“YOU ARE A FACTORY OF SADNESS!!” Is the hardest hitting insult without swears or “your mother” in it that I have heard in a very long time. It just fits Blizzard Activision too well and it makes me laugh.
For reference, Fallout 76 doesn't limit your inventory like this because they need to "load every other player's inventory." Fallout. 76. Handles its multiplayer elements better than Diablo 4.
II was excited about Diablo 4 and bought two for my 17 year old granddaughter and myself because she loves video games! We played together but she quit last week. She wasn't interested and although it brought us together I suspect the game was the problem. I'm 77 years old so I hope we can find another game to play together or Diablo 4 improves.
:) that is so sweet of you, I hope you find the game as well! I would recommend Path of Exile, but is a bit steeper in difficulty learning and requires more time investment in understanding the game (there are many, many videos and guides for beginners). It is also free! It does have a microtransaction shop but it is completely unnecessary if you just want to spend your time playing through the "story" :) best of luck
I think it was absolutely the game. Sit down with her, tell her it makes you happy to play together, and ask if there's any other multiplayer games she might be interested in. I highly recommend Deeprock Galactic as an amazing shooter without stupid microtransactions, and the difficulty can be set to match your abilities. Heck, even the old Diablo 2 (not the remaster!) which you can still buy for like 15 bucks (the page isn't linked to, but it exists and you can get it) is much better!! If you want an efficiency simulator - build a machine to churn out parts to build more machines to churn out more parts, etc. - Satisfactory is incredibly fun! Seriously, I swear the game will have you going "one more little tweak here" and suddenly it's 5 hours later and you lost track of time. Josh from Lets Game It Out has an incredible "playthrough" of it. It doesn't require much more than some math skills and almost no reflexes whatsoever. If your granddaughter likes MMOs, Final Fantasy 14 has some amazing story, and is very very casual. If you want to gush about characters and stories, the game can be played basically together from the get-go with only a few instances of needing to drop group for a cutscene or fight. (and if the fight is too hard, you can turn the difficulty down there too!) - and the obligatory gushing about the free trial which I'm sure you've seen all over the place.
Act Man is a treasure, especially his vids on youtubers taking Ls/hottakes being so hot the surface of Venus feels lukewarm The Decline of Blizzard and QuantumTV saga is a gem from start to finish (starting with Elden Ring Hottakes), Dark Age of UA-cam may not be on his channel anymore but there are folks that reuploaded it, definitely worth seeing
Bruh, Act Man featured this briefly in his new video! I saw it and got giddy ^_^, cuz I started following Alana through this video React. Very interested to see her react to it XD
I remembered my friend trying to convince me that d4 is going to be the best and I have to remind him that this is blizzard we're talking and he's like "shit, you might be right."
For context on the memed clip at the start, the various sports teams of Cleveland, Ohio are notorious for their abysmal losing streak on the national level. Between 1965 and 2020, their three sporting teams won only a *single* championship in 2016. I remember being in town visiting family that week and the entire city basically shut down to celebrate the win.
22:15 its basically the "pulling the ripcord" tactic that Activision Blizzard has been pulling for *years* They announce a system, players see the system is broken, warn the devs, system gets released broken anyway, players *leave* , devs fix the system in 2 days, copium filled players come back thinking the devs are actually listening to them. *Rinse and repeat* The only upside is that people have gotten so tired of this sh!t that they've moved on to playing other games that respect their time like FF14 or Baldur's Gate 3
Act man is big boi giga chad :) Especially when he goes out of his way to play games knowing that some of them are bad xD or good. And reviews them thoroghly and whenever a game comes out im just gonna keep watching him
47:14 yeah putting new code on top of old code over and over will cause problems at some point where an old bug in the base game that never showed back then suddenly shows in the new content and you need to find the cause in the millions of lines of code. I talk to a guy that "programms" his own small game and do some basic bug finding for him. And from time to time this problem shows up where he needs more time to fix a bug because after finding and fixing the basic bug a new one arrises from that and it just snowballs through every single update
the worst thing about Warcraft III : ReSold, is that they essentially painted over and erased the classic version of the game. You can never play classic Warcraft III, just ReSkinned.
Fun fact: the Factory of Sadness (aka the Cleveland Browns) bit is from the same guy behind the Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Videos. STILL NOT DETROIT
This always reminds me how Mihoyo, a GACHA game company , came out with genshin that had the dreaded gacha label on it and still managed to make people fall in love with the company. How ? Well by putting love and passion into the game and making a good product first that it makes people WANT to spend money, because they see themselves investing in a game that is good, and not HAVE to spend money on a game in the hopes of it getting better later. Though i already knew genshin was going to be big since i played honkai impact , and everyone knows how much love the devs and Da Wei himself have for that project ;_;
As a Dota player I AM FUCKING GLAD that Dota is out of Blizzard's now filthy hands. I had conflicted feelings with Valve because TF2 cosmetics look like garbage, but it's definitely better than whatever debauchery the current Blizzard cooked for their recent releases. And to Valve's credits they have done great job with Dota. There was time I wished Blizzard made a standalone Dota game, when it was a great game company. But phew, dodged a bullet with this one. Holy shit.
I feel the same way lol if dota was in the hands of old blizzard we would've had to ask for "dota classic" because of them ruining the game over the years
Just recently discovered your content after a video of act man and im actualy loving it, a reaction video with a reaction thats more then just watching, anyways keep posting amazing content like this il be sure to check your streams ❤
Dude, when she paused it and all I see is “Damage with Imbued” and “Damage with Imbuement” side by side and I’m like….. There’s a huge difference between a complex system and a system of redundancies.
and imagine the pain of balancing these words and numbers with each other it really does paint a picture on how stupid this is!!! who asked for this!!!!!!!
