It isn't level 5, you get 5 copies of a servant and the Noble Phantasm level reaches 5, which is the max. The noble phantasm is a super powerful attack that ends most fights faster, but higher levels mean more damage. For example: Arthur Pendragon NP1: 300% Arthur Pendragon NP5: 600%
For a FGO player like me, that isn't enough to get all SSR Servant to NP5. He may be the one to get on TV but there is more whale even bigger than that
Well, I know people who have spent $200 000 on a watch and $900 000 on a single sound system. But then again they can re-sell it, you can't really do that in a video game.
1:35 this guy probably does not know hentai exists xd i mean he could have gotten premium member ship for much less money xd i mean like he couls havd gotten soo many years of premium membership lul like he could have enjoyed hentai in crisp 4k quality
Well, yeah? That’s he point. It’s a casebook gambling addiction. There is something wrong, something that has been studied and to some extend understood as long as casinos have existed.
@@kainb563 Well, people waste money on stupid shit all the time. If it makes them happy, who really cares? How many musicians and actors are almost poor now because they spent all their money on drugs, other types of gambling, gold boats, etc? Honestly, I wouldn't mind them spending every penny they earned on anything they want, as long as it doesn't affect me. I only have a problem when game companies purposely design games to cater to these people, purposely putting hurdles in progression behind pay gates.
@@OhNoTheFace But saying that "there's nothing wrong with it" would make dumb people or possibly kids think that it's ok to throw money like that. He maybe didn't hurt anyone but himself by doing it, but what about himself?
@@user-rl1mm2rg9c well for one thing he didn't spend 70k in one go it was over the years and for him to afford that much and still manage to live a comfortable life by paying his Bill's and taxes must mean his income is pretty high. What is unhealthy is how much time he spends on the game. People are allowed to spend their money however they want on whatever they want if they can afford it with no repercussion.
And some are just based on graphics, i've found a lot of older games ( that had trash graphics ) a lot more enjoyable than the new ones. ( e.g. : GTA SA , GTA VICE CITY , Tomb Raider , Tetris , Minecraft , Race 07 , Formula 2011 , Initial D Stage 1 - 10 , Etc )
@@panda_dva2261 Shut your shithole, it was a reference to the image in the video when Falcon says what he quoted. I see you're challenged in the head, my bad.
I think If the money you spent was way less then any of this list AND (More importanly) you didn't steal any money to do so, you have nothing to feel bad about.
@@grave_posiedon3666 I did the same, tho different game. Spent about $80 on a Tower Defense game over a 2 year period, but it quickly became apparent that I'd either have to keep spending money or play it for hours everyday just to keep up. I don't regret it because it's just $80, but I hate game mechanics that practically force you to spend money to advance. It's why I stopped playing mobile games 2-3 years ago.
I remember as a kid, I played clash of clans, and my phone had my mums card saved for some reason I can’t remember. And I think you can guess what I did, I spent 1,000 on my account. The good news is that we got that money back
@@AerForz1 wow ! look at you making fun of people's waifu though i'm sorry you have no laifu but lets just not be so harsh and just waste our time somewhere else
Nah, there was a guy in game who held the temple thing for years. Not TheLegend27 but another guy who literally was a celebrity in the game. Forgot his username. Been so long.
and these are what seperates true gamers and the so called mobile gamers true gamers have fun with a game even if u dont buy anything well you could buy some in order to support the devs BUT never buy a chance base transaction and a true gamers can join competition where they show of their skills competively for example dota or leauge of legends CSGO where u can buy optionaly to help the devs of just enchance some gameing expirence
I really LOVE 💘 how outspoken you are about addiction in gaming, adrenaline junkies, bullies, gamblers, sex addicts...even endorphin dumpers all can find a hook in gaming . I'm a borne gamer thanks to my pop, and I just love when gamer leaders like falcon use their powers to make good thoughtful videos that make gaming better rather than more profitable. Thanks 😊 🙏
The rate up is technically true as long as the rate up is for only 1 5* servant and the other 5* in the pool are fairly limited. The more 5* in the pool, the more dilluted the odds are. On top of that, even with rate up, your odds of getting any 5* are all are still only 1%.
Well because Gacha games are more prominent in mobile games, especially repeat purchases. A lot of pc/console games ask for less money than mobile and once you own it you own it for good. Whereas mobile is more expensive and there are often thousands of things to spend them on, often to the point games will have multiple different "deals" every day.
@Dj Ghoul TOUCH Of course. I'm just pointing out gacha games and their techniques are far more accepted on mobile which is why most of the games here are mobile, to which OP seemed surprised or something.
Game built around pay to win mechanic is much worse than loot boxes in my opinion. As in they purposely make it so you're unable to progress past a certain point unless you make a purchase, or they will set the prices at ridiculous level.
When Elder Scrolls Online introduced their Crown Crates, I posted my issues with it on their forums. Not a single person supported my view, and I was lambasted by hundreds of players, saying basically if I didn't like them not to buy them. I couldn't understand that _no one_ felt the same way I did.
