It's Microsoft's Fault That Videogames Are Bad (The Jimquisition)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2019
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It behooves first party publishers to provide top quality productions that make their consoles worth buying. Nintendo and Sony have both produced amazing games to sell us on the PS4 and Switch.
Microsoft, however, is different. Microsoft has decided to act no better than a grasping third party "AAA" publisher. Even worse, it set the tone of a generation and contributed - perhaps more than any other company - to the nasty normalization of excessive monetization.
It's Microsoft's fault that videogames are bad.
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No
Yes.
Perhaps.
Idk
I’d say a bit, at least.
Kinda
Remember when the worst problem gamers had was too many QTE’s?
an older tale, a simpler time
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Remember when the worst problem gamers had was that you had to blow on the terminals to make the cartridge work?
@@poisondamage2182 a tale as old as time ;)
Remember back when you forgot about the tooth thing in MGS3 and you spent a couple hours replaying (and failing) against the Sorrow but still had a ton of fun?
"Good. At least he isn't talking about me."
- Konami
Thank you for reminding me to say "Fuck Konami" today good sir, it's nice of you to spread the word
I guess they have not been naughty in awhile or at least not overtly. Its been a while since we have seen a Fuck Konami News.
@@filanfyretracker they're trying to rebuild burned bridge's in the gaming community now that their Pachinko business is under threat.
Contra and castlevania collection is actually good, I hope they're adding their snes games to nintendo online service.
@@x3roxide really? Do you by any chance have any references, I can look them up for myself but I was wondering if you have particular Source since I'm not familiar with Pachinko having an actual analysis since it's just a gambling machine.
"earn cosmetics using money"
that's not how those words work
One day it'll be 'earn money using cosmetics'
They're "Time savers"... so that makes your game a time waster right?
The whole time saver argument doesn't even hold up if it were true. So if you have that little time to play video games where you need to buy this shit just so you can play 2 hours a week what the fuck are you even doing playing video games if you are that busy.
Nah, fuck that! There are those that are too busy not by their fault dumbass. Does it mean they should stop lovingly return to art they cherish?! Dipshit. Now that first bit.. genius. If there are time savers, we stop calling it a game, we call it Time Waster. Such by design and such in truth. #timewaster
Give us money so you can play this game. Then give us more money so you don't have to play this game.
If the game is a stick of shit in a beehive... 😂
I'm sorry sir, why would I want to save time playing a fun game?
I feel like Dunkey put it best when he said, "Congratulations Microsoft, for making your competitors sink to your level,"
Is sad how low the bar is these days
@@cinnamonpanda6040 You need excavation equipment to reach the bar, it's so low.
Its inevitable in the current corporate economy.
Just like when Microsoft shut down Valve in releasing free DLC for players because for the fact it was free. Somehow Dunkey made a clearer video about how bad Microsoft’s history was in only a few minutes. With that said, I thank god for Jim everyday lmaoo
Convenience is needed where there is lack of convenience. Everyone who tells you "its just for convenience" admits, that there is something inconvenient. Specifically, their game.
Only said added convenience should not come with additional costs and/or loss of ownership. Less control.
Except when there isn't. Which is a point you've made yourself. I'm pointing that out cuz i found it redundant/funny.
@@ichijofestival2576 a game should never be meant to be inconvenient. Very little is meant to be inherently inconvenient. Challenge does not equate to inconvenience. Inconvenience is added into the game to psychologically incentivise a person to avoid it, it's literally inconvenient by design for that purpose. Good design can marry challenge with enjoyment, and actively work to avoid inconvenience, something that is closer to discomfort than challenge.
@@ichijofestival2576 Games are not meant to be inconvenient. Challenge has nothing to do with inconvenience. You are mixing unrelated things together. A game is inconvenient, either because it is poorly designed, or because it is purposely designed so that you can buy "optional" conveniences.
If the shit was there for convenience then you wouldn't have to pay for it.
I was so furious when Microsoft started doing this with Microsoft Office. Instead of having a complete suite of programs included when I bought a new computer, I suddenly had a yearly subscription that I had to keep paying for, or else lose access to Word and Excel. For personal use I was able to transition to freeware like OpenOffice. But - surprise, surprise! - those files aren't compatible with Microsoft's. Meaning if it's anything important, I have to either shell out for the Microsoft version at home or sneak in some unauthorized time at the desk job I'm lucky enough to have.
This change went over so well in the business world and made them so much goddamn money that they decided to replicate it in the game world. It's absolute bullshit that lowers the usefulness of the product while making it cost a lot more.
I have OpenOffice, but unfortunately it's not always compatible. For certain things I have to do for work for example, I need the original Microsoft Excel because that's the format my boss is using :/
you wanna know the funny thing? That open format LibreOffice and OpenOffice (as well as other office suits) use was introduced by microsoft. And guess who is not implementing that proposed standard, so that the file format is compatible with every other software that implements that standard? Right, microsoft themselves.
As a developer, I love their dev tools and azure etc. As a consumer, I absolute hate microsoft, almost as much as I hate EA.
@@crystaleidson6042 fwiw, openoffice and libre office are not the same. Libre office is a fork of openoffice because oracle bought sun microsystems (the owners of openoffice) and oracle is quite frankly a shit company in its own right and neglects openoffice. In recent years Libre has made huge strides in MS office compatibility. Not perfect, but leagues ahead of openoffice.
"microtransactions are there as a convenience"
It'd be a hell of a lot more convenient for people if the game's progression was paced reasonably to begind with, rather than being artificially slowed so they can offer a purchasable"booster" to bring to game back up to the pace it should have been from the start
Also did we forget that back in the "old" days these convenciences were just called cheat codes and were available for free if that's what you wished?
Remember when you played a games multiplayer and just unlocked things by lvling up from playing and not having to spend cash on it?
Ah nostalgia! ;op
Yeah like Crash Team Racing! ... wait
But dont you LIKE CONVENIENCE in your games?
I miss those days. Which is probably why I almost exclusively play my old PS2 games now..
Remember when you could play as a German Shepherd fighting against a Raptor in Medal of Honour?
I remember playing games on multiplayer and don't even have to level up and unlock things, because everything was unlocked already. In HL, Unreal and Quake, you could customize your look and all the guns were lying around and you can enjoy the game. Today, in the upcoming CoD:MW game, you have to level up to unlock the guns, than level the guns so you can unlock the gun customization etc. And the weird part is, if everything is unlocked and you can customize your loadout however you want, people complains because "there is no progression".
Should have never bought that damned horse armor.
Should have never paied for the shitty Xbox live either.
stapuft should have never paid for DLC while we’re at it
Ty Boogie well to be fair some of it is good
@@kyuubi088 DLC is actually a fantastic idea. WHEN used correctly and properly.
