How Pixel Gun 3D Lost 98% of its Players
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ต.ค. 2023
- How did one of the Biggest Mobile Games become as hated and unpopular as it is today? Well in this video I explain the history behind it all and how it came to be.
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Sad times. I miss the days I was able to post tons of Pixel Gun 3D videos all the time. Can’t do that anymore unfortunately as few people are interested in the game nowadays. But this was a great video! I enjoyed it a lot. I highly doubt this game will ever get to the state it was 6-8 years ago, but I do know there is still a market for fun, arcade-y mobile FPS games like this. People still genuinely enjoy games like this, and you just need a better development team that’s more future-focused than what we have right now. As you said, innovation is key - don’t just hop on trends and expect massive long-term success!
Lolz cool I caught this comment, but this is true
indeed... this too was my childhood... i was unable to play it back in 2015 due to my nook tablet dying on me, and then revisiting years later, it just is not the same no more
I know this is off topic and all, but remember that stop online dating video you made on pixel gun 3d? Probably the most funniest stuff I’ve ever seen from way back in the day
You were my favorite content creator on this game hope your doing good 😊
Thank you for your videos exxotik. You kinda made my childhood
Played this game as a child and I’m almost 90% sure when I played it there was little to no microtransactions. I remember fondly playing the story mode, it’s a shame to see how it has fallen off since my childhood.
dude the story mode was so good also i remember being an absolute menace with the prototype
there really was no microtransactions necessary back when gems didn’t exist, i could fondly remember back when i was a kid farming the arena all night until morning to get 100 coins in a single run
I remember i was actually too afraid to play the slenderman level when i first played it as a kid
@@surake8805 It took all of my tiny brain's courage to complete that level
There was a story mode?
I really got a pixel gun 3D ad while watching this video 💀
same
Same
FINALLY A SHORT COMMENT
Same
Same at 1:25
Worst part is they never finished the story mode 💔
fr :(
This was deserved but unfair, If they kept a game at the best they could of kept a long term game but ended up leaving a salty taste of the whole community, they could of even made more money without this greed.
I quitted it at 2019, it was so goddamn p2w that i couldn't handle it anymore, i spend too much time grinding for a gun, just for it to get absolutely nerfed and a stronger gun get added next update.
@@BedwarsRBLX And then they made a bunch of guns that costed gems suddenly cost coins
Made shit too easy plus isn’t even balanced
Sad that most of my childhood games like pixel gun, call of mini and bunch of others just died out
I remember I played a match in pixel gun 3d and i had no fun because there was is one dude having op weapons and an op armor it was so unfair and the game wants you to pay money but i quitted sometimes later because the grind was not fun and even they force you to gamble your keys for a chance to get op weapons
As a Pixel Gun OG, I remember falling in love with this. I would come home everyday from school and I would play it everyday and not knowing when to get tired of it. I had lots of great times and memories. Then, I came back in 2017 cause my cousin introduced me to it, and I started to play again and the state of the game right now, its sad to see how it fell off dramatically. Thank you Alex, Rilisoft or Cubic Games for being there for my childhood. ❤
Same
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Yo rs😂😂😂
Same
Ogs remember rilisoft
This game really brought out my competitive side, I loved being a sniper and playing with players at slender forest/heaven garden. I left the game for a while and returned for the nostalgia. They had removed many old maps and there were a lot of new things, like event weapons and battle royale? It was a bit overwhelming and hard to compete with og players when you're at a very low level. It's sad to hear this from a game I used to enjoy as a pre-teen.
The br game mode felt pointless as we already had hunger games.
I know right, I miss the old maps, especially the old sandbox map (winter party isn't that fun at all) and the old players. Also, battle royale is truly pointless and the new lobby completely screams pay 2 win.
Some maps get rotated depending on the seasons. But yeah many og maps have dissapeared,
@@RedactedAnonymous10 Around 2019, they moved to servers, and if you didn't play during that time, your account was lost.
I was a 3 cat spammer and that shit was fun on the private lobbies between 2016-2018
1. Micro transactions.
2. Unbalanced weapons.
3. Unfair matchmaking
4. Micro transactions
5 Micro transactions
6. Micro transactions
Thanks I'm not watching 8 mins for one sentence
A thing I might add is that the game ends up being so overwhelming for newer players. As a newcomer you have a limited range of weapons, if you load into a multiplayer match you are most likely to face so many players with a ton of weapons with different effects you don't even know the counter of
Sometimes you’ll hop in a match with people who are so powerful, your forced to lose cause you didn’t play the game long enough or just didn’t p2w the game. Heartbreaking really.
hey, upload some roblox content i guess?
You forgot to mention that some weapons don’t have counters at all-you use them or you get obliterated by them
The insane thing is I'm level 65 and sometimes i vs level 20 to 40 I feel bad for them💀
Another thign is the terrible balance back then every weapon was usable now it's just a select 100 guns out of a 1000
this game was my childhood I've stopped playing it for almost half a decade but the memories stand and I will always remember the good out of it
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I remember making a camoflauge skin and hiding in the battle royalw map and winning, it was so fun
Pool party is still my idea of happiness, also the mast spawn point on that one map with the two ships
one thing I took out of pixel gun was my ability to make decent skins, made a minecraft skin of an anime a few months ago for the first time in years and it blew up in popularity
I used to play Pixel Gun 3D all of the time with my brother. I remember those days, back when the autmatic-peacemaker was actually good. I had really good weapons and I loved the modes...
