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The funny-est thing is they could make 1 game and just make a new season every new year for that said game but nope they make a new game every year that is worse than the last game year by year eventually the game is going to be so bad that people simply stop playing you can only putt so much decoration on a pile of crap for so long
Yeah well the problem is that most people who buy fifa are casual gamers and know nothing about the controversies. I only truly realized how many casual gamers exist after the Pokémon sword and shield scandal. No matter which Pokémon video you watched, everyone in the comments was calling for a boycott, saying how they wouldn't buy the game, and yet sword and shield still managed to be the most sold Pokémon game ever. Same thing happens with fifa
It can't be helped, some people (myself included) love football and this is by far the best way to experience football in a video game format sadly, it's just how it is and some of us agreeing to not buy it won't change anything
Last EA title I bought was bfv. I've been playing battlefield since bfbc2. Didn't spend a dime on its live service garbage. Just bought base game. On the cheap.
FIFA LEGACY, GAMERS EDITION FOR THE HARDCORE GAMER!!!! Woops Forgot to take out the 2018/19/20 Water Marks in the back there, Soz... Now... GIMME MONEY😶
Also , EA owns Respawn (Titanfall, Apex Legends) and Soccer (Association Football) is the most popular sport in the world, which naturally makes EA's FIFA the most popular sports gaming franchise.
@manny022 Fifa has a Live Service component. Because every year a new release of a sports game is made, last year's teams become obsolete because they do not transfer, and the community jumps ship to the new game.
@@Sagedurk Worst part is it is gambling by any measure of common sense. It's just not legally gambling because the laws are quite specific to prevent accidental overreach.
@@TrueChaoSclx I had an argument with someone a few days ago, who insisted that Battle Passes were far more of a scam than loot boxes... When I said LBs were gambling, they gave me the literal definition of gambling... Like, sure, that's how a lexikon works, but not life. Besides, definitions change. And gambling has been around for a looooooong time, video games (especially gambling within games) is really new. Of course the definition of something ancient doesn't take into consideration of a modern equivalent
I am able to get in an average of 2 hours of gaming on work days and 6 hours on weekends. Based on ScudsTV's calculations, if you spend 3 hours playing FIFA everyday (A time I consider possible/reasonable for an individual who has a job and family/other responsibilities) It would take that person 21 years of playing to get their top tier ultimate team. At that point, your sense of pride and accomplishment would be so massive that its gravity pulls earth towards it killing us all.
That's because the man lives in a mansion far, far away from the little people who can complain about the games. Or because he has no heart and soul? Your pick. Lol
The great thing about being respectful and even-tempered is that when you cursed, it really made me aware of how passionate you are on the subject, since it was so out of character...That said, when you said EA was "completely full of s**t." I laughed my ass off. Thanks for the upload!
Nothing about this is surprising. It's like the "funnybot" episode of South Park, except instead ofTyler Perry and Token, we have EA Sports and Sports Fans.
That's actually true depending on the radiation. People are exposed to radiation all the time and even emit some radiation themselves. All radiation ought not to be conflated with ionising radiation.
"Ha, it took me years, but I unlocked my dream team in FIFA2020 without paying for the surprise mechanics." "That's swell. By the way, we're shutting down the FIFA 2020 servers now." "But..." "Surprise!"
@King of The Zinger while that is true however the current pandemic stops them from playing out unless they’re idiots who don’t care or believe in the virus
I haven't bought Madden in five years after being one of the people who bought it every year. If they weren't doing all this stuff I'd probably still be buying it honestly. So I guess loosing my $60 was worth it for them since you have people like this out there.
@King of The Zinger I mean, there are a lot of circumstances where you wouldn’t actually be able to play the sport. A pandemic, your friends are busy, it’s night, raining, you don’t have a place to play outside, etc. when I was younger me and my friends would play football at the beach, but we would still go back inside and play Madden after it got dark out. I realize that there are kids who won’t actually go outside and play, but a lot of them do both.
Bethesda kicked it all off with Horse armour and SShivering Isles expansion. They deserve to be owned by microsoft now. M$ is making a bunch of moves to try and change their perception, I don't call them Micro$hit ever since. They are friendlier to the pc gaming community than pc developers lately. They will forego a shit load of potential profit to buy back the good grace of gamers. They know we all have eyes on bethesda too bc of the acquisition, and await to see what they do with it. W.e that is will make or break them with time. How they treat the PC platform really does have a lot of bearing on what consoles people pick up. If they stick to their plan and allow games to be played on xbox and pc from a single purchase, they are golden and have an advantage over every other platform. We will see though, they didn't become micro$hit for no reason, and it will take a lot for them to shed that title completely.
@GoFuckYourself DumbFuck considering add ons and purchaseable content existed for commodore 64 games and were super common in the old days of gaming you are full of shit.
@@Dead_Goat Jesus fucking christ, the fact that someone can legitimately defend charging hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a top level team in a *sports* *game* *centered* *around* *building* *effective* *teams* is so incomprehensibly fucking moronic that im actually baffled.
Except in this case this pit has been known for years. I'm not sure why it's suddenly a thing again because it's already well known that EA doesn't give a shit.
Keep in mind this is also after many countries are trying to ban lootboxes or try to place strict regulation, after EA payed few fines already, after gamers hate them. Image what would EA do if everyone stayed silent
We've been diving into this goddamn pitt so far we made it clear through to the opposite side of the planet years ago and are now flying through deep space, spinning wildly out of control through the gap between galaxies
I’m not even shocked, this is exactly the sort of numbers I thought it would be. It will continue because companies can treat people like shit and they still go back for more.
