I recall when a large portion of the Mass Effect community banded together to threaten to sue EA over Mass Effect 3's awful conclusion for false advertising.
I brought it to my state attorney's office and they were forced to issue a refund to me based on the user agreements of a game. It was a WHOLE THING. But reach out to your state attorneys office, your State office of consumer protections and ALWAYS ALWAYS put a complaint with the FTC. That's how you get them to actually respond and they bring the lawsuits to them
The way mine worked, I bought and downloaded a game. I read the user agreement that comes up before you can play the game, but AFTER you download it (which voids the right to request a refund) and I did not agree with it so it did not allow me to play the game. I requested a refund and Sony said it was the publisher's problem. I reached out to epic and they said it was Sony's issue and nobody wanted to do anything so I brought it to the FTC, FTC passed it to the state attorney's office who passed it to my county's Consumer protection office who wrote a letter to Sony and I got a phone call from Sony California where they asked me a bunch of questions and low-key implied I did not agree with the user agreement because I wanted to do something illegal... a week after I got a letter from Sony informing them of the refund as a "one time gesture of good will".
@@robinpetrick5776 that with digital games they reserve full authority to reclaim it without any reason. There's also a whole privacy section which is insanely invasive. It sucks that a lot of games actually are requiring similar agreements and are for children... We as adults rarely read them, kids have less of an understanding of what they're agreeing to and should not even be valid
All the Triple A industry need a class action law suit. £70 for a game, incomplete experiences. Scummy practises, monopoly’s, gambling on and on and on.
I'm liking the current shift towards AA games. It *should* be better for everyone. More, less mainstream games for players, more opportunities for Devs, slightly cheaper games. PS2 stylez 👍
You think 70 bucks is a lot? You should've been gaming in the 90's before the prices leveled out. There were games that cost over a hundred bucks and you didn't even get any extras with it. The rest are valid complaints, but the cost is not one of them.
Remember renting a game to see if it was worth buying? How about playing demos? Yeah, those were the days. Today, you're lucky if a developer has a demo for their game, and even then it's usually only available for a week or two before it's gone.
Funny thing about demo's is that they decreased the number of sales. Not because of it spotlighting problems but because it helped the average gamer scratch the itch of playing the game so no purchase necessary.
@@ferrite1707 I blame that on the method of distribution and type of game at the time. Yeah, it was possible to get by back in the days of the floppy and CD with just a demo, but most games back then didn't even have a real backstory. Those games were certainly not going to encourage sales the same way that a single level of a modern game would. Imagine if the Virmire mission from Mass Effect was the only part you got to play and ended right as Saren aimed his gun at Nihilus? Would you have been happy to just keep playing that demo, or would you want to know what happens next? Additionally, many games that were multiplayer online such as Arena and Unreal only let you play against bots in the demo, and sales upticked greatly due to people wanting to PWN other people.
Don't forget that some companies will release a demo 4 months before a game officially releases then make major changes before launch so it's a whole different game after purchase.
As an Aussie, we basically just say the "A triple C". Don't necessarily call it the "AAAK", even though it's obvious you're having fun saying it like that lol
The whole buying/licensing thing comes down to this, I think: Even if all I'm buying is the license, I'm still BUYING something. If that "buy" button means I'm only getting the license to play, it's still something for which I paid to OWN. Now if the button read "rent" or "lease," that'd be a different story. Those words imply that I won't have ownership of the product. Then it'd make sense. But as long as they're letting me BUY their products or licenses, then I should OWN them! 😠
Ya gotta read the "ELA" or End License Agreement. Which you need binoculars to read. By pushing that button you are agreeing to "blah,blah,blah" and with that they can get away with it
Morally the argument seems right. Legally it just isn't. The law hasn't caught up with digital rights. You've always just been getting a licence. Even when you bought a physical copy. It's just there was no practical way to enforce it outside of shutting servers for online games. Things really need to change but outside of the EU this seems a pipedream. You can see that with the Internet archives recent court loss.
Paul didn't give back 100% refunds, he only gave a part of it as refund and made people sign not to sue him. People didn't like this, and hasn't applied for it.