I started losing interest when the monetization started expanding and growing among the lobby screen. However, I didn't mind it too much at the time. I played it almost every other day until they added the "battle royale" mode. After then I started to really lose interest as well because of the increase in monetization. I loved the game, I loved watching people like LosGaming (now 'Los'), and I will forever cherish those memories.
R.I.P Pixel Gun 3D... ❤
I remembered playing this non-stop since 2016 and watched my school friends playing this since 2013. It was fun but what made it stale was the P2W feature with microtransaction, unbalanced level match, trophy loss (has been removed), and mostly greedy features. Now that it's going to be released on steam for PC, I want to give it another shot whether it has changed to a better state or not.
The downfall of Pixel Gun 3D serves as a reminder of how crucial it is for game developers to listen to their player base and adapt to changing expectations.
same with clash royal they've been going heavy on p2w recently to
Gaijin is really bad at this, it got so bad people had to leave millions of negative reviews and boycott the game to make them listen
@@pokeben4593Clash Royale is on the list
@@pokeben4593 Exactly
Minecraft too.
I remember playing this all the way back in 2014-16. There were hardly any microtransactions, the campaign was fun, and it was simple fun. Went back to the game sometime last year and was shocked. No campaign, millions of pop-ups, everything that I hoped wouldn't be there. PG3D is a sad tale of greed and I wish it wasnt.
I still have so many good memories connected with the campaign and infinite monster waves. Good times .....
@@heinz5119 I'm always going to remember playing the campaign with my little brother. If only nostalgia worked differently or time hadn't progressed the way it did
plus, they deleted a lot of old accounts.
some time ago i also went to revisit the game and was heartbroken to find out my account had been deleted.
Aw hell nah they removed campaign? Goddamnit
Brroooo I remember the slenderman level they removed that shit? My like 13 year old ass was too scared to beat that one for a bit haha.
I stopped playing pixel gun and I’ve forgotten about it for a while until this popped up.
Thanks for making this video to remind me of it and also to explain what went down!
I remember getting the weapons "Golden Friend" and "Prototype" really early in the game in some free loot boxes and my friends got all jealous, now everybody has these weapons and they are not even that good anymore
exzactly and i hate how u gotta collect parts to craft instead of getting the weapon
Prototype really was the most OP gun for so long 😂
I miss this game in its prime days.. I remember making a ton of my own custom skins, grinding on the 2x the xp and coins and finding hidden gems. The prototype being the got tier of snipers. Uploading videos about it, now I can see what the developers were truly after. It’s disappointing to seeing my childhood game go downhill..
Prototype being able to oneshot people with adamant armour 😭 good old days
@@dinanga_3 with all of us camping that farm map with the canyon😭
@@dinanga_3bruh I hated it when they added the armor😭😭
man armor especially adamant armor was so unnecessary i hated going against someone with it. it would take me hours to grind coins to being able to upgrade the prototype to where it could one shot the top players
Never did videos personally but I literally recreated my old MC skins in pixel gun 3d. I completely forgot about the game tbh
Here’s my take on this: I used to play this game a TON around 6 ish years ago. I tried coming back to it years later for some nostalgia and to recreate the fun I once had, but I was overwhelmed. I got a million pop ups in my face, and once I got though it all I found a million different weapons and items to pay for, with tons of new terrible features that obviously weren’t very innovative. I played a match and got killed by sweats, partially cause I no longer had any idea what I was doing since I was playing the battle royale mode that previously hadn’t existed. This game is just boring and pay to win now, and is sweat infested. It’s EXTREMELY overwhelming for any new players to try and learn this game, as it was for me when I returned.
Combine that with sweats who spammed 3 of the strongest weapon types (Specials, Snipers, and Heavies) like they're on Doom Eternal, and all you can do is watching as you get wrecked before even leaving spawn
Why would u play games when u just wasting ur time? Might as well be a sweat and try to be a pro or be a content creator
@@gladiatorgamer9502 yes it is a waste of time, but it’s entertainment. sometimes people just want to relax with games, and NOT rage at their screen and sweat uncontrollably.
You know, there is a possibility we played together 6 years ago. Just randomly, you know.
@@VictorSivtsev there is lol
Love ur video's, doing research for statements you make and come to a logic conclusion. Thanks a lot I had a lot of fun watching the 3 videos you made. Keep it up and dont feel pressure making new videos, cause we dont have high expectations.
I grew up on this… prolly my first ever shooter game too… I wanted to take a trip down memory lane and reinstalled it and was extremely disappointed and sad to see how my memory was shattered by greed
As a recently retired content creator, I absolutely agree with everything you said. It’s kinda sad that our childhood game ended up like this… Btw thank you for using my clips at 5:30 lol
Why did you retire? Just curious, you don’t have to say if you don’t want to.
