"You can't get them to spend money if they are actually playing together, make them fight each other, matchmake unfairly and display the premium guns that the losers were killed by." - Quite ethical business strategist at [insert favorite AAA-publisher here]
@@Haan22 Similarly to how they could have just made free cheat codes in Dead Space 3 that would give resources to those so called "mobile users" who are like "I need this now" "I want this now" if their goal was really what they said, but that wouldn't make them all the money in the world. Yet somehow you still see people defending these companies who blatantly lie like this.
with only ONE COPY of the game? And give the second player a free ride? Remember when microsoft wanted it so you couldnt even watch a movie if kinect detected a second person in the room?
Unlimited profit at all costs, whether legal or moral has been present in humanity for a long time. Entire Nations have been founded upon this one principle.
The term "whale" comes from casino jargon! Where's the argument that micro-transactions aren't gambling, when they are literally using the terminology of that business?
To be fair, the term microtransactions could Apply to simply buying a cheap indie game digitally and even p2w microtransactions can be honest, you can spend the money on actual things you know youre gonna get by your own choice rsther than some random rng.
Then you have Konami who make slot machines and pachinko games for brick and mortar casinos... Makes you wonder what other publishers and dev outfits do the same, and try to hide it.
@@salsaandbrwx1449 That's not how the games work :) Most of them don't even offer good 'direct to buy stuff' anymore. The awesome shit is in the Slotmachines - I mean lootboxes. And yeah. Using Casino-terms should be a wakeup call for the law-making bafoons. Just watch the legendary "make players into payers " speech Jim showed here in full. It's amazing how few fecks are given about us customers x)
"People want social games!" The kicker is I actually do want some games to be social. I want social games like they were 10-12 years ago. I remember fondly the days of Halo 3 and Reach, Gears of War 2 and 3, and Modern Warfare 1 and 2 when my friends and I would play and holler at strangers and the strangers would holler back at us. I remember the time when I was 16 playing MW2 talking to a marine that got back from Afghanistan and how cool that was. I remember the time I and other gamers helped a kid in the lobby going through a depressive episode and how heartwarming it was despite how terrible gamers can be. Man those were genuinely great times! You really don't see that much anymore. It's so silent. So yes, as an extrovert I do want social games. The Boss Tweed gaming industry doesn't want that. They want it where if I'm playing RDR2 or Witcher 3 I can be perpetually harassed by others to play a game I do not want to play or buy things I don't want to buy. They want a game where I'm encouraged to spend money and harass others to spend money. That is NOT social gaming. That is a pyramid scheme.
They wonder why sales are "below expectations"...it's because there's a difference between what they believe and what reality is like, they have a severe psychological defect which blinds them to that fact.
Grumpy old bastard here. For me, socializing in video games is a drain of the mental energies that hobbies (such as video games) are supposed to replenish. I play games to escape people, not to be bloody surrounded by them and have them come in and just ninja my god-damn quests out from under me (forcing me to wait until something respawns or whatever). Couch modes? Hell yes. But that's not what's happening here, is it? AAA gaming is a fucking joke anyway - and that's when the games actually friggin' work, which is a whole other topic and *don't even get me started on that*. Thank fuck for indies, and - of course - for Jim Sterling.
Sustaunable unless you burn down the rainforests for grazing lands, or you factory farm them and only feed them corn and they fart out greenhouse gasses. There is no ethical consumption of microtransactions (except maybe Path of Exile or Warframe...)
6:22 Imagine unironically calling people "whales" and "super-whales" at a talk like this. The way these people de-humanise their customers is nothing short of disgusting.
De-humanizing your enemies is often the first step any leader takes, because it allows those that work below you to stop seeing their techniques on them as inhumane. This is manipulation tactics used in warfare being performed so casually in the game industry. Says a lot about how it is these days, doesn't it?
In crime it is called 'neutralization' you are trying to convince yourself you are not a bad person for hurting these people. They deserve this. It is a common thread in business and politics these days, dehumanize then destroy.
@@charlesmelenyzer8919 yeah I have heard about that tactic. It's easy to do something terrible if you have a distinct disconnect from it. Giving it a label that would make it inhumane or inhuman gives you this.... I hesitate to say "reason", but excuse is too weak a word. The technique just seems to flip the right switch more often than not... and people do what you want like you intended.
meanwhile there are children who are literally bullied at school for being "default" skin in the hottest games. That's what these companies want when they want social interaction, peer pressure
The funny thing is I’m sure everyone will say blame The parents or blame the teachers. Here’s a better idea how about we blame the media for commercializing everything. Have you ever Seen someone bullied because they don’t have the cool clothes or because they wear off brand basketball shoes while the cool kids have Jordans or they must be inferior because they still have a hand me Down iPhone 4 instead of a brand new iPhone 12. We have been okay with allowing bullying to be a consequence Of not being rich because the rich can make money by parents caving In and buying things to keep their kid from being bullied. The goal Of the corporations is to teach people if you don’t spend money on our flashy thing your kid deserves To be bullied. The schools aren’t going to stop the bullying because when they try to stop it the teachers get in trouble so the teachers just give up and let the kids be bullied. Why don’t someone create legislation to try and stop the bullying simple because the legislators are in the pocket of the corporations that make money from people just giving in and buying the thing so their kin don’t get punched. And then the bullies get a new batter thing and the cycle repeats and your kid now needs your money for another flashy don’t bully me token.
