The Western Gaming Industry is Imploding Because Customers Want Some RESPECT!!

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  • Опубліковано 7 тра 2024
  • The Western Gaming Industry is melting down at a rapid rate of knots. From Games Devs calling for deletion of people that dare speak out against El Corpo to Games Journo targeting those same people's family members.
    It's getting absolutely out of hand as layoffs smash through their very core!
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  • @RussMullins
    @RussMullins Місяць тому +564

    Brought to you by the people who say "There's no room for hate in our community."

    • @cattrucker8257
      @cattrucker8257 Місяць тому

      Keyword "in". Because they consider people outside their ideology club to be unpersons against whom laws and rules do not apply.

    • @craig_z
      @craig_z Місяць тому +38

      Hypocrisy is only bad when the other side are doing it, I guess.

    • @khatdubell
      @khatdubell Місяць тому +23

      They don't believe in wrong tactics, only wrong targets.
      These people would laugh in glee to see someone that slightly disagrees with them game ended.
      In fact, they have.

    • @wadewilson5712
      @wadewilson5712 Місяць тому

      thhe german socialist said the same thing i the 1930s and under advice of a muslim burned and gassed the people they were old to hate

    • @leongay3190
      @leongay3190 Місяць тому

      there's lots of room

  • @YuriBez2023
    @YuriBez2023 Місяць тому +1126

    Don't support companies that hate you and your values. We are the customer - we're not always right, but we have the controlling side of the argument, not them.

    • @SaltpeterTaffy
      @SaltpeterTaffy Місяць тому +35

      Exactly. Until Baskinator is ejected from service as an Arrowhead CM, I will not buy Helldivers 2.

    • @chuckchan4127
      @chuckchan4127 Місяць тому +68

      If all gamers today stopped paying for video games for 3 months, the industry would either bend over backwards for us or collapse over night.

    • @TheDragonLegacy
      @TheDragonLegacy Місяць тому +12

      Glad we are going down this route. Can we start demanding digital rights now or just have the companies come out and say digital is fair game for BOTH parties.

    • @tigrafrog
      @tigrafrog Місяць тому +16

      ..until all games will be subscription-only, online only. Then you will lost all the control. That's why is very important to ignore all subscriptions NOW and encourage other to never use subscriptions.

    • @saladinbob
      @saladinbob Місяць тому +29

      Yes, the customer is _not_ always right, contrary to the old adage, but the customer is _always_ to be respected. No ifs, no buts. If I spoke to my customers like these people speak to theirs, not only would I be immediately dismissed for gross misconduct, I would be blacklisted from any public-facing employment for life. Whether you like it or not, we are allowed our opinions, we are allowed to provide feedback on a product, and we are allowed to complain about what we perceive as poor customer service. By all means refuse to take that feedback onboard but do so in a respectful manner. The customer is not always right, but the customer is King.

  • @semperfi2974
    @semperfi2974 Місяць тому +564

    Even the mafia had rules about going after wives and family members.

    • @danstrikker6465
      @danstrikker6465 Місяць тому

      Thess are troons, I'd trust the mafia every single day of the year to be more stable than these troons

    • @reggie6230
      @reggie6230 Місяць тому +120

      For good reason too. You go that far, the gloves are off and anything goes.

    • @TheyWantMeGone69
      @TheyWantMeGone69 Місяць тому +109

      Fr. People like to call them the alphabet mafia but even the real mafia wouldn't stand for this shit.

    • @carloschristanio4709
      @carloschristanio4709 Місяць тому +43

      Too many gangstas not enough gangsters

    • @corvega_joe
      @corvega_joe Місяць тому +53

      Says a lot when the mafia is more respectful than they are.

  • @lord1todd
    @lord1todd Місяць тому +565

    "husband of her children" WTF?!?

    • @khelom
      @khelom Місяць тому +99

      A complicated family.

    • @DonVigaDeFierro
      @DonVigaDeFierro Місяць тому +131

      She has very bad daddy issues... If that wasn't already evident.

    • @CharlesUrban
      @CharlesUrban Місяць тому +70

      Freudian slip.

    • @Renrogue2446
      @Renrogue2446 Місяць тому +131

      She's afraid of the word father, yet she probably screamed daddy many times in her previous job.

    • @squirrely_wrath
      @squirrely_wrath Місяць тому +56

      daddy issues

  • @gamedude412
    @gamedude412 Місяць тому +506

    To quote Doomcock "With out respect We reject." Companies have forgotten they service the customer because we are customers not Consumers

    • @roadrash2005
      @roadrash2005 Місяць тому +31

      Well people have been behaving like consumers for the last 10 years so that’s why they got that idea

    • @elgatochurro
      @elgatochurro Місяць тому +27

      Based doomcock

    • @jw6588
      @jw6588 Місяць тому

      Somebody tell gamers that so they can keep it in mind. The last 10 years or so they been consuming like retards.

    • @daerovius7535
      @daerovius7535 Місяць тому

      "Without respect We reject."
      Which is exactly why I stopped watching this liar's piece of shit videos

    • @TheatreStyle
      @TheatreStyle Місяць тому +22

      Well said. This is why I cringe whenever I hear anyone unironically refer to themselves as a "consumer". Customers have standards, companies are supposed to be trying their damndest to appease us because we have the purchasing power, not the other way around.

  • @chainsawsubtlety9828
    @chainsawsubtlety9828 Місяць тому +214

    They hate you.
    They take every opportunity to tell you how much they hate you.
    They, somehow, still feel entitled to your money.
    They deserve to reap what they have sown.

    • @user-cs4su3ng9l
      @user-cs4su3ng9l Місяць тому +4

      Why? I haven't done anything?

    • @1986SuperVegeta
      @1986SuperVegeta Місяць тому +1

      @@user-cs4su3ng9lyou don’t worship the same (retarded) ideology.

    • @wrongtime9097
      @wrongtime9097 Місяць тому

      ​@@user-cs4su3ng9lexactly

    • @Dinoslay
      @Dinoslay Місяць тому +7

      @@user-cs4su3ng9l It’s not about what you’ve actually done. It’s about what you are to them, a resource of stimuli. They are merely following their programming, Pavlov’s dogs doing what they were trained to do.

