Meanwhile, word has it that he wants Nintendo and Microsoft to host his game on the Switch and XBone. If I were them both, I'd tell LaRuina to go suck an egg.
Meanwhile at the Ubisoft car lot... Welcome to my car dealer. Please select which edition of this car you want. "Why would I want to buy a car without a wind shield?" No idea, but it's an option. "This other one doesn't even have tires on it." It's the starting edition. Don't worry, it can still drive. "Why is this one more expensive than that one?" It adds the iconic radio device. "A radio is iconic?" You bet.
+Drain The new corporate marketing scheme (analogy): Customer - C Publisher - P C - “I would like a ham sandwich, please.” P - “Okay. That’ll be $10.” C - “Wow... that’s a bit expensive.” P - “Costs a lot to make sandwiches now. We have a guy to whisper to the bread. A guy to put the mayo on. A guy to put the meat on. A guy to put the bottom piece of bread on. A guy to put the top piece of bread on. A guy to cut the tomato once. Another to cut it a second time. Another to cut it a third time.” C - “All that seems wholly unnecessary.” P - “Here’s your sandwich.” C - “Wait. This is just a stack of three slices of ham.” P - “Yes. It is technically a sandwich that includes ham.” C - “It seems like it’s not finished.” P - “Well, sandwiches are expensive to make now.” C - “But this is only a sandwich in a definition of the word that allows you to not get sued for lying about what you’re selling.” P - “Well, you can buy the top bread for $5, bottom bread for $5, both together for $10.50...” C - “That’s not a deal.” P - “...a random condiment (chosen from a pool of 730) for $2 a pop, a vegetable of some sort (chosen from a pool with things like safety pins and used hair ties).” C - “I don’t want those. Can I just buy the condiments and vegetables I want?” P - “Hahahahahaha! I don’t even know how we’d do that!” C - “This whole thing seriously sounds like you’re just running a racket.” P - “Well, it’s wholly optional. Enjoy your sandwich, dickhead.” C - “It has a bunch of bugs on it. Goddamnit.”
Car dealerships actually do that, though. They'll quote you a low price on a car, but it's for a car without any of the "options;" no A/C, no cruise control, etc. and you end up paying thousands more if you want anything more than just the bare-bones car. They still charge you extra for automatic transmission, FFS. Just a friendly reminder that predatory business practices aren't the sole domain of the video games industry, and we're probably going to need to change things at a societal level before this shit goes away.
U - Standard edition Ub - Deluxe edition Ubi - Gold edition Ubis - Ultimate edition Ubiso - Superior edition Ubisof T - Legend edition featuring the iconic letter T as a pre-order bonus!
if you ever feel the urge buy on G2A. They steel the majority of their keys anyways so there is a high chance that ubi wont get that money. #SinceWatchdogs
I completely agree with you Tibasu. I walked away from the first one because of this shit, and I see they have not learned a god damn thing. I’m not wasting my time or my money on this shit.
Opening an Ubisoft game case is like opening a mimic chest; you saw the straight chain (Ubi) attached to it but you opened it anyways. You get what you deserve. Even if you come back to fight through the bullshit your reward often feels underwhelming, especially when you consider the trust issues you'll have for the rest of your experience. Haha
It's an extremely cheap product bought by the desperate (and idiots that "ironically" buy it) hence why it saw a positive return for him. All the negative press for it also got people to check it out for themselves. It's no surprise at all it got a sequel. Meanwhile God Hand was a clunky (it has tank controls and other shit like that), poorly marketed and downright average game (that offered a unique experience). No surprise at all it was just a one-off. I mean God Hand came out 1 year after DMC3 so that's the kind of game people were comparing it to.
nah, the darkest timeline is the one where the only ones making games are ea, ubisoft, wb, actiblizz, etc. we, at least, still have a few decent indie-devs.
"We're releasing all major expansions for free so not to divide the playerbase." So what's with the season pass? "Oh that's so you can pre-order the free expansions to get early access before anyone else." .....
Not only will game companies not give things away for free, they also won't just sell you what you want. You can't buy a complete game - you have to buy it three times or read a spreadsheet and put up 3 times as much money for the "digital vanguard super deluxe ultimate edition" (i.e. the complete game). Then if you want certain extras like skins, you can't just buy them - you have to spend real money to gamble for them in loot boxes. This is why I prefer retro games at this point.
Same on playing retros, was going to upgrade my computer recently but the only games that I can't play with it at the moment are AAA titles. So I'm just not bothering to upgrade it, no point paying for a better gpu and more ram only to play something like the next ubisoft sandbox.
The top two tiers don't add anything to the game, they're physical stuff (a Division statue for the top one, a Rogue statue for the second to top), the Ultimate Edition I think is the last one to add anything gameplay-wise (judging by the uplay description, though uplay only has three editions on sale, not 6) because it's the Gold Edition (Game + Pass) plus a named AK-47 variant (they gave away a weapon like that in the first one too, it was shit, this time they're giving the crafting blueprint too so at least you can remake it at top level) , the extra stash spaces (unless they cut down the stash size from the first one this is a non-issue, though I will note there have been players for the last few years on Division 1 begging Ubisoft for the ability to gain more stash space either via gameplay or purchase... no idea how they managed to filll it, it was huge), two packs with an outfit, an emote and a weapon skin. Not really worth the extra $25 really, especially since those packs look like they'll probably be available separately (because they look a lot like some of the Division 1 paid DLC) if you only want some of them.
Retro titles will never go out of style. Simpler time, way more fun games, and they are just so much easier to play. No getting pissed at multiplayer, no having to buy it four more times (unless you're street fighter), just electronic bliss at its finest. It's even fun to collect these fuckers.
Gating off ingame storage space is even more stupid than gating off save slots. How much do we bet that unlocking it does not even change the total file size of user data? Also, does that count as on-disc DLC? It's not like they're actually adding anything...
In fifty years grandpas will be telling stories about video games in the good old days to their grandchildren. "In my youth when we wanted to buy a game, we bought the game. There was no season pass, no microtransactions, no *insert some now-unimaginable scam that will soon be commonplace*, just the game, the entire game, for 60 dollars. Sometimes, if the game was popular, there was DLC, although we didn't call it DLC, we called it the "expansion pack", and it actually felt like it was worth it. Those were the days..." And the children will whisper to one another "Grandpa's pulling our legs, there's no way games were ever like that"
If you take something like denuvo, sure it gets cracked after a while but it buys enough time for people to get tired and just buy the game, i think tomb raider took like a year if I'm not mistaken
And Plankton only resorted to it after plans A to Y all failed too! It was his literal last resort while these AAA companies would jump at the chance at the earliest convenience!
Imagine if a contractor of some sort gave you an offer on a job and they then proceeded to give you 5 different deals on the same job, without even vaguely defining what they are actually offering in each of the deals in question; Their company would obviously go bankrupt in no time at all. However, in the videogame industry that shit is essentially standard practice these days. It's beyond disgusting. Blind consumerism keeps encouraging the greedy publishers to pump out sub-par products without being forced to actually respond to backlash.
I've become extremely wary of games from Ubisoft and other publishers with practices like these. I still buy some of them occasionally but they've overall lost a lot of money from me that they used to get. Unfortunately all those microtransactions and DLC packs (of which most people who buy them won't ever even play them) make them way more money than they're losing from people like me.
Difference: Jim isn't trying to sell his opinion on La Ruina's game, but La Ruina is trying to sell his game. Someone looking up Jim is what he wants. Someone looking up Jim revealing what a sleazeball La Ruina is, well, that's obviously not what La Ruina wants. He wouldn't be so salty if he did.
yeahhh thats not the situation at all. Please don't fictionalize and fantasize over reality. La Ruina does not profit from association with Sterling and Sterling has moved on (though Ruina has not) and neither need each other. Nat and Ian are right. The more Ruina talks about sterling , the more people will discover the light shown on Ruina's behaviour.
SpaghettiandSauce It is a criticism channel. It just happens to be a criticism channel specifically for criticising shitty people/companies/games. It only becomes a "drama" channel when said people cannot handle the criticism and lash out. To which Jim responds by pointing and laughing. It is those other people who think that they can beat Jim and leech off of his popularity to gain exposure. There are enough shitty indie games and scummy AAA publisher practices that Jim does not need the drama and would not run out of videos without it.
I dont think Spag even realizes the irony of repeatedly making posts with a different version of the same condescending sentence about the real world/naivety/growing up and then following up with statements far departed from reality. The general premise of his arguement seems to be "Its this way because i say so and my earlier condescending statements means I have more experience so you have to listen." The problem is even that is shoddily done. His reply to me addressed nothing I actually said (none of his replies to anyone actually do), you could copy paste his replies anywhere, they are that vapid and generic. "let me explain about how the grown up world works" was followed by "this is not ultimately a crticism channel", his follow up has nothing to do with his previous statement! He's selecting random statements to put people down, but it comes off as disjointed with his criticisms when he jumps onto his high horse. he couldnt even put that little thought into what he's saying. *shrug* he has no foundation to stand on to begin with, which doesnt matter since his points lacks substance anyhow. The fact remains clear before our eyes. Ruina has only been exposing himself further by bringing Sterling up to his own fanbase, and Sterling is gaining immense amusement from the entire thing because its something he had already moved on from. But he didnt really care for that in the first place as this is all a poorly veiled excuse to take a piss at sterling without even making a concerted effort to even do that, so he's literally pissing into the wind and thinking its minty morning mist as it hits him in the face. Sterling has repeatedly recognized and called out shitty game industry behaviours long before others and predicted how events will turn out over and over. The fact he does it in a grandiose, over the top and amusing manner only makes it all the more fun. He brings up valid points I have not seen other critics mention. More than the games themselves, I come to him for his commentary about the industry and the players within. He covers that better than other critics and honestly its fun to watch while he does it.
To be fair Ubisoft are far from the worst for releasing really buggy games. I don't remember getting a Ubisoft game where there were bugs that destroyed the experience. They aren't as bad as Bethesda who repeatedly release Skyrim without fixing game breaking bugs or WB who just never bothered to get the Arkham game working on PC
This is a common practice in some MMOs and ARPGs. But in the case of Diablo 3 you cant buy the extra Stash space with real money, only with in-game gold that you ha ve to loot, and in path of exile you have to pay for it with real money but the game itself its free to play, so... yeah paying for extra stash space in a 60+ dolar game its still bullshit
Oh, I totally understand paying with in-game currency to expand your inventory; that can be used as a means of feeling progress. I remember every time I got an expansion briefcase in Resident Evil 4; you really felt that you were getting somewhere. And yes, many RPGs and MMOs can have that... But this is different, I feel. I don't feel there's a sense of achievement in expanding your inventory space... just a spenditure of real money. Sheesh...
Yeah, it's not uncommon at all for inventory space to be sold for real money, but that's always been almost exclusively done in free-to-play MMOs, as Max said. It's pretty much unfounded to see it in a $60 game, though.
Comparatively, I would say this is worse than Konami's save slot shit, even if only due to Konami's ineptitude. You can at least easily get around that save slot crap by just logging in as another user/profile. Definitely just an oversight by Konami there, but it's at least easily circumventable with not much effort. Not to mention there's less investment by the player, it's something you either buy or you don't, you don't put hundreds of hours in to the game and then feel you have to buy a save slot due to that investment...Not that anybody should put hundreds of hours into that piece of shit game anyway, but I digress. Storage space though? It's going to look more and more tempting once you've dropped X amount of hours into the game with no other real alternatives on offer. From experience, I've sat grinding money solely for some more storage space in games before and that was with in game currency, so this definitely hits a similar vein as cosmetic items being """optional""". It seems more scummy as it basically preys on the fact that a player might not want to lose something they've earned, therefore they have to pay.
Path of Exile does it and they also sell you the ability to have it automatically organized with special inventory tabs. Thing is, the game is free and you really dont need to even bother with currency items if you play exclusively without trading (solo self found mode).
@@JimSterling Jee thanks for not adding iDeal as a payment method to that store Jim 😒. I thought you were smarter then this but I guess I was wrong about that.
