Hey there people! I know it has been a while and I do apologize for that but work has been keeping me from working on this video a LOT and in addition to that I had to figure out how to even make a video that has next to no gameplay so that took me a little while too. Well I do hope you like the end result. Feedback is as always appreciated! I am currently in the process of gathering all the sources I cited in this video (guess who never once thought of bookmarking even a single one of them) and once I am done I will be posting them in the description of this video. Ok turns out I cannot fit all my sources in the description so....I may just add them to this comment....maybe
I haven't been able to add half of my sources to the description and I don't wanna clog this comment with even more sources so the latter half of the video has no sources in the description T-T
How stupid is this video? 40 years ago, games of pixel art, low-quality music, and made by less than 10 people, cost 60 dollars. Nowadays, games of beautiful graphic, massive open world, engaging stories, cinematic music and voice acting, made by near 1000 people, even after 40 years of inflation, yet still cost 60 dollars. And you are complain about price and microtransactions.
The issue is not the industries. They are not the cause. The people are the cause. If hundreds of millions of people stopped buying the trash that is only when companies will give good games again because as of right now we don't deserve good games when we keep spending quadrillions on buying this crap. Don't blame the assholes giving away poison blame the endless hordes that keep stupidly believing the poison is fountain of youth water. As long as the masses keep buying crap the companies will sell crap because they are giving what the people want. People want garbage so these industries sell it for billions. Pal World is a tiny nearly worthless drop of hope in the endless oceans of garbage but most people still refuse to play it because they want more garbage. Stop defending the players that buy the crap.
The worst part is that these games aren't even good. Most of them are just high graphics, poor gameplay clones of one another. An endless torrent of overpriced under performing, unfun dross
This is mainly due to the high cost of development. Because it costs so much the developers cannot take many risks to innovate in their product so they stick to tried and "true" methods, which leads to stagnation and for some reason they then also get mismanaged which is honeslty impressive
IMO.. and this goes for all yearly releases, madden, 2k, sports in general. If you bought last years version, you should get the new one as a 30$ dlc. Buying new? Then full price. This seems fair for the repaste stuff. It's not like you're creating an all new game. I'm not that current on team rosters and such. A game from 5 years ago is the same to me.
Baldurs Gate 3, Spiderman 2, Alan Wake 2, Armored Core 6, Elden Ring, Totk, etc. You just say the most boomer ass argument just retire gaming at this point if all you guys do is complain more. Go find another hobby
@ItsHawx agreed you can not get new games MTX, etc but we are the minority and wouldn't affect them. I have alot of retro games so I barely play new ones I had more fun playing nfl blitz than most of the new games I have
this is a thing really prevalent in the destiny community. Yes they may have lost 45% of revenue but that is because they had way too high goals set for themselves. They are still making bank. Admittedly less bank now with game fatigue but there are still people that endlessly spend money in it. I new someone who could not stand not having every single item in the store and they kept buying everything season over season.
It's never going to happen. People nowadays are so desperate for constant content that the thought of not having a new game RIGHT FREAKING NOW is not an option to the ADHD rattled mind.
Don't pay for the service. Close the game when you read EULA and delete it from your system. It's that simple. Games are services until players stop paying.
Years ago, Sid Sheinberg of Universal said this about VHS. “You should not be able to pay 80 dollars for a copy of Jaws to watch whenever you want. You should have to pay every single time you want to watch.” This is what both the movie and game industry would love to do, if they had their druthers. They’re closer than ever to that goal now.
Same with the Music Industry - only way to listen is by paying (crypto?]currency to an online jukebox[one-armed bandit?) ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ time you want to hear a song[album?).
Well, if we are making a product thats exactly what we all want...however not everyone care about what we want and thats why we kinda have to balance what we want and what customer want...otherwise no more customer for you. Unless you are monopolizing the industry, there is no way you can do all you want without your competitor trying to capitalize on your bad business decision.
Wen digital games were being first talked about, they told us without packaging, disc burning, store space, digi games will cost at least 30% less! Never even dropped a penny and in a lot of cases, digi games cost more than disc versions!
@@A1stardan it's sad, but true, 10-20 years ago you where presented with a choice, PC or console. I experienced the PS1 to PS2 to PS3 anti consumer problems and chose to go PC over PS3. It was nice to have a console back when a PC cost a fortune in the 90's to early 2000, but from 2004-2006 and on that changed. The system I build in 2006 that could play Battlefield 2 at near max settings cost less than 2 times the launch price of the PS3. Pondering on the difference between the 2 groups I realize, I have not bought a hard copy of a game since 2006. (besides Elder scrolls collectors edition that sits unopened on the shelf). And I have never been in a situation where a game is forever backward incompatible with my system. (except games that require mods as they use GPU and give AI infinite APM)
@@GeeWee700Depends on the nature of the crash. I think indie companies exist by the grace of the devoted fans who won't be going anywhere. And the prices for the indie games are already humane.
Gaming went from people with the passion to create and share fantasy worlds with others to a media being about balding business men wanting to make as much money as possible without losing too much and with as little effort as possible. No more passion, no more creative and unique experiences, just a bunch of subscriptions, features that used to be part of the core game being sold later, more gambling than actual casinos, it's all just a graph, and the only care for the rising green arrow.
the corporate suits seen that the industry was raking in more cash than hollywood and they decided they wanted a huge chunk..what they spend it on is beyond me as you can only spend so much in one day even if your a billionaire..
Been saying about Blizzard forever now. It used to be a company made by gaming nerds for other gaming nerds. Now it's people in suits making a game for literally every single person they can get to download the game to increase profits.
@@pedroamaralcoutoThose laws were made in good faith to stop piracy back when we owned physical media. Now they’re just being exploited to steal consumers products and sell it back to them
@@r3tr0sp3ct3r Same here. I don't get why people even bother reviewing modern games since we know the deal with them. Old games are where its at. God Bless.
I only play old games now, most recent game i played was Elden Ring and that was phenomenal but nothing else has been good. Won’t have to upgrade my pc until it absolutely craps itself LOL 😝 gonna save both time and money so that’s good 👍🏻
This is why indie games are becoming more and more popular. They don't pull of the same blatant shit that AAA studios do. Many indie titles are also offered through GoG, allowing consumers to really own their purchases.
AA is becoming the new AAA. being able to offer indie new concepts and refreshing takes reinvigorating the genre, while also having the budget and manpower.
this is why I never buy AAA games on release anymore. not only are they overpriced but they are unfinished full of bugs or MXT or a mix of all 3. Meanwhile indie games are destroying these supposid AAA games and are actually fun and worth their price.
I grew up in the Nintendo days and about a year ago bought a cheap 360 but when my gamer mate is like buy a ps5 im like nah no thanks il just buy $2 cod and sniper games and play small amounts because thats all the time i have anyway and avoid mircro transactions.
Its not just the gaming industry. Everything gets more expensive but the quality or service lower. Luckily for them this planet is filled with codependant consumers that blindly consume any garbage presented to them.
The problem started when a bunch of idiots decided pre ordering games is a good idea. In addition to that the ability to update games afterwards gives the publishers another excuse to push out unfinished garbage.
Pre-Orders are such a bad trend man....Though I do not see them going away at all anymore. I mean I guess I hope people at least just pre-order from studios they can trust at this point
Pre-ordering from reliable companies, with a proven track record is fine. Continuing to pre-order from companies that provide a crap launch experience time after time is a problem. The real problem? MBA's and Marketing Executives having over represented influence on the budget, and development decisions. Steve Jobs from Apple Understood you can't go ask what people want - people are GREAT at recognizing a problem, they are TERRIBLE at making a good suggestion of how to fix it, and it has to do with the fact that MOST people (those marketing execs and MBA's included) don't consider second order consequences; and good decissions need to think about second, and third order consequences. If you want a prime example? Go look at World of Warcraft Pre and Post Activision buyout of Blizzard. It is Activision that shoved the dungeon finder in - which immediately lead to increased toxicity in the game. It is Activision that pushed for casualization of core systems to be more accessible - and the end result was taking an already fairly easy to master game and trivialize it. And beyond this, more changes pushed ultimately lead to a growing chore list to push for more Daily Active users and push people to play more - until, people got frustrated, fell behind (because they say, went on vacation for a week) and they quit the game - some people would go back for the next expansion but less, and less over time. So the real answer? Avoid games from the big conglomerate publishers (ex: Ubisoft, Activision, and EA).
The only way I can see to fight this trend is to simply never buy the game. Even if they fix it later, if it's broken at launch, they will not get my money. Policy I made for myself after Battlefield 2042 came out. Gotta fight these guys by keeping your money.
@@artemiseritu That's why you do research? See reviews, don't immediately jump on bandwagons. I assumed people did that when it came to AAA games but fact AAA industry is still alright and kicking prove me wrong. Quality of indies is most of the time on par or better than AAA games when it comes to gameplay.
Correction: Just buy GOOD AAA games. 🤷 Correction: Just buy GOOD GAMES. I like most of the Sony stuff (not into the games for little teenagers though). I like FromSoft, Rockstar, ... yeah, I'm not good with company names. I like "cheap" games, too. ...Deep Rock, Ender Lillies, Steamworld, Sea of Stars, ... still can't remember the dev's names. 😅
The AAA company's are now making indie sized teams and a lot of them in order to combat this AAA bad movement. Big business always sucks the joy outta anything good for their own benefits. Hopefully this fight last long enough to wake all corners of gamer community up to this madness.
I don't pre-order anything...I don't buy games at launch...I wait a year or two or longer and buy the $70 game for $15 to $20...I just bought Assassin's Creed Valhalla for $15
The solution to this is to stop preordering, wait to see how the game plays at launch, don't buy it if it's broken or borderline unplayable. Even if they fix the game, say 'Nope. Release a complete game if you want my money. Better luck next time.'
@@LAGator-qu7tc It's very simple. Keep buying and preordering, they will continue to release it whether it's ready or not and figure they can fix it later. Gotta fight these large companies by not opening your wallet if they launch a subpar or broken product.
As someone who also remembers it, I prefer the here and now. That being said, I do agree we are being scammed, but that's because we have no regulations on corporations. Regulations are the antidote to capitalism's corporate takeover.
Gran turismo 7 is the best example of this because it's not an online service game like so many of the other ones that nickel and dime you. It's a beloved offline series that has no need for microtransactions and yet they shoehorn them in and slow down the single player offline progress just so you would feel the desire to buy cars with real money rather than grind for them like we all used to.
@@LiamFitzpatrick-pzzzt discs don't last, but the modern online-only game purchases are still kind of a scam. Back then when you wanted to buy an older game, the physical copy dropped the price significantly, as it should. It's an older game, older technology etc. Now we can see literal 15-20 years old games on Steam, sometimes still rocking a good 20-30$ price range for no reason.
If anything I'd say this gives more validation to emulation as companies cannot be trusted with keeping games alive rather than piracy but I see where you are coming from
@benjamintudor9475 you say that like we care any more. Their actions should have been made illegal long ago. Unjust laws deserve to be broken. The letter may not be unjust. But the spirit certainly is
I don’t care about the developers who make these crappy games. They got the blood on their hands too. If they get fired, good. Maybe the business men should buy some talent instead of buying hookers. Attitude reflects leadership. And developers with terrible attitudes give everyone bad games.