Because most modern generations are used to getting what they want without hard work so now they can pay money to achieve that goal. What gripes me is the skins/map expansions etc were things you could always get free in the old pc gaming days because they were created by the community and shared online. Battlefield 2 only existed because of a free mod "Desert combat" that changed BF 1942 into essentially what kicked off the entire BF series into a money maker. Now you have to pay for "expansions" to get what should be essentially part of the original game so your buying it 2 or 3 times over
@@adds8235 "modern generations" I assure you, broke ass college students and teenagers, or people who got out of college and get paid minimum wage, do NOT agree with those microtransactions. Its those 45+ yo boomers who have lots of money from being born in the right year and would rather spend 100$ than play an extra 2 hours to get something.
I can say I've been there having the lootbox addiction. I play Star Trek Online and I saw a ship I really REALLY wanted. I had a choice of saving the 480 million credits and get it on the exchange OR open up the specific lootbox that had a chance of giving me that ship. I chose the lootbox cause 480 million credits would have taken me forever to save up. It took me over $200 to get that ship. Let's just say I was kicking myself in the rear cause that money could have gone to something more physical and not digital.
@@Unknown_Genius fifa TH-camrs use their own money, they a get it back in youtube money and b can tax write it off and claim and they are classed as a business..
@@HauntedOne666 lol no u miss out on content in 95% of games withouy paying more... Every dlc is more money. Every character is more money. Hell some games cough cough Wow and Eso you have to sell 15$ worth of your soul every month just to login or be efficient lmao.
@@HauntedOne666 not really because u discounted what the original guy said when hes right. Theres very few games following the buy one time and get all content anymore. Only one i know is wolcen and torchlight 3 coming right now.
@@twig4661 imagine having these hypothetical convos in the first place. Or even saying the word waifu....man the internet has ruined people. Good luck weebs.
Sometimes I get upset with my model train hobby as it does get a little pricy sometimes, but then I see this and I'm glad I have enough restraint to not do this, even though I admit to over around ten years or so I have put a fair chunk into games but have definitely made sure they are ones I enjoy so I don't feel like I have completely wasted money on them.
It was just a minor punishment to tell him "DON'T DO THIS", and the rest of that time was spent doing community service, to further punish AND give back, plus a whole lot of money on top of it. (most of what he stole) in that regard (especially if it was a first offence) the punishment is actually completely fair.
I'm 27 and had a massive problem with this for several years, I once was addicted to Gambling and instead of having to go out to do it and scratch the itch I could do it right from home with some of my favorite games, mainly madden at the time. I spent over 30000 dollars on the game alone. Needless to say I have actually maintained and have kept myself from spending for about 1 year. Sad I know, but I thought I'd share my story...I'm decently well off and regret it every second, but I never stole or did any of that non sense to scratch my itch. If you read this, thanks for reading...stay far away from microtransactions if you enjoy casinos, another tough thing to deal with is you aren't physically holding money and putting it into a machine, you're just using a debit card which makes it hard to keep track of.
That's how you have to do it now. If you don't say that first, everyone will be a whiny victim and complain he judges people and not just sharing his opinion and point of view.
I remember when I used to play League in like 2012-13 while I was still in school. Me and a few friends would ALWAYS play together after school. At some point a friend of ours started to buy skins to look cooler than us or simply have his character look different than we remember. It was cool at first, but we noticed how many different champions he suddenly had and instantly had skins for them too. After a few years he messaged me and was really upset. He said that his League account had been hacked and is now lost. I asked him what the big deal was since you can make a free account again. Then he told me that he spent an approximate amount of 2000-3000€ on that account.
This video should get more attention because honestly these people are the reason why devs don't care about upsetting an entire community being greedy. They've got to start regulating this before we are paying for each level of the game a la cart
Years ago I spent probably 20k on GOA. It was a WOW knock-off, and while playing WOW I found GOA, and it’s a pay to win game, and I just got hooked on upgrading my well everything. I was totally addicted to plusing my gear, and change the look, and transmog.
"Hey, so you know how you paid $70 for that brand new game? Well, it's not finished. Can you buy the Season Pass for another $60 and then we'll have three 'stand-alone' DLCs that cost $15 apiece. Oh, and there's some cosmetic skins that we could unlock in game, but we'd rather you forked over another $10 for each." How is DLC better, exactly?
you have to separate dlc from what was used to be called "add on". a dlc can be some crap you pay 15 bucks for and then you get, i dont know, a red car instead of a yellow one. instead an addon is an actual expansion to your main game, adding additional levels, maybe characters, cutscenes etc.
I just wanted to tell you guys, I've played Fate and for some people it's rare to get the five star characters. Fate, is a spinoff from regular gacha game as the characters DONT NEED TO BE LEVEL 5. Also, many lower tier characters can get you through the game. It's more about strategy than the best characters and lower tier characters sometimes are better than higher tier characters.
This is an incredibly important video, I'd even call it a PSA for those still unfamiliar with the issue. This is the main reason micro-transactions and loot boxes exist in the first place and the main reason they'll never go away. Don't get me wrong, legislature in Belgium and now other countries will certainly have an impact on the industry but as with real gambling rather than destroying the phenomenon it will simply be pushed underground. Personally I'd love to see these guys talked about in this video to sue the game companies for damages based on the fact that they preyed on their addictions knowingly and intentionally. Only such lawsuits, if successful, from the whales against the greedy companies stealing their money will have the chance of turning back the wheel. Beyond that, us regular users who aren't addicted to gambling, should simply stop buying these micro-transactions and loot boxes altogether to disincentivise companies from employing these tactics. I can't ask the whales to do the same as they're the real victims here, but the rest of us? Heck yes!