@@MacNava I got kicked out of the program because I was considered inactive as I only upload once a month. Devs want cc’s to upload as much as possible even if videos don’t get any views which is really stupid. I had more views than few videos combined from other content creators who uploaded on a daily basis but still as I uploaded less they kicked me. So after that I simply decided to stop making content. Tbh it’s better like this cuz I don’t have time for all that anymore and anyways pg3d content is kinda dead now compared to before
hope you enjoy your time outside of youtube its better since it's getting really hectic on this platform than before@@SabPG3D
@SabPG3D that's awesome would you ever consider making content on other games or are you too busy now a days?
@@Jackahoo2 idk tbh 🤷
One of the reasons I stopped playing was when they removed the ability to grind out the zombies mode for coins. You used to be able to get 10 coins a round after a certain round, which seriously helped with grinding for weapons you wanted if you didn’t want to pay the money for coins. I’d sit for 20-30 rounds and make good amounts of coins. Once they removed that, things seriously fell off. Micro transactions, lack of care from the developers, etc. I miss the game, many found memories from my childhood playing with my younger brother.
Yea that was so good remember that bridge on which everyone tried to get in inaccessible places? Or that gras arena with walls? Good times
Same
Lol i got every gun in the game grinding that zombies mode. i took shifts with my brother and we just played for hours at a time
THIS. I missed it so much when I redownloaded the game after several years
My last big adventure playing PG3D was doing literally 999 rounds of the zombie arena mode to get the storm hammer. Man... I miss the game I played back then.
had to subscribe just cus you made 2 vids about the things i want to know the most
i just got of csgo and i see ur vid what actually happened to fearless and then i watched it all and now i watch this im subbing keep up the good work
As a retired PG content creator I tried to add something unique to my videos so that I could promote the game further. But after seeing the true path the developers choose to follow, I quickly stopped uploading. There is no communication between the community and the developers.
All their "communication" gravitates around damage control.
It's been like that even like 7years ago
it was so obvious where the game and community were going, instead accepting that they just made fun of the one's who pointed out that. That's why I leave the game first, then the community.
same here. still play it from time to time but it will never be the same
TF 2 be like. But its actually a good game that Valve barely cares about nowadays or any of their games tbh. The fact that they're working on CS:GO surprised me.
Off topic but i just love how the person above you have the same profile of a random cat
I remember playing this game when it was in its first early stages, maps like “Utopia, Pirates, D-Day” were huge and blew up and had everyone hooked and then they slowly started removing everything and made it consistently worse. Like when at one point the best gun was the ray gun and then you made that gun seem like nothing 2-3 months later compared to the new weapons you crush the work people do and the time they cared about giving.
I went from headshots to giving backshots on that beach island
Prototype on Sniper Forts was busted AF. Still my favorite gun of all time
I don't think pirates and d-day were original stages, but they're definitely ancient now.
@@antoniotrivelloni8191Utopia was
@@antoniotrivelloni8191yea or when they dropped the laser minigun which was busted af on pool party lol. Or when you could glitch the walls in Aztec temple. Good times
as a retired Pg3d gamer, i honestly miss the old days. Miss how everything was back in the old days. I was a 2012 player retired around 2019. miss the good old days.
Glad This Blew Up. Good Video.
I was a player from 2013. The game was playable from the low class phone. No money was spent and you could easily top in rankings. Also the sniper laser was the most OP gun at that time because the name tag was visible when even behind the walls. Also the map glitches were fun exploring. I miss the old days.
Ah yes, the prototype…those were the days
the prototype is up there with the BO2 Ballista for me, and those top of the map glitches with launchers ruled! The OP wand that went thru walls on Aztec Temple tho...
prototype right? absolutely crazy back in the day
I remember when the storm hammer was added, thats what killed the game for me. Really enjoyed making skins on pg3d
Prototype now is nothing compared to what it was
Once they nerfed the Arena, giving way less coins in order to encourage you to spend more. Back then I was able to get all the weapons after grinding the Arena. The most OP weapon was still that purple sniper that shoots through walls and the redstone machinegun(?).
Purple sniper is prototype
miss the days when all you needed was the xm8 duel wield revolver prototype and stinger to be on top now them things are wortless
redstone machinegun was the laser machinegun or smth
The prototype was literally the flex of the gods back then, omg i remember that
@@oceanareuherrera2610 facts and the bass cannon.
Pixel gun 3d feels real and unreal at the same time. I remember playing it but it also feels foggy, like a dream. I remember the death match and when they added capture the flag and hunger games. This game brought me many good memories and I’m glad I stopped playing before it became pay to win so I only have good memories. Goodbye pixel gun 3d, you will be missed.
Wow this is a well made video and I can’t wait to see more
Hi, a pure F2P with 6 years of knowing the game here! I totally agree with some aspect of the video, where devs are only focusing only into making even more money, but they do put a little bit of efford into slightly improving the game. It’s really sad seeing my favorite mobile shooting game going down like this, from a fun and enjoyable to money-grabbing game…
I can only hope for Cubic Games to realize what is happening to the game and actually have some space in their heart to put the game back to its glory
Sadly and most traumatizingly usually developers quit on the games. They don't understand that the community of most of the games that go down that path still hope for a change, one day and that truly saddens me. So much games I've played before are now bad. Because of either lack of updates or the p2w. An example would be Plants versus Zombies about time. Basically the PVZ2
@@alexjurch6041True, I can only think of a handful of games that the developers stuck with, even through rough times. Sad to see.
