Square Enix Infuriates Internet After CEO Wishes Happy New Year With Disgusting NFT Plans & Message
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Square Enix's transformation into Shinra Corporation is at hand.
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- Charlie Galvin
- Devon B
- Jonathan Ball
- Sarano
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- Gerardo Andrade
- Joe Hunt
- MD archenangel
- Michael Redmond
- Peter Vrba
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Happy new year!
I started playing a new game:
Any company that mentions NFT's joins my blacklist.
It's quite fun, you should try it too.
Someone needs to stop him!
It already happened a while ago, its just getting more and more obvious
Square Enix has become the most impact villain in 2022 LMAO
2022 games mode around vr chat rip
Consumers: "NFT's are a useless gimmick, we don't want them."
Businesses: "No! Look! Facebook changed their name! Buy NFTs!"
Consumers: "...What?"
@@Daigoust no one wants to buy NFT’s in games please stop shilling for a technology that doesn’t belong in games to begin with
Lmao, I want them. NFT’s are the reason why my Solana and Ecomi crypto investments have netted me literally life changing wealth. The profits I was able to garner I was then able to invest into hedge and index funds which has basically set me up for life.
Morons like you just don’t see $$$. While you all cry, I am here setting myself up to have generational wealth for the generations to come.
NFT’s and cryptos will only go from strength to strength. Just look at XRP and the way it helps solve real world problems by having cheap cross border payment fees for those who are not as wealthy as most of society.
@@cbgg1585 [citation needed]
@@cbgg1585 until the outlive the government's use and get outlawed
Sadly it's likely that they know that the people yelling are the minority of their customer base, there is a reason that scummy games like Fortnite, CoD, Valorant, etc can thrive
People really are that dumb and will pay for these things
CEO: "Happy New Year!"
Customer: "Really?"
CEO: "No"
CEO: "well for me anyways"
*Begins To Fuck Up The World For Economic Gain Like an Ass”
@@TupacAmaru3 Love to see Square Enix follow Ubisucks and Peter Molyneux for scamming
Happy New Year! Now, about your money...
@@Daigoust Winning by scamming got it!
it's really telling when everyone is like "NFTs are terrible"
And these companies just completely ignore the sentiment.
From what I can tell, only the most ignorant are saying NFTs are terrible and who really cares about their uninformed opinions? Once people learn about NFTs and their use cases, they are converted. Why don't you try reading instead of regurgitating the bandwagon mentality of this echo chamber?
@@DanielDroegeShow then you're about as blind as a bat. There's a reason why all of the scummiest publishers immediately jumped on board with this, and the rest are hesitant, and even coming out saying this is a bad thing for games.
You have 0 sense if you can't see how this will be used for greed and exploitative purposes in the hands of EA and Activision.
@@nope-qi8zx Saying that someone is as blind as a bat if they cannot see something for themselves is a less than clever way of disguising the fact that you have no idea how to articulate exactly how this would be used for greed and exploitative purposes. Talk about buzz words.
They saw what happened with lootboxes and gacha. Idiots will buy anything
@@DanielDroegeShow From what I can tell, only the most greedy are saying NFTs are good and who really cares about their self-serving opinions? Once people learn about NFTs and their use cases, they immediately recoil in disgust. NFTs are a way to exploit artificial scarcity, and are anti-content, anti-user, and even anti-environment (as blockchain and digital authentication is a waste of CPU time and CO2 production).
What really pisses me off, is the fact that these companies act like they're not making any money, they act like they're up and coming companies, they act like they certainly don't have billions in the bank, so what's the point of all this greed?!
Like steph said, greed and cruelty IS the point. We really are living in a dystopian hellscape at this point aren't we😔
Not just about making money. It's about power. They want to command everything. They want to be the only ones happy. They say stuff like this because they know we hate it and believe we can't do jack about it. The shit they do is a deliberate active attack on us.
@@CarbonRollerCaco Jeez, these are some messed up people.
After all of the backlash that came with tying NFTs to Gaming, you would think that these gaming companies would get the memo
Theoretical financial prediction does not count the psychological feedback of the subject
But, as it turned out, these companies have NEVER gotten the memo : D because at the end of the day they (sadly) will keep earning the big bucks because of gullible people : /
You'd think that with all the backlash about trying to make money on anything but video games, they'd go back to trying to make money by making video games again.
@Martin Øverby I mean, I thought this WOULDN'T happen after the disaster that Ubisoft NFTs were, but still. Also, NFT bros run out of money eventually and have to limit their "investment" when they lose money by spending thousands on NFT, and with the amount of badmouthing of NFTs there is, there are probably going to run out, by which I mean NFT bros with the money to actively buy NFTs, because the NFT bros themselves will probably last pretty long, but stop being profitable eventually. So ironic that not only are NFTs a bad investment for NFT bros, they're a bad investment for companies, which keep falling into the trap that because everyone's talking about NFTs, they're going to make more with that than with trying to actually make a good game, ignoring that most people are talking NEGATIVELY about it. I just hope it doesn't go viral somewhere full of idiots ready to sink all their money on NFTs like Tiktok, because then the people buying NFTs will greatly outmatch any slander thrown their way. Anyways, none of this really affects me, nor it affects the gaming industry as much as people think it will, because only corporations will decide to use them, and I don't think I've played a game by a big corporation, other than GTA V Minecraft and Skyrim in the past decade. Some small indie developer isn't likely to decide to add NFTs to their games, since they really need to listen to community feedback to be successful, and can't just bank on their money like corporations can. I just hope corporations realize that essentially swapping industries (NFTs aren't just going to delete the gaming industry, though some companies might fall out of the industry due to their higher-ups obsession with money and instead go into the NFT business, which as I sad earlier is probably going to die eventually, even if it takes decades, so those companies that go all in with NFTs might be in trouble in the future due to how poorly NFTs have been received so far, again, I hope some idiot doesn't go viral promoting them)
Unfortunately they don't care
"Imagine a world where people give you money and you give them nothing. That is the True American Dream"- Rush Hour 2.
Hey that's been Star Citizen's model for the past 10 years...
Btw, the "game" is still in alpha......
@@cl1cka 10-year Citizen lol
@@ricardohoang8452 Well at least the Robert brothers bought multi-million $ mansions....
@@cl1cka Kickstarter scam afterall ...
@@ricardohoang8452 It's beyond that - I mean it's a scam if you get 100k from people....