    • @tkps
      @tkps Місяць тому +3

      I don't understand why developer cos or large corps don't vet their staff better. They should at least be signing contracts that if they even once publicly denigrate the customer base in any way they're out on their ears. That it doesn't happen is why they're so emboldened. Kotaku has proven nothing is a step too far for its staff so I assume G/O just expects it to go under if they can't sell it. I think there's only 4 odd employees left.

  • @aeonise
    @aeonise Місяць тому +305

    I've been saying this for a while: the "moral outrage" they claim isn't about any morality. It's about getting to indulge their impulse to do evil, heinous things to "the other" and claim to be virtuous for doing so.
    "Punch a Nazi" isn't about opposing Nazis. It's about wanting to punch somebody. Anybody will do, but calling them a Nazi first gets you cover.

    • @fajile5109
      @fajile5109 Місяць тому +42

      They actually want to beat up their parents but they know they would lose their only home if they did. Notice the 5:04 call against mothers or fathers.

    • @J.B.1982
      @J.B.1982 Місяць тому

      They are sick on multiple levels. I used to be heavily left wing. It’s all varying levels of cult behavior. It’s really a spiritual illness as much as a psychological.

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 Місяць тому +27

      They're looking for a license to bully.

    • @--------RR007----------
      @--------RR007---------- Місяць тому +15

      This is well documented through history.

    • @zeromagnum2811
      @zeromagnum2811 Місяць тому

      They are the actual nazi's as their tactics where the same one's the socialist nazi party used in the initial steps of taking over Germany.

  • @nilpointfive
    @nilpointfive Місяць тому +209

    You can tell that Alyssa hasn’t had any meaningful relationships in it’s life if it thinks that a random email from a greasy stranger is going to turn a man’s wife against him.

    • @smakfu1375
      @smakfu1375 Місяць тому +41

      Yeah, that was my thought. That and my wife would have gone all Taken “I will find you”. My wife is hardcore OG and the last person you’d want to DM talking trash.

    • @Efgand0894
      @Efgand0894 Місяць тому +48

      She's embodies fatherless behavior

    • @Chaoskye
      @Chaoskye Місяць тому +31

      You can also tell that she's most definitely the abuser in whatever situationship she's had.

    • @harbl99
      @harbl99 Місяць тому +16

      Jilted 304 tries to drag the wife into it. Of course she does.

    • @StarboyXL9
      @StarboyXL9 Місяць тому

      @@smakfu1375 Got any good stories?

  • @beowulfsrevenge4369
    @beowulfsrevenge4369 Місяць тому +263

    If what Paul wrote isn't a call for harassment and violence i dont know what is.

    • @makemebad153
      @makemebad153 Місяць тому

      That, along with putting bounties on people's heads, is extremely illegal. But they're liberal so they can say "oh bro its just a prank" but you know if i conservative said "I think we'd be better without you" they'd be calling for blood.

    • @Dragonage2ftw
      @Dragonage2ftw Місяць тому

      99% of what anti-SJW's do is harassment.
      But I bet you don't care about that.

    • @zachrohler1047
      @zachrohler1047 Місяць тому

      The left will never have to face even a shred of consequence.

    • @daskampffredchen9242
      @daskampffredchen9242 Місяць тому +17

      He has a Ko-Fi. You can report him there

    • @Chad6o
      @Chad6o Місяць тому +11

      @@daskampffredchen9242 Thanks for the info, I'm on it.

  • @The_Queen_Chrysalis
    @The_Queen_Chrysalis Місяць тому +80

    Mike Tyson knew what he was talking about, social media made these people forget.

    • @mrcliff3709
      @mrcliff3709 Місяць тому +9

      Wifi gangsters all of them

  • @ministryofwrongthink6962
    @ministryofwrongthink6962 Місяць тому +455

    Game's journalists are pissed asf Sony caved faster than they could write hit pieces against gamers for daring to try to fight them.
    Tbh, they lucked out. It would've been an even bigger L for them if Sony backtracked AFTER the media mocked gamers

    • @tomasz9429
      @tomasz9429 Місяць тому +43

      They're pissed, because they saw it's possible to not act like a doormat for a corporation, and still achieve something. It bothers the urinalist, because he realizes, he had sold his dignity for nothing.

    • @DMaster8686
      @DMaster8686 Місяць тому +20

      @@tomasz9429 They simply hate gamers and would be happy to see us disappear. That's why they are livid that gamers won that battle.

    • @SaltpeterTaffy
      @SaltpeterTaffy Місяць тому +17

      They're also pissed because this battle validates Gamergate.

    • @jasonbaird1645
      @jasonbaird1645 Місяць тому +13

      I used to think sports journalists were the bottom of the barrel. I was wrong. Somehow, gaming journalists are even worse.

    • @duralumin594
      @duralumin594 Місяць тому

      @@jasonbaird1645 Keynesian make-work for those unfit to wield a shovel.

  • @thechuckjosechannel.2702
    @thechuckjosechannel.2702 Місяць тому +696

    If only more companies listened to their customers, oh well, I love seeing the industry burn.

    • @xhagast
      @xhagast Місяць тому +22

      SO many years ago, we were given what we were asking for. A game were we could choose gender, background, looks and orientation and carve a path of our choosing. It was called Dragon Age. And since maybe not everyone liked fantasy, they made a sci-fi shooter, Mass Effect. For a while they kept the money printing machine going but then they stopped like ten years ago.

    • @chuckchan4127
      @chuckchan4127 Місяць тому +20

      Dumpster fires = free entertainment

    • @Brakka86
      @Brakka86 Місяць тому +18

      The 177 regions in Helldivers 2 are still blocked. I might actually make my review negative again. According to the CEO they asked Sony to lift the region bann on Steam, but no.. Sony did not respond yet. We celebrated too soon.

    • @lesserspottedmugwump.363
      @lesserspottedmugwump.363 Місяць тому +6

      I think a certain large investment company has removed financing.

    • @ethandtheangryenglishguy8253
      @ethandtheangryenglishguy8253 Місяць тому +3

      Except for the indie side of the gaming industry because that’s thriving right now.