Respawnables, pixel gun, Blitz Brigade, Guns of Boom...
The list goes on, but trust me, only Respawnables went down owing to p2w and other business reasons...
The rest got dead because they really brought barely anything new to the table and even if they did refresh their games that way, they still messed up immidiately after.
Just because something is new and fresh, doesn't mean it can't cause the rest of the skeleton (the main purpose of the game) to rot and lose value.
I don’t think having to pay 4.99 to play a game filled with microtransactions counts as “f2p”
You don't even need to be a F2P for 6 years to see how fucked up that shit is
As a player who played when it first released, the game early on was more fair and not full of spamming weapons every second. The concept when it released was interesting because as mentioned in the video it was a fps game that people can play on their phones. Idk if cubic games and the earlier dev are a different team or not but I'd say the downfall started when it became cubic games game (if that made sense)
I had always thought it was the 3 cat spam trend that killed the game, alongside with hackers and the new updates messing the guns' damage. But yeah I knew something was wrong about the game when it was at the falling point. Those devs kind of deserved it. Truly tragic. I had 2 accounts and both of them had added a lot of cool friends but now everyone including me has already left the game. Rip PG3D
It was great ngl
I stopped playing beacuse I couldn't keep up with all the other players. I wasn't just my lack of skills either
Yes bro the three cat spam ruined this because pros would poo on first timers or regulars
@@TheScaryLord Donald Trump is at it again 🔥
first time new sub here but 100k subs in 3 vids is the craziest ive ever seen gg bro
Aight Boys Lets Play PG3D again
I remember when I had played this game on it's early stages, multiplayer. The chat box was always really active. Interacting with other players had been a constant thing in every server you joined in. My time playing that game had been on and off, deleting and re-installing the game again and again. It had been a cycle and eventually, there came a time when no one was chatting. Not a single chat from any player even when I had tried sparking up a conversation, no matter the server and mode, the players were no longer as interactive as they had been initially. Interacting with various players had been one of the entertaining aspects of that game, so it was quite sad when that fun aspect disappeared
Exactly, you were able to chat with other players from around the world and make new friends but now its gone
i miss being able to talk on pixel gun
I miss the roleplays on the Mansion map when that was a new map
Back when people would just vibe on places like slender forest and such
As a retired competitive pg3d player, this video is honestly the most accurate thing I've seen.
bro said retired competitive pg3d player i'm deadddd
@@narwhals7820😂😂like hes a well known celeb or smth
Im a retired Pinball 3D space cadet profesional player, all of this is BS
Lol
Maybe if they didn’t make it pay to win. Also the amount of trollers and hackers are stupid. I played today to try the game out again but right as I loaded into BR everyone immediately died. And 1 person got all the kills.
Who else remembers Universe 7 clan? God I loved that clan, the clan wars were always insane and so enjoyable I remember at school a few friends that played were like how did you get into Universe 7 that’s the “best clan in the game” due to it being consistent on Number 1. It was a wonderful experience while it lasted!
SAME-
As a max level player that had 100+ mythical craftable weapons, its sad to see what became of one of my most beloved games of all time. So many memories, lost to pay to win and microtransactions. Really sad.
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I used to play in the older days it was more fun even if there was some dude running around with that sniper that one shot you with a purple laser beam (I forgot the name) but now it’s P2w pay or lose making the game really unfair and annoying and now it’s some dude fly around the map having a gun on each slot that one shots against some other people that probably don’t even stand a chance because they didn’t pay
@@Susy1273I think it was named something like "anti heroe rifle" or just something with anti heroe...
@@Susy1273 i believe it was called “the prototype”, i may be wrong though.
@@14.99plustax oh yeah that's the name
I was able to witness the downfall first-hand. I stopped playing around the time they started giving content creators shout outs (so well after battle royale was added). I realised my guns were doing no damage and i had to constantly spend gems i didnt have just to keep up. It started going downhill after they made the movement change and then it had a slow decline ever since then. The game was so fun and its community was so chill. You could hop in your favourite youtubers lobby and play with them for hours but no one does that anymore. An older player would easily notice the P2W changes which just makes me salty. i would do anything to bring back those times but its too late now, the greedy developers dug their game into its own grave
The guns doing no damage was the nail in the coffin for me to quit the game. It's bs that players can just one tap me while I have to throw everything at them just to kill them
Man I stopped playing after they removed the 3 cat spam
For me the worst thing they did is destroying the weapon power upgrade scaling and flooding the game with weapon craft shards
My sister was literally playing in tears the day they added delay after cat switch
Same as lol, but those broken champ can be played by everyone and the player have no shamee for only playing broken champ to win
I actually don’t remember how I stopped playing that game but it will forever be in my heart and it made childhood
I found this game really early, and I remember getting online after school every day where there were a few available lobbies that would have mostly the same players I would play with every day. Then, one day, it just boomed, and all those players that i became really close with were just gone in the void of the massive player base.
The game became a lot more fun, but it was kinda sad at the same time because I became close with that small group.
I deadass still remember there usernames 10 years later.
lmao
I remember my friend named Chris in sandbox mode I wonder how he’s doing now
I got introduced to this game in 2017, when my brother let me play the block crash minigame he was in.
