"If you take a step back and look at the data, an hour of video game content is still one of the cheapest forms...." This tells you a lot about their mindset. They think you should be paying each and every moment you are gaming. You don't buy a game and then enjoy it. You "rent" or "lease" your fun by the hour. Just like data minutes, old phone rates, old AOL online minutes, etc. All their game design uses this as the foundation, before a single line of code is written.
Yep, and I don't think video games are too cheap per hour. Other entertainment is getting more expensive per hour. Movies are insanely expensive now, like 15 bucks a ticket and if you want snacks they cost 8x more than the snacks you're gonna enjoy while playing a game
Leave it to someone from Wallstreet to object to people being against a big company being as greedy as possible! 0:09 Corporate Greed 1:06 TweakTown says cyberpunk should have multiplayer (No, just no) 1:48 EA can never stop being dickheads 2:09 EA fires George Fan for not making his game Pay to win 2:42 Round Table Live Microtransactiongate 5:50 The Sheer Madness of EA (people aren't as dumb as EA thinks) 6:47 Gamers are overreacting over star wars, Publishers should charge more for games (I'd like to kick him in the nuts) 8:01 Games cost more than 60 bucks if you add in a season pass, DLC that isn't on the season's pass and microtransactions 8:43 There are people who dropped 15k on mass effect 3 online holy shit balls could have got an R1 for that 8:58 Wallstreet buttplugs telling us to open up our wallets after all the bailouts these assholes take/ booty warrior 10:00 more Spin talk form Keybanc 10:30 How dare you rebel against a company ripping you off! 11:00 Eat my ass Wallstreet, EA shares down 10% boohoo 11:33 The customer is always right unless they shop at Walmart 12:15 Battlefront 2 might not hit it's 13 million unit sales/ out of touch rich old men 14:03 cost per hour AKA the annalist thinks you have no life other than to game 15:15 If you look at the data gaming is the cheapest forum of entertainment... only if the game is good 18:00 you say takay I say Takei/back on point 18:25 the big three Activision, EA, Take 2 19:13 Take 2 will put microtransactions in all future games 20:12 recap of past EA events 20:38 The act of Goodwill from EA that turns into rat shit 21:17 Reddit recap/ Wingren says you are better off playing the game rather than watching the new stars movie (rant) 22:53 This whole story is cancerous 23:25 UK boxed charts show Battlefront 2 down 50% on SWBF1 24:20 I only hope the sales stay in a slump to teach the industry a lesson! 25:11 Fight club 25:36 final words
It'sAGundam Gundam, Belgium ruled loot boxes gambling and wants them banned in Europe. Some congressmen in Hawaii are also pushing for loot boxes to be regulated as gambling. Watch YongYea's video on it
And yeah, Belgium has made it's decision and will press to make it EU wide. And Hawaii is also taking action, so the first state in the US to set precedent to get regulations nation wide.
fallenangel2100 to be fair, I would pay extra for a game just to see the micro transaction shit dissapear from any game for good even though I do know that "games are getting more expensive so its ok to include microtransactions" is bullshit
Actually, as a gamer that is also literate (and good with maths) I have one thing to say to this analyst: YOUR. NUMBERS. ARE. OBJECTIVELY. DEMONSTRABLY. WRONG. And here's how! -Your game costs 60 bucks. Your game's single player lasts a sum total of 4-f*cking-hours (depending on skill even less in fact) -If you do the math. That is, in fact, 15 bucks a fucking hour. Which heavily, HEAVILY outweights your... What was it? 40 CENTS per hour? I mean. You've made a small mistake of... 97.3%... Ok. Oh, oh, but of course, OF COURSE, how could I forget about the multiplayer. Ok, I'm actually only interested in single player, but the average gamer is a multiplayer console gamer, and analytics should be about trends, not outliers, so let's get scientific here: -First off, add 20-fucking bucks right off the bat. Because multiplayer content is locked behind the deluxe edition, which costs 80 bucks entrance. -Then we get the DL-fucking-C. Now this is the hardest part to pin down in fact. But don’t worry, I got you covered. While the number and price of DLCs varies WILDLY I’ll just make this easy by using YOUR charts. And according to 2010’s reports, 20% of the money generated by videogames was by DLCs. Since that didn’t take into account the next figures and microtransactions weren’t really a thing back then, this only really applies to the prior figure, so what we’ll do is simply add 20% to our previous number and add this percentage. Funnily enough if 80 euros is 80%, 20% is 20 euros, so 100 bucks total it is for game plus DLC. We’ll ignore season passes because they tend to be 20 bucks and include most dlc without microtransactions, so it’d be more or less the same. -Then it is the microtransaction’s time. You’ve kept their average cost hidden as fuck, so I can’t actually find anything substantial about that. BUT YOU just gave me a number and I’m really thankful for that, so since this is the number YOU use, we’ll use 20 bucks. I certainly wouldn’t waste 20 bucks a month but hey, if that’s what you’d do… What the fuck. -But now you gotta add to that the 7 euros a month (8 on summer months) ps-flippin-4 plus takes. BECAUSE YOU NEED THAT FOR MULTIPLAYER. I’m excluding PC players because as you oh so pertinently protested before, analysts are all about AVERAGES not outliers, and I excluded XBOX because for some retarded fucking reason the web oonly shows the offers for the first month but never actually tells me the price for the rests of months. Btw, classy, microsoft, classy. So since this is about averages we’ll exclude both the offers for first-month-only and the extra for summertime, you’re welcome since that actually fucking helps you. 7 bucks a month it is! -Finally, we get real: THE PRICE OF THE CONSOLE. One thing that you… “forgot” to mention, is that the cinema, series, etc. DON’T. NEED. A. CONSOLE. At best you’ll need a TV, but you need that for gaming too, so we’ll brush it off. So: a) Right now, using PS4 as a base (and from what I heard the XBONE costed even MORE on launch so you don’t wanna bring THEM here) on launch that was about 400 euros. b) But how many months is that? Well using ONLY playstation and xbox consoles (and you don’t want me to bring the rest, their cycles were on average even WORSE.) you get an average of 6.2 years or a little over 74 months. Actually taking into account how much of a shitshow this gen has been and the heavy push towards artifical obsolescence we should cut that number in half, but I won’t, because I’m actually being fuking GENEROUS towards you with this numbers. Take that into account… So we divide price by cycle and we get a little more than 5 bucks. We’ll say 5 bucks a month for ease. And because again, I’m a generous fucking guy. Now, how many months does the average gamer play? Well. If we count YOUR audience, of little CoD addicted kids with negligent parents that use gaming to put their face into a screen so they’d just shut up already because they have raised an insuferable brat and don’t know how to deal with that… That’s about a year. So 12 months. Or in other words, until-the-next-CoD-comes-out. How much time do they expend? You have oh-so-generously given us a figure of… 2 and a half hours a day?! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?! Hours per month are hard to establish but if we go to Steam Spy, which is about the only site that gives us reliable figures for that, we get that the TOP BY PLAYTIME (PUBG) is 29:40 hours in two weeks, or about 2 hours a day. And the number two (dota2) is 18:05 hours in two weeks, or about 1.2 hours. AND THAT’S THE VERY TOP MOST HOURS BY TWO WEEKS. I will be bleepin’ GENEROUS here and give you a whole 1.5 a day, MORE THAN FUCKING DOTA2! Which I find EXHILARATING to be honest. But why the fuck not! Let's suppose that somehow you got people to spend an hour and a half playing your game, every day for a fucking YEAR, no vacations, no rest, no nothing. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. GRINDING. So, we have: Time: 1.5h*365d=547.5hours Price: 100+(20+7+5)*12m=484$=48400cents TOTAL: more than 88 f*cking cents an hour. Which puts online gaming objectively over EVERY. SINGLE. FUCKING. MEDIA. Other than theater and cinema. EVERYTHING. THIS is why you suck. It's not that you're an analyst. Oh no. It'd be fine for you to go and say "but the charts" at every chance. IF YOUR CHART WAS RIGHT! But it's not. You've intentionally crooked it. Because you have fucking shares on EA you piece of shit. And this @It'sAGundam is how you own a fucking analyst. *micdrop.*
Gundam, you know damn well the hardest part for the investors is figuring out which accounting cheat codes/tax loopholes will be used to write off the losses.