I don’t play the FIFA games anymore, not for many years, but I do get some fun listening to all these problems and glad I’ve avoided them given what they’ve become.
Problem is, aren't we getting radiation from the sun anyway though? Ofc... it depends on the radiation. I'd take the sun's radiation any day. Gamma radiation? Nuke radiation? Actually... kinda like those chances, who wouldn't want 70 rads/sec?
Imagine if people actually just stopped buying sports video games. Until they improved in some way. I wonder what EA would do if we could organize ourselves like that.
Good luck with that. There are too many people with the intelligence of a broken lightbulb to know better, or people who even care about their time and money and others.
I think even if you riled up the entire gaming community and got them to stop, it wouldn't put a huge dent in sales. These games really appeal to casual players - my dad literally plays nothing but fifa, buys the new one every year or 2. He doesn't play ultimate team, at least, just the more traditional management stuff.
The problem is that would only work if people who are huge fans of these games expressed their frustration with EA. They’re not going to listen to people who haven’t touched anything published by EA since the PS2, nor are they going to listen to people who only buy Respawn’s more consumer-friendly titles like Fallen Jedi while being fully aware that EA published-games by the one studio they haven’t obliterated (yet) are the exception, not the rule. Only FIFA/EA fanatics could make EA sit up and take notice to their casual evil, and so far, even crap like this isn’t enough to make them protest in any way.
It's more accurate to say that 40 hours to unlock Darth Vater was FIFA Ultimate Team all over again; this shit's been going on for eight or nine years over on the FIFA side.
dude in Genshin to get the new unit it costs you like $250 max to get the new unit and thats with the worst RNG possible. Thats a mobile f2p gacha game that is more fair than FIFA
As someone who plays fifa in every 2-3 years this is a little exacurated. The competitive modes Do give good rewars to upgrade your team but you are right there is no way for a "f2p" player to get a squad like that in a year. Plus i have been hearing some discord from my frieds who play annualy that the rewards have been downgraded since 19 which was my last fifa
What funny about this is that in the older FIFA / Winning Eleven games you can create a "custom team" and make a roster of players from all the teams available in that game. No Microtransaction
Is there any new mechanics. I have played every doom game but I find it difficult to finish them at times. Sometimes they just feel so repetetive and the fact that the story is trash does not help. Basically is the dlc any better than the main game?
@@0subsWith0vidsChallenge the 2nd DLC is not as tough as the 1st one but it's still as challenging as the main game, there's a couple new mechanics and some variant enemies. You should try it if you want
Bethesda will fuck up the launch of their games but, and i say this with no love for todd or anyone at that company, they sure can make a fun functional game if they actually get off their fat lazy asses and try.
I will never forget, I paid 300 dollars worth of fifa coins to assemble my Man city squad in 2015. The basic ones mind you. I was still getting destroyed by other players with the special cards but whatever. Then one day I logged in and I saw a notice saying they would no longer be working on the game as they were now focused on 2016. And it occurred to me that I'd have to spend a similar amount or more to build anything close to contention as cards don't carryover. Fast forward to Fifa 20, which I bought because I hadn't played in 5 years but I was determined not to pay a penny more. Of course I was stuck with low tier players for an entire year and never made it past the 4th division. I returned the game and it may be another 5 years before i return again.
They brought out these cards as Squad Building Challenges about 3 FIFA's ago. It was achievable through the League Squad Building Challenges because they gave out packs and high rated players every time you completed them. They decided to remove these high rated players and make all the packs in those challenges untradeable. They also now have a time limit on each of these Prime Moments Icon Squad Building Challenges. They really are a scummy company.
Yeah we've went from getting about a dozen genuine 9/10 games per year in the 00's to being lucky if we get one per year by 2020. I'm old enough to remember unfortunately lol.
7:15 The duration is not really an issue. The key issue is that you can skip the duration with money. Therein lies the problem. But I do agree, because it is annualised, it sets a hard time limit in terms of how long the game is worth something, hence the lack of practicality when farming for your ream team.
I cried a little when they finally lost the exclusive license for star war games, i have no hope for star wars anymore but atleast now someone who might still give a shit could get their hands on the rights to make a not dog shit star wars game
The amount of money that ea still makes in these games basically secured their licence for ever. FIFA sees videogames just as expensive merch, they don't consider it an art form, just a revenue sources paid by fat bastards who can't pick up a ball to play.
And the really sad thing is even if you're mega rich and do spend the money to build your dream team, it doesn't carry over to the next version of the game. I though a $70 game was too much, imagine paying $100k++ for a game+dream team
When I first was introduced to Ultimate Team in FIFA, I didn't give a crap about it. I saw the game mode, somewhat thought the mode had some mechanic to annoy the player and had a way of making them play the game, like the use of achievements and trophies, to tell the player that they haven't completed 100% of the game. Maybe a bit lucky, I didn't play the game because I have folks telling me in the UK, that I'm fake and I know nothing about football, so I didn't bother and left the FIFA games, alone. In a way, I'm glad there's a message (like, all the videos) telling those guys about this sinkhole, of a game mode, because those guys in the UK get carried away, with soccer and we do all kinds of crazy things, to be a supporter of football.