Shining stars of it include;
Super Smash Bros.
Mario Kart 8 [Wii U]
Star Wars: Battlefront II [2005]
CD Projekt Red
For some examples. All provide robust, feature-rich, true expansions to the original, complete games.
Abusers of DLC would include;
Tecmo Koei
Soul Calibur VI
Capcom
The above have launched incomplete games, both polished and unpolished, and sold off little bits for a price.
It's 2:20 AM and there are so many examples I could use but those are the only ones that come to my failing mind. :P
Guilty
Back in the days of the Orange Box, Valve wanted to update TF2 on the 360 for free, Microsoft REFUSED to allow them to do that. Because they felt that players should pay for content that was free elsewhere I guess.
If I remember correctly they charged developers like $40K per patch to ensure a high level of quality to the game so that it could be complete and polished on day one unlike all the early access and live service games of today. Of course I could be misremembering.
@Jack _ Honestly don't know what you're referring to. Just remembered part of their old policy in the early 360 days and don't think its as black and white as a ton of people think
Left 4 Dead also had a problem of DLCs requiring money to buy for the XBOX 360 version
@@SOGJAW Well did help no. 🤣
@Jack _ The RAM issues came later, as Valve added more actual functionality to TF2, the game required more RAM than the 360 could have handled without substantial optimization. But this was much later, Valve had been saying they'd bring class updates to the XBox for a while, but ultimately canceled.
A big reason for that was that the community for TF2 on XBox was dwindling more and more by that point, and Steam was starting to take off. TF2 was also an older game, and didn't require as high end a computer to run than it did at launch. But Microsoft's policy of charging developers for updates was a thing too, and that couldn't have helped.
If I recall, they allowed a few small updates for free, after that they charged the developer. To "Ensure quality was maintained." I'm guessing that the size of a proposed console update to TF2 was considered too expensive to be worth it to Valve.
remember when just the existence of dlc was an outrage?
man looking back it seems hilariously trivial, what a horrible world
Yes.
What do you think about big expansions? Things like Tribunal, Shivering Isles, Dragonborn, Old World Blues, Blood and Wine, and those ice themed expansions to DA:I, H:ZD, and Pillars of Eternity, that I constantly mess up the name of? Because I'm really torn on them, on one hand each of them was really enjoyable (sometimes the best part of the game even), but on the other it's still DLCs
@@JohnDiGrizUkraine those are fine because those are what dlc is supposed to be.
work on game, release game, work on expansion, when games popularity is starting to fall release expansion, repeat till its time for a sequel
if its worth the money and wasnt made before the game was even released its fine, il happily pay money for a big chunk of new content for a game i like, its just more game for more money.
day one dlc is inexcusable because thats basically a chunk of the game you just have to pay extra for, especially if its predownloaded making it not even dlc just a paygate.
@@lucywucyyy I agree with predownloaded part, but not necessarily with day-one dlc, at least for games that have physical release. Games that are sold physically have around two month window between game is finalized and discs are manufactured and shipped. So day one dlc is not necessarily something that was cut from the game (sometimes it is, but far from always), but often something team made only after base game was finalized.
Though with absolute state the games are released in this day and age, most of that time is spent making day-one patch
@@JohnDiGrizUkraine if its a game that took years to make they arent making anything significant in 2 months, and either way its just a chunk of game you have to pay extra for, plus physical sales are barely even a thing anymore, i dont see an excuse for it, dlc should be worked on after the game is released and in response to what players want from the game
Wait, it's optional and "doesn't give you any real benefits," but you still want money for it?
YUP!
That "has no real world value" but pay "half the games revenue" contradiction
That's the contradiction.
yo-ho yo-ho a pirate's life for me
is the answer. that is always the best answer to greedy publishers
Can you imagine an honest game designer describing a mechanic of their game to you, and saying "it's optional and doesn't give you any real benefits"?
They actually said ‘there’s nothing sinister’? Wow.
"There's nothing to worry about," said the person who doesn't want you to know you should be sweating balls right now
*insert dog in room on fire meme* "This is fine..."
@Jacob lol is this to prove that MS isnt the worse of the bunch or what?? its like look look here over here!!! hes a hypocrite because he hurt your feelings? everything he said is true of MS!!! no matter what you think he gave you a disclaimer at the beginning of the video!! He is biased towards Sony and no one would blame him.... Seriously what has Xbx really bought to the table..... Promises! Too little too late!!! Do you think all of youtube and the buying public is against xbx with the number of huge channels devoted to PS centric games...... xbx is designer of their own downfall..... Even PS and Ninty had to follow suit with the charging of online play but the difference as all of youtube land says is they have the games knowledge and history... funny how both the console makers who are successful in this is japanese....
@Jacob Jacob...once again its perfectly summed up @ 18:58 - 19:45 *Listen to what Jim is saying here.*
@Jacob I didn't say you were defending Microsoft, you're saying Jim Sterling is a hypocrite...even though he's called out those who deemed themselves worthy of being called out for their bullshit but, okay, I will quote you defending Microsoft, it's not going to sound like one to you but, it is indeed you, inadvertently, perhaps even unwittingly, defending Microsoft:
"Nintendo and Sony can't say their hands are clean either." -Jakob
There. Ya happy?! All you to do was listen to what Jim said in my timestamp.
There is a recent video interview with Todd Howard at IGN, where he talks about how when they released the Horse Armor DLC for Oblivion they wanted to sell it for cheap but Microsoft wouldn't allow it because the price Bethesda proposed was less than what Microsoft was charging for a single avatar for Xbox Live, so they ended up increasing the price.
So Michaelsoft created the monster that created Fallout 76? Damn.
Todd must be lying.
A lot of platforms enforce minimum pricing, but it sounds like it just so happened to be they chose to base that minimum on the more expensive item.
Like you can't put anything under 99 cents on Google play, if you want to offer less, you give it away free then put lots of 25 and 50 cent items in and hope you designed it tough enough to where a percentage NEED it.
Yeah and Valve wanted Left 4 Dead maps to be free on Xbox (like they are on PC) but Microsoft was NOPE
"Todd Howard said..."
And there lies your problem
Cheat codes were the original 'time-savers'.
That certainly provides convenience, but what about a sense of pride and accomplishment? /s
Not making your game a massive ballache to sell timesavers were the original timesavers
Leave the trillion dollar company alone you mean, mean man!
I hope that is sarcasm i just have to ask
The 208 up votes say yes..... its sarcasm.
@@adamwhite5164 221 now.
somebody think of the shareholders!
Hold my life of black tiger
The whole paying to play online needs to be a thing of the past.