Another main problem pixel gun had was the level system. It didn't only made almost every gun 1 shot you, it also made your guns more and more useless because it armor levels. Not only that but OG players were already in the high ranks making them fight against those overlevelled players.
I remember playing this game and made some friends that I still chat with sometimes, use to bug out of maps and bring pvp guns to sandbox, also the spam gun trick before it was patch. those were good days
Jesus I havnt played PG3D in so long. Ima be honest, I completely stopped playing once they put battle passes and a battle royale mode in, I’ll forever cherish the memories I made on it tho
I remember playing this in primary school, but what made me stop was that in multiplayer games you would be placed in with players who had objectively better gear who could one hit you and would take many hits to take down, just felt unfair
That’s the exact fucking reason why I stopped playing this game. I always kept raging at it because of that.
Same dude. Grinding is useless now since you can just buy your way up. Get demolished with maxxed out weapons and maxxed out gear players.
I feel like an OG watching videos like this. I remember playing it between 2016 and 2017, and occasionally played it in 2018 and 2019 for fun. Seeing the downfall was sad.
try 2016. man i miss those days when the game wasnt bloated
Yeah. It was truly nostalgic.
2016 was peak
2015 and 2016 were the best days of this game
@@PanKoxu fr
It's wild to see how this game became so loaded with microtransactions and in the state it is. I had a lot of fun back then when it was just three chapters and didnt have the gem currency in place. Multiplayer was not as hyper competitive and usually there was some level of chat activity. sometimes people would just give up on objectives briefly and just talk and mess around during the match without killing each other. Sad that I wont ever see that kind of experience again
damn amazing work keep it up!
I'm really sad to see this game go down. It was one of my favourites as a kid. I remember rocking the OG maps like Pirates and nuclear town and grinding for the laser gun. I left the game in early 2019 and I redownloaded it in July this year. I was actually so shocked to see all of this pay2win crap getting spammed in my face. It's always sad to see a company turn to the dark side, but after this I don't even pity them. They massacred my beautiful boy.
pirate map is gone too im prwtty sure
@@sduoqsoq7478 it is :( it's replaced by some shitty reboot
My favorite gun was the Prototype, it was OP as hell, insta kill HS.. now you need to shoot several times for a kill.
The days when I came home, went in my room, opened up PG3D on my tablet and using the laser cannon in Deathmatch were so satisfying. It’s crazy how now most newer gen games rely on making money instead of listening to the fans or pouring their heart out to recreate the fun
I can't remember exactly when I started, it was very early on but I remember having the option of using the weapons unlocked in the campaign in multi-player, I stopped playing a couple updates after they introduced turrets and mechs.
I tried getting into it back when br was all the hype but after seeing how they took away the campaign weapons in multi-player and how underpowered the defaults were compared to everyone else in the lobby, I gave it up.
9.0 was my favorite update after years of grinding but it only went downhill from there
They removed heaven Garden 😭too
I share the same sentiment. Played this game back in 2013-2014ish, heck maybe even a little later. Things were super fun and I remember being fairly good, too. Then I came back a few years later and found all of what you said. Pop-ups, pay-to-win, the fact that you pretty much HAD to buy in game currency to keep up or be any good, and the fact that the campaign STILL wasn't finished. Very disappointing.
It has a free to play gamemode, wtf
@@Nsodnoajdjksl right and it still wasn't finished. That's what i was saying.
I remember playing this game six years ago, and getting most of the strong guns, the custom avatar feature was fun too, I genuinely enjoyed the story-mode campaign despite the story being very scatterbrained(I mean, what do you expect from a minecraft shooter game anyway). Somewhere along the way I lost my access to my original account, forgot about the game in a long time, then recently I visited again with a new beginner account, and I was met with a game I couldn't even identify.
fr i remember searching on yt how to make cute girl skins lmfao
@@lovethisvelvetryI used to make inappropriate skins 😂
The story really went from the usual zombie apocalypse to the MC meeting the game's creator.
i miss this game so much, spent so much time in highschool playing it in a private community known for sniper duels in pool map i think its called sword snipe or something. good times
Greed is the downfall of every game company at some point.
for me personally, the game was already going downhill when they introduced gems. You could buy the best guns in the game by just playing, grinding survival arena, and it would take a lot of time but it would pay off. When they added gems, they removed the possibility of obtaining those grindable coin guns by changing their currency from coins to gems. That killed the whole point of grinding the game for me, thats when i quit.
It got even worse when they hopped on the component/part train that all the other games were doing. Now all the guns they add are parts. You can’t even buy em with gems or coins 😒
Its exactly when i stopped to play this game because every mobile game with gems in it are pay 2 win and i knew it would happen for pixel gun too
Me and my friend back in elementary school used to play this, We just loved how fun and simple it was. I specifically remembered me being so excited to unlock the "Fast Death" which at the time was a pretty great pistol that you could get and which you could upgrade. It went from a normal rapid fire standard pistol, to being able to be upgraded to a cool and better diamond one. By just leveling up and earning in game money from 2 or 3 games. It was simple to level up and just have fun. When I returned to the game during 2020 I was very disappointed. Not just because I had a new account but to see how much it had changed. All those fun weapons I got were either extremely nerfed or extremely buffed and hard to get. The fast death was an extremely lame, already diamond, slow firing "rapid fire" pistol. The Golden Desert Eagle you could get by simply earning in game money was also a very crappy starting pistol, and lots of the og weapons and maps were gone. This game falling apart was very sad.
so true I quit in like end of 2017/2018 and then I came back in like 2021 and the game was completely changed and I also lost my account too but the game was just plain boring
Fast death, rambos rife and chainsaw was a good starting load out.