@@SmugAlana Bobby and the big boys up too asked for it. Keep that retention, guys! Love ya stranger! Maybe one day games will be fun again and we can play something together!!! ❤️
So, TenCent is a company owned by the CCP, they dump millions into the laps of other companies and buy their stocks to control a large chunk of their assets and data. they are major data brokers that sell their info not only to the CCP, but to other companies around the world. One of their major points is collecting chat data and location data. But, they also push major influence on companies they have stakes in to censor them or such so they can fit into the chinese market from the base game. Several companies such as CDPR and Epic games have been pushing censorship and even destroying indie games that have negative points against the CCP and its dictator leader.
9,000 Devs, that sounds impressive until you realize that in the 6 year development cycle. Acti-Blizzard went through several rounds of mass layoffs. How many teams got purged and of those devs who got shafted only then have new people come take their places. Which means that they would have to relearn and maybe try to put their own spin on the work that was left behind only for them to get purged later on too. Obviously people will always leave during long term projects but when you have mass layoffs on top of that especially ones that make Bobby K and the shareholders happy, then you can't expect a good product.
PoE solved the gem tab issue long ago. They just made stuff that stacks so you don't have each scroll of wisdom or armorers scrap take up its own slot in your inventory. The actual stash tab stacks thousands of each "currency" type item. There's no reason Diablo 4 couldn't do the same with items that are essentially identical such a gems or elixirs.
That thing with the 1-click buy got me in MW3. I was saving my CP for a cool bundle, but I ended up setting my controller down onto my A paddle and bought some random pack by accident. Activision said they can't do anything for me so I went off about how 1-click buying with the A button is insane. They ended up making it 2-click and X to buy a few days later. Basically, you're welcome, gamers, for my misfortune.
Asmongold brings up a good point, and to a point, so does Steve Jobs. All the great developers got pushed out, leaving Blizzard with developers completely new to the industry, basically devolving, losing valuable methods and unable to fix simplistic issues that have been solved decades ago.
i was a long time diablo fan. it was my whole childhood. i remember watching my dad play D1. i remember having to turn the game off during the bossfight of the second quest of the first act of d2, having nightmares about andariel in d2. and i stopped at the end of d3's life cycle after 3 playthroughs and 4 seasonal characters. the last season i've played was my awakening. after a thousandth run of "the caldean sewers", the 50th run of getting carried by a stronger dude, and having a full chest and 9 mules to hold objects so i could extract their abilities, i was staying there thinking "that's all there is... a pointless grind for that small of a reward? who am i showing that off to? why am i inflicting this to myself?" when it comes to grindy loot games, i found my love in warframe. community is cool. it has a lot of things to do (quality varies, but that's how it goes. ask FF14 about post ARR/pre-Heavensward) it feels good to play, it's fun. and the game respects your time-investment.
Runescape is bae, never forget. It owns your soul. However it is limited by i believe something called hex coding limiting you to any stack or value being maxed at 2.147bil
Real talk when this video popped on my feed like 18 minutes ago, I thought it was a new silvervale model out of the corner of my eye. (Not trying to compare btw.) Its nice that you pause the video when a TTS plays so there isn't a thousand things assaulting the ear drums. Have a good day.
As a bdo player... I played 3 months of wow with 5 of my friends during legion. Most of us quit after the 2nd raid (I think it was hall of something, with the Greek God looking stuff). I quit until bfa came out and bought it hoping to do it again, and realized that my legendary fishing pole was the only item I would miss if I threw away all my other legendaries and top tier gear from a few weeks ago. I replaced my legendary ring that I grinded for months for a trash green ring which double the stats and no fun extra stuff. I Uninstalled, went back to bdo and all my gear was still there from 2 years ago and I felt at home again. Bdo may be a grind, but at least when you get to the top of the mountain they don't delete the mountain and start you at the bottom again.
Diablo 2 on old battlenet had mules. Dude... what a time to be alive. I had friends who had 14 accounts of mules alone. And lately I have been playing Diablo 1 Tchernobog mod and having a blast for HOURS at a time. Aw man... sadge what this industry has become.
One thing that needs to be emphasized, accidentally clicking something doesn't always mean you were looking at it and clicked it because you didn't read. It can be a misclick, your cat could be on your desk, tossing your controller onto the couch can click something, you could have a disability that makes misclicks more frequent (I would think these companies that pander to special interest groups would be scared of the backlash of forcing a disabled person into a purchase), etc.
55:32 The Devs' intention its not creating a more compelling gaming experience with all these little variables, its to make you waste time and want to spend money to save time. Elden Ring has a compelling manner of adding complexity, if you want, to the game, Bloodborne does too. There are ways and ways of adding stuff, and there is a difference between strategy crafting and doing chores. Its the same case and in pokemon: Most people that play in tournaments just hack in the pokemon they want because its too time consuming to try and test strategies with different pokemon and its just unviable if you want to focus on the competitive stuff, which is the interesting part (not even mentioning that recent pokemon games might change what moves these pokemon used to be able to learn in the past, and not all pokemon from the past are available in the later games, so you need to buy the other games if the meta involves an older pokemon) The other things surrounding the asinine complexity of the system proves that the design choice its not one of making a more compelling experience for seasoned players, but just push as much people as possible to spend money.