  • @paultate5213
    @paultate5213 Місяць тому +105

    Which community manager got fired, the one who hates men or the one who hates only white men or the one who hates straight white men or the one who hates all gamers or the one who hates all white gamers or the one who hates straight gamers?

    • @nathanperquin9910
      @nathanperquin9910 Місяць тому +35

      the one who apologized after being told that certain countries couldnt play anymore and then told gamers to keep leaving negative reviews for the sake of saving the game. the ones who never apologized for their hatred of gamers are still there

    • @BootySweat4491
      @BootySweat4491 Місяць тому

      @@nathanperquin9910Yea, it was the wrong one for sure.

    •  Місяць тому +4

      @@nathanperquin9910 Of course, they get rid of one of the good ones.
      Typical these days, any organization becomes a shit creek if any of those sort get in.

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 Місяць тому +1

      The answer: *Yes.*

  • @arkhaminmate47
    @arkhaminmate47 Місяць тому +73

    This is what the entertainment industry needs. A complete collapse. A reset in the highest echelons. An industry that wants it's customers money and placates their fans.

    • @cmc5394oparva
      @cmc5394oparva Місяць тому +15

      All of Western society could use that at this point, to be honest.

    • @bvyup2112
      @bvyup2112 Місяць тому +7

      the good thing about gaming is indie games are great, so AAA could die off and we'd just be in a better situation already

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 Місяць тому

      Pachacuti can't come soon enough...

    • @Geo-proxy
      @Geo-proxy Місяць тому +5

      I just hope, in that instance, that they don't placate "every fan". Generally it's the vocal minority, that know less than nothing about games, and want games to reflect their own moral sensibilities and ideology. I just want to play a fun game.

  • @dennisdouglas5941
    @dennisdouglas5941 Місяць тому +135

    WOW, that guy is Crazy... I hope he gets arrested and does a few years in a federal lockup!

    • @eazygamer8974
      @eazygamer8974 Місяць тому

      You should see him responding to people in the comments on that video. The guy has a serious mental illness and can't understand how sending false information to the fbi is a problem it's cray cray....

    • @c00rey74
      @c00rey74 Місяць тому

      The best outcome that can be hoped for is that the FBI ignores it. If they get involved, it won't be for the benefit of anyone on our side. The organization is nothing more than a political weapon. It has no interest in truth or justice. They have and will investigate people for wrongthink, and they have very deep pockets. They can make your life miserable for years.

    • @misanthropicattackhelicopt4148
      @misanthropicattackhelicopt4148 Місяць тому

      That dumbo even filmed himself doing it to easy win for the FBI.

  • @Impalingthorn
    @Impalingthorn Місяць тому +133

    For those concerned about the Stellar Blade drama, don't be.
    Asian game markets (Korea, Japan, etc) were PAYING ATTENTION as that fiasco unfolded out here in the West and are well aware why it suddenly tanked and why people refunded. Sony thinks they pulled a fast one on us, but they shot themselves in the foot. When THIS is what they do to a game POST LAUNCH and it cripples a dev like it did with Stellar Blade, they aren't going to want to do business with Sony. This paired with the Helldivers 2 phenomenon has made it clear that doing business with Sony is highly DANGEROUS for any IP's dumb enough to sign up with them. Sony is going to lose the independent market and suffer greatly for this.
    At its core, these are anti-consumer practices and once the consumer acquires an animus towards certain practices and companies, their COMPETITION pays attention.
    In the coming years you are probably going to see a lot of corporate speak formed around the idea that "We aren't like THIS company" or "We don't include THESE features". Don't fall for those tricks either. We make these companies suffer and bleed revenue and we do it hard until they gut everything that has ruined this industry; lootboxes, battlepasses, microtransactions in full priced games, early alpha games, generally unfinished games.
    Make it clear that attempts to swindle and penny-pinch the customer will HURT them.
    Oh, and while we're at it, stop playing the field and performing lip service for studios. I see so many people go "Oh, they need more money than ever to run" and "Oh, the devs are so overworked". Yeah. That's called B L O A T. It DOES NOT require many people to make amazing games. One guy was all it took to make Pizza Tower and Lethal Company. It took like 12 college frat boys to make the original Halo: Combat Evolved, a practice continued in companies like No Man's Sky which was made by 12 people expanding to 15 by the end of development (Also for the people that aren't aware, this was another game crippled by Sony and went through a whole anime redemption arc to finish delivering what they originally promised and at no additional cost to the customer. It is GOOD now). These Fortune 500 companies that employ 300 people to one project? They are filling it with BLOAT. Most of those people, like a whopping 96% if my math is right, NEVER EVEN TOUCH THE GAME. Those are DEI departments, advertisers, etc. A lot of people who GET IN THE F---ING WAY.
    So don't play devil's advocate. They don't deserve your trust. Support small studios and devs working for themselves.

    • @soapersmcbubble
      @soapersmcbubble Місяць тому +15

      Well said.

    • @brijor6ff7
      @brijor6ff7 Місяць тому +15

      Hollow Knight was made by an incredibly small team, and it's one of the if not the best Metroidvania ever made.

    • @GamerBoy870
      @GamerBoy870 Місяць тому +5

      Never bought Stellar Blade I refuse to support censorship

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 Місяць тому +4

      Thanks for the white pill. God bless :)

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@brijor6ff7
      Now if only they'd release Silksong...

  • @kdog3908
    @kdog3908 Місяць тому +65

    How dare I have standards. How disgustingly anti corporate of me.

  • @kpsk8031
    @kpsk8031 Місяць тому +114

    Twitter should charge $1.000 per day for a "protected" account. This would end a lot of modern day nonsense immediately.

    • @wariodude128
      @wariodude128 Місяць тому +16

      As a trollfacing Wario, I heartily approve.

    • @doreiko
      @doreiko Місяць тому +5

      I don't know why they even bother, someone always has a screenshot. 😂

    • @fakecubed
      @fakecubed Місяць тому +6

      @@doreiko It's so they can scrub the rest of their account before anyone screenshots the rest of the depraved stuff they've been posting.
      Which is why, the instant one of these people does something like that, we need to start very closely examining all their tweets as quickly as possible and screenshot as many as possible before they lock it down. Start searching for keywords, look through their replies, dig it all up before they realize they just became famous.

