I remember playing the older Fifa games on the PlayStation 1 and I was so blown away back then with how customizable the teams where and being able to move any player to any team without microtransactions and creating my own players with my own stats and actually having the announcer say my name. The newer games are NOT better, they've just been bad for a really long time. You can't compare todays Fifa to yesterdays Fifa because they're both equally terrible compared to the classic games from 20 years ago.
I didn't know that the old fifa had that! I grew up in the era of the fifa of yesterday and never knew about that. That is mindboggling. That is a feature I'd like a sports game to have.
"It isn't illegal for people to spend their money." Pretty sure EA wouldn't be having that stance if some vengeful person spent their money on a hacker to empty the company's bank accounts.
Asking the AAA gaming industry to "self-regulate" is like putting a pack of wolves in charge of guarding a henhouse and asking them real nice-like not to eat any chickens, pwetty pwetty pwease with spwinkles and gumdwops. Ask as nicely and as frequently as you want - until they face the threat of real consequences, they're not going to do it.
"We have done an internal investigation with 'scientists' we paid off and there is nothing addicting here! We here at EA love and care about our fans, which is why we want to drain them of all of their cash and leave them with pixels that we will devalue in a year's time with our newest cash-grab of a game." - EA, probably.
And once again, EA shows us why it’s amongst the most despised game companies. Can the government finally ban Lootboxes already!? So we can all just move forward, and see EA finally get what it freaking deserves!?
Government institutions are usually filled with fossils that don't know what they're talking about, are getting paid to go against bills like that, or both unfortunately
Most despised _game_ companies? No no no. EA has been top hated business for a long time. Full stop. No need for the videogame subgenre on this one lol.
"giving the players the choice to spend if they want to is fair" is right. It just doesn't fucking apply to a predatory game, where if you don't spend the money, you either grind it out like it's a job or you can just forget about ever competing with others who did spend money. You can't justify gambling in a pvp game
"Player choice" is the most bullshit term ever when you realise games used to have cheatcodes. That's the real "player choice", especially so in single player games. And if developers truly are for "player choice" in multiplayer games, they could also just make all these microtransaction stuff free. Have two categories. One for players who play the game without using the free microtransaction stuff and purely grinds for it, one is a free-for-all where players can use anything they want from the store.
It should be taken seriously and yet the US government are being stubborn about it And yet still going to blame video game violence over video game gambling
@@FuckBalls64 It should be regulated China Belgium and nitherlsnds is slowing down there gambling laws To investors we need to do the same thing we have to take the nuclear option that is the only solution if they will do it I’ll do it ourselves thanos style Unionization a seat at the table to show investors we are not cattle to be milked
I remember watching one of Jim Stephanie Sterling’s videos covering harmful effects of unregulated gambling in FIFA (E for everyone and age 3 and up rating), and one of the clips showed a young child opening card pack after card pack after card pack in FIFA and looking fed up with the lower level players of each card pack he drew via GAMBLING with real world money. Our children are being harmed, and we need stricter oversight, better consumer protection - EA has the addiction level cranked up high in the FIFA ‘game’ and aren’t about to regulate themselves. There are negative consequences for vulnerable adults as well, and publishers like EA and Activision-Blizzard are operating unchecked and continue pushing gambling mechanics further and further with every game, they’ll never stop voluntarily.
Players do have a choice, a choice not to purchase/play. That's the the only way you're going to get them to change the monetization methods. But enough players display that they don't care by engaging in the microtransactions.
exactly.. EA is a business.. i like to think of them like robots. Robots are only able to do what they are programmed to do.. They have no morals, they don't care about you, they are completely devoid of emotion in most all regard. The business bot only does what makes it the most money. If this bot notices that something is no longer making money they will either change course so money can once again be made or move on to something else that makes money. The thing is that if people stop paying for certain games.. some bots may choose to just close the unprofitable games all together so you can risk never seeing anymore adaptations of your favorite franchise. So long as there are enough people to bring them massive profits the robots will typically continue on course as their designed to do. Execs don't care about you either they only care about keeping their robot oiled and maintained. They care about their own lives not yours to them you are just a rando.
Same could be said about any form of gambling. It’s all choice, however doesn’t make it right. I spent a ridiculous amount of money on FIFA points last season. A shameful amount. Money I didn’t have. FIFA rely on people like me who seek that rush/feeling of winning when gambling. They see us coming a mile off.
You're the first creator I've ever seen who marked the sponsor section of the video in the chapters. I watched it all the way through regardless and it seems like you had a good time with that ad read. Also that segue back to the content was 🔥Keep up the good work, Yong!
The belgium law being circumvented is hilarious. The country acts like there is nothing they can do when in reality they can just issue fines over and over and over and finance their countries entire infrastructure off of fining these companies. If they don't pay then you arrest the board of directors, if they're in another country then you IP ban them and if they try to get around the ban then you render all of their copyrights and trademarks null and void for every company in that country. Effectively putting ALL of their products in the public domain. What are those Chinese companies going to do? Convince China to declare war on the EU so they can keep breaking the law? The likely zero sum result here is that one of the Chinese oligarchs would personally order the execution of that companies entire board of directors and replace them with someone who isn't going to ruffle feathers.
Did you not notice how Belgium is over regulated within all industries.. that nation can’t even make its own laws without asking the EU unelected officials if it’s ok. That’s what you are promoting.
@@wartome3196 when you say unelected EU officials, do you mean the EU parliament committees, or the bureaucrats who take their orders from the EU council, representing each member nation equally?
@@wartome3196 Oh, buddy. Have you seen the UK? Still unelected executive, with just 180,000 ppl picking their latest "leader", all the while their economy and people are in shambles? How different is that from the time when Brussels have a say? We can look 10 years ago. Cameron premiership. Massive austerity making people poorer. Housing crisis in early stages. Unelected executive. Monarch with power. Social boom. Now? Johnson lame-duck premiership (likely to be followed by Truss). Cost of living crisis. Housing crisis in full scale. Unelected executive. Monarch with power. Social boom. Please tell me the difference in the political participation of the people. I surely can't see any gains in people-power.
Nah, slavery was 'legal' too and literally enforced by the state for thousands of years, your argument a logical fallacy, regulation is not inherently virtuous, ironically it was free market capitalism that made slavery obsolete & basically end over night whether you want to admit it not for most of the world, and has lifted billions of people out of poverty. Never trust gov't to regulate to a moral society. People like you forget most of the worst elements of the humanity are enforced by the state, not corporations, but the marriage of govt & monopolistic crony corporatism we are experiencing right now in the west is a huge problem too, not denying that, however, I would argue "more regulation" is not the answer - power tripping statist/collectivists in government get a wet dream looking at the power China, for example, has over its people. No thank you.
Second that. I haven't missed those "games" a bit. People need to stop buying them. Or get help, if they can't stop by themself. In any case, this swamp needs to dry out.
It's not that simple. No demand=No supply. True,but companies will make sure the demand is always there, and they will try by any means to create a demand.