20 years ago, we were all playing FarmVille and mafia wars, wondering why anyone would pay money for progression. Meanwhile psychologists got it right back then (for once) and raised the alarm on how the business model was weaponized gambling. Naturally the gaming industry said “So you’re saying it has tremendous potential to make money? You’re saying we can release absolute crap games, just good enough to get people to the online store, and make even more money whilst doing it?” They then took this information and acted accordance with their values. Back in the day, the tobacco industry grew under the genuine false impression that smoking was harmless. Their sin was the propaganda campaign they built to defend their bottom line after they learned how bad it was for people. The gaming industry is far worse. They knew what they were doing up front and built an industry around it.
@@ClearGalaxiesLike There's no 40 yr old man who is gonna buy a skin on fortnite though. Most of em are 7-13 year olds depending on the skin/content. There are a few older ones who grew up with fortnite spending on there just because.
@@ClearGalaxiesCoD is targeting low IQ teenagers who this is the only thing they know because they can't see past the window at this point. They beg their mommy much like the fortnite children to buy mtx. You can tell bc of the Cod TH-camrs/Streamers finessing them with their content.
The fact of the matter is this: 100,000 players play (insert game) while only 10% pay outrageous costs for micro/macro-transactions. Those 10,000 users make up the cost of the 90% who refuse to pay additional fees for temporary cosmetics/boosters/P2W elements. Even if 5% of that community paid out thousands of dollars, each individual, this would still encourage the use of monetary schemes. We've allowed for this to happen, and it all started with Horse Armour. Now, we pushed back against NFT bullshit, this is true, and we're pushing against AI being used to replace paid voice acting/artists, and lootboxes, but we have yet to collectively push back against MACRO-TRANSACTIONS.
You really think anything will change under capitalism? Games are made for profit and that will NEVER change under said system. This change in gaming was going to happen no matter what. If you don’t like it, too bad blame capitalism
The fact that Sony doesn't allow refunds is why I am very very picky about my purchases & I escaped the Cyberpunk PS4 issue by pre ordering it physically & once I saw the PS4 leaks I returned the delivery box unopened & purchase later for $10.
@@therabidscorpion old enough to have been through all of them. The industry always came out better on the other side. Loving alot of these new indy games and watching these bloated mega corps that have destroyed games the last 20ish years choke on it.
I can't remember the last AAA game I bought. Seriously, looked up my Steam library and what is installed and looked up my physical library. They are all either indie or re-releases. dude, I was "upgrade your patato to keep up" PC master race.
Recently bought Forbidden West on PC but only was able to play it today. Cutscenes with more than 3 characters in them make the fps drop to 8 to 14fps. Some of the optimization settings cause lower fps and stuttering, like what the hell and to get a stable 60fps I had to mod in a better version of DLSS. I have more headaches with trying to enjoy these games than....enjoying them. I am now just skipping the cutscenes in my game cuz I refuse to look at cutscenes with 8fps and just pause the game and look at them on youtube. I am so glad I started playing more indie games since I started TH-cam cuz I would most likely still just be playing Destiny 2 because of how crappy most other triple A releases are now.
Actually though. My library has mostly older games that were finished products or indie games. How bad BF2042 was at launch was the last straw and I'm glad I didn't buy it. They didn't deserve my money.
Oh I did. All said "oh what a stellar port" or "the optimization is great". None of the ones I looked at mentioned that a specific setting makes it worse. The cutscene thing was mentioned but I didn't know it was THIS bad
I miss the days of buying a disk and playing the game. Now it's updates and battle passes and dlc and exclusive blah blah without actual good gameplay most of the time
I would have never started gaming if it wasn’t that way. There’s just something special about keeping the disc, making sure it’s clean, and putting it back inside the case when you switch another game.
I've been pretty good at dodging the scams by.. 1. Never purchasing live service or pay to win games 2. Waiting at least six months (sometimes years) for a newly released game to be patched/reduce in price. Also, by then complete editions are usually available which include all major DLC. 3. Putting in a bit of research before purchasing (as you should do with all things that cost money)
Optimistic. Most of these crap games are publicly-funded. Gov'ts trying to grow their own domestic gaming sectors. CDProjekt Red is BAD about this; Ubisoft and Activision are global investment vehicles. They have zero risk. It's very likely that, in the event of catastrophic gaming market failure in any country with large investments in their gaming sector, you'll see an American Obama-era bailout for 'too big to fail' or 'cultural legacy' reasons. Reminder: communism is just the practice of forcibly-distributing accountability, and taxpayers will bear the brunt of the fallout from these crappy practices.
Totally valid. I hesitated adding capcom to the script but I couldn't in good conscious leave them out simply because I like them. While they are slower to introduce anti consumer practices they still add them and that needs to be called out
@@ItsHawx they may be slower, but I would also argue more severe. DRM basically means there is now a server somewhere with an additional switch that must stay on for you to play your game you did NOT agree to be restrained by. THAT ALONE makes it unforgivable in my eyes. Slower or not.
@@therealjaystone2344 that it did... but when them breaking can potentially kill the games I bought from them... Im just done with them.... they can do what they want or release the greatest game ever... they will never get another dime from me.
The moral of this video seems to be: "Only trust companies that aren't in a strong enough financial or good-will position to take advantage of you." Sad but true.
Example of companies that aren't in a strong enough financial to take advantage of you. Team Mica/XD Indie who recently released a day 1 full game without mtx called, Reverse Collapse on Steam.
I haven’t played a video game since 2020 but I still like watching these videos, keeping up with the news, and just kinda watching the gaming industry burn. It’s really sad. I stopped gaming actually due to me becoming very religious and wanting to live a minimalist lifestyle but it’s still really sad to watch things like this and hear all my friends talk about how tv, games, and practically everything is being ruined by companies like these. I left gaming due to my religion but I actually really encourage people to just stop playing these games as well, seriously, the best way to show these companies how you feel is to stop playing their games
You’re in the right direction man. Top seeded companies in every part of the industry have just become a Machine. Gaming becoming impacted more recently, you’d only hope that the same passion for creating these titles would return. But the world and the powers that be are moving forward like this as a whole.
I reject the numbers they give. I don't think they are spending billions on game development because the games they are making are either remakes or of such poor quality they must cost a fraction of proper development from the past. They are laundering this money for other projects or motivations. If they are firing competent employees and replacing them with incompetent ones it's safe to assume they are paying them far less money or like I said laundering the money through these avenues.
Interesting perspective, I always thought the budgets were wasted on purchasing assets, copyrights and licences, especially when they always use the same game engines as eachother. These garbage dev’s certainly dont build their terrible games from scratch, it always looks copy pasted.
You guys have no idea how much costs to make the high graphics 3d models you love so much. Games cost a lot and are bad because they spend all budget on high-end graphics.
15 years of whining about this on TH-cam. I've seen the numbers... a game with microtransactions and lootboxes makes so much doe, no amount of whining will change anything. Stop gambling with lootboxes, stop paying, stop hyping up games before it's obvious they won't have additional monetization. It's there because it works.
That's what I always say. If it didn't work, the publishers wouldn't do it. We players are the only ones to blame for the situation. There's no point in us bitching about the evil games industry in whatever online forums and then buying the games anyway.
Also, don't play a game that has microtransactions. As long as the game has a player base, it will attract the people that buy microtransactions. So just by playing the game, even without buying microtransactions, you are already supporting this practice.
e sports and other online competitions are a huge problem ,they give the impression that gaming is still popular and profitable..when as far as im aware most of these online gamers only play 3 or 4 games..none of the e sports winners do anything else ...
Incredible write up on the video mate, subscribed to your channel at 11:20ish and exactly 10sec later, your doing the plug. The build up, to the plug is perfect. Well done and good video!
Back in the day we spent a lot of money at arcades. The Golden era of gaming is the time between the microtransactions of the aecades and the microtransactions of live service games.
Piracy is understandably frowned upon if you place yourself in the shoes of the devs. But with the shit that game publishers (not devs, most of the time) pull off, it's giving more and more valid reason to sail the seven seas.
@@ItsHawx ALMOST completely agreed. Im not against abandonware or if the publisher does something that turns off the game for you, going out to reclaim it. (Hell I am hunting a few titles that fit BOTH AT ONCE) But aside from those, I pretty much just say go ahead, guys... Im not gonna argue... just.. not interested myself
So, I get to pay the most for the worst version of the game to get an extra 3 days on my rental? How have prices skyrocketed so much that in the 90’s a video game rental was around $3 and you knew exactly when you had to stop playing to return it, while today a rental is $69.99 and you have no idea when you’ll be forced to stop playing it? Physical copy or not, game companies have told gamers to, “Be prepared not to own your games.” My ? Is, why is it still called BUYING when it’s at best a lease or worse, a rental?
It's sad that most of these companies started out as some guys in some garage at some garage. That's why Kojima refused to enter Kojima Production as a recognized company with stocks and stuff. He knows shareholders would focus on profit rather than the games, and the man sees games as an artform.
I stopped buying games if i can't play offline and without updating! I don't like people changing my game every few weeks . I also only buy physical games only . Give me 15 million and i can make a AAA game myself in 4 to 5 years easy .These guys i don't know wtf they are doing lol .
I have so many pysical games from when I still was on console and for the nintendo switch I do not know where to put them now. It is actually a problem for me to find space for them
Gamedev is not that easy. Just watch how many Kickstarters fail, not because it was a scam, but because the people behind the project didn't knew how to manage it.
Whenever I hear someone suggest raising game prices in exchange for removing macrotransaction I'm instantly reminded of how it was argued that digital distribution will make games cheaper thanks to getting rid of all the packaging and logistics costs and how that turned out.
I feel like indie games don’t spend this much on marketing, I’m fairly certain only big established companies think putting that much money into marketing is acceptable.
Which is insane if you think about it. Most indies I have played merely use gameplay for trailers, which alone saves money and pleases customers too as we prefer gameplay trailers over cgi trailers that say literally nothing about a game and waste way too much money
It’s because their game is so terrible they have to spend so much money marketing the game otherwise nobody would care, if these triple AAA games went without marketing, their game would financially fail miserably since every gamer would be talking about the GOOD games like hollow knights.
That’s survivorship bias. Indie games are great because you’ve only heard of and played the good ones. There’s thousands of dead indie games that either got no traction, or more likely just completely sucked.
...Publishers want me to pay $20 bucks for the "color blue" when modders take the time out their day to create something of higher quality for free. This is why I play on PC and sometimes support Modders on Patreon which for some reason is still cheaper than getting the color blue.
It is kind of funny how it all comes full circle. The gaming industry startet with game developers who made games from their garages and elswhere before they became what they are now, crushing everyone else under them. And now people who start like them make better games than they do now. For the most part. On the other hand I fear that those small studios become the same way.