  • @gideonhorwitz9434
    @gideonhorwitz9434 Місяць тому +51

    Companies need to stop calling us consumers we are customers

    •  Місяць тому +9

      At this point I would say humanity has become split, we have people like us who are Customers, then you have the morons who are the Consumers.

    • @fakecubed
      @fakecubed Місяць тому +1

      This needs to become a "which way western man" meme.

  • @CaiusNelson
    @CaiusNelson Місяць тому +87

    "how do you feel about your husband harassing people online, woman that I am currently harassing online?"

    • @FogHazard
      @FogHazard Місяць тому +34

      "It's okay when I do it"

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 Місяць тому +15

      ​@@FogHazard
      Hypocrisy is a core "virtue" of their cult. And the ultimate power flex.

  • @fullstackweebdev4855
    @fullstackweebdev4855 Місяць тому +206

    If they send surveys out asking why people aren’t buying their games, I’m just gonna send them the “YOU’RE BORING” video. You summed it up pretty well.

    • @somedeplorable2227
      @somedeplorable2227 Місяць тому +15

      Just send of printed photo of AZ. It'll take care of itself.

    • @ephraimwinslow
      @ephraimwinslow Місяць тому +18

      "I don't want to pay to watch an HR hire put on a branded [COMPROMISED IP] finger puppet just so they can have a good wagging session."

    •  Місяць тому +1

      "SO FUCKING BORING!"

    • @codinghusky5196
      @codinghusky5196 22 дні тому

      We are at a point where online personalities bashing the entertainment industry are way more entertaining than the entertainment provided by the industry.

  • @davidwhidden9337
    @davidwhidden9337 Місяць тому +78

    You know what's an easy way for any Indie Dev to make money? "We want Kotaku to burn and all the urnalists there to never buy our product".

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 Місяць тому +2

      What I'd give for that to become the new industry bandwagon...

    • @KaiNLinda
      @KaiNLinda Місяць тому +1

      if only it was that easy XD

  • @grdoreza
    @grdoreza Місяць тому +230

    Social media is why Earth is quarantined from the galaxy.

    • @stevenmaswabi-zz9kt
      @stevenmaswabi-zz9kt Місяць тому +14

      You don't know how true that is. 😂

    • @lastswordfighter
      @lastswordfighter Місяць тому

      Aliens don't exist. That is Satanic New Age deception and the leftists serve Satan.

    • @battleofwills7189
      @battleofwills7189 Місяць тому +3

      it's tough living in the local bubble

    • @fajile5109
      @fajile5109 Місяць тому +18

      Social media isnt even mentioned in star trek must have been worse then the genetic wars or ww3.

    •  Місяць тому +5

      @@fajile5109 So that is why the Klingons don't talk about their change of appearance. lol

  • @nerddotcom5817
    @nerddotcom5817 Місяць тому +39

    The industry forgot what the 80s was like, they were 'bout due another crash.

    • @tuxedonoir7970
      @tuxedonoir7970 Місяць тому

      The industry today doesn't have the same employees from the 80's. It's now a herd of snobby ass woke twats who haven't held a controller much less a cohesive thought.

    • @kararali379
      @kararali379 Місяць тому

      Even though I would like for that to happen, people are now generally dumber. Due to the extreme usage of social media and the internet, the chance for another video game crash is lower. People just buy everything because it is new, popular or their favorite streamers are playing, with no regards to the actual quality. But still the industry needs to reset.

  • @3Storms
    @3Storms Місяць тому +177

    Customer here. I want good escapist games. Everything is the exact same hack-and-slash or action shooter now. There's nothing really new. It's the end result of everyone using the same standardized engines and tools. Throw in Fink's "you have to force people" narrative where every game has to be a social programming effort to "educate" the gamer on "correct woke thinking" and must be "inclusive" of everyone no matter how stupid and inaccurate it looks.

    • @ephraimwinslow
      @ephraimwinslow Місяць тому +29

      Like every self-important moralist, he has no idea how absurd his diversity pageantry looks from the outside.

    • @gnanaitvara1246
      @gnanaitvara1246 Місяць тому +11

      I have high hopes for Kingdom Come 2. Not as escapist game in the strictest sense, though certainly I plan to escape there.

    • @user-ee7bz3ip2b
      @user-ee7bz3ip2b Місяць тому +15

      I play Palworld with my 9 year old daughter and its a blast. Its full of bugs and uses generic assets but its still fun. The survival genre has a lot of potential to grow in many ways. There are so many different creative angles to take

    • @esecallum
      @esecallum Місяць тому

      DONT forget the ugly looking wumun... or passes for wumun

    • @fightingfortruth9806
      @fightingfortruth9806 Місяць тому +2

      Practically every modern video game is about staring at the butt of super-shooter-sword-girl.

  • @davidnierzwick2775
    @davidnierzwick2775 Місяць тому +28

    COMMUNITY managers need to pay the price for their hate of gamers.

  • @Silent-Watcher4
    @Silent-Watcher4 Місяць тому +20

    Holy hell, those are the same people who tell us we over-react to things we love, while those mfers take it to a whole other level. Jeez.

  • @gamingonamonday6342
    @gamingonamonday6342 Місяць тому +24

    They utterly hate it when gamers actually get their way, or even an ounce of respect.

    • @edwardpaulsen1074
      @edwardpaulsen1074 Місяць тому +2

      Urinalysts: WAH!!! REEEEE!!! That's MY respect you're taking away!!!!
      Meanwhile: The respect was never yours in the first place... only the pity and disdain...

  • @godzilla5599
    @godzilla5599 Місяць тому +19

    Yea filing a false police report is bad ju-ju,not just the FBI but any sort of police...these people are unhinged

  • @SirPreyas
    @SirPreyas Місяць тому +19

    Never forget: We are the customers, we have the power. We are not beholden to these corpos, they are beholden to us.