@Dana White's Cocaine Dealer You're ignoring the fact that most countries have specific laws regarding gambling, whether it's outright banned or only legal in certain places(Las Vegas and Indian Reservations in the US). Loot boxes are gambling, it's really as simple as that regardless of how hard the gaming industry tries to deny it. I too hate victim mentality, but in this case we are literally talking about illegal actions, which thus should enable legal recourse.
Steam cards are not really microtransactions, people can obviously sell them and they do so people can level up their steam account but it's way different from normal ingame microtransactions.
st4ck is crazy rich, some kind of oil baron royalty? Or at least that's what I've heard. My buddy actually has him on his friends list, they're not actually friends or anything, but its just kinda cool
He spent 7 figures man! Crazy. I realized I kind of had a moment like this with Kim Kardashian Hollywood hahahaha. Literally spent $75 real bucks to make my character fly af.
As a player of Fate/Grand Order, I can attest to the guy's claims. If you're a fan of the IP, this game will suck you dry. I once spent $240 just to have a sliver of a chance to get a character I want (which thankfully I got but on my very last 10-roll). This game is worse than drugs. It's a completely legal guilty pleasure. (oh and my consoles and PC have been gathering dust ever since I started playing this game)
Lemme buy your consoles and games. Then you got some more cash for the game you enjoy and I can play some of those good looking games that are out this generation.
Falcon: "I mean, like, I am not gunna judge the guy..." -Then proceeds to judge the guy in the very next sentence Goddamnit Gameranx just friggin own up.
Its just... why steal? Someone stole my husband's credit card details (idk how) and made purchases from EVE online... why.. why do you steal credit card details and then spend it on a game? I'm not saying continue to steal our money, but like you could have spent it better smh
I play Rise of Kingdoms....a guy in my alliance told me he spent more than $20k on the game. The most powerful player in the entire game is rumoured to have spent more than $100k! I found a video of him on youtube.
Steam and GOG sales are underrateddly the most intense Microtransactions. As I often spend small amount of money on their apps too many times for things (games) that look interesting that I never actually end up using.
I stole 1.5k for fifa 14 worked over 300 hours for money by raking leaves in Ohio we had 4 huge trees in front and probably 27 trees in backyard 2 acres of land
My ex spent literally thousands of dollars a year on games like that. Didn't matter what I told her or how I tried to reason with her. It's a very real issue.
Tomoki nope. The moment the game is shut down, I still have Physical cards rather than memories. I spent DOUBLE that on actual cards and they might’ve outlive DL. Then again I am an 80’s boy, and I can earn my fun with time and effort, but that’s just me.
Okay, anybody else remember Knights and Dragons, I remember being in high school and spending like $100 a week in raids and shit and I was actually part of a top guild but we never won as the absolute top tier guilds were invitation only and everyone in those guilds probably spent at the very least thousands a week...
You haven't even scratched the surface on Game of War! I was on a team with a guy who admitted to spending in the range of 50k/month on the game. Now, he was, at the time, the most powerful player in the game, but that was just ridiculous! There is a news report about him and another guy who were always battling for the top spot. I, on the other hand, managed his farm accounts, 12 of them, in which he loaded hundreds of dollars every month to keep them going. Yes...I was addicted to the game, played it 24/7, and had to quit due to me realizing how much of my life was wasted in that game.
The most I've spent on DLC for a single game 50 bucks i dont know how people spend their savings on one game is crazy....but then again i mostly pay single player games
*pays 5k*
"ayy congrats you are now level 5"
😂😂
It isn't level 5, you get 5 copies of a servant and the Noble Phantasm level reaches 5, which is the max. The noble phantasm is a super powerful attack that ends most fights faster, but higher levels mean more damage.
For example:
Arthur Pendragon NP1: 300%
Arthur Pendragon NP5: 600%
@@elijakiger ohhhhh riiiiiiight .now I get it. Worth every penny then 😂
@@elijakiger r/wooosh
Killer Queen lol u made me think that u put 100000 dollar on that game
Imagine a kid getting bottles out of the trash and a bum comes up and says:
*microtransactions huh?*
Bruh 😂
The first dude was simping hard for that character
For a FGO player like me, that isn't enough to get all SSR Servant to NP5. He may be the one to get on TV but there is more whale even bigger than that
@@minuano2ndtrueancestor865 time for a crusade
Heck I am happy to have an SSR at NP2.
2 million on modern war a crappy mobile game with a rating of only 2 stars
GabeTheGrump u face is crappy
If its pay to win, way way less money will make you top 1 rated player. Maybe 50k to be sure. I dont understand why you need 2kk its absurd
@@MrMpakobec and I was thinking you need to make good games to make money
89k dollars = nice car or nice apartment
*G A M E R* : game of war
"gamer"
Well, I know people who have spent $200 000 on a watch and $900 000 on a single sound system. But then again they can re-sell it, you can't really do that in a video game.
Agent Smith actually crazy thing... people will spend that kind of money on a game of war account then SELL the account to someone else
Could buy a 3 bed house with that much in UK, never mind an apartment
@blank A car is way better than some troops in Game of War.
I triple think before BUYING A 0.99 CENT APP LET ALONE 1MILLION DOLLARS WHAT.