Legit, EA has stumbled upon a Golden Goose. For as long as card games have been around, power creep and the need to entice their players to buy new expansions has made long-term comprehensive developmental planning for card game growth, exasperating and near-impossible. For EA, no matter how much money you spend, every new year comes to a new Fifa or Madden and a wipe of everyone's UT. Insane to think about.
the funny thing is though it doesn't even really give you that much of an advantage due to their scripting mechanics, or "dynamic difficulty" as they call it, where tweaks are made mid game depending on who's winning / losing, it effects all players stats, makes your players run slower, shoot worse etc etc, and makes the other team WAYY better. it's just an illusion that it gives you an advantage, and it feels good having shiny cards.
Imagine going back 40 years in time, and telling people that there would be an industry that exists where people would pay thousands of dollars just so their pixels on a television would be better than another person's pixels while playing a video game. Now... just imagine if this industry existed back then... "Yeah, I paid $500 just so my Pac-Man could move 25% faster than other people's Pac-Man's. Check out my high score, dude."
Me too. I grew up in the PS1 to PS2 era. That was a different time. So much innovation. But I guess it depends on what you play. There's still innovation, but you have to dig deeper instead of just playing the blockbusters. But how many kids do that... The difference is that before you could play the big games and still get that innovation. Still, the innovation now isn't as deep. A few games here and there doing something new on a surface level. Mostly indie games built on small budgets. There's no revolutionary games coming out, such as GTA3 or MGS1.
Everyone already know about EAs greed, thats not the real problem, the problem is that even though people know that, they still keep giving EA money, so obviously they wont change when they still keep getting more and more money
I think the problem now isn't only EA itself, is also the people that keep buying those games, year after year and also those lootboxes, if they buy it, they're showing EA they're agreeing with that, and that won't change anytime soon
Any lootbox style game creator are as bad, but indeed EA, ACtivision Blizzard and 2K are the worse since they also have the audacity to say that you need to pay 70$ for their game because it cost too much to make.
@@ninetailedfox579121 lol, sure that why it is the second time they make hundred of people without job (which they learn at the same time than everyone by news) and Bobby offer himself a bonus of 200m at the same time. Fuck Activision
As damning as this is, It won't change anything. The companies are going to keep producing games with these exploitative mechanics and the general consumer is too young, or to ill informed to avoid purchasing games that are built to exploit them.
You would think that even casual gamers should know by now what they are getting into. All the complaining about EA doesn't really get us anywhere. They only do it because people buy it en masse...
So it would take likely 5 years of casual play to create a dream team, at which point 4 new games have released and the servers for the game you've been grinding on are probably shutting down, if they havent already.
At some point this should blow back on FIFA. I assume there is some sort of license agreement between EA and FIFA to allow them to use the FIFA brand and player names. They could intervene and set rules or break the licensing deal but they don't because, like EA, they are greedy assholes.
I don't put Origin on my machine, I don't like running booty launchers in my background to buy one or two games. At that point the pirate bay offers a better product. I might would buy Mirrors Edge Catalyst, as it's a sequel I anticipated for years and years. Haven't played it yet though, bc they want to implement drm for a game nobody cares about anyway. 24/7 online needed is an instant pass for me. Fuck that.
Once I went to a friend's house just to get some sleep and he was there playing FIFA, but not really. The PS4 was on for like an hour while he spent most of time scrolling menus and looking for card prices in some app that show real time prices and trades. Very fun to watch
Said this to my brother, spend more time in menus looking for players etc than actually playing matches. That's not a bad thing as playing the actual match is annoying, due to lag, crap mechanics, opposition who are mostly adults wanting to do stupid kiddy animated celebrations after every goal, which makes matches last 25 mins instead of 15 mins. List goes on and on
Let's not forget "influencers" group. Some of them might be sponsored by EA to promote the optional method. If it is true, this group is equally guilty as accomplices.
The prize pool for the fifa esports world tournament was only like $200,000 . So that means top players spent more money/time getting top tier characters, than winning the top prize in the Fifa tournament.
We can deal damage to EA by not buying their games anymore, but people will still throw their money at them, so there's nothing we can do -.- but I've been doing my part, I've not purchased anything from EA lately
What is left to "expose"? Everything they do is almost transparent by now, its just that they are so big that the only way to bring them down is a bigger company buying them and then disbanding them
As much as I would like to see that happen, it won't be happening any time soon. EA doesn't care about what randos on the internet like us think. As long as their whale cash cows keep making them their bottom line, EA is going nowhere. Unless you can get those cash cows to be more responsible with their money, keep on dreaming.
I stopped playing Fifa years ago not because of it loot boxes but because of the lazy and insulting " yearly improvements ". When you add this bollox ( Pay to win) into mix it just amplifies how despicable EA really is !!!
Atleast it stays in one version and is somewhat fun even with gacha since they do give chars on eventsrather than a repacking old wine in new bottle like ea does
@@ak-ub1ym I'm all for defending Genshin but you can not sit there and tell me the weapons banner is anything beyond cruel. I saw what rolling for the Staff of Homa did to people.
It’s not possible because if you played 2.5 years straight you’d be dead. When people were screaming at EA about Battlefront II (rightly so) I pointed out that EAs sports games are infinitely worse. I’m glad this is being brought even more to light. Keep on doing the great work, my man!
For publicly traded game companies that have to answer to investors it probably is legitimately required. Hence AAA games often being inferior to indie games these past few years, shitty pay to win mechanics print money.
This bullshit is why FIFA black markets exist.