They managed to get 400 MILLION by selling ships in a game that is in Alpha 10 years later :D
From the letter: "I realize that some people who “play to have fun” and who currently form the majority of players have voiced their reservations toward these new trends, and understandably so. However, I believe that there will be a certain number of people whose motivation is to “play to contribute...."
So basically: we know you don't like the idea, but we just don't give a f**k.
So we just go, you don't care? Fine, we won't buy.
I remember a time and day when what the consumer values/wants is most important.... Now it just feels like "Here's what we're doing. Get over it"
I do too, but it was so long ago shareware was still around.
Well all good things must come to an end; it’s been an honor, Square.
Oh and some dude pretending to be me replied to my comment, ignore him, its not my channel
Square Enix was never a good company. They're just lucky to have passionate and talented people like YoshiP working for them. Blizzard was like that too at one point.
Square has been shit for years since a bit before FFXV.
@@Miranox2 nah they were godly back in the 90s
Hopefully they take back there plans.
@@placeholder6517 Cause that wasn't Square Enix but Squaresoft.
The company philosophy changed a lot with the merger.
As a huge FFXIV fan and supporter, stories like this are why I get so angry when people equate all the good things Yoshi P and Creative Business Unit III do with SQUARE ENIX itself. SE is no better and no different than EA, Ubisoft, or any of the other huge corporate hacks that dominate the gaming space. SE is the company that gave us shit like The Avengers "live service" game. Yoshi P and his team are but one segment of that company. PLEASE stop giving SE as a whole credit for all the good will Yoshi P generates for his game and the community around it. Hell... just look at the message he put out regarding the delays to FFXVI. This man gets it.
Stop giving SE credit for his good work. They don't deserve it.
This THIS T H I S! I see so many people praising SE and think all that praise should go to the developers who put their heart and soul into games like FFXIV and FFVII:R/Compilation. SE themselves are greedy and end up crashing the car in the end
Indeed. But Yong can't do that, he needs the clicks, even if are rage clicks! xD
same goes for SEGA and ryu ga gotoku, and Capcom and MH Team
So why don't you go make game company and see how it goes
Well Sq. Enix fans... looks like you're going to start pirating their games 💀👍
I just really enjoyed how they were like, “Facebook changed their name to Meta” meanwhile a company by that name refused to allow a Facebook to use that name and they did it anyway. You picked such a great role model SE, so proud of you. 🙄
The “toilets to take a shit” analogy is the best thing I’ve ever heard
The tech companies (and most game companies apparently) have developed the terrible habit of telling us what we want, rather than listening to what we want. The sooner these industries crash and burn the better for humanity in general.
Agreed
Honestly, this is pretty much the reason why, despite limited resources, indie titles are so often so much better than AAA titles. They're mostly open to feedback, and mostly aren't run by greedy maniacs.
With this NFT trend growing, I bet it will be mentioned by in-game characters one day.
Character 1: "I need an armor that will get me further in my journey".
Character 2: "How will you obtain it?"
Character 1: "I believe in having to consume time by slaying evil for certain amount of time."
Character 2: "Don't you have gold?"
Character 1: "I'll need real gold."
Video games crash version 2.0
I couldn't agree more dood.
Nothing has proved the dreadful, anti consumer nature of NFTs more than the fact companies are so excited by the idea.
its used by ubisoft and etc in bad manner to be anti-consumer, but if you think real adoptation of nft is only for end consumer
it does seem really baffling
@@mr.e5722 I mean i'm pretty sure they get a cut with each transaction or somthing ? Otherwise it is stupid from businesss perspective to add it to game.
@@adrianstefaniak7584 Yes they get a % of the money made depending on the amount your earn. I think for (ubisoft) in particular it was 5 % of the money you made.
@@adrianstefaniak7584 This, Ubisoft must be REAL proud of the like 30 dollars(assuming Ubi a 3% cut if that) they made off the NFT resales for Ghost Recon Breakpoint, to which only about 1000 dollars worth of transactions occured and a transaction hasn't happened since about a week after the last NFT was given out.
Could have just typed "Bad New Year" and saved themselves a few thousand words
Square Enix: "I would like to begin by wishing everyone a Happy New Year."
Gamers: "Well, we're not so sure about that."
I love how they try to pull in every irrelevant buzzword they can -- like meta, cloud gaming, AI, and even effing Covid of all dang things to make this sound like a big deal. Shameless. Absolutely shameless. Absolutely despicable and disgusting.
Just like people writing essay without knowing much of the topic
Extremely ironic that this company owns the Deus Ex IP.
Mentioning Facebook Meta was the icing on the cake.
@@jamesmcmackin8773 the games industry is full of irony. Just like how Ubisoft calls their published titles "Ubisoft Originals" and the games being anything but.
@@LouSassol69er We're firmly in the age of having our fondest entertainment memories held hostage in the most out-of-touch and ignorant ways possible.
It just had me thinking about the recent re-releases of Pokemon gen 4, and how I was probably having more fun with my playthrough of randomized Platinum on my Wii U than I would with an overly hyped, idiotically simple, poorly polished, less feature-rich modern release.
Imagine how modding, or even basic user-end optimization will be complicated in the era of NFT-metaverse-cloud-games-as-services. Games from a decade ago are better values than ones from the last six months, and the industry needs to hit a breaking point eventually.
I love how they have no shame in telling us that this is all for more profit opportunities.
Yeah, that's why it reads like a dystopian Sci-fi, coz it's honest. For once the corporation isn't trying to gaslight the reader, it's just straight up telling you "fun" is not profitable so we're getting rid of it so every moment of your existence can be 'valued' and contribute.
They're not talking to us. They're talking to their shareholders.
We're just walking wallets, we don't read
most Japanese companies are extremely honest about chasing profits. unlike American companies who try to mask it being hyper aggressively capitalist is seen as a super positive thing in Japan.
@@ShadowAraun that's because American companies are run by socialists.
@@arsenii_yavorskyi Hahaha! It's hilarious that you think that's true!
Look, you've been misled for years and you're a victim of the Overton Window shifting so far to the right as to have fallen off.
There's no such thing as "the right intentions" when it comes to NFT's. They're all about getting money for doing no work, regardless of who it hurts.
Who is getting hurt, exactly?
