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NFT's...in a way, this could make memes marketable, like copyrighting Nyancat. Like internet stamps or Fantasy football and such... This is bizarre. This sort of gives the, "this is original character, do not steal" a deeper meaning. Go fuigure
Correct! And I still wont ever buy it! (Although a deluxe all dlc good AND BAD included version of skyrim sure) pretty easy to buy used or wait for sales thankfully.
Like any tech this could be implemented in a way to suck money from consumers... and likely will be. But it doesn't have to be. The problem with NFTs (for money hungry publishers) is that they're designed for the opposite purpose of gating you from digital goods. Once you 'earn' an item in one game, you own it forever. If another game is kind enough to recognize this, then you only have to buy your favorite gun skin in one version of CoD and never again. You might see why this is a problem for publishers.
In a decentralized blockchain you would have complete ownership of in game items and could sell them to whoever you want. Games themselves could have licenses on blockchain so you could re-sell digital copies just by selling it's NFT license. This puts all the power in the hands of the player.
I will just ignore these types of games. Ive done it successfully with AAA games and I don't feel like I have lost anything. There are plenty of Indie games have have kept me entertained for a while. Shame big publishers will undoubtfully fall for this.
@@MrSolidsnake293 Not all of them. Vigor is quite good. I dare say I'd have paid $60 for it, if I knew how fun it was up front. Haven't spent any real money on it yet though.
@@Maxx__________ played that game day 1 it was a mess, it needed another year or two of development otherwise i would have given it a better chance. you cant launch a game in as bad a state as it was, even as an alpha or beta its the first impression that counts the most
most games are already digital stores; digital stores with digital assets you cannot even keep or use in other games. At least in some of these crypto games, you can take your assets to other games or sell them. I don't see the issue over NFT games. Sure, lots suck. Lots of games in general sucks. Think of all the shitty games on Steam that reuse assets and are blatant cash crabs. You'll get that in any game. Look to Gods Unchained for a well implemented NFT games with play-to-earn mechanics. These games can be very good. Also, with Gods Unchained, if the developers immutable make another game, you can reuse assets from GU in their other games, or even cross barriers into other games. It's actually really neat and they've done it before so it has happened.
Only for the big corporations that used to be the sources of quality AAA titles 20 to 30 years ago. There's also plenty of indie games that make games to make good games.
i dont understand where youre coming from. This is a good thing. There are people making a living off of axies. imagine an MMO where you can actually play and make a living off of it. Youre thinking is old (when i say old i mean youre thinking about games today. not looking to a future where gaming can be a job). you also probably thinking all NFT games are earning 1 or 2 bucks here and there. It's not and i suggest you look more into NFT gaming other than Upper Echelon. I like the guy and i watch all his videos, but he's overly pessimistic about everything
So, we go from unfinished live service games with excessive microtransactions to this nonsense? What could possibly go wrong? Part of me wishes for a 1983-style video game crash just so I can see these corporations collapse. We're all sick of this already.
Due to woke culture it's coming, problem is a consolidation of brand names will mean a lot of franchises will stay dead. Which is not a bad idea honestly.
Then don't buy or play their games. Buy and play games from companies who have a reputation of not doing this bullshit. Take reputation into consideration. These large companies are too big to fail - but game development is easier than ever, so there is a lot of good indies out there.
Lets face it, Ubisoft lost its integrity as a gaming publisher when they decided to sell cosmetic items in SINGLEplayer games. Also ironic sidenote, I got an ad for a NFT-game that used the phrase "Play to earn" in the trailer, right before this video...
and to take the option to play games you already purchased away unless you created a uplay account when they suddenly decided to lock everything (even steam purchases) behind their uplay system.
@@jwenting Reminds me of how they suddenly made those Uplay points you could earn in games go away after a year so people would spend them for the 20% discount and buy games more regularily....
I don't think that's the problem, to me they lost their integrity when they started milking the Assassin's Creed franchise and forgot their other games existed
How is that an issue whatsoever? I don't buy skins at all. It is unnecessary. But there are times that I get why someone playing a single player game would want a special skin. If I were to buy a skin in say Apex, it would be for my own edification - other's opinions be dammed.
@@spmil999 cause skins shouldnt even be charged for in the first place let alone within a SP game, 10 years ago everything cosmetic was earned through gameplay but now? you need $100+ just for a BASE game. Im ignoring the fact of DLC's, most of these 'DLCs' should and could of been in full release
Gaming is being eaten up by big companies. They saw a market of loyal people and capitalised on it. I’ve been playing games from 8+ years ago and enjoy it far more than any new games now which I just don’t buy. I don’t and won’t support big corporations that have to pay dividends and big executive bonuses. The cancer is companies. I much rather small indie games made with love over games made cheap for cash.
Yes There is 2 promising games One Is free The other one is paid Both are independent developers One is Dwarf fortress, a literal fantasy simulator with ascii graphics developed by the same guy over 20 years, it’s free The other one star sector, a galactic rpg with a lot of things to do included exterminate planets only by disrupting trade routes, this one costs but you can play it for free technically but I do recommend buying it
Long live SOME independent devs and their supporters. Don't forget that a ot of indie companies are also fronts for asset flippers, casino bigwigs, exploitative garbage, etc. But yes. A lot of good games these days are indie to mid-size devs.
@@RenegadeVile Funny how we've basically gone back to the "bedroom coders" era of the 80's, everybody can make games now. Of course, not everybody can be Sid Meyer, Will Wright or John Carmack so the majority of the products will suck, but gems can be found in the rough.
@@abadenoughdude300 Yup, it's because we never really left that era either. "Bedroom coders" never went anywhere. Small studios have been making good games in every decade since the 80s. No reason why it'd be any different now. Usually you need to accept lower graphical fidelity because they lack the manpower necessary to make the beefy engine, assets and optimizations necessary but... who cares? Most games these days are unfinished BECAUSE so much time has to be dumped into the graphics. But, that's another discussion entirely.
@@elpsykoongro5379 Starsector is amazing. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is also an amazingly good indie, and it's also completely free! There's also Logic World, Factorio, Teardown, Vintage Story, Soulash, Songs of Syx, Aurora 4X, there's way too many good indies to count. Meanwhile, AAA is just... dead. AAA and really just about anything that's mainstream is just a hollow husk at this point. It serves as a fine example of what not to do, and it's literally the only thing it's good for anymore.
It already is. Tarkov is full of buying bots because of the grind. CS:GO has this too, accidentally put up an item for too little and bots will snatch it up.
since there's actual money at stake the companies will probably actually use anti-botting measures, meaning it'll probably all get replaced by human clickfarms.
@@xTxCxMx Why would they want less engagement? As Ben Elton once said "Fast food hey? Why don't they just cut out the middleman and flush it straight down the toilet?"
@@ilikemorestuff the companies like the botters, but the people who pay them for the ads they run typically don't and will push for crackdowns. Just hiring people from a 3rd world country to act as human "bots" isn't all that expensive anyways
I don't get how people could complain about Fiat money, and yet look at crypto like it's worse somehow. If anyone is at least intellectually curious about why crypto is better than Fiat, lookup any interviews of Michael Saylor or Robert Breedlove. Just give it a try. Might open your mind.
"Play to earn" games are not just a cancer in gaming, but also a symptom of the growing income inequalities in the world we live in. It might be pennies for us, but for someone in the countries you have listed in (Indonesia, Vietnam, Venezuela, etc.), it can be the difference between having a slightly better dinner, or no dinner at all (not saying that it solves poverty, but it presents a short-term solution to live slightly above that they could afford normally). It's not a mistake that that these games are centered around mobile games since it's much more affordable to buy a phone than to buy a laptop there.
@Jetsetbob2 They do. As a person from the Phippines. You can get a cheap phone for 50 dollars. 10gb of monthly data for 2 dollars and that sets you up. People who are lower income can eventually acquire these things since Companies have to price their products to something the marlet can actually afford.
I remember when gaming was driven by a bunch of passionate people who were awestruck by the possibility of transporting their players into their carefully crafted world. By every possibility of fun mechanics, meaningful stories, risk taking, and making people's day to day lives just a little more colorful and more exciting; giving an escape to people who are struggling. That's what it used to be about. But that's the sad thing about something going mainstream. It becomes sterile, a ghost of its former self, no longer driven by the imagination and passion of its creators, but by profit margins, long term customers, and greed. Games are no longer whimsical delves into strange and fantastic worlds. They're carefully crafted machines of manipulation finely tuned to keep you coming back for more, stroking that addiction part of your brain. It really bums me the fuck out.
It makes me depressed that I can't just relax with a good AAA quality game anymore, unless its an old one. Eventually I'll just run out of stuff to play.
The same thing happened to Hollywood. When it comes to art, while a business type (producer role) is necessary, the artistic vision must be the motivating factor.
I don't see why they need any crypto-based thing, or a blockchain, or NFT, for "Play to Earn". They did that for years now with their Ubisoft points that you can earn by getting achievements and spend for more levels in a game, wallpapers, etc.
@@MrSolidsnake293 Exactly; the big companies finally realized that all the indie scams have revealed an untapped, wildly profitable, incredibly low-cost way to churn out profit-trawling shit to endlessly gullible idiots willing to try and 'hustle' any chance to slingshot themselves into money, or who will invest into an 'idea' for the 'principle' of it.