  • @GIBBO4182
    @GIBBO4182 Місяць тому +175

    Fans* want respect. We’re not just customers

    • @fullstackweebdev4855
      @fullstackweebdev4855 Місяць тому +19

      And we definitely aren’t “consumers” no matter how hard these companies try to normalise that term

    • @elijahherstal776
      @elijahherstal776 Місяць тому +14

      No, we are customers first and foremost. We have money. Money they need.
      We are 'fans' when they give us what we are willing to pay for.
      And don't you dare call us 'the community' because these slimy companies co-opted that (Hence: Community Managers on staff- basically 'handlers')

    • @GIBBO4182
      @GIBBO4182 Місяць тому +2

      @@elijahherstal776 “we’re not JUST customers” arguing semantics over what we are first is irrelevant to the point

    • @elijahherstal776
      @elijahherstal776 Місяць тому +7

      @@GIBBO4182 Sorry, I am not a 'fan' unless they are giving me what I want. Being a 'fan first' is basically saying you are loyal to the brand, and you're willing to tolerate them bending you over. You'll 'forgive' and give them your money.
      At a certain point, they have to learn that we do not have any loyalty to them, we are people with money and they must provide what we want, otherwise we take our money elsewhere- preferably directly to their competitor.
      It's more than 'semantics', it's being firm and being responsible with our money. Otherwise, you're basically willing to take it up the fart pipe from them as long as 'sometimes they make you happy'.
      You become a catamite.

    • @GIBBO4182
      @GIBBO4182 Місяць тому

      @@elijahherstal776 you’re still arguing about what comes “first” 🤷🏻‍♂️ it’s irrelevant to the point!

  • @eddie5525
    @eddie5525 Місяць тому +10

    I love the fact that you called us customers in the title.
    Thank you, we're not just "players" or "gamers" we are paying *customers*

  • @geebeepman
    @geebeepman Місяць тому +37

    "the husband of her children"
    ..
    ..
    what?

    • @Renrogue2446
      @Renrogue2446 Місяць тому +4

      Children are all grown up and are in a polygamy duh.

    • @jonrawkz4064
      @jonrawkz4064 Місяць тому

      She must've accidentally stumbled onto CK2 forum where there's no such thing as incest, only wincest.

    • @VideaVice25
      @VideaVice25 Місяць тому +9

      ​@@Renrogue2446What part of the Rainbow seizure flag is that ?

    • @fakecubed
      @fakecubed Місяць тому +3

      She hates her father, she hates all fathers, she doesn't want to use the word father, she can't use the word father. The word father scares her and causes her to break down emotionally.

  • @gnolly8222
    @gnolly8222 Місяць тому +18

    The word evil should be used sparingly, presented only when truly necessary. This has been one of those times.

    • @rremnar
      @rremnar Місяць тому

      The same with the word "prick", and these corporate and social media assholes are pricks.

  • @canaldecasta
    @canaldecasta Місяць тому +26

    I hope someone said "YOU ARE BORING!" to one of those types of make-belief employees when they got fired.

  • @OldGamer67
    @OldGamer67 Місяць тому +39

    I bet Mercante tried to contact his kids too 🙄🙄 That`s how nuts she is!

    • @whiteroserepublic1699
      @whiteroserepublic1699 Місяць тому +24

      Probably not the first time Mercunte has contacted kids.

    •  Місяць тому +1

      Yeah these sorts have no issue going after kids of people they hate.
      They are just vile.

  • @SnipingIsFun
    @SnipingIsFun Місяць тому +39

    Customers are who give you your money. I think respecting them would be more warranted and wanted. The more you fight against that the more you lose them and thus lose their money.

  • @gladiatorscoops4907
    @gladiatorscoops4907 Місяць тому +39

    AAA outside of Nintendo is a mess. Today I watched a video showing the games released in 2004 - I compare it to now its an absolute shambles. Vote with your wallets ppl, support AA, Indie, VR - That is where AAA games were back in the mid 90's - early 00's in the golden age of gaming. Support innovation and creativity rather than corporate greed and agenda pushing.

    • @jw6588
      @jw6588 Місяць тому +7

      Nintendo is only better by default honestly.

    • @dragonandavatarfan8865
      @dragonandavatarfan8865 Місяць тому +10

      Nintendo is simply the lesser of all the evils. They make decent games but their business tactics are absolute scummy af like never selling their games at a discount, shutting down harmless non-profit fan games, expensive subscription to basically emulate their retro titles poorly and of course releasing limited timed remasters to create artificial scarcity.

    • @archmagemc3561
      @archmagemc3561 Місяць тому +1

      Nintendo is only better because they are behind the times by about 5 years on average. Now it seems when the industry corrects Nintendo will be the woke ones if this holds, but if nintendo manuevors around this and bucks its own trend, it can come out of this pretty well off.
      Now nintendo of america....they have fallen. They censored a fair amount of the new paper mario remake for the US audience ONLY.

    • @archmagemc3561
      @archmagemc3561 Місяць тому +4

      @@dragonandavatarfan8865 Nintendo does this because they have to. Their IPs are the most valuable ones in the industry right now, but they are relatively small compared to bigger corporations like Disney, Apple, Sony, Microsoft, ext... So if they don't come down and come down hard on IP infringement, these bigger companies can use this argument in court to steal their IPs. It sucks for everyone involved.

    • @rikolia
      @rikolia Місяць тому +1

      @@archmagemc3561 they really did not have to crack down on Garry's Mod after "being an IP loss risk" for 20 years

  • @ragnarokandroll2638
    @ragnarokandroll2638 Місяць тому +66

    Between this and Microsoft shutting down several studios, what a hell of a week for gaming huh?

    • @ephraimwinslow
      @ephraimwinslow Місяць тому +15

      Turns out taking your cues on mass market entertainment from joyless Karens is dumb.
      Whodathunk?

    • @chuckchan4127
      @chuckchan4127 Місяць тому +14

      Get woke
      Go broke
      Become a joke
      Tough luck bloke!

    • @Kiryu_Kazuma01
      @Kiryu_Kazuma01 Місяць тому +6

      If game pass wasn’t a thing, it would have forced people to buy the game to play it. Gamepass forces to devs to lose sales then results in what we just saw, closure of studios

    • @osets2117
      @osets2117 Місяць тому +5

      ​@@Kiryu_Kazuma01 And yet hi-fi rush sold extremely well despite being on gamepass

    • @Kiryu_Kazuma01
      @Kiryu_Kazuma01 Місяць тому +4

      @@osets2117 and yet, they still shut down the studio. And they also made The Evil Within 1 and 2

  • @gingergandalf4869
    @gingergandalf4869 Місяць тому +42

    I’m always amazed that kutaku is still operating

    • @ephraimwinslow
      @ephraimwinslow Місяць тому +10

      It's the only name among obsolete game journos that's still halfway recognizable and/or able to bait outrage, so it's kept on an ESG drip feed.