To be fair, Whoopi likely has a $10-20k+ Mac Pro production level machine, with multiple Xeon CPUs, 128GB+ RAM, top end Tesla GPUs, and such, so gaming can be absolutely done on those more than decently. Just... Not on MacOS. A true gamer would set it up to dual-boot Windows or Linux, and game on there, taking advantage of all that power. If she's using a new Arm A76/VideoCore SOC... oh, I'm sorry, M2 Mac, however... Not a gamer. At all. Sauce: I've been a graphic artist and gamer for decades, and my work machine has always had the biggest budget, therefore the best top end hardware. Of course I gamed on them. Always will. Gimme more FPS....
I remember when back in the days, you could ask Riot employees to give you 1 or 2 RP that you were missing for a skin, and send them like a poem or a joke, and they would give them to you. Because, you know, missing 1 RP was a mistake on the design, not the actual purpose. The fact that you are always short of just a couple diablo coins every time is so pathetic.
the only way i can accept a full price game with microtransactions is if they have 2 different models, one for free players, or full price pay/monthly payment. like holy shit, i would easily pay a full price entry to be able to play warframe without all the waiting for crafting part and mad rng farming... then it would just be perfect
Having 40 minutes of yourself to a 24 minute video is very good for transformative content. Well done. However, i would recommend to pause even more and comment on damn near every thought that pops into your head while watching the video. There's a podcast called EFAP that does this and they can make a 20 minute video into three hours of commentary. EFAP stands for every frame a pause and that might as well be literal with them. They're also hilarious and have had Actman on before. Anyway good shit, you could make it even better but, this is far better than a lot of react content I see especially from twitch. Yay fox girl.
"not bolding not a true gamer", just because most of us "gamers" where born during the 80's does not means that we are bolding (- except me and will reach level 40 in 2 more years) There ARE new gamers we just called them "newbiz" which is hilarious because somehow someone started saying "noob" and THAT is what "new gamers" are XDDD
Using dark patterns should be considered straight up fraud. Fraud is literally defined as using deceptive practices for financial gain. Tricking people into accidentally making purchases they did not agree to or consent to is by definitional fraudulent.
UA-cam sure likes to toss new channels in my recommended that cares about topics i do too. Scary shite i tell ya. Anywho the "Tide goes in, tide goes out" is a joke from Fox news with atheism vs religion where a fox news host says " Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that " and the atheist is so dumbstruck by the question. Because the news host is dead certain only god's great power can explain it. I might lurk around for a little to see if i wanna sub. Regardless if i do or not, i wish you the best :)
@4:48 it’s more of the premise that despite it being able to before with previous games that it can’t now suddenly even when they allowed them to play it.
We went from marketing people being given a product and told to sell as much of it as possible, to marketing people telling others to make something as cheaply as possible and fill it with anti-consumer design so they can sell it at a great profit margin. Marketing people should never have anything to do with the product itself, just how to sell it. But when the marketing practically work as a multiplier against the product quality and company size for the revenue, they quickly end up in charge. Then the company grows so large that even if the product quality 0.00001, it still makes a profit so it's fine.
so glad, Blizzard can rely on people trying to board the hypetrain anyway. They don't have to learn from their mistakes because thanks to the hypetrain, it was absolutely worth it. blobby approves of these people. He is still single though, can the hypetrain plz fix that too?
25:15 That sounds like a Blizzard cultist. There are many of them among gamers. People who would jump in front of a bullet to protect a multibillion company that is actively squeezing them for every penny they have. Literally like a cult. They were attracted with good feelings, they forged good memories, and now they are bound do to the leader's bidding, whatever it may be.
Imagine an RTS where each unit and building cost actual money, but if you destroy the units and buildings of an enemy you GAIN money. P2W writ large. The developers just take 0.5 % of the transactions, using that money to develop new maps, balance units and work towards implementing more factions. Why fight the P2W if you can make it the official purpose of the game? Pay to win and win to earn. In addition to the win/loss ratio, you have a spent/earned ratio. Does this player win because they throw money into the fire or do they win on skill while consistently earning money and cutting their losses when they're in a bad position? Ranks could give you access to bigger campaigns with multiple players and the top games could feature gambling on the outcome. Come to me, my beautiful wallet warriors. Let us dance in a fight of credit cards! Winning also gives you some currency for meta progression to advance your units, structures and maybe even commander and unit abilities, allowing you to specialize and customize your troops as you play.
diablo immortal was the test bed, they were intentionally lowering everyone's expectations into the garbage so that people will think their next release is good
when i got warcraft 3 reforged from my brother i had to ask help from the blizzard support cos it didnt appear amongst my games after claiming and it took them a day to finaly appear
Apparently, Blizzard didn't only get to become effin braindead with the morals. They literally became braindead, Diablo 4 must be made by someone who had seen Lilith R34 and became comatosed.
Can't wait for Warcraft 4: Units cost real money Research costs massive amounts of gold and lumber that you will not get in less than an hour via f2p methods Custom maps like Dota 1, Sunken City and Uther's Party are locked behind battlepasses Attack and Armor types are gone, just build the units with the highest hp and damage Tournaments are boiled down to Blizzard employees standing next to pro players who keep forking over dollars to outwhale one another
The most ironic thing is that PoE kept people playing and were predatory as fuck and even when D4 did their best to keep people playing, they were still done with the season before a PoE player would be and a PoE player got to enjoy a functional game
That's where Conan Exiles is good for it's battle pass, if you save the currency you get from the battle pass, you'll have exactly enough to buy the next one.