"We won't be classifying loot boxes under gambling because it would be more work for us, and we don't really feel like doing it" - the UK government, apparently
The UK Tory government are corrupt inept spiteful self-serving spivs and charlatans… who are happily legislating our rights and protections away, but allowing tax-avoiding corporations to do whatever they please, (and chucking huge sums of money at some of them for dubious contracts for pandemic mitigations that failed). 12 years of theft, ineptitude and chaos, and it looks like we’ll be experiencing at least 2 more years of them with a fascistic Sindy doll as Prime Minister.
At this point, you can't even be upset with EA. Everyone is well aware of how predatory these games are, yet the players still continue to support this business model each year.
At least we can take solace in the fact that this is the last year EA & FIFA have their license together... Too bad EA's going to try and do their own game to make up for the lack of FIFA licensing in mind. Still, maybe that name change will be significant for EA to falter a bit there.
It will obviously decrease the sales drastically. No funky new name will ever attract as many people as the main name that every sports fan thinks when you say to them the word "football"
@Project M EX Remix Now ya riiiight, keep dreaming, unless people stop buying these games NOTHING will Change specially after they royally screwed up PES sooo, basicly ther isn't a viable Alternative to FiFA unless i'm missing som,eting here but then again i don't play their sports "Games" , or any sports games for that matter
My honest wish is that both EA and FIFA fail in their respective endeavors. EA soccer games without the FIFA licensing should tank and FIFA without EA's expertise in videogames should struggle to keep a foothold in the market. Either way, time will tell which one will prevail and which one will go the dodo way.
I’m surprise that people still buy this cash grab game. I was among the first whales that spent a lot of money in ultimate team. What put me off was the realisation that everything got wiped and had to do it all again in the next FIFA. That’s when I stopped playing FIFA. How the UK government don’t see this is beyond me
EA: "You should be able to keep people as involuntary workers. That was here for decades! We just brought it into the modern era with psychology instead of physical constraint!"
"we're trying to emulate the feeling of creating your own dream team in real life!" bruh imagine if you get arrested in Grand Theft Auto and you had to pay real money for a bail out lol
I mean, they're doing it over and over but they're succeeding every time so people buy it. Sure, EA is awful for exploiting people but responsibility also falls on the consumer to make conscious decisions which most don't,
Yong is preaching to the choir at this point. As long as there are lots of kids with inadequate parental supervision and access to lots of expendable funds, they will be taken advantage of. the way to solve this is not by outlawing digital crack today so that it will be replaced by digital heroin tomorrow, its by addressing the underlying problem of parents being neglectful of their duties and not instilling some basic values to their children.
There’s two definitions actually the first is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result the second the absolute loss of control example being tied up in an empty room with nothing but your thoughts
Unfortunately, this kind of business practice is tailored to whales who don't know how to spend money in a responsible fashion. It doesn't matter if we don't play another EA game for the rest of our lives, they are the ones lining EA's pockets.
@Ibrahim Jah "I’m surprise that people still buy this cash grab game. I was among the first whales that spent a lot of money in ultimate team. What put me off was the realisation that everything got wiped and had to do it all again in the next FIFA. That’s when I stopped playing FIFA. How the UK government don’t see this is beyond me" You don't know how many uneducated idiots on this planet there are. And those in England need to notify the politicians about this, especially the parents!
About Belgium and Netherlands' laws : welcome to the EU, where laws are passed not to prevent bad things happening or to punish those who commit them, but to ensure a continuous flow of money to the legislators.
yup, thats exactly how this works ,... welcome to the Netherlands Casino AKA "Holland Casino" wich is owned and run by the Dutch GOV.... or at the very least have a HUGE stake in it. so why would they actively pevent Lootboxes aka Gambing at all
9:55 good transition into the sponsorship 😂😂 honestly glad he’s doing it tho especially cuz he asked how we felt about it first, he didn’t have to but he did so I’m happy for him
"Giving players the choice to spend money if they want to is fair" Yes. If done right and under the right circumstances. League of Legends and Warframe for example. Both are free to play, the purchases are purely cosmetic, and when you buy something you know what you are buying, you aren't spending a lot of money trying to get what you want and not getting it because you didn't spend enough money or you weren't lucky enough to get what you wanted with what you spent. This is not fair monetization.
EA logic: "We've noticed our customers enjoy call of duty, so for a small fee of 50 dollars per person, we will be sending them to iraq for a tour of duty"
I kinda believe that this issue with FIFA specifically will resolve itself over time. Most of the people spending the big bucks on card packs are likely long time fans of the series who have and will continue to shovel money in it, but as the games get less and less fun with each game, the actual playerbase will decrease in size, killing the game slowly.
Yeah that's their plan, let the game die out slowly, then release another one to force everybody to pay to win all over again. Fomo takes hold again of these hopeless football fans, the cycle continues. They don't know what fun is, they don't care, they just want to win as primitively as possible.
You underestimate how hooked up some people are to gambling, both videogames and real life casinos. There are thousands of cases of people being psychologically and physically damaged by this, at this point even shutting down EA and Fifa's servers would just push them to play another lootboxes based game. It's a literal mental illness, the people responsible for it need to be jailed, and the ones addicted to it must be helped quitting their gambling habits.
The player-base will not decrease any notable degree so long as EA have monopoly on football games, there is no worthy competition. So long as they are dominant, I and many others have no option but to buy or forsake the online football experience that only the FIFA franchise provides. I stay clear of UT as I don't find it engaging. I'm a Pro Clubs player.
Politicians are paid off to do nothing. They are not interested in helping their constituents. I would also like to know how many in legislation, PEGI, etc have investments in EA and other parts of the gaming industry.
You don’t realize that for ever 1 anti loot boxer their are 15 anti government regulation on loot boxes.. You just pretend you are the majority here yet you can’t find a single debate where an anti loot boxer talked with a pro loot boxer. Your side has lost this battle because every content creator lives in an echo chamber.
Hey Yong! I know you're probably worried about it, and worried that no one has commented yet - but your ad was totally fine! The product is not for me, but it didn't ruin my experience at all
Things being rare and hard to acquire or expensive in game to acquire are fine but when progression, content, or a pay to win wall are put in place it’s scumbag behavior
"I have the time of my life not playing FIFA, its winning, paying nothing and not being scammed all at the same time, 10/10 would do it again." Great Job own goaling yourself EA, why not go Yongscape yourself EA?
Or it would turn “everything” into gambling if your definition is “it feels like gambling”. Go look at the legal definitions and then ask why.. don’t pretend the rules have not kept up when they were perfect when ruled on over 100 years..
@@OrphansCorpse but it’s not. Prize, chance and consideration are required to be gambling and without consideration you can’t have gambling. You need a way to cash out. You can cite one over regulated nation saying “it’s gambling like”... but I can show you 10s of other nations like the UK who said it’s not.. and to consider this gambling would destroy the entire definition.
@John-Paul Hunt Hmm, there is also this "self-playing games" concept video I found (haven't watched it) but this is where I think these casuals come from. It sucks that people and companies are getting more attracted to stupid micro-transaction-filled phone-games than platform-games. (Screw Peter Molyneux on GTA 5). Speaking of casuals, I think the reason why most people are. . . and complain about games being "to hard" is not because they're unskilled-gamers but because they are lazy.