The good thing is that at the moment, the analyst's opinion doesn't matter. It has been out-shouted by the justified outrage. Apparently, he wasn't aware that public relations do matter and the actual gamers have a say in the outcome. I have an idea the corporate side still doesn't believe this was anything but a vocal-minority speedbump.
Said this before and I'll say it again...who the fuck needs EA's Battlefront 2. The REAL BF2 is still alive and running, and there are plenty of mods to make it a bit more graphically up to date for those who prefer that. Leave EA to their flashy, overpriced, fan-fiction of a Star Wars game. I'll be over here enjoying the classics like Jedi Academy, BF2, and KOTOR. If I need new content, there are good modders I'm happy to donate to, far before I ever pay a cent of my cash over to this corporate bullshit. If more people went for the classics, which are not even that outdated at this point, over these AAA cash-grabs, we may have more of a hit on where companies like EA, Bethesda, and Activision, feel it the most. Their earnings. Play the older titles with mods for a while, stay away from pre-orders and launch titles, and see the industry begin to change a bit to follow suit to the consumer, rather than the consumer having to adapt to the piece of shit industry gaming has become. Side note about gaming being the purest art form: I agree, and disagree. Writing is / was the purest (depending on how much of a prude you want to be about it) art form, at least when it comes to being a first. It was passive to a degree, but made you use your imagination and personal interactions to fill in visual and auditory gaps, as well as teach you about different perceptions on a far deeper level than movies or games could. As of today, gaming has done what reading/writing has been able to, by a hundred-fold. At least, it has to the potential to. It's a shame that it's never fully utilized. With that, I bid good day with this ramble. Not likely going to be read anyways.
bought SWBF2 the original for 3€ on steam (special sold for a lot of sw games on steam, got RC and JA the same way), was one of my best money spending. I don't know how to mod it, but it never bothered me and this is always hours of fun when i start it. I rather watch ten time those wrist rocket than those micro transaction
Forgot to add Konami even tho they left the gaming world to make pachinko machines they may comeback due to a loss in revenue in that industry and seeing their game sales over take the machines they sell
The dude that related video games to pay television: His 45 cents an hour is figures for ONE GAME, while his 65 cents an hour for pay television are figures for EVERYTHING. His model would only make sense if it cost $60 extra for pay television every time you changed channel!!!
mass effect 3 didn't have microtransactions ... Also it was offline, wasn't it? Or it could be played offline. I remember there were similar exploits for Borderlands 2 because the save files were stored locally. This kinda thing is why Blizzard introduced the ladder system.
Nerobyrne mass effect 3 had an online mode, you got your characters out of boxes and basically you teamed up with 3 other players to fight waves of enemies. This aided your offline readiness mode.
Om Lo yeh that, litteraly searched for the number of in game credits I had, spent some, found the value representing the currency by looking for the new value, and then gave myself a shit tonne of currency. It was a real effort too, opening all those boxes to get everything. I think EA should have paid me, such struggle
I just glitched the boxes in the height of its exploit buying shit? Nope. Never modded the fuck out of it on the 360 too. Ah good times. I didn't get banned either. And yes ME3 did have micro transactions. However this was during the infancy of the business model. So what they did was gave you the option they didn't make it to where you suffered gameplay wise if you didn't. See they've been conditioning people the same way the elite do on a global scale introducing policy instead of law at a slow rate changing the field into their favor. EA Activision ect are not stupid they're indeed cunning greedy and probably eat babies or something lmao. Seriously though... I'm glad they're meeting so much resistance.... Change in favor the playing field for the people is good anywhere imo
Corporate shills forgot to mention that with TV you have hundreds of different channels to choose from with their "statistics" while with SWBF2 you only get one game and paying 20$ a month for one game not hundreds
So basically the "analyst" is saying we should have slotmachines attached to our computers and insert a coin every 5mins like a little kid going on a joyride? Is he insane?
11:20 10% price drop from a stock is really bad actually even if it was just like 3 dollars lost because you have to take into consideration that that drop is per share owned. these stockholders tend to buy large amounts of shares so losing 3 dollars per share can really add up fast, but yeah anyways EA totally deserves all of the shit they're getting from gamers and shareholders.
Doesn't matter what the guy think. Belgium calls it gambling. Hawaii is looking to do the same thing apparently. Yong Yea recently uploaded a video about the news about a hour ago.
Subscribed. So nice to know I haven't been alone for the last 10 years. Consider me a voice you carry; when it comes to the state of gaming, you speak for me 100%.
This analyst either never played a videogame in his life, or his childhood was filled with either tormenting little children, or he was tormented as a little child.
It'sAGundam I don't think so Gundam. Everyone and their mother are being alerted to the Net Neutrality thing going on, and the best thing is that even big TH-camrs are doing it, Boogie2998, Markiplier, and a bunch of others with a shit ton of subs as well. The asshole in question trying to push the FCC to get rid of NN rules was a former Verizon lawyer. Figures, and with all the attention this will get I imagine he is going to get is ass smacked out of Congress real fast or hard. (Probably both. Both is good.)
Federal Communications Commission Finally Moving In To Wipe Out Net Neutrality archive.is/rLFTz Recode.net FFC chairman and poo-in-the-loo, Ajit Pai, aims to eliminate much of the FCC's own role in ensuring that broadband providers don’t block, slow down or otherwise interfere with web traffic. To that end, Pai’s new plan would no long consider telecom giants akin to utilities, a classification under law known as Title 2. It’s a move that is likely to have a cascading effect: It means the FCC cannot - and likely will not, under Pai - outright prohibit practices like paid prioritization. Do what you can to object to this today, before the proposal begins tomorrow. Share this everywhere. www.battleforthenet.com/#widget-learn-more
this case really disgust me It has come to my attention that the plant vs zombie creator was fired in a massive 'let-go" along with 50 other people, his leave because of the EA as a whole (though this is still not from the guy himsefl so..... yah)
Gundam have you heared Belgium concluded that BF2 is gambling and will try to ban it and extend the notion to the whole EU? Plus Hawaii stepped up against this shit too.
As someone who is currently playing on PS4 (for now) I am here to say to you: you are absolutely right! I have been watching you for a time, and time and time again, you speak the truth, where other say: “it’s just your opinion, hur dur…” The current state of affairs pleases me very much: EA getting shafted, other greedy companies will most likely be in the sights of legislations from not only European countries, but also the prime market of video games: the United States (I have also heard that Australia as joined the party on going after greedy tactics for marketing game content or etc…), EA looking like they will lose their licenses to Star War’s related products. The consumer seems to be waking up to the problems of the industry, shamefully late, because the “sheeple” that “support/adore” these corporate fucker’s still defend them, and then you have the out of touch, 2 piece suit wearing, fucking idiots in wall street saying: “No! No! You are fortunate! You should be paying more!” Yes, because I’m going to pay for a product which the core-game was built around a system to mainly fuck the consumer. Keep up the fight, Gundam! Keep telling the world, and one by one, the dominos will fall, and these corporate scumbags will see their greedy ways crumble before the power of the consumer! (P.S: I say “playing on PS4”, has for the moment I have no way to moving to PC, but don’t worry. Real soon, I’m jumping ship, as soon as I can guarantee that I’m not eating only bread and water for a month, so I can go to a platform where the costumer can and does much more effectively vote against this half-assed AAA “Masterpieces” (more like, “MasterShit” if the current state of affairs sheds light on something’s) and generally greedy practices (you know: Sony’s “Pay me 60-70 dollar’s to access online features, because I’m a “poor” company.)
This analytic guy speaks about 500 hours per year. Honestly, games which held me more than for like 15-20 hours I can count on palm of one hand and it says a lot about his "analytics", there are not so many games around which are even worth buying, not even speaking of playing them for long period of time.