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The funny-est thing is they could make 1 game and just make a new season every new year for that said game but nope they make a new game every year that is worse than the last game year by year eventually the game is going to be so bad that people simply stop playing you can only putt so much decoration on a pile of crap for so long
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Maybe it's not addiction, maybe it's financial domination, people are legit into that
The real scandal is the fact that people keep buying their games and sinking money into these systems.
Yeah well the problem is that most people who buy fifa are casual gamers and know nothing about the controversies.
I only truly realized how many casual gamers exist after the Pokémon sword and shield scandal. No matter which Pokémon video you watched, everyone in the comments was calling for a boycott, saying how they wouldn't buy the game, and yet sword and shield still managed to be the most sold Pokémon game ever. Same thing happens with fifa
It can't be helped, some people (myself included) love football and this is by far the best way to experience football in a video game format sadly, it's just how it is and some of us agreeing to not buy it won't change anything
@@JD7046. You do know Pes exists right?
we need to start pressuring these UA-camrs lying to the kids
Last EA title I bought was bfv. I've been playing battlefield since bfbc2. Didn't spend a dime on its live service garbage. Just bought base game. On the cheap.
I bet that gamer will feel a sense of Pride and Accomplishment once he unlocks the super secret Darth Vader Goalie card.
and probably be a beast against top tier players but will let in goals from akinfenwa
If PS2 Battlefront is anything to go by then Vader would really be a pace merchant winger.
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Bruh lol
EA Games. Charge on everything...
Imagine spending hundreds to thousands of dollars on a game which will be reset every September
More like giving the box a new art cover and calling it a new game
FIFA LEGACY, GAMERS EDITION FOR THE HARDCORE GAMER!!!! Woops Forgot to take out the 2018/19/20 Water Marks in the back there, Soz... Now... GIMME MONEY😶
Reset* Resetted isn’t a word.
@@TheSpongyMallard who cares
@@TheSpongyMallard it should be 😔
The sickening part of companies like these is that for everything we hear about what they do, imagine what we never hear about.
"The only winning move is to not play." - WarGames
The fact that EA still isn't dead shows what is wrong with this world of ours
Because they own a monopoly on so many sports games, if they had competitors it would be done
Init, people know this game ( fifa) is bullshit yet they still pay for it every year and buy packs. Last fifa i bought was 16.
@@CecilioSprayetti take two and NBA, Sony and MLB?
Yeah man it's like the Twilight Zone but the episode never went off.
Also , EA owns Respawn (Titanfall, Apex Legends) and Soccer (Association Football) is the most popular sport in the world, which naturally makes EA's FIFA the most popular sports gaming franchise.
"There are 2 options: Waste your time or waste your money". Third option: DON'T FREAKING BUY THE GAME.
Fourth option: Create a diss track dissing the game whilst spending your money elsewhere
Option 5: spend your time or money on better returns for gaming.
Option 6 tell everyone else not to buy Sports games with Greedy microtransactions
Fifa has a monopoly on the football game industry, it's not like action games where you can just not buy them and play another
Option 7: pirate the game and share the safe links to your friends
So it takes longer than the game will be around to make the top tier teams. I can see why this is such a popular business model.
Indeed. It's very effective
People mad, but EA brilliant, and we just envious.
And no matter how good your team on the last game was, everyone starts at basically the same place for the next game.
@@TheLoos3Goos33 Except the people who put in more money, and you know that people do. Lots. I've spent more than I care to think about.
@manny022 Fifa has a Live Service component. Because every year a new release of a sports game is made, last year's teams become obsolete because they do not transfer, and the community jumps ship to the new game.
This should have millions of views.
EA exec lights a cigar with a $1000 bill, kicks a puppy, and laughs as he watches this video.
Are you sure he doesn't also have some local altar boy glued to his crotch? While we are at it
when gambling in casinos with real money becomes less harmful then gambling in a video game :,D
Better odds at a casino
@@marcusschiff1779 better odds and at least you can actually make money lol
And some people are still "bUt lOoT boXeS aREn'T gAmBLinG".......
Just because it per definition isn't gambling, doesn't mean that reality is the same
@@Sagedurk Worst part is it is gambling by any measure of common sense. It's just not legally gambling because the laws are quite specific to prevent accidental overreach.
@@TrueChaoSclx I had an argument with someone a few days ago, who insisted that Battle Passes were far more of a scam than loot boxes... When I said LBs were gambling, they gave me the literal definition of gambling... Like, sure, that's how a lexikon works, but not life. Besides, definitions change.
And gambling has been around for a looooooong time, video games (especially gambling within games) is really new. Of course the definition of something ancient doesn't take into consideration of a modern equivalent
I am able to get in an average of 2 hours of gaming on work days and 6 hours on weekends. Based on ScudsTV's calculations, if you spend 3 hours playing FIFA everyday (A time I consider possible/reasonable for an individual who has a job and family/other responsibilities) It would take that person 21 years of playing to get their top tier ultimate team. At that point, your sense of pride and accomplishment would be so massive that its gravity pulls earth towards it killing us all.
"25 years at EA and I still struggle with the external perception that we're just a bunch of bad guys" - Matt Bilbey, EVP Strategic Growth
That's because the man lives in a mansion far, far away from the little people who can complain about the games. Or because he has no heart and soul? Your pick. Lol
@@oprime probably all of the above lol
@@MahalGC Probably all of the above, I like that answer. Lol
@@oprime D. All of the above
@@oprime He should better asks Trip why Trip founded EA
I got an ad for a football match gambling service during this video. The irony is so thick I'm drowning in it.