B-B-But they also offer completely free games that anybody interested in playing has already purchased long ago, FOR FREE!
Dillon Qaphsiel Yeah, I’m not really too keen on paying money just to be able to play Overwatch.
Does paying for online gaming contribute to any positives on the side of the players? I’m asking because I really don’t know.
Yeah but they sell hardware at a loss.
no paying to play online, is no consoles.
Past? It's probably going to get more expensive. Sony increased the price of Plus this generation twice. Now it's as bad as Gold... and I guess Nintendo will also increase it at some point as well. It's literally free money for them, there is no way they are going stop now.
"Microsoft has declared war not on Nintendo, not on Sony, not even on Apple. But on you. Microsoft has declared war on the consumer."
- Sterling, 2013
MS are the most pro fucking consumer company out there now. This is a shite video!
Well, if there's one company to blame for the proliferation of microtransactions, it's Apple.
@@Episode_13 How is microsoft pro consumer?
@@pbodan6691 where the fuck have you been. Game pass is pro consumer and still is. Also Xbox Live was cheaper for years. Xbox had games with gold and gives away 4 games with 2 360 games. We have loads of retro games that aren't on Sony's fucking platform as they haven't mastered BC. Xbox haven't stopped Cross play this generation. So yeah the list goes on. This is utter bullshit. Wake up or move on. Sony have locked Fortnite accounts and more. Plus there games have always had MTs in them too. So yeah Jim is missguided here!
@@Episode_13 you stupid prick take ya xbox glasses off. you're just saulty coz jims right get over it and move on
If it wasn't for xbox. I wouldn't have to pay 4 the internet twice.
If your talking about xbox live then you fail to realize what all it is and if Sony hadn't falowed in thair steps it may have disappeared but I'd prefer 60 dollars with of kick ass games every to weeks befor 10 dollars a month or 2 for 2 if you pay attention to thair sales
@@rhinoball00 you poor soul! So infected with pussyubscriptionitis that you can't even type normally anymore. When was the last time you played a single player game that required intelligence?!
Yup online multiplayer pay walls are a scam!
@@verywhite6372 that or it could be me discafia dick head
@@verywhite6372 like yesterday I was playing sekiro and dead cells
The sad state of gaming these days is I get excited when I see a game that doesn't require an online connection. Seriously being able to play offline, and thus free of MTX is a rare treat.
Justa Guy when Xbox live had some service issues over differing days I was thankful for my few offline disc based games...
Justa Guy honestly, I feel like it’s just a lot harder to find quality gaming experiences these days, unless you count VR. Along with not having time, I just don’t care about games that much anymore, after 15 years. Kinda sucks that I’ve spent so much time with this hobby and it feels like it’s ending, or just going through a mid life crisis.
Hell even some games WITHOUT microtransactions galore require online... for no fucking reason, or else make it aggravating just to play offline. Looking at you Monster Hunter World.
@@Diphenhydra Very true, when I was younger I played constantly, always waiting till the next birthday/holliday to get another game as a gift. I had over 50 PS2 games, 60+ Ps3. Only have about 20 PS4 and I haven't even taken the shrink rap off half of them... I own one game on steam lol and one on GoG. Maybe a handful of PC games from other sources over the last few years.
It's just either the games aren't that good or the MTX and online service model just takes up too much time to be invested in more than one at any given time.
Honestly the best move is playing indie game and titles over 5 years old. A lot of indie games have free dlc and older games you can buy gold editions and also not pay 60 big ones.
If microtransactions are "Optional" so is me buying the game, which is an option I will choose not to do.
thats not the issue though look at crash team racing. praise us we dont have mt's... oh look we dont care this was our plan from the start it was in the game but we took it out til everyone bought it and we got good reviews now we are adding mts seeing everyone owns it and reviews are all done
I don't buy games any more. I only play Gmod and Minecraft.
Me too. It's worked great so far
@@liamdahlgren5144 We are talking about games arent we? 😋
@@personalspace6270 Yes?
Might be time to lose the "micro" part of the word microtransactions... There's nothing micro about the fustercluck going on.
Yeah, the "best value" option for "micro" transactions on mobile games is often some sort of bundle that costs $99.
Macrotransactions.
The Jimquisition is a really interesting stylistic beast. In many ways it’s still got the DNA of the ‘rant’ style reviews of the early 2010s (albeit better written). As the show’s gone on it has embraced a series of running goofs and an overall linguistic flourish that’s given it its character. However this episode has definitely shown more of a video essay leaning, in terms of its structure being deliberately delineated, a focus on contextualising the issue. But tonally it’s still very much the Jimquisition.
I wonder if the Jimquisition as it goes on will be closer in tone to a more standard video essay? I don’t think so, but it’s interesting to see the evolution of the show.
i find Jim's sarcastic insult and extraordinary tone to be highly entertaining yet still informative... I watched Yongyea daily (as he is standardized by the community to be the default professional journalist), but now it is bland, sometimes bias and downright shallow, but he won't admit it for the sake of "professionalism"... at least Jim's bias perspective has substance, not just reading someone else article.
@@nickochioneantony9288 Yong is just 1 among many who copy pasta information and try to set a brand through visual appearance and spoken mannerisms. It is as boring as any tv talking head.
I enjoy the style of Jim Sterling's work but admit that he really doesnt branch out far from MTx and corporate fuckery. Thats good, but its, as he says, poking a dead farting horse.
We all know, the question is WTF are we going to do about corporations that do this, not just just in videogames but most all other facets of our lives so wealthy money maggots shareholders can parasite their way through life.
Oh boy ! The devolution
This is literally the first time in my life I have ever heard of the existence of Crimson Dragon.
And my primary console has been an XBox since 2002.
I thought it was cancelled along with Phantom Dust.
Oh, it came out. And so did Phantom Dust. Just not a remake, but a remaster of the original. A very good one at that, because PD rules. BUT... If im not mistaken, it has MICROTRANSACTIONS. The difference is that at least the game is free.
It's probably a good thing that you never heard of it. You might have been hyped to buy the shite.
@@AlexBSPLUS Well the Phantom Dust Remake was cancelled and in it's place the Rebastard version came out chok full of Microtransactions.
Yeah, that's right. But the process of putting the game together was pretty difficult. If i am not mistaken, the source code of the game was lost and they had to break the old game assets apart and rebuild it. It's a very cool story of game development. Yes, it has microtransactions, but it's a free game. The campaign is all there and is very good.
Correct me if i'm wrong, tht's the story i read near the game's release.
I'd completely forgotten about Sea of Thieves until you mentioned it.
It now has microtransactions as well, so....keep on forgetting.