A video on facts about Gameranx I think would be cool! How long does it take to make a video? How many people work there. How many games do you guys play a year How much content do you have recorded And so on 😁
Yeah cause our games are double the price point from US pricing, any Ultimate edition game you're looking at $150-180AUD, $90-110AUD Standard edition, so bloody better be a refund, tis why most of us here wait for 50%+ sales to get games, well I do anyway 🙂can't mess with the ACCC and they do not care what your policy is!
Yea , shitendo price gouges their players without ever reducing prices. Completely price gouging. I don't understand why game devs ever cater to shitendo.
The ACCC has quite a bit of power in Australia. If you lodge a valid complaint they have ti investigate it and they charge the company they are investigating for the cost of said investigation. Often, just the threat of lodging a complaint will get the company to remedy the issue as it will probably cost less than the ACCC investigation. It's awesome.
The “Buy Now” button is legally interpreted in favor of the buyer. Does the consumer “reasonably believe” they buying a license or buying ownership? These are arguments for the lawyers for each side to make. The judge will take into account; past case law, affidavits from the plaintiffs , and the consumer law for that state. EDIT: In Texas for example the consumer laws are written, interpreted, and applied very broadly in favor of the consumer. And the Texas’s AG office could sue on behalf of all consumers in the state of Texas.
@ I hear ya but the arguments against “it’s in the long list of agreement we know you didn’t read” are: 1. What was the consumer expectation at that time the “contract” or user agreement was entered? Did the consumer reasonably belief they were buying the license or buying ownership. 2. What language was used by the store or publisher on the store or in the marketing to give the impression to the buyer that they would have ownership. Hence forever access to the game. 2. Did the consumer have reasonable access to this user agreement BEFORE the transaction was concluded? The classic argument of “it’s in the contract” hold some weight to it IF the consumer had access to the agreement BEFORE the purchase was made. Edit: before I checkout for an online purchase having access to the agreement helps the case of the publisher. But not so much when people buy physical copies. This is why the valve website now CLEARLY states that you are getting a revocable license. But trust me, that won’t be enough in the coming years because most license agreements have a term limit. In the future, some states or countries will require the publishers to give a term limit on that license. Excuse the all caps on some words not yelling just want to emphasis some key language. And I personally have experience on Texas consumer law for over ten years and if some of these publishers get on the Texas AG’s radar it will be extremely interesting.
@@LeoJacobschild As an honest question, do you believe and think that we own our game consoles and disks? Especially in the context of real estate and vehicles where buying a house means you own the house but are still restrained on whst you can do to the land it occupies, and vice versa. As with vehicles, can people modify them in any manner they want and still comply with emissions and all that?
#6: 13:21 it's game corporations exploiting/creating loopholes based on semantics. I can understand a publisher wanting copyright laws in place, but the whole idea of purchasing a license goes way too far.
I've always compared it to buying a print of the Mona Lisa. It doesn't mean you *own* the Mona Lisa but you still get to display the print on your wall.
Damn it Falcon! Your opening disclaimer was such a missed opportunity to say "I'm not a legal expert [etc.], Im not a LegalEagle or anything! I'm just a Falcon." Or something to that effect😂
I remember when MGSV ground zero dropped and it was like 30 bucks…Crazy how devs can put the same amount of content in a game and charge 70 for a base price
Gameranx might have to change there vids to "Before you purchase the rights to the license to legally play the game until the company takes it away and keeps your money"
Great watch. And interesting to learn about some of these. Hoping we see more and more (not people suing that is) positive and consumer friendly changes. Especially the whole microtransaction and loot box systems need some regulation. Especially for some of the younger gamers being swarmed with constant predatory practices.
My cousin has gone through so many joy cons due to stick drift, so the first thing I did when I got my Switch Lite was swap the Analogue Sticks for Hall Effect Sticks. Was more expensive but so worth it.
A rare W for Australia to be sure. The stick drift thing is a serious issue on all platforms. It's ridiculous. I mean, my PS2 controllers still work like a charm and I put 8 years+ and a very unhealthy amount of time into FFXI into them. Really sad amounts of time. Maybe I got a good batch, but this wasn't an issue for me with anything pre-PS3 era. (Multiple consoles from each brand until I went PS fanboy post 360). I agree a small dead zone which setting you can adjust would fix it. It's not rocket science and most games don't need pinpoint accuracy. The licensing thing is annoying, but at least I can unpack my SNES or GameCube and play those. Heck, back in those days the big 3 let you use cheat devices and I will never forgive them for destroying that. It destroyed replayability.