A year late but Diablo 3 had a lot of similar loot with items for specific moves. It was less of an issue though because certain bosses had guaranteed items with scaling loot. I always played crusader and could grind for my specific playstyle with my brother. He’d use his bone armour necromancer with corpse explosion to grind our characters. I love grinding, but not when it’s paywalled or more complex than the last release. Baldur’s gate meant importing constantly so I enjoyed the fact that we still had to fight scaled enemies for grinding. I don’t even want to try these new games. Hence I just endlessly replay paradox- they’ve taken thousands from me but I’ve never felt cheated because I don’t LOSE content on a new purchase. DLC adds, not hinders, and dlc can be disabled if disliked
Ive been a Diablo fan since the first game released, i have owned every game and expansion, untill now. I actually DID buy the new expansion for D4, the $150 ultimate edition.... but if i look in the store it tells me to purchase it... $150 and 0 dlc. No more
"When did Blizzard get this scummy?" When they got bought by Activision. Y'know, the company that was long known as one of the Four Kings of Gaming Scumbag Business Practices (not counting the console manufacturers, all 3 are scummy in different flavors), alongside EA, Ubisoft, and Square Enix?
It’s getting to the point that Blizzard should pull a Final Fantasy 14. Have an in-universe cataclysmic event and just desert the servers altogether with new code and start again from scratch.
too much money not enough return on investment for them sadly I have no idea why square enix did it, love of the franchise or what-not but it was probably millions down the drain at that point and activision would sooner pull the plug than do that besides, the game still makes good money for them through microtransactions and monthly billing from millions at the moment, it would have to legitimately be a loss of profit for it to turn around at this point
@@SmugAlana If you ever have the time, I'd watch the youtube series called "The Fall and Rise of Final Fantasy 14". It goes into a great deal of detail regarding the development of Final Fantasy 14, it's 1.0 launch, when Yoshi-P took over and the decision to rebuild the game from scratch while still patching the 1.0 version of the game and a lot of the decisions that went into it. There's also a documentary from the developer's viewpoint on why they did it as well. As I said though, "The Fall and Rise of Final Fantasy 14" is a video series, not just a video, so it will take time to go through it all. The long and short of it is is that Square Enix felt that having Final Fantasy 14 be in such a bad state was such a blow to the company's reputation and to the reputation of one of their pillars in the company, the Final Fantasy series, that they couldn't just abandon it and they couldn't just leave it as is and write it off as a bad game, it had to be fixed and it had to work and they needed new leadership for it.
53:20 every affix would be a different modifier applied to base damage like you said, as someone who does a decent amount of coding I wouldn’t want to do that.
nice reaction
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uwu thank you...
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“YOU ARE A FACTORY OF SADNESS!!” Is the hardest hitting insult without swears or “your mother” in it that I have heard in a very long time. It just fits Blizzard Activision too well and it makes me laugh.
Foxgirl with a squirrel brain
lots of fun watching you bounce between tangents and then back to the video ❤
😎kill... me...
For reference, Fallout 76 doesn't limit your inventory like this because they need to "load every other player's inventory." Fallout. 76. Handles its multiplayer elements better than Diablo 4.
🤦🏾♂️ disappointing
"16x TIMES the [storage]!"
...how do you do that? How do you suck more than 76 in ANY aspect?!
@@SparkShadow212 Simple. You limit inventory space by loading every other player's inventory instead of only loading them when you look at them.
*FALLOUT. FUCKING. 76*
Gaming Industry today... Oh, Jesus Christ...
I'm so happy we're finally getting some very good games, at least...
the “you think you do, but you actually don’t” line is just as bad as “do you guys not have phones?”
II was excited about Diablo 4 and bought two for my 17 year old granddaughter and myself because she loves video games! We played together but she quit last week. She wasn't interested and although it brought us together I suspect the game was the problem. I'm 77 years old so I hope we can find another game to play together or Diablo 4 improves.
:) that is so sweet of you, I hope you find the game as well! I would recommend Path of Exile, but is a bit steeper in difficulty learning and requires more time investment in understanding the game (there are many, many videos and guides for beginners). It is also free! It does have a microtransaction shop but it is completely unnecessary if you just want to spend your time playing through the "story" :) best of luck
Holy shit an actual grandpa playing video games that’s crazy
I think it was absolutely the game. Sit down with her, tell her it makes you happy to play together, and ask if there's any other multiplayer games she might be interested in.
I highly recommend Deeprock Galactic as an amazing shooter without stupid microtransactions, and the difficulty can be set to match your abilities. Heck, even the old Diablo 2 (not the remaster!) which you can still buy for like 15 bucks (the page isn't linked to, but it exists and you can get it) is much better!!
If you want an efficiency simulator - build a machine to churn out parts to build more machines to churn out more parts, etc. - Satisfactory is incredibly fun! Seriously, I swear the game will have you going "one more little tweak here" and suddenly it's 5 hours later and you lost track of time. Josh from Lets Game It Out has an incredible "playthrough" of it. It doesn't require much more than some math skills and almost no reflexes whatsoever.
If your granddaughter likes MMOs, Final Fantasy 14 has some amazing story, and is very very casual. If you want to gush about characters and stories, the game can be played basically together from the get-go with only a few instances of needing to drop group for a cutscene or fight. (and if the fight is too hard, you can turn the difficulty down there too!) - and the obligatory gushing about the free trial which I'm sure you've seen all over the place.
Grim Dawn's similar to old-school Diablo, if you're still open to suggestions
POE2 launches next yr so you can do that unless D4 makes a remarkable recovery.