@@DanielDroegeShow The crypto markets as well as the delusional fools trying to convince us they "bought it for the [cgi] art" and "dont care if it goes up or not"
@@stevensgarage6451 Once again, who is getting hurt who didn't knowingly take a risk on an investment? You just create people and stuff words into their imaginary mouths to fit your narrative.
@@DanielDroegeShow “knowingly taking a risk on an investment” lmao yeah when some doofus gets rug pulled that wasn’t an investment, that was a lie
@@DanielDroegeShow probably the digital artists that get their art stolen so often
I was rolling my eyes through most of this until Yong got to the "Play to have fun" section, where they basically spit in the face of modders, and I got actually angry. As a modder, "Good will and volunteer spirit" or whatever is the ONLY reason I STILL make mods for a game that's been out for 10000 years. ( Skyrim ) Squenix can fuck off. Keep your token bullshit and NFTs out of my games.
Thank you and people like you who make mods for us to use and enjoy 🙏🏻 I get a lot of joy watching videos of ridiculous mods people make.
1) spitting gold bars in your face...
2) they never said people didn't mod due to good will and volunteer spirit, just that it was inconsistant or unreliable.
3) it isn't your game
But that comment shows the north american and european entitlement when it comes to gaming in general and will be why it is dominated by the east in the decade to come
Ah, yes. I'm entitled because I want my games to be games and be fun to play. Forgive me. Having the gaming Industry flooded with NFT bullshit is clearly the way to go.
/s
@@DanielDroegeShow 1) Gold bars with no real-life value but instead artificial value based on speculation.
2) WTF does "inconsistant and unreliable" even means here? Sounds like buzz words like the whole letter. See the case of the Steam cosmetics sold by DE on Warframe which are created by people on the community. Said cosmetic gets sold and Steam gets a cut, DE gets a cut and the artist gets a cut and the community who voted on which cosmetics get on the store buys them. No NFT or Metaverse crap in-between. Same for modding, some modders create and code mods for their favourite games because they enjoy it, the community uses and enjoys them and the developers help by making the game moddable. No NFT or Metaverse crap in-between. If it's not broken, don't fix it, ever heard of that?
3) Sure, they aren't legally-talking our games, but if they aren't our games why do they ask our opinions about them? Why do they put up a letter communicating their intentions to everyone? Sure they legally own the whole thing but your game can't be sucessful if no one likes it, nobody plays it and nobody buys it, they still depend on the consumers to earn a profit from it, so even tho they aren't legally our games, we're still a big pillar on the industry, we as consumers are the ones that keep the machine going on, investors wouldn't invest money if their investment is worth nothing
@@BaghNakh1 1) All fiat currency is no longer backed by precious metals and therefore holds "no real-life value but instead artificial value based on speculation."
2) It means that once a game releases, mod support for it is very large. As the game declines in popularity, there is less modding and the creation of new content for players stagnates which in turn creates even more players leaving. This can be seen in the starcrafts, fallout, skyrim, and many other popular modded games. When Skyrim tried to allowed an option system where modders could get paid for their work, there was huge backlash from the community as well, so don't act like you care about modders being rewarded for their hard work.
3) The funny thing is that you believe video games are profitable in the west.
It's so weird seeing a big company like this openly partake in a scam. Why can't game companies just make games anymore?
Because some bastard desided to invest in gaming, and they expect more and more money in return every year
One word, MONEY
Not money. Control.
not all NFTs are scams
@@ScaryScarab21 sure, but what use is it to own a NFT
This genuinely breaks my heart. NFTs, Microtransactions aside, this is doing much more than just killing art. It's robbing people of the chance to bond through an overall great experience. Some of my fondest memories of gaming is playing the Lego games with my brothers or watching them play a story driven game and just getting really invested in the plot. None of those games had any kind of money laundering whatsoever and I hold those memories near and dear to my heart.
It breaks everyone's heart, friend. It breaks everyone's heart.
People are not going to stop making games just for fun. I literally have no idea why people think this. Even if NFT gaming becomes "mainstream" they would not be in every game and you would not be forced to use them. The free market works.
To think about how many kids and other people will never have this kind of memory, and how this kind of gaming will influentiate their lives.
@@cgsec2275 last time companies said MTX were not necessary and no one was forced to buy them, they immediately went about trying to find the best way to force people to buy them.
It all started with those damn csgo skins if we roll back time.....
As people we could just shrug it off and think like this will not have an impact to us directly, but in my oppinion this is only a first step to something bigger. In my oppinion companies like Ubisoft and Square should really give this the boot before it becomes "normal"to put "products"like that into games and way more intergrated and on a bigger scam level then it is now.
this should stop, just the same with all those Microtransactions in games on which you allready paid 60 Euro's or Dollars or what ever currency to just squeeze more money out of you, untill the game dies next year and all that investment is gone and not relevant anymore, (talking to you EA). I might be thinking from öld"point of view as the younger generation would say, but this is just thievery with extra steps.
Honestly I’m not sure I can take much more of this crap that these companies are doing. I absolutely love gaming but lately it’s more about the money that can be made off of us vs The love and compassion for making great games.
I like how we're all invested in playing games to have fun, yet the people behind a lot of these companies that make the games have forgot why games were made in the first place and are making it the most miserable industry they can. Bad work conditions, preying on Fomo and gambling problems, finding any way they can to exploit the players for money... I wonder if the gaming industry will ever stop in it's decline or is no depth low enough.
The gaming industry makes more than the movie and music industry combined, so no, they wont stop.
That's the thing. These ceos aren't making games, they're making money.
Do you know what an arcade machine is? It was always about money.
It's a heavily unregulated industry. It should be regulated as much as any other major industry but, it's not, and that's because of lobbyists.
As long at it makes money: No. And there will always be more people and as countries gets more digital infrastructure and standard in homes the new players will only grow.
"Gaming is heading in directions where I'm going to start losing passion for it" That line right there is how I feel about the gaming industry too. People try to convince me "nah dude, you're just growing up" Fuck. That.
They're right tho. Just not in the way they think. Kids don't notice all this shit. Only as we get older so we notice these things.
@@Stickman0660 Because as kids, you don't understand where the money comes from, you get it all from your parents etc. You don't feel the struggle to make ends meet and such. After you learn that, you realize how terrible and predatory these practices are. How these NFT scams can bankrupt you.
@@Stickman0660 Even as a kid, I could see there was something fishy about on-disc DLC and microtransactions. Kids can't really contextualize how harmful this stuff is, but they do notice.