15:34 "Game price raised by 10 bucks from ps3 era to ps5" while in underdeveloped countries the games are triple the price and sometimes 1/3 of minimum wage😢
The gaming industry is the only one were a company can make more than ever of things like micro transactions only to turn round and fire the people who got them there because investors always want growth it is a disgusting practice
these people make life changing money in a year and yet they still want more I don't even understand how they can spend that much money that they'd require more
@@ItsHawxIt doesn't matter how much you make. If you invested in something, you would want profit from it. If it didn't give you increasing profits, you would stop investing.
Gaming development and the modern day clusterfck of corporations was never going to go the distance. When you have a handful of guys on a shoestring budget that can make a better more popular game than an international company with 100s of millions "spent on development" what more proof do you need? And lets be honest, we can all guess that alot of that development money went into the pockets of useless corporate management types.
This is absolutely fueled by FOMO. The people who want to skin every character with every skin available to it gain nothing by doing so, there is no stat increase that comes with them, but they have been sold on the "completionist" mindset and if the next person has it then they will feel like they are the lesser player for some reason. This is the kind of stuff that needs a psychiatrist to talk to about the issue. I am not by any means defending the game industry for predatory practices, but come on if you feel that is really something you need then you have other issues going on that need addressed. "Paying $30 extra to get it on actual launch day"...no actual launch day is the day it is launched to the public at the original price agreed upon, if you want early access because again you feel you will miss out on something then that is on you and your shrink to work out together. The gaming industry is stupid, but gamers aren't too far behind them honestly.
People still spend massive amounts of money for literally nothing in return. Thats the reason why this will never stop. Multiplayer games are completely unplayable. Imagine you buy a disc Put it into your console and could play it IMMEDIATELY. Just iiiimaaaaagine.
gamers knew for years that all of this was coming. and we still continued to support the behaviours that are making the gaming industry fail. we have our choice to continue supporting behaviours that will destroy the gaming or to stand against it so that we can save and improve the gamin landscape.small actions can save the industry
i saw it coming once call of duty 4 came around and watchdogs,assasins creed as well...these were sub par games to begin with despite the reviews, even back then i could see that if they didn't change the sequels enough it would be the excat same game....never saw what the hype was around cod4 either...its a good game but nothing i hadn't seen before..even back then..
The dumbest part is a truly great game really will sell itself. Gamers talk about what they love to play because of their passion. Just spend your damn money making a solid product and your ROI will be through the roof.
Capcom may have held out long but they are on nasty down streak that has just started recently some less than 6 months ago. Their retro stuff prices gone up. ex: Arcade Stadium games are no longer sub euro prices anymore on sales and then the DRM inclusion suddenly retroactively has made me ice all capcom purchases. I am a collector so i bought and paid for the old stuff to get 'legal copies' as i in reality have the stuff on other media such as handhelds. No more. Piracy it seems is the only way forward if you are a collector. Literally no options again unless you want to be milked and then removed from your games some day since clearly 'you dont own the games you buy'. Game pass people don't care and i understand but us Collectors care. A lot. Of course there is the millionaire streamer route if you want to pay eBay prices for real stuff. Can't do that, spent my time and money on a specific retro already. Unable to do that again for others i want as there is literally no limit to top price to pay and i still would not be able to get what i want even if i add a lot more to the budget. Capcom may be rolling good right now particularly after latest SF success that was pure genius in my opinion with the casual control but there are cracks on the surface elsewhere.
I have noticed Capcom going down a worse route lately. Hence why I didn't wanna leave them out of this video either. Them cracking down on mods after declaring PC to be their main focus platform going forward and then delivering a rather bad release version of DD2 really makes their committment to PC sound iffy.
This is one reason I'm just modding my current consoles and going PC. The only companies I will really be buying from at this point is Nintendo, GOG and then Steam. Everything else like the Xbox and PlayStation can fuck off. Ownership to them is a joke. If I have to deal with BS ownership and consoles that depend on the Internet so much that they hardly function without it, go to PC. There are restrictions there but AT LEAST things like GOG exist. Where you don't have to worry about your digital games being at risk. Like seriously. The only things we can do is to stop buying them and voice how we feel. I'm also going backwards at this point. I just Modded my PS3 and have been playing older games with private servers and having an absolute blast! But man. I'm fine with gaming this way. No worries about games be fucked up, I have more control and I can mod new games too? The idea of a console is a joke nao... Like seriously. The benefits of them have been washed away and people are more worried about brands than the rights they have as a consumer. But whatever. I'm going to get back to playing Halo 2. Did you know that you can play the original Halo 2 online right nao In All it's glory? Through insignia and a modded original Xbox you can. Lol don't need new games at all when there are SOOOOO many games I haven't even played yet from years ago.
@@therealjaystone2344 I'm well aware of that but I'd rather keep my switch, I find Value in the way the switch works and the games that I enjoy on that platform. Unless Nintendo start doing BS online restrictions like the Xbox and Playstation, I'm stay with them and PC.
Yup, that's my line-up as well. Steam has DRM, which sucks, and Valve is slow as hell, which sucks, but Valve is not publicly traded and they're consumer-friendly - they hand out dev tools, dedicated server software, their hardware is built to be repaired the works. My Index was broken and they sent a new one. My account was hacked and they fixed it within a day. Keep an eye on Humble Bundle and you'll always have some decent games to play, for super-cheap. Nintendo makes good games (at least for each of their games' specific target audience), and their physical games don't require an online connection. It sucks how they treat fans and it sucks how they've moved from selling virtual console games to 'renting' them with Switch Online (which I'll never get), though. GoG is just fantastic in every possible game. No DRM. Super-cheap sales. Hunting after older titles. Fixes and patches so games run on modern systems. And then there's emulation for absolute gems that are impossible to get for normal humans. Good luck playing Mother 3, for example.
@@Skeletons_Riding_Ostriches yeah, at the end of the day, I just want to play video games. The steam deck is fantastic so far. Being able to play both my steam and Gog games on it is so great. :3 at least on steam, I know what to fully expect when it comes to ownership. I had a few < no Internet for a month or 2? surprise mother fucker! You can't play this digital game you paid full price for on your home Xbox! Lol too bad for yooooou!>that ended my Xbox legacy and when the PS5 slim came out and they added a lock to the disc drive. That was it. I just dumped the idea of getting a PS5 or new Xbox at that point. I'm going to have a build that can play games soon but I just wanted to get a steam deck to start. It's like the switch in a few ways and it does work offline.( I know there must be some kind of catch though. Lol) So it has a lot of points over Sony and Microsoft right now.
They make it easier for us! My next game and (first released) literally make fun of this in it’s lore whilst being an actual game at the same time. The game is a 4th wall breaking satire. No commercials. No skins. Offline play. No toxic ingame currencys. Good video, man! It’s refreshing to see more people that see through this sh*t 😂 I don’t expect to have much sucess with my game, it is more of a statement.
The most anoying thing about modern (AAA) gaming is the hyperfocussed trend chasing instead of trend setting we have. These games are caught in an endless loop of copying from one another. This seems to have started with the popularity of Mobas and got out of hand with the INSANE popularity of Battle Royales. It doesnt feel like the industry wants to innovate anymore and worse, it seems many gamers dont want innovation, but the same crap over and over again.
You guys: We can't fight this downward spiral of micro transactions and pay-to-win ripoffs! Me: You cannot win, but there are alternatives to pir... fighting. Fighting! Alternatives to fighting!
It's honestly share holders problem. Every game must make sure the bar goes up or else the stocks crash and share holders pull out. It's not a sustainable business practice. Since people are turning away to play indie games.
This is one of the more reasons why Indie gaming or let alone some of the much more older games of the past are becoming more playable in common through Generation Z. i hope this trend continues.
The issue with the ‘pay once and keep’ model is that companies would likely need to sell a game for £100+ to be viable which people won’t pay for. The industry found its ceiling £50-£60 and other ways to generate revenue. Like it or not, Fortnite is highly profitable. Where’s the incentive not to copy the model? I hate Micro-transactions and I miss ‘buy once’ games, hence why I’ve stuck with Nintendo. Even they will change in time.
I'm at the point where I went from being okay with cosmetic only mtx to not even wanting to give them that much. Mostly because it seems like games are just being made now to sell that stuff. Where things that could've easily just been included in the base game are available for purchase within weeks of the game being released.
I am interested to see if that actually will happen or not. I am more tending towards it will be cushioned out by new studios getting the spotlight forcing the old guard to step their game up
Coming?! It crashed for me in 2017, because that was the last year when I purchased a video game... and it was also the last year when I played a video game with over 10% completion. All I've done since then is just following along the further downfall of the video game industry, and fiddling with retro emulators and testing stuff out, with occasional 10-20 minutes of gameplay just to satisfy nostalgia. It's really been a while since I last spent dozens of hours playing some game!!...
95% of the gaming community does not support these practices, but the 5% that do spend enough to justify publishers to continue this path. These companies tell themselves to continue the live services path because they believe the revenue from one success will make up for the 10 previously failed ones. Is it bad for the industry? No doubt. They do not care though. At least I’m saving money.
That's not true. 95% of the gaming community don't pay for microtransactions, but they still play the game. Having an active player base is what attracts the 5%, the so called whales, to pay for the 95% that don't pay. So as long as you play a game that has microtransactions you are supporting this practice.
All those developers with their experience that got laid off will be the competition that the AAA market should be afraid of. Games doesn't cost millions to make, only the handful people at the top are causing this issue, while the people working on that game won't even get close to 1% of that. Game companies that deal with investors aren't there to give you a great game experience, but they exist to try and squeeze ever single dime out of your pocket and still give you that empty feeling wanting you to spend more to get that happy feeling for one second. That is why I support Indie game companies more and more and enjoy their games a lot. In the past I would buy almost every single AAA game from the big companies, but now it all turned to shit.
Honestly yea! I really want to see what these newly formed studios made up of industry veterans come up with. Privately owned dev studios, such as larian and arrowhead also just show how public studios are not getting any benefits from going public. Also man indie games have been stepping up lately. Genuinely insane quality and quantity from them. I cannot wait to see more
Most of those developers will likely leave the industry altogether. There are simply far too many games, period. On Steam alone, 14000 games were released on that storefront last year. Completely unsustainable.
@@lycanwarrior2137highly doubtful. The gaming industry is bigger than movies and music combined and almost half of the world are gamers. So no, there aren't too many games, you saying this is actively going against the consumer. The more options and choices a consumer has, the more control they possess. Imagine a world where there's only a few games to pick from, all under 2-3 major corporations. Oh wait that's basically how it is in other industries. Yeah so more games is the best solution to fight against AAA.
It's wild also how homogenous the graphics to these games all look. I'd rather play PS2 era games bc they were somehow just more fun while looking more like actual games
The need to go more and more photorealistic is kinda...weird cuz photorealism keeps getting pushed making your game look weird at some point. Giving your game a proper artstyle will future proof it and give it more personality
@@ItsHawx Video games which have distinct artstyle or are cell-shaded hold up against time. I think one of the best examples is POP 2008, if it were released even at this year with similar type of artstyle, people would've liked it because of how visually appealing that is. Only thing that photorealism does is to make all the games look and feel same
@@ItsHawx i still hold out for vr to be the future of gaming despite its flaws and misuse ...its still what gaming should be striving towards ,forget the mishaps,vr was always the future of gaming and entertainment its just it hasn't been done right yet...
