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2024: Xbox’s Worst Year Ever
After finally acquiring Activision, 2024 should be a bumper year for Xbox. But the year got off to a weak start and only seemed to get worse.
You would think after acquiring so many lucrative IPs and studios, the Xbox series of consoles would sell themselves with so many decent games. But there are very few system sellers on the consoles, that are available on PC anyway. And Game Pass lets you play so many games without even having to buy them.
The year ended with awful console sales, plenty of layoffs several studio closures, and Xbox throwing in the towel on the console race.
You would think after acquiring so many lucrative IPs and studios, the Xbox series of consoles would sell themselves with so many decent games. But there are very few system sellers on the consoles, that are available on PC anyway. And Game Pass lets you play so many games without even having to buy them.
The year ended with awful console sales, plenty of layoffs several studio closures, and Xbox throwing in the towel on the console race.
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UK Christmas Markets: Overpriced and Underwhelming
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Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd Why go to Frankfurt when your local town centre has their own Christmas market that feels like a Disneyland theme park version of the real thing? At every Christmas Market you'll see the same stalls, the same food and drink, the same attractions and the same goods for sale. That pretty much everyone agrees is not worth the extortionate ...
This is Adobe.
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Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd Adobe is an Ai company now. After their most recent conference, Adobe MAX, there was an uncomfortable amount of Ai centred talks and product features. On top of their other issues such as confusing subscriptions, cancellation fees, killing Adobe XD, and training their Ai software on artists work without their permission. With the creati...
Castore: Britain’s Worst Sports Supplier
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Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd In less than 10 years, Castore has managed to become the supplier for a number of Premier League and European teams, as well as supplying England, the West Indies and South Africa in international cricket. But in a few seasons, Castore has been holding a masterclass on how to lose all their Premier League contracts. Suffering from horre...
Cadbury and How to Kill a British Icon
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Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd Ever since the American company Mondelez (Formerly Kraft) bought Cadbury in 2010, the classic brand has seen a steady decline The classic British brand has suffered through changing recipes to resemble horrendous American chocolate, shrinkflation and bland advertising. Cadbury is now just another cog in a huge corporate machine, and a s...
The Olympics that Bankrupted Montreal
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Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd With the Paris Olympics being one of the most ‘in budget’ in modern times, let's take a look at the most over budget Olympic Games in history. As 1976’s Olympic games held in Montreal were plagued with problems. Which includes the organising, funding and construction. Leading to corruption, scandals and one of the most expensive stadium...
Etsy Terrible New Policies on Ai
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Support the Channel buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd Etsy has had to wrestle with on set of Ai generated images for the past and year and a hafl. And now their new policies double down on Ai images, saying that images that are made with generators are fine, while prompt bundles are not. The update also includes new catergories, so Ai images will now be marked as ‘designed by a seller’. A slap ...
The Changing Face of Las Vegas
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Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd While Las Vegas may forever be called Sin City. Vegas has been attempting to diversify in recent years to change its image and bring in new tourists that don’t simply want to gamble or attend a bachelor party, The new attractions include brand new sports team, a new F1 circuit, plus new attraction in the form of the Sphere and a glorifi...
The Man that Destroyed Xbox
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Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd Over 10 years since Don Mattrick left Xbox, the impact of his influence and terrible decisions can still be felt even now. After taking the reins of Xbox in 2007, Mattrick lead the brand to try and appeal to casual gamers in order to compete with the Wii. And later the disastrous reveal of the always online/Kinect bundled Xbox One meant...
The Apprentice’s Terrible Logo Challenges
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Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd With Series 18 of the Apprentice coming to a close, it has reminded me of how not to design a logo. While I do enjoy the show (sometimes), branding and logo challenges are very hard to watch when you see so many awful decisions being made before your eyes. Such as the cringe adverts, good ideas being botched by non-designers, and colour...
The Lawsuit Apple Can't Win
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Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd Back in 2012, two Italian brothers registered the trademark for the name Steve Jobs for their new clothing brand. Despite the logo being an obvious rip off, this lead to an embarrassing dispute in which Apple lost, and could do nothing about it. Since then however, Apple has been even more protective regarding its own trademarks. Especi...
Ai Art is Killing Etsy
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*Support the channel:* www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd As Ai does everything it can to take our jobs, Ai art has flooded Etsy in the last year or so. With entire stores making 6 figures, and racking up thousands of sales with shoddy, unoriginal artwork made by Ai image generators. Etsy was once a place that claimed to ‘keep commerce human’. But Ai art and drop shipping has led to Etsy fee...