@@MrPoeGhost thats what I was alluding to. My kid notices it with roblox and how a lot of stuff is locked behind paywalls. But je doesn't get why its not a good thing and why I wont spend a bunch of money on there for random things he wants.
@@veracsthanekek5903 bro you wanna have a discussion thats fine. But making assumptions about me and throwing insults isn't the way to do it my guy.
Well, growing up in the 90's. I'm happy to have been there when gaming reached amazing heights. Sadly seeing the fall as well and how the quality has really fallen is heartbreaking.
What SE has failed to understand about modders is that the number one motivation for making mods is to play the game they love with said mods. If they do not enjoy the fundamentals of a game, they will not try to improve it by modding it.
Edit: Original text said Ubisoft, because I thought that this was about them, not Square Enix. It's pretty disturbing how so many formally beloved companies are now so easily interchangeable because of industry-wide grifting through shitty business models.
"Creators such as ourselves..." Fairly certain that the *actual* creators behind your successes have little to no say on this subject lest their livelihood is placed on the chopping board.
agreed. RIP YOSHI-P
good point
"People don't want single player games. They don't want horror games. They want live services, they want NFTs."
They're so used to telling customers what they want that they've completely lost touch with reality. Can't wait for the entire AAA industry to crash again.
When they mention "feedback" they really just mean business statistics, they don't care enough to listen to people
Amen. They are completely oblivious to what we actually want.
@@KnakuanaRka sadly they are not. They just do not care what we want, all they are interested is to have more money in their pockets. It does looks that gaming is dying. Technological advance is killing it fast. I was so hyped for this generation of gaming, but now i am worried. Seems like this metaverse and nfts will be new form of gaming and main focus of entretaiment industry in general. Now we will probably see even worse forms of drm and digital rights acts, censored content, copyrights takedowns and who knows what. They will do all in their power to protect this money grabing schemes and nothing will stop them. Only thing that maybe will be becon of hope is indies and true artist. But without big investments they will not be able to express their vision to the fullest sadly. I do not know really what will happen but this does not look good for the future of gaming.
@@FFTM155 I doubt there is much hope in indies, Corps will just patent game mechanics (as they started doing recently) and prohibit indies. Even if indie studios do not really break any patent, they have no money to oppose megacorps in many-years-long court trials to prove it.
Right now there are just a few patents in game industry and it is relatively easy to avoid messing with them, but once there are thousands, it will become almost impossible.
Go Indie or small game company!
Everything going on with all these game companies and their behavior breaks my heart and my 13 year old son's. He wants to go into game design and as he hears more and more about what's happening. To the point he's starting to rethink his dreams cause he doesn't want to work for companies that treat others as less than human and where he fears he will not have a voice to stand up for others, with out risking his hard earned career. He's 13 years old. He shouldn't have to be worry preparing to fight sexist CEO's, just to do what he loves.
Back in my adolescence, my dream job was being a videogame programmer. My dream ended up when Microsoft and every other videogame company started abusing the DLC and microtransactions system back in 2005. It was at that time that I saw where the industry was heading and I decided that my future wasn't there. I went for a teaching career instead.
Let gim focus on becoming an indie developer then :)
No shitty companies to lead him to stress and abuse.
He can just do his own thing. Find people that want to help out and dorm his own development team eventualy
Square Enix: “playing games to have fun” is an antiquated concept
Me: “paying for games” is an antiquated concept
Square enix: *angry npc face*
You do know how hard it is to make games right? If I’m gonna spend years of my life on an indie game I’m gonna want something to pay for that
I think you meant:
Me: "Paying *extra* for games" is an antiquated concept
Cause of course we don't want all video games to be free to play because that guarantees bad microtransactions and other sorts of monetization tactics in them that ruin the games, so most of us would have no problem spending $40-60 dollars on a polished and complete AAA video game (with the occasional solid Paid Expansions added with time).
@@guyferrari8124 1: Square isnt an indie studio
2: its a meme, i have no interest in pirating new games, only ones that are old and otherwise inaccessible on modern platforms or are ridiculously expensive in the aftermarket
@@generalcjg agreed, i was just making a joke about piracy. I doubt many people would want to pirate an nft game anyway.
@@gageschleser6307 I know that square isn’t an indie studio, but the blanket statement that you shouldn’t have to pay for games kind of ruins the effort people put into making their own games.
Honestly, it's time to take a zero tolerance policy towards this stuff. More than not buying the NFTs, it's time to stop buying the games or cut the publisher/developer out completely if they attempt this. No more justifications or ignoring or 'it's not noticeable to me!" or "I still have fun!". It's more than clear the industry despises its customers and has less than zero respect for you, time to respond in kind
*right-click
*save image
Do your part
been doing this for years now. its no use. too many ppl will just buy anything that has a price tag
@@kosmique if the Magic The Gathering "community" taught me something that's it, people will complain, scream in desperation, but they can't hold themselves from buying said crap. But hey at least we have piracy.
People will not stop buying shitty AAA games. See Battlefield, the GTA remasters, Cyberpunk, etc etc..
I salute anyone who is passionate about gaming and actually boycotts shitty companies.
Am I alone, or just getting old, in wanting good single player games with a one time cost of buying the game and that's it? If I am playing a game chances are I want to be away from the real world, not being forced to be connected to some virtual live service world with ongoing transactions and stupid tokens.
Bro for real, that's why I've been playing Halo on my old Xbox 360, it feels like I can actually game. I mean like on PS4 I get so many store notifications and shit, it's not as fun.
You’re not alone at all. It’s just company’s only hear what they want to hear, and are constantly fed bs from the popular media. Probably doesn’t help that my generation is so used to stupid micro transactions.
You are not alone at all....
Soderlund at least did not think, you'd still live, dinosaur :D
This really felt like something for investors like they wanted gamers to be small investors.
I just wanna after I came from work to play a game, that is all.
Interviewer: So, tell us Square Enix, why do you want to implement NFTs?
Square Enix: Money!
this is why i'm keeping my physical games. I'll need something to play when every game that comes out now sucks
I remember a time when you bought a game and you got a completed package with no extra cost. Those were amazing times. I don’t mind reasonably priced DLCs, but NFTs and loot boxes have no place in gaming. They don’t create memorable moments in gaming. They just pray on consumers, especially the whales.