    • @Benjamin_Gellman
      @Benjamin_Gellman Місяць тому

      I call it "Bro Cock Fu."

  • @Alwyn2112
    @Alwyn2112 Місяць тому +11

    Companies that don’t want us to ask questions & just consume products are the ones we have to watch out most for.
    We’re customers, it’s our right to question things if we want to, otherwise they don’t get paid.

  • @BlueBoxRevan
    @BlueBoxRevan Місяць тому +10

    Publishers have one job. ONE.
    Censorship and screwing over customers from having access to their purchases is not one of them.

  • @Dungeonseeker1uk
    @Dungeonseeker1uk Місяць тому +12

    Az & Dankula, the team up we never knew we needed but now know we want it.

  • @HolyXerxes
    @HolyXerxes Місяць тому +36

    People film themselves doing a crime really a classic internet move, what a smart person.

  • @Roundhead75
    @Roundhead75 Місяць тому +14

    I love the way the shills all say " ohh its because of greed and corporate moves , rather than the wokness and hate for men. They literally never mention it.

    • @TheyWantMeGone69
      @TheyWantMeGone69 Місяць тому

      I mean corporate greed and pleasing shareholders instead of customers is definitely there but yes they deny cultural marxism.

    • @zimriel
      @zimriel Місяць тому

      It can be... both. Corporations first go for playing it safe; then they hire Sweet Baby (or whatever) - so that the media don't call them toxic. Then Sweet Baby puts a Habsburg chin on their main female character and makes her gay.

  • @El_Duderino83
    @El_Duderino83 Місяць тому +68

    After being a console player for more than 30 years, Sony's disgusting behavior finally pushed me over the edge to go full PC. Current consoles are underpowered PCs anyway. And since both Microsoft and Sony have been pushing DEI/ESG nonsense and censorship, it was the past weeks that were the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back for me.

    • @Phaevryn
      @Phaevryn Місяць тому +13

      One of us, one of us!

    • @MmntechCa
      @MmntechCa Місяць тому +12

      Welcome to the master race. For me, I was always a PC gamer, but got into PlayStation back during the PS3 era, back when PC was being plagued with a lot of sloppy ports and draconian DRM. I noticed a definite decline even early in the PS4 generation. Lot of the exclusives were boring, fewer in number, and the console shipped with fewer features. That whole business with how the Vita was handled also left a sour taste in my mouth.

    • @k_balu-8104
      @k_balu-8104 Місяць тому +6

      Welcome brotha! You are now one of us!

    • @balthazor44
      @balthazor44 Місяць тому

      Just try not to turn into a condescending ass. Seems to be a thing with (some of) the PC "master race" twats.

    • @GamerBoy870
      @GamerBoy870 Місяць тому +6

      I'm currently saving up for a PC might take me awhile but man is it going to be worth it.

  • @The_Wolfram_Heart79
    @The_Wolfram_Heart79 Місяць тому +25

    Love it. Let them keep talking. Consequences are a mofo 😂

  • @DemonKnight94
    @DemonKnight94 Місяць тому +4

    Even the vanilla disc version of Stellar Blade is censored. 17 outfits, gore and jiggle physics.

  • @ForcePF
    @ForcePF Місяць тому +13

    I gave up on video games as a hobby a couple of months ago, mainly because of all this garbage going on in the industry. Started doing more creative things with my free time. No regrets 😀

    • @soapersmcbubble
      @soapersmcbubble Місяць тому +6

      All this drama has had me considering the same thing. I rarely watch movies anymore because knowledge of the industry kind of took all the magic out of the art form. Same thing is happening with games, so I guess its time to reset the dopamine receptors and read a book or something.

    • @mrcliff3709
      @mrcliff3709 Місяць тому +4

      Yep I went back to reading books.

    • @ethandtheangryenglishguy8253
      @ethandtheangryenglishguy8253 Місяць тому +4

      Meanwhile, everyone’s gone back to the retro old video games and Indie video games because of all the chaos that have happened in the industry recently.

  • @nathanperquin9910
    @nathanperquin9910 Місяць тому +20

    its interesting because the only CM that got fired, is the one that did apologize after some introspection and tried to explain why people should put in the effort to leave bad reviews because it gave AH more ammunition in negotiating with sony, the actual dipsticks that attacked gamers unrepentantly are still there .

    • @k_balu-8104
      @k_balu-8104 Місяць тому +5

      Spitz isn't fired, he was demoted. He is still an AH employee.
      And to be fair i think Baskinator and Misty much more deserving to be fired

  • @DK-wp2rk
    @DK-wp2rk Місяць тому +13

    Wow. The psychos they've hired are going to destroy every one of these companies.

    • @mrcliff3709
      @mrcliff3709 Місяць тому +4

      And they'll deserve it imho

  • @leostenbuck4194
    @leostenbuck4194 Місяць тому +61

    Diversity was always a psy-op to lower the standards of the audience, or rather to replace true gamers with standards with casual ignorant masses that have no standards.
    The only problem: the casual ignorant masses are fickle, and you can't base an entire industry on them.
    Thus, the implosion of the medium.

    • @marcar9marcar972
      @marcar9marcar972 Місяць тому +12

      It’s not the earn money, it’s to enforce cultural change

    • @Renrogue2446
      @Renrogue2446 Місяць тому

      Yup. A loud minority of "potential" players demand their oversensitive standards and have friends take over western corporations. West corps comply, product turns to sh*t, insults their current customers...
      Oh no... what happened... oh no

    • @k_balu-8104
      @k_balu-8104 Місяць тому +5

      @@marcar9marcar972 And to enforce mentally deranged, non normal social ideologies such as the woke agenda, which is technicly part of the cultural change you talked about

    • @falguard
      @falguard Місяць тому

      @@marcar9marcar972 They operate under the delusion that media dictates culture. No; culture dictates media.