2023? One of the best years for gaming? Was that article writen by a Zoomer? I remember when there where lines outside of electronics retailers for the latest console. Sheesh, companies sometimes had to release games on weekends or after 3:00PM just to keep kids from playing hookey to go buy the game and play it. Games were a labour of love and it showed. Developers poured their hearts and thousands of hours into game with limited tools and resources to release a highly polished work of perfection. 1987-2011 was video gaming at its peak. Its been all downhill since then.
AAA gaming is falling, AA/INDIE is crushing. Look at hell divers 2! Absolutely gaming done right. I believe it will have a positive profound impact on the gaming industry.
@zerascarlet8733 and the micro transaction Is actually micro And you can found the premium currency in game And the premium warbonds only advantage is it looks cool
@@zerascarlet8733 Aleast the micro transaction is actually micro And those currency can be found in game And the premium war bond can be purchase without paying and they're only advantage is that it look cool but other than that they're meh compared to the free one
@@zerascarlet8733 - seriously. I bought it and regret it. The grind on it is too much for a paid/non-f2p game, plus the amount of people griefing teammates is so bad I recently uninstalled and moved on. There's no way to even block griefers. I wish everyone would stop suck that game's dick like it's "microtransactions done right" - no way.
@zerascarlet8733 if you played it you know you can also get those credits to buy the "microtransactions" in game instead of having to shell out money from the get go like AAA games like gta and fortnite
Im really glad that im behind when it comes to games. Just a few months ago i bought a used copy of The Witcher 3 for $8 and ive been loving my first play through just like many people did 9 years ago lol
I don't do microtransactions at all. If a game needs microtransactions to buy important items I don't buy the game, if the game just sells appearance items, I can live with it as they are not needed. I don't buy games on release date anymore, I watch some poor dude play it online (like Skull and Bones, I felt actually sorry for the player to endure that) and decide if it's worth. Best example is my Son, he needed each year the new FIFA, as everyone switched for online play to the new one, that ment building up your Ultimate Team again, I told him that is stupid waste of money and time each year the same for nothing. Since 2 years he is not asking for FIFA anymore or is even playing it, as even he is sick of the constant cycle.
The scariest thing imo is that this pattern of pricing everything comes from the society itself , the gaming industry just followed along . Working a regular job will barely afford you a house ( probably not without a roommate ) and everything has become stupid expensive overall compared to our grandparents who they worked part time in McDonald’s and could make a decent living even buy their own house and make some money on the side . The funny thing is that if a price goes up and the consumer still buys it it will never go down . And this is not me speaking it’s coming from a lot of economists . Idk everything is so frustrating expensive and out of reach . The only way to balance things out is by boycotting a product so the seller has to basically drop the price . But this is also a very rare scenario
The battle for videogaming as a hobby cant really be permanently lost as long as it operates in a free market. Companies that somehow make their money from the videogaming hobby needs money rolling in, consumers hold the ultimate power by simply buying what they like and avoiding what they dislike.
The problem is that people complain about this games and play it anyway. The guy in the video complained about pre-orders and admitted to buy pre-orders. He complained about Bungie, because he still plays Destiny 2.
Except that money equals power. Companies literally have the money to brainwash people into buying their games anyway. They have the money to actively harm any 'actually good' competition.
Vote with your wallet people! I've bought 3 games over the last 2 years: Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and Helldivers 2. Don't pre-order games, don't buy mtx. Helldivers 2 has mtx, but it's only cosmetics, and they usually have WORSE stats than the regular items, making it more like pay-to-lose, or just a cool way to support the devs. Plus, literally everything can be bought with currency which can be earned in-game. Stop giving these crappy companies your money people. Let their companies fail, force them to provide a good service to their customers
Gonna be honest I highly doubt that "Vote with your wallet" will work. It hasn't worked for years. Hence why I didn't say that myself. But I like the enthusiasm!
how are these companies spending fortunes on marketing when, as an avid gamer in my late 20s, I haven't heard a peep about 99% of new games until after they launch and youtubers start talking about them. are they paying to hang signs up in old folks homes or what? there's zero marketing making it's way to my demographic, let alone younger demographics
Instead of the crazy guy screaming for chocolate in SpongeBob, i just imagine him screaming "Games as Service!" , or "Money!" or "Micro transactions!" or "Always online!" Honestly now that i think about it, theres alot of inane and insane shit game execs have been pushing out for years like an addiction.
As more time passes I start to realize the 360 and ps3/wii was the last Great era of gaming they had DLC but it was not as bad... like the DLC was worth it back then
The shitiest thing Bungee did was deleting content that I’ve actually bought! I mean when I bought Destiny 2 there were several compaings, all reachable for the people that bought the game. Then there was the “dlc” that they presented that introduced new campaign that killed my favourite character. I bought it too, played it for a bit and went away. Imagine how surprised in a bad sense I was when I didn’t find any old campaigns in the game when I decided to come back! Al the cinematics, all the places, all the stories and characters - just gone! Instead there are some noname NPCs, stupid dialogues that no one listens to and a lukewarm campaign that is there only to justify you shooting different enemies… I was really pissed off, I rage-quited the game and have never ever went back again…
Agree with the 2 hour window on Steam not being enough time to properly ascertain if a game is worth it. I would add if a game is in Early Access, it should be refundable at ANY point during Early Access. That would stop cash grabs.
Hey there people!
I know it has been a while and I do apologize for that but work has been keeping me from working on this video a LOT and in addition to that I had to figure out how to even make a video that has next to no gameplay so that took me a little while too. Well I do hope you like the end result. Feedback is as always appreciated!
I am currently in the process of gathering all the sources I cited in this video (guess who never once thought of bookmarking even a single one of them) and once I am done I will be posting them in the description of this video.
Ok turns out I cannot fit all my sources in the description so....I may just add them to this comment....maybe
I haven't been able to add half of my sources to the description and I don't wanna clog this comment with even more sources so the latter half of the video has no sources in the description T-T
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I said macro intentionally LOL
How stupid is this video?
40 years ago, games of pixel art, low-quality music, and made by less than 10 people, cost 60 dollars.
Nowadays, games of beautiful graphic, massive open world, engaging stories, cinematic music and voice acting, made by near 1000 people, even after 40 years of inflation, yet still cost 60 dollars.
And you are complain about price and microtransactions.
The issue is not the industries. They are not the cause. The people are the cause. If hundreds of millions of people stopped buying the trash that is only when companies will give good games again because as of right now we don't deserve good games when we keep spending quadrillions on buying this crap. Don't blame the assholes giving away poison blame the endless hordes that keep stupidly believing the poison is fountain of youth water. As long as the masses keep buying crap the companies will sell crap because they are giving what the people want. People want garbage so these industries sell it for billions. Pal World is a tiny nearly worthless drop of hope in the endless oceans of garbage but most people still refuse to play it because they want more garbage. Stop defending the players that buy the crap.
The worst part is that these games aren't even good. Most of them are just high graphics, poor gameplay clones of one another. An endless torrent of overpriced under performing, unfun dross
This is mainly due to the high cost of development. Because it costs so much the developers cannot take many risks to innovate in their product so they stick to tried and "true" methods, which leads to stagnation and for some reason they then also get mismanaged which is honeslty impressive
Video games are going for the Hollywood blockbuster movie type and Sony started it all
@@ItsHawx How high cost can a repaste of a FIFA or Madden be? Yes, I understand the cost of ground up projects, but a repaste?
IMO.. and this goes for all yearly releases, madden, 2k, sports in general. If you bought last years version, you should get the new one as a 30$ dlc. Buying new? Then full price. This seems fair for the repaste stuff. It's not like you're creating an all new game. I'm not that current on team rosters and such. A game from 5 years ago is the same to me.
Baldurs Gate 3, Spiderman 2, Alan Wake 2, Armored Core 6, Elden Ring, Totk, etc. You just say the most boomer ass argument just retire gaming at this point if all you guys do is complain more. Go find another hobby
People...... just stop spending your money on *crap* (insert whatever annoys you) games and the problem will die a natural death.
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Concord.....
I wish it was that easy for the gaming community. Alas it is not
@ItsHawx agreed you can not get new games MTX, etc but we are the minority and wouldn't affect them. I have alot of retro games so I barely play new ones I had more fun playing nfl blitz than most of the new games I have
this is a thing really prevalent in the destiny community. Yes they may have lost 45% of revenue but that is because they had way too high goals set for themselves. They are still making bank. Admittedly less bank now with game fatigue but there are still people that endlessly spend money in it. I new someone who could not stand not having every single item in the store and they kept buying everything season over season.
It's never going to happen. People nowadays are so desperate for constant content that the thought of not having a new game RIGHT FREAKING NOW is not an option to the ADHD rattled mind.
It is morally acceptable to pirate games.
_"Games are a service."_
They arent, they're a product...
Don't pay for the service. Close the game when you read EULA and delete it from your system. It's that simple.
Games are services until players stop paying.
@@neolynxer
I rarely play modern titles these days.
Staples are Fallout 1 & 2, Deus Ex, System Shock & Sim City franchise.
@@B-26354 good for you. Those are all excellent choices.
That will soon be the standard, thats what theyre trying to tell you.
@HOTCHIXBRO
Games are developed in today's market as services rather than a completed product.
20-30 years ago they were developed as products.
Years ago, Sid Sheinberg of Universal said this about VHS. “You should not be able to pay 80 dollars for a copy of Jaws to watch whenever you want. You should have to pay every single time you want to watch.”
This is what both the movie and game industry would love to do, if they had their druthers. They’re closer than ever to that goal now.
“””””””shein((berg))””””””
But, in essence, we all do that every month when paying for Netflix or Disney+, etc.
Same with the Music Industry - only way to listen is by paying (crypto?]currency to an online jukebox[one-armed bandit?) ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ time you want to hear a song[album?).
Well, if we are making a product thats exactly what we all want...however not everyone care about what we want and thats why we kinda have to balance what we want and what customer want...otherwise no more customer for you.
Unless you are monopolizing the industry, there is no way you can do all you want without your competitor trying to capitalize on your bad business decision.
Greed will be their death. Plenty of great old titles to keep people entertained for years.
The era of broken products
Feels more like 'the era of broken everything'.
Don't worry it's not so bad 😂
@@leunam3004 100% correct.
less product for more money
(irl too)
@@notinterested8452are you prefer to eat a $hit?
Prices have increased... and digital copies cost the same as a physical one, makes asbolutly no sense at all.
Technically it does, they own the product they can make it as high as possible (I think it's dumb asf too. That's just the reality sadly)
Physical exists?
They're taking in lots of profits if you don't take in account the costs of making physical and shipping them to retailers. Digitally.