Same. If I ever turn into the kind of rat that tries to violate art for money then may whatever god there is strike me dead
As an indie dev who remembers the golden days of complete games and expansion packs, I'm doing my best to bring that back. I hope more of us do the same. Greed is destroying gaming.
Well my opinion is, if a game comes with a dlc content so long as you pre-ordered it then that's still incomplete. It's not fair to spend your hard earned money on a incomplete game because you refused to pay more than full price or you failed to pre-order before the release date.
Let's go a step further and say microtransactions in general (with true MMOs being the only exception, and even then, it needs to be done with care). And before people say, "Oh, but they need them to fund the cloud serversss" DON'T MAKE THE GAME TIED TO CLOUD SERVERS. A master server for listing other servers, fine. But that's basically it.
Yeah, and I remember the times when there are no Basketball and Football in my casino games...
Ahem ahem... 2k...
Game companies have been gaslighting us for years when it comes to "what we want" but this is just so brazen. They're just so determined to push forward with this garbage I really find myself worrying for the future. The backlash may be huge, but let's face it-that's never stopped them in the past.
This may be one of the very few examples of the word gaslighting actually being correct, these days? The companies will happily tell us that ravaging our wallet is what we want, as we want all that "player choice" when they release game-skip options to buy and "content" when all we ever wanted was fun games made with the sole intent to be fun to play.
They are seeing the anger and backlash but don't care. These companies know some people with more money than common sense will eat up this bs. As long as the whales are there they couldn't care less about what the majority of gamers want or do not want. It seems like these companies forgot about the video game crash decades ago. It can happen again and next time there may not be recovery
atleast Doublefine and Wayforward aren't doing this NFT trend
@@Ray__E I fear that kind of thing might not happen...that video game crash you are mentioning. Considering how some of the big vid game companies are connected, they might let it happen but in a controlled pace where they still win.
@@kriscubero6778 Very plausible. It's just frustrating seeing where our hobby is heading.😞
Just remember guys, don’t let this bad news affect you in anyway because we can just simply choose not to buy. :) happy new year’s everyone.
Unfortunately people will buy eventually, that's where the sad part begins =(
Us: How many times do we need to teach you this lesson, old man?!
SE: You want to buy my NFTs?
These companies aren't even hiding their blatant contempt for their customers anymore. They just double, triple, and quadruple down. We need a hard reset like happened in 1983. It'll be painful, but it'll lead to better outcomes in the long term.
But...here's the problem with that. Aside from that really only being a thing in the US in 1983 (markets in Japan, Europe and Canada weren't really affected by the so called games industry crash as some would believe...it was primarily a US crash)....but, again ignoring that, the current industry continues to grow in value year on year with predictions showing that is expected to continue significantly...the industry now is monumentally gigantic in terms of the revenue that it generates and it is in no way suffering or in danger of crashing. Today it's larger in terms of value than the entire movie and the majority of sport's industries combined. How is an industry that is making mountainous piles of cash quarterly, not even annually, going to suffer some sort of crisis severe enough to alter its course. As far as investors, shareholders and corporations are concerned business is booming. What incentive is there for them to be doing anything different, when from their perspective, of making literally every dollar in the known universe as their goal is working out so well for them?
They were never trying to hide that in the first place. There are genuinely good game companies (a few) and then you have AAA Japanese and Western publishers (which are scum incarnate).
They know they don't need to hide it, people still will buy their games anyway.
I've honestly quit gaming already, I was down to just splitgate and dark souls 3 for a few months but lately I just can't even be bothered enough t
@@mightyhendo9828 That's because vast majority of people buying and playing games frankly don't really care about the industry. They're just kids or parents seeing a game on a shelf and buying it if it looks fun.
Source: my ass
What a sad time to be a gamer, the whole gaming industry become EA.
Who funnily enough hasn't yet done this, I think they love their money too much to lose it like Ubisoft did.
@@manologamerss5801 Or the next Sims instalment will be NoFuckingThing central and make the rest of the industry look like children selling stamps, while they're pushing crack.
@@Bananahammock681 I mean, it's an online game so that's not s good sign, because it allows to slide in NFTs, but given that they've been slightly more receptive to the community regarding TS4, and that gaming NFTs have been a total failure so far, there's a chance it might not happen.
Capcom is still doing ok single player
@@Bananahammock681 It's so funny seeing everyone trying to parody the NFT Anagram when it's already called "Non Fungible Token" like, you just can't make a more stupid sounding name.
That's why we need more developers like ember labs! They made one of my favorite games in a long time Kena Bridge of Spirits. We need more passionate developers like them who put out quality games without any of the microtransactions or nfts!
Old people running game companies: "People are passionate about this computer stuff. How do we bleed even MORE money out of them?"
Investors: "STEADY GROWTH! STEADY GROWTH!"
Imagine Yoshida fixed FF14 from the ground up only to be ruined by greedy corporate NFT decision which doesn't benefit them. NFT are niche market too at Japan.
Anyone who's worked in a corporate setting will recognise that corporate BS where they try to make out they're doing good things for you as an employee when they're really screwing you over.
Makes me think that eventually, if this really goes on, people will lose interest in AAA games and start paying more attention to Indie or AA games. Not everything will be good ofc, but I honestly believe the consumers who know nothing of gaming news (AKA young adults and teenagers as well as younger children) will have no interest in a "game" about investing. If they do, they won't be there for long because that shit is boring af. These "games" will then be targeted towards older adults who do not fall for scams as easily and they will die eventually because guess what? Trends (actual popular trends) are started by young people.
No one wants games about real life investment, much less teenagers and children. These guys are the ones who make things popular and they don't have any interest whatsoever in having a helmet that has a different number on it that's barely visible. They want stuff that looks cool and has cool gameplay, they want games that are experiences that change how they think. Ever seen those memes about people "downloading" a new personality after finishing a movie? That's what gaming is about for young people.
Kids are always looking towards being more mature and the like, they wanna be like adults because it looks fun and cool, but once they realize it isn't they just stop trying to follow those steps. That's what I think is gonna happen with those investment "games". They will die off eventually, even if it takes years and I would be damn happy to see it happen.
Raise a glass to the rise of indie devs I guess.
Yeah, that's already been the trend for 8 years or so. But it will accellerate it.
Dev Studios, being replaced by Dev Studios, who actually still want to be a Dev Studio, not some kind of DLC/Microtransaction/NFT printing press.