The great thing about being respectful and even-tempered is that when you cursed, it really made me aware of how passionate you are on the subject, since it was so out of character...That said, when you said EA was "completely full of s**t." I laughed my ass off. Thanks for the upload!
EA never surprises me in what they do
Not just EA, huge gaming companies in general Activision-blizzard lmao
They keep surprising me by having a fanbase.
@@Zathren this, the surprising ones are not EA, but the people who kept buying their products
Ad Victoriam brother
Nothing about this is surprising. It's like the "funnybot" episode of South Park, except instead ofTyler Perry and Token, we have EA Sports and Sports Fans.
EA Sports: it’s in the greed.
I used to love those tiger woods games on the original xbox
@@lenol0315 that was back when life was good
i played the shit out of Tiger Woods 07 on the og xbox. i have so many good memories with that game.
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"It's just like saying diarrhea is better than radiation."
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Sounds like something I heard the AVGN say at some point.
That would look nice on a T-shirt. 🤪
With enough radiation you get diarrhea. Bonus! It's a surprise mechanic.
Can’t spell diarrhea without EA
That's actually true depending on the radiation. People are exposed to radiation all the time and even emit some radiation themselves. All radiation ought not to be conflated with ionising radiation.
I remember you used to be able to just go into a menu and trade players around however you wanted to back in the older games
"Ha, it took me years, but I unlocked my dream team in FIFA2020 without paying for the surprise mechanics."
"That's swell. By the way, we're shutting down the FIFA 2020 servers now."
"But..."
"Surprise!"
I don't play EA games = I don't waste time, I don't waste money. This is the mark of a true winner.
Only old ea games like 00’s early 10’s or earlier are worth a shit
Apex though ?
Bet you have other shit games to fill the gap
@@joshido7352 fuck their butchered* titanfall 3 spliced battle royal cash grab bs
@@joshido7352 That is a spyware due to kernel level anti-cheat...
People still buy sport games, kids still ask for sport games. These people will never learn
@King of The Zinger while that is true however the current pandemic stops them from playing out unless they’re idiots who don’t care or believe in the virus
Doesn't help that those who are addicted to gambling likely are quick to go for more chances to gamble.
I haven't bought Madden in five years after being one of the people who bought it every year. If they weren't doing all this stuff I'd probably still be buying it honestly. So I guess loosing my $60 was worth it for them since you have people like this out there.
@King of The Zinger I mean, there are a lot of circumstances where you wouldn’t actually be able to play the sport. A pandemic, your friends are busy, it’s night, raining, you don’t have a place to play outside, etc. when I was younger me and my friends would play football at the beach, but we would still go back inside and play Madden after it got dark out. I realize that there are kids who won’t actually go outside and play, but a lot of them do both.
@@MrBrickCrafters unless they were vaccinated
I remember when games you bought had everything you'd ever have already in it. Those were the days.
Those truly were the halcyon days...
Bethesda kicked it all off with Horse armour and SShivering Isles expansion. They deserve to be owned by microsoft now. M$ is making a bunch of moves to try and change their perception, I don't call them Micro$hit ever since. They are friendlier to the pc gaming community than pc developers lately. They will forego a shit load of potential profit to buy back the good grace of gamers. They know we all have eyes on bethesda too bc of the acquisition, and await to see what they do with it. W.e that is will make or break them with time. How they treat the PC platform really does have a lot of bearing on what consoles people pick up. If they stick to their plan and allow games to be played on xbox and pc from a single purchase, they are golden and have an advantage over every other platform.
We will see though, they didn't become micro$hit for no reason, and it will take a lot for them to shed that title completely.
I remember when people didnt need to have every game breaking bis item or unlockable to enjoy the game.
@GoFuckYourself DumbFuck considering add ons and purchaseable content existed for commodore 64 games and were super common in the old days of gaming you are full of shit.
EA gate is a clear case of "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
Imagine playing fifa 8 hours a day for almost 8 years, that's a punishment from hell
But you dont need to.... You do not need every bis player to be competitive. These people are upset because they are cry babies.
@@Dead_Goat Jesus fucking christ, the fact that someone can legitimately defend charging hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a top level team in a *sports* *game* *centered* *around* *building* *effective* *teams* is so incomprehensibly fucking moronic that im actually baffled.
@@Dead_Goat Ea bootlicker detected. How can you defend gambling in a game rated 3+ ? You're just as shameful as Ea if not more😂
I almost forgot how evil EA is after yesterday's topic about Activision
Activision is EA isn’t it?
@@adrianbuelna1 Activision and EA are two separate companies, but their business practices are largely the same.
The evil doesn't just turn off
“Always two there are, one apprentice and one master.”
“Which one did we see?”
@@adrianbuelna1 They're different companies but both are evil anyway
I thought this was old news. For years an old roommate of mine would complain about Madden doing exactly this.
It was always like this its just most people were happily blindly ignoring it before now
Yeah, but Yong likes to do a video of this topic every week.
Every time I think I've reached the end of EA's barrel, the bottom falls out and a new deeper, darker pit makes itself known.
Except in this case this pit has been known for years. I'm not sure why it's suddenly a thing again because it's already well known that EA doesn't give a shit.
Keep in mind this is also after many countries are trying to ban lootboxes or try to place strict regulation, after EA payed few fines already, after gamers hate them.
Image what would EA do if everyone stayed silent
We've been diving into this goddamn pitt so far we made it clear through to the opposite side of the planet years ago and are now flying through deep space, spinning wildly out of control through the gap between galaxies
"That's like saying diarrhea is better than radiation"- YongYea 2021
🤣🤣
6:10
I’m not even shocked, this is exactly the sort of numbers I thought it would be. It will continue because companies can treat people like shit and they still go back for more.