  • @psubond
    @psubond Місяць тому +5

    I dont buy modern games anymore. I play old games only now, im done with this crap they are shoveling out ("modern audiences ", buggy broken launches, changing game after launch in a bait and switch like in battlefield 2042). Im just DONE

  • @Mad-Cat_Dan
    @Mad-Cat_Dan Місяць тому +4

    Don't be a *Consumer* who mindlessly buys whatever slop is served.
    Be a *Customer* with self respect and appreciation of good value.

  • @oldsparkyyy
    @oldsparkyyy Місяць тому +6

    The sheer insanity... It's baffling, criminal even... I feel ill because of those lunatics

  • @luket3452
    @luket3452 Місяць тому +83

    Stellar Blade was censored, not buying

    • @conyo985
      @conyo985 Місяць тому +13

      You can circumvent the censoring by buying the physical disc and not connecting the PS5 online.

    • @cookiewithlove2081
      @cookiewithlove2081 Місяць тому +1

      We buy what we love and refund if we can.

    • @luket3452
      @luket3452 Місяць тому +19

      @@conyo985 really? Honestly I don’t even own a PS5, my original plan was to just buy the game anyway to spite the left but when I heard about the censorship I decided not to

    • @conyo985
      @conyo985 Місяць тому

      @@luket3452 Yes. You can watch some youtube streams that have circumvented the censorship and showing the uncensored outfits.

    • @chuckchan4127
      @chuckchan4127 Місяць тому

      👍

  • @grein545
    @grein545 Місяць тому +5

    PSA: Canavan resides in Scotland, therefore he is subject to a recent Scottish hate speech law. Scottish residents can make a complaint against him to police under this law.

  • @crocodilechrism8659
    @crocodilechrism8659 Місяць тому +6

    Spooderderg making a false report about Grummz to the FBI is just him asking for a visit from the karma police.

  • @id2k.
    @id2k. Місяць тому +22

    So will nexus mods ban anything that removes clothes from eve given it could be seen as going against the woke censorship? While they allow everything NSFW for other games.

    • @elezraita
      @elezraita Місяць тому

      Fortunately, nexusmods isn’t the only mod hosting site.

    • @FogHazard
      @FogHazard Місяць тому +13

      Sounds right. Off to Based Mods we go.

    • @Renrogue2446
      @Renrogue2446 Місяць тому

      If nexus goes woke. Someone else will create a moding tool. Nothing will stop some madmen from making a nude eve with nativa blood spilling on her while fighting.

    • @WayStedYou
      @WayStedYou Місяць тому +7

      Of course

    • @c0d3warrior
      @c0d3warrior Місяць тому +8

      @@FogHazard Ahhh, good to know Nexus Mods got stripped of their cancel power. Nature is healing again.

  • @tombstoneranch69
    @tombstoneranch69 Місяць тому +4

    I read books now. Eff the game industry. I spent a LOT of money over the past 50 years on videogames. No more. I won't even pirate them, I'm walking away until yes, we get not even respect, but recognition that the only reason these companies exist is because of our wallets.
    Not sure when they forgot that, but forgot that they did. Let them all go back to working at starbucks, they cooked the golden goose.

  • @Masaru_isamu
    @Masaru_isamu Місяць тому +10

    nice use of Count Dankula right there XD

  • @mattcarper9853
    @mattcarper9853 Місяць тому +3

    Going after families of people you disagree with is a brand new low. Also...this shit is criminal

  • @jwtheis
    @jwtheis Місяць тому +2

    The gaming industry needs to be checked, hard. Their greed and resentment for their customer base is out of control. People who play games aren't making any decisions at these companies.

  • @eazygamer8974
    @eazygamer8974 Місяць тому +4

    The way that guy giggled in the fake report video was so creepy. If you read the comments on that guys video you can tell he is really really unhinged it was scarey.

  • @ravencole2740
    @ravencole2740 Місяць тому +5

    "Without respect, we reject."

  • @StarboyXL9
    @StarboyXL9 Місяць тому +4

    Game devs: "Work together and coordinate an attack"
    Gamers: "Ok." *Work together to destroy Sony*
    Game devs: "Nooo not like that!"

    • @chillnspace777
      @chillnspace777 Місяць тому

      I wonder if a new hack on Sony is in the works 😂

  • @archercolin6339
    @archercolin6339 Місяць тому +5

    Sorry - 'the HUSBAND of her children'? Is she accusing the kids of being in a polygamous marriage to the same man? And this person is supposed to be a journalist whose trade is words?

  • @ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw
    @ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw Місяць тому +7

    Repercussions on false accusations and calling for other people to get 'bubbled' only EVER work one way. Nothing will happen to Paul Scott Canavan.

  • @wightrat1207
    @wightrat1207 Місяць тому +5

    Didn't we see the same kind of false reporting to police during GamerGate?

  • @stevecaldwell8740
    @stevecaldwell8740 Місяць тому +3

    Has Mercunty not stepped across the bounds into harassment now?

  • @namelessbeast4868
    @namelessbeast4868 Місяць тому +2

    The Helldivers' situation shows that we as the CUSTOMER have the power to push back against bad decisions made by these corporations. I'm also liking to see that the reviews for Helldivers 2 are slowly climbing back to "Mostly Positive"(It's at "Mixed" right now). We need to show them that when they make the right decisions, we as the customer will have their backs. Forgive but never forget, gamers!

  • @xenomorphphantom8852
    @xenomorphphantom8852 Місяць тому +2

    That "husband of her children" line tells me everything,the journo is triggered.
    Very.
    She can't even get her ideas right,she is angry as eff.

  • @LordNithilus
    @LordNithilus Місяць тому +100

    Up to this point console gamers deserve their industry if they don't admonish companies for treating them like paypiggies.

  • @DoodsUnited
    @DoodsUnited Місяць тому +6

    I don't like having to say it, dood, but that is what made 80s and 90s and to some extent early 2000s gaming superior because there were no dumb casuals throwing cash at the most predatory monetisation scams and so we had completed games we actually owned. Now we can never go back to that.

  • @butters-vs-chaos
    @butters-vs-chaos Місяць тому +2

    Always remember - we are customers NOT consumers.

  • @donquixote2072
    @donquixote2072 Місяць тому +1

    Unhinged... these are the same people who tell you to "touch grass" when you call out crap in your games and movies.