I was thinking recently that the title of AAA should be given to amazing games, not just the ones that spend the most money making it.
Its already begun around 10 years ago. Indie games is where its at
YongYea, love and support from Canada. Happy New year all!
Square Enix really wants to start off the new year on a bad note….. impressive
@@PremiumSharing Not in games.
@@misterymisterio8778 For Sure. Nft’s are Not for Games.
_trash take_
I wonder how companies can be so tone def. With the power of the internet it should be easy to gauge people’s reaction to this kind of message. I get that companies are out to get money but surely they don’t think we’re all this kind of stupid?
They know people hate it but the money NFTs can get them even with the hatred is more than enough for them to push it.
Look at EA, Pokemon Company, Ubisoft, etc. Are they on the brink of bankrupcy? Nope. They do A LOT of bullshit things that many people hate, many people condemn, but they still make MILLIONS, even BILLIONS. Do you think they HAVE to care when the money STILL comes after all that? Bad reputation doesnt matter if your pocket still gets filled. So the truth is, A LOT of "us" ARE that stupid.
The people in charge are businessmen, not gamers or developers
They know people hate it, but are attempting to push the line further and further.
Backlash will make them temporarily back down, but don't be fooled, they will continue to push and push, ever so slightly.
That's how we got Season passes, cosmetics, lootboxes.....
@@KKarkatVantas exactly and i never touched the bd sp remakes and sales still show people buy no matter what they do.
This message feels like an introduction to a black mirror episode
Looking forward to another year of great content and news from you😊
This is Square Enix's "Sense of Pride and Accomplishment" moment. Only time will tell if history repeats itself
The way this dude talks about passion being an inconsistent motivator is dystopian as hell.
Unless you realize that he clearly doesn't know games and passion is actually a powerful and consistent motivator for loads of things. There are so may games great because of their community, from Minecraft mods, SEGA actually hiring for some recent projects people who have worked on famous pieces of fanwork, and the creators of TBOI working with the creators of Antibirth, a mod for TBOI to add it as an official expansion, community input is such an important part of games that it really depicts just how much this CEO of a games company knows jack-shit about games and what make them great.
@@manologamerss5801 very true
I like how you actually let some of your anger come through as you usually stay rather professionally composed. It was a good move. They are taking it too far.
Happy new year Yong, keep up with the good content
Imagine you spent months, years working on something only to have the higher ups decide without telling you all your hard work is going to NFTs. That's how it feels to work on games right now.
*right-click
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@@zaragachizanparo4948 wasnt there this one nft that just got printed and immediately lost all it's worth, throwing the owner into instant poverty?
@@nate5780
I assume you're talking about an image asset tied to the NFT?
In that case I don't see why someone printing it would have any effect on the value of the NFT.
@@Hwyadylaw not sure I just remembered reading of it in November
@@Hwyadylaw The NFT is just a link to the art, which means literally anyone can own it. It has no value unless someone else buys it. If everyone can just download your art, then it would literally have zero value. This is because the blockchain can't store the art itself unless it's tiny. And even in cases where they can, if you want to display it it needs to be decrypted which basically means giving it away sooner or later.
YoshiP out here doing his best to give the best game for the players and then here comes his CEO destroying the fun.
No wonder YoshiP looks tired as fuck always. Give the man a break.
His division and the Dragon Quest division must feel like safe havens if this is what the rest of the company has to go through
If I was him I would copy resources and his game engine to an hardisk and start his own studio....
Nope They’re trying to take Elon musk and Jeff Bezos playbook
Belated Happy New Year to you and yours, and to everyone here 🤗
Thank you so much for all your great videos over the years.
I really enjoy your long an in-depth content, please keep up the very good work 👍
Best wishes from Denmark
"You will own nothing and you will be happy."
This was hard to watch, whoever wrote this should be fired as they have absolutely no place in the gaming industry.
Pretty sure they're the one who can fire whoever in their company says that, and like they care. They've clearly tired of gamers demanding good games that don't just try and milk you for every last penny, and are trying to move into a different industry where there are loads of people who will love being milked out of all their money for the opportunity to make a nickel once a decade.
@@manologamerss5801 Actually, any CEO who pisses off investors usually flies out of the door at the next board meeting. Of course, in this case investors are probably fully on board with NFTs.
This was bound to happen. There arent many duos in gaming as iconic as Square finally getting their shit together and it all collapsing because they want to follow a bullshit trend.
I mean the reason Squaresoft imploded and being forced to merge with Enix or die was because they pushed too hard on their new bs Animated Final Fantasy Movie, which bombed so hard that it put the company on life support.
@@kendiaz89 wait what? Square Enix was a thing many years before AC
Oh wait you meant the Spirits Within garbage. I think that was around the same time, ~2004
@@AConquerorsVendetta Spirit Within was such a massive failure for Square that if FFX wasnt a massive success and Enix didnt merge with them, they wouldve went under in a year, and honestly, beside FFXII and FFXIVs expansions, we really wouldnt have lost any value.
@@AConquerorsVendetta No Spirits Within was before 2004. Square was still Squaresoft by 2002, it was between 2002-2003 they merged with Enix.
@@AConquerorsVendetta Yeah, that one. It was still called a Final Fantasy Movie despite having little to do with the franchise.
There's also no way to know for sure if "your" star even still exists or not. The stars in our nights sky are hundreds of thousands of light years away, so we're actually seeing them as they were many years ago. For instance Betelgeuse is around 700 light years away from us, and the light that we see from it is the star at the very end of its lifespan. For all we know, that star could have gone supernova 300 years ago, and that light just hasn't had the time to reach us yet.
Those companies could have sold people a star that has already gone supernova and no longer exists, and no one would have known for sure.
President Shin-Ra to Barret: "have you even listened to a word i said? I don't have principles, i take whatever i can take advantage of and discard that of what i cannot."
Square Enix CEO to audience: i don't care about passion or fun, if it does not generate a beneficial financial income it is not worth it. I take advantage of what generates money. Discard of those that do not.
Ive been saying this for YEARS now; gaming has finally become a business industry and we, the gamers, are their naive customers, and as long as we keep paying that $60 pricetag for CoD and Fifa '2069, they will always find ways to cut corners, paywall everything they can and prioritise your wallet over your enjoyment. NFT's are the next big step of bullshit they'll encroach on us to enhance MTX in their favour.