To be fair, it wasn't his to begin with. xD
So me like “should I buy this 2.99$ deal”😂
Nah man, just download hacked apks to see if you like it then either delete it or purchase the actual one if you like it
Shahaab Sherwani
I don’t even make that much in 4 years
Bruhhh FACTS
Developers are tryng to become, casinos, unregulated casinos where kids can enter and play.
@@ericolens3 lolpllol
1:35 this guy probably does not know hentai exists xd i mean he could have gotten premium member ship for much less money xd i mean like he couls havd gotten soo many years of premium membership lul like he could have enjoyed hentai in crisp 4k quality
i hate to say it, but it's true.
*cough* R* *cough*
Petition to make microtransactions
illegal everywhere
Edit: jesus i made this as a joke a year ago, didn’t know people would take it seriously
Loot boxes are in the crosshairs
Thats exactly like the boomers making casinos illegal.
There's nothing wrong with microtransactions. Don't buy them in you don't like them.
@@PANZERFAUST90 ban microtransactions and you put EA and Unisoft out of business. Surely that's a win win
@@dringypie not rly cos ubisoft makes games like far cry 5 and other great games banning it would lead to massive controversy
Spending 70K on a game isnt normal. This is madness
No shit
Madness?
Thissss isssss Spataaaa!
Well. to some people 70 is truly not though worthy sum :/
*Madness?*
*THIS. IS. SPARTAAA!!*
Why is no one talking about the guy who spent 1 mil on that game?
Theres DEFINITELY something wrong with you if you spend over $70 000 on a mobile game.
There people that spend thousands on pubg mobile smh🤦🏾 I spend 60bucks and I thought I was dumb lol
Well, yeah? That’s he point. It’s a casebook gambling addiction. There is something wrong, something that has been studied and to some extend understood as long as casinos have existed.
@@kainb563 Well, people waste money on stupid shit all the time. If it makes them happy, who really cares? How many musicians and actors are almost poor now because they spent all their money on drugs, other types of gambling, gold boats, etc? Honestly, I wouldn't mind them spending every penny they earned on anything they want, as long as it doesn't affect me. I only have a problem when game companies purposely design games to cater to these people, purposely putting hurdles in progression behind pay gates.
Hey if i had more money than i knew what to do with i would spend a lot of money on games. :)
@rwsthedemonking
So whatever makes you happy. If tou wanna spend 70k on a game go for it :)
$70k on a game. "I'm not going to say there is anything wrong with that behavior..." um wut
That was his money. That is why the first one wss mild. He hurt no one but himself
@@OhNoTheFace
But saying that "there's nothing wrong with it" would make dumb people or possibly kids think that it's ok to throw money like that. He maybe didn't hurt anyone but himself by doing it, but what about himself?
@@user-rl1mm2rg9c well for one thing he didn't spend 70k in one go it was over the years and for him to afford that much and still manage to live a comfortable life by paying his Bill's and taxes must mean his income is pretty high. What is unhealthy is how much time he spends on the game. People are allowed to spend their money however they want on whatever they want if they can afford it with no repercussion.
Games aren't made to be fun anymore. They're made just for making money.
And some are just based on graphics, i've found a lot of older games ( that had trash graphics ) a lot more enjoyable than the new ones. ( e.g. : GTA SA , GTA VICE CITY , Tomb Raider , Tetris , Minecraft , Race 07 , Formula 2011 , Initial D Stage 1 - 10 , Etc )
SahilGT - Roblox And More! Kotor is also really good
@@_Gatts_ What about Tomb Raider 1,2, and 3? Apparently they're not so fun due to bugs, glitches and especially controls
SahilGT - Roblox And More! Never played them but I was thinking about playing them
yeah it's as if business exist to make money..
"If I had 5 million dollars, I'd be gone. "
- Falcon 2019
I laughed hard at that part
greetings from peru
@@GordaoSemFuturo no one cares where your from...and this has nothing to do with the original comment.
@@panda_dva2261 Shut your shithole, it was a reference to the image in the video when Falcon says what he quoted. I see you're challenged in the head, my bad.
@@GordaoSemFuturo *cheers*
@@JackDuffy-gz6wo Cheers m8
I felt bad for spending $10 on a battle pet in WoW several years ago. I don't feel bad anymore.
JLConawayII I regret buying a skin for like 10$ lol
I think If the money you spent was way less then any of this list AND (More importanly) you didn't steal any money to do so, you have nothing to feel bad about.
In spent 100 on clash royal. I don’t feel bad now either and I’ve been playing for 3 years. So I guess it’s ok
@One Man wait you were on sale? Can people buy you? I offer $1,-.
@@grave_posiedon3666 I did the same, tho different game. Spent about $80 on a Tower Defense game over a 2 year period, but it quickly became apparent that I'd either have to keep spending money or play it for hours everyday just to keep up. I don't regret it because it's just $80, but I hate game mechanics that practically force you to spend money to advance. It's why I stopped playing mobile games 2-3 years ago.
Watching this makes me feel better about myself and my life.
"It's not just an one -time purchase. It never is."
Yeah just like crack.
And gambling
Video games are the new drugs. Fuck I missed an opportunity
I remember as a kid, I played clash of clans, and my phone had my mums card saved for some reason I can’t remember. And I think you can guess what I did, I spent 1,000 on my account. The good news is that we got that money back
Gotta make your servant waifu strong no matter the cost lol
No one knew that in fact that guy used that money to create the ultimate Astolfo...