As a Cleveland Browns fan, the factory of sadness is accurate for our team. At least we are not the Jets.
Jesus christ yeah, at least I remember the Cleveland Browns
Act Man is a treasure, especially his vids on youtubers taking Ls/hottakes being so hot the surface of Venus feels lukewarm
The Decline of Blizzard and QuantumTV saga is a gem from start to finish (starting with Elden Ring Hottakes), Dark Age of UA-cam may not be on his channel anymore but there are folks that reuploaded it, definitely worth seeing
I played the Beta, had fun, but as soon as I saw the interviews and mentioning Battle Passe’s, my interest in this game was nuked 😅
Bruh, Act Man featured this briefly in his new video! I saw it and got giddy ^_^, cuz I started following Alana through this video React. Very interested to see her react to it XD
I came here from the act man’s video about reaction videos, and I just wanna say, nice reaction video👍
Blizzard's ability to make things worse than if they had done nothing at all is *impressive* at this point
I remembered my friend trying to convince me that d4 is going to be the best and I have to remind him that this is blizzard we're talking and he's like "shit, you might be right."
For context on the memed clip at the start, the various sports teams of Cleveland, Ohio are notorious for their abysmal losing streak on the national level. Between 1965 and 2020, their three sporting teams won only a *single* championship in 2016. I remember being in town visiting family that week and the entire city basically shut down to celebrate the win.
22:15 its basically the "pulling the ripcord" tactic that Activision Blizzard has been pulling for *years*
They announce a system, players see the system is broken, warn the devs, system gets released broken anyway, players *leave* , devs fix the system in 2 days, copium filled players come back thinking the devs are actually listening to them.
*Rinse and repeat*
The only upside is that people have gotten so tired of this sh!t that they've moved on to playing other games that respect their time like FF14 or Baldur's Gate 3
Act man is big boi giga chad :)
Especially when he goes out of his way to play games knowing that some of them are bad xD or good.
And reviews them thoroghly and whenever a game comes out im just gonna keep watching him
47:14 yeah putting new code on top of old code over and over will cause problems at some point where an old bug in the base game that never showed back then suddenly shows in the new content and you need to find the cause in the millions of lines of code. I talk to a guy that "programms" his own small game and do some basic bug finding for him. And from time to time this problem shows up where he needs more time to fix a bug because after finding and fixing the basic bug a new one arrises from that and it just snowballs through every single update
the worst thing about Warcraft III : ReSold, is that they essentially painted over and erased the classic version of the game. You can never play classic Warcraft III, just ReSkinned.
I really wanna see a list of "accurate" Blizzard game titles now; I remember someone made "Bend Overwatch"
@@ED-gw9rgDiablo Immoral :v
I'm subbing in hopes you don't become a generic react channel over time. I enjoy the mini commentary for each video-point.
nah, generic react stuff rots my brain honestly not gonna lie lol
Meanwhile does ract shit 😱
@@MrNone-d5s you okay little bro? I've reacted to basically nothing but gaming the last week or so
Turn your brain on
@@SmugAlana Damn this girl gives people in comments the business for being stupid. I might have to sub now =(
I’m subbing because this woman is a real delight! I enjoyed watching this whole thing.
Thank GOD I never got into any Blizzard IPs like WoW or Diablo back in the day, despite my friends incessantly hounding me about playing them.
Fun fact: the Factory of Sadness (aka the Cleveland Browns) bit is from the same guy behind the Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Videos.
STILL NOT DETROIT
This always reminds me how Mihoyo, a GACHA game company , came out with genshin that had the dreaded gacha label on it and still managed to make people fall in love with the company. How ? Well by putting love and passion into the game and making a good product first that it makes people WANT to spend money, because they see themselves investing in a game that is good, and not HAVE to spend money on a game in the hopes of it getting better later. Though i already knew genshin was going to be big since i played honkai impact , and everyone knows how much love the devs and Da Wei himself have for that project ;_;
Dang, this is some immaculate rigging on your model. I’m impressed, and I’ve barely seen anything yet
As a Dota player I AM FUCKING GLAD that Dota is out of Blizzard's now filthy hands. I had conflicted feelings with Valve because TF2 cosmetics look like garbage, but it's definitely better than whatever debauchery the current Blizzard cooked for their recent releases. And to Valve's credits they have done great job with Dota.
There was time I wished Blizzard made a standalone Dota game, when it was a great game company. But phew, dodged a bullet with this one. Holy shit.
Well the cosmetics do fit the games artsyle so i would not say that they lock bad
I feel the same way lol
if dota was in the hands of old blizzard we would've had to ask for "dota classic" because of them ruining the game over the years
Just recently discovered your content after a video of act man and im actualy loving it, a reaction video with a reaction thats more then just watching, anyways keep posting amazing content like this il be sure to check your streams ❤
Business men do everything to get more money...
They're not videogame developers.
Funny I woke up when you werew watching this and decided to watch KEKW
Dude, when she paused it and all I see is “Damage with Imbued” and “Damage with Imbuement” side by side and I’m like…..
There’s a huge difference between a complex system and a system of redundancies.
and imagine the pain of balancing these words and numbers with each other
it really does paint a picture on how stupid this is!!! who asked for this!!!!!!!
@@SmugAlana Bobby and the big boys up too asked for it. Keep that retention, guys! Love ya stranger! Maybe one day games will be fun again and we can play something together!!! ❤️
I really like your reactions. You add a lot of interesting thoughts
Mac gamers deserve the chair!- alana 2023
I didn't say -THAT-!!!!!