Exactly.....Are all cars $200,000? Are all houses $500,000?...But all games have to be $60? Not happening. They give us less and want more they can all suck it.
Done with all these major companies and if I have to sacrifice not playing certain games I want to play, then so be it. I'll find something else to do.
Never bought a FIFA game, not bought a COD game since before microtransactions. I got Ghosts second hand for £5 and it was crap, so no more COD for me😏
Not $60, upcoming $70 now
@@pseudonayme7717 same. Completely stopped buying anything from EA, Activision, and Ubisoft around '06, and will continue to do so. Square, you're next in line of publishers I will not be buying from unless things change.
Only the casuals pay that for those games
I remember the last time Square tries to follow video game trends. They brought us The Avengers!
Square is pretty genious in milking their working games and throw the money at shit for quite a while.
Love yah Yong. Happy New Year buddy. Hope you and your family are well.
On disc dlc, online passes, loot boxes, microtransactions, and now NFTs. These greedy companies will always find a way to nickel and dime people because of their money grubbing mindsets.
Don't even waste energy getting angry at this. Act smartly and don't support their NFT endeavors. Everyone should understand by now the only language these greedy suits understand is money, and couldn't give less of a damn about pointless whining.
BTW, even for artists NFTs suck. Unless you're a renowned artist already, NFTs represent more of a risk than a potential monetary vector, because it makes plagiarism laughably easy. It's a long existing problem within the artist community, which manages to catch plagiarists of popular artists' work every now and then, but small artists are pretty much free game for these scumbags, sadly.
All the more reason to support INDY DEVS!!
@@reagandow850 Except that Peter Molyneux scam
Most consumers will never even know Square is doing this, and many won’t even care. That’s the thing about internet outrage(Twitter, Reddit, youtube) at the end of the day it has no substantial affect on the company. You’re right, the only way to change things is vote with your wallet. But how many will actually follow through with that if/when square releases a good game they wanna play?
If only sane people mattered in the Whaling Industry...
The problem is that the "whales" and "super whales" will spend thousands of dollars and the games will continue to be built for them as they push out the "one time buy" players.
Lol, remember when gaming meant blowing into the cartridge to get Battletoads to work? Sure it was 8 bit but you actually get a game instead of paying $60 for a digital store that 'allows' you to purchase the game piece by piece.
NES games actually cost a lot back then as well with inflation but ya
@@Danieldoomer Yeah, but with a few exceptions, when you paid for a game you got a complete, finished and working copy that you can play when the internet is down. Good thing we got emulation!
@@rustymustard7798 yep I agree rare to find that with most gaming companies
I would happily go back to the ps1 days. No nonsense, buy the whole game and play.
@@dannyjack659 Yeah i quit gaming pretty much in like 2018 when i saw that everything was rapidly declining in the industry. I stopped buying any hardware as it's worthless with no games worth playing anymore. Everything is a tiered scam wrapped in a gimmick that requires a connection and a subscription, screw that.
I usually game when the internet is out, which happens often in my rural area and with most new games that'll be a dealbreaker.
If i REALLY want to game i've got PCSX and Vigilante 8 roms lol. V8 is AWESOME haha!
It seems that the meta-concept "You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain" has become true for Square Enix.
Speaking of backlash, big companies are usually completely deaf regarding such a thing from literally anyone, including their auditory.
It does give me some hope that NFTs are already seen by most people as what they are: a scam. The only people who have the opposite opinion are investors trying to get that easy money, and the delusional people that got scammed by buying an NFT and are trying to justify their "purchase".
There are more than enough games worth playing coming out every day. I have no problem in not buying games from a company I used to love, like Square Enix, if they intend of chasing this trend that will ruin the fun of games.
It's nice to see so many people against this crap.
It's a shame we can't boycott products as a community but everybody just buys mindlessly
There's hope. I have the feeling that adults are against this, and young people will not be able to play anything related to blockchain because of governements and taxes regulations... Time will tell.
Starts with one. I still haven't bought any EA or Dice related games, nor have I purchased any Blizzard games, even with Warcraft III being my favourite (dodged a bullet on that one).
Set an example, and maybe people will follow. If not, at least you saved yourself the money.
@@HauntingSpectre Same, can't remember when was the last time I've ever bought anything from EA, Activision/Blizzard or Ubisoft.
You can still boycott as an individual.
Say that to all the people buying pink nfl jerseys. Nfl used charity to encourage people despite knowing people wouldn’t ask the legitimate question how much of this 100 are you actually giving. Also if you want to boycott products why not start with literally every major publisher because there’s enough dirt there to justify it. Obviously sexual harassment won’t get people to, you think micro transactions should, NFTs.
"Happy new years, this is our newest scam idea"
Seriously, it sounds as a presentation to scammers, "this is how we're going to milk those suckers for everything"
This is one of the reason why I see gatekeeping as a good thing.
Happy New Year!!! keep up the good..*.... news and updates!!!
It's simple for me any company who implements NFT's into games won't get a single dime from me, PERIOD.
I mean if done correctly it wouldn't be much different than what we already have, if you could by skins that you can sell later on for profit then that's already better than what we have now.
I seen at least a dozen of these videos about NFTs I've googled it on about 5 different occasions and I still don't know what the hell they are.
Remember when video game producers produced video games? That was dope.
This crap isn't going away. I'm dreadfully anxious to see the further decline of the mainstream industry and conversion of games into secondary jobs.
Agreed.
I refuse. I’ll quit playing.
Players have to speak with their wallets if they want to make this go away.
Corporations follow the money
The upside to this is its helping the Indie Developers take over the industry, and they actually deserve it
Least we got to experience the golden age, its now our duty to judge and bully people who buy nft
Keep fighting and calling out the BS. We're with you!
Amen
My brother said that NFT really stands for "Non-Flushable Turd." I very much agree with him. Let's all agree that NFT now stands for Non-Flushable Turd! Together we can change gaming for the better!
You're talking like "Non Fungible Token" doesn't sound as if it's a parody of something else already.
I miss Squaresoft! Back in a time where games & creativity were (or seemed to be) the focus. This is just fucking sad.