@@exmaarmaca best trap is also worth it I suppose I'm more of a scathach guy
yeah, spent more than 3k getting the jeanne alter on my main to NP5. but i did make my money back from selling and trading my subs
@@AerForz1 wow ! look at you making fun of people's waifu
though i'm sorry you have no laifu
but lets just not be so harsh and just waste our time somewhere else
@@AerForz1 Pretty funny how hostile you are towards this
That guy on number one is probably TheLegend27
No, he's TheDickhead#1
or maybe it's NoobMaster69
@@novaborealis5924 lol
Nah, there was a guy in game who held the temple thing for years. Not TheLegend27 but another guy who literally was a celebrity in the game. Forgot his username. Been so long.
and these are what seperates true gamers and the so called mobile gamers true gamers have fun with a game even if u dont buy anything well you could buy some in order to support the devs BUT never buy a chance base transaction and a true gamers can join competition where they show of their skills competively for example dota or leauge of legends CSGO where u can buy optionaly to help the devs of just enchance some gameing expirence
*snorts a line of cocaine.
- Who even spends real money on games? Addictive, huh, what's that?
Sounds like a cigar
Lmao how can these idiots spend money on games.....I'm going to the comic store to drop a couple hundo lmao.
@@stpbasss3773 I'm not an idiot, just confused and mentally ill
I really LOVE 💘 how outspoken you are about addiction in gaming, adrenaline junkies, bullies, gamblers, sex addicts...even endorphin dumpers all can find a hook in gaming . I'm a borne gamer thanks to my pop, and I just love when gamer leaders like falcon use their powers to make good thoughtful videos that make gaming better rather than more profitable. Thanks 😊 🙏
All Fate Grand Order players understand that rate up is an absolute lie.
Yeah but we gotta get our waifu
All rate up in game is lie
The rate up is technically true as long as the rate up is for only 1 5* servant and the other 5* in the pool are fairly limited. The more 5* in the pool, the more dilluted the odds are. On top of that, even with rate up, your odds of getting any 5* are all are still only 1%.
I can understand
Lmao. Needed Tamamo for Kiara, took my 600 SQ for one copy. NP5 Nero though, wooooo! *cries in money*
...
And
Their
Mostly mobile games...
they're*
They’re*
Dont you have phones?
Well because Gacha games are more prominent in mobile games, especially repeat purchases. A lot of pc/console games ask for less money than mobile and once you own it you own it for good. Whereas mobile is more expensive and there are often thousands of things to spend them on, often to the point games will have multiple different "deals" every day.
@Dj Ghoul TOUCH Of course. I'm just pointing out gacha games and their techniques are far more accepted on mobile which is why most of the games here are mobile, to which OP seemed surprised or something.
$89,000... that’s HELLA BREAD.17 cent
Edit: $2,000,000... I honestly have nothing to say 🤦🏽♀️
These people exist:
EA: its basically free real estate!
Normal man: Embezzling $5 million
EA: *Hold my beer*
Activision CEO: hold my beer
*Hold my loot box*
*Holds Beer and next day gets fired*
@@MmaSmarty87 😂
Game built around pay to win mechanic is much worse than loot boxes in my opinion. As in they purposely make it so you're unable to progress past a certain point unless you make a purchase, or they will set the prices at ridiculous level.
gambling mechanics in games prey on those with addictive personality disorder
Everyone has an addictive personality when they meet my dick
@@martinlutherkingjr.2993 Savage, lol.
What’s that
So do lottery tickets and casinos. Should those be illegal because of people with addictive personalities?
@@Zidro512 The difference is that children are gambling in games. You have to be 18 to buy lottery tickets (as far as I am aware)
EA: I want those people playing our slot machi~ er.. games
Haha, all of Falcon's videos are Gold!
1. That one friend who plays Fortnite and has a lot of skins
Me
Or spends money on it at all.
Buster lo you know that’s not a good thing right?
One of my classmates spent $300 on fortnut on his mom's card. But the real kicker was that it was on fucking MOBILE.
Most skins are 20$ or 15$ and battle pass is 10$ for each season and there are 8 currently
When Elder Scrolls Online introduced their Crown Crates, I posted my issues with it on their forums. Not a single person supported my view, and I was lambasted by hundreds of players, saying basically if I didn't like them not to buy them. I couldn't understand that _no one_ felt the same way I did.
Because most modern generations are used to getting what they want without hard work so now they can pay money to achieve that goal.
What gripes me is the skins/map expansions etc were things you could always get free in the old pc gaming days because they were created by the community and shared online.
Battlefield 2 only existed because of a free mod "Desert combat" that changed BF 1942 into essentially what kicked off the entire BF series into a money maker.
Now you have to pay for "expansions" to get what should be essentially part of the original game so your buying it 2 or 3 times over
@@adds8235 "modern generations" I assure you, broke ass college students and teenagers, or people who got out of college and get paid minimum wage, do NOT agree with those microtransactions. Its those 45+ yo boomers who have lots of money from being born in the right year and would rather spend 100$ than play an extra 2 hours to get something.
@slapypenguins101 haha I suppose not when you put it like that, either way they still want it instantly
@@miuletzmitzu6641 Time is money.
@@adds8235 hey what did slapypenguin say? Why did he delete his comment?
Legend has it: That kid is still collecting recyclables to pay back his parents.