The joycon stick drift issue can easily be fixed by taping in a thin piece of cardboard on the metal plate behind the joy stick. There are a few step by step UA-cam videos out there but you need a specific "Y" shaped screwdriver head and have a pair of pliers to disconnect the battery inside the joycon. Saved myself $70
The takeaway is that corporations, in the gaming industry as elsewhere, simply don't give a crap about you and will essentially engage in all manner of anti-consumer practices until and unless they are compelled to change their behavior.
Nintendo's controller problem is definitely not alleged, i have yet to buy a pro controller or joy cons that lasted more than 3 months without being almost completely unusable for smash ultimate.
Same here, I've had my joycons for like 4-5 years now (they are the ones that came with the console) and they work just fine. I guess it all comes down to being lucky...
Most problem I have with mine is that when the charger port gets dust or dirty or whatever it won't turn on and I can't play it other than that I've had no issues so this is a first and I'm accident prone like a mfer and have dropped it numerous times and still have had no issues
You're probably like my friends who don't take care of their shit. Dorito dust, greasy hands. Just nasty shit. Don't wash their hands, etc. Treating the console and controllers like used rags and go like "fuck (whichever company), they should be sued for shitty controllers and drift!" Like CLEAN YOUR SHIT TAKE CARE OF IT!! Like the state of their room indicates how they will treat their devices and some people deserve to have drift and broken stuff cause bruh you guys don't take care of shit but want to blame the company. Sometimes, it's valid, but fucking shit up within months is on you. My lil bro fucked up my new ps4 controller within a month. When Battlefield 1 came outAnd I was like, HOW?! Dirty hands. Dirty controller. Ect all factors to destroying shit.
I too get people pissed at me when I point out that even back during the physical media days, you were merely licensing the games. I swear that nobody actually read the damn EULAs.
Today I learnt volunteer doesn't mean well volunteering. How the hell do you volunteer for something then sue cause you're not getting paid for volunteering😊
For #5, that's not even strictly a Pokemon GO, or even game issue, the issue was with the people who chose not to respect the park and the property there. ANY event that could draw that many people there would likely have led to the same result. And if they're not capable of tracking down and charging the appropriate people with property damage, that's on them for not doing enough to enforce rules at the park, including any limits on the number of people allowed in.
Falcon you just they are really good at hustling gamers ,since that's what a lot game developers have done .For at least the longest time ,and I am old school .So I buy my game on disc , while it's still out there .Cause I might want replay again and again .
And since we don't actually own the games we buy but instead only own a license to play them, games cost way too much, especially in the digital age. They don't even have to make physical media anymore. If I pay out $60 or $70, I want more than an "okay, you can play it, at least until we shut down the servers." It's a load of horse crap.
In my 32 years of life, i have ever had only one "stick drift ", maybe do not push that stick down like a caveman eating cheesy puffs? Do you also tilt your head while playing racing games? Do you mimic chicken every time you hit a combo in a fighting game? Does your tongue hang out while you need to do something precise? Do you actually scream out loud when jumpscare happens? Okay maybe a little overboard with these, but i just don't understand the stick drift. Oooooh maybe it is that i play on Pc... But i used to have consoles?
12:50 you know.. one day they might just put an expiring date on those licenses right? no need to bust your HDD, it will expire on it's own just to make sure you refresh the license or something
A lot of these sound morally valid and righteous but as a lawyer, some of these also sound like abusive class action suits. The class action game can be extremely dirty and certainly questionable where it ends up that the person who filed the class action gets rich, the lawyers for that person gets rich, regular customers get a pittance at best, and all of us end up having to pay with higher costs for things like games. Remember, every time you’ve heard a corporation, they pass on the costs to the customers. If you remember that, a lot of these don’t sound like very good deals. Which is not say that all of them are that way but some of them definitely sounded that way
Hate to break it to you Falcon, but whatever the insurance company pays has been earned from monthly fees first. Or they earn back the money by raising the fees aftewards. Either way they're paid for with taxes. That's sorta how insurance works.