Wen digital games were being first talked about, they told us without packaging, disc burning, store space, digi games will cost at least 30% less!
Never even dropped a penny and in a lot of cases, digi games cost more than disc versions!
@@lunalildragon241do you have an IQ below 70? Grow up, troll.
It’s hilarious that AAA games spend millions of dollars on there games. Just for indie games to kick the snot out of them each time.
You love to see it
Sadly it only happens in steam
@@A1stardan“only“ on the largest platform for the most common platform to play games on
@@A1stardan it's sad, but true, 10-20 years ago you where presented with a choice, PC or console.
I experienced the PS1 to PS2 to PS3 anti consumer problems and chose to go PC over PS3.
It was nice to have a console back when a PC cost a fortune in the 90's to early 2000, but from 2004-2006 and on that changed.
The system I build in 2006 that could play Battlefield 2 at near max settings cost less than 2 times the launch price of the PS3.
Pondering on the difference between the 2 groups I realize, I have not bought a hard copy of a game since 2006. (besides Elder scrolls collectors edition that sits unopened on the shelf).
And I have never been in a situation where a game is forever backward incompatible with my system. (except games that require mods as they use GPU and give AI infinite APM)
They say they spend millions! most are just copy and paste of old games!
We're on a clear path to a second video game crash.
I think we need it. Game industry grown too big
@@DigitalImmortality I agree. I can't wait for it.
Won’t another crash only hurt the big AAA studios or will it hurt the small indies too who sometimes make fun gems
@@GeeWee700 Thats the point
@@GeeWee700Depends on the nature of the crash. I think indie companies exist by the grace of the devoted fans who won't be going anywhere. And the prices for the indie games are already humane.
Gaming went from people with the passion to create and share fantasy worlds with others to a media being about balding business men wanting to make as much money as possible without losing too much and with as little effort as possible. No more passion, no more creative and unique experiences, just a bunch of subscriptions, features that used to be part of the core game being sold later, more gambling than actual casinos, it's all just a graph, and the only care for the rising green arrow.
the corporate suits seen that the industry was raking in more cash than hollywood and they decided they wanted a huge chunk..what they spend it on is beyond me as you can only spend so much in one day even if your a billionaire..
Been saying about Blizzard forever now. It used to be a company made by gaming nerds for other gaming nerds. Now it's people in suits making a game for literally every single person they can get to download the game to increase profits.
If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing..
You buy to own a specific license, not the game or the right to copy.
@@pedroamaralcoutoThose laws were made in good faith to stop piracy back when we owned physical media. Now they’re just being exploited to steal consumers products and sell it back to them
BARSSSSSSSS
Even if piracy is stealing, I don't care
@@pedroamaralcoutoboot licker
Yeah, as an OG gamer myself, I just stopped playing games altogether recently. I’ve had more than enough of these scammers disguised as companies.
I've been a longtime competitive gamer, lately I've been playing Helldivers 2, flight simulator, and frostpunk. Amazing breath of fresh air
I just play old games. Problem solved.
@@headphonesz6527 Frostpunk is awesome!
@@r3tr0sp3ct3r Same here. I don't get why people even bother reviewing modern games since we know the deal with them. Old games are where its at. God Bless.
I only play old games now, most recent game i played was Elden Ring and that was phenomenal but nothing else has been good. Won’t have to upgrade my pc until it absolutely craps itself LOL 😝 gonna save both time and money so that’s good 👍🏻
This is why indie games are becoming more and more popular. They don't pull of the same blatant shit that AAA studios do. Many indie titles are also offered through GoG, allowing consumers to really own their purchases.
I emulate older games and still play them to this day such as ps2 games.
Owner of GOG : ☠️☠️☠️☠️.
AA is becoming the new AAA. being able to offer indie new concepts and refreshing takes reinvigorating the genre, while also having the budget and manpower.
I recently purchased sea of stars for switch and all I can say is it’s a fantastic game
And, then.. When they become more popular, then the same thing is going to happen to them
this is why I never buy AAA games on release anymore. not only are they overpriced but they are unfinished full of bugs or MXT or a mix of all 3. Meanwhile indie games are destroying these supposid AAA games and are actually fun and worth their price.
"this is why i dont buy AAA games at all"! XD fixed.
I used to be a Manager for EB and one of the things I realized is, don't trade in your games and don't pre-order shit.
Glad I’m older and merely a casual gamer. I’ll teach my children not to place much value in video games and social media.
Videogames are a form of art, though, and we can't let an artform die.
At least not what it was before the gaming dark ages.
I barely enjoy games anymore, it feels more like a chore now
@@Skeletons_Riding_OstrichesGaming will never die. Even if all the big companies give up there will always be indie developers.
Wait? You're having children? I'm lucky if I can eat this week 😅
I grew up in the Nintendo days and about a year ago bought a cheap 360 but when my gamer mate is like buy a ps5 im like nah no thanks il just buy $2 cod and sniper games and play small amounts because thats all the time i have anyway and avoid mircro transactions.
Its not just the gaming industry.
Everything gets more expensive but the quality or service lower.
Luckily for them this planet is filled with codependant consumers that blindly consume any garbage presented to them.
Yes.
So true.
Luckily? No, they worked hard to mold society in such a way to mass produce this kind of people
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Read Hilaire Belloc's "The Servile State" and G.K. Chesterton's "Utopia of Usurers".
The problem started when a bunch of idiots decided pre ordering games is a good idea. In addition to that the ability to update games afterwards gives the publishers another excuse to push out unfinished garbage.
Pre-Orders are such a bad trend man....Though I do not see them going away at all anymore. I mean I guess I hope people at least just pre-order from studios they can trust at this point
Pre-ordering from reliable companies, with a proven track record is fine. Continuing to pre-order from companies that provide a crap launch experience time after time is a problem.
The real problem? MBA's and Marketing Executives having over represented influence on the budget, and development decisions. Steve Jobs from Apple Understood you can't go ask what people want - people are GREAT at recognizing a problem, they are TERRIBLE at making a good suggestion of how to fix it, and it has to do with the fact that MOST people (those marketing execs and MBA's included) don't consider second order consequences; and good decissions need to think about second, and third order consequences.
If you want a prime example? Go look at World of Warcraft Pre and Post Activision buyout of Blizzard. It is Activision that shoved the dungeon finder in - which immediately lead to increased toxicity in the game. It is Activision that pushed for casualization of core systems to be more accessible - and the end result was taking an already fairly easy to master game and trivialize it. And beyond this, more changes pushed ultimately lead to a growing chore list to push for more Daily Active users and push people to play more - until, people got frustrated, fell behind (because they say, went on vacation for a week) and they quit the game - some people would go back for the next expansion but less, and less over time.
So the real answer? Avoid games from the big conglomerate publishers (ex: Ubisoft, Activision, and EA).
I never believe in pre orders at all and I was called old timer
The only excuse preorders has to exist, was to "ensure" you could get a physical copy on release. Even that failed tho.
The only way I can see to fight this trend is to simply never buy the game. Even if they fix it later, if it's broken at launch, they will not get my money. Policy I made for myself after Battlefield 2042 came out. Gotta fight these guys by keeping your money.
Problem:
Solution: Ignore AAA devs, buy indie?
That simple.
Indie games have the problem of sulking really bad most of the time.
@@artemiseritu That's why you do research? See reviews, don't immediately jump on bandwagons. I assumed people did that when it came to AAA games but fact AAA industry is still alright and kicking prove me wrong. Quality of indies is most of the time on par or better than AAA games when it comes to gameplay.
Correction: Just buy GOOD AAA games. 🤷
Correction: Just buy GOOD GAMES.
I like most of the Sony stuff (not into the games for little teenagers though).
I like FromSoft, Rockstar, ... yeah, I'm not good with company names.
I like "cheap" games, too.
...Deep Rock, Ender Lillies, Steamworld, Sea of Stars, ...
still can't remember the dev's names. 😅
Stop buying live service games and buy single player
The AAA company's are now making indie sized teams and a lot of them in order to combat this AAA bad movement. Big business always sucks the joy outta anything good for their own benefits. Hopefully this fight last long enough to wake all corners of gamer community up to this madness.
I don't pre-order anything...I don't buy games at launch...I wait a year or two or longer and buy the $70 game for $15 to $20...I just bought Assassin's Creed Valhalla for $15
Every game has started to look the same.
They abandoned traditional art in games.
Animation movies too, same coolie cutter style, Monana and the croods really look alike
The solution to this is to stop preordering, wait to see how the game plays at launch, don't buy it if it's broken or borderline unplayable. Even if they fix the game, say 'Nope. Release a complete game if you want my money. Better luck next time.'
It's not that simple
@@LAGator-qu7tc It's very simple. Keep buying and preordering, they will continue to release it whether it's ready or not and figure they can fix it later. Gotta fight these large companies by not opening your wallet if they launch a subpar or broken product.
@@smileydude12 how would you know if the game is broken or unplayable at launch ?
@@LAGator-qu7tc Early access betas. Plus there are always gonna be a group of die hards that will buy on launch day. Let them be the guinea pigs.
@@LAGator-qu7tcwatch other people play it
Any game that has micro transactions is a game I will never buy.
take a look at helldiver2
100%
This is why I give up playing Halo Infinite, these microtransactions were so overwhelming, that was the moment I stopped playing.
correct. technically microtransactions are for the games that are free to play, but you pay for some perks. even still...
Damn I feel u on that but very soon there will very few games for you to play
Modern American life is a scam
I remember life before the internet, I prefer that age.
I remember life before smartphones...man that was stressful
@@ItsHawx I don't recall being stressed before cell phone s quite the opposite
As someone who also remembers it, I prefer the here and now. That being said, I do agree we are being scammed, but that's because we have no regulations on corporations. Regulations are the antidote to capitalism's corporate takeover.
different upcomings I suppose?
I don't
Those times were BORING
Gran turismo 7 is the best example of this because it's not an online service game like so many of the other ones that nickel and dime you. It's a beloved offline series that has no need for microtransactions and yet they shoehorn them in and slow down the single player offline progress just so you would feel the desire to buy cars with real money rather than grind for them like we all used to.
What a shame
Friendly reminder that 4 layer bluray disks hold up to 150gb of data.
So theres no real reason to not have the full game on the disk.
Get a fucking harddrive and store it there. Problem solved.
use CD to download it onto your computer. Just dont bring back the "Insert your CD to play our game :)"
@@LiamFitzpatrick-pzzzt discs don't last, but the modern online-only game purchases are still kind of a scam. Back then when you wanted to buy an older game, the physical copy dropped the price significantly, as it should. It's an older game, older technology etc. Now we can see literal 15-20 years old games on Steam, sometimes still rocking a good 20-30$ price range for no reason.
@@LiamFitzpatrick-pzzzt you see a better alternative anywhere? Cynical. And if one disk won't cut it, use 2+ like they have until recently.
@@lippi2171old cod games are still at their base prices
This is why my reason for pirating a game is valid
I don't own a game I bought? then company don't own my money for the shit they pull off
If anything I'd say this gives more validation to emulation as companies cannot be trusted with keeping games alive rather than piracy but I see where you are coming from
No not just emulation, fat quadruple A games. I’m glad i didnt waste money on cp2077 for example
It’s stealing no matter what label you put on it it’s illegal period.