Im my country (New Zealand) games actually HAVE raised in price. At the start of the PS3 Gen they were $90NZD (60USD) and now are $120NZD (80USD) (On the PSStore too!) Yet we must also suffer the Ultimate Deluxe Silver Gold Special Collector's Editions and Season Passes. Funny how many journalists don't take much note on or even care about game cost since its mostly free for them anyway.
Makaroification really? That sucks man, $120 has been pretty standard in AUS since the Xbox 360 and PS3. They got away with charging 20 bucks more for them because they were a clear upgrade to the previous gen games that were still being sold, but kind of never dropped it back down to 100
Wow and I thought the UK had it bad. We haven't gone up in prise as much as you guys did, we went from £40 in the PS3/xbox360 days to £50 in PS4/Xbox one days.
Pretty clear its not just NZ then. Might have it worse, yeah, but games obviously DO cost more around the world... just not in the US... the only place games media/industry really cares about.
I am from NZ, you can get games cheaper than $120 easy. Stuff EB Games ripoff. I use MightyApe, I get standard edition games for $92.00. Standard is all you need, stuff all pre order bonus collectors shit. Plus I pay for the mightape member thing which is yearly and cheap and you get free shipping. EDIT: Once I done with game I resell on TradeMe and get 70% of my money back so gaming for me is dam cheap.
@@EvolvedParasite I use MightyApe aswell, but I was talking about the standard price in this country, what the industry expects to sell them at. MightyApe are great, but they are the exception. Basically every other retailer including Steam, PSStore etc are all as bad as EB Games. Im also collector, so reselling is a non option for me... but thats just me. It'd be a damn good way to get games on the cheap
There is only one "iconic" thing in Ubisoft of these days - Greed. P.S.: La Run or whatever, he just insecur about his sexuality. He wants the taste of Jim's perfect body, as we all are.
I really hate how Ewbisoft make people buy _multiple_ "Collectors Editions" to get everything that _should_ come in one goddamn package. People say they've changed but I think people are just so blinded by all the other shady companies that they're not paying _any_ attention to Ewbi.
I can understand if the ultimate editions came with shit like figurines, the soundtrack, concept art etc like dark souls. Just don't give extra content to the ultimate editions and divide the community
The ironic thing is that when Star Wars Battlefront 2 came out with all its bullshit, I saw someone online calling people (and I quote) "ignorant fucks that were hating on EA", claiming that we as gamers were the problem and not the company doing the shitty things in the first place. There is so much wrong with that statement.
I'd like to make it clear to people that the game developers could just increase the storage size before launch. It is not black magic. The game developers could allow you to store 999+ items. Good game developers restrict this amount to add challenge, compromise and encourage selling and trading. Bad game developers restrict this amount to sell storage space for real money.
Good game developers can keep the game fun even with infinte inventory storage capacity. Bad developers need such compromises that make zero sense at all.
I'm no developer but it's an online only game, and they mentioned supposedly because of that they can't raise the space too high or something like that. Server issues or whatever. You'd have to know about online game code type stuff to really know I would guess. Or it could be all bullshit.
It being online-only would mean that they can't make the inventory size infinite, yeah. The larger someone's inventory, the more space it needs to take up in code, and in theory if that space is truly infinite that means someone can crash whatever device is storing that data. Assuming The Division 2 stores people's inventory items on said online servers, which it probably does, that means infinite items is technically unfeasible. Of course, that doesn't really excuse selling additional inventory space for real-world money. Selling inventory space for in-game money would make sense, real-world money is unjustifiable outside of "We want to make more $$$". Inventory space limits can and do exist for a reason, and in many games it's a perfectly justifiable feature, even for technical reasons like The Division 2, but paywalling it a bad idea. When you paywall features like that you're engendering distrust within your community and will NEVER be able to shake the sentiment that you're scamming them (probably because you are).
You are correct. If a game developer is selling a hypothetical double-sized storage space, then there's no reason (besides greed) as to why this double-sized storage space could not simply be the standard size in the game.
Today my nephew talked about how he wished more games had dlc to get specific things like guns and skins instead of grinding to unlock it. I told him that there was a time before he was born where things called "cheat codes" existed that did that and other fun things for free. When he asked how that worked, I told him that games used to be released in their entirety without being butchered to bits. He made a comment along the lines of how he thought that sucked because he doesn't seem able to comprehend that a game can be longer or have a lot of content if it doesn't have dlc. "No, dude," I said, "when you bought a game, you bought the WHOLE game with everything they made for it." He just rolled his eyes and shook his head. He has no clue that most dlc comes from butchering an otherwise complete game - he thinks it's all extra content and a good thing.
I paid about $20 for Stardew Valley and I've been playing the everloving shit out of it ever since. 200+ hours with no DLC or micro-transactions or loot boxes needed, cuz ConcernedApe just made a fun game with lots to do and sold it for an affordable price. How 'bout that, eh?
Those are my Xenoblade 2 hours. While it does has a Expansion Pass, I don't need it to get to those hours (plus they have been releasing free DLC for the game as well)
The funny thing about the XC2 Season Pass is that they've been upfront from the get-go as to what content the pass will include and when you can expect it, even prior to purchase. And they've even adhered to that timetable with zero bullshit or excuses. The craziest thing about all this is THAT is what feels out of the norm. Extra content being offered to you with complete transparency.
I am so hyped for the story DLC. I never thought it was going to be this good. According to some of the Nintendo Europe people, during Gamescom, they said it would take 30 - 40 hours to play through this game. Which impressed me. The story DLC is looking so good that it could be A LOT better then the base game. New battle system, Community system, slightly better graphics, better U.I, (so far) better Voice Acting (listen to Mythra's screaming), and so on. That is just the story DLC. There is the rest of the DLC, where it was slow in the beginning, but once they got around the Challenge mode... It was all worth the wait. I did not expect Shulk, Fiora, or Elma joining as blades, let alone visions and overdrive coming back from their games, PLUS THEIR MUSIC. I am really impress with their DLC even without the story. Also, let's not forget it's free DLC. It added in T-elos, an easy difficulty option, and New Game Plus which has its own features in itself. I wished that Breath of the Wild DLC was A LOT better or much cheaper. XC2 DLC is running around in circles to BotW DLC in many different ways. Also, I find that there are things in Zelda's DLC that should have been in the main game, like Master mode and that Map feature for example.
I'm becoming increasingly glad that i'm an ornery loner that gets no enjoyment from multiplayer, it looks like it's getting even more expensive. I have no problem waiting a year for a sale or just ignoring packs.
Other people are shit anyway. The AI at least won't trashtalk you (although somehow they've taught the AI in For Honor how to do things like teabag you with the Shugoki... I don't know how the AI learns its move but if it was hand programmed it was programmed by an asshole)
Honestly multiplayer is just stupid on console. Why should I have to pay even more money after buying the game to get the full package that I paid for with the game console and the game? Then there is the fact that screw my enjoyment being dependent on being able to work with others or others working with me. I just want to play my game when I want without Internet connection or some dickhead fucking with my ability to enjoy it.
I got R6 Siege and didn't play it for like a year because I didn't want to deal with the other players. Finally get the ol' anxiety toned down enough that I give it a shot (I'd started messing around with Terrorist Hunt to get the hang of the controls, doing the daily objectives, but then the daily was for a multiplayer round so that convinced me to try it.) First game we win effortlessly, second game one of my teammates starts screaming at me and shoots me in the head claiming I shot him when my finger hadn't even been on the mouse button, then he throws the tie breaker. Needless to say I wasn't really in the mood for any more multiplayer Siege after that.
There's a number of companies that apparently didn't get that memo. It wouldn't be the first collectors edition of a game that didn't include the actual game.
I mean, they probably specify it because they were one of the ones getting shit on for NOT including the game in the giant physical boxes of tat. For like Ghost Recon Wildlands, AC Syndicate, etc they didn't have the game in the box, just the tat. These new packs, the top two packs are 90% tat with the ultimate edition of the game tossed in. Red Dead Redemption 2 appears to have a game-free tat edition this year.
James Austin I honestly don't mind if they sell the swag separately. You can try the game, and if you like it can go back and get the swag without having to pay for a second copy. It's the wording that makes it bad. If they call if "collector's edition", it implies an edition of the game (the game should be included). If they just called it "collector's pack" or something though and make it very clear the game is not included, I don't think people would mind as much. It would just be like any other merchandise.
It's completely crazy that publishers want to sell you season passes and not know what to put in them because they never think it through and just want a season pass for the sake of a season pass when they should just give you a full product instead and maybe one or two full non downloadable expansion packs like game companies used to. What they're doing now is more like expecting us to pay for our own Christmas presents.
I've never understood creators who kill off their critics in their works. Edgar Allan Poe once wrote "The cask of Amontillado", a short story about the narrator killing a guy meant to represent one of Poe's critics by burying him alive. There's no intrigue or payoff to the story, just a guy getting lured into a cellar and buried alive for no specific reason. It's by far the worst of Poe's stories, and if not even Edgar Allan Poe, the master of Gothic horror and author of timeless classics, could make a good story out of the desire to see his critics dead, what chances does untalented hacks churning out cash grab asset flips have? The level of narcissism in some people never ceases to amaze.
That's actually pretty common practice. Usually if movie or book has one very cringeworthy death scene for no particular reason or one annoying charachter for no reason then its probably a critic.
In the case of Division 2? Not really. Having looked up what's in the extra editions, there's not actually anything you'd be "OMG" desperate enough to want. The ultimate edition is the season pass, then two packs that each have an outfit and a weapon skin, and one of them has an emote. Oh, and the stash space which is a response to Division players from the first game begging for a way to increase their stash size (fuck knows why, the stash is huge and you don't exactly have a reason to keep anything but your best-rolled gear)
Let's face it. That "1 year free content" deal they've setup is going to be either cut content or, more likely, Div2 playing catch-up with where Div1 currently is.
You know it's amazing. I remember how furiously angry I was when I first saw the pre order bonuses for Red Dead Redemption 2. Like, not even buy the game at launch angry. Less than a week later Ubisoft announced the pre order bonuses for AC Odyssy and I couldn't help but chuckle because it helps put everything into context. Make no mistake, RDR 2's pre orders are still kinda shitty, but Ubisoft looked at that and said "No one's gonna outclass US on bad ideas!".
Having just looked at both, not really. AC Odyssey is selling one mission in the Pantheon, Spartan and Medusa Editions. Everything else in there looks to be statues, maps, and other physical tat (oh and the early access but that's if you really feel like playing it before the proper day 1 patch, heh) Then Ultimate which has all the edition stuff (game, season pass, DD shite, early access), Gold (Game + Pass), DD (Game + DD) and Game (Game). They're leaning way heavier on the statues and shit which I think is Ubisoft's usual approach, remembering when they used to do the collector's boxes without the game in (and let's not mention the massive sold out statue that doesn't come with a copy of the game for Odyssey but is AU$1160... I mean, it looks cool, but holy shit it's over a grand). I can't actually telll what's in the DD pack (the AU website doesn't say, it just has photos. Looks like skins? Possibly a little XP boost and currency? That'd be fitting with the DD pack on Origins...), but all in all none of the editions give anything worse than Red Dead's preorder bonuses. I'd say the biggest difference between Odyssey and Red Dead is Red Dead's Ultimate Edition gives you shit for the Online mode. Depending on how good the "Additional weapons", "rank bonuses" and the free mount are, the ultimate edition may give you a leg up against other players. That's not kosher.
You mean you DONT want to preorder Red Dead and then get rewarded with in-game currency? For GTAV? Why wouldn't you want to preorder for bonus shark cash? /s
I went to go look at RDR 2 pre-order stuff because I wanted to make a witty comment, but are they seriously going to be locking out story content on release unless you buy the pre-ordered Special edition or Ultimate edition? I mean, it's RDR2 so... GOTY!!! But seriously, I am almost feeling thankful I didn't buy a console this generation and don't have a PC strong enough to play triple-A games.