"real-world excitement and strategy of building and managing a squad" Their argument is one of the dumbest things I ever heard. How is it similar to real life? No team gambles money, in the hopes of getting Haaland/Messi/Neymar, but instead getting a player who play in Spain's 2nd Division or something. (Even though it'd be hilarious irl) And how is strategy involved in this when packs are random?
i remember when games were sold for a base price and you got the whole game for that price. now you pay for the "option" to pay more.... much innovation, such wow...
They can't hear you over the money they make. And even if they did, in the last 10 years have they ever cared? Corps like them don't change, even during detrimental times.
Unless people go cold turkey and stop buying FIFA games and card packs, EA never will get the message. Considering that at least on the Switch, they've been selling FIFA 18 for the past four years, only updating the cover artwork and the number, why not go back and actually PLAY Fifa 18 for the next year?
So, the question is who'd they pay off and how much to make that stuff in the UK go away? There's not a chance in hell I'd believe that no palms were greased.
Yeah, realizing that loot boxes are a problem and just as they looked to be gearing up to do something in legislation it falls flat on its face...No bet that EA's lobby people did something that could be considered "under the table".
Imagine if a fighting game has a lootbox system where you have a chance to pull a character you already have but with better stats. You have Ryu, but your opponent paid thousands for a Ryu that is a little faster and does a little more damage. That would absolutely destroy what makes a fighting game worth playing by downplaying skill and make the difference between winning and losing your bank account. But because that same principle is in a sports game, it's suddenly fair and ethical.
I just want one singular, simple law that comprehensively bans video game companies from offering purchases that can or will lead to a randomized outcome that affects gameplay. That's it. That's all I want. But it'll never happen...
Belgium and the Netherlands need to crack down harder, and the UK needs to go forward with legislation. I think once the UK does it, then Canada will do it, and after that the U.S. Fingers crossed 🤞
You want to regulate consumer behavior ? What else are you ok regulating? How about we limit many things we dislike overall, like grifter TH-camrs who pretend to care about a topic yet refused money to debate this subject.. lol😂 All of the anti loot boxer content creators refused to have a conversation about the topic with someone they disagree with.. that’s how you know it’s a grift.
@@Amgarrak you are the only with claims such as “flash lights while opening loot boxes are similar to flashing lights at a casino”.. You are the ones who’s feeling don’t match up with laws and cry about it online, the loud minority. 🤫
@@dinanga_revert Have fun paying $70 every year for the same game, unlocking players with real money and redoing it again. "Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?"
The best way for the community to help stop this nonsense is to NOT PURCHASE THESE KINDS OF GAMES!!! I understand people want new but let's face it, there's not much new with EA sports games every year and if you buy into their bulls#@t, you're part of the problem!
i agree that it should be taken seriously. but by the correct people - the parents. no concievable body of law can be a replacement for absentee parenting/parental neglect.
You understand that ANYONE, child or not, putting money into shit games with MTX, incentivise MORE shit games with MTX, right? If you spend money on them, You are part of the problem. Any adult who does, is.
@@fernandobanda5734 none of it is a problem unless you dislike loot boxes and want them removed from games because you feel entitled to games without them.
"You can climb the wall, or pay to get around it, it's fair!" Says EA, standing before a 100 foot wall with shake footholds intended to encourage you to spend your money.
All companies are. Just look at Atlus for the most recent bs bingo. They cut out story and demons from Soul Hackers 2 - demons you could unlock and fuse with base titles back in the day - to sell them as dlc. It's despicable and I for one will pass on the game. I am pretty much only playing indies at this point. Screw big corpos.
@@AkuniLesare That's nuts. I'm hoping Game Companies that were once great, will take their heads out of their asses and start doing right by the Gaming Community.
Am I the only one having the feeling the only reason loot boxes hasn't been removed by law, is because the regulators are getting payoff or have financial interest in it themselves... aka being corrupted? I mean what possible other reason can there be?
I’ve never had an issue with fifa micro transactions during early years of ultimate team when you could win with a full silver team if you were the more skilled player. Now you must have end game players to even compete even if you are the better player.
Also that 9/10 packs thing they keep bringing up is just twisting words like Blizzard did: Many people just open the very cheap bronze packs for 500 or 750 coins to get back 600 with a small chance to maybe get 1000 back and grind their way up that way. The lightning rounds they drop at every hour after a promo dropped for example is for packs with would 50.000-100.000 coins (if you were to buy them with coins which is never worth it) for comparison, so counting the bronze packs into that discussion is just pathetic. Just a quick note from the FIFA pro scene: Every pro gets a certain amount of money from their sponsor at the beginning of each FIFA, usually between 1.000€ and 3.000€ to be competitive. That effectively rules (or at the least makes it very difficult) anyone out of reaching that level if you don't have a sponsor to begin with.
I love how they say FIFA helps simulate the reality and excitement of recruiting and building your own dream team... yeah cause we open up card packs and random real life players pop out, and if we don't like them we just sell them off and keep buying card packs
I really liked how you implemented the AD. Well done! Some more feedback I’d like to give, is that I’ve seen quite some controversy about Manscaped specifically. If I remember correctly it’s mostly about product quality. Again, I’m very happy you found a sponsor and your implementation was great. I hope you find a sponsor just as great in the future.
I know it won't do anything, but I'm very tempted to create an online petition. Not to persuade EA, but to just show them and the world that they are 100% WRONG. That what they're saying is a load of BS.
@@dream6562 Take a step back and think about it. The games aren't grindy by definition. They are grindy to justify the pay to win mechanics. You can just play an old version without shop to see for yourself. The games got grindy *only after the shop was introduced*. And you shouldn't accept that. Instead of tolerating the grind or p2w, you deserve a good game with neither.
@@AkuniLesare oh no, I'm talking about in general, I mean I usually don't bother with any kind of crafting/upgrading because I just can't purchase the material in shops or something like that, I'd really appreciate it if that started being more a thing, let people go out and hunt/scavenge to upgrade their things, and let everyone else just buy them
You hit the nail on the head with the alcoholism problem: it's not because it's a small number that it means it's not a problem. EA just hit cringe status, it's not enough to release the same damn game every year, they need to release it with gambling gacha hell.
“Look guys, there’s all these people with compulsive spending habits, and someone’s gotta prey on their weakness, so why not us? It’s only what’s fair, really..”
Funniest part is that in some countries (including khm, Russia, no politics there), they don't take customers money for one reason or another. So even that statement is BS as for some customers there isn't even an option. And then they state that game is "fair" to EVERYONE, including ones who don't spend They are deep into their own shit, and until it is regulated, they will spread it everywhere they can
and yet those idiots keep buying it. if a game tries to rob you with mtx, don't buy it, don't play it boy am i glad that i don't play multiplayer and sport games, so i don't have to deal with this bullshit
Saying that "we have parental controls" when they are almost always complex/hidden to the point of being useless. I've been putting parental controls on systems for years, and every single time, it takes absurd amounts of time/detail and then you get to hope that you didn't lock the user out of the things they were looking for. Parental controls is not just something you toggle on
"We do not recommend you to spend money on those packs" Then why do you give us the option? Like -i don't recommend you to play Russian roulette kids.... But here's a semi auto Glock with 3 bullets
if parents want to teach there kids exactly how much loot boxes cost, all they need to do is simply tell their kids to do chores to earn enough for the loot boxes they want, i'm pretty sure that will destroy the fifa franchise within a year
Unfortunately modern society is in such a horrible state because all the kids who grew up with the internet as a baby sitter are now adults with arrested development.