You are too good i dont know the words to describe how much those corporate stuges need to see this video, not to change their minds but to tell them to stuff it
Man, I recognize this same sentiment over immersion dying for the sake of all forms of monetization, whether it's converting games into free-to-play, paywalled, psychologically manipulative experiments, or accessibility-packed experiences made to rope in as many people as possible, dumbing down all enjoyments of meaningful choices, good stories, fun and innovative combat, e.t.c. Cyberpunk 2077 was a good looking game, with great cinematic storytelling, but it's the very same symptom that has diluted the RPG genre into being a marvel-esque railroad that is easy and digestable to the masses, streamlined in such a way that you don't have to do anything, just sit back and watch the story unfold, devoid of player input or meaningful choices, no branching paths to combat, career or the like. It has its moments, but it's no Morrowind, Fallout New Vegas, or any of the other thought provoking, rich, true open-world games I came to love when I was younger, where immersion, discoverability, challenge, branching stories, and adventure was the whole point. It feels like it's become a Michael Bay movie jiggling keys infront of your face as to not get you distracted, daring to look for something better. I miss the days when design was on everyones mind, rather than this bloated corporate slide-show. When the whole selling point was to make a good game, and nothing else.
Of course Congressmen don't read the laws they're voting on; that would take away from their fundraising time. Lawmaking is about winning concessions (fundraising), not about actual, y'know, public welfare. And no, I am not being sarcastic. Why? Because like AAA publishers like EA, they see people as a commodity to be managed. Money goes into the PR/marketing machine, the flacks grind the organ, the people dance. It just works.
The gaming industry has been taken over by young upstarts who don't give a fuck about gaming but about making money, when i think of the gaming industry i can't help but think its something like the boiler room.
And to this day my most favorite game has no multiplayer, no transactions, no message system, nada. It comes with two missions, and even a little bonus content unlocked after varying difficulties are completed. Metroid Zero Mission I could name many others like this, but I'd be forced to apologize for asking too much of the gaming industry. Cuz you know, games are expensive and all.
Is this an early access/kickstarter game? such an interesting of a mix 2D & 3D artstyle, good animations too which kinda remind me of 2D fighting game like Blazblue.
Croz Raven It's called Indivisible. The developers are the same guys that made the fighting game SkullGirls. There is where the fine 2D art/animation comes from. This is also a blend of turn based rpg but you can combo attacks with your party members like a fighting game would with assists. There's a free version you can download, check it out.
Aside from the shenanigans with the loot boxes, you should check out the story on TH-cam if you get the chance. It's apparently canon and you were right, it turned out to be pretty shitty.
Funny how the reason for the high cost of unlocking the Hero characters was you gained a sense of achievement when you unlocked one, so then why is buying your way past that sense of achievement a possibility.
Apparently George wasn't fired because he objected to these business practices, but that mindset did make him expendable when layoff time came around. Also I heard that analyst either does or did work for EA, but regardless fuck that corporate shill.
He had the GALL to give us a breakdown on how gamers should spend their time and money like he actually assumed the game is so good that you will spend that much time per day for an entire year Like bitch have you seen our Steam libraries? We buy games install it play for an hour and shelve it for eternity. Dont assume your game is one of those rare good ones like skyrim or Witcher 3 where we play extensively so stop assuming your game is that good.
They feel for every hour of gameplay, you need to spend a certain amount, like how arcades had to function. Arcades needed it, because of the continual overhead cost, of facility, machine maintenance, etc. It falls apart when talking about entertainment you buy, to enjoy at home. If milton Bradley or parker brothers said, "you bought our board game, but have owned it for ten years and got massive family entertainment out of it. Isn't this worth 50c for each hour of fun? No? Well you merely bought a liscense to play it. We will take it back." Let that sink in
15:18 yeah the only reason I started recording my gameplay is so I finish the games. I have shelves of games I started playing but just haven’t finished due to LIFE. That’s why I play old games on my channel and never the hip new games, cause I still have to finish the old games to make it feel like I got my money’s worth
EA is a publicly traded company. 10% of those lossed shares could be gamers. They probably are from people that DO follow gamer culture. A lot of investors are sheep though. If they see others getting out, on top of multiple flops of games, there's potential for them to get out too following like lemmings. Not sure why they are leaving, but they see "the signs", thus further hurting EA
Gamers who don't invest don't understand how gigantic it is to lose that much. First you have to understand that the market in general is expected to go up about 8% on average. Investors expect even more. To not only not hit that average, but actually start draining money is not something anyone who is in any position except buy-and-hold and straight up shorting EA (which would make no sense with BF2 coming up before the shit hit the fan) wants to see, and when they see their money going down they follow suit before it gets any worse. This really, REALLY hurt EA in a legitimately big way that they have never been hurt before. They are a video game publisher, fundamentally a cyclical company, completely getting its stock nuked... around Holiday season?
"Wall Street is worried controversy over EA's Star Wars Battlefront II in-game monetization model will hurt the video game's sales"... no shit Sherlock xD. "Video Games are the cheapest form of entertainment..." Ok Flaming Dragon. First take a big step back...
funny thing is. im sure they would have got away with it if they just kept it cosmetic. even though it is shit people still accepted it. but pay to win is just insanely greedy. i mean its only them that can ruin a starwars game
By the time Gaming becomes fully contaminated with Microtransactions with every game becoming a Always Online Only Gambling Distribution Service where every AAA developer fully kills off the Single Player will be the day I will fully retire from Gaming. Considering that I started Gaming on the NES and Sega Master System at 3 Years Old and now nearly pushing 30 and has seen each Console Generation from then up to now and without a doubt the Best times to be alive is with the PS2,Gamecube and XBOX days. Every Game back then was shipped in a Complete state and the concept of Polished Games was absolute and you knew you were getting a superior product but as of from now the term "Polished Games" doesn't mean anything today with games being shipped out riddled with Game Breaking bugs and glitches that destroys the overall core experience and these Microtransactions are simply the worst part of Modern Gaming. Funny thing to note while everyone is giving their life savings away to greedy assholes in suits to earn a Lootbox I still have practically all of my games that I can go back to when ever I want and since the future Multiplayer Only games's servers gets shut down all that remains is a cup coaster which can never be played again like for example the PS3 game MAG and these Multi Million Dollar Companies like EA and Activision would have gouged you all out of your money and they will without hesitation shut down the Online services for your favourite Multiplayer Only games. While I am still playing Single Player games from the Past most people would dream to have the servers brought back Online only for them to realise that they've been scammed. This is the path that Gaming is going in and I don't want no part in it.
I don't care what analyst say they are full of shit. I have played some decent games but have not had one I could not put down since Skyrim LE. Because of Creation Club I uninstalled FO4 and Skyrim SE. Don't wanna download paid mods I will not use. The "analyst" claim games are the cheapest form of entertainment? Have they played that crap? I feel like I am paying for Applebee's and getting McDonald's. Bad or no story line, bugs, poor optimization and micro-transactions.
My sister was going to buy it for me for Christmas and I said no thank you free or not i will not par take in EA's bullshit I'm sticking with the boycott...
Well, the thing with raising prices is true. Having worked in the industry I have to say that many salaries are frozen for years, while expenses grow. That said, that has nothing to do with lootboxes and microtransactions. But, there's another side to that. If publishers started charging, say, 100 bucks for games instead of 60, would the players be like "ah ok, it's an inflation thing" or they would be outraged. I think this whole scummy thing was enabled by the audience, to put it that way. Because it's easier to implement seemingly non-disruptive microtransactions. I mean, I have even seen people defend dlc when it started as a practice, by saying it's better than an expansion because "you get to choose what content you are interested in".