@benjamintudor9475 you say that like we care any more. Their actions should have been made illegal long ago.
Unjust laws deserve to be broken. The letter may not be unjust. But the spirit certainly is
@@benjamintudor9475some laws are meant to be broken
Modern Gaming is the Next Hollywood
This could mean so many things
Kid touchers billionaire government agents, lfg 🇺🇸🇺🇲 the patriots are in control
@@ItsHawxnone good if we’re talking about hollyweird.
I don’t care about the developers who make these crappy games. They got the blood on their hands too. If they get fired, good. Maybe the business men should buy some talent instead of buying hookers. Attitude reflects leadership. And developers with terrible attitudes give everyone bad games.
It really fucking is, shit's being made for investors, not costumers. Luckily, unlike in hollywood, there's still indies.
20 years ago, we were all playing FarmVille and mafia wars, wondering why anyone would pay money for progression. Meanwhile psychologists got it right back then (for once) and raised the alarm on how the business model was weaponized gambling.
Naturally the gaming industry said “So you’re saying it has tremendous potential to make money? You’re saying we can release absolute crap games, just good enough to get people to the online store, and make even more money whilst doing it?” They then took this information and acted accordance with their values.
Back in the day, the tobacco industry grew under the genuine false impression that smoking was harmless. Their sin was the propaganda campaign they built to defend their bottom line after they learned how bad it was for people.
The gaming industry is far worse. They knew what they were doing up front and built an industry around it.
I don't understand who is actually spending money on these things.
@@ClearGalaxiesIf you look at the content and who it is catering to then you will see the age they're targeting
@@ClearGalaxiesLike There's no 40 yr old man who is gonna buy a skin on fortnite though. Most of em are 7-13 year olds depending on the skin/content. There are a few older ones who grew up with fortnite spending on there just because.
@@ClearGalaxiesCoD is targeting low IQ teenagers who this is the only thing they know because they can't see past the window at this point.
They beg their mommy much like the fortnite children to buy mtx. You can tell bc of the Cod TH-camrs/Streamers finessing them with their content.
@@ClearGalaxies whales, people who are especially susceptible to gambling
The fact of the matter is this: 100,000 players play (insert game) while only 10% pay outrageous costs for micro/macro-transactions. Those 10,000 users make up the cost of the 90% who refuse to pay additional fees for temporary cosmetics/boosters/P2W elements. Even if 5% of that community paid out thousands of dollars, each individual, this would still encourage the use of monetary schemes. We've allowed for this to happen, and it all started with Horse Armour. Now, we pushed back against NFT bullshit, this is true, and we're pushing against AI being used to replace paid voice acting/artists, and lootboxes, but we have yet to collectively push back against MACRO-TRANSACTIONS.
You really think anything will change under capitalism?
Games are made for profit and that will NEVER change under said system. This change in gaming was going to happen no matter what. If you don’t like it, too bad blame capitalism
I’m personally really happy that so many of these live service games are in the toilet.
The fact that Sony doesn't allow refunds is why I am very very picky about my purchases & I escaped the Cyberpunk PS4 issue by pre ordering it physically & once I saw the PS4 leaks I returned the delivery box unopened & purchase later for $10.
We're gonna go through a second video game industry crash, like what happened in the 80s long before I was born
It was good for the industry.
We need it.
I've been praying for the videogame industry's downfall
I went through the last one. It got rid of the bloat in the industry (for a while). It'll be good for it in the long run.
@@therabidscorpion old enough to have been through all of them. The industry always came out better on the other side.
Loving alot of these new indy games and watching these bloated mega corps that have destroyed games the last 20ish years choke on it.
I can't remember the last AAA game I bought. Seriously, looked up my Steam library and what is installed and looked up my physical library. They are all either indie or re-releases.
dude, I was "upgrade your patato to keep up" PC master race.
Recently bought Forbidden West on PC but only was able to play it today. Cutscenes with more than 3 characters in them make the fps drop to 8 to 14fps. Some of the optimization settings cause lower fps and stuttering, like what the hell and to get a stable 60fps I had to mod in a better version of DLSS. I have more headaches with trying to enjoy these games than....enjoying them.
I am now just skipping the cutscenes in my game cuz I refuse to look at cutscenes with 8fps and just pause the game and look at them on youtube.
I am so glad I started playing more indie games since I started TH-cam cuz I would most likely still just be playing Destiny 2 because of how crappy most other triple A releases are now.
Actually though. My library has mostly older games that were finished products or indie games. How bad BF2042 was at launch was the last straw and I'm glad I didn't buy it. They didn't deserve my money.
The last new AAA game I got was in 2022 after that I only played indie and old AAA titles
Oh I did. All said "oh what a stellar port" or "the optimization is great". None of the ones I looked at mentioned that a specific setting makes it worse. The cutscene thing was mentioned but I didn't know it was THIS bad
Persona 5 was for me
I miss the days of buying a disk and playing the game.
Now it's updates and battle passes and dlc and exclusive blah blah without actual good gameplay most of the time
I would have never started gaming if it wasn’t that way. There’s just something special about keeping the disc, making sure it’s clean, and putting it back inside the case when you switch another game.
I've been pretty good at dodging the scams by..
1. Never purchasing live service or pay to win games
2. Waiting at least six months (sometimes years) for a newly released game to be patched/reduce in price. Also, by then complete editions are usually available which include all major DLC.
3. Putting in a bit of research before purchasing (as you should do with all things that cost money)
A crash is necessary and inevitable. It happened before, and was followed by a golden era of gaming.
The Golden Era lasts for 2-3 decades. I presume it can be extended for longer periods of time. Unsure how that will happen.
Optimistic. Most of these crap games are publicly-funded. Gov'ts trying to grow their own domestic gaming sectors. CDProjekt Red is BAD about this; Ubisoft and Activision are global investment vehicles. They have zero risk. It's very likely that, in the event of catastrophic gaming market failure in any country with large investments in their gaming sector, you'll see an American Obama-era bailout for 'too big to fail' or 'cultural legacy' reasons.
Reminder: communism is just the practice of forcibly-distributing accountability, and taxpayers will bear the brunt of the fallout from these crappy practices.
the industry needs rebooted..and yet the big companies are richer than any other time in the history of gaming....
It definitely seems to need a huge reset of sorts... I just don't know if a gaming crash is the reset the video gaming industry needs...
carash will never happen
Gonna agrue against crapcom... DRM added to 10 year old games people bought well before it was added? Crapcom can bite me.
Totally valid. I hesitated adding capcom to the script but I couldn't in good conscious leave them out simply because I like them. While they are slower to introduce anti consumer practices they still add them and that needs to be called out
Naked Chun li mod broke Capcom lol
@@ItsHawx they may be slower, but I would also argue more severe. DRM basically means there is now a server somewhere with an additional switch that must stay on for you to play your game you did NOT agree to be restrained by. THAT ALONE makes it unforgivable in my eyes. Slower or not.
@@therealjaystone2344 that it did... but when them breaking can potentially kill the games I bought from them... Im just done with them.... they can do what they want or release the greatest game ever... they will never get another dime from me.
god I forgot about that LOL
The moral of this video seems to be:
"Only trust companies that aren't in a strong enough financial or good-will position to take advantage of you."
Sad but true.
Oh no not at all
Fromsoftware is one HUGE counter example
Example of companies that aren't in a strong enough financial to take advantage of you. Team Mica/XD Indie who recently released a day 1 full game without mtx called, Reverse Collapse on Steam.
@@ItsHawx I agree with you. I wish it didn't seem like the exception makes the rule though.
Excessive greed in cooperations should be a hangable offense.
I haven’t played a video game since 2020 but I still like watching these videos, keeping up with the news, and just kinda watching the gaming industry burn. It’s really sad.
I stopped gaming actually due to me becoming very religious and wanting to live a minimalist lifestyle but it’s still really sad to watch things like this and hear all my friends talk about how tv, games, and practically everything is being ruined by companies like these.
I left gaming due to my religion but I actually really encourage people to just stop playing these games as well, seriously, the best way to show these companies how you feel is to stop playing their games
You’re in the right direction man. Top seeded companies in every part of the industry have just become a Machine. Gaming becoming impacted more recently, you’d only hope that the same passion for creating these titles would return. But the world and the powers that be are moving forward like this as a whole.
Crazy how they'll spend all this money developing a game just for it to be shittier that a indie game made by a small handful of people.
I reject the numbers they give. I don't think they are spending billions on game development because the games they are making are either remakes or of such poor quality they must cost a fraction of proper development from the past. They are laundering this money for other projects or motivations. If they are firing competent employees and replacing them with incompetent ones it's safe to assume they are paying them far less money or like I said laundering the money through these avenues.
Interesting perspective, I always thought the budgets were wasted on purchasing assets, copyrights and licences, especially when they always use the same game engines as eachother.
These garbage dev’s certainly dont build their terrible games from scratch, it always looks copy pasted.
You guys have no idea how much costs to make the high graphics 3d models you love so much. Games cost a lot and are bad because they spend all budget on high-end graphics.
@@wellingtonribeiro847 Consumer detected.
Chances are they are putting out the numbers cause those are paid to the CEOs instead of the game they should be developing x D
@@oxfordeducatedhighschoolhe6989 he's condemming the graphics. they cost too much time and money for what they are.
15 years of whining about this on TH-cam. I've seen the numbers... a game with microtransactions and lootboxes makes so much doe, no amount of whining will change anything.
Stop gambling with lootboxes, stop paying, stop hyping up games before it's obvious they won't have additional monetization.
It's there because it works.
Useless idiots are too many out there
That's what I always say. If it didn't work, the publishers wouldn't do it. We players are the only ones to blame for the situation. There's no point in us bitching about the evil games industry in whatever online forums and then buying the games anyway.
Also, don't play a game that has microtransactions. As long as the game has a player base, it will attract the people that buy microtransactions. So just by playing the game, even without buying microtransactions, you are already supporting this practice.
If the core mechanics of the game is fun then lootboxes make it better. CSgo is an example
e sports and other online competitions are a huge problem ,they give the impression that gaming is still popular and profitable..when as far as im aware most of these online gamers only play 3 or 4 games..none of the e sports winners do anything else ...
Incredible write up on the video mate, subscribed to your channel at 11:20ish and exactly 10sec later, your doing the plug. The build up, to the plug is perfect. Well done and good video!
Capitalism. Capitalism. Capitalism. It's all capitalism.
Modern gaming is like modern radio, i don't bother turning it on
Depends on the radio tbh
Here radio, depending on the radio station, is pretty good
Back in the day we spent a lot of money at arcades. The Golden era of gaming is the time between the microtransactions of the aecades and the microtransactions of live service games.
Piracy is understandably frowned upon if you place yourself in the shoes of the devs. But with the shit that game publishers (not devs, most of the time) pull off, it's giving more and more valid reason to sail the seven seas.