@@SmugAlana you should have
Because of ui limitations like my brother in Christ you ARE THE GAME DEVELOPER
So, TenCent is a company owned by the CCP, they dump millions into the laps of other companies and buy their stocks to control a large chunk of their assets and data. they are major data brokers that sell their info not only to the CCP, but to other companies around the world. One of their major points is collecting chat data and location data. But, they also push major influence on companies they have stakes in to censor them or such so they can fit into the chinese market from the base game.
Several companies such as CDPR and Epic games have been pushing censorship and even destroying indie games that have negative points against the CCP and its dictator leader.
The hard-core character loss you're referring to was Rob, he had a level 100 character he lost due to that unannounced shop update.
9,000 Devs, that sounds impressive until you realize that in the 6 year development cycle. Acti-Blizzard went through several rounds of mass layoffs. How many teams got purged and of those devs who got shafted only then have new people come take their places. Which means that they would have to relearn and maybe try to put their own spin on the work that was left behind only for them to get purged later on too.
Obviously people will always leave during long term projects but when you have mass layoffs on top of that especially ones that make Bobby K and the shareholders happy, then you can't expect a good product.
I mean... people warned them, Blizzard was rotten ages ago but they still chose to buy blizzard's shit...
PoE solved the gem tab issue long ago. They just made stuff that stacks so you don't have each scroll of wisdom or armorers scrap take up its own slot in your inventory.
The actual stash tab stacks thousands of each "currency" type item.
There's no reason Diablo 4 couldn't do the same with items that are essentially identical such a gems or elixirs.
Now this is how you do react content, hahahahahaha
Great video, fun commentary
remember to check out act man, his content is great!
@@SmugAlana I watched the video 12 hours ago hahahaha, already subbed too
That thing with the 1-click buy got me in MW3. I was saving my CP for a cool bundle, but I ended up setting my controller down onto my A paddle and bought some random pack by accident. Activision said they can't do anything for me so I went off about how 1-click buying with the A button is insane. They ended up making it 2-click and X to buy a few days later.
Basically, you're welcome, gamers, for my misfortune.
All mmos should have infinte bankspace like runescape, its not difficult to have a few thousand intries in an ArrayList
my problem with d4 is that it didnt even feel good to kill monsters like it wasnt satisfying
Asmongold brings up a good point, and to a point, so does Steve Jobs. All the great developers got pushed out, leaving Blizzard with developers completely new to the industry, basically devolving, losing valuable methods and unable to fix simplistic issues that have been solved decades ago.
3:37 Alana is so based for this comment and I love the way she delivers it
i was a long time diablo fan. it was my whole childhood. i remember watching my dad play D1. i remember having to turn the game off during the bossfight of the second quest of the first act of d2, having nightmares about andariel in d2.
and i stopped at the end of d3's life cycle after 3 playthroughs and 4 seasonal characters. the last season i've played was my awakening. after a thousandth run of "the caldean sewers", the 50th run of getting carried by a stronger dude, and having a full chest and 9 mules to hold objects so i could extract their abilities, i was staying there thinking "that's all there is... a pointless grind for that small of a reward? who am i showing that off to? why am i inflicting this to myself?"
when it comes to grindy loot games, i found my love in warframe. community is cool. it has a lot of things to do (quality varies, but that's how it goes. ask FF14 about post ARR/pre-Heavensward) it feels good to play, it's fun. and the game respects your time-investment.
Runescape is bae, never forget. It owns your soul.
However it is limited by i believe something called hex coding limiting you to any stack or value being maxed at 2.147bil
PC is for gaming, Mac is for spread sheets and pie charts.
Real talk when this video popped on my feed like 18 minutes ago, I thought it was a new silvervale model out of the corner of my eye. (Not trying to compare btw.) Its nice that you pause the video when a TTS plays so there isn't a thousand things assaulting the ear drums. Have a good day.
As a bdo player... I played 3 months of wow with 5 of my friends during legion. Most of us quit after the 2nd raid (I think it was hall of something, with the Greek God looking stuff). I quit until bfa came out and bought it hoping to do it again, and realized that my legendary fishing pole was the only item I would miss if I threw away all my other legendaries and top tier gear from a few weeks ago. I replaced my legendary ring that I grinded for months for a trash green ring which double the stats and no fun extra stuff. I Uninstalled, went back to bdo and all my gear was still there from 2 years ago and I felt at home again. Bdo may be a grind, but at least when you get to the top of the mountain they don't delete the mountain and start you at the bottom again.
Diablo 2 on old battlenet had mules.
Dude... what a time to be alive.
I had friends who had 14 accounts of mules alone.
And lately I have been playing Diablo 1 Tchernobog mod and having a blast for HOURS at a time.
Aw man... sadge what this industry has become.
Found you by the latest act man video! Love this reaction.
One thing that needs to be emphasized, accidentally clicking something doesn't always mean you were looking at it and clicked it because you didn't read. It can be a misclick, your cat could be on your desk, tossing your controller onto the couch can click something, you could have a disability that makes misclicks more frequent (I would think these companies that pander to special interest groups would be scared of the backlash of forcing a disabled person into a purchase), etc.
55:32 The Devs' intention its not creating a more compelling gaming experience with all these little variables, its to make you waste time and want to spend money to save time. Elden Ring has a compelling manner of adding complexity, if you want, to the game, Bloodborne does too.