FAST DEATH, OMG YES FAST DEATH IT WAS MY FAVOURITE FUCKING GUN IN THE ENTIRE GAME, I FULLY UPGRADED IT MY FRIENDS WOULD TELL ME WHY ARE YOU UPGRADING THE STUPID PISTOL BUT I LOVED THE STUPID PISTOL FAST DEATH MY BELOVED
he3004 chill that weapon was trash tbh
as a og player back in 2014-2017 was when the game was at its peak and you didn’t have to upgrade every single weapon now the game is just pay to win which is kinda sad considering it’s just a money grab new op weapons come out, u buy them and more new op weapons come out and the list goes on.
started playing this game in 2013 when it had minecraft edition, wizard eand, crossboe, magic bow were the most op guns (including minigun)
now present, op guns every signle lottery..
ultimatum came back twice in this lottery
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Man was this my childhood. I remember me and my clanmates would share around hacked iclouds that had all the guns unlocked and have hacked skins with colors that weren't available in the skin editor. I used to pump hours into getting better at the game but stopped playing in like 2017 wild that was almost 7 years ago now.
Its so brutal that all things we used to love tragically died and the new content on any Platform make you ask why your world deserves this or why is Society so worse than it used to be
that... was already 7 years ago?..
Damn I remember getting one of those accounts just because I guessed a passcode in private servers and met a person that actually bested me by 1 kill. Man those were good times
That was a thing before?! Damn, I missed out!
It’s been around a few years since I last touched the game… I had no idea it even reached the point of p2w. This is sad for a game I very much enjoyed 24/7 as a younger adult. Thank you for making this video. It’s a shame the game will never achieve the massive popularity it once did
It has a f2p gamemode.
Its so nostalgic to remember playing in the trunk of my neighbors’ mom’s car with my old best friend. I realized the game had really experienced a fall from a golden age when i returned a few years later (~2014 all the way to ~2021) and saw the absolute clusterfuck that the homepage for the game had become. With the pets, base, battle royale, and all kinds of crazy weapons i cant think of it as anything else but overstimulating, especially compared to the once beautiful scenery of the maps and there only being around like 20 weapons to use without being instakilled by whatever sweat bought the latest best item in the game.
I remember grinding for a weapon called "prototype" because i would get killed by this weapon so often that i had to have it
Personally I think PG3D died incredibly fast once the 3 Cat Spam meta started getting popular. A lot of sweats came into the game and ruined it.
The crafting parts for the weapons that were originally in the chest were now craftable, which ruined the whole point of collecting them. Getting them in the chest was super fun and had a good feeling.
3 cat spam broke one of the main weapon balancing mechanisms, keeping damage per shot inversely proportional to attack speed
@@buttsaggington6379 exactly, it broke the damage. Literally 1 shot weapons being spammed, that’s gonna cause people to rage quit
(If someone replies with “get good” or similar)
well I am, you’re just using insanely OP weapons that are 1 shot, while I’m using weapons that take time to kill.
Pixel Gun version 8.0.0, where both 'cells' controls (which what that is) and armor planted the seed to this game's downfall. Instead of reverting the controls they made ways to "counter" this 3catspam exploit but ended up having even more ridiculous mechanics like pulling towards target and shield attributes, along with weapons with nonsensical damage. It's gotten to a point where its going to take so much to fix the damages they made on this game and theyre doing nothing about it. The best thing they can do right now is change the controls back to 'swipe'. It's a big risk but the outcome would be majority of players returning while cheesers look for a new game to exploit.
I remember when the devs patched the ghost lantern spam, giving it a cooldown to avoid spam.
@@exhaustedrambler8701 yet it still didn’t work, because the # cat spammers found a way to bypass it
I began playing in 2015 at the age of 13 or something... I was level 21 when I dropped off. As a guy who isn't really into FPS... The game was somehow really fun. I really enjoyed chatting with others in the lobby. The fun part about the game for me was getting killed while trying to chat with someone, or going after that one guy who was talking trash or just being annoying. What I'm trying to say is... That it was fun, because it felt alive.
Agreed.
im on level 21 too
This is what’s happening to clash royale right now
What's the state now? I left a while ago
True
Bro I remember spamming the one shot sniper and tree launcher on paradise resort. In like 2016-2017. I miss it.
man i remember being in the olden days of pg3d where there were barely any p2w stuff, sweaty people and it wasnt repetitive, but these days pg3d is quite the opposite. i will always miss the old pg3d days
Couldn't have said it better I miss the good old days
Do you remember you can get all your money ( gold coins ) from the zombies mode
It was always P2W in some way. The ability to buy currency is itself, P2W. But it wasn’t “required,” you could easily get by without
same I used to play the game all the time a few years ago.
and I used to get scared whenever I did the slenderman or school campaign
I’ve been playing the game for 6-7 years now and I’ve seen it change significantly over the years, as many others here can attest the same. Over the years I got better as I can attribute the majority of my mobile FPS skills to Pixel Gun 3D, however I temporarily left the game when they introduced OP weapons with little to no chances of obtaining them through gameplay…it frustrated me as skill didn’t really matter anymore as long the other team had more players with weapons that can knock you out in one hit. (At some point I decided I was going to rank number 1 in the survival arena, which I did with a score of approximately 800,000.)