Also, people have kneejerk reactions that lead to their doom, basically. And by that I don't mean the outrage about EA, that outrage is perfectly justified. I mean, POSITIVE kneejerk reactions that enable these practices. I have been so frustrated when I was going around screaming about EA's greed back in like '98. after seeing what the practice will be with their games and everyone else was mesmerized by their games' production qualities and labeled me as this crazy doomsayer. I was against Bethesda becoming a completely unstoppable corporate turd, but no, people were lapping up Morrowind because it was a good game overall, despite completely lazy mechanics which were foreshadowing the approach bethesda will have when making games. We see the same thing now with cd project red, who is corporate as fuck for several years now, yet people praise them for (indefinitely delayed) witcher titles, which were basically made through slave work. And now they say "cyberpunk will have no microtransactions" and everyone sucks their dick, because that's the most popular, calculated thing they could have said. It's so transparent. But people enable these companies and practices all the time. And I am not even talking about the "casual crowd", the "ignorant". No, I am talking about people who are subscribed to like twenty channels like this one.
Should play some Super Mario odyssey if you get a chance Gundam. Might cheer you up a bit. Reminds me of the days gaming was made for gamings sake and not just to there to make money.
Dan Sánchez it's his own song. Try Broken Hearts. You can find it in the description with the link to his sound cloud. I'd recommend all his songs, as they blow the mainstream songs out of the water and into space.
I'll never understand how they keep comparing games to movie/tv genres. Those are two vastly different mediums, but even if you were to compare, the first thing you cannot do is put grind as a value, nor replay value as that is down to the will of the person. However let me bite this. So no one game is like another in terms of length, nor is a movie in terms of run time. So I can easily use this: Game of Thrones Season 7 box set £25. 10 hours worth of episodes. The Order 1886 which cost £40 on ps4 (release). Roughly 7-8 hours worth of gameplay including extra. So therefore by my analysis here at crapola inc DVD box sets are much more value for money than games. See how easy it is?
The money I saved by not purchasing BF2, I'm probably gonna spend on Elex. Piranha Bytes created Elex - you pay €50 for a full experience and you get a full experience. No micro-transactions and they even announced there won't be DLC and therefore no season pass crap. Good ol' classic "you pay once, and get a complete game with no strings attached". EA and TakeTwo can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. I'm so fed up with these fuckin' predatory and unfair practices by AAA corporations. Party is over - they can keep all their fucking cash, but I won't give them any more! No matter what games they throw at us. I usually get every new WWE game. Now with TakeTwo announcing from 2018 on they will not release any games without micro-transactions, I won't even get those games anymore - no matter how much I enjoyed them in the past. WWE 2K18 is the final WWE 2K game I got as it stands. Red Dead Redemption2? Nope...they can stuff it up their butts. Rant over!
I didn't buy SWBF 2. I will buy RDR, but I sure as fuck will not preorder it like I did with BF1 (which I regret deeply, I am a history faggot). I own a PS4 and yet acknowledge the superiority of the PC in every way. Upgradable hardware, free online gaming, modding, Indy gaming... I would sell my PS4 to buy a better graphics card if my GF didn't play GTA V with me. I conclude: consoles are inferior, and generally you can sell a brick to the "consul mashterz" for $400 and still convince them they won a fucking bargain.
If people would simply stop buying their games. But I guess the info has to get out there first. I wonder how many parents will buy the new SW game for their kids for christmas, not knowing all the bullshit
Only now got around to watching this. This explains a lot, actually. These people are so out of touch I'm not sure whether it's funny or sad. "Gaming is one of the cheapest forms of entertainment... When compared to movies..." Right now gaming is one of the few hobbies I can afford. Gaming costs me 0.1€/h in electricity and that's pretty much it. I can throw in an additional 10 - 15€ every month if I want a new game, but that's not always an option. Going to the movies would cost me a minimum of 3€/h with the additional costs taking it potentially as high as 10€/h (transportation, drinks, snacks). I do pay for netflix, which is 7€ per month if I remember correctly. I use it as replacement TV, movies etc. I imagine the cost of Netflix would average around the same as gaming for me. These people think everyone who plays games makes 3000€ a month and can easily spend 10% of that on gaming.
This is why I think video game companies should not be corporations they should be so funded and they should have responsibility for what they make so they don't have to answer to shareholders but the gamers the customers themselves. It's possible to have a video game company that isn't publicly traded on the stock market. If every AAA company wasn't funded by stockholders that would mean that have to lower the budgets to all their games which means 60 bucks would make them a prophet without having to overcharge with microtransactions or DLC and it's their fault when their 100 million dollar game flops it's not the customer's fault it's the company's fault for not promoting it. I really think the standard price for video games should be 70 bucks or better yet 75 bucks nothing higher than that games that I would have paid higher just because the game was awesome Dark Souls 3 that game was well worth more than 60 bucks on release Skyrim would have paid more. Bloodborne I'm absolutely satisfied I bought the expansion pack to it which was 20 bucks along with that 60 make a great game first then release of expansion 6 months down the road that actually adds more value to the game. And what's the difference between Dark Souls 3 and blood-borne in OverWatch Dark Souls 3 and blood-borne have no microtransactions or loot boxes as you call them.
I started watching this video on my lunch break. I came home & finished watching & I have to say you nailed it. I fucking loved this video, especially the Walmart part. 18:57 I agree with every point you made. (most were facts) & I even enjoyed the ranty parts. You got flow.
Spends over 27 minutes stewing in hatred for gaming companies and their greed, realizes that you can buy Ice tea for $1 and everything is suddenly better in the world.
It's fucked up because I'm willing to be a whale for a company if I like the product enough. Hell, I spend 150+ dollars a MONTH building new EDH decks for Magic: the Gathering, but I'm not for that scummy shit.
"If you take a step back and look at the data, an hour of video game content is still one of the cheapest forms...."
This tells you a lot about their mindset. They think you should be paying each and every moment you are gaming. You don't buy a game and then enjoy it. You "rent" or "lease" your fun by the hour. Just like data minutes, old phone rates, old AOL online minutes, etc. All their game design uses this as the foundation, before a single line of code is written.
This is why EA is gonna end up bankrupt.
Yep, and I don't think video games are too cheap per hour. Other entertainment is getting more expensive per hour. Movies are insanely expensive now, like 15 bucks a ticket and if you want snacks they cost 8x more than the snacks you're gonna enjoy while playing a game
Leave it to someone from Wallstreet to object to people being against a big company being as greedy as possible!
0:09 Corporate Greed
1:06 TweakTown says cyberpunk should have multiplayer (No, just no)
1:48 EA can never stop being dickheads
2:09 EA fires George Fan for not making his game Pay to win
2:42 Round Table Live Microtransactiongate
5:50 The Sheer Madness of EA (people aren't as dumb as EA thinks)
6:47 Gamers are overreacting over star wars, Publishers should charge more for games (I'd like to kick him in the nuts)
8:01 Games cost more than 60 bucks if you add in a season pass, DLC that isn't on the season's pass and microtransactions
8:43 There are people who dropped 15k on mass effect 3 online holy shit balls could have got an R1 for that
8:58 Wallstreet buttplugs telling us to open up our wallets after all the bailouts these assholes take/ booty warrior
10:00 more Spin talk form Keybanc
10:30 How dare you rebel against a company ripping you off!
11:00 Eat my ass Wallstreet, EA shares down 10% boohoo
11:33 The customer is always right unless they shop at Walmart
12:15 Battlefront 2 might not hit it's 13 million unit sales/ out of touch rich old men
14:03 cost per hour AKA the annalist thinks you have no life other than to game
15:15 If you look at the data gaming is the cheapest forum of entertainment... only if the game is good
18:00 you say takay I say Takei/back on point
18:25 the big three Activision, EA, Take 2
19:13 Take 2 will put microtransactions in all future games
20:12 recap of past EA events
20:38 The act of Goodwill from EA that turns into rat shit
21:17 Reddit recap/ Wingren says you are better off playing the game rather than watching the new stars movie (rant)
22:53 This whole story is cancerous
23:25 UK boxed charts show Battlefront 2 down 50% on SWBF1
24:20 I only hope the sales stay in a slump to teach the industry a lesson!
25:11 Fight club
25:36 final words
What is a name of the game that you use as background on the video?
It'sAGundam Gundam, Belgium ruled loot boxes gambling and wants them banned in Europe. Some congressmen in Hawaii are also pushing for loot boxes to be regulated as gambling. Watch YongYea's video on it
And yeah, Belgium has made it's decision and will press to make it EU wide.