@@MrSolidsnake293 I recently got into War Thunder with my friends and that game has the worst pay to win aspects and a lot of false scarcity tactics. There's one jet on there that is going for a maximum of $800 and a minimum of $500 on the in-game store. I will never spend a penny on that game and neither should anybody. Why would anyone dish out hundreds of dollars to fly something that is already in the game's files? It's not like it's a real plane and literally every player could have it. That's where they trick people who are either stupid or that desperate to unlock something
@@garrettc9456 Sounds terrible, and I'm sure if someone had a "rare" skin, they'd charge an arm and a leg despite it being on everyone's hard drive already but it's inaccessible through a paywall. If you want to gamble like that, just go to an auction house
@@finkamain1621 bingo, played warthunder when it was new, once they started allowing people to skip the development lanes and go straight to the end that game became a joke its the industry benching all profit on LIVE SERVICES the live service model will never be profitable. the only reason it is is because of the industry abusing the same grey areas in g,ambling laws that mobile games abuse
I been playing games for 40+ years and I play less now than ever mainly due to incomplete games at Launch over monetisation and the general money grabbing behaviour of gaming publishers.
Shortened them, dummed them down, half complete releases with deliberate fixes time lined for later to keep players on, and now charges double to triple price what their worth nowadays, ya know with digital downloads n all, less to no physical item for production, (cd) or even that extra money stroke over the year for the rest of the game via season pass stroke.... Unreal
@@DJeMo I only buy new released games which I am 100% absolutely sure that they are awesome and completely bug free. All the other titles I buy them used after 5-6 months when they are cheaper and the game is finished with bug fixing and dlc etc. Especially ubisoft games, I always buy the complete edition with all dlcs a full year later, when they are half price, screw em.
@@hamzahussain7794 yeah totally best way indeed wait to the hype dies and get a deal a year later, I'm waiting for ghost of tsushima to come down to a reasonable price at the moment, it's probably one of the best released in sometime but no game is worth £60 nowadays
Depends. If the government regulates crypto which they seem to be planning on doing it will probably crash the market in the US permanently because crypto is pumped up by normies who wouldn't risk breaking the law for the equivalent of gambling with massive paper trails
@@1810jeff A blessed thing, I hate to say; it's a wildly unregulated nightmare that has done nothing but enrich a tiny few at the expense of exploiting the idiotic many, brutally so, and they won't stop without systems being put into place to force them to stop. It's why regulated US casinos are forced to make a 'self-banning' system for those who feel like they have a gambling problem...which actually works well.
I used to love technology as a kid and was always excited to see where it would go. When i was older and got internet and a computer I was thrilled to see what cool creative things people would upload. Now? Now I hate technology and the internet and really feel like greed and mass outreach with the internet will be humanities downfall through easier large scale corruption on a smaller individual level.
Watch or listen to the most recent Tim Ferris's podcasts with Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant. Might change your minds on crypto and nfts, as it changed mine. I thought I was late getting into this new technology. But looking at most of the reply here and the negative sentiments, I might actually still be early.
I mean they've been creeping their stuff for years. Why do you think AC changed the way it did with Origins? "Bring diversity to the gameplay"? Hell no, they didn't know how to properly sell their Time Savers, and lvl locking the game was the way to go. (Edit, typos)
@@GoldenCoastGTA Oh, I know. But they actually admitted it. Hell, you can see where they started with AC4 and Rogue. Now, they have worse mtx than both EA and Activision at times.
@@Lovuschka .depressing. having lived through it all, and every time holding hope it wouldnt earn them enough to keep going. only for it to become the new norm a few years later
@@Lovuschka fun fact that was actually an experiment by Xbox to see if people will buy DLC because it was an successful we got other dlc so you should be glad
I could see them doing that with battlepasses. "Oh, you purchased our game later and missed 3 battlepasses? Well, you can buy any of these skins you missed separately or buy them from other players for whatever they want the price to be".
Here's hoping the SEC sets up a definition that "play to earn" games are "investment tools" or something and thus become regulated as such. Nothing will put an end to this bullshit faster.
They would have to act if this became an unregulated psuedo-securities market like Earth2 was/is shaping up to be. If they acted and regulated this kind of crap, there is no way the gaming companies would think it worth the hassle to keep on with it. With luck, gamers can unite in reporting these types of things in the hope they get cracked down upon and we can rid ourselves of the stupidity. Because the reality is, there are enough moonbros to pump these stupid things for gaming companies to think this is what gamers want, which means there is no "vote with your wallet and show them this isn't wanted by not buying it" because it will just be inflated by investors and not gamers. We need to actively push for them to fail.
the SEC is utterly irrelevant as the front companies under which the games are sold will be situated in countries where the SEC has no authority. So your "earning scheme" will be under say Venezuelan law, with the banks in the Bahamas and the corporation behind it in Indonesia, with the shares owned 100% by Ubisoft.
people still don't understand why I have zero interest in NFT games even if they might be "free money just for playing" I don't want gaming to turn into a second job unless I actually start playing in tournaments lol
@@weplaywax people also ignore the mental energy they spend on such things, you spend the most of your time hustling being end up as a shell of a human being without even a shred of introspection, you are what you think.
I am not too worried, turning this market of gaming from "play" to "work", other entertainment mediums will arise with express purpose of "play". I am not married to the current gaming culture as it is, and will happily leave it for something better.
@@emdubb1381 No, the point is if major, and minor, publishers go this route, someone else will make a game we actually want to play. I already don't know the last AAA game I played
@@emdubb1381 No, the point is if major, and minor, publishers go this route, someone else will make a game we actually want to play. I already don't know the last AAA game I played
@@GodwynDi Exactly, as long as there is that niche in the market, and as long as there as margins for it, no matter the meager, eventually it will be filled And there will always be a niche for honest to god entertaining games or "entertainment works" of any speculative near or far future.
Just saw a story that people are playing these games in Venezuela to earn crypto, converting to US dollars and bolivars to be able to live. The story is on CGTN America, a Chinese news organization. "Video gamers in Venezuela play for cryptocurrency." The game in the story is called Axie infinity. Brazil, Philippines and Venezuela, just as you stated. All also hit hard by COVID-19 as well as decimated economies.
"Play to earn" What they are basically planning is offering gambling disguised under the ubiquitous terms such as crypto, Blockchain and NFT. You will be able to buy a virtual currency, gamble trough system so complex that it will evade regulations and be able to convert the winnings back to real world currency. The problem with it is house always wins- more money will come in than come in than come out. It is nothing else than this, giving out money for playtime isn't their plan for sure.
So I can’t help but wonder, could a clever game developer make a game that exploits how predictably Pay-to-Earn communities devolve into exploitative mindless grinding for cash by designing mechanics where the earning portion of the game indeed requires said behavior for maximum earnings, but then there’s a real game on top of that where actual gamers get to hunt the Earners for sport (and better yet, ruin/delete their cash prizes)? 🤣
@@kenobiwanobi889 Based on my experience with the League community, just give them a year or two to play the game without the hunters and the addiction will do the rest of the work. They'll be miserable, but they'll still pay and play.
I think it could work. Neal Stephenson wrote a novel 'REAMDE" in which there was a play-to-earn game. Something like the PLEX system from Eve but you could also cash out. Basically instead of fighting gold farmers they incorporated it into the game mechanics.
@@captainblacktail8137 No. Basically made the resource grind somewhat profitable IRL. Partly by making harvesting and crafting essential to the game (rather than a hobby as it ends up in most MMOs). Like if you've played Eve think of PLEX you can sell back to the game for cash. PLEX were like 20 bucks and hard to grind. But in a "everything can be destroyed" game it works.
@@weplaywax Sure. Any game economy has to be built so that it earns the game developers money. PLEX is one way and that creates the grey market converting it back into cash. Make a legitimate currency exchange (where of course the developer gets a cut) and you eliminate the problem. Trying to clamp down on it doesn't work. That's what happened to NWO when they made top gear BOP. Games earn on the whales. People like that will spend hundreds or thousands. What difference does it make if some kid in Bangladesh is getting 5 an hour for the new gear you buy on the AH?
Virtual stuff has no value. You can not cash out virtual anything. Reality isnt Kawaharas poorly writen SAO novel. For something to have value it must have tangible value. We are essentially all idiots for buying virtual games and DLCs because at the end of the day we pay for something that doesnt really exist outside of computer although the way I look at it we pay for the entertainment value we expect to get from it. But I digress. Thing is, value is always created from labor. Someone making an entertainment product or I dont know say a baker baking bread. If you make something you can try selling it. Next up is I aint paying my hard earned IRL money to anyone for farming in game what I can do/play myself. Lastly nobody will acknowledge in game currency IRL But good luck to you anyway....
@@lordkozin2663 Virtual stuff has value. This is evidenced by the fact that it is a huge multibillion dollar industry. UEG has been covering New World. People are, right now, spending money on skins in the game store after paying 40 bucks for the game. All I am suggesting is a different revenue model.
im not a fan of this concept, its just too easy to transform it into an addicting gambling machine. And since its something new and not exactly mainstream yet, they can do whatever they want, and knowing the gaming industry and its leading developers and publishers i dont have any hope for something good to come out of this.
@King of The Zinger when these indie devs get rich and big like ubisoft and activision they will start pulling the same shit that we criticize these companies for. the true solution is to get rid of capitalism entirely, and create a system where games are purely made out of passion with 0 profit incentive whatsoever
As much as I want to see this trend die and burn with giant losses for Ubisoft and anyone else pulling this crap there's always enough people who buy into it. Horse armor?! Who would pay for that?! DLC?! Why would you advocate for paid updates? Loot boxes?! Putting money into RNG isn't going to work. Play to earn?!
We went from seeing Oblivion selling horse armor as microtransactions to this. We already have the problem of games being unfinished, this is too much of a joke.
I've known about this for a while. I do freelance work for a few companies, and have a proverbial finger on the pulse so to speak. Games like Axie and Sandbox are just the beginning, and in just a few years you'll see AAA titles from the big studios incorporating crypto.