Gamers are a global and diverse community, we can't afford to wait for governments to regulate what we as community should point in the right direction by commercial behaviour. Videos and opinions like this one are essential tools due to spread awareness. In my opinion is our responsibility as a community to regulate our environment, nothing good ever as come from people enforcing their opinion on something that they don't fully understand.
"Gamers love getting exploited with systems designed to be as addictive and monetarily damaging as possible!' At this point, I want blood. I don't care about the morality, I just want these guys to get consequences for their actions.
gamers - we hate lootboxes, take them out of games, EA - we firmly beliieve that FUT packs are a aprt of the game that fans love really EA? for years now players have been saying they hate the FUT packs, and they hate lootboxes, and yet you believe its part of the game fans love? that right there shows you dont listen to the fans and just listen to the money
I always wondered who these articles are aimed at? Current players know the truth & newcomers to the game will find out. So what's the point of this? Politicians? The outside media? It's confusing.
I remember one Black Friday I was worried I wouldn't get the game I wanted because I was behind in line, literally everyone grabbed the sports games and that's it. I literally laughed, such god awful taste in games
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I remember playing the older Fifa games on the PlayStation 1 and I was so blown away back then with how customizable the teams where and being able to move any player to any team without microtransactions and creating my own players with my own stats and actually having the announcer say my name. The newer games are NOT better, they've just been bad for a really long time. You can't compare todays Fifa to yesterdays Fifa because they're both equally terrible compared to the classic games from 20 years ago.
I didn't know that the old fifa had that! I grew up in the era of the fifa of yesterday and never knew about that. That is mindboggling. That is a feature I'd like a sports game to have.
I mean, there's no reason to ever compare fifa games when they're just exact carbon copies every year.
Fifa streets was great
@@EdwardWB97 And then there's FIFA Volta 🤣
Ye I remember I had 1 Fifa game on PS1 aswell. The other one before that was..world cup 98 ? Anyway those were the good 'ol days.
"It isn't illegal for people to spend their money."
Pretty sure EA wouldn't be having that stance if some vengeful person spent their money on a hacker to empty the company's bank accounts.
Or maybe shutdown there servers, I'd like to see that.
Sounds like a plan.
This.
Because the hacker won't be spending his money, but THEIR money.
That's the difference...
Come on guys.
@@starvr same
EA: "It's been here a long time, so don't question it."
Interviewer: "What are your thoughts on slavery?"
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Geez! So true... And slavers never want it to end.
Or abortion..
That EA slavery
ea: it was perfectly acceptable system. they had a choice in the matter. they were taken "care" of well.
UK: "The video game industry should self-regulate itself."
EA: "I'm gonna ignore that and keep peddling out loot boxes."
EA: Slipping suitcase of cash under the table.
They're "self-regulating themselves" (xD)! One small issue: they made de choice that screws over players.
Asking the AAA gaming industry to "self-regulate" is like putting a pack of wolves in charge of guarding a henhouse and asking them real nice-like not to eat any chickens, pwetty pwetty pwease with spwinkles and gumdwops. Ask as nicely and as frequently as you want - until they face the threat of real consequences, they're not going to do it.
Self-regulation is non-regulation.
"We have done an internal investigation with 'scientists' we paid off and there is nothing addicting here! We here at EA love and care about our fans, which is why we want to drain them of all of their cash and leave them with pixels that we will devalue in a year's time with our newest cash-grab of a game." - EA, probably.
And once again, EA shows us why it’s amongst the most despised game companies. Can the government finally ban Lootboxes already!? So we can all just move forward, and see EA finally get what it freaking deserves!?
you and me both. ✊🏻
Belgium government is still confused lol
Government institutions are usually filled with fossils that don't know what they're talking about, are getting paid to go against bills like that, or both unfortunately
Most despised _game_ companies? No no no. EA has been top hated business for a long time. Full stop. No need for the videogame subgenre on this one lol.
How do you regulate something you can't cash out from
“Don’t worry guys, giving kids, the most impressionable audience a gambling addiction and dopamine reliance on our games is completely fine.”
EA: "Look how fair, ethical and saint-like I am. I am offering you a lose-lose situation...Are you not entertained?"
That lose-lose shit is why EA and FIFA said bye bye to each other
@@ricardohoang8452 they both bad as each other
"...Are you not entertained?" Obviously not. That particular "feature" will cost you an additional $49.99 USD.
@@cybercifrado lol this isn't 2008! You can spend 39,99 on a golden loot box with a 1% chance to earn that! Keep with the times my friend 😉
"giving the players the choice to spend if they want to is fair" is right. It just doesn't fucking apply to a predatory game, where if you don't spend the money, you either grind it out like it's a job or you can just forget about ever competing with others who did spend money. You can't justify gambling in a pvp game
"Player choice" is the most bullshit term ever when you realise games used to have cheatcodes. That's the real "player choice", especially so in single player games. And if developers truly are for "player choice" in multiplayer games, they could also just make all these microtransaction stuff free.
Have two categories. One for players who play the game without using the free microtransaction stuff and purely grinds for it, one is a free-for-all where players can use anything they want from the store.
It should be taken seriously and yet the US government are being stubborn about it And yet still going to blame video game violence over video game gambling
@@Mulcam29 Looks like we need to take the nuclear option to unionize
@@Mulcam29 you know that thing in your skull called a brain ya yours is missing
A stupid unsupervised kid can sink a household with stupid credit card decisions, but we don't need regulation, okay cool 😎
Cause the US political scene is literally running on the policy “whatever earns us the most money is what we go with” while ignoring the public
@@FuckBalls64 It should be regulated China Belgium and nitherlsnds is slowing down there gambling laws To investors we need to do the same thing we have to take the nuclear option that is the only solution if they will do it I’ll do it ourselves thanos style Unionization a seat at the table to show investors we are not cattle to be milked
I remember watching one of Jim Stephanie Sterling’s videos covering harmful effects of unregulated gambling in FIFA (E for everyone and age 3 and up rating), and one of the clips showed a young child opening card pack after card pack after card pack in FIFA and looking fed up with the lower level players of each card pack he drew via GAMBLING with real world money. Our children are being harmed, and we need stricter oversight, better consumer protection - EA has the addiction level cranked up high in the FIFA ‘game’ and aren’t about to regulate themselves. There are negative consequences for vulnerable adults as well, and publishers like EA and Activision-Blizzard are operating unchecked and continue pushing gambling mechanics further and further with every game, they’ll never stop voluntarily.