@@BlindErephon To be completely fair, unlike 99% of other games. It at least has given an option to earn the "Premium" currency via finding rare spawn skeletons and killing them, of which they can drop any amount of the "premium" currency.
Apparently anywhere from 100~ - 580+~ coins (1-5$), not much data currently regarding the payouts yet, so.
Furthermore, you can buy shit directly, which is better then lootboxes, but 20-30$ for a ship set... is absurd.
Not saying that it's good a 60$~ game is doing mtx, but at least *currently* the only abhorrent items for sale are ship sets.
SubZeroDestruction look at how they’re fucking up your standards
@@kefkapalazzo1 Tbf, with how much they have supported the game since launch with weekly updates, I'm honestly fine with them adding in monetization like this. Hell, plenty of us were actually asking them to add in microtransactions so we could further support the devs, cuz we were enjoying the game so much.
@@megamage911 "plenty of us"
Well, that's a subsect of a minority of gamers right there. Maybe half a dozen people?
Remember when Microsoft's own store was dependent on Microsoft Points to buy basically anything?
Same thing for steam. They force you to buy Steam Dollars unless you use PayPal (Which they were paid to do)
@@Super_Boa whenever I checkout it gives me an option to use my card directly. I just prefer to use paypal to keep my card information as contained as possible.
Jakfan1
Yes. It does that NOW. It didn't back then
@@jordanmousseau4895 Yes it did. Paying via an outside source has always allowed you to pay exactly the amount of the purchase over $5 or the equivalent. Boa is being confused by the minimum purchase for funding the wallet. This isn't unique to Steam or gaming services and isn't related to the typical ploy of forcing you to purchase premium currencies in blocks that don't match to typical transaction prices, essentially forcing you to pay more than the actual transaction cost (i.e offering 200, 500, 1100 blocks with typical prices being 250, 750, 1250 etc). It's just a minimum card funding amount to mitigate transaction fees on smaller purchases, something common in many industries that deal with card payments, both online and brick and mortar.
And 3ds and WiiU and it was shitty and started by ms and so was paying for online
"It's optional and doesn't give any real benefits?" why would I buy it then? "It's a time saver" why would I buy a game I didn't have time for? THINK, MICROSOFT, JUST ONE TIME. THINK.
"Yes hello? Microsoft? Yes, can I please buy this game from you for full price. But then can you make it in such a way that I can give you _even more_ money so that I can play _less_ of that game. That'd be wonderful, thank you." - Nobody, ever.
So, in other news FucKonami is trying to crawl back to the same gamers who they've continually pissed upon because Japan is coming down harder on gambling. Pardon me while I laugh derisively.
Allow me to join you.
I've come here to laugh at you, FucKonami
*Laughes in Kojima*
Now comes the part where we throw our heads back and laugh. Ready?
as all companies are soulless entities, i don't really care- if they manage a good game i will play it
When a man whose hat has a corset tells you that something is garish, you really have to worry.
that's a cummerbund - right Jim?
@@lemming9984 Cummerbund? I barely know 'er!
I don't think it's garish at all. His hat is clearly trying to remain attractive and fashionable.
Don't body-shame Jim's hat.
But the numerous pins keep him understated.
I love how your avatar compliments your comment. I even heard it said in Metabee's voice
You know, I’m sure the gamers haven’t really heard of this because we rarely run in the same circles as the successful business types, but Microsoft is shit.
They changed the business model of Microsoft office from a one time purchase to a yearly subscription which is about $100 for office 365. Or you could spend $150 for a one time use card.
If you want Microsoft outlook you have to pay $250 for their business suite.
That’s right, you pay $100 for an email program.
I work in retail and the number of times I’ve had to explain this to disgruntled customers is obscene. And it’s all because Microsoft is trying to bleed every last gore stained cent out of people who have to use their office programs.
This happened after Bill Gates left the company?
Not really defending Microsoft hear but you're paying extra for business use. All software has this model even software that is free has a fee for business use.
Thank god for used licences (which are legal to sell in Europe and Microsoft can't do shit about it).
@@csmead209 Bill Gates was actually a massive proponent for this kind of closed source software closed loop system.
It has to be remembered that Microsoft was SPECIFICALLY sued by the US government for antitrust because they were trying to create a closed source and closed loop software ecosystem that would snuff out competitors. Something that I'm sure you're familiar with in regards to what Apple does now.
And this was back when Microsoft was specifically run by Palmer and Gates, they even made a shitty parody video to make fun of the actual proceedings.
@@WilliamBrayton That explains why they were sued.
My personal opinion, if Microsoft was sued for the closed system software (this was before they made the first XBox) then Apple should sure as hell be sued for going beyond just software and into closed system hardware.
"Microsoft behaves no differently from any voracious, predacious, rapacious, third-party plunderer." Daaaaayum... Jim spittin' fire over there!
*EDIT* : "Microsoft conditioned its customers like... hair... conditioner... or something" Welp. So much for that.
Don't forget Microsoft also started "Xbox Live" and convinced all the game companies that you should pay for nothing, pay for PEER TO PEER MULTIPLAYER.
Pay for nothing? You think running an online service is free? If we didn't pay then no company in their right mind would have online service. There's a reason Xbox live is unquestionably the best online service last gen and I'd argue still this gen too. Ps3 had shitty service because they tried to run it free and don't get me started on Nintendo.
@@ThePunk01 I never had a problem on PS3 online.
But to be fair that's anecdotal
@@bongosmcdongos4190 Never had a problem on PSN either. It was fine as far as I recall.
@@ThePunk01 Yes, running a PEER TO PEER online service costs something, for the consumer. Because BY DEFINITION you're running the server on your console with your internet with no involvement of anybody but the other people you're connecting to. You know what game uses the P2P model of multiplayer? HALO GODDAMN 3 and HALO GODDAMN 2. Microsoft was charging you to let people connect to your console to play games hosted on your console with your internet, they had barely anything to do with multiplayer for both of those games.
It really REALLY pisses me off how ignorant people are about how multiplayer servers work because it just lets the companies tell you that they're selling you something when in reality they're CHARGING YOU MONEY TO SIPHON YOUR POWER AND INTERNET.
@@bongosmcdongos4190 >Never had an issue with PS3's PSN
>Hacked and shut down for a month
Also Xbox Live is built on dedicated servers, it was a much advertised feature and to this say, is objectively the best online service of all the current gen consoles.
Sea Of Thieves just added microtransactions a couple days ago, sadly.
Well at least 'Thieves' is in the title.......
Seamus Perkins u gave me a good laugh 😂😂
Well, after they finished developing the game with ''free DLC'' and you got the 100% of the real game now, it is time for microtransactions.