And of course, the moment Steam announced that they would ban NFT's and Block-chains, Epic and Tim Swiney announced that they would embrace it even though he had stated just three weeks earlier than he would not accept them.
Steam banning blockchains is just a bad thing for gamers. Point of blockchains is to give people ownership over their ingame items instead of the gaming company owning them. People against ownership of ingame items are just stupid and short-sighted. This enables selling items with security and liquidity. This could actually get me back into MMORPGs if they are decentralized to a point where the company cant ban you or ruin the game with updates, or claim they own what ever items dropped.
@@MrJustCallMeJames No. The only way Blockchain can be implemented is if it is used to handle a feature in the game that can't be traded. Something vital to the game but can't be traded. Granted Valve Banning Blockchain would discourage "progress". And it doesn't help companies in support of it like EA and Epic see only money.
I really LOVED (past) Ubisoft. But mainly, because after playing FPS campaigns for years, FarCry 2 & 3 were such a great opportunity to get yourself lost in foreign worlds and play for hours enjoying the world, till today. Story, graphics, mechanics, everything (for FC3) holds up to todays standards with a glimpse. And then I played WatchDogs 1 for the first time in my life. And it was somehow odd. Something felt odd to me and im just a casual gamer. There was this feeling of missing balancing, exploitable mechanics, weird 2d graphics, ... Something was missing. And then I played TheCrew2 as it came out for free weekend. And I had it, it was monetisation. TheCrew2 felt even more misspolished, odd, bad graphics, collision, mechanics in the world. Just nice looking cars ... and shiny loot boxes ... for your shiny car ... in a boring world. I think it was in Ghost Recon Wildlands, where someone said: "Whats the use of a lamborginy in this rural region? - It has heated seats and navigation." And that is describing everything wrong with PayToWin, PayToEarn, PayToWhatever, ... What is the game about? What is the reason to even buy 100€ ingame assets if there is nothing to play? If the basic game would be fun, but it isn't. And it doesn't get better by implementing more money. Because the game has allready been developed. There is no turning back in time. And paying for some highpower character (or a lootbox with the chance of winning one) is not going to polish up even a multiplayer title. And thats the next bit. I really enjoyed the campaign of BlackOps1. It felt great. Old, but great. And then I played BO2. And one thing hit me in the eye. The whole game is designed to focus you on multiplayer. There is no game. There is just a multiplayer, which can be recycled every year like FIFA. So redesigning the hole rabbit hole: - bad campaign - trying to loan you into PayToWin for cosmetics - so you go to multiplayer (because perhaps thats where your 60$ went) - more PayToWin - now NFTs Games are designed to be addictive. Thats the way the world works. Everything is addictive. Because our world is frustrating. But now they are even making the games frustrating. And thats a very dark path to take.
Thats 100% fact. And the unfortunate part? Most gamers seem to support this shit anyway! People still buy shit like Call of Duty where you essentially already have pay/play to earn systems. You have to "grind" for guns, attachments, ect. Adding blockchain/money prizes to the mix will only make it fucking worse!
This is why modern day games are quite often totally unappealing to me. Games used to be simple, fun experiences that provide you with a certain story etc. Nowadays they are abused as vehicles for psychologists to play their manipulative mind games on company orders on the targeted audience. The result, pay to unlock or jump through hoops like a trained ape to get xy. Seriously i am an adult, i do work 100% and more and want to play to relax and unwind not to buy something to do chores or pay even more and more just to get what should have been included from the get go. Some game companies seem to just want to become an obnoxious annoyance more then anything.
Can't wait for the distopian near future, where I sit in my cubicle or one room homeoffice apartment, work 10 hours and then play a video game, where I pay some guy in Venezuela who just spend the same 10 hours leveling a character for me to buy.
There has been a few apps over the years that were "Paid to play", they all failed miserably. Turns out no one really wants to earn money watching advertisements, at least not for very long.
The younger gamers, as in the ones that didn’t grow up playing NES, seem to fall prey a lot easier to shadier practices. They buy the loot boxes, they buy the cosmetics, and they accept this “play to earn” concept.
Yup since a lot of their parents enable it, they have loose money and or their kids A LOT of time especially the past two years. They have no culture with gaming it just exists so they'll accept any shiny
Play to earn, can piss off. I give developers money, I get product in return. It's bad enough that we get shit half assed product now Ubisoft has been going downhill for years. Them ruining their reputation more? I'm OK with that
I started gaming in early 90's got Nintendo for my daughter and played with her. Games back then were complete, Now there pay as a service so i only buy few games a year,
Yea, me too. I wasn't paying attention and it took me a second or two to realise that it wasn't part of the video.. :-/ Haven't seen this before, but it had it all 'Play to earn', etc. I thought UEG was targeting/attacking the ordinary F2P market, but apparently this is another step...
can we NOT head in the direction of Idiocracy TV (or games) where like... the viable screen is just in the middle and the sides are continually spamming adds? Cuz... thats what NFTs are starting to feel like
Why don't they just give you in-game money for modding? X amounts of in-game money for making a sword/gun, Y amount for creating a character model, Z amount for writing a quest. In this example, in-game money is NOT real money, and cannot be exchanged for such. This would be something the game developers want, because you ARE creating something of value to the developer, by easing their artwork budget (I heard somewhere that art assets are one of the LARGEST costs for a game developer) Then they just keep and pay for and use the ones they want, and just store the rest. This will ease their dev budget and drive up interest in the game in the modding community!
It's been a hot minute since playing a Ubisoft game. But if I recall they had some kind of "gain points for playing" Their games on the Ubisoft launcher and you could use this to buy wallpapers and such. They have been conditioning people towards this for years now.
Twenty-eight years I've been playing video games. That is almost the entire time that I've been alive. I've had joy, sadness, anger, and every emotion in between from the hundreds or thousands of games that I have played over my life, over several gaming generations. I was blissfully ignorant of the festering cesspit that lurked underneath, like a gilded landscape. It wasn't until a few years back that I started catching glimpses of it...and I denied it at first. Horse armor...that should have been the first thing that set off all of the alarms. But I ignored it, both being young and since I ended up getting the full package of the game with a special edition. Then there was Mass Effect 3, which furthered my insight into the flaws, of how the multiplayer side of the game was required to get the best parts of the final sequence, something I couldn't do since Xbox gold membership/paid multiplayer was being anchored in and something I couldn't really get all that often, not to mention the iteration of loot boxes that would evolve for the worst from there. Then multiplayer-focused games started becoming the norm, with paid 'micro'transactions being stitched in. I was becoming annoyed on how games with good concepts were being barred behind it, the twAAAts at EA trying to go on how 'single player games were dead'. Proven wrong on that part, but still. Things only ramped up rapidly from that point, and until recently I was starting to foster a hatred for the very thing that helped me through my life, to keep my mind off of things and to destress, even if I did get in a vicious cycle at one point from playing too many games due to too much stress, which looped back time and time again. Now...? ...I don't even know if I want to continue playing games anymore, seeing how this stuff is going almost unopposed by things of equal size and/or volume. I'd still play them no doubt, but to fully stop would be a monumental task for me, especially so since I'd be desperately trying to find the joy that there is in gaming again, yet harshly turning down anything that features the slightest hint of the cancers that have taken over. The joy of gaming... ...something that the monkey suits have robbed from the industry with gleeful cackles...all to be a single dollar richer...
I feel the same. It's difficult to reconcile with the fact that so many titles, some of them not even being wrong, vying for my time and money. I don't have the energy to play at the moment, but my mind returns to Valheim. And now it returns to the churning wheels of capitalism, greased by the blood of those working to sustain it, while at the top stand the rich, laughing at us poor people. The planet is burning. NFT's and blockchain integration into gaming is just another fire added to the pyre. I really hope I don't come down with depression.
The myth of infinite growth compels them. Publically traded companies have to show their investors a bigger number each earning call, no matter the means.
This is very true. Blockchain can be targeted by design to work in an immense amount of fields, gaming included. NFT's, cryptocurrency, Blockchain, metaverse, & virtual reality may seem sci-fi, confusing, conflated; understanding them will give insight into the future. Most of our tech was just a fantasy a few decades ago.
Yes, Ubisoft, the triple A gaming publisher that puts microtransactions in nearly all their single player titles are most definitely the ones you want spearheading a movement where you have to play to earn content.
It’s like they took a look at the whole Pay to win concept and said no one could possibly make a worse system and someone walks over and says hold my drink I’ll prove you wrong it truly mystifies me how the gaming industry is going backwards instead of progressing
I love how well you dive u to topics like that. I'd be really interested to hear your take on NFTs and NFT games specifically. Just from listening to people talking about them they sound like a massive scam and it's impossible to find good sceptical videos on that topic because the search results are just full of scams.
As long as people keep giving these AAA companies money, they'll keep fucking everyone up and thinking everything is ok. The customer has a lot of power in his hands, he's just too stupid to use it...
Games in the past: Play and unlock rewards Companies: What if instead you give us money and get it now. Gamers: No actually we like unlocking things through gameplay Companies: Understood, give us money and we will let you unlock rewards! Gamers: No, that's not what we - Companies: Ooh, looks like you missed the time limited window forever. Thanks for the money though.
I don't understand why battlepasses expire. If someone joins a game late, they'll have nothing. With Halo MCC the battlepasses are free and you unlock stuff though weekly challenges that give you points, but when a new season hits, you can always go back to unlock stuff for the previous season. They're doing the same thing with Halo Infinite but you now have to pay for the battlepasses, but at the same time you have an unlimited amount of time to complete them
Companies: Fine, you can play and unlock stuff. Want a scope for your rifle? That'll be 500 fucking hours of grinding against sweaty toxic veterans in our Engagement Optimized Matchmaking queues.