I think Square enixs its CEO has taken a page from the Shin-Ra company a bit too literaly
I keep seeing people say things like "I can't believe the CEO is so unaware of XYZ...", you are correct, senior leadership in big companies like this live in an information ivory tower and are surrounded by a small circle of senior execs, they don't have their ear to the ground like you think they do. They probably should but they don't, and as long as revenue and profit is looking good they have seldom any reason to bother with such trivialities.
seen this firsthand, shameful
If it doesn't make sense as a pie chart or bae graph, it doesn't make it to the CEO lol
@@jacobbaird951 I've seen 'em actively dismiss important information because they think so highly of themselves that they believe they SHOULDN'T have to actually understand what they're working with.
Really bad work ethics.
The most annoying thing is that they don't see the backlash from Ubisoft's decision to add NFTs as a sign that people don't want them in their games. It just makes for repetitive articles and lessons that no-one learns from. Blatant ignorance at its finest and honestly quite frustrating.
Yes. Then they act like we have a choice to not support NFT games. How do we avoid them when every big publisher and developer isn't listening and plans to force NFTs onto gamers? The choice is an illusion. Good thing the quality and ambition of indie games continues to grow.
I mean Matsuda himself even said the majority of gamers play to have fun instead of "playing to contribute."
So yeah they see the majority don't want this, they just don't care because they want to promote games as a job that will make them more money.
Guy is a scumbag and a conman.
"Well it's not like it can happen to *us*. We're just special like that."
They will be in most games in the future. Basically they will allow you to resell your stuff to other players so when you stop playing you don't lose what you spent. Right now it is an emerging technology. And yes these Ubisoft ones do seem to be overpriced gimmicks so don't buy them, but in theory an NFT will allow you to have more control over your data and assets and could even be used as a contract to do basically anything you want (which is very useful). An NFT is just a piece of data on a blockchain. There is no intrinsic moral value to it. It is like, well the internet, it is a multi purpose system. The internet can serve you scams, so can NFTs, the internet can provide function and utility, so can NFTs. If you are not convinced, spend a few minutes reading about what decentralization is, then use your mind to imagine how this could be used to create a better world. I think almost everyone should be able to see the potential at least. If you can reach that step, then the question is, do we trust governments and corporations enough that they will use it responsibly. No we should not, but I believe the idea is so powerful that those who use it badly will die out and new and better organizations will emerge. It would be like trying to stop the internet. Open source stuff is another thing I can compare it to. Decentralization and transparency and power back to the users are great things. These are what blockchains and NFTs are about, or should be about. It is frustrating to see people think the opposite when they heard the word NFT, it has become a marketing buzzword which now just means "scam" to a lot of people.
@@cgsec2275 explain to me what benefits NFTs are in Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts.
Single player JRPGs.
Explain it like I'm 5 and try not to make it a wall of text this time.
Happy 2022 YongYea - success and nothing less in all your pursuits.
Really enjoy your content and your take on gaming (although it is sometimes sad and discouraging (but hey, not your fault that the industry is trying their best to shovel manure at us).
Can you imagine? FF7 The First Soldier with NFT? "Be the first and only to get that Blue haired Cloud replica outfit!" ?
Respect Yong. I hope this doesn’t become the new normal, it can bring really dark days ahead to all us that love gaming
Remember when Yong only ranted against MTX, thinking they were the worst thing in gaming?
Those were good days...
Honestly most of the games I play these days are through emulators or from indie devs. It looks like it's going to stay that way for a long, long, LOOONG time. I probably won't ever return to triple A gaming with the way things are going. The whole industry has been absolute cancer.
The deal is, these awful practices are not for us, they are for those who are growing up and then they become normal, because they always been there, just like expansions and MXs
I think it's been rather dark days for gaming for a while, even before NFTs. You guys accepted all these fucking mtx and games-as-a-service, and now publishers are just dying to find out what else they can get away with.
Then you haven't seen the Gamestop NFT marketplace...
Square Enix: Great Developers, Horrible Management
Same with EA, Rapetivision, Rapisoft, Valve and every other Triple A company.
After the final fantasy 7 remake release I haven't purchased a game from them I guess this isn't changing
So Nintendo basically
@@RIELTURO FF14 is great
@@yabiyabi yes hopefully they won't put NFT in it
Square you literally just garnered so much goodwill from Endwalker and then you proceed to do this shit.
My god, Yoshi-P's back is creaking and breaking from the carrying he's had to do.
Happy New year Yong yea 🎉🍾🥂🎮👑 2022 and your family and friends 💜👍 I'll see you guys next Yong out!!👉
ANY company that starts doing NFTs, I will cease any service and/or monetary support for it. One person isn’t enough to change this but as a community, we can. We either stand together or we fall together.
Its one of the few things that'd stop me from buying a new Pokemon game.
get abort the pirate ship matey! :D
With you on that brother, I refuse to buy into this NFT bullshit. Any company that pulls that scam won’t have my support.
Hyper Sonic Try to get that message to the FF XIV fanboys and -girls. I wonder how long it will take until Square Enix sneaks NFTs into that game.
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So not even 24 hours into the new year and they somehow already pissed everyone off I don’t know if that’s impressive or just sad
Bro, I remember on Hulu literally 3 hours after Betty white was dead, still warm. Hulu was sponsoring Betty white shit. Companies don't care about lives but profits and demons hold the helm because no normal good person, would willing scam and try to make money off of the dead
Impressively sad.
@@Cthulu1985 You ninja'd me.
You are my favorite You Tuber that is not a 2D avatar!! Happy New Year Yong!!
Happy new year!
Ive given up on social media. Its a fools paradise. They are making a mistake with this move. God. Just living and trying to get a bit of enjoyment out of stuff that you pay cash money for is getting harder and harder. Its absurd. Thanks Yong. This year will be a good un. You'll see bruv.
The problem is that there are people who know about this crap and continue to funnel money to them.
It’s stuff like this that has made me lose interest in gaming. I’m 37 years old, being gaming since I can remember and it’s just sad to see my favourite pass time being turned into shit.
I'm 40, and what pisses me off about the direction the industry has been going for over a decade now, is that my kids will never be able to enjoy gaming the way we grew up.
go watch Ssethtzeentach's game reviews. He has a real nack for recommending the good shit, and he doesn't pull his punches when it comes to calling out bad games and game companies on their bullshit.
I've played several games that he's recommended and they're all fantastic.
Yep. I'm turning 40 soon and gaming is so garbage - I've gotten back into trading cards and toys, taking a long break from gaming...... :(
Happy new year !!!
Oh, Josh! I know you just finished your 2021 Fails list, but you already have a potential entry for the next list.