I'm in cali and I should be suing steam for .99 cents. They sold me a broken game and there was no way to know it was broken until you got to a specific spot in the game. I guarantee they'd pay that 99 cents IMMEDIATELY upon being informed of the suit regardless of what the suit was for.
bait and swtich is illegal, REcently a game called Techtonica completely changed the content and world of their game from open world exploration to a puzzle game
I have gaming PTSD because of LJN. So many bad superhero games, among others. To this day when I hear that LJN is involved with a game, I tend to avoid it. I heard their name recently, probably in a Gameranx video. Pretty sure they are still in business, maybe under a different name but it's essentially them.
0:41 “I’m just a bird.”
ALLEGEDLY
Perry
THE Bird
I think he is a bell
The bird that Gob has inside of his pants.
I recall when a large portion of the Mass Effect community banded together to threaten to sue EA over Mass Effect 3's awful conclusion for false advertising.
stfu bot we dont care about what you have to say bitch
Thank you, Australia, for making "Falcon" quack like a duck for a while.
Aflac
Australia is REAL?! No way 😳
Your welcome 🇦🇺🦘😁
You’re welcome mate.
You're welcome. Sorry about everything else we do, though.
Someone should sue PlayStation for their refund policy for digital games too
I brought it to my state attorney's office and they were forced to issue a refund to me based on the user agreements of a game. It was a WHOLE THING. But reach out to your state attorneys office, your State office of consumer protections and ALWAYS ALWAYS put a complaint with the FTC. That's how you get them to actually respond and they bring the lawsuits to them
The way mine worked, I bought and downloaded a game. I read the user agreement that comes up before you can play the game, but AFTER you download it (which voids the right to request a refund) and I did not agree with it so it did not allow me to play the game. I requested a refund and Sony said it was the publisher's problem. I reached out to epic and they said it was Sony's issue and nobody wanted to do anything so I brought it to the FTC, FTC passed it to the state attorney's office who passed it to my county's Consumer protection office who wrote a letter to Sony and I got a phone call from Sony California where they asked me a bunch of questions and low-key implied I did not agree with the user agreement because I wanted to do something illegal... a week after I got a letter from Sony informing them of the refund as a "one time gesture of good will".
Out of curiosity, what terms did you not agree with?
@@robinpetrick5776 that with digital games they reserve full authority to reclaim it without any reason. There's also a whole privacy section which is insanely invasive. It sucks that a lot of games actually are requiring similar agreements and are for children... We as adults rarely read them, kids have less of an understanding of what they're agreeing to and should not even be valid
@@siglerjorge9867that’s too much work
All the Triple A industry need a class action law suit.
£70 for a game, incomplete experiences. Scummy practises, monopoly’s, gambling on and on and on.
Many of these would be solved with people were more careful with their money but I guess I'm on minority
Vote with you wallet
CEO's yacht isn't going to pay for itself. He needs a bonus that could pay $100K to every employee under him for himself.
I'm liking the current shift towards AA games. It *should* be better for everyone. More, less mainstream games for players, more opportunities for Devs, slightly cheaper games. PS2 stylez 👍
You think 70 bucks is a lot? You should've been gaming in the 90's before the prices leveled out. There were games that cost over a hundred bucks and you didn't even get any extras with it. The rest are valid complaints, but the cost is not one of them.
Remember renting a game to see if it was worth buying? How about playing demos? Yeah, those were the days. Today, you're lucky if a developer has a demo for their game, and even then it's usually only available for a week or two before it's gone.
I remember getting original Doom on a 3.5" floppy disk as shareware. It was only the first couple of levels but I played the crap out of that disk!
Funny thing about demo's is that they decreased the number of sales. Not because of it spotlighting problems but because it helped the average gamer scratch the itch of playing the game so no purchase necessary.
@@ferrite1707 I blame that on the method of distribution and type of game at the time. Yeah, it was possible to get by back in the days of the floppy and CD with just a demo, but most games back then didn't even have a real backstory. Those games were certainly not going to encourage sales the same way that a single level of a modern game would. Imagine if the Virmire mission from Mass Effect was the only part you got to play and ended right as Saren aimed his gun at Nihilus? Would you have been happy to just keep playing that demo, or would you want to know what happens next?