That did change when the developers made it possible to obtain those weapons of interest through ad watching, coupons, and battle pass rewards without having to spend any money…so then I was able to obtain enough OP weapons to level the playing field and I was racking up k*lls once more. It once again became the sole mobile FPS game I would always play, until the sheer number of guns and pointless updates they’re adding into the game started to take up way too much storage space on my iPad. So as of 2023, I decided to abandon my old account (it sucks the developers didn’t make it possible to transfer accounts) and made a new account on a new device. As of late, the developers also decided they were going the halve the rewards you would get from watching ads. As if they couldn’t see the writing on the wall at this point.
I am still playing the game as it is probably the only game I have some level of consistent proficiency, but I am not confident about its future lest something big changes.
Same bro. I played this every frickin day during lockdown. I sacrificed my other apps for a new update. It fell off hard
Just mod the game if you wanna enjoy it (theres for ios and android)
be ready to switch to another game very soon. you should learn how to play games on pc or console. it'll be a new experience
2:02 nostalgia hit me there
You know its a hood day when Kalex uploads
I stopped playing Pixel Gun 3D completely around 2017 or 2018, which were the final good years on PG3D for me. Safe to say, looking at the PG3D now, I miss the PG3D of old. The simple days of playing the basic story, the weapon list and customization being so good, and generally just having fun within matches or even chilling out and chatting with people between matches. But the thing that hurt most about leaving Pixel Gun 3D at the time wasn't the game itself starting to turn sour (though it still stings a bit) or the extensive amount of time put into it on my geekily named "Ohm" player. It was the friends I had left behind years ago. I promised myself I would come back just for my buddies such as Kade and Rogue. Unfortunately, by then, it was probably already too late. And now with hardly anybody playing the game anymore, other than for some nostalgia, it seems like I may never be able to replicate those good times with old friends on newer and better games. Sad to see the game become a husk of its former self, but I guess that's just how all games like this one go out.
As a former PG3D player, I enjoyed the game alot when I was younger. Ever since they started adding more and more overpowered weapons and items, I couldnt keep up anymore and I feel as the game became more “pay to win” rather than just casual grinding and having decent pvp battles with other players.
I remember when prototype would one shot and laser mini gun was amazing but grindy and when I finally got it it was nerfed to oblivion to make the pay to win weapons better and then later I joined back got a sniper called One Shot and now it doesn’t even do what it’s name suggests the game is beyond unbalanced
@@wretchedwendigoSot ikr, i still have the champion minigun and the champion laser sniper thing and I remember being able to one shot ppl with em but now the game is so pay2win, i dont even bother playing it anymore. But yes, I know the prototype, and I have gold for it lol.
I remember playing this when I was 7... I'm nearly 18 now, and I still play a few matches every now and then just bcz of how much I truly loved and appreciated the game back then... it's so I can feel satisfied for playing something I started playing a little over a decade ago. When I miss it, I play it, but no more grind; not worth it. We just gotta move on, sadly, even when it's something you loved/still love. In life, sometimes you need to make sacrifices... well, in this case, it's not so much of a sacrifice anymore, unfortunately
started playing in 2013 , became top 2 sf comp player and top 7 pools player in 2019 when happyprovadim ,alucard king , shloski were in my clan , quit late 2021. miss those days
I remember dominating the space lobby with the purple laser gun and that's even before we had extras like jetpacks or even the other world story mode etc. One of the most fun game I played as a child. It's just simple and perfect, No need for other words
True OG.
The game was already P2W but not as much as it is now.
@-TheUnkownUser exactly its just too much now before it was atleast bearable💀
@@tntmaster7869 I hated that laser... One shot and thru walls?!
That thing was so OP... The 2fort of pixel gun was a nightmare if your enemy had that gun...
@@-TheUnkownUserI remember when the Prototype PSR-1 and the Ultimate Headhunter were two of the most OVERPOWERED weapons back then. They were both a guaranteed 1 tap kill, but they were also difficult to use, which gave them a nice sense of balance.
Those were the good ol days. I remember a time when they had the survival arena. You could get around 500 coins in 30 minutes. Back when it wasn't pay to win :'\
I cried inside watching this the nostalgia hit me like a brick. I tried to get back into it but I couldn't transfer my account across platforms. Furthermore, after this video, I think it's time to let old things rest.
yeah thats a major reason i quit too, device transfers are just too difficult
They used to be insanely easy but once people started trading accounts and the whole account buying got huge, they started mass banning everyone who ever gave their account to anyone else. I got banned like 3 times, was never given a reason nor was my ban ever read by one of the devs. I once waited from October-May waiting for a message from the pixelgun support but they always said the same bs. @@skotskot3379
well i am coming back this year as soon as the pc version comes out it should be awesome@@skotskot3379
You deserve 100m subs fr
Can you pls post more just started watching you and I think you can go far
Hey all, retired PG3D player here. Started playing the game at around 2015, stopped at around 2022. When I played the game for the first time I was incredibly young, and the memories made from playing the game made its way into my little treasure trove. Took a long break from the game in 2018 for personal reasons, and picked it back up in 2020, and in that time, the game had really changed. During that era, the 3catspam playstyle was meta all around, and the game devs had started to become incessantly greedy. But I played it anyways, learned the metas, got some weapons, and finally put the game to rest due to burnout, and the incredible lack of balancing the game had gained. Kind of unfortunate really, the game had so much potential.