And Hawaii is also taking action, so the first state in the US to set precedent to get regulations nation wide.
fallenangel2100 to be fair, I would pay extra for a game just to see the micro transaction shit dissapear from any game for good even though I do know that "games are getting more expensive so its ok to include microtransactions" is bullshit
Hopefully that legislation in Hawaii gains some ground on micro-transactions before the companies can lobby against it.
Actually, as a gamer that is also literate (and good with maths) I have one thing to say to this analyst: YOUR. NUMBERS. ARE. OBJECTIVELY. DEMONSTRABLY. WRONG. And here's how!
-Your game costs 60 bucks. Your game's single player lasts a sum total of 4-f*cking-hours (depending on skill even less in fact)
-If you do the math. That is, in fact, 15 bucks a fucking hour. Which heavily, HEAVILY outweights your... What was it? 40 CENTS per hour? I mean. You've made a small mistake of... 97.3%... Ok.
Oh, oh, but of course, OF COURSE, how could I forget about the multiplayer. Ok, I'm actually only interested in single player, but the average gamer is a multiplayer console gamer, and analytics should be about trends, not outliers, so let's get scientific here:
-First off, add 20-fucking bucks right off the bat. Because multiplayer content is locked behind the deluxe edition, which costs 80 bucks entrance.
-Then we get the DL-fucking-C. Now this is the hardest part to pin down in fact. But don’t worry, I got you covered. While the number and price of DLCs varies WILDLY I’ll just make this easy by using YOUR charts. And according to 2010’s reports, 20% of the money generated by videogames was by DLCs. Since that didn’t take into account the next figures and microtransactions weren’t really a thing back then, this only really applies to the prior figure, so what we’ll do is simply add 20% to our previous number and add this percentage. Funnily enough if 80 euros is 80%, 20% is 20 euros, so 100 bucks total it is for game plus DLC. We’ll ignore season passes because they tend to be 20 bucks and include most dlc without microtransactions, so it’d be more or less the same.
-Then it is the microtransaction’s time. You’ve kept their average cost hidden as fuck, so I can’t actually find anything substantial about that. BUT YOU just gave me a number and I’m really thankful for that, so since this is the number YOU use, we’ll use 20 bucks. I certainly wouldn’t waste 20 bucks a month but hey, if that’s what you’d do… What the fuck.
-But now you gotta add to that the 7 euros a month (8 on summer months) ps-flippin-4 plus takes. BECAUSE YOU NEED THAT FOR MULTIPLAYER. I’m excluding PC players because as you oh so pertinently protested before, analysts are all about AVERAGES not outliers, and I excluded XBOX because for some retarded fucking reason the web oonly shows the offers for the first month but never actually tells me the price for the rests of months. Btw, classy, microsoft, classy. So since this is about averages we’ll exclude both the offers for first-month-only and the extra for summertime, you’re welcome since that actually fucking helps you. 7 bucks a month it is!
-Finally, we get real: THE PRICE OF THE CONSOLE. One thing that you… “forgot” to mention, is that the cinema, series, etc. DON’T. NEED. A. CONSOLE. At best you’ll need a TV, but you need that for gaming too, so we’ll brush it off. So:
a) Right now, using PS4 as a base (and from what I heard the XBONE costed even MORE on launch so you don’t wanna bring THEM here) on launch that was about 400 euros.
b) But how many months is that? Well using ONLY playstation and xbox consoles (and you don’t want me to bring the rest, their cycles were on average even WORSE.) you get an average of 6.2 years or a little over 74 months. Actually taking into account how much of a shitshow this gen has been and the heavy push towards artifical obsolescence we should cut that number in half, but I won’t, because I’m actually being fuking GENEROUS towards you with this numbers. Take that into account… So we divide price by cycle and we get a little more than 5 bucks. We’ll say 5 bucks a month for ease. And because again, I’m a generous fucking guy.
Now, how many months does the average gamer play? Well. If we count YOUR audience, of little CoD addicted kids with negligent parents that use gaming to put their face into a screen so they’d just shut up already because they have raised an insuferable brat and don’t know how to deal with that… That’s about a year. So 12 months. Or in other words, until-the-next-CoD-comes-out.
How much time do they expend? You have oh-so-generously given us a figure of… 2 and a half hours a day?! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?! Hours per month are hard to establish but if we go to Steam Spy, which is about the only site that gives us reliable figures for that, we get that the TOP BY PLAYTIME (PUBG) is 29:40 hours in two weeks, or about 2 hours a day. And the number two (dota2) is 18:05 hours in two weeks, or about 1.2 hours. AND THAT’S THE VERY TOP MOST HOURS BY TWO WEEKS. I will be bleepin’ GENEROUS here and give you a whole 1.5 a day, MORE THAN FUCKING DOTA2! Which I find EXHILARATING to be honest. But why the fuck not! Let's suppose that somehow you got people to spend an hour and a half playing your game, every day for a fucking YEAR, no vacations, no rest, no nothing. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. GRINDING.
So, we have:
Time: 1.5h*365d=547.5hours
Price: 100+(20+7+5)*12m=484$=48400cents
TOTAL: more than 88 f*cking cents an hour. Which puts online gaming objectively over EVERY. SINGLE. FUCKING. MEDIA. Other than theater and cinema. EVERYTHING. THIS is why you suck. It's not that you're an analyst. Oh no. It'd be fine for you to go and say "but the charts" at every chance. IF YOUR CHART WAS RIGHT! But it's not. You've intentionally crooked it. Because you have fucking shares on EA you piece of shit.
And this @It'sAGundam is how you own a fucking analyst. *micdrop.*
EA's CEO: "there are two things we love: Satan and money."
"OH SATAN YOU TASTE SO GOOOOOOOD"-bo burnham
That's it! I surrender. You've become my best gaming TH-camr. So funny, so on point. Brilliant. Keep it this way, please.
Gundam, you know damn well the hardest part for the investors is figuring out which accounting cheat codes/tax loopholes will be used to write off the losses.
The good thing is that at the moment, the analyst's opinion doesn't matter. It has been out-shouted by the justified outrage. Apparently, he wasn't aware that public relations do matter and the actual gamers have a say in the outcome. I have an idea the corporate side still doesn't believe this was anything but a vocal-minority speedbump.
The "analyst" is actually an EA employee to begin with. He was there defending his master. Look up the original sources, trace his name.
Said this before and I'll say it again...who the fuck needs EA's Battlefront 2. The REAL BF2 is still alive and running, and there are plenty of mods to make it a bit more graphically up to date for those who prefer that.
Leave EA to their flashy, overpriced, fan-fiction of a Star Wars game. I'll be over here enjoying the classics like Jedi Academy, BF2, and KOTOR. If I need new content, there are good modders I'm happy to donate to, far before I ever pay a cent of my cash over to this corporate bullshit.
If more people went for the classics, which are not even that outdated at this point, over these AAA cash-grabs, we may have more of a hit on where companies like EA, Bethesda, and Activision, feel it the most. Their earnings. Play the older titles with mods for a while, stay away from pre-orders and launch titles, and see the industry begin to change a bit to follow suit to the consumer, rather than the consumer having to adapt to the piece of shit industry gaming has become.
Side note about gaming being the purest art form: I agree, and disagree. Writing is / was the purest (depending on how much of a prude you want to be about it) art form, at least when it comes to being a first. It was passive to a degree, but made you use your imagination and personal interactions to fill in visual and auditory gaps, as well as teach you about different perceptions on a far deeper level than movies or games could. As of today, gaming has done what reading/writing has been able to, by a hundred-fold. At least, it has to the potential to. It's a shame that it's never fully utilized.
With that, I bid good day with this ramble. Not likely going to be read anyways.
bought SWBF2 the original for 3€ on steam (special sold for a lot of sw games on steam, got RC and JA the same way), was one of my best money spending. I don't know how to mod it, but it never bothered me and this is always hours of fun when i start it.