I agree entirely. Too many people are still in the pool for these companies to fix their practices. Myself, I purposely stay two years or so behind the current game releases. I have such a backlog as it is, I don't even feel the need to buy anything more, Steam is way too generous with their sales, it's to the point that I feel like I'd be shooting myself in the foot by buying new games. There's just way too much already out to worry what is coming in the future. Jim Sterling is all I need to keep up with the current stuff.
I agree with everyone who says not to buy a game at launch. There's not much you can do about competitive multiplayer games, but you can hold off on single player games. Every single last mother fucking one of us has a backlog that can reach the heavens, so just go knock out one of those games you've never beaten and get whatever new game is out a week later when some shop'll already have it for like 25% off.
Aww, he got so mad, it's cute. I mean really, that's venture bros. tier villain. 'OOOH THAT JIM STERLING, I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO GET MY SWEET REVENGE ON THAT SEXY- I MEAN FAT- LARGE BOYE"
Or the one that's $AUD100 after 8 years because they "forgot" to do any price drops in this region and the price varies from week to week due to not being priced in our local currency
"It's optional" Well that's fine then. I was worried Ubisoft would send its company militia to my house and force me to purchase their product at gunpoint, but since it's optional I guess I have nothing to complain about
The increased stash size isn't dependable, it's changing a number in code. There's no effort on ubisoft and it's literally removing functionality to try and get you to pay for it. These in game purchases, I don't know why anyone buys into them. You just spent $60+ on a game but now you're gonna buy single use, account locked features/functions that should be free? Why? Why would you waste your money on the dumbest crap here. Ubisoft continues to be brain dead with customer value and trustworthiness. Games filled with always online DRM and then also, in game purchases. Meaning all your purchases are going away in 4-5 years. But please, please spend 100+ bucks inside the game *hand on the server off button* There's still TIME to enjoy your player choice!
Simple - grinding. They tend to design the games in ways that make those stashes more usefull and not buying them more painfull. Its how those "free-to-wait" games work: Simply make the purchase so usefull and the lack of purchase so annoying, that it works. Batter the player into spending money. Thats why this works so well - inventory space is an annoyance. While it can be integrated in a game to a good effect by forcing players to plan what to take and also ensure the loot-mechanic doesnt loose its touch by players taking EVERYTHING it is ripe for ensuring a lot of annoyance.
So the tried and true method of waiting for an all-in-one "Complete Edition" to release with everything included and go on sale for sub~$20 is still the way to go? Cool. Why people buy games at these ludicrous prices on day one (or worse, preorder), just so they can spend even more money on DLC later on, truly boggles my mind. I will never understand that way of thinking.
If anyone r even genuinely interested in Division 2 just wait a year or 2 until all the bugs are fixed and the true ultimate complete edition is for 20 bucks
Meanwhile Ubisoft will release Division 3 and people will be all over that and they'll sell their Division 2 copy to GameStop for $0.30, a game that they already spend thousands of dollars on and they plan to spend thousands more on the next game
Jesus, the shirt is $15 usd... got excited.. then a $37 usd for shipping gets slapped on... I may hold off on getting that estus shirt for a while, forgive me Jim
This kind of shit is why I haven't bought a new game on launch in years. Even ones I was extremely excited for, I wouldn't buy for over a year. Hell I'm still waiting for a decent price on dragonball fighter Z to come up so I can play that. Can we as a community just agree to not pre-order any game for a year? Heck can we agree to not buy any game period that pulls the multiple editions crap until the game of the year edition comes out or it goes half price? If nobody bought the game odds are the price would plummet within a few months.
Is that Richard's actual name or did he choose it? Richard La Ruina straight up sounds like a Mexican drag performer, but I have the suspicion that he can't reach the notes on any Yuri or Gloria Trevi song. And If he did choose it, did he choose Spanish because of Conquistadors? Like he is a sexual colonist? Cuz I don't think that is a healthy view of relationships, obviously
I wish I could be surprised with What Ubisoft does, I'm not. Not even a little. They aren't changing and I don't know what else to say that others have already said. Including how again, Ubisoft is pretty much dead to me.
What Prawned said and also, Ubisoft is famous for releasing games in a meh state and then patching them up later so while you get in early to experience the peak of the multiplayer the game doesn't actually get good until a year down the road when the cheaper bundles come out. I mean look at For Honor, game even went free for a little while.
I mean on top of that, most ubisoft games value crash after the first 2 months aswell. I paid $20 australian dollars for AC origins. Still wasn't worth it but better then $100.
To be fair, the free periods for For Honor (during E3 on Uplay and during Gamescom on Steam) have been a combination of going "Hey guys, we've got actual servers now. Give it a shot" and "Hey guys, new expansion coming out in October, come have a free taste now"
Richard "The Ruin" La Ruina didn't get the Slaughtering Grounds memo and thinks he can insult Jim "Fucking" Sterling "Son" without Jim abusing said insult for kicks and giggles. You can't beat the greatest showman in video game = entertainment industry. The sooner you accept your defeat, the sooner you'll be able to move along with your life.
You know, warframe does the inventory space thing ...in a free to play game, where you can get the premium currency by playing and trading with other players, and inventory slots are really cheap, and can be bought as needed, and... (realistically, the inventory slot thing is only for weapons and warframes, which presumably actually take some level of server load to save and track, since they're so modifiable, compared to your mod inventory, which is a bunch of pre-defined effects with only one variable-- level.)
I honestly love that jim named his online store the 'jimporium." Not for pun reasons, but because emporium denotes a large retail store selling an extreme array of eclectically selected items- and if that's not a good description of a jim sterling store I have no clue what is.
@@jamaly77 Here we have another troll saying a generic and unorignal line to prompt a nintendo flame war. Let's see which prey will take this creature's bait.
With Nintendo games, your best bet is to just wait until a local department store has a generic "take $5 off anything" coupon or whatever. Or buy used. It especially sucks for the all-digital-all-the-time crowd.
We live in such a weird world that the only game company that knows what the word ultimate means is Nintendo, for some reason. Read a god damn dictionary.
laws are needed to force companies to either sell the software as ONE product or ONE service, no double paying for the same product or knowingly shave off lines of existing codes only to push more money from people.
Right? That game was awful. Played all the way through it, got to the end-game, and then realized 'This is it?' It's never anything more than a basic cover shooter, there are no original mechanics or twists to the gameplay. It never changes or becomes challenging or interesting. Just sit in cover and shoot the mans.
Well, I have to admit I did enjoy the early to mid-game reasonably, and some of the guns were very satisfying to use, but a helicopter as a final boss, fail city. A shame because there was definitely untapped potential. Tapped out now though.
Seriously, I got about 2 weeks into that "service". Poked back in after major updates and left a few days later each time (if not right away). Hardly the life style game they hoped for like COD multiplayer or LoL. Hell, even Destiny had a longer shelf life.
No shit, what's your next big revelation? That humans need air to breathe? That humans need water? Please share more of your great insight with the rest of us, oh we are not worthy of you.
@@BeansOnToast420 the fuck is your problem? Alot of people give Ubisoft a pass because their IPs sell well and many times when they screw up it goes under the radar
Make sure you have worked in the shipping industry before you talk about price. You probably think you should be able to ship something over night for $5, too. Shipping is expensive.
@@orbbb24 define "worked in shipping. Haveing done S&R, swamping and long haul Bubba. Try being polite when you make your statement or ask a question. Ordering parts from extrusion blow molders have better cost to shipping ratios, hense why I cringed.
I mean the people who actually charge for the shipping. I can tell you that a shirt going UPS to Canada is expensive. I work for UPS. I know the pricing. Postal service is cheaper but then you don't have tracking. And if you pay for postal tracking, you may as well send it UPS. Shipping is expensive unless you're shipping in massive amounts of bulk. I doubt Jim is shipping extremely high volumes.
@@orbbb24 the USPS calculator page is down, so harder to see what their rates are like. But a 400lb hydraulic cylinder I can get from Detroit for under $300USD LTL to Alberta, so I'm not sure why the rates are so high. First class is mostly just for standard envelopes, but google says most packages start at $21 USD to ship to CA. Just not seeing the economy of scale on something that's only half a pound. Just stuck with patreon to support Jimmy.
When I first linked my google account that I have my TH-cam through to the chrome browser I use for work. TH-cam started showing me agricultural ads. I guess because I do IT work for an agricultural company. It was crazy seeing a tractor commercial along side Level1 techs
I had ads for Fortnite ever since the season started. Guess what game wasn't launched once since. I'm a simple guy. If you shove something in my face, I'll do my bloody best to avoid it on principle.
You say that, but I’ve never gotten a recommendation for it, and I’ve played the game once in a while on my phone and Xbox. Why would you even post that comment here anyway? On a video that has absolutely nothing to do with Fortnite? Just because circlejerking about not liking a popular game is in right now?
I don't buy these _social marketplace apps_ posing as games because there is nothing to miss out on anyways due to content being screwed with via drip fed price gouging or flat out not there. Just marketing gimmicks when there are real studios making real games more deserving.
The only thing that matters in being successful with the casual AAA consumer though..... Those devs dont spend more on marketing then on the actual product.
+1 i have turned away from the big companies a long time ago. last things i bought were the dead space trilogy and the mass effect trilogy. fool me once, get a second chance, fool me twice i'm getting the fuck out.
yes! for years now Jim is saying that the preorder culture (and all attached bullshit, ever evolving), is changing game development...and here we are, for the big 3 publishers, "gaming" is not to deliver a game anymore, is to deliver a service where they can explore whales as much as possible, monetizing every single bit of data if possible. So in their vision, the final client, the ideal "gamer" is someone who buys the entrance fee for $60 and spends another $300 in utter bullshit. That's why is so naive to complain how destiny or the division "made mistakes"...its not a mistake, it is the plan.
I've been done with Triple A for some time. It's just not worth it, overhyped subpar products that just wants you to spend more money. There are so many actual games out there if you just look beyond Triple A. Medium publishers, small publishers, indies...
Completely uninterested in the AAA game industry anymore. I used to love a LOT of video games. Now I love old games and small indie titles exclusively. Very disappointing what all these companies are pulling.
Eric Sebena Spider-Man (Ps4), Red Dead Redemption 2, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, BIOMUTANT, Darksiders 3, Ghost of Tsushima, Devil May Cry 5, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (the game I’m most excited for and will probably be GOTY for me) and The Elder Scrolls VI..
You're not alone there in feeling this way. It's one of the main reasons VR has saved this generation from being a total and utter failure for me. People moan about the price of the thing, and that the games are a bit short and tech demo-ish, but those games that I do buy for it in sales cost me very little, and I feel like I'm getting more value out of them than what the so called "AAA" games offer.
I spot a new scheme in the year 1 pass: with this naming and subtext ("access to the first year of episodes") it is basically a subscription 'service' where the amount of DLC packs is not advertised, leaving the option for the publisher open to move content out of the time frame to reduce the pass' 'value' while keeping your pre-order money.
I can't wait for the day you hit 1Mil subscribers, the mind boggles just thinking about what your special edition super deluxe edition of the Jimquisition will include...
I mean, the Ultimate Edition is all the actual game stuff (Game + Season Pass + Cosmetic DLC packs). Those two packs above it? Two different-themed packs of physical tat. And I'm amazed if they're even doing that for PC considering last year they just flat out didn't make physical copies of the PC version of AC Origins. If you wanted the tat you had to get the console version as well as your digital download on PC.
Arcsys didn't always used to be like this... I stuck with them up until BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend and moved on to other games, but I still praised them for their fighting mechanics and music. Then I had an actual look at the products and... Well, I don't recommend anything but indies now. Also, check out Pocket Fighter. Just saying.
Not that I really buy into "Live services" as I don't play any of those games. But my main problem with them from an outside perspective is how they are not even a freaking service, as mentioned in the video. They still make those "live services" on a yearly basis that outdates and makes the previous experience inferior. I thought Destiny was going to be a 10 year game? Assassins Creed took a year off and now back to yearly. None of these games are anywhere near a live service, which I would rather compare with Team Fortress 2, WoW, LoL, (and probably Fortnite) etc. Not that I play any of those either, but some are games that has been around for a decade, others are free and have tons of free updates etc. It's a service.