I don’t play the FIFA games anymore, not for many years, but I do get some fun listening to all these problems and glad I’ve avoided them given what they’ve become.
Principal takeaway from this video: diarrhea is better than radiation.
Spot on!
Problem is, aren't we getting radiation from the sun anyway though?
Ofc... it depends on the radiation. I'd take the sun's radiation any day.
Gamma radiation? Nuke radiation? Actually... kinda like those chances, who wouldn't want 70 rads/sec?
@@nekotranslates Being microwaved alive sounds better every day.
That must have been an MGS reference.
Hell yeah!
Imagine if people actually just stopped buying sports video games. Until they improved in some way.
I wonder what EA would do if we could organize ourselves like that.
Good luck with that. There are too many people with the intelligence of a broken lightbulb to know better, or people who even care about their time and money and others.
Smoothbrains will continue to buy it until they die not caring that its always the exact same gsme
I think even if you riled up the entire gaming community and got them to stop, it wouldn't put a huge dent in sales. These games really appeal to casual players - my dad literally plays nothing but fifa, buys the new one every year or 2. He doesn't play ultimate team, at least, just the more traditional management stuff.
The problem is that would only work if people who are huge fans of these games expressed their frustration with EA. They’re not going to listen to people who haven’t touched anything published by EA since the PS2, nor are they going to listen to people who only buy Respawn’s more consumer-friendly titles like Fallen Jedi while being fully aware that EA published-games by the one studio they haven’t obliterated (yet) are the exception, not the rule.
Only FIFA/EA fanatics could make EA sit up and take notice to their casual evil, and so far, even crap like this isn’t enough to make them protest in any way.
I don't have to organize anything. I don't play garbage games like this lol. Gotta be kidding me😂😂😂
when Yong said "eighty thousand pounds" I felt so seen and acknowledged as a British person
“It's Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” - Mark Twain.
And of course the AAA Game industry will try to one-up this in their strange contest to be the worst company of all time.
EA: Underpays and overworks employees
Employees: Start black market
EA: *surprised pikachu face* "Only we're allowed to do that!"
Players playing EA games: INVEST IN SOMETHING WITH NO RETURN! NEW WAY OF INVESTING MONEY! SPEND IT ALL, GET NONE BACK!
*Every year
EA: Take what you can.
Activision: Give nothing back!
It's "40 hours to unlock Darth freaking Vader in a Star Wars game" all over again.... shame on you EA...
It's more accurate to say that 40 hours to unlock Darth Vater was FIFA Ultimate Team all over again; this shit's been going on for eight or nine years over on the FIFA side.
EA even know their own shame?
3:35 666 and EA in the same context, sounds legit.
Holy crap...that's a mobile gacha game grind level there, except mobile game doesn't charge you $60
Nor does it reset annually. Like damn
As someone whose only gacha is genshin. Mihoyo seem like saints in comparison to this fucking garbage holy shit.
dude in Genshin to get the new unit it costs you like $250 max to get the new unit and thats with the worst RNG possible. Thats a mobile f2p gacha game that is more fair than FIFA
“WE WONT STAND FOR THAT” said the people who stood for that
As someone who plays fifa in every 2-3 years this is a little exacurated. The competitive modes Do give good rewars to upgrade your team but you are right there is no way for a "f2p" player to get a squad like that in a year. Plus i have been hearing some discord from my frieds who play annualy that the rewards have been downgraded since 19 which was my last fifa
You need to make a shirt that says " EA= Radiation or diarrhea"
Imagine a world without paid lootboxes...
snap back to reality
That's it, you're going to 2000
*snaps my own neck*
But if you close your eyes...
The pinaccle of fun gaming was when marvel vs capcom 2 came out..early 2000s
ope there goes gravity?
What funny about this is that in the older FIFA / Winning Eleven games you can create a "custom team" and make a roster of players from all the teams available in that game.
No Microtransaction
Boom that's how football games should be played until FIFA points are banned
Man, I just love hearing more about EA’s greed, meanwhile DOOM Eternal just dropped a new DLC and it’s fucking badass.
Is there any new mechanics. I have played every doom game but I find it difficult to finish them at times. Sometimes they just feel so repetetive and the fact that the story is trash does not help. Basically is the dlc any better than the main game?
@@0subsWith0vidsChallenge I really don’t want to spoil this DLC too much but you wield a big ass hammer and ride a dragon. Nuff said.
@@0subsWith0vidsChallenge the 2nd DLC is not as tough as the 1st one but it's still as challenging as the main game, there's a couple new mechanics and some variant enemies. You should try it if you want
Bethesda will fuck up the launch of their games but, and i say this with no love for todd or anyone at that company, they sure can make a fun functional game if they actually get off their fat lazy asses and try.
@@TheRealRusDaddy well now they are owned by Microsoft
I will never forget, I paid 300 dollars worth of fifa coins to assemble my Man city squad in 2015. The basic ones mind you. I was still getting destroyed by other players with the special cards but whatever. Then one day I logged in and I saw a notice saying they would no longer be working on the game as they were now focused on 2016. And it occurred to me that I'd have to spend a similar amount or more to build anything close to contention as cards don't carryover. Fast forward to Fifa 20, which I bought because I hadn't played in 5 years but I was determined not to pay a penny more. Of course I was stuck with low tier players for an entire year and never made it past the 4th division. I returned the game and it may be another 5 years before i return again.