While I will never support piracy myself I do not see a single reason why others shouldn't sing some sea shanties
Laws against piracy is just corporate propaganda for us to give them money
@@ItsHawx ALMOST completely agreed. Im not against abandonware or if the publisher does something that turns off the game for you, going out to reclaim it. (Hell I am hunting a few titles that fit BOTH AT ONCE)
But aside from those, I pretty much just say go ahead, guys... Im not gonna argue... just.. not interested myself
You must pirate to play good games thats how trash modern gaming is
Sometimes, if i get dissapointing solo games that requires microtransactions, I 'might've got ones with all stuff unlocked.
Or at mod it anyways.
So, I get to pay the most for the worst version of the game to get an extra 3 days on my rental?
How have prices skyrocketed so much that in the 90’s a video game rental was around $3 and you knew exactly when you had to stop playing to return it, while today a rental is $69.99 and you have no idea when you’ll be forced to stop playing it?
Physical copy or not, game companies have told gamers to, “Be prepared not to own your games.”
My ? Is, why is it still called BUYING when it’s at best a lease or worse, a rental?
It's sad that most of these companies started out as some guys in some garage at some garage. That's why Kojima refused to enter Kojima Production as a recognized company with stocks and stuff. He knows shareholders would focus on profit rather than the games, and the man sees games as an artform.
Games wouldn't be so broken and full of propaganda if people would stop preordering and buying them before reviews come out...
That's why I only play and review old games. Modern gaming is an absolute waste of time and the companies hate you and are honest about it.
i cant imagine anyone over the age of 50 being hyped and pre ordering games so it must be the under 40s that are doing this mostly...
I stopped buying games if i can't play offline and without updating! I don't like people changing my game every few weeks . I also only buy physical games only . Give me 15 million and i can make a AAA game myself in 4 to 5 years easy .These guys i don't know wtf they are doing lol .
I have so many pysical games from when I still was on console and for the nintendo switch I do not know where to put them now. It is actually a problem for me to find space for them
Gamedev is not that easy. Just watch how many Kickstarters fail, not because it was a scam, but because the people behind the project didn't knew how to manage it.
@@ItsHawx i kept all the ps2 and ps1 games i had as well as the demos from the ps1-ps3 era..all stored away on a rack...
Whenever I hear someone suggest raising game prices in exchange for removing macrotransaction I'm instantly reminded of how it was argued that digital distribution will make games cheaper thanks to getting rid of all the packaging and logistics costs and how that turned out.
“ITz jUsT CoSmEtiCs it doESnT AfFecT gAeMplAeY”
Where are those people now?
I feel like indie games don’t spend this much on marketing, I’m fairly certain only big established companies think putting that much money into marketing is acceptable.
Which is insane if you think about it. Most indies I have played merely use gameplay for trailers, which alone saves money and pleases customers too as we prefer gameplay trailers over cgi trailers that say literally nothing about a game and waste way too much money
It’s because their game is so terrible they have to spend so much money marketing the game otherwise nobody would care, if these triple AAA games went without marketing, their game would financially fail miserably since every gamer would be talking about the GOOD games like hollow knights.
That’s survivorship bias. Indie games are great because you’ve only heard of and played the good ones. There’s thousands of dead indie games that either got no traction, or more likely just completely sucked.
...Publishers want me to pay $20 bucks for the "color blue" when modders take the time out their day to create something of higher quality for free. This is why I play on PC and sometimes support Modders on Patreon which for some reason is still cheaper than getting the color blue.
Reminds me of Angry Joe getting enraged at the color blue as a micro transaction
@@ItsHawxliterally what i was about to type lol.
IS THAT FUGGIN BLUUUUUUUUE?!!!!
It is kind of funny how it all comes full circle.
The gaming industry startet with game developers who made games from their garages and elswhere before they became what they are now, crushing everyone else under them.
And now people who start like them make better games than they do now. For the most part.
On the other hand I fear that those small studios become the same way.
Nah bro you are massively out of pocket for this 11:12 I’m crying😭
15:34 "Game price raised by 10 bucks from ps3 era to ps5" while in underdeveloped countries the games are triple the price and sometimes 1/3 of minimum wage😢
The gaming industry is the only one were a company can make more than ever of things like micro transactions only to turn round and fire the people who got them there because investors always want growth it is a disgusting practice
these people make life changing money in a year and yet they still want more
I don't even understand how they can spend that much money that they'd require more
@@ItsHawxIt doesn't matter how much you make. If you invested in something, you would want profit from it. If it didn't give you increasing profits, you would stop investing.
@@ItsHawx idk what the ceos of these companies spend it on,theres only so much you can buy in one day or week...
Gaming development and the modern day clusterfck of corporations was never going to go the distance. When you have a handful of guys on a shoestring budget that can make a better more popular game than an international company with 100s of millions "spent on development" what more proof do you need?
And lets be honest, we can all guess that alot of that development money went into the pockets of useless corporate management types.
This is absolutely fueled by FOMO. The people who want to skin every character with every skin available to it gain nothing by doing so, there is no stat increase that comes with them, but they have been sold on the "completionist" mindset and if the next person has it then they will feel like they are the lesser player for some reason. This is the kind of stuff that needs a psychiatrist to talk to about the issue. I am not by any means defending the game industry for predatory practices, but come on if you feel that is really something you need then you have other issues going on that need addressed. "Paying $30 extra to get it on actual launch day"...no actual launch day is the day it is launched to the public at the original price agreed upon, if you want early access because again you feel you will miss out on something then that is on you and your shrink to work out together. The gaming industry is stupid, but gamers aren't too far behind them honestly.
People still spend massive amounts of money for literally nothing in return. Thats the reason why this will never stop. Multiplayer games are completely unplayable. Imagine you buy a disc
Put it into your console and could play it IMMEDIATELY.
Just iiiimaaaaagine.
gamers knew for years that all of this was coming. and we still continued to support the behaviours that are making the gaming industry fail. we have our choice to continue supporting behaviours that will destroy the gaming or to stand against it so that we can save and improve the gamin landscape.small actions can save the industry
i saw it coming once call of duty 4 came around and watchdogs,assasins creed as well...these were sub par games to begin with despite the reviews, even back then i could see that if they didn't change the sequels enough it would be the excat same game....never saw what the hype was around cod4 either...its a good game but nothing i hadn't seen before..even back then..
The dumbest part is a truly great game really will sell itself. Gamers talk about what they love to play because of their passion.
Just spend your damn money making a solid product and your ROI will be through the roof.
Capcom may have held out long but they are on nasty down streak that has just started recently some less than 6 months ago. Their retro stuff prices gone up. ex: Arcade Stadium games are no longer sub euro prices anymore on sales and then the DRM inclusion suddenly retroactively has made me ice all capcom purchases. I am a collector so i bought and paid for the old stuff to get 'legal copies' as i in reality have the stuff on other media such as handhelds. No more. Piracy it seems is the only way forward if you are a collector. Literally no options again unless you want to be milked and then removed from your games some day since clearly 'you dont own the games you buy'. Game pass people don't care and i understand but us Collectors care. A lot.
Of course there is the millionaire streamer route if you want to pay eBay prices for real stuff. Can't do that, spent my time and money on a specific retro already. Unable to do that again for others i want as there is literally no limit to top price to pay and i still would not be able to get what i want even if i add a lot more to the budget.
Capcom may be rolling good right now particularly after latest SF success that was pure genius in my opinion with the casual control but there are cracks on the surface elsewhere.
I have noticed Capcom going down a worse route lately. Hence why I didn't wanna leave them out of this video either. Them cracking down on mods after declaring PC to be their main focus platform going forward and then delivering a rather bad release version of DD2 really makes their committment to PC sound iffy.
I'm not reading all that. I just wanted you to know. Give me $200.
This is one reason I'm just modding my current consoles and going PC. The only companies I will really be buying from at this point is Nintendo, GOG and then Steam. Everything else like the Xbox and PlayStation can fuck off. Ownership to them is a joke. If I have to deal with BS ownership and consoles that depend on the Internet so much that they hardly function without it, go to PC. There are restrictions there but AT LEAST things like GOG exist. Where you don't have to worry about your digital games being at risk. Like seriously. The only things we can do is to stop buying them and voice how we feel.
I'm also going backwards at this point. I just Modded my PS3 and have been playing older games with private servers and having an absolute blast! But man. I'm fine with gaming this way. No worries about games be fucked up, I have more control and I can mod new games too? The idea of a console is a joke nao... Like seriously. The benefits of them have been washed away and people are more worried about brands than the rights they have as a consumer. But whatever. I'm going to get back to playing Halo 2. Did you know that you can play the original Halo 2 online right nao In All it's glory? Through insignia and a modded original Xbox you can. Lol don't need new games at all when there are SOOOOO many games I haven't even played yet from years ago.
You can play current Nintendo games on pc too
@@therealjaystone2344 I'm well aware of that but I'd rather keep my switch, I find Value in the way the switch works and the games that I enjoy on that platform. Unless Nintendo start doing BS online restrictions like the Xbox and Playstation, I'm stay with them and PC.
Yup, that's my line-up as well.
Steam has DRM, which sucks, and Valve is slow as hell, which sucks, but Valve is not publicly traded and they're consumer-friendly - they hand out dev tools, dedicated server software, their hardware is built to be repaired the works. My Index was broken and they sent a new one. My account was hacked and they fixed it within a day. Keep an eye on Humble Bundle and you'll always have some decent games to play, for super-cheap.
Nintendo makes good games (at least for each of their games' specific target audience), and their physical games don't require an online connection. It sucks how they treat fans and it sucks how they've moved from selling virtual console games to 'renting' them with Switch Online (which I'll never get), though.
GoG is just fantastic in every possible game. No DRM. Super-cheap sales. Hunting after older titles. Fixes and patches so games run on modern systems.
And then there's emulation for absolute gems that are impossible to get for normal humans. Good luck playing Mother 3, for example.
@@Skeletons_Riding_Ostriches yeah, at the end of the day, I just want to play video games. The steam deck is fantastic so far. Being able to play both my steam and Gog games on it is so great. :3 at least on steam, I know what to fully expect when it comes to ownership. I had a few < no Internet for a month or 2? surprise mother fucker! You can't play this digital game you paid full price for on your home Xbox! Lol too bad for yooooou!>that ended my Xbox legacy and when the PS5 slim came out and they added a lock to the disc drive. That was it. I just dumped the idea of getting a PS5 or new Xbox at that point. I'm going to have a build that can play games soon but I just wanted to get a steam deck to start. It's like the switch in a few ways and it does work offline.( I know there must be some kind of catch though. Lol) So it has a lot of points over Sony and Microsoft right now.
They make it easier for us! My next game and (first released) literally make fun of this in it’s lore whilst being an actual game at the same time. The game is a 4th wall breaking satire. No commercials. No skins. Offline play. No toxic ingame currencys. Good video, man! It’s refreshing to see more people that see through this sh*t 😂 I don’t expect to have much sucess with my game, it is more of a statement.