Agreed. The issues is, publishers want to have their cake and eat it too, so they're simulatenously trying to make long-lived live services, and still sticking to frequent release schedules. I think this will resolve itself over time as publishers get more used to the live service model, but that'll probably result in significant and frequent failures (because, after all, a single gamer can generally only keep up with 1-2 true live services at a time) due to market oversaturation, with a couple of standout success stories.
JamieMadrox195 I don't see the relevance of how taking 1 year off somehow makes it a live service? So a game only last 2 years at maximum to be replaced by another game, that's a "service"? Why not copy LoL,WoW, TF2, Diablo, etc if they want to create a service? a game only lasting 2 years at maximum isn't a "live service", it's barely following normal recycle of games. Most games are not even replaced that quickly. Most games (Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, Zelda, MGS, GTA, etc etc) you have to wait several years between each game. It's only garbage recycled shit that comes out every 1-2 year. Can't believe "only" coming out every 2nd year is somehow a pat on their back.
DarthVaderReviews Their idiotic gamble on a live service that players will continue to dump money into, is that a player will just stick with ONE live service like this. One MMO / MMO lite / online game that he/she keeps on playing and supporting. Players only have a limited amount of time. And they're so stupid for believing they can just continue to create these "live services" when people obviously are oversaturated by it already, and only one game per player can be that "one game".
Watching this back makes me chuckle. Ubisoft lied, of course, about all the major updates being free for Division 2. The new Expansion, Warlords of New York, is pay gated for $20 if my memory serves me right.
I have a theory. Its probably wrong. But AAA games are so lacking in content alot now. It seems like they are pushing graphics to the extreme for what the gpus coming out can do. Nvidia works closely with game developers to maximize graphics. But...its not graphics that make a good game. I got The Division free with my 970, and I couldnt even force myself to play through that empty shell of a game. Its gorgeous. But its like an empty shell of an experience. Are they putting all the development money towards graphics alone now for the wow factor??? The whole push to make games services. Because so many people play COD or WoW. Is stupid. They are alienating a vast majority of gamers and they are looking to Indie developers for games. And you know what? They do it better too. Games are an art form. And passion projects. Not mass produced copy paste bull, not assembly line products you ship out whether they are bolted together or not. And you definitely dont sell assembly line products incomplete, and then make people buy bits of it at a time to complete it. Im ok with expansions, not dlc, real expansions. Like how they used to do. But screw dlc. Dying Light did it right. Cd Projekt Red does it right. And even worse, when you buy hardware. What games do they giveaway for purchasing a new gpu? A "AAA" shell garbage title that looks beautiful. But is usually absolute shit. Or has 20 dlcs "1 expansion, and 19 outfits in game" Im as enraged as you are Jim. Down with this bullcrap.
I'm more inclined to pre-order Jim's shirts and hats (which are really iconic, not Ubisoft iconic) than to pre-order or in fact order any of The Division's Editions.
What happened to the artistic integrity? I bought Monster Hunter on my Switch and got all of the content no strings attached. Why can't games be more like Monster Hunter.
Hell, why can't all Monster Hunter games be like that. I'm not too keen on World having timed events and microtransactions (cosmetic or not). I agree, MHGenU is far superior, as you get everything for the original price tag, no bullshit and it's permanent.
Never understood the hype for the first game let alone the second itclooks bland as fuck with nothing I haven’t seen in a thousand games lol it looks dull as fuck
@@Aleara27 I mean don't get me wrong, it's not without merit. I personally found it boring as hell but it ain't my kinda game anyway. It's my dismal opinion of the first game plus the reciprocated contempt towards ubi that makes this a definitive no for me. I do suggest that you rent before you buy though. Once in a while they'll put out a good game so it's not a good idea to completely rule them out (unlike Crapcom who's so inept that I do legitimately avoid them like the plague with extreme prejudice)
Aleara ...Borderlands? How can one mention looter-shooters and omit Borderlands? Randy Pitchford might be a twat, but Borderlands is truly a great series. Though, I think the first game will always be my favourite.
@JimSterling the reason it's complicated and convoluted is quite simple: People need to spend more time thinking about what they want to get what they actually want. At the point where people go from "So I might buy the game" to "But IF i buy the game, which edition should I buy" is the point where the sale is basically closed, because the part before the comma will be forgotten over the time spent deciding.
Beatmania IIDX 26 got announced recently, it's the same thing as the other 25 beatmania IIDX games but with new songs, and you can't play it unless you live near a Round 1 or in Japan, like every single other beatmania IIDX release ever that's about it
I refuse to buy any product that requires me to go through a spreadsheet. Also, does this mean La Ruina has become your new archenemy? Or is that a bit too grandiose?
Nice to see Richard La Ruina's not bitter about everything that's happened.
Totally normal.
Meanwhile, word has it that he wants Nintendo and Microsoft to host his game on the Switch and XBone. If I were them both, I'd tell LaRuina to go suck an egg.
CyanFire He’s not being bitter or petty in any way
To be fair, though...
Jim IS a fucking prick, and thank God for him.
He’s a good prick alright ☺️
That's how every normal sane person replies to criticism.
Meanwhile at the Ubisoft car lot...
Welcome to my car dealer. Please select which edition of this car you want.
"Why would I want to buy a car without a wind shield?"
No idea, but it's an option.
"This other one doesn't even have tires on it."
It's the starting edition. Don't worry, it can still drive.
"Why is this one more expensive than that one?"
It adds the iconic radio device.
"A radio is iconic?"
You bet.
+Drain
The new corporate marketing scheme (analogy):
Customer - C
Publisher - P
C - “I would like a ham sandwich, please.”
P - “Okay. That’ll be $10.”
C - “Wow... that’s a bit expensive.”
P - “Costs a lot to make sandwiches now. We have a guy to whisper to the bread. A guy to put the mayo on. A guy to put the meat on. A guy to put the bottom piece of bread on. A guy to put the top piece of bread on. A guy to cut the tomato once. Another to cut it a second time. Another to cut it a third time.”
C - “All that seems wholly unnecessary.”
P - “Here’s your sandwich.”
C - “Wait. This is just a stack of three slices of ham.”
P - “Yes. It is technically a sandwich that includes ham.”
C - “It seems like it’s not finished.”
P - “Well, sandwiches are expensive to make now.”
C - “But this is only a sandwich in a definition of the word that allows you to not get sued for lying about what you’re selling.”
P - “Well, you can buy the top bread for $5, bottom bread for $5, both together for $10.50...”
C - “That’s not a deal.”
P - “...a random condiment (chosen from a pool of 730) for $2 a pop, a vegetable of some sort (chosen from a pool with things like safety pins and used hair ties).”
C - “I don’t want those. Can I just buy the condiments and vegetables I want?”
P - “Hahahahahaha! I don’t even know how we’d do that!”
C - “This whole thing seriously sounds like you’re just running a racket.”
P - “Well, it’s wholly optional. Enjoy your sandwich, dickhead.”
C - “It has a bunch of bugs on it. Goddamnit.”
God I hope Jim sees this.
It comes with speed holes that make the car go faster.
Car dealerships actually do that, though. They'll quote you a low price on a car, but it's for a car without any of the "options;" no A/C, no cruise control, etc. and you end up paying thousands more if you want anything more than just the bare-bones car. They still charge you extra for automatic transmission, FFS. Just a friendly reminder that predatory business practices aren't the sole domain of the video games industry, and we're probably going to need to change things at a societal level before this shit goes away.
To quote Sarge on red vs blue options are optional
U - Standard edition
Ub - Deluxe edition
Ubi - Gold edition
Ubis - Ultimate edition
Ubiso - Superior edition
Ubisof T - Legend edition featuring the iconic letter T as a pre-order bonus!
You forgot one
Ubsft - Ultimate Edition
Lol
The superior edition not having a capital s bothers me more than it should
@@amedicabg fixed
Do those come packed with an Ubi softee ice cream?
"It's optional" Buying your game is optional too and I'm choosing not to support you Ubisoft
if you ever feel the urge buy on G2A. They steel the majority of their keys anyways so there is a high chance that ubi wont get that money. #SinceWatchdogs
If you’re gonna pirate it just pirate it
I completely agree with you Tibasu. I walked away from the first one because of this shit, and I see they have not learned a god damn thing. I’m not wasting my time or my money on this shit.
That's when I either rent or buy used so they don't get my money.
I hope that nobody subscribed to this channel buys Ubisoft games. If they do, the message clearly isn't getting through.
Finding the full version of a Ubisoft game is the Dark Souls of game purchases
There is AC 2
There isn't one, in most cases
Opening an Ubisoft game case is like opening a mimic chest; you saw the straight chain (Ubi) attached to it but you opened it anyways. You get what you deserve.
Even if you come back to fight through the bullshit your reward often feels underwhelming, especially when you consider the trust issues you'll have for the rest of your experience. Haha
LMAO
Getting a thumbs up for a Dark Souls comment is the Dark Souls of Dark Souls comments.
We live in a world where Super Seducer gets a sequel but God Hand doesn't.
It's an extremely cheap product bought by the desperate (and idiots that "ironically" buy it) hence why it saw a positive return for him. All the negative press for it also got people to check it out for themselves. It's no surprise at all it got a sequel.
Meanwhile God Hand was a clunky (it has tank controls and other shit like that), poorly marketed and downright average game (that offered a unique experience). No surprise at all it was just a one-off. I mean God Hand came out 1 year after DMC3 so that's the kind of game people were comparing it to.
Truly the darkest timeline.
nah, the darkest timeline is the one where the only ones making games are ea, ubisoft, wb, actiblizz, etc. we, at least, still have a few decent indie-devs.
And zone of the Enders can’t get a 3rd
@@suplextrain There's nothing average about God Hand. It's not as good as the greatest hack 'n' slash ever made? No shit.
"We're releasing all major expansions for free so not to divide the playerbase."
So what's with the season pass?
"Oh that's so you can pre-order the free expansions to get early access before anyone else."
.....
Not only will game companies not give things away for free, they also won't just sell you what you want. You can't buy a complete game - you have to buy it three times or read a spreadsheet and put up 3 times as much money for the "digital vanguard super deluxe ultimate edition" (i.e. the complete game). Then if you want certain extras like skins, you can't just buy them - you have to spend real money to gamble for them in loot boxes. This is why I prefer retro games at this point.
And that's why I don't buy games from those publishers.
Same on playing retros, was going to upgrade my computer recently but the only games that I can't play with it at the moment are AAA titles.
So I'm just not bothering to upgrade it, no point paying for a better gpu and more ram only to play something like the next ubisoft sandbox.
Indeed
The top two tiers don't add anything to the game, they're physical stuff (a Division statue for the top one, a Rogue statue for the second to top), the Ultimate Edition I think is the last one to add anything gameplay-wise (judging by the uplay description, though uplay only has three editions on sale, not 6) because it's the Gold Edition (Game + Pass) plus a named AK-47 variant (they gave away a weapon like that in the first one too, it was shit, this time they're giving the crafting blueprint too so at least you can remake it at top level) , the extra stash spaces (unless they cut down the stash size from the first one this is a non-issue, though I will note there have been players for the last few years on Division 1 begging Ubisoft for the ability to gain more stash space either via gameplay or purchase... no idea how they managed to filll it, it was huge), two packs with an outfit, an emote and a weapon skin.
Not really worth the extra $25 really, especially since those packs look like they'll probably be available separately (because they look a lot like some of the Division 1 paid DLC) if you only want some of them.
Retro titles will never go out of style. Simpler time, way more fun games, and they are just so much easier to play. No getting pissed at multiplayer, no having to buy it four more times (unless you're street fighter), just electronic bliss at its finest. It's even fun to collect these fuckers.
I'm a proud owner of the Division 2: Kept My Money Thanks Edition. they don't even show you that option on the spreadsheet, ya plebs!
My collection of AAA-titles I haven't bought because of scummy practices is the best buy I never made.