There are ways and ways of adding stuff, and there is a difference between strategy crafting and doing chores. Its the same case and in pokemon: Most people that play in tournaments just hack in the pokemon they want because its too time consuming to try and test strategies with different pokemon and its just unviable if you want to focus on the competitive stuff, which is the interesting part (not even mentioning that recent pokemon games might change what moves these pokemon used to be able to learn in the past, and not all pokemon from the past are available in the later games, so you need to buy the other games if the meta involves an older pokemon)
The other things surrounding the asinine complexity of the system proves that the design choice its not one of making a more compelling experience for seasoned players, but just push as much people as possible to spend money.
To be fair, Whoopi likely has a $10-20k+ Mac Pro production level machine, with multiple Xeon CPUs, 128GB+ RAM, top end Tesla GPUs, and such, so gaming can be absolutely done on those more than decently. Just... Not on MacOS.
A true gamer would set it up to dual-boot Windows or Linux, and game on there, taking advantage of all that power.
If she's using a new Arm A76/VideoCore SOC... oh, I'm sorry, M2 Mac, however... Not a gamer. At all.
Sauce: I've been a graphic artist and gamer for decades, and my work machine has always had the biggest budget, therefore the best top end hardware. Of course I gamed on them. Always will. Gimme more FPS....
Saw you on an Actman vid and thought you must be pretty based to enjoy the Actman. Turns out you are pretty entertaining too! Subbed.
This is my first SmugAlana video, and I already like her.
It saddens me how they killed Blizzard, it use to be such a solid company.
I remember when back in the days, you could ask Riot employees to give you 1 or 2 RP that you were missing for a skin, and send them like a poem or a joke, and they would give them to you.
Because, you know, missing 1 RP was a mistake on the design, not the actual purpose. The fact that you are always short of just a couple diablo coins every time is so pathetic.
the only way i can accept a full price game with microtransactions is if they have 2 different models, one for free players, or full price pay/monthly payment.
like holy shit, i would easily pay a full price entry to be able to play warframe without all the waiting for crafting part and mad rng farming... then it would just be perfect
"You're a factory of sadness". Such strong words
Having 40 minutes of yourself to a 24 minute video is very good for transformative content. Well done. However, i would recommend to pause even more and comment on damn near every thought that pops into your head while watching the video. There's a podcast called EFAP that does this and they can make a 20 minute video into three hours of commentary. EFAP stands for every frame a pause and that might as well be literal with them. They're also hilarious and have had Actman on before. Anyway good shit, you could make it even better but, this is far better than a lot of react content I see especially from twitch. Yay fox girl.
I watch a lot of react content myself, I guess I'm still self conscious about pausing at every little turn to be honest with you lol
"not bolding not a true gamer", just because most of us "gamers" where born during the 80's does not means that we are bolding (- except me and will reach level 40 in 2 more years)
There ARE new gamers we just called them "newbiz" which is hilarious because somehow someone started saying "noob" and THAT is what "new gamers" are XDDD
Using dark patterns should be considered straight up fraud. Fraud is literally defined as using deceptive practices for financial gain. Tricking people into accidentally making purchases they did not agree to or consent to is by definitional fraudulent.
26:26 grubby mentioned 🔥
I remember watching his reviews of low ranked replays of wc3 lol
UA-cam sure likes to toss new channels in my recommended that cares about topics i do too. Scary shite i tell ya.
Anywho the "Tide goes in, tide goes out" is a joke from Fox news with atheism vs religion where a fox news host says " Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that " and the atheist is so dumbstruck by the question. Because the news host is dead certain only god's great power can explain it.
I might lurk around for a little to see if i wanna sub. Regardless if i do or not, i wish you the best :)
:) thank you for the kind words, and thanks for reminding me where that silly phrase came from
@4:48 it’s more of the premise that despite it being able to before with previous games that it can’t now suddenly even when they allowed them to play it.
We went from marketing people being given a product and told to sell as much of it as possible, to marketing people telling others to make something as cheaply as possible and fill it with anti-consumer design so they can sell it at a great profit margin. Marketing people should never have anything to do with the product itself, just how to sell it.
But when the marketing practically work as a multiplier against the product quality and company size for the revenue, they quickly end up in charge. Then the company grows so large that even if the product quality 0.00001, it still makes a profit so it's fine.
so glad, Blizzard can rely on people trying to board the hypetrain anyway. They don't have to learn from their mistakes because thanks to the hypetrain, it was absolutely worth it. blobby approves of these people. He is still single though, can the hypetrain plz fix that too?
Fallout 76 did the same thing with stashes but Bethesda later sold material, food, and ammo storage on their in game market.
factory of sadness is going in my back pocket.
25:15 That sounds like a Blizzard cultist. There are many of them among gamers. People who would jump in front of a bullet to protect a multibillion company that is actively squeezing them for every penny they have. Literally like a cult. They were attracted with good feelings, they forged good memories, and now they are bound do to the leader's bidding, whatever it may be.
Imagine an RTS where each unit and building cost actual money, but if you destroy the units and buildings of an enemy you GAIN money.
P2W writ large. The developers just take 0.5 % of the transactions, using that money to develop new maps, balance units and work towards implementing more factions.
Why fight the P2W if you can make it the official purpose of the game? Pay to win and win to earn.
In addition to the win/loss ratio, you have a spent/earned ratio. Does this player win because they throw money into the fire or do they win on skill while consistently earning money and cutting their losses when they're in a bad position?
Ranks could give you access to bigger campaigns with multiple players and the top games could feature gambling on the outcome.