I rather watch ten time those wrist rocket than those micro transaction
moddb.com/games/star-wars-battlefront-ii/mods usually you just have to copy the files from the download into the appropriate folders
Ok... So .. EA , Bethesda , Activision, Bohemia Interactive, Buunge .... I can't even remember company's at my blacklist , but it's still grow 😓
u should add ubisoft on your list .
Capcom really needs to be in there.
On disk dlc is not acceptable
Not so fast guys, I take a pen
ᅠ ᅠ I'd replace Bungie with Ubisoft personally
Forgot to add Konami even tho they left the gaming world to make pachinko machines they may comeback due to a loss in revenue in that industry and seeing their game sales over take the machines they sell
The dude that related video games to pay television: His 45 cents an hour is figures for ONE GAME, while his 65 cents an hour for pay television are figures for EVERYTHING.
His model would only make sense if it cost $60 extra for pay television every time you changed channel!!!
Lol, $3000 on mass effect 3 microtransactions.
I just used cheat engine to give myself the in game currency.
Didn't pay a penny and didn't get banned
mass effect 3 didn't have microtransactions ...
Also it was offline, wasn't it? Or it could be played offline.
I remember there were similar exploits for Borderlands 2 because the save files were stored locally.
This kinda thing is why Blizzard introduced the ladder system.
THE CheatEngine or a different one?
Nerobyrne mass effect 3 had an online mode, you got your characters out of boxes and basically you teamed up with 3 other players to fight waves of enemies.
This aided your offline readiness mode.
Om Lo yeh that, litteraly searched for the number of in game credits I had, spent some, found the value representing the currency by looking for the new value, and then gave myself a shit tonne of currency.
It was a real effort too, opening all those boxes to get everything. I think EA should have paid me, such struggle
I just glitched the boxes in the height of its exploit buying shit? Nope. Never modded the fuck out of it on the 360 too. Ah good times. I didn't get banned either. And yes ME3 did have micro transactions. However this was during the infancy of the business model. So what they did was gave you the option they didn't make it to where you suffered gameplay wise if you didn't. See they've been conditioning people the same way the elite do on a global scale introducing policy instead of law at a slow rate changing the field into their favor. EA Activision ect are not stupid they're indeed cunning greedy and probably eat babies or something lmao. Seriously though... I'm glad they're meeting so much resistance.... Change in favor the playing field for the people is good anywhere imo
Overreacting? we are not even close to Overreacting! The Casuals are waking up Belgium declared war against Lootboxes EA will fall
"Turning players into payers" Gaming 2017.
With Belgium and Hawaii both calling EA's Battlefront II lootboxes a form of gambling, I suspect Disney will strip EA of the Star Wars licensing soon.
Corporate shills forgot to mention that with TV you have hundreds of different channels to choose from with their "statistics" while with SWBF2 you only get one game and paying 20$ a month for one game not hundreds
Please. Raise the prices. I want to sit back and watch this ivory tower burn to the ground.
So basically the "analyst" is saying we should have slotmachines attached to our computers and insert a coin every 5mins like a little kid going on a joyride? Is he insane?
15 bucks for a skin!? Is that guy insane?
11:20 10% price drop from a stock is really bad actually even if it was just like 3 dollars lost because you have to take into consideration that that drop is per share owned. these stockholders tend to buy large amounts of shares so losing 3 dollars per share can really add up fast, but yeah anyways EA totally deserves all of the shit they're getting from gamers and shareholders.
Doesn't matter what the guy think. Belgium calls it gambling. Hawaii is looking to do the same thing apparently. Yong Yea recently uploaded a video about the news about a hour ago.
Subscribed. So nice to know I haven't been alone for the last 10 years. Consider me a voice you carry; when it comes to the state of gaming, you speak for me 100%.
So what I'm hearing is that there's going to be a job opening for an industry analyst soon? That guy has to lose his job by the end of the week...
no way dude, he said they need more money .... he is getting a raise and promotion more than likely
THe "annalist" turned out to work for EA.
Not sure if you mentioned or not.
Loot boxes are now officially gambling
This analyst either never played a videogame in his life, or his childhood was filled with either tormenting little children, or he was tormented as a little child.
Net neutrality
is as good as dead.
It'sAGundam I don't think so Gundam.
Everyone and their mother are being alerted to the Net Neutrality thing going on, and the best thing is that even big TH-camrs are doing it, Boogie2998, Markiplier, and a bunch of others with a shit ton of subs as well.
The asshole in question trying to push the FCC to get rid of NN rules was a former Verizon lawyer. Figures, and with all the attention this will get I imagine he is going to get is ass smacked out of Congress real fast or hard. (Probably both. Both is good.)
It'sAGundam good.
Federal Communications Commission Finally Moving In To Wipe Out Net Neutrality
archive.is/rLFTz
Recode.net
FFC chairman and poo-in-the-loo, Ajit Pai, aims to eliminate much of the FCC's own role in ensuring that broadband providers don’t block, slow down or otherwise interfere with web traffic.
To that end, Pai’s new plan would no long consider telecom giants akin to utilities, a classification under law known as Title 2. It’s a move that is likely to have a cascading effect: It means the FCC cannot - and likely will not, under Pai - outright prohibit practices like paid prioritization.
Do what you can to object to this today, before the proposal begins tomorrow. Share this everywhere. www.battleforthenet.com/#widget-learn-more
Read this first paragraph here: archive.is/GG6MH
this case really disgust me
It has come to my attention that the plant vs zombie creator was fired in a massive 'let-go" along with 50 other people, his leave because of the EA as a whole (though this is still not from the guy himsefl so..... yah)
Nice video dude.
I actually would like to play that game. Description says it comes out in 2018. I am going to keep my eye out for it.
Aerex12 what is the name of thr game?
Description says Invisible (www.indivisiblegame.com)
Gundam have you heared Belgium concluded that BF2 is gambling and will try to ban it and extend the notion to the whole EU? Plus Hawaii stepped up against this shit too.
As someone who is currently playing on PS4 (for now) I am here to say to you: you are absolutely right! I have been watching you for a time, and time and time again, you speak the truth, where other say: “it’s just your opinion, hur dur…”
The current state of affairs pleases me very much: EA getting shafted, other greedy companies will most likely be in the sights of legislations from not only European countries, but also the prime market of video games: the United States (I have also heard that Australia as joined the party on going after greedy tactics for marketing game content or etc…), EA looking like they will lose their licenses to Star War’s related products. The consumer seems to be waking up to the problems of the industry, shamefully late, because the “sheeple” that “support/adore” these corporate fucker’s still defend them, and then you have the out of touch, 2 piece suit wearing, fucking idiots in wall street saying: “No! No! You are fortunate! You should be paying more!” Yes, because I’m going to pay for a product which the core-game was built around a system to mainly fuck the consumer. Keep up the fight, Gundam! Keep telling the world, and one by one, the dominos will fall, and these corporate scumbags will see their greedy ways crumble before the power of the consumer!
(P.S: I say “playing on PS4”, has for the moment I have no way to moving to PC, but don’t worry. Real soon, I’m jumping ship, as soon as I can guarantee that I’m not eating only bread and water for a month, so I can go to a platform where the costumer can and does much more effectively vote against this half-assed AAA “Masterpieces” (more like, “MasterShit” if the current state of affairs sheds light on something’s) and generally greedy practices (you know: Sony’s “Pay me 60-70 dollar’s to access online features, because I’m a “poor” company.)
Loot boxes ruled as gambling in Belgium and Hawaii.
I got two words to say about you my friend... Preach brother
I wouldn't be surprised one bit if said 'analyst' had stock shares into EA or at the very least was a PR front from a lobbyist at EA's expense
This analytic guy speaks about 500 hours per year. Honestly, games which held me more than for like 15-20 hours I can count on palm of one hand and it says a lot about his "analytics", there are not so many games around which are even worth buying, not even speaking of playing them for long period of time.