  • @LordFoxxyFoxington
    @LordFoxxyFoxington Місяць тому +4

    How the hell do these lunatics think they're the good guys?

  • @RollDiceTakeNames
    @RollDiceTakeNames Місяць тому +6

    Your commentaries are so on point. Keep up the great work!

  • @user-cv6rl2qy1g
    @user-cv6rl2qy1g Місяць тому +2

    The funny thing is that no one is silencing these games journalists, the DEI consultants, and the bot Twitter mobs. They are silencing themselves.

  • @torsten89
    @torsten89 Місяць тому +3

    The Count Dankula clip tickles me every time 😂😂😂.

  • @Shino2288
    @Shino2288 Місяць тому +3

    Count Dankula is the new Jeremy Clarkson's "Oh no, anyway" meme 😂

  • @adamcartrette4037
    @adamcartrette4037 Місяць тому +4

    SmashJDT should get a lawyer. He could file a lawsuit against Alyssa Mercante and Kotaku. He could go down as the one to final slay Kotaku.

    • @mrcliff3709
      @mrcliff3709 Місяць тому

      What needs to start across the board. Start suing when these shits attack see how fast they get shut down

  • @johnny718bravo
    @johnny718bravo Місяць тому +1

    "I did not post that tweet you totally saw me post."
    These people are mental. The Paying Customer wins one and they lose their minds (and in some instances their jobs).

  • @DeusMachina_EXE
    @DeusMachina_EXE Місяць тому +1

    Spitz was also the CM that said to "Keep putting negative reviews and filing refunds. It gives Arrowhead more say in the negotiations." He has confirmed that is why he was fired too.
    The other CMs who has preformed Libel (Saying Mark Kern is a PDF file and grapist) and being more vocal for their disdain for gamers are still there.

  • @cardboardbox5028
    @cardboardbox5028 Місяць тому +7

    Danks oh no is great with anything

  • @TealNationEnt
    @TealNationEnt Місяць тому +4

    I hope she doesn't expect him to be the husband of her children.

  • @matt80_s
    @matt80_s Місяць тому

    They need to start defamation and harassment lawsuits against these pos.

  • @rosetodaro5081
    @rosetodaro5081 Місяць тому +3

    I didn’t even open my copy of stellar blade and returned it.

    • @G360LIVE
      @G360LIVE Місяць тому +1

      The first run of physical copies were uncensored. If you had one, you could've just played it offline, without applying the update that censors certain things.

  • @rustyshackleford6533
    @rustyshackleford6533 Місяць тому +4

    you're wrong about this the community manager that was fired was the one that told customers to negative review helldivers the one that accused people of sexual assault is still working as a cm

  • @ShweeksieOnYouTube
    @ShweeksieOnYouTube Місяць тому +2

    Dear game devs, remember you work for us, we pay your wages, sort your shit out.

  • @rhast57
    @rhast57 Місяць тому +1

    They fired the one CM who apologized for his ignorance and seemed to actually care about the community....

  • @elusivemayfly7534
    @elusivemayfly7534 Місяць тому +6

    Why do the journalists oppose Sony’s decision? Wouldn’t anyone want everyone globally to play if they want?

    • @Renrogue2446
      @Renrogue2446 Місяць тому +14

      Are you out of the loop? They literally dislike gamers. They are not journalists.

    • @dkindig
      @dkindig Місяць тому +7

      Because every win for based gamers goes against their long-term social agenda.

    • @elusivemayfly7534
      @elusivemayfly7534 Місяць тому +1

      @@Renrogue2446 I was just hoping they had SOME reason other than animosity. That is so awful. I can’t understand having a job where you hate most of your prospective readers

    • @elusivemayfly7534
      @elusivemayfly7534 Місяць тому +1

      @@dkindig Even they won’t like living in the world they’re trying to build. I’m glad the gamers won this one!

  • @dbudmartin
    @dbudmartin Місяць тому +3

    On point as usual Az. But more importantly, where is the MILF Manor 2 video that I'm dying to see you make?

  • @vaporjoes
    @vaporjoes Місяць тому +2

    The gaming industry is imploding because its by design. Anything we go to for entertainment is like this.

    • @KratostheThird
      @KratostheThird Місяць тому

      TV, Comics, Movies, etc. Even tabletop D&D.

  • @Penncentral-vr6mg
    @Penncentral-vr6mg Місяць тому +2

    With games $60 a piece and things getting tighter and tighter you better be make S+ tier level blockbusters and not mediocre crap

  • @mikigameplays
    @mikigameplays Місяць тому +3

    Journalists always hated gamers

  • @IronDragon-2143
    @IronDragon-2143 Місяць тому +3

    I'm still playing a part in a boycott of GW.
    I'm buying a 3D printer to create my own models, I'll write and print my own codexes and rule books for the factions, and I'm going to learn how to make my own website dedicated to gatekeeping Warhammer from idiotic ideas like identity politics and DEI.
    Who's with me?

    • @legio-IV-Cataphract
      @legio-IV-Cataphract Місяць тому +2

      I'm with you brother

    • @IronDragon-2143
      @IronDragon-2143 Місяць тому +2

      ​@@legio-IV-Cataphract Praise and glory be to the God Emperor of Mankind!

    • @Klongu_Da_Bongu
      @Klongu_Da_Bongu Місяць тому

      @@IronDragon-2143 I prefer giving my soul and will to 4 floating reality tumors, but I think we're on the same side...

  • @fwungy4285
    @fwungy4285 Місяць тому +1

    Why did Sony care about forcing people into PSN accounts? Especially given that many of the customers couldn't even do it.

  • @The_Slavstralian
    @The_Slavstralian Місяць тому +1

    The thing that pissed me off was their arguement " We need PSN because it lets us ban people " Sorry Sony it worked fine while you had issues with it. Saying you need it all of a sudden after not using it ( PSN linking ) is just a blatant lie.

  • @ChaosFraktal
    @ChaosFraktal Місяць тому +3

    Currently it seems finally masses are moving and acting to throw all that nonsense out of the window. If there's some way to cancel all those Alyssa Mercantes, Jamie Marchies and whatever Gizmos i'm all into it.