Additionally, many games that were multiplayer online such as Arena and Unreal only let you play against bots in the demo, and sales upticked greatly due to people wanting to PWN other people.
Don't forget that some companies will release a demo 4 months before a game officially releases then make major changes before launch so it's a whole different game after purchase.
As an Aussie, we basically just say the "A triple C". Don't necessarily call it the "AAAK", even though it's obvious you're having fun saying it like that lol
Is fun to say lol
Knew someone would get to this before I commented. Thanks.
The whole buying/licensing thing comes down to this, I think: Even if all I'm buying is the license, I'm still BUYING something. If that "buy" button means I'm only getting the license to play, it's still something for which I paid to OWN. Now if the button read "rent" or "lease," that'd be a different story. Those words imply that I won't have ownership of the product. Then it'd make sense. But as long as they're letting me BUY their products or licenses, then I should OWN them! 😠
Amen 🙌🙏
This right here. You speak truth, friend.
Ya gotta read the "ELA" or End License Agreement. Which you need binoculars to read. By pushing that button you are agreeing to "blah,blah,blah" and with that they can get away with it
@@savage751except the courts have judged those to not be legally binding on multiple occasions. So that really doesn’t matter
Morally the argument seems right. Legally it just isn't. The law hasn't caught up with digital rights. You've always just been getting a licence. Even when you bought a physical copy. It's just there was no practical way to enforce it outside of shutting servers for online games. Things really need to change but outside of the EU this seems a pipedream. You can see that with the Internet archives recent court loss.
Paul didn't give back 100% refunds, he only gave a part of it as refund and made people sign not to sue him. People didn't like this, and hasn't applied for it.
I saw the update. He was willing to give such a low amount. It was insulting.
The background music for the intro was so cool
Thanks
Those violins in the beginning was hype lol
@@gameranxTVWhat song is that?
What's the intro music?
A video on facts about Gameranx I think would be cool!
How long does it take to make a video?
How many people work there.
How many games do you guys play a year
How much content do you have recorded
And so on 😁
Yeah cause our games are double the price point from US pricing, any Ultimate edition game you're looking at $150-180AUD, $90-110AUD Standard edition, so bloody better be a refund, tis why most of us here wait for 50%+ sales to get games, well I do anyway 🙂can't mess with the ACCC and they do not care what your policy is!
Plus, it fix, aka patches to playable a lot of time
What you’re not taking into account is that Aus minimum wage is about 3 times the amount of the US
Yea , shitendo price gouges their players without ever reducing prices. Completely price gouging. I don't understand why game devs ever cater to shitendo.
Gaming in this day and age unfortunately still has a ways to go
Thank you for that “year 2000” made me smile and I really needed that. Have a good day
Falcon Jumpscare at 13:43
I just noticed it and I was going to say Falcon Easter egg at 13:43
😂😂😂😂😂
cool video falcon again
Glad you enjoyed it
@@gameranxTV always a good content u make, especially commentary is very good hehe
@@gameranxTVfix your title, man
We pronounce the ACCC as the A triple C Falcon, just for future reference. Great vid as always
The ACCC has quite a bit of power in Australia. If you lodge a valid complaint they have ti investigate it and they charge the company they are investigating for the cost of said investigation. Often, just the threat of lodging a complaint will get the company to remedy the issue as it will probably cost less than the ACCC investigation. It's awesome.
Gotta love the ACCC... And the ombudsman's office... Still waiting on that cole/Woolworths case to round up.
Changing thumbnail within an hour is crazy
The “Buy Now” button is legally interpreted in favor of the buyer. Does the consumer “reasonably believe” they buying a license or buying ownership? These are arguments for the lawyers for each side to make. The judge will take into account; past case law, affidavits from the plaintiffs , and the consumer law for that state.
EDIT: In Texas for example the consumer laws are written, interpreted, and applied very broadly in favor of the consumer. And the Texas’s AG office could sue on behalf of all consumers in the state of Texas.