EA fired plante vs zombies creator!?!?!?! WTF!?!?! Damn I liked plants vs zombies 1 and 2. To hear this right after Visceral is sad..... :(
You are too good i dont know the words to describe how much those corporate stuges need to see this video, not to change their minds but to tell them to stuff it
Man, I recognize this same sentiment over immersion dying for the sake of all forms of monetization, whether it's converting games into free-to-play, paywalled, psychologically manipulative experiments, or accessibility-packed experiences made to rope in as many people as possible, dumbing down all enjoyments of meaningful choices, good stories, fun and innovative combat, e.t.c. Cyberpunk 2077 was a good looking game, with great cinematic storytelling, but it's the very same symptom that has diluted the RPG genre into being a marvel-esque railroad that is easy and digestable to the masses, streamlined in such a way that you don't have to do anything, just sit back and watch the story unfold, devoid of player input or meaningful choices, no branching paths to combat, career or the like.
It has its moments, but it's no Morrowind, Fallout New Vegas, or any of the other thought provoking, rich, true open-world games I came to love when I was younger, where immersion, discoverability, challenge, branching stories, and adventure was the whole point. It feels like it's become a Michael Bay movie jiggling keys infront of your face as to not get you distracted, daring to look for something better. I miss the days when design was on everyones mind, rather than this bloated corporate slide-show. When the whole selling point was to make a good game, and nothing else.
I appreciate the brutal honesty of this video, Gundam. Thanks
Of course Congressmen don't read the laws they're voting on; that would take away from their fundraising time. Lawmaking is about winning concessions (fundraising), not about actual, y'know, public welfare. And no, I am not being sarcastic.
Why? Because like AAA publishers like EA, they see people as a commodity to be managed. Money goes into the PR/marketing machine, the flacks grind the organ, the people dance. It just works.
THERE'S A GUNDAM DOWN HERE!
The gaming industry has been taken over by young upstarts who don't give a fuck about gaming but about making money, when i think of the gaming industry i can't help but think its something like the boiler room.
I remember reading this article yesterday and thinking to myself, "this turd nugget probably has a stake in EA."
The Analyst worked for EA and Comcast by the way hmmm i WONDER WHY he sided with Ea
Today I activated the notification bell. You're gonna grow huge for being so damn truthful and down to earth bro. Keep it comin.
And to this day my most favorite game has no multiplayer, no transactions, no message system, nada.
It comes with two missions, and even a little bonus content unlocked after varying difficulties are completed.
Metroid Zero Mission
I could name many others like this, but I'd be forced to apologize for asking too much of the gaming industry. Cuz you know, games are expensive and all.
Insightful. Jesus G last time I looked there were 50 of us. Grats on the 26k subs man.
Your the man,keep it up.
BTW ,love the"its a Gundam"bite at the start.
KEEP IT UP
The guy who wrote that bullshit games are too cheap article has some serious stake in EA as a company I'm hearing.
Metro is still a great singleplayer with no micro transactions that I know o f
I am total in agreement with how u feel about this whole situation. I am in disbelief of how society is now a days.
Last game system I owned was an x-box 360, wouldn't mind playing some of the old Sega & Nintendo games though!
See the bright side of things here.
As AAA titles become more and more shitty, we have to turn to indie games which require much cheaper hardware ! :)
Is this an early access/kickstarter game? such an interesting of a mix 2D & 3D artstyle, good animations too which kinda remind me of 2D fighting game like Blazblue.
Croz Raven It's called Indivisible. The developers are the same guys that made the fighting game SkullGirls. There is where the fine 2D art/animation comes from. This is also a blend of turn based rpg but you can combo attacks with your party members like a fighting game would with assists. There's a free version you can download, check it out.
That PvZ story has been updated - its not as it sounded.
Aside from the shenanigans with the loot boxes, you should check out the story on TH-cam if you get the chance. It's apparently canon and you were right, it turned out to be pretty shitty.
Funny how the reason for the high cost of unlocking the Hero characters was you gained a sense of achievement when you unlocked one, so then why is buying your way past that sense of achievement a possibility.
Apparently George wasn't fired because he objected to these business practices, but that mindset did make him expendable when layoff time came around.
Also I heard that analyst either does or did work for EA, but regardless fuck that corporate shill.
actually John Boyega said he wanted to use his accent but they wouldn't allow it.....
He had the GALL to give us a breakdown on how gamers should spend their time and money like he actually assumed the game is so good that you will spend that much time per day for an entire year Like bitch have you seen our Steam libraries? We buy games install it play for an hour and shelve it for eternity. Dont assume your game is one of those rare good ones like skyrim or Witcher 3 where we play extensively so stop assuming your game is that good.
Yes EA best Mobile game maker in the world.
Bob Ross not even, not even..
I live in South Africa and the cost of an Xbox or PlayStation game starts at around $150-$200, depending on exchange rates.
They feel for every hour of gameplay, you need to spend a certain amount, like how arcades had to function. Arcades needed it, because of the continual overhead cost, of facility, machine maintenance, etc. It falls apart when talking about entertainment you buy, to enjoy at home. If milton Bradley or parker brothers said, "you bought our board game, but have owned it for ten years and got massive family entertainment out of it. Isn't this worth 50c for each hour of fun? No? Well you merely bought a liscense to play it. We will take it back." Let that sink in
Lol so
Ea throwin out that shush money?
15:18 yeah the only reason I started recording my gameplay is so I finish the games. I have shelves of games I started playing but just haven’t finished due to LIFE. That’s why I play old games on my channel and never the hip new games, cause I still have to finish the old games to make it feel like I got my money’s worth
EA is a publicly traded company. 10% of those lossed shares could be gamers. They probably are from people that DO follow gamer culture.
A lot of investors are sheep though. If they see others getting out, on top of multiple flops of games, there's potential for them to get out too following like lemmings. Not sure why they are leaving, but they see "the signs", thus further hurting EA
Good I hope they all leave and cause EA to no longer exist.
Gamers who don't invest don't understand how gigantic it is to lose that much. First you have to understand that the market in general is expected to go up about 8% on average. Investors expect even more. To not only not hit that average, but actually start draining money is not something anyone who is in any position except buy-and-hold and straight up shorting EA (which would make no sense with BF2 coming up before the shit hit the fan) wants to see, and when they see their money going down they follow suit before it gets any worse. This really, REALLY hurt EA in a legitimately big way that they have never been hurt before. They are a video game publisher, fundamentally a cyclical company, completely getting its stock nuked... around Holiday season?
"Wall Street is worried controversy over EA's Star Wars Battlefront II in-game monetization model will hurt the video game's sales"... no shit Sherlock xD.
"Video Games are the cheapest form of entertainment..." Ok Flaming Dragon. First take a big step back...
Hey man, great video. Glad I found your channel!
Anyone remember flying a Buick in a starwars game ?
funny thing is. im sure they would have got away with it if they just kept it cosmetic. even though it is shit people still accepted it. but pay to win is just insanely greedy. i mean its only them that can ruin a starwars game
11:32 That's a strangely specific example.
Truth Nothing but the truth yet i only play games that are 20 years old
By the time Gaming becomes fully contaminated with Microtransactions with every game becoming a Always Online Only Gambling Distribution Service where every AAA developer fully kills off the Single Player will be the day I will fully retire from Gaming. Considering that I started Gaming on the NES and Sega Master System at 3 Years Old and now nearly pushing 30 and has seen each Console Generation from then up to now and without a doubt the Best times to be alive is with the PS2,Gamecube and XBOX days. Every Game back then was shipped in a Complete state and the concept of Polished Games was absolute and you knew you were getting a superior product but as of from now the term "Polished Games" doesn't mean anything today with games being shipped out riddled with Game Breaking bugs and glitches that destroys the overall core experience and these Microtransactions are simply the worst part of Modern Gaming. Funny thing to note while everyone is giving their life savings away to greedy assholes in suits to earn a Lootbox I still have practically all of my games that I can go back to when ever I want and since the future Multiplayer Only games's servers gets shut down all that remains is a cup coaster which can never be played again like for example the PS3 game MAG and these Multi Million Dollar Companies like EA and Activision would have gouged you all out of your money and they will without hesitation shut down the Online services for your favourite Multiplayer Only games. While I am still playing Single Player games from the Past most people would dream to have the servers brought back Online only for them to realise that they've been scammed.