Holy crap, someone else who found these hidden editions. I've been "buying" them for about ten years now. 😂
The kept my money editions aren't even worth the shelf space. I need that for PS2 games!
In economics it's called an "opportunity cost"
I'm also a big fan of the Post Controversy Steam Sale Edition. Feeling like that's a potential for me a few years down the road.
Gating off ingame storage space is even more stupid than gating off save slots.
How much do we bet that unlocking it does not even change the total file size of user data? Also, does that count as on-disc DLC? It's not like they're actually adding anything...
its all stupid, big publishers seem to be in a race to the bottom :/
Life service games all have gated-off content that is on the disc already. Why do you think it is called microtransaction and NOT dlc?
In fifty years grandpas will be telling stories about video games in the good old days to their grandchildren. "In my youth when we wanted to buy a game, we bought the game. There was no season pass, no microtransactions, no *insert some now-unimaginable scam that will soon be commonplace*, just the game, the entire game, for 60 dollars. Sometimes, if the game was popular, there was DLC, although we didn't call it DLC, we called it the "expansion pack", and it actually felt like it was worth it. Those were the days..." And the children will whisper to one another "Grandpa's pulling our legs, there's no way games were ever like that"
I'm just 25 and i already talk like that.
I grew up with the ps1, ps2 and NGC.
Those two generations were the best.
No bullshit, just awesome games.
I already tell my niece about those wonderful, long lost days.
Ayup. I'm 34, and I already talk like that. It's sad, really. the PS2/XBox/Gamcube era really was the best for gaming, imho.
Op I do that already...
Exantius E im already telling that for my son.
Making the game hard to buy just invites more piracy on it.
Slightly harder to pirate a game that's an MMO-lite, isn't it?
Last I checked it wasn't that hard. Then again, I wouldn't know how to pirate shit.
Well if there's private pirate servers...aarg
it 's so painfully easy to pirate, i don't even know why they bother to install anti-piracy measures at all, doesn't that shit cost money?
If you take something like denuvo, sure it gets cracked after a while but it buys enough time for people to get tired and just buy the game, i think tomb raider took like a year if I'm not mistaken
Hey, Jim, don't compare the game industry to Plankton's Chum Bucket with that footage.
That's really insulting to Plankton.
And Plankton only resorted to it after plans A to Y all failed too! It was his literal last resort while these AAA companies would jump at the chance at the earliest convenience!
Ditto to Lexcorp.
Imagine if a contractor of some sort gave you an offer on a job and they then proceeded to give you 5 different deals on the same job, without even vaguely defining what they are actually offering in each of the deals in question; Their company would obviously go bankrupt in no time at all. However, in the videogame industry that shit is essentially standard practice these days. It's beyond disgusting. Blind consumerism keeps encouraging the greedy publishers to pump out sub-par products without being forced to actually respond to backlash.
I've become extremely wary of games from Ubisoft and other publishers with practices like these. I still buy some of them occasionally but they've overall lost a lot of money from me that they used to get. Unfortunately all those microtransactions and DLC packs (of which most people who buy them won't ever even play them) make them way more money than they're losing from people like me.
So Richard La Ruina just told his customers about the guy who shits all over his games which means they'll look Jim up? He's not too smart is he?
Difference: Jim isn't trying to sell his opinion on La Ruina's game, but La Ruina is trying to sell his game. Someone looking up Jim is what he wants. Someone looking up Jim revealing what a sleazeball La Ruina is, well, that's obviously not what La Ruina wants. He wouldn't be so salty if he did.
yeahhh thats not the situation at all. Please don't fictionalize and fantasize over reality. La Ruina does not profit from association with Sterling and Sterling has moved on (though Ruina has not) and neither need each other.
Nat and Ian are right. The more Ruina talks about sterling , the more people will discover the light shown on Ruina's behaviour.
Stupid people are generally not that smart... xP
SpaghettiandSauce It is a criticism channel. It just happens to be a criticism channel specifically for criticising shitty people/companies/games. It only becomes a "drama" channel when said people cannot handle the criticism and lash out. To which Jim responds by pointing and laughing.
It is those other people who think that they can beat Jim and leech off of his popularity to gain exposure. There are enough shitty indie games and scummy AAA publisher practices that Jim does not need the drama and would not run out of videos without it.
I dont think Spag even realizes the irony of repeatedly making posts with a different version of the same condescending sentence about the real world/naivety/growing up and then following up with statements far departed from reality. The general premise of his arguement seems to be "Its this way because i say so and my earlier condescending statements means I have more experience so you have to listen." The problem is even that is shoddily done. His reply to me addressed nothing I actually said (none of his replies to anyone actually do), you could copy paste his replies anywhere, they are that vapid and generic. "let me explain about how the grown up world works" was followed by "this is not ultimately a crticism channel", his follow up has nothing to do with his previous statement!
He's selecting random statements to put people down, but it comes off as disjointed with his criticisms when he jumps onto his high horse. he couldnt even put that little thought into what he's saying. *shrug* he has no foundation to stand on to begin with, which doesnt matter since his points lacks substance anyhow. The fact remains clear before our eyes. Ruina has only been exposing himself further by bringing Sterling up to his own fanbase, and Sterling is gaining immense amusement from the entire thing because its something he had already moved on from. But he didnt really care for that in the first place as this is all a poorly veiled excuse to take a piss at sterling without even making a concerted effort to even do that, so he's literally pissing into the wind and thinking its minty morning mist as it hits him in the face.
Sterling has repeatedly recognized and called out shitty game industry behaviours long before others and predicted how events will turn out over and over. The fact he does it in a grandiose, over the top and amusing manner only makes it all the more fun. He brings up valid points I have not seen other critics mention. More than the games themselves, I come to him for his commentary about the industry and the players within. He covers that better than other critics and honestly its fun to watch while he does it.
Is there an edition that has all the bugs and glitches fixed ahead of time? Course not it’s Ubisoft.
Can you imagine if there was though?
"For only 9.99 extra, you can get the day one patch edition, that comes with all the bugs fixed for you!"
Don't give them ideas!
Oh god, that’s just a scary idea Wepel >_>
Year 2 Pass. Sold seperately.
To be fair Ubisoft are far from the worst for releasing really buggy games. I don't remember getting a Ubisoft game where there were bugs that destroyed the experience. They aren't as bad as Bethesda who repeatedly release Skyrim without fixing game breaking bugs or WB who just never bothered to get the Arkham game working on PC
Wait... Am I getting this right? Ubisoft is offering inventory space to purchase??
That's some Konami Pay-For-More-Save-Slots garbage right there...
This is a common practice in some MMOs and ARPGs. But in the case of Diablo 3 you cant buy the extra Stash space with real money, only with in-game gold that you ha ve to loot, and in path of exile you have to pay for it with real money but the game itself its free to play, so... yeah paying for extra stash space in a 60+ dolar game its still bullshit
Oh, I totally understand paying with in-game currency to expand your inventory; that can be used as a means of feeling progress. I remember every time I got an expansion briefcase in Resident Evil 4; you really felt that you were getting somewhere. And yes, many RPGs and MMOs can have that... But this is different, I feel. I don't feel there's a sense of achievement in expanding your inventory space... just a spenditure of real money. Sheesh...
Yeah, it's not uncommon at all for inventory space to be sold for real money, but that's always been almost exclusively done in free-to-play MMOs, as Max said. It's pretty much unfounded to see it in a $60 game, though.
Comparatively, I would say this is worse than Konami's save slot shit, even if only due to Konami's ineptitude.
You can at least easily get around that save slot crap by just logging in as another user/profile. Definitely just an oversight by Konami there, but it's at least easily circumventable with not much effort. Not to mention there's less investment by the player, it's something you either buy or you don't, you don't put hundreds of hours in to the game and then feel you have to buy a save slot due to that investment...Not that anybody should put hundreds of hours into that piece of shit game anyway, but I digress.
Storage space though? It's going to look more and more tempting once you've dropped X amount of hours into the game with no other real alternatives on offer. From experience, I've sat grinding money solely for some more storage space in games before and that was with in game currency, so this definitely hits a similar vein as cosmetic items being """optional""". It seems more scummy as it basically preys on the fact that a player might not want to lose something they've earned, therefore they have to pay.
Path of Exile does it and they also sell you the ability to have it automatically organized with special inventory tabs.
Thing is, the game is free and you really dont need to even bother with currency items if you play exclusively without trading (solo self found mode).
Shit man, I'm just happy Mahmud got me a mention on The Jimquisition.
He’s got way more charisma then the other guy.
@@JimSterling Jee thanks for not adding iDeal as a payment method to that store Jim 😒. I thought you were smarter then this but I guess I was wrong about that.
because thats relevant to this discussion thread
Lol yes, he is obviously an idiot for not accepting your uncommon payment method, fucking knob
@@Tim-007 considering that isn't a common payment form, why would they add it?
Im my country (New Zealand) games actually HAVE raised in price. At the start of the PS3 Gen they were $90NZD (60USD) and now are $120NZD (80USD) (On the PSStore too!)
Yet we must also suffer the Ultimate Deluxe Silver Gold Special Collector's Editions and Season Passes.
Funny how many journalists don't take much note on or even care about game cost since its mostly free for them anyway.
Makaroification really? That sucks man, $120 has been pretty standard in AUS since the Xbox 360 and PS3. They got away with charging 20 bucks more for them because they were a clear upgrade to the previous gen games that were still being sold, but kind of never dropped it back down to 100
Wow and I thought the UK had it bad. We haven't gone up in prise as much as you guys did, we went from £40 in the PS3/xbox360 days to £50 in PS4/Xbox one days.
Pretty clear its not just NZ then. Might have it worse, yeah, but games obviously DO cost more around the world... just not in the US... the only place games media/industry really cares about.
I am from NZ, you can get games cheaper than $120 easy. Stuff EB Games ripoff. I use MightyApe, I get standard edition games for $92.00. Standard is all you need, stuff all pre order bonus collectors shit. Plus I pay for the mightape member thing which is yearly and cheap and you get free shipping. EDIT: Once I done with game I resell on TradeMe and get 70% of my money back so gaming for me is dam cheap.
@@EvolvedParasite I use MightyApe aswell, but I was talking about the standard price in this country, what the industry expects to sell them at. MightyApe are great, but they are the exception. Basically every other retailer including Steam, PSStore etc are all as bad as EB Games.
Im also collector, so reselling is a non option for me... but thats just me. It'd be a damn good way to get games on the cheap
There is only one "iconic" thing in Ubisoft of these days - Greed.
P.S.: La Run or whatever, he just insecur about his sexuality. He wants the taste of Jim's perfect body, as we all are.
13:13 - you said 'triple-A' in a normal, non-obnoxious voice. I'm disappointed, Jim. Very disappointed. I hope this is made up for come next Monday...
I'm unsubscribing until this video is replaced with a version that corrects this mistake.
He's let us all down. Massively. He done fucked up.
It was Chip.
Chip made him do it.
#JimCanDoNoWrong #FireChipAgain
Geek with a Backlog
I KNEW IT!
I really hate how Ewbisoft make people buy _multiple_ "Collectors Editions" to get everything that _should_ come in one goddamn package.
People say they've changed but I think people are just so blinded by all the other shady companies that they're not paying _any_ attention to Ewbi.
I can understand if the ultimate editions came with shit like figurines, the soundtrack, concept art etc like dark souls. Just don't give extra content to the ultimate editions and divide the community
Santa Monica did this with God of war lol its not just Ubisoft, its the industry.
@@tenorte9833
Are we talking like skins and stuff?! cuz that's not really content that's fluff.
VelociFaptor the only timing Ubisoft changes is their logo to a top down view of the shit they take on every launch announcement.
The ironic thing is that when Star Wars Battlefront 2 came out with all its bullshit, I saw someone online calling people (and I quote) "ignorant fucks that were hating on EA", claiming that we as gamers were the problem and not the company doing the shitty things in the first place.
There is so much wrong with that statement.
I'd like to make it clear to people that the game developers could just increase the storage size before launch. It is not black magic. The game developers could allow you to store 999+ items. Good game developers restrict this amount to add challenge, compromise and encourage selling and trading. Bad game developers restrict this amount to sell storage space for real money.