Players do have a choice, a choice not to purchase/play. That's the the only way you're going to get them to change the monetization methods. But enough players display that they don't care by engaging in the microtransactions.
exactly.. EA is a business.. i like to think of them like robots. Robots are only able to do what they are programmed to do.. They have no morals, they don't care about you, they are completely devoid of emotion in most all regard. The business bot only does what makes it the most money. If this bot notices that something is no longer making money they will either change course so money can once again be made or move on to something else that makes money. The thing is that if people stop paying for certain games.. some bots may choose to just close the unprofitable games all together so you can risk never seeing anymore adaptations of your favorite franchise.
So long as there are enough people to bring them massive profits the robots will typically continue on course as their designed to do. Execs don't care about you either they only care about keeping their robot oiled and maintained. They care about their own lives not yours to them you are just a rando.
To many casuals don't know the risks. I know a good number of people and they have no idea the short comings and financial repercussions the game has.
Same could be said about any form of gambling. It’s all choice, however doesn’t make it right. I spent a ridiculous amount of money on FIFA points last season. A shameful amount. Money I didn’t have. FIFA rely on people like me who seek that rush/feeling of winning when gambling. They see us coming a mile off.
You're the first creator I've ever seen who marked the sponsor section of the video in the chapters. I watched it all the way through regardless and it seems like you had a good time with that ad read. Also that segue back to the content was 🔥Keep up the good work, Yong!
The belgium law being circumvented is hilarious. The country acts like there is nothing they can do when in reality they can just issue fines over and over and over and finance their countries entire infrastructure off of fining these companies. If they don't pay then you arrest the board of directors, if they're in another country then you IP ban them and if they try to get around the ban then you render all of their copyrights and trademarks null and void for every company in that country. Effectively putting ALL of their products in the public domain. What are those Chinese companies going to do? Convince China to declare war on the EU so they can keep breaking the law? The likely zero sum result here is that one of the Chinese oligarchs would personally order the execution of that companies entire board of directors and replace them with someone who isn't going to ruffle feathers.
Thanks for those sad lawsuits Belgium
Did you not notice how Belgium is over regulated within all industries.. that nation can’t even make its own laws without asking the EU unelected officials if it’s ok.
That’s what you are promoting.
@@wartome3196 when you say unelected EU officials, do you mean the EU parliament committees, or the bureaucrats who take their orders from the EU council, representing each member nation equally?
@@shadeblackwolf1508 why do you think brexit took place my man. When you don’t have the control of your country as a voter base; people dislike that.
@@wartome3196 Oh, buddy. Have you seen the UK? Still unelected executive, with just 180,000 ppl picking their latest "leader", all the while their economy and people are in shambles?
How different is that from the time when Brussels have a say?
We can look 10 years ago. Cameron premiership. Massive austerity making people poorer. Housing crisis in early stages. Unelected executive. Monarch with power. Social boom.
Now? Johnson lame-duck premiership (likely to be followed by Truss). Cost of living crisis. Housing crisis in full scale. Unelected executive. Monarch with power. Social boom.
Please tell me the difference in the political participation of the people. I surely can't see any gains in people-power.
Lawmakers have forgotten one of the main rules of capitalism. NEVER trust corporations to regulate themselves.
Nah, slavery was 'legal' too and literally enforced by the state for thousands of years, your argument a logical fallacy, regulation is not inherently virtuous, ironically it was free market capitalism that made slavery obsolete & basically end over night whether you want to admit it not for most of the world, and has lifted billions of people out of poverty. Never trust gov't to regulate to a moral society.
People like you forget most of the worst elements of the humanity are enforced by the state, not corporations, but the marriage of govt & monopolistic crony corporatism we are experiencing right now in the west is a huge problem too, not denying that, however, I would argue "more regulation" is not the answer - power tripping statist/collectivists in government get a wet dream looking at the power China, for example, has over its people. No thank you.
As long as people keep buying it, they'll keep cranking it out. No demand = No supply.
This, people need to stop stupidly buying their 60+ dollar roster updates...
I brought the ultimate edition keep crying
Second that. I haven't missed those "games" a bit. People need to stop buying them. Or get help, if they can't stop by themself. In any case, this swamp needs to dry out.
It's not that simple. No demand=No supply. True,but companies will make sure the demand is always there, and they will try by any means to create a demand.
@@AkuniLesare Pretty much. Simply don't buy the games or give them attention at all until EA's stock begins to crumble
"We won't be classifying loot boxes under gambling because it would be more work for us, and we don't really feel like doing it" - the UK government, apparently
The UK Tory government are corrupt inept spiteful self-serving spivs and charlatans… who are happily legislating our rights and protections away, but allowing tax-avoiding corporations to do whatever they please, (and chucking huge sums of money at some of them for dubious contracts for pandemic mitigations that failed).
12 years of theft, ineptitude and chaos, and it looks like we’ll be experiencing at least 2 more years of them with a fascistic Sindy doll as Prime Minister.
At this point, you can't even be upset with EA. Everyone is well aware of how predatory these games are, yet the players still continue to support this business model each year.
EA never learned apparently, just like how their die-hard supporters never learned.
Gamble and grind for a fictional team, then have it all wiped clean come next year. Those that fall for this scam are fools
Glad to see you taking on sponsors! No complaints from me.
At least we can take solace in the fact that this is the last year EA & FIFA have their license together...
Too bad EA's going to try and do their own game to make up for the lack of FIFA licensing in mind. Still, maybe that name change will be significant for EA to falter a bit there.
It will obviously decrease the sales drastically. No funky new name will ever attract as many people as the main name that every sports fan thinks when you say to them the word "football"
@Project M EX Remix Now ya riiiight, keep dreaming,
unless people stop buying these games NOTHING will Change
specially after they royally screwed up PES
sooo, basicly ther isn't a viable Alternative to FiFA unless i'm missing som,eting here
but then again i don't play their sports "Games" , or any sports games for that matter
@@edgieststalker8141 i think they wont play because they dont have their favourite players and teams
My honest wish is that both EA and FIFA fail in their respective endeavors. EA soccer games without the FIFA licensing should tank and FIFA without EA's expertise in videogames should struggle to keep a foothold in the market. Either way, time will tell which one will prevail and which one will go the dodo way.
Doesn't that just mean they are loosing their exclusive licence? They could still do the FIFA game under a non-exclusive licence.
I’m surprise that people still buy this cash grab game. I was among the first whales that spent a lot of money in ultimate team. What put me off was the realisation that everything got wiped and had to do it all again in the next FIFA. That’s when I stopped playing FIFA. How the UK government don’t see this is beyond me
EA: "You should be able to keep people as involuntary workers. That was here for decades! We just brought it into the modern era with psychology instead of physical constraint!"
You should be able to kill a child if it’s still growing inside you?
There is another word for that, let me think a bit... a yes slavery.
@@lettherebedragons8885 No no they work for each other, it's a society.
@@BlackTempleGaurdian that sounds like slavery but with extra steps
"we're trying to emulate the feeling of creating your own dream team in real life!" bruh imagine if you get arrested in Grand Theft Auto and you had to pay real money for a bail out lol
The criminal: "Your honor, I can only pay the fine in lootboxes, given that I spent all my money in them".
With that logic, Gran Turismo might as well require you to get a real life driver's license before it allows you to play the game.
Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity Yong? 👀
Repeating the same shit over and over endlessly....... EA`s pure Greed never change (obisoft,Aktivision,take2 etc..... too).
Spending a lot of money to buy loot boxes?
I mean, they're doing it over and over but they're succeeding every time so people buy it. Sure, EA is awful for exploiting people but responsibility also falls on the consumer to make conscious decisions which most don't,
Yong is preaching to the choir at this point. As long as there are lots of kids with inadequate parental supervision and access to lots of expendable funds, they will be taken advantage of. the way to solve this is not by outlawing digital crack today so that it will be replaced by digital heroin tomorrow, its by addressing the underlying problem of parents being neglectful of their duties and not instilling some basic values to their children.
There’s two definitions actually the first is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result the second the absolute loss of control example being tied up in an empty room with nothing but your thoughts
EA says it's realistic, but I don't recall real sports relying on slot machines to decide if they get decent players.
These failed regulators will just wait until they are forced to act, and by then it will be utter devastation.
Their greed for money is so great it has crossed over from reality into our fantasy. Literally. Not just metaphorically.
The solution is to stop giving EA money. Can't really feel sorry for people who keep paying for this garbage for so many years.
Ikr
@Skuash agreed
The real tragedy is that it holds my favorite franchise of all time hostage, need for speed. True agony
Unfortunately, this kind of business practice is tailored to whales who don't know how to spend money in a responsible fashion. It doesn't matter if we don't play another EA game for the rest of our lives, they are the ones lining EA's pockets.
People who play FIFA literally have a giant target on their back saying "I'm too stupid to know how to spend money, please take it from me!"
@Ibrahim Jah
"I’m surprise that people still buy this cash grab game. I was among the first whales that spent a lot of money in ultimate team. What put me off was the realisation that everything got wiped and had to do it all again in the next FIFA. That’s when I stopped playing FIFA. How the UK government don’t see this is beyond me"
You don't know how many uneducated idiots on this planet there are. And those in England need to notify the politicians about this, especially the parents!
About Belgium and Netherlands' laws : welcome to the EU, where laws are passed not to prevent bad things happening or to punish those who commit them, but to ensure a continuous flow of money to the legislators.
yup, thats exactly how this works ,... welcome to the Netherlands Casino AKA "Holland Casino" wich is owned and run by the Dutch GOV.... or at the very least have a HUGE stake in it.
so why would they actively pevent Lootboxes aka Gambing at all
Regulations to get the money flowing in their direction.....
@@BJ-zd2or That's what I meant, of course ;)
@@seratht.6210 because they dont want money to go to these companies, they want the money for themselves
9:55 good transition into the sponsorship 😂😂 honestly glad he’s doing it tho especially cuz he asked how we felt about it first, he didn’t have to but he did so I’m happy for him
He even put it in chapters so we can skip it easily if we don't want to watch the ad.
I really respect that he asked us. This is the kind of care I can support. I'll watch all your ads. As long as you stay you. :)
Man got 1 of the UFC sponsorships 🎉🎉 grats bro 🍹
New FUT update: "to make the game more realistic, we've made all players cost the real current price. In sight of that, we took out the loot boxes."
They really should go through with that. At tgis point, I wanna see how many of those Fifa fanatics can actually go deep in the rabbit hole.
"Giving players the choice to spend money if they want to is fair"
Yes. If done right and under the right circumstances.
League of Legends and Warframe for example.
Both are free to play, the purchases are purely cosmetic, and when you buy something you know what you are buying, you aren't spending a lot of money trying to get what you want and not getting it because you didn't spend enough money or you weren't lucky enough to get what you wanted with what you spent.
This is not fair monetization.
EA logic: "We've noticed our customers enjoy call of duty, so for a small fee of 50 dollars per person, we will be sending them to iraq for a tour of duty"
And they will quickly find out 360 no scopes don't actually work in real life.....
@@SPEEDFREAK6988 ...I'm no expert but I don't think they're actually still doing that.
the amount of people that would pay for that would be more than enough to completely empty the nation of a population
Unbelievable. The game straight up has casino slot machines for loot boxes yet that is perfectly fine. 🙄
I kinda believe that this issue with FIFA specifically will resolve itself over time. Most of the people spending the big bucks on card packs are likely long time fans of the series who have and will continue to shovel money in it, but as the games get less and less fun with each game, the actual playerbase will decrease in size, killing the game slowly.
Yeah that's their plan, let the game die out slowly, then release another one to force everybody to pay to win all over again. Fomo takes hold again of these hopeless football fans, the cycle continues. They don't know what fun is, they don't care, they just want to win as primitively as possible.
You underestimate how hooked up some people are to gambling, both videogames and real life casinos.
There are thousands of cases of people being psychologically and physically damaged by this, at this point even shutting down EA and Fifa's servers would just push them to play another lootboxes based game.
It's a literal mental illness, the people responsible for it need to be jailed, and the ones addicted to it must be helped quitting their gambling habits.
As long as there are whales out there throwing three, four or five-digit sums of money at the game, EA is seeing profits.
The player-base will not decrease any notable degree so long as EA have monopoly on football games, there is no worthy competition. So long as they are dominant, I and many others have no option but to buy or forsake the online football experience that only the FIFA franchise provides.
I stay clear of UT as I don't find it engaging. I'm a Pro Clubs player.
Honestly, if I was a dev with enough staff I'd just make a FIFA game myself with a company based in Curacao or some similar location.
Problem is that players have no self control and keep investing in ea products. Sad but true
Politicians are paid off to do nothing. They are not interested in helping their constituents. I would also like to know how many in legislation, PEGI, etc have investments in EA and other parts of the gaming industry.
You don’t realize that for ever 1 anti loot boxer their are 15 anti government regulation on loot boxes..
You just pretend you are the majority here yet you can’t find a single debate where an anti loot boxer talked with a pro loot boxer.
Your side has lost this battle because every content creator lives in an echo chamber.
Hey Yong! I know you're probably worried about it, and worried that no one has commented yet - but your ad was totally fine! The product is not for me, but it didn't ruin my experience at all
I doubt he actually cares.
@@wteverisgud he spent a long time considering it and asked for community feedback before he did it. I'm sure he cares
Things being rare and hard to acquire or expensive in game to acquire are fine but when progression, content, or a pay to win wall are put in place it’s scumbag behavior
Yeah,I've always been in the camp of grind it out to get what you want,pay 2 win is lazy and it's funny when they get spanked by a skilled player....
"I have the time of my life not playing FIFA, its winning, paying nothing and not being scammed all at the same time, 10/10 would do it again."
Great Job own goaling yourself EA, why not go Yongscape yourself EA?
When a government doesn't want to legislate something is because someone inside is getting a cut of the profit
Or it would turn “everything” into gambling if your definition is “it feels like gambling”.
Go look at the legal definitions and then ask why.. don’t pretend the rules have not kept up when they were perfect when ruled on over 100 years..
@@wartome3196 it's gambling though
@@OrphansCorpse but it’s not. Prize, chance and consideration are required to be gambling and without consideration you can’t have gambling. You need a way to cash out.
You can cite one over regulated nation saying “it’s gambling like”... but I can show you 10s of other nations like the UK who said it’s not.. and to consider this gambling would destroy the entire definition.