Fallout 76 didn’t even try to be generous for a while
Okay I think it's officially time for Microsoft to sell Rare back to Nintendo along with all of its properties because they've officially tainted it's legacy in their hands beyond repair at this point.
I'm surprised how you didn't mention how Xbox has been gearing (pun intended) towards live services for games for years now. It's no secret that Xbox is proud of Xbox Live service and how they're focusing on it in the coming years, specifically in the next generation. Leaks and rumours have been going around how the next Xbox will not include a DVD/Blu-Ray drive. And I bet they only changed their plans when they heard the public backlash that rumour had gotten. Xbox is not humble with their live service and they will continue to push for games-as-a-service model. I have a feeling it's always been their original plan to do that. Deprive their consumers control of their games just so we wouldn't have too much fun.
Is blue ray still a reason people buy consoles. Dont people just torrent hd movies
And the ps4 cant play uhd blue rays and nintendo doesn't even have a disc drive?
Criterion still gives you Laser disc tier extras once in a while,so yeah!
@@stevermacsoucher1625 - The issue isn't using your system as a spare disc player, it's that the companies are trying to erase physical copies and consumer ownership of the products we purchase. No physical copies makes it that much easier to erode consumer rights and push the games as a live service model.
You know, that's pretty much what I think about any rumors or leaks like this. If it was something they didn't want to be heard, they would go after the journalists with legal action or at least attempt to discredit their record. We've seen that plain as day in the past. But when leaks like this happen and the company doesn't make a peep, I'm almost completely convinced at this point that it's basically them testing the public response before they announce and/or launch anything. Especially when the rumors are so early and given what happened to Microsoft this generation with Xbox One.
I remember the 1st game that introduced me to the idea of buying something in a game I already owned was Halo 3 multiplayer maps. Back then I was optimistic and thought that the company was making new stuff for the players, and needed to pay for it somehow. Now I think, was this done before the game launched and cut out to be sold later?
I'm still mad about the original plans for the Xbox One, *NEVER FORGET* what they tried to pull
Lol, paying twice for each game just so they could profit off of pre-owned games
Remember when they were tossing around the idea that being offline would lock you from owned games?
Or the always online Kinect that got hacked
@God Of Spaghett
I still remember that old Downfall parody video that was spot on: “Hitler Rants About the Xbox One”.
Are you still mad at Sony? PS4 was going to have all the same shit Xbox one was going to have. They changed AFTER seeing the backlash Microsoft got. NEVER FORGET
Wait... Is that the whole "Xbox one connect literally always listening to what you say" spy stuff? Or did I imagine that backlash deal?
“And of course... Hyrule Warriors”
I love you Jim
Fuck it. I'm getting Hyrule Warriors for the switch. Why not a 3rd time?
Help
me get the game. I need it.
I was waiting for the swipe at BotW the moment he started listing great Nintendo games.
I love all of the jabs that he takes at Breath of the Wild. It just makes me giggle
Its fuckin hilarious he keeps bringing it back up to shove into those that were butthurt about the original review. Its such savage. Its such wow. Ily jim
He's not wrong. I found Hyrule Warriors to be a better Zelda game than Zelda BotW. Hell I am more excited for Link's Awakening. BotW was a disappointment for me.
I am so happy I skipped The XBox One this generation. And I will absolutely never buy another Microsoft game console again.
That's a pretty bad attitude.
i just got the xbox one for 50€ ... it really isn‘t that bad ? 🤷♂️ well yes the whole pay for internet is annoying or that you have to have a internet connection .
@@syncrol not anymore
Without Forza (Halo is average now), why have a Xbox? Scarlett will be a no for me.
@@tylarjones9281 Depends on what the new studios make. And even then the xbox games will be on pc as well. however it's one thing to say someone isn't getting an xbox, but what about Microsoft 1st party titles?????????
The funny thing is, MS started this trend even before xbox one with 360 LAST GEN.
"And Ofcourse... Hyrule Warriors!"
Ah jim, never change
I know Nintendo fan boys can't take any suggestions, but that game was amazing for the sheer purpose of allowing Shiek and Gannon to be more than just content filler.
shame about that WaLuigi sample design for Smash... but BotW is 7/10, shame.
I simply don't buy games with any monetisation in them anymore, it's an instant red flag showing they devoted resources to non-features instead of putting that effort into the actual game.
Which is a clear lack of respect for the medium, and further regresses game design.
Man I miss 2004... the peak of gaming.
Good rule of thumb. Because now more than ever, games that focus on that crap are also broken, half-assed, unfinished efforts that somehow can barely handle 30 fps. But at least the store runs perfectly fine. They might as well have a biohazard symbol on them. Because all that you’re going to see is a toxic design meant to poison the industry and treat the audience like an atm
Same
2007 was a particularly vintage year
@@iby914 Year around those few years was the golden age of PC gaming.
Dedicated servers bundled with most MP games,
modding support in massive/popular games,
high fidelity graphics that ran with no latency,
Full featured products with "expansion packs" that could easily be 20-30% of the original game in content for a reasonable price,
no distracting "social features" that defeat the point of a gaming for many people (escapism).
There's more things but you get the idea.
I've watched the hobby I loved slowly be eroded away by pure greed.
Growing up we imagined games would be so amazing in the future, with all the power PCs will have!
Massive scope, amazing AI, simulations and dynamic gameplay.
Instead we get minimum viable product AAA games and small budget indie.
Because AAA buys out all the good mid-tier developers all we have left are massive budget homogenisations and small budget indie.
No creative mid-tiers trying new things and working on something their are passionate about.
Indie games are great, but the can only do so much with the resources they have.
Games use to really push the envelope of what hardware could do, now they just get bogged down in superfluous post-processing and unoptimised implementations.
Yep. Can't agree with you enough. Honestly, if you have competitive multiplayer in your game and you were made in the last few years, best your ass I'm not buying it. F2P or nothing on that front, I know my rights.
Person: (Has money)
Microsoft: AAAh yes, enslaved money.
Microsoft are such heroes, emancipating all that enslaved money, to be free to frolic with its friends in Willy Gates’ Scrooge McDuck money pile.
''and of course... Hyrule Warriors.'' LOL
They're also the company that made Valve charge microsoft points for the L4D 1 and 2 DLC, when they were suppose to be free like they are on steam. Which is also most likely the reason why Team Fortress 2 never got content updates on Xbox 360.
Holy shit, surprised I did not hear about that at the time.
I'm shocked Jim Sterling forgot to mention this
Splitting the video into chapters is a good change.
Joe Smith i agree. Makes everything easy to follow when talking about multiple points.
Hes done it before with many of his big videos, what are you on?
I agree! But changing the opening and closing themes, I assume temporarily, wasn't.