They brought out these cards as Squad Building Challenges about 3 FIFA's ago. It was achievable through the League Squad Building Challenges because they gave out packs and high rated players every time you completed them. They decided to remove these high rated players and make all the packs in those challenges untradeable. They also now have a time limit on each of these Prime Moments Icon Squad Building Challenges. They really are a scummy company.
"thats like saying diarrhea is better than radiation!" - yong
DiarrhEA
Write that down WRITE THAT DOWN!
It used to be a golden age of gaming, now it’s just waiting for a golden game to come.
Yeah we've went from getting about a dozen genuine 9/10 games per year in the 00's to being lucky if we get one per year by 2020. I'm old enough to remember unfortunately lol.
@@yewtewbstew547 Thought it was a golden age. Turns out it was a golden shower.
Kenshi and its “soon” to be revealed prequel Kenshi 2
Theres your golden game my friend.
@@tjenadonn6158 lemon party
It'll be a cold day in Hell when EA grows a conscience.
Best solution don’t play there games till they wake up and smell the coffee.
thank you for this .!! So true 🙌🙌
That's 10 years if you only play 6 hours a day EVERY day.
Ten new fifa games and they probably wouldn't support the game you're playing
Imagine actually grinding that out and by the time you're done 2 more games would of come out...
"Youve probably heard of EA gate"
Which one?
I have a plan.
7:15 The duration is not really an issue. The key issue is that you can skip the duration with money. Therein lies the problem.
But I do agree, because it is annualised, it sets a hard time limit in terms of how long the game is worth something, hence the lack of practicality when farming for your ream team.
Ea also demands quite a lot for rooster updates and resetting of progress aka yearly rereleases.
NO single game is anywhere close to worth even 1% of that amount, jesus christ.
Right? Imagine spending $110K om a video game
How many celebrations would there be if EA lost the license altogether?
Also I would love a Super Smash Strikers.
Pretty sure there will be a massive celebration
I cried a little when they finally lost the exclusive license for star war games, i have no hope for star wars anymore but atleast now someone who might still give a shit could get their hands on the rights to make a not dog shit star wars game
Have you seen who sponsors football teams? They're all for gambling
The amount of money that ea still makes in these games basically secured their licence for ever.
FIFA sees videogames just as expensive merch, they don't consider it an art form, just a revenue sources paid by fat bastards who can't pick up a ball to play.
And the really sad thing is even if you're mega rich and do spend the money to build your dream team, it doesn't carry over to the next version of the game. I though a $70 game was too much, imagine paying $100k++ for a game+dream team
When I first was introduced to Ultimate Team in FIFA, I didn't give a crap about it. I saw the game mode, somewhat thought the mode had some mechanic to annoy the player and had a way of making them play the game, like the use of achievements and trophies, to tell the player that they haven't completed 100% of the game. Maybe a bit lucky, I didn't play the game because I have folks telling me in the UK, that I'm fake and I know nothing about football, so I didn't bother and left the FIFA games, alone. In a way, I'm glad there's a message (like, all the videos) telling those guys about this sinkhole, of a game mode, because those guys in the UK get carried away, with soccer and we do all kinds of crazy things, to be a supporter of football.
Legit, EA has stumbled upon a Golden Goose. For as long as card games have been around, power creep and the need to entice their players to buy new expansions has made long-term comprehensive developmental planning for card game growth, exasperating and near-impossible.
For EA, no matter how much money you spend, every new year comes to a new Fifa or Madden and a wipe of everyone's UT. Insane to think about.
And yet some people still willing to buy the same game re-skin year by year smh.
the funny thing is though it doesn't even really give you that much of an advantage due to their scripting mechanics, or "dynamic difficulty" as they call it, where tweaks are made mid game depending on who's winning / losing, it effects all players stats, makes your players run slower, shoot worse etc etc, and makes the other team WAYY better. it's just an illusion that it gives you an advantage, and it feels good having shiny cards.
Facts
"There be whales here captain!"
EA "WE got to have ...money! -smirk-
How does anyone dislike videos like this lol. Yong and ScudzTV make very good points.
Imagine going back 40 years in time, and telling people that there would be an industry that exists where people would pay thousands of dollars just so their pixels on a television would be better than another person's pixels while playing a video game.
Now... just imagine if this industry existed back then... "Yeah, I paid $500 just so my Pac-Man could move 25% faster than other people's Pac-Man's. Check out my high score, dude."
I feel bad for the kids that grow up with games like this.
Me too. I grew up in the PS1 to PS2 era. That was a different time. So much innovation. But I guess it depends on what you play. There's still innovation, but you have to dig deeper instead of just playing the blockbusters. But how many kids do that... The difference is that before you could play the big games and still get that innovation.
Still, the innovation now isn't as deep. A few games here and there doing something new on a surface level. Mostly indie games built on small budgets. There's no revolutionary games coming out, such as GTA3 or MGS1.
Everyone already know about EAs greed, thats not the real problem, the problem is that even though people know that, they still keep giving EA money, so obviously they wont change when they still keep getting more and more money
Me: What did it cost?
Thanos (after playing fifa): everything.
I think the problem now isn't only EA itself, is also the people that keep buying those games, year after year and also those lootboxes, if they buy it, they're showing EA they're agreeing with that, and that won't change anytime soon
You are the man! The more great gamers like you expose EA the better.