Good game developers can keep the game fun even with infinte inventory storage capacity.
Bad developers need such compromises that make zero sense at all.
I'm no developer but it's an online only game, and they mentioned supposedly because of that they can't raise the space too high or something like that. Server issues or whatever. You'd have to know about online game code type stuff to really know I would guess. Or it could be all bullshit.
@@Tkthegreat14 Hint: if Ubisoft's involved, it's probably bullshit
It being online-only would mean that they can't make the inventory size infinite, yeah. The larger someone's inventory, the more space it needs to take up in code, and in theory if that space is truly infinite that means someone can crash whatever device is storing that data. Assuming The Division 2 stores people's inventory items on said online servers, which it probably does, that means infinite items is technically unfeasible.
Of course, that doesn't really excuse selling additional inventory space for real-world money. Selling inventory space for in-game money would make sense, real-world money is unjustifiable outside of "We want to make more $$$".
Inventory space limits can and do exist for a reason, and in many games it's a perfectly justifiable feature, even for technical reasons like The Division 2, but paywalling it a bad idea. When you paywall features like that you're engendering distrust within your community and will NEVER be able to shake the sentiment that you're scamming them (probably because you are).
You are correct. If a game developer is selling a hypothetical double-sized storage space, then there's no reason (besides greed) as to why this double-sized storage space could not simply be the standard size in the game.
Today my nephew talked about how he wished more games had dlc to get specific things like guns and skins instead of grinding to unlock it. I told him that there was a time before he was born where things called "cheat codes" existed that did that and other fun things for free. When he asked how that worked, I told him that games used to be released in their entirety without being butchered to bits. He made a comment along the lines of how he thought that sucked because he doesn't seem able to comprehend that a game can be longer or have a lot of content if it doesn't have dlc. "No, dude," I said, "when you bought a game, you bought the WHOLE game with everything they made for it." He just rolled his eyes and shook his head. He has no clue that most dlc comes from butchering an otherwise complete game - he thinks it's all extra content and a good thing.
I paid about $20 for Stardew Valley and I've been playing the everloving shit out of it ever since. 200+ hours with no DLC or micro-transactions or loot boxes needed, cuz ConcernedApe just made a fun game with lots to do and sold it for an affordable price.
How 'bout that, eh?
Those are my Xenoblade 2 hours. While it does has a Expansion Pass, I don't need it to get to those hours (plus they have been releasing free DLC for the game as well)
Don’t forget modding ! 😁
The funny thing about the XC2 Season Pass is that they've been upfront from the get-go as to what content the pass will include and when you can expect it, even prior to purchase. And they've even adhered to that timetable with zero bullshit or excuses.
The craziest thing about all this is THAT is what feels out of the norm. Extra content being offered to you with complete transparency.
@@ghettofridge also the story dlc is gonna be massive so that it will also come out as stand alone. .so you get more that they have planned
I am so hyped for the story DLC. I never thought it was going to be this good. According to some of the Nintendo Europe people, during Gamescom, they said it would take 30 - 40 hours to play through this game. Which impressed me. The story DLC is looking so good that it could be A LOT better then the base game. New battle system, Community system, slightly better graphics, better U.I, (so far) better Voice Acting (listen to Mythra's screaming), and so on. That is just the story DLC.
There is the rest of the DLC, where it was slow in the beginning, but once they got around the Challenge mode... It was all worth the wait. I did not expect Shulk, Fiora, or Elma joining as blades, let alone visions and overdrive coming back from their games, PLUS THEIR MUSIC. I am really impress with their DLC even without the story.
Also, let's not forget it's free DLC. It added in T-elos, an easy difficulty option, and New Game Plus which has its own features in itself.
I wished that Breath of the Wild DLC was A LOT better or much cheaper. XC2 DLC is running around in circles to BotW DLC in many different ways. Also, I find that there are things in Zelda's DLC that should have been in the main game, like Master mode and that Map feature for example.
I'm becoming increasingly glad that i'm an ornery loner that gets no enjoyment from multiplayer, it looks like it's getting even more expensive. I have no problem waiting a year for a sale or just ignoring packs.
lordwisehammer npcs make better friends anyways.
Other people are shit anyway. The AI at least won't trashtalk you (although somehow they've taught the AI in For Honor how to do things like teabag you with the Shugoki... I don't know how the AI learns its move but if it was hand programmed it was programmed by an asshole)
Honestly multiplayer is just stupid on console. Why should I have to pay even more money after buying the game to get the full package that I paid for with the game console and the game? Then there is the fact that screw my enjoyment being dependent on being able to work with others or others working with me. I just want to play my game when I want without Internet connection or some dickhead fucking with my ability to enjoy it.
I got R6 Siege and didn't play it for like a year because I didn't want to deal with the other players. Finally get the ol' anxiety toned down enough that I give it a shot (I'd started messing around with Terrorist Hunt to get the hang of the controls, doing the daily objectives, but then the daily was for a multiplayer round so that convinced me to try it.)
First game we win effortlessly, second game one of my teammates starts screaming at me and shoots me in the head claiming I shot him when my finger hadn't even been on the mouse button, then he throws the tie breaker. Needless to say I wasn't really in the mood for any more multiplayer Siege after that.
this month is gonna be awesome for me, DQ 11 and Valkryhie Chronicle 4.
I like seeing the Ubisoft spreadsheets each saying that the game is included like it's an actual feature instead of a requirement
There's a number of companies that apparently didn't get that memo. It wouldn't be the first collectors edition of a game that didn't include the actual game.
I mean, they probably specify it because they were one of the ones getting shit on for NOT including the game in the giant physical boxes of tat. For like Ghost Recon Wildlands, AC Syndicate, etc they didn't have the game in the box, just the tat. These new packs, the top two packs are 90% tat with the ultimate edition of the game tossed in.
Red Dead Redemption 2 appears to have a game-free tat edition this year.
TGT There is one Jim video about this. Since that video I consider this the actually important part of the spreadsheet.
James Austin I honestly don't mind if they sell the swag separately. You can try the game, and if you like it can go back and get the swag without having to pay for a second copy. It's the wording that makes it bad. If they call if "collector's edition", it implies an edition of the game (the game should be included). If they just called it "collector's pack" or something though and make it very clear the game is not included, I don't think people would mind as much. It would just be like any other merchandise.
I think the RDR one phrases it as the "Collector's pack" or something like that.
The Chum Bucket Bucket Helmet visuals were the most appropriate comparison for this that I’ve seen.
Noah Masi more appropriate for FIFA players
It's completely crazy that publishers want to sell you season passes and not know what to put in them because they never think it through and just want a season pass for the sake of a season pass when they should just give you a full product instead and maybe one or two full non downloadable expansion packs like game companies used to.
What they're doing now is more like expecting us to pay for our own Christmas presents.
What's crazier is that there are big enough idiots who are going to buy those season passes without knowing what they will give them.
"Season Pass" is just anicer word for "this game is actually 100$ and not 60$"
> Ubsoft understands the word ultimate almost as much as it understands the word iconic.
Also seemingly oblivious to the meaning of 'spartan'.
I've never understood creators who kill off their critics in their works. Edgar Allan Poe once wrote "The cask of Amontillado", a short story about the narrator killing a guy meant to represent one of Poe's critics by burying him alive. There's no intrigue or payoff to the story, just a guy getting lured into a cellar and buried alive for no specific reason. It's by far the worst of Poe's stories, and if not even Edgar Allan Poe, the master of Gothic horror and author of timeless classics, could make a good story out of the desire to see his critics dead, what chances does untalented hacks churning out cash grab asset flips have? The level of narcissism in some people never ceases to amaze.
That's actually pretty common practice. Usually if movie or book has one very cringeworthy death scene for no particular reason or one annoying charachter for no reason then its probably a critic.
Those stories really aren't written for us, so I don't mind them being shit.
‘It’s optional’ aka
We will make the grind for it unbearable!
AKA "the game's still playable but you'll be at a disadvantage against players who have it".
In the case of Division 2? Not really. Having looked up what's in the extra editions, there's not actually anything you'd be "OMG" desperate enough to want. The ultimate edition is the season pass, then two packs that each have an outfit and a weapon skin, and one of them has an emote. Oh, and the stash space which is a response to Division players from the first game begging for a way to increase their stash size (fuck knows why, the stash is huge and you don't exactly have a reason to keep anything but your best-rolled gear)
Ubisoft Shit Edition.
but thats the only edition that exists
*Ubishit
Ubicronic Edition
Ubisoft Gold Turd Edition, Ubisoft Ultimate Turd Edition, Ubisoft Straight Out Of Satan's Arse Edition theres loads more mate
That's the standard edition.
"There are many chunguses but this one is mine! Without me, my chungus is nothing! And without my chungus, I am nothing!"
Speaking of international shipping- US$36.78 to ship a shirt to Australia!? That's almost 900 dollarydoos!!!!
92Karoola Would you call that deal a... dollarydon’t?
Let's face it. That "1 year free content" deal they've setup is going to be either cut content or, more likely, Div2 playing catch-up with where Div1 currently is.
Please don't call division2 div2. It might confuse people thinking of Divinity2 or Div2
@@ameiru1 We're in the comments section of a video talking about The Division. Furthermore I don't think Divinity 2 was ever mentioned in the video.
Don't you make sense of my praddling
I do indeed lol.
@@Turok3045 my bad bro
So I'm not playing The Division 2.
Good to know.
You know it's amazing. I remember how furiously angry I was when I first saw the pre order bonuses for Red Dead Redemption 2. Like, not even buy the game at launch angry. Less than a week later Ubisoft announced the pre order bonuses for AC Odyssy and I couldn't help but chuckle because it helps put everything into context. Make no mistake, RDR 2's pre orders are still kinda shitty, but Ubisoft looked at that and said "No one's gonna outclass US on bad ideas!".
They are essentially the same.
Having just looked at both, not really. AC Odyssey is selling one mission in the Pantheon, Spartan and Medusa Editions. Everything else in there looks to be statues, maps, and other physical tat (oh and the early access but that's if you really feel like playing it before the proper day 1 patch, heh) Then Ultimate which has all the edition stuff (game, season pass, DD shite, early access), Gold (Game + Pass), DD (Game + DD) and Game (Game). They're leaning way heavier on the statues and shit which I think is Ubisoft's usual approach, remembering when they used to do the collector's boxes without the game in (and let's not mention the massive sold out statue that doesn't come with a copy of the game for Odyssey but is AU$1160... I mean, it looks cool, but holy shit it's over a grand). I can't actually telll what's in the DD pack (the AU website doesn't say, it just has photos. Looks like skins? Possibly a little XP boost and currency? That'd be fitting with the DD pack on Origins...), but all in all none of the editions give anything worse than Red Dead's preorder bonuses.
I'd say the biggest difference between Odyssey and Red Dead is Red Dead's Ultimate Edition gives you shit for the Online mode. Depending on how good the "Additional weapons", "rank bonuses" and the free mount are, the ultimate edition may give you a leg up against other players. That's not kosher.
You mean you DONT want to preorder Red Dead and then get rewarded with in-game currency? For GTAV? Why wouldn't you want to preorder for bonus shark cash? /s
@@devilgames2217 never said they weren't. One is just significantly worse than the other. Which isn't an endorsement.
I went to go look at RDR 2 pre-order stuff because I wanted to make a witty comment, but are they seriously going to be locking out story content on release unless you buy the pre-ordered Special edition or Ultimate edition? I mean, it's RDR2 so... GOTY!!! But seriously, I am almost feeling thankful I didn't buy a console this generation and don't have a PC strong enough to play triple-A games.
When it comes to Ubisoft, just wait for the big sale. Don't buy shit at launch.
It's not just Ubisoft, don't buy any game from any company at launch, we need to discourage preorder culture
I agree entirely. Too many people are still in the pool for these companies to fix their practices.
Myself, I purposely stay two years or so behind the current game releases.