You should make a video on how in most games the “pros” are usually only pros cuz they practice every exploit or broken mechanics or find the cheesiest ways to play rather than exemplify their skills in the game
That's like the numerous amounts of streamers that get caught for cheating. I hate them too as they always want games catered to them, meanwhile everyone else and the casual base gets shafted
@@finkamain1621 yea gears 5 had that issue . The devs tried listening to all these different corners of the community ignoring years of received feedback. Then that caused and uproar then they tried to cater to the “pros” then that didn’t work. And now as of tomorrow they are doing an update that’s gonna change a lot and I have no idea who they chose to get feedback from seeing how the game officially announced the end of its content cycle and has already stopped technically so now that the game has reached death they wanna balance and tweak gameplay? And for whom!? Lol just weird
@@finkamain1621 then if you patch out the glitches or unintended exploit the claim the game is dead or dying or just cry when in reality they shouldn’t have been able to do that bs in the first place *looking at you wave dash *
Honestly I still don't really understand how it works at all, but I feel like this is a huge can of worms to open. I'm not really open to the idea personally. When I play games I put all my real world issues aside, finances included. I am a fake person, with a fake personality and fake problems, doing fake things in a fake world. Anything that hurts that fantasy is a bad thing in my eyes, and this certainly will.
The add I got while watching this was "Blankos: an open-world multiplayer game featuring NFT vinyl toys known as Blankos, that players can collect, upgrade and sell."
Hey Upper, look up Splinterlands and Axie Infinity. I'm just playing the first one, the latter one requires like 1.5k $ to make your team and to start earning money. P2E that you focused on is nothing better than poker games which give you free chips for watching the ads. There are good P2E games, but some are just cash grabs and rug-pulls like a lot of NFT projects. Love your content btw
Gonna write this here and now: In the near future, everyone that owns a PC in orther to play games, you will have to give permission for the company to mine using your GPU while you play the game.
Gamers: "But that will lower performance!" Companies: "So what you're saying is that we should make less graphically intense games with fewer objects on screen, got it!" Gamers: (´・ω・｀)
We can always just ignore it, there's no need to get concerned as there will always be all sort of companies with different strategies for it's playerbase. At least NFT is better than smartphone cash grab "games" because someone else is doing money besides the developers.
There has been a time when a "gamer" was average a 10-20 year old kid or teen, mostly male with no money or credit card who had to ask his parents to buy him games. Nowadays those got old. And the average gamer is a grown man with disposable income, credit cards and less free time. Sadly with the gamers growing to consumers the games turned to shops and businesses. And more and more ugly practices of real world businesses enter the space. Commercials, Gambling, Pay2Win, permanent loss and insurance to recover it (Starcitizen), bookkeeping, investing... What works in real life to get people to pay will creep into video games now. Everything that works!
So this is there take on monetizing “triple AAA titles” into dirty mobile games. you either face a horrendous grind or forced to watch hours of ads or end up paying tons of money just to play or access different parts of the game.
AAA games are already worse than mobile games. Since mobile games are free, but AAA shit demands $60 for just a base version of the game... while still containing additional purchases.
- Looks up from playing Celeste, Among Us, Crosscode, Stardew Valley, Cryptark, Enter the Gungeon, Assault Android Cactus, 30XX, Cuphead, and on and on and on... "Oh, the Triple-A gaming industry is messing around with NFT's huh? Oh yes, that's a shame... Whatever shall I do."
Well, the gaming industry can crash and burn for all I care. After I get Elden Ring, I probably won't be buying anything else. I'm tired of the low-effort, poorly-made, unfinished games. I'm tired of the predatory practices that the younger generation seem to eat up. And I'm tired of buying the same damn games over and over, either through Remakes, Remasters, Sequels, or Spin-offs(Which seem to get worse and worse, with each instalment). I only see gaming getting worse from here, so I'm bailing out before it gets really bad.
As always, further platforms to support.
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You're Sick? - You sound like before. 🤷🏻♂️ Okay, i didn't hear you over years but from the past Videos .. I don't hear any difference. 😅
NFT's...in a way, this could make memes marketable, like copyrighting Nyancat. Like internet stamps or Fantasy football and such...
This is bizarre. This sort of gives the, "this is original character, do not steal" a deeper meaning. Go fuigure
Incredible timing considering what happened with Squid Game token.
@@TNTITAN Who knows maybe we'll Save Some Kids with these tokens .......
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Anyone remember the days when you bought the game it came completed?
Pepperidge farm remembers.
To be fair some of those games were release buggy and unbalanced, but it so cool to buy the game off the shelf and play it the same day.
remember when day one updates were to fix emergency issues in games instead of changing them entirely from month to month
@@Raider0075 True but there was a lot more pressure to release a quality product on launch day..
@@justlloyd7881 So that excuses not giving customers a finished product at launch?
As I recall, Metroid Dread launched with only minor bugs, and was definitely what I would consider a complete product at launch.
Imagine coming home from work, you boot up a game, and now you're back at work. Is this not a dystopian thought?
Do this route, farm that boss, do the dailys, do the weeklys (if not already done), finish the event, get all season items
Every mmo
Every mmo, except you get paid for your efforts this time.
Did you choose it? Education is the answer. Knowing how you operate is the answer. These things don't stick after that.
That's what you do when you build a dream. You work to fund the work you wanna do.
*Daily Reminder:* This started with horse armour
Useless horse armor pls
No. Steam market.
@@whatisaman689 Oblivion came out before Steam MT existed, so not quite..
Correct! And I still wont ever buy it! (Although a deluxe all dlc good AND BAD included version of skyrim sure) pretty easy to buy used or wait for sales thankfully.
Sad that that's become the most moderate form of micro transactions now
"You mean I can earn costumes in games instead of paying for them?"
"No, no that is not what I mean."
It means now every costume has an nft and everytime you change costume you have to paid us for the use
You can now EARN THE RIGHT to purchase it
@@giedrius2149 no thanks i will just buy indie game instead of NFT skin
Like any tech this could be implemented in a way to suck money from consumers... and likely will be. But it doesn't have to be. The problem with NFTs (for money hungry publishers) is that they're designed for the opposite purpose of gating you from digital goods. Once you 'earn' an item in one game, you own it forever. If another game is kind enough to recognize this, then you only have to buy your favorite gun skin in one version of CoD and never again. You might see why this is a problem for publishers.
In a decentralized blockchain you would have complete ownership of in game items and could sell them to whoever you want. Games themselves could have licenses on blockchain so you could re-sell digital copies just by selling it's NFT license. This puts all the power in the hands of the player.
I will just ignore these types of games. Ive done it successfully with AAA games and I don't feel like I have lost anything. There are plenty of Indie games have have kept me entertained for a while. Shame big publishers will undoubtfully fall for this.
its spelled "indie"
Of course you can but the wasted potential of all of this is tragic. And if free to play was any sign were still fucked.
@@beavatatlan Got it. It's spelled "Indiy".
@@demonking41-l8j lmao
There's plenty of great old games I haven't ever played or beaten.
Like Vigilante 8
For everything else, there's always the 7 seas.
So the idea is to turn gaming into a sort of digital company store? That's rather terrifying, actually.
more so selling a game as a concept and making the customer fund it
all these free to play games are simply exploitive
@@MrSolidsnake293 Not all of them. Vigor is quite good. I dare say I'd have paid $60 for it, if I knew how fun it was up front. Haven't spent any real money on it yet though.
@@Maxx__________ played that game day 1 it was a mess, it needed another year or two of development otherwise i would have given it a better chance.
you cant launch a game in as bad a state as it was, even as an alpha or beta its the first impression that counts the most
most games are already digital stores; digital stores with digital assets you cannot even keep or use in other games. At least in some of these crypto games, you can take your assets to other games or sell them. I don't see the issue over NFT games. Sure, lots suck. Lots of games in general sucks. Think of all the shitty games on Steam that reuse assets and are blatant cash crabs. You'll get that in any game. Look to Gods Unchained for a well implemented NFT games with play-to-earn mechanics. These games can be very good. Also, with Gods Unchained, if the developers immutable make another game, you can reuse assets from GU in their other games, or even cross barriers into other games. It's actually really neat and they've done it before so it has happened.
@@Mikey-gs1dx Not just a digital store, a digital company store. Look it up if you don't know what that is.
This is where you end up when it's only about money.
True. Just wait... Ubisoft starts, the rest will follow like a mange flock of sheep.
@King of The Zinger What games?
Only for the big corporations that used to be the sources of quality AAA titles 20 to 30 years ago.
There's also plenty of indie games that make games to make good games.
i dont understand where youre coming from. This is a good thing. There are people making a living off of axies. imagine an MMO where you can actually play and make a living off of it. Youre thinking is old (when i say old i mean youre thinking about games today. not looking to a future where gaming can be a job). you also probably thinking all NFT games are earning 1 or 2 bucks here and there. It's not and i suggest you look more into NFT gaming other than Upper Echelon. I like the guy and i watch all his videos, but he's overly pessimistic about everything
@@aHungiePanda No its not a good thing
So, we go from unfinished live service games with excessive microtransactions to this nonsense? What could possibly go wrong?
Part of me wishes for a 1983-style video game crash just so I can see these corporations collapse. We're all sick of this already.
Due to woke culture it's coming, problem is a consolidation of brand names will mean a lot of franchises will stay dead. Which is not a bad idea honestly.
Then don't buy or play their games. Buy and play games from companies who have a reputation of not doing this bullshit. Take reputation into consideration.