This is the path that Gaming is going in and I don't want no part in it.
I don't care what analyst say they are full of shit. I have played some decent games but have not had one I could not put down since Skyrim LE. Because of Creation Club I uninstalled FO4 and Skyrim SE. Don't wanna download paid mods I will not use.
The "analyst" claim games are the cheapest form of entertainment? Have they played that crap? I feel like I am paying for Applebee's and getting McDonald's. Bad or no story line, bugs, poor optimization and micro-transactions.
"you weren't an effect you were a cause" that shit hits hard
My sister was going to buy it for me for Christmas and I said no thank you free or not i will not par take in EA's bullshit I'm sticking with the boycott...
Well, the thing with raising prices is true. Having worked in the industry I have to say that many salaries are frozen for years, while expenses grow. That said, that has nothing to do with lootboxes and microtransactions. But, there's another side to that. If publishers started charging, say, 100 bucks for games instead of 60, would the players be like "ah ok, it's an inflation thing" or they would be outraged. I think this whole scummy thing was enabled by the audience, to put it that way. Because it's easier to implement seemingly non-disruptive microtransactions. I mean, I have even seen people defend dlc when it started as a practice, by saying it's better than an expansion because "you get to choose what content you are interested in".
Also, people have kneejerk reactions that lead to their doom, basically. And by that I don't mean the outrage about EA, that outrage is perfectly justified. I mean, POSITIVE kneejerk reactions that enable these practices. I have been so frustrated when I was going around screaming about EA's greed back in like '98. after seeing what the practice will be with their games and everyone else was mesmerized by their games' production qualities and labeled me as this crazy doomsayer. I was against Bethesda becoming a completely unstoppable corporate turd, but no, people were lapping up Morrowind because it was a good game overall, despite completely lazy mechanics which were foreshadowing the approach bethesda will have when making games.
We see the same thing now with cd project red, who is corporate as fuck for several years now, yet people praise them for (indefinitely delayed) witcher titles, which were basically made through slave work. And now they say "cyberpunk will have no microtransactions" and everyone sucks their dick, because that's the most popular, calculated thing they could have said. It's so transparent. But people enable these companies and practices all the time. And I am not even talking about the "casual crowd", the "ignorant". No, I am talking about people who are subscribed to like twenty channels like this one.
Should play some Super Mario odyssey if you get a chance Gundam. Might cheer you up a bit.
Reminds me of the days gaming was made for gamings sake and not just to there to make money.
hey my favorite enderman is back.....
I am so glad I haven't actually bought an EA game since NHL 12 Or 13
I feel like I'm getting old, I remember when gaming was great! ;)
What is this game that you show on background?
indivisible
Nathakorn Lertputipinyo it's Prototype.
It'sAGundam what is the song you play at the end bro the rock song?
Dan Sánchez it's his own song. Try Broken Hearts. You can find it in the description with the link to his sound cloud. I'd recommend all his songs, as they blow the mainstream songs out of the water and into space.
Aero now all hes got to do is release an instrumental of Broken Hearts
I'll never understand how they keep comparing games to movie/tv genres. Those are two vastly different mediums, but even if you were to compare, the first thing you cannot do is put grind as a value, nor replay value as that is down to the will of the person.
However let me bite this. So no one game is like another in terms of length, nor is a movie in terms of run time. So I can easily use this:
Game of Thrones Season 7 box set £25. 10 hours worth of episodes.
The Order 1886 which cost £40 on ps4 (release). Roughly 7-8 hours worth of gameplay including extra.
So therefore by my analysis here at crapola inc DVD box sets are much more value for money than games. See how easy it is?
The money I saved by not purchasing BF2, I'm probably gonna spend on Elex. Piranha Bytes created Elex - you pay €50 for a full experience and you get a full experience. No micro-transactions and they even announced there won't be DLC and therefore no season pass crap. Good ol' classic "you pay once, and get a complete game with no strings attached".
EA and TakeTwo can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. I'm so fed up with these fuckin' predatory and unfair practices by AAA corporations. Party is over - they can keep all their fucking cash, but I won't give them any more! No matter what games they throw at us. I usually get every new WWE game. Now with TakeTwo announcing from 2018 on they will not release any games without micro-transactions, I won't even get those games anymore - no matter how much I enjoyed them in the past. WWE 2K18 is the final WWE 2K game I got as it stands. Red Dead Redemption2? Nope...they can stuff it up their butts. Rant over!
I didn't buy SWBF 2.
I will buy RDR, but I sure as fuck will not preorder it like I did with BF1 (which I regret deeply, I am a history faggot).
I own a PS4 and yet acknowledge the superiority of the PC in every way.
Upgradable hardware, free online gaming, modding, Indy gaming...
I would sell my PS4 to buy a better graphics card if my GF didn't play GTA V with me.
I conclude: consoles are inferior, and generally you can sell a brick to the "consul mashterz" for $400 and still convince them they won a fucking bargain.
The analysts are also basing us paying "too little" for games off of playing 912.5 hours a year on a single game
John boyega was forced to use an American accent by JJ Abrams. They thought it sounded wrong.
"Would you kindly" Don't know if you've played Bioshock Gundam but that was awesome :D
If people would simply stop buying their games. But I guess the info has to get out there first. I wonder how many parents will buy the new SW game for their kids for christmas, not knowing all the bullshit
I still really sad I didn't get to back Indivisible but at least I threw money every chance I could with Skullgirls
Only now got around to watching this. This explains a lot, actually. These people are so out of touch I'm not sure whether it's funny or sad.
"Gaming is one of the cheapest forms of entertainment... When compared to movies..."
Right now gaming is one of the few hobbies I can afford. Gaming costs me 0.1€/h in electricity and that's pretty much it. I can throw in an additional 10 - 15€ every month if I want a new game, but that's not always an option. Going to the movies would cost me a minimum of 3€/h with the additional costs taking it potentially as high as 10€/h (transportation, drinks, snacks). I do pay for netflix, which is 7€ per month if I remember correctly. I use it as replacement TV, movies etc. I imagine the cost of Netflix would average around the same as gaming for me.
These people think everyone who plays games makes 3000€ a month and can easily spend 10% of that on gaming.
7:50 statements like these are really concerning me.
What game is in the background?!
This is why I think video game companies should not be corporations they should be so funded and they should have responsibility for what they make so they don't have to answer to shareholders but the gamers the customers themselves. It's possible to have a video game company that isn't publicly traded on the stock market. If every AAA company wasn't funded by stockholders that would mean that have to lower the budgets to all their games which means 60 bucks would make them a prophet without having to overcharge with microtransactions or DLC and it's their fault when their 100 million dollar game flops it's not the customer's fault it's the company's fault for not promoting it. I really think the standard price for video games should be 70 bucks or better yet 75 bucks nothing higher than that games that I would have paid higher just because the game was awesome Dark Souls 3 that game was well worth more than 60 bucks on release Skyrim would have paid more. Bloodborne I'm absolutely satisfied I bought the expansion pack to it which was 20 bucks along with that 60 make a great game first then release of expansion 6 months down the road that actually adds more value to the game. And what's the difference between Dark Souls 3 and blood-borne in OverWatch Dark Souls 3 and blood-borne have no microtransactions or loot boxes as you call them.
This is gaming journalist level of logic.
Good old Fleece Johnson never gets old
I started watching this video on my lunch break. I came home & finished watching & I have to say you nailed it. I fucking loved this video, especially the Walmart part. 18:57
I agree with every point you made. (most were facts) & I even enjoyed the ranty parts. You got flow.
Spends over 27 minutes stewing in hatred for gaming companies and their greed, realizes that you can buy Ice tea for $1 and everything is suddenly better in the world.
In Canada I can't buy anything with a dollar
They forgot the 60$ initial charge for internet
It's fucked up because I'm willing to be a whale for a company if I like the product enough. Hell, I spend 150+ dollars a MONTH building new EDH decks for Magic: the Gathering, but I'm not for that scummy shit.