I think when you about to checkout here gonna be long list of agreement that stated its just license and its always been since long ago
@ I hear ya but the arguments against “it’s in the long list of agreement we know you didn’t read” are:
1. What was the consumer expectation at that time the “contract” or user agreement was entered? Did the consumer reasonably belief they were buying the license or buying ownership.
2. What language was used by the store or publisher on the store or in the marketing to give the impression to the buyer that they would have ownership. Hence forever access to the game.
2. Did the consumer have reasonable access to this user agreement BEFORE the transaction was concluded? The classic argument of “it’s in the contract” hold some weight to it IF the consumer had access to the agreement BEFORE the purchase was made.
Edit: before I checkout for an online purchase having access to the agreement helps the case of the publisher. But not so much when people buy physical copies.
This is why the valve website now CLEARLY states that you are getting a revocable license. But trust me, that won’t be enough in the coming years because most license agreements have a term limit. In the future, some states or countries will require the publishers to give a term limit on that license.
Excuse the all caps on some words not yelling just want to emphasis some key language. And I personally have experience on Texas consumer law for over ten years and if some of these publishers get on the Texas AG’s radar it will be extremely interesting.
@@LeoJacobschild As an honest question, do you believe and think that we own our game consoles and disks? Especially in the context of real estate and vehicles where buying a house means you own the house but are still restrained on whst you can do to the land it occupies, and vice versa. As with vehicles, can people modify them in any manner they want and still comply with emissions and all that?
#6: 13:21 it's game corporations exploiting/creating loopholes based on semantics. I can understand a publisher wanting copyright laws in place, but the whole idea of purchasing a license goes way too far.
I've always compared it to buying a print of the Mona Lisa. It doesn't mean you *own* the Mona Lisa but you still get to display the print on your wall.
NFTs were invented exclusively to grift rich people. And i find that 😂😂😂😂😂
Damn it Falcon! Your opening disclaimer was such a missed opportunity to say "I'm not a legal expert [etc.], Im not a LegalEagle or anything! I'm just a Falcon." Or something to that effect😂
😅
Another great video falcon ❤️👍🏻🦊
🤝
😂😂😂 me waking up everyday to watch, just a bird reading gaming stuff
🤝🦅
Falcon on point with the sarcasm in this vid. Very 'tired of this schit' energy.
Starting to show your age young man, I'm with you bro ;)
Little known fact: Steven grew up to be a talking bird on youtube.
15:29 Excellent Conan O'Brien reference!
I remember when MGSV ground zero dropped and it was like 30 bucks…Crazy how devs can put the same amount of content in a game and charge 70 for a base price
Bad example imho. Ground Zeroes was just one level and very little story.
Gameranx might have to change there vids to "Before you purchase the rights to the license to legally play the game until the company takes it away and keeps your money"
lol
Great watch. And interesting to learn about some of these. Hoping we see more and more (not people suing that is) positive and consumer friendly changes. Especially the whole microtransaction and loot box systems need some regulation. Especially for some of the younger gamers being swarmed with constant predatory practices.
Great topic today gameranxs and Falcon is fun dude
🤝🦅
Peak Falcon ❤
Great video guys
Yes! Thank you!
No wonder valve doesn't sell steamdecks in Australia
I had wondered…
As an Aussie, I wasn't even sure what a Steamdeck was...
Looove all the Judgment footage you used in the opening. God I wish we'd get another entry in that series...
The Late Night with Conan O'Brien reference was unexpected but appreciated.
I got UNREASONABLY excited when Falcon name dropped coffeezilla. Like, stood straight up and clapped my hands together. HARD.
Absolutely LOVED the Conan O'Brien reference!!! ❤ ...."in the year 2000" 😂
My cousin has gone through so many joy cons due to stick drift, so the first thing I did when I got my Switch Lite was swap the Analogue Sticks for Hall Effect Sticks. Was more expensive but so worth it.
Let's go Gameranx! Hope you're all good!
We are good. Thanks for asking
😂🤣 Falcon, has been on a roll in the video, had me laughing with tears… “the year 2 0 0 0”…
Dang bro the music at the beginning is a banger 😭 inspired choice by the editor
That conan o'brien year 2000 reference 😂
A rare W for Australia to be sure.