These large companies are too big to fail - but game development is easier than ever, so there is a lot of good indies out there.
@@senbrisbane5352 at least it'll give a chance for new franchises to start
It’s not happening because fifa and nfl still makes millions worldwide and people buy broken games on launch
@@senbrisbane5352 How did you link NFTs to flipping woke culture? What even IS woke culture?
Lets face it, Ubisoft lost its integrity as a gaming publisher when they decided to sell cosmetic items in SINGLEplayer games. Also ironic sidenote, I got an ad for a NFT-game that used the phrase "Play to earn" in the trailer, right before this video...
and to take the option to play games you already purchased away unless you created a uplay account when they suddenly decided to lock everything (even steam purchases) behind their uplay system.
@@jwenting Reminds me of how they suddenly made those Uplay points you could earn in games go away after a year so people would spend them for the 20% discount and buy games more regularily....
I don't think that's the problem, to me they lost their integrity when they started milking the Assassin's Creed franchise and forgot their other games existed
How is that an issue whatsoever? I don't buy skins at all. It is unnecessary. But there are times that I get why someone playing a single player game would want a special skin. If I were to buy a skin in say Apex, it would be for my own edification - other's opinions be dammed.
@@spmil999 cause skins shouldnt even be charged for in the first place let alone within a SP game, 10 years ago everything cosmetic was earned through gameplay but now? you need $100+ just for a BASE game.
Im ignoring the fact of DLC's, most of these 'DLCs' should and could of been in full release
Gaming is being eaten up by big companies. They saw a market of loyal people and capitalised on it. I’ve been playing games from 8+ years ago and enjoy it far more than any new games now which I just don’t buy. I don’t and won’t support big corporations that have to pay dividends and big executive bonuses. The cancer is companies.
I much rather small indie games made with love over games made cheap for cash.
I’ve noticed that.
Exactly. Agree!
(Been a Gamer since the late 80's, so around 30 years)
Or almost anything from Japan
@@ghostshrimp5006 That is mainly Mobile gaming?, which is crap anyway. (For most outside Japan/Asia)
@@DanielFrost79 I was talking about Japanese games in general
Every day that goes by makes me happier that I mostly play old, offline single player games.
Left 4 dead and tf2 are good too cause valve has forgotten them by that standard.
I dont even play videogames! Imagine how good i feel hehehe
But have you played Vigor? A new(ish) online multiplayer game?
@@danrobinson1729 Galaxy brain move.
@@danrobinson1729 why do you follow the market then?
This video feels like something I will rewatch in a couple of years and be scared at how accurate it was.
We will. We must certainly will.
@@KiamKweli tons of profit to be made
Genshin Impact Waifus aren't helping.
Just another reason of many to stay out of mainstream works.
Long live independent developers and their supporters.
Yes
There is 2 promising games
One Is free
The other one is paid
Both are independent developers
One is Dwarf fortress, a literal fantasy simulator with ascii graphics developed by the same guy over 20 years, it’s free
The other one star sector, a galactic rpg with a lot of things to do included exterminate planets only by disrupting trade routes, this one costs but you can play it for free technically but I do recommend buying it
Long live SOME independent devs and their supporters. Don't forget that a ot of indie companies are also fronts for asset flippers, casino bigwigs, exploitative garbage, etc. But yes. A lot of good games these days are indie to mid-size devs.
@@RenegadeVile Funny how we've basically gone back to the "bedroom coders" era of the 80's, everybody can make games now. Of course, not everybody can be Sid Meyer, Will Wright or John Carmack so the majority of the products will suck, but gems can be found in the rough.
@@abadenoughdude300 Yup, it's because we never really left that era either. "Bedroom coders" never went anywhere. Small studios have been making good games in every decade since the 80s. No reason why it'd be any different now. Usually you need to accept lower graphical fidelity because they lack the manpower necessary to make the beefy engine, assets and optimizations necessary but... who cares? Most games these days are unfinished BECAUSE so much time has to be dumped into the graphics. But, that's another discussion entirely.
@@elpsykoongro5379 Starsector is amazing.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is also an amazingly good indie, and it's also completely free!
There's also Logic World, Factorio, Teardown, Vintage Story, Soulash, Songs of Syx, Aurora 4X, there's way too many good indies to count.
Meanwhile, AAA is just... dead. AAA and really just about anything that's mainstream is just a hollow husk at this point. It serves as a fine example of what not to do, and it's literally the only thing it's good for anymore.
Since the games are so simple/based on luck, I would imagine that using bots would quickly become the norm.
Yup, all bots.
It already is. Tarkov is full of buying bots because of the grind.
CS:GO has this too, accidentally put up an item for too little and bots will snatch it up.
since there's actual money at stake the companies will probably actually use anti-botting measures, meaning it'll probably all get replaced by human clickfarms.
@@xTxCxMx Why would they want less engagement?
As Ben Elton once said "Fast food hey? Why don't they just cut out the middleman and flush it straight down the toilet?"
@@ilikemorestuff the companies like the botters, but the people who pay them for the ads they run typically don't and will push for crackdowns. Just hiring people from a 3rd world country to act as human "bots" isn't all that expensive anyways
I foresee a lot of money staying in my wallet in the future. Assuming my money means anything, as the government quickly converts it into funny money.
I mean people are also doing that on their own, by making thousands of crypto scams taking billions of dollars from people…
Now with the inflation and scarcity, maybe getting silver and double the supplies might be ideal...
Lol, funny money
DON'T worry peasent. Be good and you'll get your Monthly UBI check.
I don't get how people could complain about Fiat money, and yet look at crypto like it's worse somehow. If anyone is at least intellectually curious about why crypto is better than Fiat, lookup any interviews of Michael Saylor or Robert Breedlove. Just give it a try. Might open your mind.
"Play to earn" games are not just a cancer in gaming, but also a symptom of the growing income inequalities in the world we live in. It might be pennies for us, but for someone in the countries you have listed in (Indonesia, Vietnam, Venezuela, etc.), it can be the difference between having a slightly better dinner, or no dinner at all (not saying that it solves poverty, but it presents a short-term solution to live slightly above that they could afford normally). It's not a mistake that that these games are centered around mobile games since it's much more affordable to buy a phone than to buy a laptop there.
@Jetsetbob2 They do. As a person from the Phippines.
You can get a cheap phone for 50 dollars. 10gb of monthly data for 2 dollars and that sets you up.
People who are lower income can eventually acquire these things since Companies have to price their products to something the marlet can actually afford.
I remember when gaming was driven by a bunch of passionate people who were awestruck by the possibility of transporting their players into their carefully crafted world. By every possibility of fun mechanics, meaningful stories, risk taking, and making people's day to day lives just a little more colorful and more exciting; giving an escape to people who are struggling. That's what it used to be about.
But that's the sad thing about something going mainstream. It becomes sterile, a ghost of its former self, no longer driven by the imagination and passion of its creators, but by profit margins, long term customers, and greed.
Games are no longer whimsical delves into strange and fantastic worlds. They're carefully crafted machines of manipulation finely tuned to keep you coming back for more, stroking that addiction part of your brain.
It really bums me the fuck out.
I couldn't agree more I miss those days it's why I tend to stick to old games from back in the day simplisr times
It makes me depressed that I can't just relax with a good AAA quality game anymore, unless its an old one.
Eventually I'll just run out of stuff to play.
When something creative becomes too mainstream, the power shifts from the artist to the businessman.
@@92edoy My sentiment, exactly. Just in less words and more concise lol.
The same thing happened to Hollywood. When it comes to art, while a business type (producer role) is necessary, the artistic vision must be the motivating factor.
I don't see why they need any crypto-based thing, or a blockchain, or NFT, for "Play to Earn". They did that for years now with their Ubisoft points that you can earn by getting achievements and spend for more levels in a game, wallpapers, etc.
its an easy way to make a false scarcity FOMO styled tactic to abuse the weak minded with too much money
@@MrSolidsnake293 Exactly; the big companies finally realized that all the indie scams have revealed an untapped, wildly profitable, incredibly low-cost way to churn out profit-trawling shit to endlessly gullible idiots willing to try and 'hustle' any chance to slingshot themselves into money, or who will invest into an 'idea' for the 'principle' of it.
@@MrSolidsnake293 I recently got into War Thunder with my friends and that game has the worst pay to win aspects and a lot of false scarcity tactics. There's one jet on there that is going for a maximum of $800 and a minimum of $500 on the in-game store. I will never spend a penny on that game and neither should anybody. Why would anyone dish out hundreds of dollars to fly something that is already in the game's files? It's not like it's a real plane and literally every player could have it. That's where they trick people who are either stupid or that desperate to unlock something
@@garrettc9456 Sounds terrible, and I'm sure if someone had a "rare" skin, they'd charge an arm and a leg despite it being on everyone's hard drive already but it's inaccessible through a paywall. If you want to gamble like that, just go to an auction house
@@finkamain1621 bingo, played warthunder when it was new, once they started allowing people to skip the development lanes and go straight to the end that game became a joke
its the industry benching all profit on LIVE SERVICES
the live service model will never be profitable. the only reason it is is because of the industry abusing the same grey areas in g,ambling laws that mobile games abuse
I been playing games for 40+ years and I play less now than ever mainly due to incomplete games at Launch over monetisation and the general money grabbing behaviour of gaming publishers.
Shortened them, dummed them down, half complete releases with deliberate fixes time lined for later to keep players on, and now charges double to triple price what their worth nowadays, ya know with digital downloads n all, less to no physical item for production, (cd) or even that extra money stroke over the year for the rest of the game via season pass stroke.... Unreal
@@DJeMo I only buy new released games which I am 100% absolutely sure that they are awesome and completely bug free.