I don't agree. While my case might be niche, I like listening to jimquisition with my phone locked as a podcast, so for me it just disrupts the flow, and the chapters aren't read out.
Just a quick thought.
GECKman88 I've never noticed and I've been watching for like a year, binging most of his videos?
Umm, this is the same Microsoft after all who practically created the (Insert Sterling Sneer Here) live service model by deciding that, instead of being able to buy Office outright anymore, you could pay for a subscription instead. And they don’t even give you a fair price for the bugger either.
I may be misremembering, but I think you can thank Adobe for that, their "creative suite" broke the subscription model into the mainstream, practically strong-arming every professional something-something-graphic-something into their "live service", MS followed suite, of course
The moment Microsoft lowered the toll booth arm on peer-to-peer connections and raised that paywall to separate customers that pay a monthly ransom for literally nothing from those that didn't, the industry was started down the road to perdition.
Games as a Services, Micro-Transactions, Always-Online Single-Player Games, Season Passes & Incomplete Games gutted and sold back piecemeal to customers, and mobile phone business models infused into $60+ USD titles, can all be tied back to that moment in gaming history.
Now, games are highly disposable, mostly homogenous and creatively stagnant, and consoles have become rental terminals that will eventually refuse to grant customers access to the games they paid a $60+ rental fee for.
This is why I prefer retro games on emulators and pre-Xbox Live! games on older consoles. I'm done paying increasingly escalating costs to play the same handful of games I've been playing for the last 20+ years with new coats paint.
Yes it's MS fault other companies followed suite instead of being better. Cannot blame them for their actions, why even the negative actions of other companies are MS fault!
@@xBINARYGODx It makes no difference who did it first. The entire market ecosystem functions to breed this kind of shit.
Just from reading the title I am going to agree solely on the basis of windows updates breaking everything.
Literally had to reinstall Windows because the last update corrupted key files needed to run it and none of the backups were usable for some reason.
Thanks, I love losing a terabyte and a half of stuff.
The last update broke my desktop sticky notes and I lost appointment details.
Yall remember Fable and its in game store etc?
Last update broke my user login. Literally my user log in data was corrupted so I lost everything even though the files still exist. I luckily got around the problem by making a new account and doing a transfer, but fucking hell, why does an update corrupt the user account login. How the hell do you get that to mess up.
And when I mean user log in, I mean the computer log in screen when I boot up the computer.
Do not update windows, i repeat DO NOT FUCKN' UPDATE WINDOWS, turn off auto update, Cortana and Windows Defender and any other shitty malware they shove up your computer.
That was the slickest count Duckula reference I have ever seen.
After two years, this video is like a prophet drinking fine wine. Your future take was spot on, and it gets better with age. Microsoft buys Activiaion / Blizzard... its just getting worse!
You're a literal clown acitivison hadn't been good for years lmfao
That "it's optional" thing is something that some people bought back in the day as well.
Jim is getting his money worth out of those $1.99 plastic jewels.
Precious fucking jewels!
I can't believe you sheep still support him after he accepted that BEJEWLED deal...
@@brosephnoonan223 JEWELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He knows he's getting his money's worth because he did a straight transaction, he knew what he was buying, not a box 😂
He should add some slo-mo, a sound effect, and some kind of After Effects sparkle to those jewels.
>live action cutscenes shot like a porno but game is stylized cartoon graphics
C&C: Red Alert?
I'm escaping to the one place that can't be corrupted by capitalism.....
SPACE!!!
I kindof want a PS4 port of it now. ...
Except Red Alert was good
@@RK-zf1jm And they had fucking Tim Curry!
Red Alert 3.
Red Alert had roots in this world and looked the part, RA2 and 3 are just feverish dreams of EA after snorting too much profit.
I will never forgive Microsoft for making people pay for online play and multi-player standard for all platforms.
Now I remember why I went with sony instead of Microsoft and never regretted it
they thought because so many people loved the 360, they could just keep milking those people on the new gen of consoles. Too bad for them there was an alternative.
The only reason I even own ONE xboner is because #FuckKonami! So it's kind of a circular chicken and egg question for me.
(Rumble Roses XX, I have no idea how much Microsoft bribed them to move away from where they started building that franchise, but it must've been yuuuuge to risk killing it the way they did.)
@@izzeypally before them Sony got equally complacent with the PS3's pricing, then later Nintendo thought the name of the Wii alone would sell the Wii U, it's disturbing how reliably this cycle of overconfidence persists
Ha for me it was the whole "xbox is your new media machine and does your laundry".
It didn't do the laundry 😠
Xbox is just a cheap copy, always was and always will be, changing the placement of the thumbstick isn't enough lmao
They did make valve charge for left for dead dlc.
Knew someone would point this out!
I bet Microsoft execs where like
" Gabe, come here let me talk to you real quick....
You trying to fuck with my money ? "
@@frostywasp1743
"Nice game you got here, shame if somethin' happened to it."
I wonder if they tried to make the DLC cost $0.01
I still remember how ripped off I felt when I bought l4d2 on steam later on an was like: "hold up a minute, you just get all of this for free here?"
That's where I started switching to almost exclusively pc gaming.
@@MrKuemmelbrot exact same situation here. Never looked back.
TF2 didn't even get any updates outside an awful class limit one which meant the host could turn off classes that countered them. Went on a server with only Pyros on and the host was an engine with a level 3 sentry in a choke point. Of course with TF2 not getting ANY updates outside this Pyro couldn't even air last rockets back...oof.
Anyone who's worked in IT during the 90s would tell you that Microsoft are greedy bastards, it's kind of surprising that it took this long for someone to say that of their games division.
People have been saying that for decades, Jim's just giving them credit for pioneering all this shit
It's...definitely its own strange little world. Every executive I knew there was all the same, I'm what I can only describe as the "microsoft personality". And they all had the same attitude towards business, which just doesn't work outside of the company, check microsoft's idea of a solution to a problem was to throw money at it blindly. I later worked for a studio that was started by three ex-MS executives, and they all did the same thing: throw money. But it was a small start-up, they didn't _have_ money to throw.
Unsurprisingly, they went belly up in only a few years.
@@WobblesandBean wait wait wait, they lasted A FEW YEARS!!?
Found the Linux user
@@fatcat2015 Do you know how many people who still use Windows hate Microsoft for what they've done to it?
Somewhere out there, there's a parallel universe where Halo: Combat Evolved shipped without multiplayer, the Xbox tanked so badly Microsoft didn't follow it up, and the world of video games is much much better.
It is depressing to think that microtransactions are never gonna go away from paid games. Their existence guarantees grind and bulls**t. Every time I come across a lootbox or paywall, I don’t feel motivated to pay through it, it just kills the game’s momentum of keeping my interest for progression.