Tokyo Olympics Logo Plagiarism Scandal
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*Support the channel:* www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd Tracking the saga of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics logo plagiarism scandal that stretched from 2015 into 2016. Was the logo really stolen, or simply a coincidence. As well as looking at the final logo design, the contest, the plagiarism lawsuits and the allegations against the Tokyo Olympics logo designer, Kenjiro Sano. *Articles and Links*...
New York Islanders Disastrous 1995 Rebrand (and it's Odd Redemption Story)
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Warning: This video contains a British man trying to talk about Hockey. *Support the channel:* www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd Why buy new players when you can hastily refresh your team brand in an attempt to latch onto a popular trend. This is what happened with the NHL team, New York Islanders and their 1995 rebrand and logo. But even with all the hatred and backlash, the once maligned ...
Starfield and the Return of the Console Wars
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Starfield and the Return of the Console Wars
Tesco vs. Lidl and the War over a Yellow Circle
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Tesco vs. Lidl and the War over a Yellow Circle
Sports Teams Trying to be Fashion Brands
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Sports Teams Trying to be Fashion Brands
When You Lose the Hosts that the Fans Love
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When You Lose the Hosts that the Fans Love
Fruit and nut was delicious, following Kraft’s take-over of Cadbury, they used cheap ingredients and the taste changed…never buy Cadbury’s now! Dreadful deception by Kraft’s executives.
When you sell an amazing product, it will always be ruined for profit , with no interest in the quality 😢
When you know nothing about the history and ethos of a business it is not long before you start making bad decisions. Family business founded by people of Quaker faith with a public conscience leads to better work and social conditions impacting community pride. Take Faith and quality away from the enterprise and your left with capitalism and greed. Maybe in 10 years people who never tasted Cadbury's products will be impressed by what they make - or not.
Castore is perfect!!
Omg UA-cam quit recommending this video
My red bull hoodie was falling apart the first day I wore it
Vever had a clue they changed the recipe, tastes the same to me.
this Don Mattrick guy made me buy a ps4 and I have to thank him Lool. I stopped buying xbox consoles right after xbox 360..such a great console :)
It should be called Mondechoc crap choc
So, the Aramark of sports gear.
Used to love it but wouldn’t touch it now even if free
Kraft aka Mondalez wanted to buy Danone in France but the french government refused to allow a "foreign takover" on the basis that Danone was a key national heritage. This info comes from the book "Vassal state" by Angus Hanton.
Xbox One was all about TV.
Xbox suffers from price and bloatware problems. The Xbox desktop is nearly as bad windows 11 and are in need of spyware removal to bring confidence back to the product.
I used to love Cadbury's chocolate but I haven't bought a Cadbury's product for several years now and never will again. The last Cadbury's products I bought were assortment boxes for my kids at Christmas. They were a total joke, I couldn't believe how little there was of each product, and they all tasted like sweetened s**t. Fortunately there are alternatives to Cadbury's on the market. This is the way it works with American managers. Buy a company with a well-established brand. Cut costs, destroy the quality of the product and reduce sizes while keeping prices unchanged. For a while people will still buy the product but you have cut costs, so you get your bonus. Gradually people begin to wise up (just read the comments here). Move on and find another management job as the brand begins to collapse forever. Rinse and repeat. It's asset-stripping.
TOBLERONE, will go the same way. Since childhood I was enjoying Toblerone with no sidefect. Today, two of those triangles gives me diarrhea for at least two days. A few weeks later, after things went back to normal, I tried again, followed with the same irritating symptoms. I loved chocolate all my life, but never ever did I have those side effects❗ I'm 🇨🇭 and I know what I'm talking about 😅. And a by the by, I'm sure the size of the large Toblerone used to be 400g which it is not anymore❗
The glass and a half block used to be 250 grams its now down to 165 gram people are not fools they won't cop this.
Had a few milk tray at christmas disgusting .Only 3 countries make real choclate .
To hell with any company that kowtows to that evil 7th century ideology, by including an infidel tax on their products, halal. I stopped buying after that, in fact there are so many companies I never buy from any more, either halal, woke. or usually both. I worked for that company before, as well.
In 1824 Cadbury was probably the worse swill among all the cheapest chocolates in the world. One hundred years later, this thing is still synonym of crap.
They the people who want to stop people from eating meat ,eggs ,sugar or anything tasty are purposely ruining our Food Supply ,these people are sick in the head and need to be called out by name!