I can say I've been there having the lootbox addiction. I play Star Trek Online and I saw a ship I really REALLY wanted. I had a choice of saving the 480 million credits and get it on the exchange OR open up the specific lootbox that had a chance of giving me that ship. I chose the lootbox cause 480 million credits would have taken me forever to save up. It took me over $200 to get that ship. Let's just say I was kicking myself in the rear cause that money could have gone to something more physical and not digital.
id rather spend that on a fishing pole.
@@jakepage7383 100% mate. More fun, constructive and your outside enjoying life. Perfect 👌
30 days in jail for stealing 89k.. Lmao
30 days because he paid back most of it.
There it is I was scrolling through to find this comment ^^^
@@liggerstuxin1 nah
Yeah agreed
Zafras Frozen the court ordered him to pay it back. Which is what happens when anyone embezzles money, you dunce.
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“Oh so basically any fifa youtuber”
@@Unknown_Genius fifa TH-camrs use their own money, they a get it back in youtube money and b can tax write it off and claim and they are classed as a business..
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The gambling aspect might be a good angle for lawsuits and legislation to *END* the practise of microtransactions and loot boxes for good.
Gacha games are different kind of evil honestly
What happened to "I buy a game and get the content by playing"?
You dtill do. Theres just more stuff made now that extends the game or adds more items/ different experience.
@@HauntedOne666 lol no u miss out on content in 95% of games withouy paying more... Every dlc is more money. Every character is more money. Hell some games cough cough Wow and Eso you have to sell 15$ worth of your soul every month just to login or be efficient lmao.
@@Brandon-yd3rk kinda almos exactly what i said eh?
@@HauntedOne666 not really because u discounted what the original guy said when hes right. Theres very few games following the buy one time and get all content anymore. Only one i know is wolcen and torchlight 3 coming right now.
@@Brandon-yd3rk i didnt discount it, i just said you do get the content. You just dont get extra content/ extended experience.
> *spend hundreds of dollars just for jpeg file of your waifu whom you can download for free on the internet*
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yup, that's what gacha hell look like
thats why you spend 30 min flipping through all the google images trying to find the one link that leads to a free site. duh
@@twig4661 imagine having these hypothetical convos in the first place. Or even saying the word waifu....man the internet has ruined people. Good luck weebs.
Worse is when you can draw it yourself but just dont
@@Brandon-yd3rk I mean, you're right. Never had the word waifu actually hit my ears.
Sometimes I get upset with my model train hobby as it does get a little pricy sometimes, but then I see this and I'm glad I have enough restraint to not do this, even though I admit to over around ten years or so I have put a fair chunk into games but have definitely made sure they are ones I enjoy so I don't feel like I have completely wasted money on them.
I love how they say it’s ok to play a game as much as you want as long as your happy like we don’t all have responsibility lol
30 days in jail??? For stealing 90k WTF
@Ross Brian
I said the same thing. xD
He was white.
After paying back was only a little over 10k so yea 30 days sounds right
Why so short time in prison. Should've been longer.
It was just a minor punishment to tell him "DON'T DO THIS", and the rest of that time was spent doing community service, to further punish AND give back, plus a whole lot of money on top of it. (most of what he stole) in that regard (especially if it was a first offence) the punishment is actually completely fair.
Mobile..nearly all..and actually all have mobile games...
Level 5?
5K spent? Hmmm
That is a surprisingly good Mr Burns impression
That guy from Attack of the clones: ‘You wanna buy some deathsticks?’
EA: ‘You wanna buy some loot boxes?’
I'm 27 and had a massive problem with this for several years, I once was addicted to Gambling and instead of having to go out to do it and scratch the itch I could do it right from home with some of my favorite games, mainly madden at the time. I spent over 30000 dollars on the game alone. Needless to say I have actually maintained and have kept myself from spending for about 1 year. Sad I know, but I thought I'd share my story...I'm decently well off and regret it every second, but I never stole or did any of that non sense to scratch my itch. If you read this, thanks for reading...stay far away from microtransactions if you enjoy casinos, another tough thing to deal with is you aren't physically holding money and putting it into a machine, you're just using a debit card which makes it hard to keep track of.
Falcon you truly r the coolest about games
You know, I'd never actually heard of Game of War until I heard stories about people spending tens of thousands on it
Love how he always says “no judging” but then judges each one of them LOL!
That's how you have to do it now. If you don't say that first, everyone will be a whiny victim and complain he judges people and not just sharing his opinion and point of view.
Wouldnt it be less pricey if you pay someone to hack the game?
It's not worth the risk. Federal offense stealing from companies.
whit 1 mil you can just buy the game company xD
@@jesusmejia1334 Cheating is not an offense by law. The worst that can happen is the developer banning your account, if it's an online game.
@@biggo4637 Those companies often make a million dollars a day. I highly doubt you can buy the company for a million dollars.
@@NaudVanDalen i mean mobile gaming companies
I remember when I used to play League in like 2012-13 while I was still in school. Me and a few friends would ALWAYS play together after school. At some point a friend of ours started to buy skins to look cooler than us or simply have his character look different than we remember.
It was cool at first, but we noticed how many different champions he suddenly had and instantly had skins for them too.
After a few years he messaged me and was really upset. He said that his League account had been hacked and is now lost. I asked him what the big deal was since you can make a free account again.
Then he told me that he spent an approximate amount of 2000-3000€ on that account.