It makes me ill. I hate the feeling that "someon else" is in my living room, when I'm trying to de-stress from work. I now only play singleplayer games, like Bloodborne, Mario Galaxy etc.
Romantic Outlaw I gotta wonder who thought doing the weird live action Cats movie was a good idea. Seriously that had “animated Disney musical” written all over it. Then again Disney just wants to remake shit.
lol comical funny i wonder if they shiver from from that frostburn. will they left with thier tongue stuck out or be clever enough to fix it with a little spit shine.
"My point is that we can't do what Facebook does half as well as it does, and frankly sir, we've had multiple years of flops; we dont even make games that well. Plus, every other company is doing the same thing and so there is so much competition we will almost certainly have more flops." Android Wilson: "you're fired."
Gaming Industry says: "Gaming is social! It's what humans need! That's why we provide it!" Gaming Industry means: "A social environment creates peer pressure and the need to impress others, because a social hierarchy exists now. We can monetize that pressure"
When people say gaming is social, they mean it's fun to play co-op with a sibling or make a new friend while getting help to run a dungeon or a community-created map. If the "social" part of playing video games is simply to keep up with the Joneses and have my character tricked out with all the pricey mounts and armor and whatnot, then I'd rather not play OR I won't spend money. I don't think I'm speaking out of turn when I say a great part of the appeal of video games, in theory, is that we can escape that sort of shit by being almost guaranteed a reward of some sort for our dedication and personal skills. The way it should be is that we pop into a lobby, look at someone's decked-out armor and mount and say "Wow, this person put a lot of time into this game, and look how far they've gotten. One day that could be me, if I try my best" or "Wow, that person is lucky as fuck with the RNG". Instead my reaction is "Fucking P2Ws ruin everything".
@Vorname Nachname Sad but true. Luckily one of the only good things from the coming massive recession/depression around 2020 is a lot to most of these companies will go belly up. Not much of a consolation considering another across the board decrease in quality of life for most of us like the last time, but hey, its something I guess.
Right I have such a back catelog the only games I buy new are the single player games often times the quirky indie titles, ones like sinking city and hell blade just in a effort to support such ideas.
Don't really have to stick to "older" games. There are still newer games out there that sticks up to day one dlc standards only(because god forbid a game that doesn't have a day one dlcs nowadays, early access indie games included.) EDF5 on steam is one good example. Just cause I'm addicted to it for a week now...
If they want to give players "choice", why not just include cheat codes, or an option for infinite items? It makes their microtransaction argument dead in the water.
@@nickclark1815 would say justified impatience. I mean If the game is made super grindy AF and with timers that go over 24 hours... Am not saying paying to skip them is good tho. That crap shouldn't be there in the first place.
@@MagicDragonesk Funny you'd mention that. Dead Rising: OTR actually had honest-to-goodness cheat codes as paid DLC way back in 2011. Fred Dutton of Eurogamer pointed this out, and even Jim Sterling made an old video about it. www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-09-capcom-sells-dead-rising-otr-cheats-as-dlc
I only play a few games that have multiplayer options. And even then, rarely do I engage in playing with others. Maybe a co-op shooter like the Borderlands franchise or building a community in Minecraft. The rest, if it doesn't have a robust and quality single-player experience with an engaging story and fun gameplay, I won't spend one thin penny for it. And microtransactions? We used to call that Nickel and Diming someone, IE, greedy bastards finding ever more excuses to take money they didn't earn.
This is why I’m still annoyed that to play Diablo 3 I have to be logged on constantly. I loved Diablo 1 and 2! Let me play single player! In the meantime I’m just gonna play Skyrim or Sragon Age Origins for the 4000th time...
Not to mention, the famous Megalodon reached such a Goliath size, by turning to large baleen whales as its primary food supply. Yet ironically, it is believed that Megalodon went extinct because it simply became too massive and specialized for its own good. It apparently began to starve itself out of existence, once sudden climate change and continental drift drastically decreased the amount of large blubbery whales available for it to hunt. Coincidentally, the mobile market and TRIPELAAAY industry attained unsustainable growth and have raked in billions of dollars, by almost exclusively targeting “whales” with their predatory microtransactions. Now it is almost a continuous struggle just to keep earning more money for investors and shareholders, and governments around the world are finally starting to catch on to these microtransactions as we have. If loot boxes and pay-to-win mechanics get banned, and these companies suddenly cannot ensnare “whales” nearly as much, then their golden goose will be removed. Hence they are doing everything they can to prevent the “legal climate” from changing. The one key difference is that these “Megalodons” are creatures that I wouldn’t mind seeing go extinct.