The most anoying thing about modern (AAA) gaming is the hyperfocussed trend chasing instead of trend setting we have. These games are caught in an endless loop of copying from one another. This seems to have started with the popularity of Mobas and got out of hand with the INSANE popularity of Battle Royales. It doesnt feel like the industry wants to innovate anymore and worse, it seems many gamers dont want innovation, but the same crap over and over again.
You guys: We can't fight this downward spiral of micro transactions and pay-to-win ripoffs!
Me: You cannot win, but there are alternatives to pir... fighting. Fighting! Alternatives to fighting!
LOL
It's honestly share holders problem. Every game must make sure the bar goes up or else the stocks crash and share holders pull out. It's not a sustainable business practice. Since people are turning away to play indie games.
Games these days are pay to play and pay to win TRASH
eeeeh some of them but def not all of them
Simply wrong
"Games these days"? I dont play the games you play lol
This is one of the more reasons why Indie gaming or let alone some of the much more older games of the past are becoming more playable in common through Generation Z. i hope this trend continues.
The issue with the ‘pay once and keep’ model is that companies would likely need to sell a game for £100+ to be viable which people won’t pay for. The industry found its ceiling £50-£60 and other ways to generate revenue. Like it or not, Fortnite is highly profitable. Where’s the incentive not to copy the model?
I hate Micro-transactions and I miss ‘buy once’ games, hence why I’ve stuck with Nintendo. Even they will change in time.
the era of the emulator is rising again.
some things/fixes can be done.
The era of emulators was never gone.
I'm at the point where I went from being okay with cosmetic only mtx to not even wanting to give them that much. Mostly because it seems like games are just being made now to sell that stuff. Where things that could've easily just been included in the base game are available for purchase within weeks of the game being released.
oh a gaming crash is definitely coming
I am interested to see if that actually will happen or not. I am more tending towards it will be cushioned out by new studios getting the spotlight forcing the old guard to step their game up
Not really
Coming?! It crashed for me in 2017, because that was the last year when I purchased a video game... and it was also the last year when I played a video game with over 10% completion.
All I've done since then is just following along the further downfall of the video game industry, and fiddling with retro emulators and testing stuff out, with occasional 10-20 minutes of gameplay just to satisfy nostalgia.
It's really been a while since I last spent dozens of hours playing some game!!...
We got people dying of starvation in the world, then gaming companies spending 550 million on advertising a shitty game.
I’m pirating games that cost 40-70$ and uninstalling them after 4-6 hours of playing…. People have lost their fucking mind!
95% of the gaming community does not support these practices, but the 5% that do spend enough to justify publishers to continue this path. These companies tell themselves to continue the live services path because they believe the revenue from one success will make up for the 10 previously failed ones. Is it bad for the industry? No doubt. They do not care though. At least I’m saving money.
That's not true. 95% of the gaming community don't pay for microtransactions, but they still play the game. Having an active player base is what attracts the 5%, the so called whales, to pay for the 95% that don't pay. So as long as you play a game that has microtransactions you are supporting this practice.
Idk I'd bet the number supporting it is way higher.
All those developers with their experience that got laid off will be the competition that the AAA market should be afraid of. Games doesn't cost millions to make, only the handful people at the top are causing this issue, while the people working on that game won't even get close to 1% of that. Game companies that deal with investors aren't there to give you a great game experience, but they exist to try and squeeze ever single dime out of your pocket and still give you that empty feeling wanting you to spend more to get that happy feeling for one second. That is why I support Indie game companies more and more and enjoy their games a lot. In the past I would buy almost every single AAA game from the big companies, but now it all turned to shit.
Honestly yea! I really want to see what these newly formed studios made up of industry veterans come up with.
Privately owned dev studios, such as larian and arrowhead also just show how public studios are not getting any benefits from going public.
Also man indie games have been stepping up lately. Genuinely insane quality and quantity from them. I cannot wait to see more
Most of those developers will likely leave the industry altogether. There are simply far too many games, period. On Steam alone, 14000 games were released on that storefront last year. Completely unsustainable.
@@lycanwarrior2137highly doubtful. The gaming industry is bigger than movies and music combined and almost half of the world are gamers. So no, there aren't too many games, you saying this is actively going against the consumer. The more options and choices a consumer has, the more control they possess. Imagine a world where there's only a few games to pick from, all under 2-3 major corporations. Oh wait that's basically how it is in other industries. Yeah so more games is the best solution to fight against AAA.
It's wild also how homogenous the graphics to these games all look. I'd rather play PS2 era games bc they were somehow just more fun while looking more like actual games
The need to go more and more photorealistic is kinda...weird cuz photorealism keeps getting pushed making your game look weird at some point. Giving your game a proper artstyle will future proof it and give it more personality
@@ItsHawx Video games which have distinct artstyle or are cell-shaded hold up against time. I think one of the best examples is POP 2008, if it were released even at this year with similar type of artstyle, people would've liked it because of how visually appealing that is.
Only thing that photorealism does is to make all the games look and feel same
@@ItsHawx i still hold out for vr to be the future of gaming despite its flaws and misuse ...its still what gaming should be striving towards ,forget the mishaps,vr was always the future of gaming and entertainment its just it hasn't been done right yet...
Yes, but meta killed it basically
2023? One of the best years for gaming? Was that article writen by a Zoomer? I remember when there where lines outside of electronics retailers for the latest console. Sheesh, companies sometimes had to release games on weekends or after 3:00PM just to keep kids from playing hookey to go buy the game and play it. Games were a labour of love and it showed. Developers poured their hearts and thousands of hours into game with limited tools and resources to release a highly polished work of perfection. 1987-2011 was video gaming at its peak. Its been all downhill since then.
I rather pirate ps1 games than pay 70 dollars for a ps5 game.
AAA gaming is falling, AA/INDIE is crushing. Look at hell divers 2! Absolutely gaming done right. I believe it will have a positive profound impact on the gaming industry.
You know Hell Divers 2 has micro transactions, right?
@zerascarlet8733 and the micro transaction Is actually micro
And you can found the premium currency in game
And the premium warbonds only advantage is it looks cool
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Aleast the micro transaction is actually micro And those currency can be found in game
And the premium war bond can be purchase without paying and they're only advantage is that it look cool but other than that they're meh compared to the free one
@@zerascarlet8733 - seriously. I bought it and regret it. The grind on it is too much for a paid/non-f2p game, plus the amount of people griefing teammates is so bad I recently uninstalled and moved on. There's no way to even block griefers. I wish everyone would stop suck that game's dick like it's "microtransactions done right" - no way.
@zerascarlet8733 if you played it you know you can also get those credits to buy the "microtransactions" in game instead of having to shell out money from the get go like AAA games like gta and fortnite
Im really glad that im behind when it comes to games. Just a few months ago i bought a used copy of The Witcher 3 for $8 and ive been loving my first play through just like many people did 9 years ago lol
Nice. I got The Witcher 3 in late 2019 and it has become one of my favorite games of all time.
This is the best work of art you have ever made. Keep it up! Cheers
Thank you!
I don't do microtransactions at all. If a game needs microtransactions to buy important items I don't buy the game, if the game just sells appearance items, I can live with it as they are not needed. I don't buy games on release date anymore, I watch some poor dude play it online (like Skull and Bones, I felt actually sorry for the player to endure that) and decide if it's worth. Best example is my Son, he needed each year the new FIFA, as everyone switched for online play to the new one, that ment building up your Ultimate Team again, I told him that is stupid waste of money and time each year the same for nothing. Since 2 years he is not asking for FIFA anymore or is even playing it, as even he is sick of the constant cycle.
The scariest thing imo is that this pattern of pricing everything comes from the society itself , the gaming industry just followed along . Working a regular job will barely afford you a house ( probably not without a roommate ) and everything has become stupid expensive overall compared to our grandparents who they worked part time in McDonald’s and could make a decent living even buy their own house and make some money on the side . The funny thing is that if a price goes up and the consumer still buys it it will never go down . And this is not me speaking it’s coming from a lot of economists . Idk everything is so frustrating expensive and out of reach . The only way to balance things out is by boycotting a product so the seller has to basically drop the price . But this is also a very rare scenario
Or pirating it and cutting the money the developer makes, furtherly, refuse to go to court.
the clip you used at 8:11 was actually ripped from Blizzcon 2018, not E3.
The battle for videogaming as a hobby cant really be permanently lost as long as it operates in a free market. Companies that somehow make their money from the videogaming hobby needs money rolling in, consumers hold the ultimate power by simply buying what they like and avoiding what they dislike.
The problem is that people complain about this games and play it anyway. The guy in the video complained about pre-orders and admitted to buy pre-orders. He complained about Bungie, because he still plays Destiny 2.
Except that money equals power.
Companies literally have the money to brainwash people into buying their games anyway. They have the money to actively harm any 'actually good' competition.
Vote with your wallet people! I've bought 3 games over the last 2 years: Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and Helldivers 2. Don't pre-order games, don't buy mtx. Helldivers 2 has mtx, but it's only cosmetics, and they usually have WORSE stats than the regular items, making it more like pay-to-lose, or just a cool way to support the devs. Plus, literally everything can be bought with currency which can be earned in-game. Stop giving these crappy companies your money people. Let their companies fail, force them to provide a good service to their customers
Gonna be honest I highly doubt that "Vote with your wallet" will work. It hasn't worked for years. Hence why I didn't say that myself. But I like the enthusiasm!
I'm so lucky to have grown up in the 80's and 90's where none of these bullshit practices didn't exist.
how are these companies spending fortunes on marketing when, as an avid gamer in my late 20s, I haven't heard a peep about 99% of new games until after they launch and youtubers start talking about them. are they paying to hang signs up in old folks homes or what? there's zero marketing making it's way to my demographic, let alone younger demographics
I just stick to my N64. :D
Instead of the crazy guy screaming for chocolate in SpongeBob, i just imagine him screaming "Games as Service!" , or "Money!" or "Micro transactions!" or "Always online!"
Honestly now that i think about it, theres alot of inane and insane shit game execs have been pushing out for years like an addiction.
God that is the funniest image ever
I never knew if he was screaming because he liked it or he didn't like it. 🤔
As more time passes I start to realize the 360 and ps3/wii was the last Great era of gaming they had DLC but it was not as bad... like the DLC was worth it back then
The shitiest thing Bungee did was deleting content that I’ve actually bought!
I mean when I bought Destiny 2 there were several compaings, all reachable for the people that bought the game. Then there was the “dlc” that they presented that introduced new campaign that killed my favourite character. I bought it too, played it for a bit and went away. Imagine how surprised in a bad sense I was when I didn’t find any old campaigns in the game when I decided to come back! Al the cinematics, all the places, all the stories and characters - just gone! Instead there are some noname NPCs, stupid dialogues that no one listens to and a lukewarm campaign that is there only to justify you shooting different enemies…
I was really pissed off, I rage-quited the game and have never ever went back again…
Agree with the 2 hour window on Steam not being enough time to properly ascertain if a game is worth it. I would add if a game is in Early Access, it should be refundable at ANY point during Early Access. That would stop cash grabs.