You seem like the type of person who tells people what they want to hear.
boo microtransactions boo
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Whoever made that thumbnail needs a reward
8:23 awsome Mr burns impersonation!😂🤣
3:00 I imagine you're just dying to say "Don't judge a book by its cover"
Wow! The first sentence you said made me sad. I'm in debt for 10 years and these people spend what I owe on one upgrade for an app...
@MTB-Fritz Ouch, That really hurt. I'm been hacked and identity stolen and 300 points off credit score... Really hard to pay off!!! JERK.
@@johnbrown2163 how u doing ??
@@johnbrown2163 My credit score 0.
For that amount of money, you could have your own custom game made.
Yea if you like 8 bit games
X.A.N.A. Shut up
Or invested in...idk your future maybe?
@@x.a.n.a.9397 2 million can make a next gen game
@@x.a.n.a.9397 nah 4 million and you can get a custom made mobile game :)
This video should get more attention because honestly these people are the reason why devs don't care about upsetting an entire community being greedy. They've got to start regulating this before we are paying for each level of the game a la cart
Supercell: **Slowly hides Clash Of Clans**
Expect to see FGO.
Yup it is definitely there XD.
Waifu Order
Meowjoker lmao me too lol
The same example I put was what was on there lol.
Expect Gudako, the bringer of destruction.
np5 saber? oof
"fate grand order is one of those loot box games" it's a gacha.
That’s what their players call them.
...he is still SAFE
There the same thing
The legend is the kid is still getting stuff to recycle
Years ago I spent probably 20k on GOA. It was a WOW knock-off, and while playing WOW I found GOA, and it’s a pay to win game, and I just got hooked on upgrading my well everything. I was totally addicted to plusing my gear, and change the look, and transmog.
I rather have dlc than micro transactions
"Hey, so you know how you paid $70 for that brand new game? Well, it's not finished. Can you buy the Season Pass for another $60 and then we'll have three 'stand-alone' DLCs that cost $15 apiece. Oh, and there's some cosmetic skins that we could unlock in game, but we'd rather you forked over another $10 for each."
How is DLC better, exactly?
@@argentpuck ok take it easy man
Patrick Lewis Expansion DLCs not micro transactions.
as long as its cd projekt red "DLC"
you have to separate dlc from what was used to be called "add on". a dlc can be some crap you pay 15 bucks for and then you get, i dont know, a red car instead of a yellow one. instead an addon is an actual expansion to your main game, adding additional levels, maybe characters, cutscenes etc.
Simpson's tapped out left me broke
It left you tapped out
Yeah tell me about it I played 5 minutes of the game and Homer was begging me to spend money on donuts....no surprise there the game was made by EA.
Eww. Are you serious?
A kid spent 16K on Sonic Forces Speed Battle without the parents knowing lmao
I just wanted to tell you guys, I've played Fate and for some people it's rare to get the five star characters. Fate, is a spinoff from regular gacha game as the characters DONT NEED TO BE LEVEL 5. Also, many lower tier characters can get you through the game. It's more about strategy than the best characters and lower tier characters sometimes are better than higher tier characters.
This is an incredibly important video, I'd even call it a PSA for those still unfamiliar with the issue. This is the main reason micro-transactions and loot boxes exist in the first place and the main reason they'll never go away. Don't get me wrong, legislature in Belgium and now other countries will certainly have an impact on the industry but as with real gambling rather than destroying the phenomenon it will simply be pushed underground. Personally I'd love to see these guys talked about in this video to sue the game companies for damages based on the fact that they preyed on their addictions knowingly and intentionally. Only such lawsuits, if successful, from the whales against the greedy companies stealing their money will have the chance of turning back the wheel. Beyond that, us regular users who aren't addicted to gambling, should simply stop buying these micro-transactions and loot boxes altogether to disincentivise companies from employing these tactics. I can't ask the whales to do the same as they're the real victims here, but the rest of us? Heck yes!
@Dana White's Cocaine Dealer You're ignoring the fact that most countries have specific laws regarding gambling, whether it's outright banned or only legal in certain places(Las Vegas and Indian Reservations in the US). Loot boxes are gambling, it's really as simple as that regardless of how hard the gaming industry tries to deny it. I too hate victim mentality, but in this case we are literally talking about illegal actions, which thus should enable legal recourse.
Welcome to FGO hell
Sasuga Greg Sama.
Bro you could just buy an accaunt from ebay and thata it but 70k is wild.
Honestly, it was great to see that guy that wrote the open-letter
"I would not judge the person."
Next sentence immediately judges the person
Spending that much money on wackass games 🤦♂️
madness what a fkin waste
and? its their hobby.
i would say the same to people who drink alcohol and smoke .
@@RozArialind hobby lol
A P yeah then why do they do it smh 🤦♂️
What about "st4ck"? The guy with the highest level on steam
there is someone who beat st4ck
@@ColeycdrMC And st4ck is back in the lead, leading by 700 steam levels at level 4,575.
Steam cards are not really microtransactions, people can obviously sell them and they do so people can level up their steam account but it's way different from normal ingame microtransactions.
st4ck is crazy rich, some kind of oil baron royalty? Or at least that's what I've heard. My buddy actually has him on his friends list, they're not actually friends or anything, but its just kinda cool
@@shreebington He's a UAE prince
He spent 7 figures man! Crazy. I realized I kind of had a moment like this with Kim Kardashian Hollywood hahahaha. Literally spent $75 real bucks to make my character fly af.