I have such a backlog as it is, I don't even feel the need to buy anything more, Steam is way too generous with their sales, it's to the point that I feel like I'd be shooting myself in the foot by buying new games.
There's just way too much already out to worry what is coming in the future. Jim Sterling is all I need to keep up with the current stuff.
Dey skimmers man
obisoft games are not even worth pirating.
I agree with everyone who says not to buy a game at launch. There's not much you can do about competitive multiplayer games, but you can hold off on single player games.
Every single last mother fucking one of us has a backlog that can reach the heavens, so just go knock out one of those games you've never beaten and get whatever new game is out a week later when some shop'll already have it for like 25% off.
Aww, he got so mad, it's cute.
I mean really, that's venture bros. tier villain. 'OOOH THAT JIM STERLING, I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO GET MY SWEET REVENGE ON THAT SEXY- I MEAN FAT- LARGE BOYE"
i will buy the version thats £8.99 on steam in a years time
daz 2.0 pretty optimistic there. Not even the Division was £9 after a year lol
ive set my target of 8.99 so ill wait as long as it takes lol
I got For Honor for free during E3, I'm glad I always hesitated to buy it.
Or the one that's $AUD100 after 8 years because they "forgot" to do any price drops in this region and the price varies from week to week due to not being priced in our local currency
I think that’s about as much as a Humungous Entertainment Junior Adventure game.
Elite Agent Pack = EA Pack
"It's optional"
Well that's fine then. I was worried Ubisoft would send its company militia to my house and force me to purchase their product at gunpoint, but since it's optional I guess I have nothing to complain about
The increased stash size isn't dependable, it's changing a number in code. There's no effort on ubisoft and it's literally removing functionality to try and get you to pay for it.
These in game purchases, I don't know why anyone buys into them. You just spent $60+ on a game but now you're gonna buy single use, account locked features/functions that should be free? Why? Why would you waste your money on the dumbest crap here.
Ubisoft continues to be brain dead with customer value and trustworthiness. Games filled with always online DRM and then also, in game purchases. Meaning all your purchases are going away in 4-5 years. But please, please spend 100+ bucks inside the game *hand on the server off button* There's still TIME to enjoy your player choice!
Simple - grinding. They tend to design the games in ways that make those stashes more usefull and not buying them more painfull. Its how those "free-to-wait" games work: Simply make the purchase so usefull and the lack of purchase so annoying, that it works. Batter the player into spending money. Thats why this works so well - inventory space is an annoyance. While it can be integrated in a game to a good effect by forcing players to plan what to take and also ensure the loot-mechanic doesnt loose its touch by players taking EVERYTHING it is ripe for ensuring a lot of annoyance.
So the tried and true method of waiting for an all-in-one "Complete Edition" to release with everything included and go on sale for sub~$20 is still the way to go? Cool. Why people buy games at these ludicrous prices on day one (or worse, preorder), just so they can spend even more money on DLC later on, truly boggles my mind. I will never understand that way of thinking.
After being bored to death with The Division's endless grind for beanies and guns, I'm gonna skip this game entirely.
My 5 year old sister saw the intro and thought Jim was a doctor
La Ruina is simply sad and cringe...
He's an absolute toolshed. I'd feel bad for him if he weren't such a creepy little bastard.
*Who?*
His carrier is la ruined
also can he not joke about blowing up a con?
I am waiting for the steel gold dark zone ultimate phoenix iconic greed edition
Iconic greed is correct.
Lie-ve Surfices
If Jim tries to say "Live Services" and "Triple A" at the same time, the universe may just implode
Congrats on 700k! Keep doing what you´re doing and we will always be thanking God for you.
If anyone r even genuinely interested in Division 2 just wait a year or 2 until all the bugs are fixed and the true ultimate complete edition is for 20 bucks
Meanwhile Ubisoft will release Division 3 and people will be all over that and they'll sell their Division 2 copy to GameStop for $0.30, a game that they already spend thousands of dollars on and they plan to spend thousands more on the next game
Jesus, the shirt is $15 usd... got excited.. then a $37 usd for shipping gets slapped on... I may hold off on getting that estus shirt for a while, forgive me Jim
This kind of shit is why I haven't bought a new game on launch in years. Even ones I was extremely excited for, I wouldn't buy for over a year. Hell I'm still waiting for a decent price on dragonball fighter Z to come up so I can play that.
Can we as a community just agree to not pre-order any game for a year? Heck can we agree to not buy any game period that pulls the multiple editions crap until the game of the year edition comes out or it goes half price? If nobody bought the game odds are the price would plummet within a few months.
Sadly we're the minority.
I never buy any new game
Well, I'm a Nintendo player, so full price is just THE price.
@@brycebitetti1402 Because it'll never go down?
Red King Rauri Yep. Whenever a Nintendo game goes on sale, spring on that shit, cause it likely won't go down again for years.
Is that Richard's actual name or did he choose it? Richard La Ruina straight up sounds like a Mexican drag performer, but I have the suspicion that he can't reach the notes on any Yuri or Gloria Trevi song.
And If he did choose it, did he choose Spanish because of Conquistadors? Like he is a sexual colonist? Cuz I don't think that is a healthy view of relationships, obviously
Richard The Ruiner ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Provided his games' content he probably did choose it.
Fyi a common nickname for Richard is Dick.
In spanish his last name is "The Ruin". Fitting
I wish I could be surprised with What Ubisoft does, I'm not. Not even a little. They aren't changing and I don't know what else to say that others have already said.
Including how again, Ubisoft is pretty much dead to me.
I'm all for Jim using more MBMBAM references in his videos. That is all
Just wait 2 months and anything Ubisoft sell will be on sale at some stupid price with everything included.
The problem is that for a multiplayer game you need that hot juicy content all over your face NOW NOW NOW.
Nah! This is Ubisoft remember give it a year to get everything on it.
What Prawned said and also, Ubisoft is famous for releasing games in a meh state and then patching them up later so while you get in early to experience the peak of the multiplayer the game doesn't actually get good until a year down the road when the cheaper bundles come out.
I mean look at For Honor, game even went free for a little while.
I mean on top of that, most ubisoft games value crash after the first 2 months aswell. I paid $20 australian dollars for AC origins. Still wasn't worth it but better then $100.
To be fair, the free periods for For Honor (during E3 on Uplay and during Gamescom on Steam) have been a combination of going "Hey guys, we've got actual servers now. Give it a shot" and "Hey guys, new expansion coming out in October, come have a free taste now"
Richard "The Ruin" La Ruina didn't get the Slaughtering Grounds memo and thinks he can insult Jim "Fucking" Sterling "Son" without Jim abusing said insult for kicks and giggles. You can't beat the greatest showman in video game = entertainment industry. The sooner you accept your defeat, the sooner you'll be able to move along with your life.
Meanwhile, I payed 40$ for The Witcher 3 complete edition (fun fact, it is actually complete)
And it is a fecking awesome game that redeems the concept of DLC. Enjoy
It's because CDPR don't treat it like a business. They put gamers first.
You know, warframe does the inventory space thing
...in a free to play game, where you can get the premium currency by playing and trading with other players, and inventory slots are really cheap, and can be bought as needed, and...
(realistically, the inventory slot thing is only for weapons and warframes, which presumably actually take some level of server load to save and track, since they're so modifiable, compared to your mod inventory, which is a bunch of pre-defined effects with only one variable-- level.)
I honestly love that jim named his online store the 'jimporium." Not for pun reasons, but because emporium denotes a large retail store selling an extreme array of eclectically selected items- and if that's not a good description of a jim sterling store I have no clue what is.
That Jimporium merch is iconic (proper iconic, not Ubisoft iconic)
Funny that he has pre-orders and pre-order bonuses though. I get why, but you know some will call him a hypocrite.
1:47 Every time I see the McElroy Brothers referenced in something, I get a little bit happier. Thank you for that, Jim
Great work Jim! Thanks for the extra effort with the voices. Thank god for Jim.
Richard LaRuina seems to want to pick a fight.
Bad move
Bradley J yeah, that worked out so well for James and Robert Romine.
Congratulations on 700k. Not that you care, but that's still a pretty big milestone.
The LexCorp comparison made me giggle :)
As someone who once regularly watched Thomas the Tank engine, that pic put up of Sir Topham Hat when you said "On top of that" was very welcomed.
actually all games are like 20-30 but you have to wait a year for the goty edition and no one else wantiing to buy them
Except for Nintendo games. You need to wait quite a while and only if they bomb for those to reach 20-30 (excluding Nintendo Selects)
@@PIKMINROCK1 good thing that nintendo games are for kids so...
Azure Sunlight or just live in china new PS4 games only cost 300¥ day one which is about £26ish from day one :p
@@jamaly77 Here we have another troll saying a generic and unorignal line to prompt a nintendo flame war. Let's see which prey will take this creature's bait.
With Nintendo games, your best bet is to just wait until a local department store has a generic "take $5 off anything" coupon or whatever. Or buy used.
It especially sucks for the all-digital-all-the-time crowd.
We live in such a weird world that the only game company that knows what the word ultimate means is Nintendo, for some reason. Read a god damn dictionary.
They know. It's just Newspeak.
Capcom gets it right too. Sometimes.
I would like to put CDPR in this graf too. Hope they stay that way.
They also can't spell hoard correctly.
Oh, Ubisoft.
*BLEAAAAARGH*
*vomits*
More like Ubishit
*Oof*-bisoft
laws are needed to force companies to either sell the software as ONE product or ONE service, no double paying for the same product or knowingly shave off lines of existing codes only to push more money from people.
No you dont need a fucken law to sell games. Sheesh
Who cares about the Division after the snorefest of the first game?
True but since ubisoft sort of fixed the first one poeple will use that excuse so that they can buy the second
Right? That game was awful. Played all the way through it, got to the end-game, and then realized 'This is it?' It's never anything more than a basic cover shooter, there are no original mechanics or twists to the gameplay. It never changes or becomes challenging or interesting. Just sit in cover and shoot the mans.
Well, I have to admit I did enjoy the early to mid-game reasonably, and some of the guns were very satisfying to use, but a helicopter as a final boss, fail city. A shame because there was definitely untapped potential. Tapped out now though.
Seriously, I got about 2 weeks into that "service". Poked back in after major updates and left a few days later each time (if not right away). Hardly the life style game they hoped for like COD multiplayer or LoL. Hell, even Destiny had a longer shelf life.
Ubisoft is definitely one of the worse publishers out there, right next to EA, WB and Activision
No shit, what's your next big revelation? That humans need air to breathe? That humans need water? Please share more of your great insight with the rest of us, oh we are not worthy of you.
@@BeansOnToast420 the fuck is your problem? Alot of people give Ubisoft a pass because their IPs sell well and many times when they screw up it goes under the radar
@@Arcademan09 and they screw up almost all of the time.
I like how no one includes Japanese companies like Konami and Square Enix. They are pretty bad too...
@@Elico-du1oi they're pretty bad but I think Konami raised the bar so high any other Japanese company just flies under the radar
And all of this decadence for another multiplayer shooter.
That will be forgotten about within around a year~
Make that 6 months
Multiplayer Shooters used to be awesome.
To be fair some still are. Just gotta look for them.. which means the interesting ones are usually DOA due to lack of advertising and player base :(
seriously at this point whenever i hear online shooter i just skip it without even checking its gameplay.
Congrats on your 700k subs Jim!!!
I wish Ubisoft would make more Rayman games but at the same time I'm worried about what they'd do to him now
Selling inventory space is almost as contrived as selling freaking save slots!
Sorry Jim, $25 shipping for a $15 shirt just hurts too much big guy. Canada aint that far away.
Make sure you have worked in the shipping industry before you talk about price. You probably think you should be able to ship something over night for $5, too. Shipping is expensive.
@@orbbb24 define "worked in shipping. Haveing done S&R, swamping and long haul Bubba. Try being polite when you make your statement or ask a question. Ordering parts from extrusion blow molders have better cost to shipping ratios, hense why I cringed.