Come to me, my beautiful wallet warriors. Let us dance in a fight of credit cards!
Winning also gives you some currency for meta progression to advance your units, structures and maybe even commander and unit abilities, allowing you to specialize and customize your troops as you play.
diablo immortal was the test bed, they were intentionally lowering everyone's expectations into the garbage so that people will think their next release is good
when i got warcraft 3 reforged from my brother i had to ask help from the blizzard support cos it didnt appear amongst my games after claiming and it took them a day to finaly appear
Apparently, Blizzard didn't only get to become effin braindead with the morals. They literally became braindead, Diablo 4 must be made by someone who had seen Lilith R34 and became comatosed.
Alana is so down to earth and at the same time is on cloud 9 when it comes to game drama. She deserves the world.
Can't wait for Warcraft 4:
Units cost real money
Research costs massive amounts of gold and lumber that you will not get in less than an hour via f2p methods
Custom maps like Dota 1, Sunken City and Uther's Party are locked behind battlepasses
Attack and Armor types are gone, just build the units with the highest hp and damage
Tournaments are boiled down to Blizzard employees standing next to pro players who keep forking over dollars to outwhale one another
WHERE DOPAMINE GIVING SONG AT THE START?! 😢
In an alternate universe, we get the best gaming juggernaut who makes amazing games and listens to its players... food for thought
Love this channel, found thru the channel, that actually seem to appreciate the content.. appreciate like you by homie 🗣️💯
I came from Act Man, he had this video in his latest video😊💖
I’d rather have lootboxes that I can grind for in my game than a shop that charges $20 for every skin I want.
I accidentally actived the D4 battlepass also... i was so pissed off, i deleted all my characters and deinstalled the game
The most ironic thing is that PoE kept people playing and were predatory as fuck and even when D4 did their best to keep people playing, they were still done with the season before a PoE player would be and a PoE player got to enjoy a functional game
They've been taking notes from corporate Bungie
“You are the milk” that’s profound
Fill a bag with alchemists fire and other flammables, throw bag, 💣
"at least arcade games are free" im pretty sure he was talking about the OG arcade crap that were literaly designed to eat your coins.
That's where Conan Exiles is good for it's battle pass, if you save the currency you get from the battle pass, you'll have exactly enough to buy the next one.
A year late but Diablo 3 had a lot of similar loot with items for specific moves. It was less of an issue though because certain bosses had guaranteed items with scaling loot. I always played crusader and could grind for my specific playstyle with my brother. He’d use his bone armour necromancer with corpse explosion to grind our characters. I love grinding, but not when it’s paywalled or more complex than the last release. Baldur’s gate meant importing constantly so I enjoyed the fact that we still had to fight scaled enemies for grinding. I don’t even want to try these new games. Hence I just endlessly replay paradox- they’ve taken thousands from me but I’ve never felt cheated because I don’t LOSE content on a new purchase. DLC adds, not hinders, and dlc can be disabled if disliked
The biggest issue for me is modern games penalising you for not playing daily. Bonuses for daily logins=penalties for those that play casually
Ive been a Diablo fan since the first game released, i have owned every game and expansion, untill now. I actually DID buy the new expansion for D4, the $150 ultimate edition.... but if i look in the store it tells me to purchase it... $150 and 0 dlc. No more
An old friend is just a new enemy.
31:52 "... like otters of a cow"... WUT?
"When did Blizzard get this scummy?"
When they got bought by Activision. Y'know, the company that was long known as one of the Four Kings of Gaming Scumbag Business Practices (not counting the console manufacturers, all 3 are scummy in different flavors), alongside EA, Ubisoft, and Square Enix?
My eye sight isn’t that bad, I don’t legally require glasses.
Sure, they recommend it, but I’m allowed to drive without them
It’s getting to the point that Blizzard should pull a Final Fantasy 14. Have an in-universe cataclysmic event and just desert the servers altogether with new code and start again from scratch.
too much money not enough return on investment for them sadly
I have no idea why square enix did it, love of the franchise or what-not
but it was probably millions down the drain at that point and activision would sooner pull the plug than do that
besides, the game still makes good money for them through microtransactions and monthly billing from millions at the moment, it would have to legitimately be a loss of profit for it to turn around at this point
@@SmugAlana If you ever have the time, I'd watch the youtube series called "The Fall and Rise of Final Fantasy 14". It goes into a great deal of detail regarding the development of Final Fantasy 14, it's 1.0 launch, when Yoshi-P took over and the decision to rebuild the game from scratch while still patching the 1.0 version of the game and a lot of the decisions that went into it.
There's also a documentary from the developer's viewpoint on why they did it as well.
As I said though, "The Fall and Rise of Final Fantasy 14" is a video series, not just a video, so it will take time to go through it all.
The long and short of it is is that Square Enix felt that having Final Fantasy 14 be in such a bad state was such a blow to the company's reputation and to the reputation of one of their pillars in the company, the Final Fantasy series, that they couldn't just abandon it and they couldn't just leave it as is and write it off as a bad game, it had to be fixed and it had to work and they needed new leadership for it.
I come from the future. season 3 still doesnt have gem tabs they added 1 stash tab and the xpac is $100. How is the entire dev team not fired?
Blizzard....
53:20 every affix would be a different modifier applied to base damage like you said, as someone who does a decent amount of coding I wouldn’t want to do that.
Also another reason Actman is a heckin gamer - hieroglyph Mew tanktop
by the first BFA patch i was alrady burnt havent played since then
Alana's old hag laugh gets me everytime LOL