Listen, Muslims are very peaceful people, you know.
Hotel Chocolat were also recently purchased by a American private equity. Consequence, the product is now disgusting
Welcome to the modern and evolved Kaapitalizm!!!
In New Zealand it was called Cadbury Fry Hudson Where Hudson was z biscuit manufacturer, it made sense to combine in Dunedin It had an advantage NZ dairy is simply the best in the world all this has gone of 2018 what a waste of the very best product Now the former site is for an 11 story hospital
God knows what it's doing to people's livers. Wouldn't touch it with a bargepole. 90% organic only for me
The Kraft buy out of Cadbury was quite literally criminal and the minister that allowed this should be in jail. Every single rule set out my the monopoly and mergers was broken and overturned in this takeover. It is not well known that there was corruption behind this deal and there is still no accountability. A criminal investigation is well overdue
WOW it like sh-t now .
Cadbury used to be my favourite chocolate. Not sure what ingredients they changed but the taste is horrible and it has an oily/waxy taste now. Jersey milk is one of the better ones out there now.
Chocolate hasnt tasted right for years. I find it has a coconut after taste.
Tastes nothing like it used to.. it tastes of grease and fat now.. leaves a weird aftertaste in your mouth.. even a bit of a sapone/detergent taste.. we dont want that stuff..
And it doesn’t melt !!!!!!!
Virtually every well-known Confection has lost its original taste. America is the land of Junk food so it follows that anything they produce will be crap. There are much better chocolates out there now, so you don't need to resort to buying rubbish.
I knew, but this explains it. THAT's why Cadburys now tastes like shit. Bastards
Another great example of the Americanisation of Britain.
arnotts are now owned by shit just like cadbury
I remeber Ronald Reagan, when he was president of the USA, describing the former USSR as an 'evil empire'. Well, there's more than one kind of evil. Rapacious Corporate greed undermines the quality of life wherever it sinks its blood sucking fangs. The quality of products take second place to the profit margin resulting in loss of confidence in manufacturing as customers look elsewhere for value for money. This is why so many Japanese companies did so well against their Western competitors. I often wonder what the founding fathers of America would make of this worship of Mammon for its own sake in the country of their making . The shining city on the hill is an illusion, a glorified cheap bauble designed to dazzle and beguile while in fact tricking and enslaving people into aquiescing to their subjugation. Americans worhip money ( as do other peoples ), but the USA dominates because its capitalist system is more entrenched than elsewhere. The fault lines in American society are there for all to see: haves versus havenots; corporate dictatorship versus the exploited consumer. I hope it doesn't collapse because Western civilisation, ironically, depends on its continued existence, but its continued existence without reform, not overthrow, will likely bring about its destruction. Just because they can't do things like make decent chocolate.
Like most of the chocolate producers in the UK, Cadbury's was owned and run by Quakers who had a very strong ethical commitment to their workers. Loot wins over these days. I must nostalgically admit though, that the Cadbury 'taste' hasn't really changed in my view - it's still sweet, brown lard, weighted with vanilla...
Boycott everything cadburys
After that American guy said that flake was an awful chocolate, I couldn't believe it went and bought a flake, it was disgusting it's not chocolate anymore
Stop buying Cadbury's it's rubbish nothing good ever comes out of America stop buying it
yes cadburys choclate is definitly taste worse so i dont like it anymore
This video is b@llocks. CDM recipe has NOT been changed! Covered chocolate like Wispa, Twirl etc has changed as they now use a small percentage of synthetic cocoa butter as cocoa butter costs a small fortune to produce. As for smaller bars and same price......everyone does the same cos the cost of cocoa beans went through the roof years ago when I was still there. No it's not the same in some respects but get your facts straight before putting out a misleading video 👍🏻
Cadburys is now garbage, eat good quality Belgian and Swiss chocolate.
Another multinational soulless corporation desteoys somerhing for the sake of trying to squeeze out more money.
American chocolate is literally putrid (vomit) tasting. Now Kraft wants us to enjoy their disgusting, cheap, chemical heavy, underweight, and expensive chocolate under the guise of Cadbury. I will never purchase or give to anyone a Cadbury chocolate.
KitKat tastes like plastic too.
And it's full of Palm Oil which helps create a demand for the stuff.
They have ruined our chocolate, ruined and adulterated it beyond regognision.
Watching the unveiling of the Xbox One is a piece of gaming history. The absolute and utter collapse by a guy way in over his head and so out of tune with his customer base. That thing got meme'd out of existence literally minutes in