@@markcobuzzi826 Sharks are my number one fear in the world next to the ocean, but even I feel sorry for the Poor Megalodon. AAA industry though? They can go extinct for all I care. They are horrible people.
Social interaction isn't a bad thing when it's genuine, but the kind of interaction promoted by social media and, all too often, games as well is shallow and meaningless.
Exactly. They don't want you to make friends or have a good time with other people. They want you to look at the "Epic Gear" that the other guy is wearing with envy so that you'll spend money to keep up with the Joneses. A kind of social interaction that is only detrimental and toxic.
Yeah it isn't about interacting with people, that is what I was doing with games like SOCOM on my PS2 and the early Xbox Live games. Now a days it's all about getting harassed by random strangers who never speak a word to you so you feel a need to buy the stuff they harassed you with.
I don't want social interactions in my video games. I get all my social interactions at work, thanks very much. I don't do twatter, skullfuck or anything like that. I hate multiplayer games because people are twats. I want a solid single player core game with occasional coop . Multiplayer should always be side dish, not the main course.
ohh i can appreciate a coop game with a friend or collegue... but when a game forces me to interact with total strangers or spam my facebook friends with stupid "come play this crappy game with me" pop ups in order to progress through the game yeah...that ticks me of. but mehh sometimes i check them out but i am really surprised that people actually spend so much money in those cheap crappy farmville games XD and this is coming from someone who is really impatient when playing a game ^_^ but i would never even consider wasting real cash on those cheap shitty mobile games...
I’d prefer Ultron to Andrew Wilson. Not only did he have personality, he didn’t consume and trick people into joining forces with him and then killing and eating them. Unicronic arts....
Yes Android Wilson, Social Networking in video games is so important! That must be why some of the biggest games this year have been single-player games.
I like how Robo-Wilson doesn't say how players "keep playing the game with friends", it's "consume the content together". Maybe Andrew's one of those Aliens from They Live.
@Hardcore Gamer This is why Barrens Chat was ahead of its time in pre-battlegrounds WOW. We hated everyone equally no matter if they were (/channel R Lee Ermey's torrent of slurs here). Well, everyone who wasn't Horde (but also Horde too because we knew we were worse than everyone else combined).
Oh sure people want social interaction in games, which is why The Witcher 3, an offline single-player game, has been among the top-selling games on Steam for 4 years in a row.
my thoughts exactly XD and how did God of War even become such a widely recognized masterpiece by both critics AND gamers alike?... there isn't even online multiplayer or loot boxes ermmm "surprise mechanics" in there -.-
But if people don’t want social games, why do we hate the epic store for having weak social features in games, while having exclusives? If the social functionality doesn’t matter, why does it matter which launcher you use? Because most of the beef I have seen against epic store was that it lacked the very features everyone here’s saying they don’t need. Wasn’t that also the beef with the Bethesda launcher?
@@IAmAnEvilTaco it wasn't just the weak social features, it was an amalgamation of bad publicity, making games exclusive to the epic store, and utter disregard for the people they claim to care about Also, why did you shoehorn epic in this episode?
@@IAmAnEvilTaco First, people do want social games - but only in addition to normal games, not instead of them. Second, social features of a marketplace have nothing to do with social gaming.
when they say they want 'social interaction' what they really mean is they want 'peer pressure' to buy their overpriced bollocks on the cash shop and their lootboxes. Little billy next door has this really cool skin, you see him walk around in game wearing this really cool skin. this means Little bill is really cool. dont you want to be really cool like Little billy? oh and no one wants to play with a super uncool person like you, you need to be really cool like Little billy. visit the cash shop today!
@Greig91 Personally, I like playing dress up in games (I typically spend half of my game time on character customization) and I think that's my crux when it comes to online spending. I'm not there to try and impress anyone if my character happens to have a rare skin. I just want my character to wear whatever I think looks cute, dapper, or funny, regardless of other players' input. If the default skin goes well with something I bought or played to earn as a reward, I'll probably pair them together if that's what I'm feeling that day. Paying more respect to people who don't bother with cosmetics seems like a misunderstanding of the reason why some others may bother at all with it, but that's just my -small essay of personal introspection- two cents. I realize of course that there certainly are try hards out there and a lot of gross elitism within these games, but those people generally aren't very fun to play with in my experience.