The stick drift thing is a serious issue on all platforms. It's ridiculous. I mean, my PS2 controllers still work like a charm and I put 8 years+ and a very unhealthy amount of time into FFXI into them. Really sad amounts of time. Maybe I got a good batch, but this wasn't an issue for me with anything pre-PS3 era. (Multiple consoles from each brand until I went PS fanboy post 360).
I agree a small dead zone which setting you can adjust would fix it. It's not rocket science and most games don't need pinpoint accuracy.
The licensing thing is annoying, but at least I can unpack my SNES or GameCube and play those. Heck, back in those days the big 3 let you use cheat devices and I will never forgive them for destroying that. It destroyed replayability.
We should sue Falcon for not uploading content 24/7
The joycon stick drift issue can easily be fixed by taping in a thin piece of cardboard on the metal plate behind the joy stick.
There are a few step by step UA-cam videos out there but you need a specific "Y" shaped screwdriver head and have a pair of pliers to disconnect the battery inside the joycon. Saved myself $70
Hey Gameranx got my 2024 UA-cam recap I’m in your 0.5 percent of watchers, I watch your videos 21x the average viewer! Just saying true fan here!
That article called a “Video game” a “Tape”. Pretty sure that reporter had no idea what was going on.
The takeaway is that corporations, in the gaming industry as elsewhere, simply don't give a crap about you and will essentially engage in all manner of anti-consumer practices until and unless they are compelled to change their behavior.
5:36 cover your tail feathers** 😂
4:05 ".....before they ACCCted...."
Nintendo's controller problem is definitely not alleged, i have yet to buy a pro controller or joy cons that lasted more than 3 months without being almost completely unusable for smash ultimate.
Had my pro controller for three years and it still works just fine
Same here, I've had my joycons for like 4-5 years now (they are the ones that came with the console) and they work just fine. I guess it all comes down to being lucky...
Most problem I have with mine is that when the charger port gets dust or dirty or whatever it won't turn on and I can't play it other than that I've had no issues so this is a first and I'm accident prone like a mfer and have dropped it numerous times and still have had no issues
You're probably like my friends who don't take care of their shit. Dorito dust, greasy hands. Just nasty shit. Don't wash their hands, etc. Treating the console and controllers like used rags and go like "fuck (whichever company), they should be sued for shitty controllers and drift!" Like CLEAN YOUR SHIT TAKE CARE OF IT!! Like the state of their room indicates how they will treat their devices and some people deserve to have drift and broken stuff cause bruh you guys don't take care of shit but want to blame the company. Sometimes, it's valid, but fucking shit up within months is on you. My lil bro fucked up my new ps4 controller within a month. When Battlefield 1 came outAnd I was like, HOW?! Dirty hands. Dirty controller. Ect all factors to destroying shit.
@@jsmith3946same.
Nasty cough you have there, Falcon 😃😂
Great video, but I feel like another bird that *does* have legal experience - Legal Eagle - could've been of assistance to good ol' Falcon.
Say I absolutely love the little Conan O'Brien reference:-)
Loot boxes > battle passes
Just make them earnable, and not able to be gained through spending money.
Days without gameranx talking about : metal gear solid, final fantasy,Tony hawk skate or mega-man: 8
I too get people pissed at me when I point out that even back during the physical media days, you were merely licensing the games. I swear that nobody actually read the damn EULAs.
13:36 mispoke, believe you meant to say "makes it seem like govenement good, companies bad" haha
18:25 yes, he promised to refund BUT HE STILL HASN’T (& never will)
Missed opportunity to say “I’m not a legal eagle” 😆
I’m just a bird reading stuff lmao
13:13 I believe PlayStation Network has started saying “add to library” rather than “buy”
Hey falcon acck lol that made my day my way you say it kills me 😂
Showing your age with that Conan O'Brien reference 😅
Here in Australia the "Ack" is typically pronounced as the "A Triple C".
I know this will not be noticed, but with the ACCC we pronounce it like "A triple C" but it was funny hearing them squawk 😂
Giving logan paul the benefit of the doubt is comedic.
Today I learnt volunteer doesn't mean well volunteering.
