f2p and I quitted it cuz I got bored
Cookie Run huh... I've heard of it before but oof... all those microtransactions is beyond ridiculous. Word of advice if you do a part 4... I'd honestly avoid Valkyrie Connect. Been playing for way too long and dear god has it gone to hell in a handbasket. Pop ups have started to get common too (and not cheap) so uh... yeah. I like the characters and splash arts but I would NOT recommend it.
Also side note but the Gacha rates are so bad. People think Genshin is bad at 0.6% with a guarantee at 90 pulls? That game outside of select banners, on average, is 0.080% for a featured unit and requires 30 sets of 10 pulls... 300 pulls effectively.
Wooo another episode !! Loving this series :DD
I think a fun game that could maybe last the 30 minute timer is Dino Hunter: Deadly Shores. The game has you hunt dinosaurs (who woulda thunk), but, iirc, the only transactions it gets out of you are if you run out of energy.
One of best streams I was lucky to enjoy. Can't wait to rewatch the cookies hell
The cookie animations of the gacha look really good, but man if the gameplay makes me wanna run from the game so far away
Best video of this series so far
Just to suggest one game that I've been seeing EVERY single time I watch a video on youtube it's "Hero Wars", it has gooner bait on the ads and tbf some of it looks like "The Writer's Barely-Disguised Fetish" meme thing.
Love this videos, they are interesting and fun to see your suffering but, yeah, if they stop being profitable I will not miss them lmao.
You know I was watching in the background and when I looked back I couldn't help but notice HE'S STILL ON THE FUCKING COOKIE GAME WHAT?!
They say that Kaif is still being forced to play Cookie run to this day
Man imagine how freaking awesome the cookie game could be... like all of those voice actors and well made animations, they could have made something so much better than an autoscrolling slog
fun fact: coin massster has a bunch of super weird celebrity adverts... like, WHY would they get celebrity sponsorships...
oh man, he is so glad he didnt play during a crk anniversary. as i frequent crk player (like 355 days played in 2024 i think) and a frequent spender (over $200 from 2021-now) the anniversary updates will absolutely flood your screen with popups, as well as new year deals. do i regret how much i spend? not really. crk is a truly great game as long as you ignore the popups.
Coin master gets worse with time
If u log off and go online again and u are high village u get like 5 pop ups before playing, same after spending all spins, all these da** Pop ups again
I think with level 4 u are able to collect cards in card sets, which can be achieved by buying chests or in a clan but high gold cards can't be obtained in a clan u need to get a joker card
So this system might be so addictive cause u spin to get up and get cards with complete card sets u get spins so idk
Kaif I thank you for playing Cookie Run so I could see the game for myself. I started playing it and turns out when you're not under a geas to spend money it's a fairly decent game/idler. Also pretty good stories. Eventually, takes a bit.
I'm not really sure how I feel about you continuing this series tbh. Don't get me wrong, I have watched all the videos and enjoyed your insight on them, it's just that (as you've mentioned) all these games have the same loop, so it will not be more fun to watch you go through the same things over and over.
I'm also still iffy on the fact that you are giving money to these scammers (even if I acknowledge that it's nothing to them). The charity idea feels better even just comparing the amount you donated vs the amount you paid people that don't deserve it, although I understand that it makes the experience different, I'd still rather have you give them less and give charities more.
Maybe there could be a new rule concerning repeat bundles or some form of a bingo card that once a line has been completed, you start donating to a charity instead of paying the game. This would keep it entertaining (the game would still register that you've paid for a bunch before so it would still behave like you're a good cash cow) while making sure that they don't profit as much.
And so there he was. Trapped forever in gacha hell. Caused by a horrible force called Cookie Run Kingdom.
Have fun being a kingdom tuber from now on
I've played all of GFL2's story content without spending a dime, and the gameplay was more enjoyable than any other f2p mobile game I've tried. Maybe it's that strategy/turn-based just feels better on a touchscreen for me, but whatever, it's my subjective opinion. The only issue is that you sometimes get level-walled, and your characters' level is walled by your player level, which only adequately rises with daily grinding. Nonetheless, I did not feel outgunned even with base (i.e. not SSR) units a few levels below the enemy, and tactics can make up for _some_ discrepancy. Bosses are a bit... nyeh, some were pushovers and some healed more in one turn than I could pump out damage, so it's a mixed bag. Lastly, because it's a live service game, you're of course egged on to log in every day and do the events and stuff... not for me, tbh, and apart from some FOMO equipment/characters, I'm not missing out on much.
Still, I think if you want to play XCOM-style skirmishes and don't want to pay the $10.99 for XCOM1/2 on android, it's worth considering.
thankfully cookie run doesnt actually ever take characters out of the rolls at least the odds just change, honestly not bad but yeah everything is suuuper overpriced
The amount of Polish words as names in first games is making me laugh (Krolik/Królik - Bunny, Groza - Fright, Poludnica/Południca - Lady Midday (ghost from folklore)) XDD
I got a Girls Frontline ad on this video 😭😭 also, the names in game are slavic and I love the way you pronounce them
It hurts my heart that this account is only for these videos. Cus your luck is nuts.
Another banger video. Does your bank ever call you for all the game transactions?
This has become my favorite series on TH-cam. Sorry not sorry, lol. I hope there's more in the future. Commenting to help that happen!