All the other titles I buy them used after 5-6 months when they are cheaper and the game is finished with bug fixing and dlc etc. Especially ubisoft games, I always buy the complete edition with all dlcs a full year later, when they are half price, screw em.
@@hamzahussain7794 yeah totally best way indeed wait to the hype dies and get a deal a year later, I'm waiting for ghost of tsushima to come down to a reasonable price at the moment, it's probably one of the best released in sometime but no game is worth £60 nowadays
blockchain based nft games are the plight of our near future.
Its already cancer
if you support any NFT your an idiot with too much money
I got an ad for a NFT game on this video
Depends. If the government regulates crypto which they seem to be planning on doing it will probably crash the market in the US permanently because crypto is pumped up by normies who wouldn't risk breaking the law for the equivalent of gambling with massive paper trails
@@1810jeff A blessed thing, I hate to say; it's a wildly unregulated nightmare that has done nothing but enrich a tiny few at the expense of exploiting the idiotic many, brutally so, and they won't stop without systems being put into place to force them to stop. It's why regulated US casinos are forced to make a 'self-banning' system for those who feel like they have a gambling problem...which actually works well.
I used to love technology as a kid and was always excited to see where it would go. When i was older and got internet and a computer I was thrilled to see what cool creative things people would upload. Now? Now I hate technology and the internet and really feel like greed and mass outreach with the internet will be humanities downfall through easier large scale corruption on a smaller individual level.
I feel you
"Industrial Society and It's Future"
Watch or listen to the most recent Tim Ferris's podcasts with Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant. Might change your minds on crypto and nfts, as it changed mine.
I thought I was late getting into this new technology. But looking at most of the reply here and the negative sentiments, I might actually still be early.
I love technology, i just hate new "greedy" technology.
I often think this is what the last old school cowboys felt this way as they watched their children get eaten by a horrific global war.
Well, Ubisoft just explained why all their games are monetized the way they are. That explains so much.
I mean they've been creeping their stuff for years. Why do you think AC changed the way it did with Origins? "Bring diversity to the gameplay"? Hell no, they didn't know how to properly sell their Time Savers, and lvl locking the game was the way to go. (Edit, typos)
@@GoldenCoastGTA Oh, I know. But they actually admitted it. Hell, you can see where they started with AC4 and Rogue. Now, they have worse mtx than both EA and Activision at times.
Friendly reminder:
"Paying to earn" is the root of all ponzi schemes.
Yeah if gaming companies do this and all there literally just flinging themselves into the grave at this point
That's what everyone thought about the Oblivion Horse Armor also.
Now DLC makes a huge profit for them.
And illegal gambling also.
@@Lovuschka .depressing. having lived through it all, and every time holding hope it wouldnt earn them enough to keep going.
only for it to become the new norm a few years later
Nothing will happen to them, unfortunately. People have memory like a goldfish and severe wallet incontinence.
popcorn game players are the new Normies for the games industry.
gaming has become Michael Bayed for empty headed idiots to enjoy
@@Lovuschka fun fact that was actually an experiment by Xbox to see if people will buy DLC because it was an successful we got other dlc so you should be glad
"Well, microtransactions went over like a ton of bricks. We heard the players and we are going to change our ways. We're implementing blockchain."
I could see them doing that with battlepasses. "Oh, you purchased our game later and missed 3 battlepasses? Well, you can buy any of these skins you missed separately or buy them from other players for whatever they want the price to be".
@@finkamain1621 "plus we take a percentage of those funds."
"When you sell a skin to another player, we take 30%"
They have to replace gambling loot boxes somehow.
Now we need a new law for this kind of sh*t. lol
Here's hoping the SEC sets up a definition that "play to earn" games are "investment tools" or something and thus become regulated as such. Nothing will put an end to this bullshit faster.
you mean a regulatory agency actually act in the interest of the customers? i'll buy a lottery ticket the day _that_ happens.
SEC doesnt do shit to the big fish
They would have to act if this became an unregulated psuedo-securities market like Earth2 was/is shaping up to be. If they acted and regulated this kind of crap, there is no way the gaming companies would think it worth the hassle to keep on with it. With luck, gamers can unite in reporting these types of things in the hope they get cracked down upon and we can rid ourselves of the stupidity. Because the reality is, there are enough moonbros to pump these stupid things for gaming companies to think this is what gamers want, which means there is no "vote with your wallet and show them this isn't wanted by not buying it" because it will just be inflated by investors and not gamers. We need to actively push for them to fail.
the SEC is utterly irrelevant as the front companies under which the games are sold will be situated in countries where the SEC has no authority.
So your "earning scheme" will be under say Venezuelan law, with the banks in the Bahamas and the corporation behind it in Indonesia, with the shares owned 100% by Ubisoft.
Lmao actually thinking you can regulate blockchain is hilarious
people still don't understand why I have zero interest in NFT games even if they might be "free money just for playing"
I don't want gaming to turn into a second job unless I actually start playing in tournaments lol
Toxic hustle culture is what created this nonsense. People think they all have to be CEOs and businessmen nonstop making money in every way possible.
@@weplaywax people also ignore the mental energy they spend on such things, you spend the most of your time hustling being end up as a shell of a human being without even a shred of introspection, you are what you think.
I am not too worried, turning this market of gaming from "play" to "work", other entertainment mediums will arise with express purpose of "play". I am not married to the current gaming culture as it is, and will happily leave it for something better.
I could be wrong but I don't think you are understanding it at all.
@@emdubb1381 No, the point is if major, and minor, publishers go this route, someone else will make a game we actually want to play. I already don't know the last AAA game I played
@@emdubb1381 No, the point is if major, and minor, publishers go this route, someone else will make a game we actually want to play. I already don't know the last AAA game I played
I've reignited my old love for Grim Dark/Dark Fantasy book series. The Prince of Nothing series is amazing.
@@GodwynDi Exactly, as long as there is that niche in the market, and as long as there as margins for it, no matter the meager, eventually it will be filled
And there will always be a niche for honest to god entertaining games or "entertainment works" of any speculative near or far future.
The escapism part of gaming is doomed.
Valve looking down at these people and laughing at their inneficent "inventions" rn
No, valve just doesn't want to share.
They already do NFTs, just look at CSGO skins and trading cards.
@@Feroste that's not even remotely close to the same thing lmao
@@Carnyzzle yes it is
@@Carnyzzle The only difference is it runs through valve instead of blockchain. Which makes it a worse system.
@@Feroste I'm saying almost the same thing
Just saw a story that people are playing these games in Venezuela to earn crypto, converting to US dollars and bolivars to be able to live.
The story is on CGTN America, a Chinese news organization.
"Video gamers in Venezuela play for cryptocurrency."
The game in the story is called Axie infinity.
Brazil, Philippines and Venezuela, just as you stated. All also hit hard by COVID-19 as well as decimated economies.
"slippery slope is a fallacy" - people who bought Horse Armor
There hasn't been a single game i wanted to play since 2010. Feel like every decade gaming is just going to get worse and worse.
I feel that, Every year i just keep playing and adding games to my backlog, whenever a sale happens i get like 10 old games for 30$ and have a blast
How about Sonic Generations (2011)?
It turned 10 years old today.
I mean if you're looking for reccomendations I'd play Hollow Knight. Art and games are still alive in the indie game space.
@@benjaminwitzel8311 indie ftw
Deep rock galactic. That is all.
Over a decade ago they were battling gold farmers in MMOs. Now, They're want gamers to become NFT farmers and ingame crypto miners.
"Play to earn" What they are basically planning is offering gambling disguised under the ubiquitous terms such as crypto, Blockchain and NFT. You will be able to buy a virtual currency, gamble trough system so complex that it will evade regulations and be able to convert the winnings back to real world currency. The problem with it is house always wins- more money will come in than come in than come out. It is nothing else than this, giving out money for playtime isn't their plan for sure.
Also dont forget that the crypto market is volatile as hell so who knows how much you would acutally earn
So I can’t help but wonder, could a clever game developer make a game that exploits how predictably Pay-to-Earn communities devolve into exploitative mindless grinding for cash by designing mechanics where the earning portion of the game indeed requires said behavior for maximum earnings, but then there’s a real game on top of that where actual gamers get to hunt the Earners for sport (and better yet, ruin/delete their cash prizes)? 🤣
what do you think mobile games are........
Dear god, while the idea sounds hilarious at first, that game would probably be too toxic to ever enjoy it sincerely.
@@kenobiwanobi889 Based on my experience with the League community, just give them a year or two to play the game without the hunters and the addiction will do the rest of the work. They'll be miserable, but they'll still pay and play.
Kinda sounds like eve online or this other MMO I know that lets you cash out
@@busterbackster1 Took the words right out of my mouth. This has been going on in some mmos for nearly a decade now.
Your videos are so well articulated, easy to follow and interesting/entertaining. Please don't ever change your format.
I think it could work. Neal Stephenson wrote a novel 'REAMDE" in which there was a play-to-earn game. Something like the PLEX system from Eve but you could also cash out.
Basically instead of fighting gold farmers they incorporated it into the game mechanics.
So a complete 180 from banning gold farmers because they are cancer to only have gold farmers
@@captainblacktail8137
No. Basically made the resource grind somewhat profitable IRL. Partly by making harvesting and crafting essential to the game (rather than a hobby as it ends up in most MMOs).
Like if you've played Eve think of PLEX you can sell back to the game for cash. PLEX were like 20 bucks and hard to grind. But in a "everything can be destroyed" game it works.
@@weplaywax
Sure. Any game economy has to be built so that it earns the game developers money. PLEX is one way and that creates the grey market converting it back into cash.