I mean the people who actually charge for the shipping. I can tell you that a shirt going UPS to Canada is expensive. I work for UPS. I know the pricing. Postal service is cheaper but then you don't have tracking. And if you pay for postal tracking, you may as well send it UPS. Shipping is expensive unless you're shipping in massive amounts of bulk. I doubt Jim is shipping extremely high volumes.
@@orbbb24 the USPS calculator page is down, so harder to see what their rates are like. But a 400lb hydraulic cylinder I can get from Detroit for under $300USD LTL to Alberta, so I'm not sure why the rates are so high. First class is mostly just for standard envelopes, but google says most packages start at $21 USD to ship to CA. Just not seeing the economy of scale on something that's only half a pound. Just stuck with patreon to support Jimmy.
TH-cam, stop "recommending" me fortnite. I will never watch anything by it. Nothing I have ever browsed or searched for it.
I get recommended Fortnite by YT all the bastard time. I would have to try EXTREMELY hard to be less interested in that shite.
When I first linked my google account that I have my TH-cam through to the chrome browser I use for work. TH-cam started showing me agricultural ads. I guess because I do IT work for an agricultural company. It was crazy seeing a tractor commercial along side Level1 techs
Mr Malsh I get ads for Fortnite, Unity and..... Muslim women. Yup.
I had ads for Fortnite ever since the season started. Guess what game wasn't launched once since.
I'm a simple guy. If you shove something in my face, I'll do my bloody best to avoid it on principle.
You say that, but I’ve never gotten a recommendation for it, and I’ve played the game once in a while on my phone and Xbox.
Why would you even post that comment here anyway? On a video that has absolutely nothing to do with Fortnite? Just because circlejerking about not liking a popular game is in right now?
I don't buy these _social marketplace apps_ posing as games because there is nothing to miss out on anyways due to content being screwed with via drip fed price gouging or flat out not there. Just marketing gimmicks when there are real studios making real games more deserving.
The only thing that matters in being successful with the casual AAA consumer though..... Those devs dont spend more on marketing then on the actual product.
+1 i have turned away from the big companies a long time ago. last things i bought were the dead space trilogy and the mass effect trilogy. fool me once, get a second chance, fool me twice i'm getting the fuck out.
yes! for years now Jim is saying that the preorder culture (and all attached bullshit, ever evolving), is changing game development...and here we are, for the big 3 publishers, "gaming" is not to deliver a game anymore, is to deliver a service where they can explore whales as much as possible, monetizing every single bit of data if possible. So in their vision, the final client, the ideal "gamer" is someone who buys the entrance fee for $60 and spends another $300 in utter bullshit. That's why is so naive to complain how destiny or the division "made mistakes"...its not a mistake, it is the plan.
I've been done with Triple A for some time. It's just not worth it, overhyped subpar products that just wants you to spend more money. There are so many actual games out there if you just look beyond Triple A. Medium publishers, small publishers, indies...
Completely uninterested in the AAA game industry anymore. I used to love a LOT of video games. Now I love old games and small indie titles exclusively. Very disappointing what all these companies are pulling.
facts
If at least the games were good, but they are not most of the time. Just look at The Crew 2, just WTF? Fail of a game.
Eric Sebena Spider-Man (Ps4), Red Dead Redemption 2, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, BIOMUTANT, Darksiders 3, Ghost of Tsushima, Devil May Cry 5, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (the game I’m most excited for and will probably be GOTY for me) and The Elder Scrolls VI..
You're not alone there in feeling this way. It's one of the main reasons VR has saved this generation from being a total and utter failure for me. People moan about the price of the thing, and that the games are a bit short and tech demo-ish, but those games that I do buy for it in sales cost me very little, and I feel like I'm getting more value out of them than what the so called "AAA" games offer.
I spot a new scheme in the year 1 pass: with this naming and subtext ("access to the first year of episodes") it is basically a subscription 'service' where the amount of DLC packs is not advertised, leaving the option for the publisher open to move content out of the time frame to reduce the pass' 'value' while keeping your pre-order money.
I can't wait for the day you hit 1Mil subscribers, the mind boggles just thinking about what your special edition super deluxe edition of the Jimquisition will include...
I love how Ubisoft doesn't understand the word ULTIMATE but Nintendo obviously does! Thank God for Sakurai (and Jim ofc)
So if you want Rayman in Smash you have to buy Smash Bros Definitive
I mean, the Ultimate Edition is all the actual game stuff (Game + Season Pass + Cosmetic DLC packs). Those two packs above it? Two different-themed packs of physical tat. And I'm amazed if they're even doing that for PC considering last year they just flat out didn't make physical copies of the PC version of AC Origins. If you wanted the tat you had to get the console version as well as your digital download on PC.
but nintendo does love money as much as ubisoft.. it's just more subtle with their greed and nintendo fanboys are more forgiving
Still doesn't have waaaaaah.
was there any mention of dlc for smash bros ultimate? i stopped playing my 3ds copy when they introduced paywalls.
6:23 also the arcsystems apologists, too
Fighting games could be so much better ;_;7
Arcsys didn't always used to be like this... I stuck with them up until BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend and moved on to other games, but I still praised them for their fighting mechanics and music.
Then I had an actual look at the products and... Well, I don't recommend anything but indies now.
Also, check out Pocket Fighter. Just saying.
And the Smash apologists too, can't forget about them.
What did smash do wrong? Honest question, I don't really follow Smash news.
Yeah mjc0961, wtf did Smash do lol
Not that I really buy into "Live services" as I don't play any of those games. But my main problem with them from an outside perspective is how they are not even a freaking service, as mentioned in the video. They still make those "live services" on a yearly basis that outdates and makes the previous experience inferior. I thought Destiny was going to be a 10 year game? Assassins Creed took a year off and now back to yearly. None of these games are anywhere near a live service, which I would rather compare with Team Fortress 2, WoW, LoL, (and probably Fortnite) etc. Not that I play any of those either, but some are games that has been around for a decade, others are free and have tons of free updates etc. It's a service.
Actually they said after odyssey there will be another year break.
Agreed. The issues is, publishers want to have their cake and eat it too, so they're simulatenously trying to make long-lived live services, and still sticking to frequent release schedules.
I think this will resolve itself over time as publishers get more used to the live service model, but that'll probably result in significant and frequent failures (because, after all, a single gamer can generally only keep up with 1-2 true live services at a time) due to market oversaturation, with a couple of standout success stories.
JamieMadrox195 I don't see the relevance of how taking 1 year off somehow makes it a live service? So a game only last 2 years at maximum to be replaced by another game, that's a "service"? Why not copy LoL,WoW, TF2, Diablo, etc if they want to create a service? a game only lasting 2 years at maximum isn't a "live service", it's barely following normal recycle of games. Most games are not even replaced that quickly. Most games (Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, Zelda, MGS, GTA, etc etc) you have to wait several years between each game. It's only garbage recycled shit that comes out every 1-2 year. Can't believe "only" coming out every 2nd year is somehow a pat on their back.
DarthVaderReviews Their idiotic gamble on a live service that players will continue to dump money into, is that a player will just stick with ONE live service like this. One MMO / MMO lite / online game that he/she keeps on playing and supporting. Players only have a limited amount of time. And they're so stupid for believing they can just continue to create these "live services" when people obviously are oversaturated by it already, and only one game per player can be that "one game".
Watching this back makes me chuckle. Ubisoft lied, of course, about all the major updates being free for Division 2. The new Expansion, Warlords of New York, is pay gated for $20 if my memory serves me right.
I have a theory. Its probably wrong. But AAA games are so lacking in content alot now. It seems like they are pushing graphics to the extreme for what the gpus coming out can do. Nvidia works closely with game developers to maximize graphics. But...its not graphics that make a good game. I got The Division free with my 970, and I couldnt even force myself to play through that empty shell of a game. Its gorgeous. But its like an empty shell of an experience. Are they putting all the development money towards graphics alone now for the wow factor???
The whole push to make games services. Because so many people play COD or WoW. Is stupid. They are alienating a vast majority of gamers and they are looking to Indie developers for games. And you know what? They do it better too.
Games are an art form. And passion projects. Not mass produced copy paste bull, not assembly line products you ship out whether they are bolted together or not. And you definitely dont sell assembly line products incomplete, and then make people buy bits of it at a time to complete it.
Im ok with expansions, not dlc, real expansions. Like how they used to do. But screw dlc. Dying Light did it right. Cd Projekt Red does it right.
And even worse, when you buy hardware. What games do they giveaway for purchasing a new gpu? A "AAA" shell garbage title that looks beautiful. But is usually absolute shit. Or has 20 dlcs "1 expansion, and 19 outfits in game" Im as enraged as you are Jim. Down with this bullcrap.
How much did the 970 cost you?
Around 300 with the rebate, quite some time ago. Why do you ask?
+Logan Branchfield Because I am looking to build a gaming PC and want a cheap graphics card gpu's are really expensive in my country.
I'm more inclined to pre-order Jim's shirts and hats (which are really iconic, not Ubisoft iconic) than to pre-order or in fact order any of The Division's Editions.
What happened to the artistic integrity? I bought Monster Hunter on my Switch and got all of the content no strings attached. Why can't games be more like Monster Hunter.
Hell, why can't all Monster Hunter games be like that. I'm not too keen on World having timed events and microtransactions (cosmetic or not). I agree, MHGenU is far superior, as you get everything for the original price tag, no bullshit and it's permanent.
I think you're confusing DLC with MTX. MTX is a repeatable purchase with no upper limit where DLC is just a one-time purchase.
Fair enough. But I'd rather they not have micro purchases period.
*cries in British at the $36.78 shipping fee for a $5 pin*
*laughs in American at cheap shipping that I'm not even gonna utilize 'cause I'm not buying shit*
Best course of action regarding the division...buy a good game instead
Well, division 1 Was a fun good game. I think im buying this one too, not gonna preorder though.
Never understood the hype for the first game let alone the second itclooks bland as fuck with nothing I haven’t seen in a thousand games lol it looks dull as fuck
Aleara Looking for a Shooter with items and mods to grind? Play warframe for free instead of supporting sh*t companies.
@@Aleara27 I mean don't get me wrong, it's not without merit. I personally found it boring as hell but it ain't my kinda game anyway.
It's my dismal opinion of the first game plus the reciprocated contempt towards ubi that makes this a definitive no for me.
I do suggest that you rent before you buy though. Once in a while they'll put out a good game so it's not a good idea to completely rule them out (unlike Crapcom who's so inept that I do legitimately avoid them like the plague with extreme prejudice)
Aleara ...Borderlands? How can one mention looter-shooters and omit Borderlands? Randy Pitchford might be a twat, but Borderlands is truly a great series. Though, I think the first game will always be my favourite.
@JimSterling the reason it's complicated and convoluted is quite simple: People need to spend more time thinking about what they want to get what they actually want. At the point where people go from "So I might buy the game" to "But IF i buy the game, which edition should I buy" is the point where the sale is basically closed, because the part before the comma will be forgotten over the time spent deciding.
Am I the only one longing for some #fuckonami news?
Me too! But unfortunately #FucKonami hasn't fucked up anything to get a @KucKonami news.
Beatmania IIDX 26 got announced recently, it's the same thing as the other 25 beatmania IIDX games but with new songs, and you can't play it unless you live near a Round 1 or in Japan, like every single other beatmania IIDX release ever
that's about it
If anything whatever they're doing will be nice and not so bad after all compared to all the other shit.
I'd rather they just die quietly.
The Castlevania show is really good, you should check it out. It looks like anime but isn't, at all, which is why it's good, just like The Boondocks
I refuse to buy any product that requires me to go through a spreadsheet.
Also, does this mean La Ruina has become your new archenemy? Or is that a bit too grandiose?
I think Saturday morning cartoon villain is too grandiose, to be honest.
I doubt he's Jim's arch-enemy, but I'm sure Jim is his lol
U should do a video on what miyamoto said about lootboxes and microtansactions
Keep it alive, Jim. Thanks for being SO blunt and comedically truthful. And, as always, Thank God for you.
The Jimporium needs stickers so I can put them on my car or something and people can be like "what the fuck is wrong with you?"