Gotta love how
"Well what if players dont want to grind"
Was thought as a valid excuse.
Yeah how about you just make a good game instead.
The worst part people still use that one sometimes. Also the one I like is, they would have to charge £120 for the game otherwise. Never short of saps in this world :(
Cleaning up all those jewels has to be a real pain. Why do you keep doing that to yourself Jim?
He's a hardcore M.
Are they his jewels? Maybe he likes having other peoples jewels brushed across his face. And in his mouth. 🤔
DO IT AGAIN I WASN'T LOOKING
Vacuum cleaners. They exist.
@@AlexanderVonMalachi Those are for the common folk. He has his manservant.
"When the moon is in the 8th house of Aquarious", about pissed my pants on that one. Good show, sir.
I remind everyone that Microsoft was first restrict players from having control and ownership over the games they bought for full price by essentially revising consumer DRM. Players were stopped from playing the games they bought for 60 fucking dollars by requiring an internet connection to check for authentic ownership. This is coupled with the fact that you can't share physical copies of games if you already registered it into your console. At the time, this was the most egregious thing Microsoft could do. It seems they've out-assholed themselves and continued to find new ways to fuck over their consumers by spearheading the microtransaction movement.This has been the worse generation for Xbox every and it's only getting worse from now because of the greedy nature of Microsoft.
I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft will turn full Adobe and stop support for Microsoft Office and requiring a subscription to Office 365 in order to use MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc just like how there hasn't been a new Photoshop CC since 2015. I still hate Adobe for turning full subscription.
I just love that they felt the need to say, unprompted, "this isn't sinister...nothing sinister here....not evil nope ahhahaah"
Willem Dafoe (talking through Jim): "I'm not evil.
Hey Kids! Wanna Die?!?!"
Nervous Sweating*
"Nothing sinister here haha "
I wonder if it's worth noting that Sony and Nintendo are Japanese-owned companies, while Microsoft are an american-owned company.
I'm not saying that America is the true home of corporate greed but...well...yes I am saying that actually.
While the Japanese console scene is pretty clean, their mobile market is atrocious
@@rasmie8858 The American mobile market is hideous as well, so I'd say the mobile market in general is a thin crust of blasted wasteland covering an ocean of toxic waste.
China and America.
Simon Valentine death to capitalism
Dead or Alive is American?
Game pass has ruined xbox games. Forza horizon 4 is a joke. Without paying for micro transactions like “ car pass, vip, expansion” you will earn such little money with dozens of hours of gameplay. YOU CANT UNLOCK HALF THE CARS IN THE GAME IN 500 HOURS OF GAMEPLAY WITHOUT MICROTRANSACTIONS
I like how Jim and Dunkey both made a video on Microsoft
What makes Crimson Dragon even funnier is the the Switch eventually announced a real Panzer Dragoon game that looks pretty awesome.
Too bad we dont have a Release Date yet!
Well if Jim wasn't on the Microsoft reviewer blacklist... He's now at the top with his name written in using a glitter pen.
P.S. The Boglins are practically glowing today.
because of _opinion_
You would think so, he did get a free copy of the Xbox One X from them though, and super lucky tail and a few others. This might tip the issue but apparently before he was considered safe enough? That or the people in charge of marketing don't' do enough research and just saw "hey a channel with more than 500k subs, give him an xbox".
Thank God for Jim Sterling
I remember the days when, if I wanted to skip a part of a game, I just put in a cheat code or used a game genie.
That last jewel in the cup gave me a lovely chuckle
J E W E L S~!
...............*flicks cup* clack!
Guys, we live in the darkest timeline: Jim's hat is starting to come apart.
Some say that when Jim's hat falls apart, the Cornflakes Homunculus will escape and a great disaster will befall the videogame industry. Or y'know, a worse one.
Cool... cool, cool, cool.
We now need a debate of Jim vs Jeff Winger where Jeff attempts to counterpoint and defend the industry.
Hm? It's exactly the same as it was in like may of this year. I just checked.
Please Jim, go into the history of the open source movement and expose how Microsoft has made *all* software, not just games, terrible for the foreseeable future.
Yesterday my bf brought back his second elite2 controller. There is alot more wrong with microsoft than most think.
I've never heard of any gaming tech breaking as often as the elite controllers. Every generation of them has crazy amounts of complains
@@kin-3877 and Microsoft never ever listens to their buyers.
Ya wanna know something funny? The true pioneers of lootboxes were not the big boys, but indie darling Valve, with crates in TF2.
Didn't TF2 only get crates after it went F2P? (Legit asking cuz im dumb)
@@Spike2276 no they were in before that
Yeah I remember people on the TF2 steam forums at the time slamming Valve for hiring an economist to help design the crafting system for cosmetics
the difference between TF2 and what`s happening today is that everything in the crates of TF2 were (and maybe still are today... haven't played in like 3 years) ONLY cosmetic.
And today you'll notice most gamers don't care about cosmetic microtransactions .... they do complain however about using microtransaction to level up faster and thus get better guns or abilities or wtv than others playing the same game; or about simply getting better items directly by paying.
actually it started as early as 2008 if i remember correctly. with fifa
I'll blame Ubisoft too. They take the cake of repetitive mediocrity, endless sequels and singleplayer monetization in my opinion. Not EA levels, but I always saw Ubisoft as a 7/10.
Honestly 7/10 is pretty good.
Cd projekt red, rockstar, ubisoft, activision... They are all the same.
Difference is CDPR knows how to make an image to the public. Witcher 3 downgrades and unhealthy work environment.
No company is innocent. Its all an act.
@@saruboss18 finally someone who doesn't forgive cdpr for their vile practices
Ubisoft are very bizzare in one regard, I find.
Their mature series (Assassins creed, far cry, watch dogs) seem to get more praise the closer to the mediocre/bad border they are. Odyssey and Origins are watered down excuses of games yet recieved immense praise. Seriously the more generic, mind numbing, sloppy, reptitive, melodramatic and pedestrian their games are, the more people seem to love it, it's only when they release something completely broken they seem to care about quality.
It's just so bizzare to me how the ubisoft formula (Reptitive gameplay loop, flat characters, terrible stories, easy button mashing gameplay) has attracted such a mass following of the common denominators of the gaming world.
But I absolutely spite ubisoft except for AC Rogue, so take that with a grain of salt, I suppose.
more like 5 ot 6 out of 10 and in a real wold way, not shit modern jornalism review score ways.
They are definitely hitting more towards ea levels these days. Ubisoft games are utter trash now
Jim, since you mentioned Ryse Son Of Rome and kinect, do you remember when Ryse was supposedly kinect-only, in first person, and you were meant to control the player character with the motion of your own body, by chopping and kicking the air?! There was a commercial with a guy doing just that, but then they scrapped the whole project and made it third person.