Thanks for reading, have a great day/night
I started in 2017 and my prime was in summer 2021, clan wars. I played so much during that time. I kind of got bored of the game in 2023 and became inactive. Now, I haven't played in the past 8 months, but I'm excited for the release on steam. I'm gonna try it out day 1 when its out, I just hope I can connect my android account...
Danm wrote a whole essay 😂
@@XBOYZX1 "retired" like bro go get a real job 😂🫵
i did not read that but good night
The exact same thing happened to me
I miss when the story mode was the main focus and the multiplayer was a side thing to play after finishing the campaign. Such a shame. There were microtransactions back then, yes, but it wasn't nearly as obscene as it is now. I miss it so much.
It's so sad. I remember playing Pixel Gun 3D back in 2014. I would always play capture the flag since that was my favorite mode. Every time my sister decided to play with me I'd turn into a showoff and do trick shots. The thing about this game is that I never paid a dollar and it still was my favorite game of all time. Ahh, good times.
Anyway, great video. You have unlocked a new subscriber!
Same 😩
I dont wanna sound like a boomer but i used to play when the enderdragon boss was the last one in the game and the story ended on a cliff hanger
I remember when I played this game early on in my childhood, and I picked it up again this year. It has changed greatly, and is not the way I remember it. However, I still love the game, and will be sticking around to see where the game goes in the long run
I don't watch pixel gun content but the algorithm knows what we want.
I used to play this all the time and even met friends on there when there was a chill place to hang out. I remembered always waiting for the story chapters to come out. It's such a shame on what happened.
I remember i used to stay awake till 3am playing Monster Co-op, it used to be so fun grinding
One of the main problems that affected me was the gun levels. Me and many other players had high level maxed out guns which were good for that time, but as your player level goes up your guns don’t so you have to upgrade them. For higher level players who just want to have fun and use different weapons, this opposed a very big problem. The prices to upgrade these weapons (especially higher rarity ones) is so massive that by the time you upgraded like 1 or 2 of the weapons you would reach the next level. This means as you play, your guns get worse, leading to them being like absolute garbage so there’s basically no point in using the guns you like.
Man, I remember the good old days when the game was actually balanced. Powerful weapons like the ghost launcher and one-shot had pretty large drawbacks that forced players to use them carefully. Now, it seems like every new mythical weapon brings an innovative way to one-shot your opponents with ease. It’s just way too unbalanced. My breaking point for this game was this one time when I came up to an opponent from behind and unloaded a bunch of headshots on them with an epic automatic weapon, only for them to slowly turn around and one-shot me with a body shot from a mythical sniper rifle. I stopped playing the game then, and haven’t picked it up again to this day. It hurts to see that the game is just trying to chase trendy things like Among Us and Squid Game instead of innovating on its own core mechanics, and it saddens me that this once beloved game is dying out. Still, it’s getting what it deserves for being so greedy.
Thats what happened to me had this good rifle forgot name but it was the best hard earned then they add some dumb 1 shot bat cannon in and i was like yup goodbye.
Peacemaker and that purple prototype sniper thing were the most powerful weapons back in like 2014 or 2015, or at least that’s what i think and they carried me to the top of the server, recently (like few years ago, not too long) i went back and played it and was surprised by how easy it is to have that purple sniper… and it’s no longer a one shot weapon
This game was insane in its first few years, multiplayer was genuinely fun, and the story had a strange amount of depth that had me waiting months for the next chapter.
Wait there a story ?
@@juliusamobi733campaign mode
@@juliusamobi733Yeah there was a story mode. It isn't something I'd say had "a strange amount of depth" though.
i was there in the early days when the game hadnt reached half a million yet and was there until it was pushing its prime and i went blank during the early prime and then I rejoined in its prime and played the whole story mode and after finishing I left and never decided to go back.
The fact that I got a pixel gun ad before this is pure gold
Seeing this was heartbreaking. That was what my entire childhood consisted of for a certain period. It wasn’t just a shooter neither. It was also a social game to chill, away from all he shooting and you could even create your own skin.
I'm surprised it took them this long to die off even, the minecraft resource pack owners did talk about how Pixel Gun stole some of their texture here and there without permission, one of biggest victim was Dokucraft team, one of biggest resource pack community too.
it brings back so much memories seeing this but also sadness. I remember i used to play pg3d every time i came back from school in 2016, i was also really good in it and i was max too but years later i lost my account and when i asked the devs to help me return it or at least give me a few things back they refused to give me anything or even try helping me this is why i hate pg3d they r greedy and not willing to help or even try making the game better but its still sad to see how the game has become and i remember i used to get scared by the slender map