@@wartome3196 and all of 3 of them are present in ultimate team.
You're not smart, neither am I, but stop trying to be.
Goodbye. It's gambling
@@wartome3196 It's a Scam then.
There is a MAJOR difference between choice and exploitation/monetization.
@John-Paul Hunt Hmm, there is also this "self-playing games" concept video I found (haven't watched it) but this is where I think these casuals come from. It sucks that people and companies are getting more attracted to stupid micro-transaction-filled phone-games than platform-games. (Screw Peter Molyneux on GTA 5).
Speaking of casuals, I think the reason why most people are. . . and complain about games being "to hard" is not because they're unskilled-gamers but because they are lazy.
EA just doing EA things. They're really trying to outdo themselves with how anti-consumer this company can be.
The state of gaming rn is heartbreaking. There used to be so much passion put in until people started making millions. Money ruins everything
Well, the highly visible elements of it.
Sectors of good yet remain.
"real-world excitement and strategy of building and managing a squad"
Their argument is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.
How is it similar to real life? No team gambles money, in the hopes of getting Haaland/Messi/Neymar, but instead getting a player who play in Spain's 2nd Division or something. (Even though it'd be hilarious irl)
And how is strategy involved in this when packs are random?
I heard Ryan Reynolds bought a football team because it was cheaper than Fifa lol.
"Fences are bad! Chickens should be free to roam as they please," says the fox.
Remember when Fifa was actually about the Sport it represents?
i remember when games were sold for a base price and you got the whole game for that price. now you pay for the "option" to pay more.... much innovation, such wow...
They still exist; go find them.
Most are older titles, but that is fine too.
They can't hear you over the money they make. And even if they did, in the last 10 years have they ever cared? Corps like them don't change, even during detrimental times.
That “money” is a fair and free market out voting you.. get over it. That “greed” is just self pity you feel because you have no self control.
Unless people go cold turkey and stop buying FIFA games and card packs, EA never will get the message.
Considering that at least on the Switch, they've been selling FIFA 18 for the past four years, only updating the cover artwork and the number, why not go back and actually PLAY Fifa 18 for the next year?
So, the question is who'd they pay off and how much to make that stuff in the UK go away? There's not a chance in hell I'd believe that no palms were greased.
Yeah, realizing that loot boxes are a problem and just as they looked to be gearing up to do something in legislation it falls flat on its face...No bet that EA's lobby people did something that could be considered "under the table".
The UK government is so corrupt I would not be shocked EA paid them under the table.
Imagine if a fighting game has a lootbox system where you have a chance to pull a character you already have but with better stats. You have Ryu, but your opponent paid thousands for a Ryu that is a little faster and does a little more damage. That would absolutely destroy what makes a fighting game worth playing by downplaying skill and make the difference between winning and losing your bank account. But because that same principle is in a sports game, it's suddenly fair and ethical.
I just want one singular, simple law that comprehensively bans video game companies from offering purchases that can or will lead to a randomized outcome that affects gameplay. That's it. That's all I want. But it'll never happen...
Any game rated as suitable for children as young as 3 (ie FIFA has a PEGI rating of 3+) should NOT NEED PARENTAL CONTROLS
Belgium and the Netherlands need to crack down harder, and the UK needs to go forward with legislation. I think once the UK does it, then Canada will do it, and after that the U.S.
Fingers crossed 🤞
You want to regulate consumer behavior ? What else are you ok regulating? How about we limit many things we dislike overall, like grifter TH-camrs who pretend to care about a topic yet refused money to debate this subject.. lol😂
All of the anti loot boxer content creators refused to have a conversation about the topic with someone they disagree with.. that’s how you know it’s a grift.
@@wartome3196 Go touch grass.
@@wartome3196 What on earth are you on right now.
@@wartome3196 Seek sunlight
@@Amgarrak you are the only with claims such as “flash lights while opening loot boxes are similar to flashing lights at a casino”..
You are the ones who’s feeling don’t match up with laws and cry about it online, the loud minority. 🤫
The year is 2040.
It’s now harder to earn a Lamborghini in a video game than real life lol.
Anyone DUMB ENOUGH to buy a FIFA game deserves to be ripped off.
I'm a fan of football, and Fifa is fun af so.....
EXACTLY.
Could say, "Let them get away with their practices," in less words than that.
@@dinanga_revert Have fun paying $70 every year for the same game, unlocking players with real money and redoing it again.
"Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?"
@WT95 then why not stick with the older title? Same shit different day. Changes that can easily be made with an update, rather than a "new" game.
The best way for the community to help stop this nonsense is to NOT PURCHASE THESE KINDS OF GAMES!!! I understand people want new but let's face it, there's not much new with EA sports games every year and if you buy into their bulls#@t, you're part of the problem!
i agree that it should be taken seriously. but by the correct people - the parents. no concievable body of law can be a replacement for absentee parenting/parental neglect.
You understand that ANYONE, child or not, putting money into shit games with MTX, incentivise MORE shit games with MTX, right?
If you spend money on them, You are part of the problem. Any adult who does, is.
And us parents are ok with loot boxes. It’s only people without kids looking to protect the kids lol
@@hiddenxalpha7053 lol and if you buy red things you are to blame because I don’t like red !! You are a child
Kids that spend without permission are a minority. That is not the main problem.
@@fernandobanda5734 none of it is a problem unless you dislike loot boxes and want them removed from games because you feel entitled to games without them.
"You can climb the wall, or pay to get around it, it's fair!" Says EA, standing before a 100 foot wall with shake footholds intended to encourage you to spend your money.
I said once and I'll say it again, "EA is full of shit."
All companies are. Just look at Atlus for the most recent bs bingo. They cut out story and demons from Soul Hackers 2 - demons you could unlock and fuse with base titles back in the day - to sell them as dlc. It's despicable and I for one will pass on the game. I am pretty much only playing indies at this point. Screw big corpos.
@@AkuniLesare That's nuts. I'm hoping Game Companies that were once great, will take their heads out of their asses and start doing right by the Gaming Community.
@@YourFunkLord Sh-yeah, and microtransactions will disappear from gaming altogether(!)
Add the phrase, ..."and this decade..." Companies, every government, and global elitists ARE full of s***
The issue is there is no competition when it comes to football or soccer games. This is why competition is needed in every industry.
Am I the only one having the feeling the only reason loot boxes hasn't been removed by law, is because the regulators are getting payoff or have financial interest in it themselves... aka being corrupted? I mean what possible other reason can there be?
the only other possible reason is severe negligence
@@indeepjable This is the Brandon Administration. The answer is both.
Must Got some balls to have a first sponsor like that
Hehehehehe heh... You said "balls". Hehehehehe.
I’ve never had an issue with fifa micro transactions during early years of ultimate team when you could win with a full silver team if you were the more skilled player. Now you must have end game players to even compete even if you are the better player.