Look into king of Avalon then...each one of their updates cost around 20k and they have 2 updates a month...there are people who max this every time
As a player of Fate/Grand Order, I can attest to the guy's claims. If you're a fan of the IP, this game will suck you dry. I once spent $240 just to have a sliver of a chance to get a character I want (which thankfully I got but on my very last 10-roll). This game is worse than drugs. It's a completely legal guilty pleasure. (oh and my consoles and PC have been gathering dust ever since I started playing this game)
Lemme buy your consoles and games. Then you got some more cash for the game you enjoy and I can play some of those good looking games that are out this generation.
There's a difference between games making you happy and them being the only thing you do outside of necessary/important daily life tasks.
“I won’t JUDGE this person…”
Proceeds to judge the person.
9:14 stop giving me memories of the drilling part in the fleeca job
Falcon: "I mean, like, I am not gunna judge the guy..."
-Then proceeds to judge the guy in the very next sentence
Goddamnit Gameranx just friggin own up.
I've personally spent probably at least $20,000 on microtransactions across every game I've played in just the last ten years. It's predatory.
Its just... why steal? Someone stole my husband's credit card details (idk how) and made purchases from EVE online... why.. why do you steal credit card details and then spend it on a game? I'm not saying continue to steal our money, but like you could have spent it better smh
Using other people's money to pay for subjectively useless shit? I'm sure you can understand it if you try r e e e a l hard
I have a feeling your husband plays EVE online.
You sure it wasn’t your husband just telling you someone stole his information? Just a thought if you don’t know how it was stolen.
@@jaysmith-yb9iu what kind of a man you are
You be the eve I'll be your Adam let's be fruitful and fill the earth with our seed❤️
That first guy has Fate as his religion and $70K isn't enough of an offering for Saber
I play Rise of Kingdoms....a guy in my alliance told me he spent more than $20k on the game. The most powerful player in the entire game is rumoured to have spent more than $100k! I found a video of him on youtube.
Steam and GOG sales are underrateddly the most intense Microtransactions. As I often spend small amount of money on their apps too many times for things (games) that look interesting that I never actually end up using.
Yes man that's true I have more than a dozen of games that I bought on steam during sale but I never actually played them atleast till now
Those aren't micro transactions though
I own about 130 games on Steam and I suspect at least 80 of them haven't been on my computer for more than an hour, if at all.
The guy that embezzled that 89k got away with a light ass sentence.
I sympathize with these people, having been addicted to several games myself.
Loot boxes are predatory and should be illegal
Lol
Everything should be illegal
Man and i feel bad when i get the ps plus once at 2 months 🤷🏽♂️
My friends little brother spent over £500 of his mum's money on fortnite V-bucks. He got his ass beat in the end lmao.
He deserved it for buying trash
Should sell his console to help pay back what he stole
I stole 1.5k for fifa 14 worked over 300 hours for money by raking leaves in Ohio we had 4 huge trees in front and probably 27 trees in backyard 2 acres of land
GREG DRISSEN you stole or you worked for?
And here is me who tries not to pay for buying a game.
And we start this vidoe game list with one of the best anime series ever.
$10000 in non mobile games in one year.... weird flex but ok.
$10000 in mobile games in one year
Me:EXCUSE ME WTF
My ex spent literally thousands of dollars a year on games like that. Didn't matter what I told her or how I tried to reason with her. It's a very real issue.
Even using 500$ in a triple A game a year is way too much
30k in 5 years 😥😥😥
i play mobile mmorpg, and the no 1 on server spent like 1k a week :)
Yeah, been playing a single player with a little pvp... #1 on my server dropped $16000 over the course of 1 event (2 weeks)
The most expensive microtransaction I bought was a $2.00 weapon skin
A SKIN??? not even an actual weapon?
I limited myself to $10 in Duel Links for 3 decks and limited time booster and that’s it for the year!
@@Ramsey276one Damn, you must be really poor. 🤔
Tomoki nope. The moment the game is shut down, I still have Physical cards rather than memories. I spent DOUBLE that on actual cards and they might’ve outlive DL.
Then again I am an 80’s boy, and I can earn my fun with time and effort, but that’s just me.
Okay, anybody else remember Knights and Dragons, I remember being in high school and spending like $100 a week in raids and shit and I was actually part of a top guild but we never won as the absolute top tier guilds were invitation only and everyone in those guilds probably spent at the very least thousands a week...
This video makes me feel less bad about my own financial blunders.
You haven't even scratched the surface on Game of War! I was on a team with a guy who admitted to spending in the range of 50k/month on the game. Now, he was, at the time, the most powerful player in the game, but that was just ridiculous! There is a news report about him and another guy who were always battling for the top spot.
I, on the other hand, managed his farm accounts, 12 of them, in which he loaded hundreds of dollars every month to keep them going.
Yes...I was addicted to the game, played it 24/7, and had to quit due to me realizing how much of my life was wasted in that game.
Charlie Odom i play empire z and have heard of guys maxing credit cards and blowing paychecks on it.
The most I've spent on DLC for a single game 50 bucks i dont know how people spend their savings on one game is crazy....but then again i mostly pay single player games
I like how the first guy spends the extra money that he saved up and not spend all of his money
I mean the fact that the first guy used money on a mobile game is wild