Make a legitimate currency exchange (where of course the developer gets a cut) and you eliminate the problem. Trying to clamp down on it doesn't work. That's what happened to NWO when they made top gear BOP.
Games earn on the whales. People like that will spend hundreds or thousands. What difference does it make if some kid in Bangladesh is getting 5 an hour for the new gear you buy on the AH?
Virtual stuff has no value. You can not cash out virtual anything. Reality isnt Kawaharas poorly writen SAO novel. For something to have value it must have tangible value. We are essentially all idiots for buying virtual games and DLCs because at the end of the day we pay for something that doesnt really exist outside of computer although the way I look at it we pay for the entertainment value we expect to get from it. But I digress. Thing is, value is always created from labor. Someone making an entertainment product or I dont know say a baker baking bread. If you make something you can try selling it. Next up is I aint paying my hard earned IRL money to anyone for farming in game what I can do/play myself. Lastly nobody will acknowledge in game currency IRL But good luck to you anyway....
@@lordkozin2663
Virtual stuff has value. This is evidenced by the fact that it is a huge multibillion dollar industry. UEG has been covering New World. People are, right now, spending money on skins in the game store after paying 40 bucks for the game.
All I am suggesting is a different revenue model.
im not a fan of this concept, its just too easy to transform it into an addicting gambling machine. And since its something new and not exactly mainstream yet, they can do whatever they want, and knowing the gaming industry and its leading developers and publishers i dont have any hope for something good to come out of this.
And in the end the government will win because more legislation. More control for Big government.
Transform it? I'm pretty sure it was DESIGNED to be an addicting gambling machine to begin with.
I've been starting to understand the appeal of retro gaming lately.
lmao ur profile pic.. Poor Alloy
You know what? Most of my favorite games made in the past decade have been indie games. We will always have indie games at least
@King of The Zinger indie games are meh, tbh..
@King of The Zinger when these indie devs get rich and big like ubisoft and activision they will start pulling the same shit that we criticize these companies for. the true solution is to get rid of capitalism entirely, and create a system where games are purely made out of passion with 0 profit incentive whatsoever
As much as I want to see this trend die and burn with giant losses for Ubisoft and anyone else pulling this crap there's always enough people who buy into it.
Horse armor?! Who would pay for that?!
DLC?! Why would you advocate for paid updates?
Loot boxes?! Putting money into RNG isn't going to work.
Play to earn?!
We went from seeing Oblivion selling horse armor as microtransactions to this.
We already have the problem of games being unfinished, this is too much of a joke.
Sound like i can skip more AAA games in the future😏 backlog here i came👍
I've known about this for a while. I do freelance work for a few companies, and have a proverbial finger on the pulse so to speak. Games like Axie and Sandbox are just the beginning, and in just a few years you'll see AAA titles from the big studios incorporating crypto.
And of course, the moment Steam announced that they would ban NFT's and Block-chains, Epic and Tim Swiney announced that they would embrace it even though he had stated just three weeks earlier than he would not accept them.
Good luck to him with the Lawsuits on Illegal gambling. Valve banned those for a reason.
Steam banning blockchains is just a bad thing for gamers. Point of blockchains is to give people ownership over their ingame items instead of the gaming company owning them. People against ownership of ingame items are just stupid and short-sighted. This enables selling items with security and liquidity. This could actually get me back into MMORPGs if they are decentralized to a point where the company cant ban you or ruin the game with updates, or claim they own what ever items dropped.
@@MrJustCallMeJames Steam Banned Blockchain as they don't want to deal with another Gambling allegation like the CSGO skins.
@@silverhawkscape2677 I know. Its bad no matter the reason. Letting gambling allegations hinder progress is disgusting.
@@MrJustCallMeJames No. The only way Blockchain can be implemented is if it is used to handle a feature in the game that can't be traded. Something vital to the game but can't be traded.
Granted Valve Banning Blockchain would discourage "progress". And it doesn't help companies in support of it like EA and Epic see only money.
I really LOVED (past) Ubisoft. But mainly, because after playing FPS campaigns for years, FarCry 2 & 3 were such a great opportunity to get yourself lost in foreign worlds and play for hours enjoying the world, till today. Story, graphics, mechanics, everything (for FC3) holds up to todays standards with a glimpse.
And then I played WatchDogs 1 for the first time in my life. And it was somehow odd. Something felt odd to me and im just a casual gamer. There was this feeling of missing balancing, exploitable mechanics, weird 2d graphics, ... Something was missing. And then I played TheCrew2 as it came out for free weekend. And I had it, it was monetisation. TheCrew2 felt even more misspolished, odd, bad graphics, collision, mechanics in the world. Just nice looking cars ... and shiny loot boxes ... for your shiny car ... in a boring world.
I think it was in Ghost Recon Wildlands, where someone said: "Whats the use of a lamborginy in this rural region? - It has heated seats and navigation." And that is describing everything wrong with PayToWin, PayToEarn, PayToWhatever, ... What is the game about? What is the reason to even buy 100€ ingame assets if there is nothing to play? If the basic game would be fun, but it isn't. And it doesn't get better by implementing more money. Because the game has allready been developed. There is no turning back in time.
And paying for some highpower character (or a lootbox with the chance of winning one) is not going to polish up even a multiplayer title. And thats the next bit. I really enjoyed the campaign of BlackOps1. It felt great. Old, but great. And then I played BO2. And one thing hit me in the eye. The whole game is designed to focus you on multiplayer. There is no game. There is just a multiplayer, which can be recycled every year like FIFA.
So redesigning the hole rabbit hole:
- bad campaign
- trying to loan you into PayToWin for cosmetics
- so you go to multiplayer (because perhaps thats where your 60$ went)
- more PayToWin
- now NFTs
Games are designed to be addictive. Thats the way the world works. Everything is addictive. Because our world is frustrating. But now they are even making the games frustrating. And thats a very dark path to take.
Thats 100% fact.
And the unfortunate part? Most gamers seem to support this shit anyway! People still buy shit like Call of Duty where you essentially already have pay/play to earn systems. You have to "grind" for guns, attachments, ect.
Adding blockchain/money prizes to the mix will only make it fucking worse!
Always remember. As a customer you will loose. Always. Games are not made to be fun this days but to make you poor!
This idea makes me think of Ready Player One and debt centers. Aiming this shit at the destitute has some scary implications
This is why modern day games are quite often totally unappealing to me. Games used to be simple, fun experiences that provide you with a certain story etc.
Nowadays they are abused as vehicles for psychologists to play their manipulative mind games on company orders on the targeted audience.
The result, pay to unlock or jump through hoops like a trained ape to get xy.
Seriously i am an adult, i do work 100% and more and want to play to relax and unwind not to buy something to do chores or pay even more and more just to get what should have been included from the get go. Some game companies seem to just want to become an obnoxious annoyance more then anything.
Man we used to get video games that were done the moment they released
how far we have come yeah? ☠️☠️
things like this used to make me angry, but after so many years of escalation it just makes me sad.
First I thought the games would run mining software on your device in the background lol.
Same
What's to stop them? Even if they only mine while you're playing the game, that'd be bad
Can't wait for the distopian near future, where I sit in my cubicle or one room homeoffice apartment, work 10 hours and then play a video game, where I pay some guy in Venezuela who just spend the same 10 hours leveling a character for me to buy.
There has been a few apps over the years that were "Paid to play", they all failed miserably. Turns out no one really wants to earn money watching advertisements, at least not for very long.
The younger gamers, as in the ones that didn’t grow up playing NES, seem to fall prey a lot easier to shadier practices. They buy the loot boxes, they buy the cosmetics, and they accept this “play to earn” concept.
Yup since a lot of their parents enable it, they have loose money and or their kids A LOT of time especially the past two years. They have no culture with gaming it just exists so they'll accept any shiny
Sounds like an episode of Black Mirror where you work with a game screen in front of you while exercising.
lol never heard of that series, just watched the first episode.. WTF was that
Play to earn, can piss off. I give developers money, I get product in return. It's bad enough that we get shit half assed product now
Ubisoft has been going downhill for years. Them ruining their reputation more? I'm OK with that
I started gaming in early 90's got Nintendo for my daughter and played with her. Games back then were complete, Now there pay as a service so i only buy few games a year,
before the vid i got an add for a game where you can "earn" NFT's (skins etc) by playing...oh the irony^^
Yea, me too. I wasn't paying attention and it took me a second or two to realise that it wasn't part of the video.. :-/ Haven't seen this before, but it had it all 'Play to earn', etc. I thought UEG was targeting/attacking the ordinary F2P market, but apparently this is another step...
can we NOT head in the direction of Idiocracy TV (or games) where like... the viable screen is just in the middle and the sides are continually spamming adds? Cuz... thats what NFTs are starting to feel like
Can't wait to see how this is integrated into Assassin's Creed Infinity
this is an amazing video. Very informative.
From a industry that never played to enjoy. Great work.
It sounds like someone at ubisoft watched Ready Player One. Imagine the next assassin's creed where you hunt down nfts in game.
Why don't they just give you in-game money for modding? X amounts of in-game money for making a sword/gun, Y amount for creating a character model, Z amount for writing a quest.
In this example, in-game money is NOT real money, and cannot be exchanged for such. This would be something the game developers want, because you ARE creating something of value to the developer, by easing their artwork budget (I heard somewhere that art assets are one of the LARGEST costs for a game developer)
Then they just keep and pay for and use the ones they want, and just store the rest. This will ease their dev budget and drive up interest in the game in the modding community!
Thing is, they are too stupid to even develop good modding tools and they constantly despise modders
Just when you thought lootboxes was the final boss, triple A devs and pubs reveal their final form.