How the hell do you volunteer for something then sue cause you're not getting paid for volunteering😊
For #5, that's not even strictly a Pokemon GO, or even game issue, the issue was with the people who chose not to respect the park and the property there. ANY event that could draw that many people there would likely have led to the same result. And if they're not capable of tracking down and charging the appropriate people with property damage, that's on them for not doing enough to enforce rules at the park, including any limits on the number of people allowed in.
I wish I could just say "idk, I'm just a bird" to absolve me of any guilt 🤣🤣🤣
Falcon you just they are really good at hustling gamers ,since that's what a lot game developers have done .For at least the longest time ,and I am old school .So I buy my game on disc , while it's still out there .Cause I might want replay again and again .
Wait, you reminded me that I can put in a complaint about not being able to play portal on my Mac because portal isn’t 64-bit
And since we don't actually own the games we buy but instead only own a license to play them, games cost way too much, especially in the digital age. They don't even have to make physical media anymore. If I pay out $60 or $70, I want more than an "okay, you can play it, at least until we shut down the servers." It's a load of horse crap.
In my 32 years of life, i have ever had only one "stick drift ", maybe do not push that stick down like a caveman eating cheesy puffs? Do you also tilt your head while playing racing games? Do you mimic chicken every time you hit a combo in a fighting game? Does your tongue hang out while you need to do something precise? Do you actually scream out loud when jumpscare happens?
Okay maybe a little overboard with these, but i just don't understand the stick drift.
Oooooh maybe it is that i play on Pc... But i used to have consoles?
12:50 you know.. one day they might just put an expiring date on those licenses right? no need to bust your HDD, it will expire on it's own just to make sure you refresh the license or something
Falcon, do more research, there was a phrase on the back of The Crew that said it could be shut down!
A lot of these sound morally valid and righteous but as a lawyer, some of these also sound like abusive class action suits.
The class action game can be extremely dirty and certainly questionable where it ends up that the person who filed the class action gets rich, the lawyers for that person gets rich, regular customers get a pittance at best, and all of us end up having to pay with higher costs for things like games.
Remember, every time you’ve heard a corporation, they pass on the costs to the customers. If you remember that, a lot of these don’t sound like very good deals.
Which is not say that all of them are that way but some of them definitely sounded that way
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Hate to break it to you Falcon, but whatever the insurance company pays has been earned from monthly fees first. Or they earn back the money by raising the fees aftewards. Either way they're paid for with taxes. That's sorta how insurance works.
I really, really wonder how many people got that high pitched year 2000 reference?!?!?!
Logan Paul promised to give the money back, but last I heard, he never did.
Last I heard Logan Paul still has not paid back people for Crypto Zoo.
Hello, Falcon!!
Hey
Hello there!
That Thumbnail!
I mean....Giga-Jim Cornette, right, everybody?
Or Am I Alone On This?
Sup, Team Granx!
I think I realized the not owning anything thing when I found making a copy of your own music CD was illegal even though it was "mine and for myself".
I'm in cali and I should be suing steam for .99 cents. They sold me a broken game and there was no way to know it was broken until you got to a specific spot in the game.
I guarantee they'd pay that 99 cents IMMEDIATELY upon being informed of the suit regardless of what the suit was for.
They don't call Falcon the "Legal Eagle" for nothing =)
Why don't you add subtitles to your videos?
bait and swtich is illegal, REcently a game called Techtonica completely changed the content and world of their game from open world exploration to a puzzle game
The background music was intense
i hear falcon making voices, i hit like.
Even though you did not own singleplayer games you still have right to play it anytime you want without restriction
Y'all needed to shout out Connectix Sony sues AND LOSES changing gaming forever!
"im just a bird reading legal stuff"
so this is a lesson in bird law, got it
To the year two thou-SAAAAND!
(We also got Conan here in Finland)
I would say someone should sue Sony over revoking access to something you legally purchased, but that's already happening.
Damn, u know what ima have to be totally honest, I'm only here for Falcon. "I'm just a Bird"
I popped for the Conan reference lol
I have gaming PTSD because of LJN. So many bad superhero games, among others. To this day when I hear that LJN is involved with a game, I tend to avoid it. I heard their name recently, probably in a Gameranx video. Pretty sure they are still in business, maybe under a different name but it's essentially them.