Has chapter called "The Shape of Things to Come," includes Bear McCreary track, "The Shape of Things to Come." Well done, Jim. Well done.
The Four Horsemen of the AAApocalypse:
◾EA
◾Ubisoft
◾Activision
◾2K
Pizza Mozzarella I’d replace Ubisoft with Bethesda, only because Bethesda is more incompetent than scummy.
So that makes Microsoft the avatar of the Apocalypse itself
Asano「サバイバー」 Bethesda ain’t Scummy? Don’t go down the Rabbit Hole on all the lawsuits & lies on that one buddy, it will be hours from not paying developers to straight out lying 🤡
*cough* konami*cough*
As an additional extra
◾EA - Famine - They bleed you of so much money that you can't even afford food.
◾Bethesda - Pestilence - Their games are plagued with bugs.
◾Ubisoft - Death - With the amount of busy work/filler content they will bore you to death.
◾2K - War - They attack thier own customers and even actually for all intents and purposes declaired war on a youtuber.
Its a bit frustrating to keep "speaking with my wallet" and ignoring all the games that I am excited about.
HOWEVER I will gladly continue to do so and wish others would too.
The behaviours of the "AAA" industry are exploitative and disgusting.
If that means I have to wait until *MAYBE* a "AAA" game goes on sale for 15 bucks then so be it.
Gotta agree here, voting with wallet doesn't mean I can't also fly a Jolly Roger
I'll keep singin' this for a while, but my game money is turned into book money and I think my mind's been better for it.
@Cupcake Knew what? How to download files on the net and press install button?
I tend to just wait until they get stuck in a bundle at humblebundle. Then I pay 15 bucks for two games I wanted (and the other nine that go with them).
@Cupcake Sony and Nintendo and Sega games tend to have none of this bullshit. Capcom is also pretty good nowadays.
I think MS is getting better (thanks to Gamepass), I still find it concerning that Microsoft is buying out entire publishers (Zenimax) with the promise of more to come as a means of boosting their own library by taking away from the other now. Like I don’t think it’s good for most gamers for platform holders buying out publishers of multi platform franchises
Like I thought acquiring studios like Double Fine was fine because they were struggling but this was a whole other level that I think may cause more acquisitions from Sony and Nintendo as well
"The shape of things to come." I see what you did there. Was bot expecting a BSG reference.
"It's oPtIoNaL!"
*SPHINCTER COMPRESSION INTENSIFIES*
@Jacob Except then we come to stuff like Crash Team Racing. No-one forced us to buy the game with microtransaction bs in it. It didn't HAVE it in it, they added it post launch. Sure, you can be an apologist and say that stuff is mostly cosmetic, it doesn't matter...but it does. Because they've shown they'll do it for that, you think they won't do it for more noticeably awful stuff too? And now the "well, I just won't buy any games with it in" crowd has to turn into "how long after launch do I need to wait to know it won't have it in".
For an industry trying hard to push preorders, they are shooting themselves in the fucking foot.
@@FFKonoko It's wild that there are still apologists for this dogshit
@Jacob found the corpo bitch
@@Blitzkrieg1605 Agreed.
@@FFKonoko Exactly. Why waste money on a product just to pump more money into it and end up recieving the same item from a "different lootbox"?
It's maniacal.
I thought I knew what I was expecting, but Jim quoting Simple and Clean to mock a AAA company wasn't one of them.
In life, sometimes the things we want most is what we least expect.
It's hard to let it go
The bit with review scores and you going "Oh" had me cracking up. Great video, good points.
1.5k stupid bots "watched" this video. Thank you Jim. I love your content. I wish you had 850 mill subs. but alas people are dumb. and love spending money on stuff they don't need.
I hadn't heard of the term "cumweevil" before, but I immediately agree with its use in this video.
I'm one
@@SangheiliSpecOp we must meet. I have need of your skills.
@@effdiffeyeknow5864 i will prepare myself
And let's not forget the revolutionary idea that was Games for Windows Live -- everyone's favourite power move of holding PC games hostage on an inferior launcher/storefront!
>holding PC games hostage on an inferior launcher/storefront!
Seems familiar for some reason.....
And people think Epic is bad. The Windows Live Store was a painful experience
@@BATASHALACKA Hahahahahaha, I know right?
No, Epic is still a piece of shit.
Yes folks, Epic is the current most controversial launcher, but let's not forget that Microsoft did not stop at GfWL and brought us "UWP" exclusive games that suffered in performance and could not run in Fullscreen.
I don't love steams drm, but its tolerable. Gog releases are the best by far, but publishers abhor the idea of releasing a game without drm
I'm loving the Battlestar Galactica reference with "The Shape of Things to Come" and the music lol.
Never realized that Ryse had microtransactions. And i found the game good, liked the fighting system. Yeah it gets repetitive at some point, but i played worse. But microtransactions are a plague, but they will not vanish. It will get worse.
I think I got it wrong: I was leveling up in Gears 5 but ended up resurrecting Count Duckula.
They quietly release 69.99$ games instead of 59.99$. And mtx's on top of it.
Just the base games yes, then you get the ''Gold, Platinum, Pre-order, Bonanza Editions'' wich costs roughly 89,99$ to even 119,99.
The usually cost more than that where I live, even in USD.
Happened a year ago in my country sadly. It's even 75$ now
If you aren't willing to pay more up front if it means lack of mtx you don't understand how inflation works.
Come up to Canada - new games are $79.99. Sure, part of its the exchange, but $80 a pop for microtransaction riddled shit? Its why I’ve slowed considerably in buying new games
after the 360 i swore off microsoft games and i have never regretted it.
Many years ago I only bought a Wii (for my young family) for the Mario games. This Christmas we bought a PS4 only for Spider-man and Detroit.
Will never own a Micro$oft Console.
Biased against corruption? Well you don't say.
There are people who can't get enough of it, rub on their faces like it's... whatever the fuck is amazing to rub on your face(?).
Cover Konami's attempt to come to video games in light of the upcoming Pachinko regulation in Japan.
Oof
A single video shot of a crawling, limping, oozing corpse whimpering as he shakes his head at it and walks away
@@HolyDeviant1 Skull Face as a pachinko machine, which is a hell of an appropriate thing to do.
Skavossis wait what happen?
This sounds like recent news, otherwise how am I hearing about this just now?
Hey Jim I loved your video, great stuff as always. Not sure if you're keeping the new intro, but I like it. Just a suggestion: the blurred background while you're talking is a bit confusing and distracting. I like the new camera angle though. Cheers!