In zero instances has I heard a story about NFTs where they aren't a scam.
It's been a hot minute since playing a Ubisoft game. But if I recall they had some kind of "gain points for playing" Their games on the Ubisoft launcher and you could use this to buy wallpapers and such. They have been conditioning people towards this for years now.
Twenty-eight years I've been playing video games.
That is almost the entire time that I've been alive.
I've had joy, sadness, anger, and every emotion in between from the hundreds or thousands of games that I have played over my life, over several gaming generations.
I was blissfully ignorant of the festering cesspit that lurked underneath, like a gilded landscape.
It wasn't until a few years back that I started catching glimpses of it...and I denied it at first.
Horse armor...that should have been the first thing that set off all of the alarms. But I ignored it, both being young and since I ended up getting the full package of the game with a special edition.
Then there was Mass Effect 3, which furthered my insight into the flaws, of how the multiplayer side of the game was required to get the best parts of the final sequence, something I couldn't do since Xbox gold membership/paid multiplayer was being anchored in and something I couldn't really get all that often, not to mention the iteration of loot boxes that would evolve for the worst from there.
Then multiplayer-focused games started becoming the norm, with paid 'micro'transactions being stitched in. I was becoming annoyed on how games with good concepts were being barred behind it, the twAAAts at EA trying to go on how 'single player games were dead'. Proven wrong on that part, but still.
Things only ramped up rapidly from that point, and until recently I was starting to foster a hatred for the very thing that helped me through my life, to keep my mind off of things and to destress, even if I did get in a vicious cycle at one point from playing too many games due to too much stress, which looped back time and time again.
Now...?
...I don't even know if I want to continue playing games anymore, seeing how this stuff is going almost unopposed by things of equal size and/or volume. I'd still play them no doubt, but to fully stop would be a monumental task for me, especially so since I'd be desperately trying to find the joy that there is in gaming again, yet harshly turning down anything that features the slightest hint of the cancers that have taken over.
The joy of gaming...
...something that the monkey suits have robbed from the industry with gleeful cackles...all to be a single dollar richer...
I feel the same. It's difficult to reconcile with the fact that so many titles, some of them not even being wrong, vying for my time and money. I don't have the energy to play at the moment, but my mind returns to Valheim. And now it returns to the churning wheels of capitalism, greased by the blood of those working to sustain it, while at the top stand the rich, laughing at us poor people. The planet is burning. NFT's and blockchain integration into gaming is just another fire added to the pyre. I really hope I don't come down with depression.
There was literally a add for an NFT game before watching this video.
I really don’t get what compels these companies to do these type of things that they should see the community absolutely despise this concept lol
The myth of infinite growth compels them. Publically traded companies have to show their investors a bigger number each earning call, no matter the means.
What do you mean the community maybe like 20% hates it the other don't care or actually like these thinga
@@EmperorDxD I want crypto in gaming.
@@generalsdragons6952 hay man do you
Greed is a problem for gaming, which likely will never go away.
This is the third sign for me to finally dive into Solidity ...
“ but CaPITLISm IS GoOD!”
This is very true. Blockchain can be targeted by design to work in an immense amount of fields, gaming included.
NFT's, cryptocurrency, Blockchain, metaverse, & virtual reality may seem sci-fi, confusing, conflated; understanding them will give insight into the future. Most of our tech was just a fantasy a few decades ago.
Yes, Ubisoft, the triple A gaming publisher that puts microtransactions in nearly all their single player titles are most definitely the ones you want spearheading a movement where you have to play to earn content.
It’s like they took a look at the whole Pay to win concept and said no one could possibly make a worse system and someone walks over and says hold my drink I’ll prove you wrong it truly mystifies me how the gaming industry is going backwards instead of progressing
I love how well you dive u to topics like that. I'd be really interested to hear your take on NFTs and NFT games specifically. Just from listening to people talking about them they sound like a massive scam and it's impossible to find good sceptical videos on that topic because the search results are just full of scams.
As long as people keep giving these AAA companies money, they'll keep fucking everyone up and thinking everything is ok. The customer has a lot of power in his hands, he's just too stupid to use it...
Games in the past: Play and unlock rewards
Companies: What if instead you give us money and get it now.
Gamers: No actually we like unlocking things through gameplay
Companies: Understood, give us money and we will let you unlock rewards!
Gamers: No, that's not what we -
Companies: Ooh, looks like you missed the time limited window forever. Thanks for the money though.
I don't understand why battlepasses expire. If someone joins a game late, they'll have nothing. With Halo MCC the battlepasses are free and you unlock stuff though weekly challenges that give you points, but when a new season hits, you can always go back to unlock stuff for the previous season. They're doing the same thing with Halo Infinite but you now have to pay for the battlepasses, but at the same time you have an unlimited amount of time to complete them
Companies: Fine, you can play and unlock stuff. Want a scope for your rifle? That'll be 500 fucking hours of grinding against sweaty toxic veterans in our Engagement Optimized Matchmaking queues.
Can't wait for Todd and the boys to implement this into TES6
You should make a video on how in most games the “pros” are usually only pros cuz they practice every exploit or broken mechanics or find the cheesiest ways to play rather than exemplify their skills in the game
That's like the numerous amounts of streamers that get caught for cheating. I hate them too as they always want games catered to them, meanwhile everyone else and the casual base gets shafted
@@finkamain1621 yea gears 5 had that issue . The devs tried listening to all these different corners of the community ignoring years of received feedback. Then that caused and uproar then they tried to cater to the “pros” then that didn’t work. And now as of tomorrow they are doing an update that’s gonna change a lot and I have no idea who they chose to get feedback from seeing how the game officially announced the end of its content cycle and has already stopped technically so now that the game has reached death they wanna balance and tweak gameplay? And for whom!? Lol just weird
@@finkamain1621 then if you patch out the glitches or unintended exploit the claim the game is dead or dying or just cry when in reality they shouldn’t have been able to do that bs in the first place *looking at you wave dash *
@@ViewtifulJae What game is that exploit from?
Honestly I still don't really understand how it works at all, but I feel like this is a huge can of worms to open. I'm not really open to the idea personally. When I play games I put all my real world issues aside, finances included. I am a fake person, with a fake personality and fake problems, doing fake things in a fake world. Anything that hurts that fantasy is a bad thing in my eyes, and this certainly will.
Thankfully there are indie games.
And old games, from the times before all this monetization bullshit.
The add I got while watching this was "Blankos: an open-world multiplayer game featuring NFT vinyl toys known as Blankos, that players can collect, upgrade and sell."
Hey Upper, look up Splinterlands and Axie Infinity. I'm just playing the first one, the latter one requires like 1.5k $ to make your team and to start earning money. P2E that you focused on is nothing better than poker games which give you free chips for watching the ads. There are good P2E games, but some are just cash grabs and rug-pulls like a lot of NFT projects. Love your content btw
LOL, i just wrote a long ass comment about how shitty Axie is in terms of gaming. No, there arent good gamefi games, not yet at least.
@@kusazero I don't like Axie as well, it's too static for me. But I have 5 6 friends which like it, even though they do tilt hella lot hahahahahahh
The irony is I got a ad for a NTF game
Gonna write this here and now:
In the near future, everyone that owns a PC in orther to play games, you will have to give permission for the company to mine using your GPU while you play the game.
Gamers: "But that will lower performance!"
Companies: "So what you're saying is that we should make less graphically intense games with fewer objects on screen, got it!"
Gamers: (´・ω・｀)
I usually tell this to all my friends. Game cannot be a second workplace.
We can always just ignore it, there's no need to get concerned as there will always be all sort of companies with different strategies for it's playerbase. At least NFT is better than smartphone cash grab "games" because someone else is doing money besides the developers.
There has been a time when a "gamer" was average a 10-20 year old kid or teen, mostly male with no money or credit card who had to ask his parents to buy him games.
Nowadays those got old. And the average gamer is a grown man with disposable income, credit cards and less free time.
Sadly with the gamers growing to consumers the games turned to shops and businesses. And more and more ugly practices of real world businesses enter the space. Commercials, Gambling, Pay2Win, permanent loss and insurance to recover it (Starcitizen), bookkeeping, investing...
What works in real life to get people to pay will creep into video games now. Everything that works!
I get a migraine every time companies like Ubisoft to say stuff that they think or say that is gonna revolutionize the industry
I keep saying that when it comes to Ubisoft, piracy is obligatory
So this is there take on monetizing “triple AAA titles” into dirty mobile games. you either face a horrendous grind or forced to watch hours of ads or end up paying tons of money just to play or access different parts of the game.
AAA games are already worse than mobile games.
Since mobile games are free, but AAA shit demands $60 for just a base version of the game... while still containing additional purchases.
Excellent video as always.
Proud of Valve's stance against NFTs and crypto BS in games/software on Steam. Just another reason to continue supporting Steam.
Fuck this shit.
- Looks up from playing Celeste, Among Us, Crosscode, Stardew Valley, Cryptark, Enter the Gungeon, Assault Android Cactus, 30XX, Cuphead, and on and on and on...
"Oh, the Triple-A gaming industry is messing around with NFT's huh? Oh yes, that's a shame... Whatever shall I do."
man I'm hyped for the haunted chocolatier
Well, the gaming industry can crash and burn for all I care. After I get Elden Ring, I probably won't be buying anything else. I'm tired of the low-effort, poorly-made, unfinished games. I'm tired of the predatory practices that the younger generation seem to eat up. And I'm tired of buying the same damn games over and over, either through Remakes, Remasters, Sequels, or Spin-offs(Which seem to get worse and worse, with each instalment). I only see gaming getting worse from here, so I'm bailing out before it gets really bad.
Same.