This is the year I'll finally stop... Like I said 5 years ago
Also that 9/10 packs thing they keep bringing up is just twisting words like Blizzard did: Many people just open the very cheap bronze packs for 500 or 750 coins to get back 600 with a small chance to maybe get 1000 back and grind their way up that way. The lightning rounds they drop at every hour after a promo dropped for example is for packs with would 50.000-100.000 coins (if you were to buy them with coins which is never worth it) for comparison, so counting the bronze packs into that discussion is just pathetic.
Just a quick note from the FIFA pro scene: Every pro gets a certain amount of money from their sponsor at the beginning of each FIFA, usually between 1.000€ and 3.000€ to be competitive. That effectively rules (or at the least makes it very difficult) anyone out of reaching that level if you don't have a sponsor to begin with.
I love how they say FIFA helps simulate the reality and excitement of recruiting and building your own dream team... yeah cause we open up card packs and random real life players pop out, and if we don't like them we just sell them off and keep buying card packs
I really liked how you implemented the AD. Well done!
Some more feedback I’d like to give, is that I’ve seen quite some controversy about Manscaped specifically. If I remember correctly it’s mostly about product quality.
Again, I’m very happy you found a sponsor and your implementation was great.
I hope you find a sponsor just as great in the future.
Yong looks so happy doing his first sponsorship.
Yong: "I shaved my balls"
Community: "He's made it, he's made it big time!"
I know it won't do anything, but I'm very tempted to create an online petition. Not to persuade EA, but to just show them and the world that they are 100% WRONG. That what they're saying is a load of BS.
I appreciate you framing this as an accessibility issue, especially since a lot of the gaming press uses the term cynically most of the time.
I'd still like them to be available in a direct form, I have alot in life going on, and I'd rather not grind in general
@@dream6562 Take a step back and think about it. The games aren't grindy by definition. They are grindy to justify the pay to win mechanics. You can just play an old version without shop to see for yourself. The games got grindy *only after the shop was introduced*. And you shouldn't accept that. Instead of tolerating the grind or p2w, you deserve a good game with neither.
@@AkuniLesare oh no, I'm talking about in general, I mean I usually don't bother with any kind of crafting/upgrading because I just can't purchase the material in shops or something like that, I'd really appreciate it if that started being more a thing, let people go out and hunt/scavenge to upgrade their things, and let everyone else just buy them
You hit the nail on the head with the alcoholism problem: it's not because it's a small number that it means it's not a problem. EA just hit cringe status, it's not enough to release the same damn game every year, they need to release it with gambling gacha hell.
“Look guys, there’s all these people with compulsive spending habits, and someone’s gotta prey on their weakness, so why not us? It’s only what’s fair, really..”
played Fifa as a kid with my friends, no loot boxes or other monetization. Had a blast, how things change...
"The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome" - Sun Tzu, the art of war
EAC - Electronic art clowns 🤡
"LLKLOKIEBAJHFBWJHFHENAIDBWAIHRBWSJJ" -Mushroom Man With A Cart Made Of Wood
oh yeah Sun Tzu definitely said that...
isn't this an Albert Einstein quote?
@@NineTwelveEighteen He said a lot of things. Before dying, Sun Tzu said Fuck EA.
I simply don’t buy games with a pay to win system. Just not that desperate. 🤷🏼♀️
Ah yes, just how slot machines “Give customers the option to pay if they want to.” They’re seriously still trying to gaslight us with this bullshit.
Funniest part is that in some countries (including khm, Russia, no politics there), they don't take customers money for one reason or another.
So even that statement is BS as for some customers there isn't even an option. And then they state that game is "fair" to EVERYONE, including ones who don't spend
They are deep into their own shit, and until it is regulated, they will spread it everywhere they can
and yet those idiots keep buying it. if a game tries to rob you with mtx, don't buy it, don't play it
boy am i glad that i don't play multiplayer and sport games, so i don't have to deal with this bullshit
If Sony or Microsoft bought EA do you think they'd force EA to knock off the nonsense or would they allow them to continue business as usual 🤔
Microsoft would 100% let them continue
i highly doubt that anything would change , it simply brings in too much money to ignore
regardless if its Sony or MS or even Nintendo
Saying that "we have parental controls" when they are almost always complex/hidden to the point of being useless. I've been putting parental controls on systems for years, and every single time, it takes absurd amounts of time/detail and then you get to hope that you didn't lock the user out of the things they were looking for. Parental controls is not just something you toggle on
Thank you for chapter breaking the sponsor, Yong. That's the best way to do it to make it easiest on your audience.
"We do not recommend you to spend money on those packs"
Then why do you give us the option?
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-i don't recommend you to play Russian roulette kids.... But here's a semi auto Glock with 3 bullets
if parents want to teach there kids exactly how much loot boxes cost, all they need to do is simply tell their kids to do chores to earn enough for the loot boxes they want, i'm pretty sure that will destroy the fifa franchise within a year
Unfortunately modern society is in such a horrible state because all the kids who grew up with the internet as a baby sitter are now adults with arrested development.
Unfortunately as long as people utilize loot boxes they will keep providing them....
Why is it so Hard to make a good game now. Jesus christ
it isnt, thats just not the goal anymore for these gaming companies. they want to take out as much gameplay to fill that hole with payment.
making ridiculous amounts of unethical money > making an actual good game
@@basilplushie2534 Yeah but it’s way too short they like paid flash games
Not all are created equal; some are longer than others.
Gamers are a global and diverse community, we can't afford to wait for governments to regulate what we as community should point in the right direction by commercial behaviour.
Videos and opinions like this one are essential tools due to spread awareness.
In my opinion is our responsibility as a community to regulate our environment, nothing good ever as come from people enforcing their opinion on something that they don't fully understand.
Can’t wait for Jim Sterling to rip this excuse out of EA’s arse
Jim is boring speech quality
@@arocomisgamusclademork1603 Yeah, and he's been going downhill since he decided to cosplay as a Tim Burton's take on Chris-Chan.
Ah yes, the experience mirroring the real-life practice where managers buy random players completely blind.
"Gamers love getting exploited with systems designed to be as addictive and monetarily damaging as possible!'
At this point, I want blood. I don't care about the morality, I just want these guys to get consequences for their actions.
Why would the government stop this when they get a cut from the sales?
Belgium is one of the few countries doing anything to curb this but THEY need to do more??? 🤨
It's not enough bcuz everyone else is doing fuck all. 😒
gamers - we hate lootboxes, take them out of games,
EA - we firmly beliieve that FUT packs are a aprt of the game that fans love
really EA? for years now players have been saying they hate the FUT packs, and they hate lootboxes, and yet you believe its part of the game fans love? that right there shows you dont listen to the fans and just listen to the money
EA playing defense for their sports gacha game as usual.
I showed my mom one of your fifa/nba video. I pretty much convinced her never to trust EA in one video lol
I always wondered who these articles are aimed at? Current players know the truth & newcomers to the game will find out. So what's the point of this? Politicians? The outside media? It's confusing.
Just don't buy the games....Do that for 2 years straight and they won't be able to keep what they are doing, they won't be able to afford it.
I have never seen someone actually play a fifa game it has to be 100% bots
I remember one Black Friday I was worried I wouldn't get the game I wanted because I was behind in line, literally everyone grabbed the sports games and that's it. I literally laughed, such god awful taste in games