Activition Blizzard CEO and EA will end up like the rich man from 'Lazarus and the Rich Man' if they do not stop their greed.
Any lootbox style game creator are as bad, but indeed EA, ACtivision Blizzard and 2K are the worse since they also have the audacity to say that you need to pay 70$ for their game because it cost too much to make.
At least ActiBlizz is somewhat trying to make good games still. D4 looks promising at least. I just hope they won't shove it full of pay to win stuff.
@@ninetailedfox579121 lol
@@ninetailedfox579121 lol, sure that why it is the second time they make hundred of people without job (which they learn at the same time than everyone by news) and Bobby offer himself a bonus of 200m at the same time. Fuck Activision
@@DracosKasurani Yeah, I should have specified just the Blizzard side of it.
As damning as this is, It won't change anything. The companies are going to keep producing games with these exploitative mechanics and the general consumer is too young, or to ill informed to avoid purchasing games that are built to exploit them.
You would think that even casual gamers should know by now what they are getting into. All the complaining about EA doesn't really get us anywhere. They only do it because people buy it en masse...
@@benn87 They simply don't care.
So it would take likely 5 years of casual play to create a dream team, at which point 4 new games have released and the servers for the game you've been grinding on are probably shutting down, if they havent already.
Wait does EA really shutdown older games servers that early?
At some point this should blow back on FIFA. I assume there is some sort of license agreement between EA and FIFA to allow them to use the FIFA brand and player names. They could intervene and set rules or break the licensing deal but they don't because, like EA, they are greedy assholes.
"How dare anyone shamefully overcharge other people thousands of dollars for useless digital bullshit! That's out job!!" - EA
Haven't bought a EA game in years, kinda proud.
I don't put Origin on my machine, I don't like running booty launchers in my background to buy one or two games. At that point the pirate bay offers a better product. I might would buy Mirrors Edge Catalyst, as it's a sequel I anticipated for years and years. Haven't played it yet though, bc they want to implement drm for a game nobody cares about anyway. 24/7 online needed is an instant pass for me. Fuck that.
Once I went to a friend's house just to get some sleep and he was there playing FIFA, but not really. The PS4 was on for like an hour while he spent most of time scrolling menus and looking for card prices in some app that show real time prices and trades. Very fun to watch
Said this to my brother, spend more time in menus looking for players etc than actually playing matches. That's not a bad thing as playing the actual match is annoying, due to lag, crap mechanics, opposition who are mostly adults wanting to do stupid kiddy animated celebrations after every goal, which makes matches last 25 mins instead of 15 mins. List goes on and on
That is literally sounding a lot like gambling to me, maybe more like shopping than gaming, sad
Let's not forget "influencers" group. Some of them might be sponsored by EA to promote the optional method. If it is true, this group is equally guilty as accomplices.
The prize pool for the fifa esports world tournament was only like $200,000 . So that means top players spent more money/time getting top tier characters, than winning the top prize in the Fifa tournament.
We can deal damage to EA by not buying their games anymore, but people will still throw their money at them, so there's nothing we can do -.- but I've been doing my part, I've not purchased anything from EA lately
if no one buys EA games EA goes bankrupt or they learn, i would love to be a Developers from hell with a "gordon ramsay" exposing this companies greed
What is left to "expose"? Everything they do is almost transparent by now, its just that they are so big that the only way to bring them down is a bigger company buying them and then disbanding them
As much as I would like to see that happen, it won't be happening any time soon. EA doesn't care about what randos on the internet like us think. As long as their whale cash cows keep making them their bottom line, EA is going nowhere. Unless you can get those cash cows to be more responsible with their money, keep on dreaming.
Meanwhile, let it be known that MLB The Show only costs the price of the game to build the best team available.
What would happen is everyone decided to skip a year of FIFA?
More people should take a stand against EA's evil practices and STOP BUYING EA GAMES.
I stopped playing Fifa years ago not because of it loot boxes but because of the lazy and insulting " yearly improvements ".
When you add this bollox ( Pay to win) into mix it just amplifies how despicable EA really is !!!
It makes the Genshin Impact Weapons Banner look free to play by comparison
Atleast it stays in one version and is somewhat fun even with gacha since they do give chars on eventsrather than a repacking old wine in new bottle like ea does
@@ak-ub1ym I'm all for defending Genshin but you can not sit there and tell me the weapons banner is anything beyond cruel. I saw what rolling for the Staff of Homa did to people.
Make that any Gacha game.
They are MILES better than FUT.
Mihoyo look like saints in comparison which is honestly impressive.
Finally, somebody whistleblew EA.
here we go again
It’s not possible because if you played 2.5 years straight you’d be dead.
When people were screaming at EA about Battlefront II (rightly so) I pointed out that EAs sports games are infinitely worse. I’m glad this is being brought even more to light. Keep on doing the great work, my man!
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
That's from the Wargames movie (i think, not watched in over 25 years).
"That's like saying d1arrhea is better than radiation" That quote is so good, I unsubscribed so I could then subscribe again.
Did we really need to "expose" it? Pretty sure it's a borderline requirement for a gaming publisher.
For publicly traded game companies that have to answer to investors it probably is legitimately required. Hence AAA games often being inferior to indie games these past few years, shitty pay to win mechanics print money.
Gamer: we want a game industry that is free from manipulative business strategy
Sports Gamer: LOL! Hold my next paycheck EA and 2K!!!
In other news: Water is wet and Yongyea has to pay bills
ScudzTV is a hero. A hero on the level of that one guy that leaked the Pokemon S&S details.