Honestly,Why do these 30-45 Dudes want? They will totally Rob the dead if they had cash on them. BUT THERE JUST STEALING MONEY AND THEN SPENDING IT TO MAKE MORE MONEY STEALING SCHEMES! LIKE WHAT THE FUCK! SPEND IT ON A CAR! OR A HOUSE! YOU FUCKING IDOTS! THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW TO USE MONEY!
and then the game will force you to "socially interact" which is in reality "spam your other friends with annoying messages in the hope they can hook people with addiction issues and turn them into piggy banks" in order to even get ahead in the game instead of being stuck on your small starting area with crappy useless shit
Let me tell you. Overwatch reddit: "If you're doing solo queue you're just asking to be paired with crappy players, you have to go with a 6-man team, the game was engineered for that." An online competitive FPS with a matchamaking based on a complicated (albeit very crappy in the result) algorithm that should measure skill and pair people based on that. Because fuck yeah, I *NEED* friends that play the same game to enjoy said game. Of course.
I can't even listen to them anymore when I come back and watch/listen to any eps with them in them. I end up getting so furious not just at the presenter, but that no one in the audience isn't getting up and just screaming out how horrible it is
He had me in tears from the moment he started narrating the interview in that robotic voice and once Dalek started to creep out from the corner I had to put my laptop away in order to gasp for air. Andrew Wilson also reminds me of Patrick Bateman. But this is just as gold.
@@johnnypatterson7512 That will never happen. People are way too engaged with mobile and casual gaming for corporations to ever go back from the revenues that they create now.
those days were so long ago that you forgot that games were only 49.99$ , until the 360/ps3 when they all went up to 60. not only did you get the whole experience, but it was also cheaper, and ps2/3 online was free like pc
@@thegamegarage69 For PS2 you did have to buy an add-on for internet but I suppose that's not really anyone's fault. The PS2 had just not been desogned with online multiplayer in mind.
Ironically, I believe, the term whale for big spenders comes from the gambling industry. If the game industry starts "comping" whales with small perks like the equivalent of hotel rooms like the casinos do, we know how closely they are learning from that industry.
They do. Every game keeps track of their whales accounts. If a whale sends an issue to technical support they will get a good outcome even if the issue at hand (like a technical problem) can't be fixed they will usually get comped either in game currency or items from the in game stores.
Free to play games do stuff like this a lot. Like if you used to spend but stopped, they will notice this and everyone over you a "free gift" or a one time only discount. Not to mention the games start free from the beginning which is the same as when a casino gives you a few chips for attending a show or something.
Unless it's with the bois, I play video games, to NOT interact with people, even if I'm playing with other people, I usually don't get involved in the social aspect.
Your videos about microtransations/lootboxes should become a lecture at school. Young generations and people need to get informed in general about this. I even dare to say that you should get an education award for your work in this matter. One cannot stress enough how important your work is and I am sure that you helped out many people with raising the general awareness about this topic!!! Thank you.
I know where you're coming from. But lets say that kiddies get to watch some of Jim (fuckin) Sterling (son) in class, and SUDDENLY the pog-fucker shows up... You know the one that fucks pogs 😂 or the Cereal humunculo delivers "pre-milked" cereals 😨
They should probably teach kids how to cook, clean, pay bills and manage emotions too. All sorts of crap you need to know doesn't get taught at school when you really think about it.
Wow how to exploit addictive personalities hmm that sounds like a casino. At least with a casino they give you a nice room and special treatment what does a game give you? Digital currency?
I honestly hate Facebook and Twitter. That's why I always loved video games... because video games are NOT Facebook or Twitter Edit: Or Snapchat, or Instagram, or Tik Tok, or whatever else is social media.
@@always_serpico I actively try to get away from UA-cam. One day I will succeed. I hate-love it and I don't want any more, but every time I need to learn something I end up on a tutorial video and that little red number on the bell grabs me by the eyeballs again...
@@skyeplus Facebook sells everyone who uses cookies, even those who don't have explicit Facebook accounts. They scrape everyone's information from other sites without consent and assign everyone an advertising ID. Zuccy is fucky.
I've abandoned games that required a certain number of "friends" in order to advance. Aviator was fun until they changed it to require a certain number of fellow players.
Jim, please always take care of your health my man. Nobody can really fill your shoes, and we just need someone relentlessly fighting back against this industry bullshit. Keep doing what you do, Jim.
If I want SoCiAl EnGaGeMeNt, I would rather play with people I know, and play something more intimate like a co-op campaign, not go out and scream with randoms who's momma is bigger.
As someone with social anxiety, this dynamic the gaming industry is taking really really blows. I find myself playing older games that don't have some forced DRM or online only horseshit
Yup, I'm HFA and I've more or less given up on my PS4 because virtually all the games around demand social interactivity. Perversely, I find myself playing Warframe because it never demands interaction but rewards playing publicly. I get a little buzz out of helping strangers out, even if talking to them is difficult.
Same boat mate, I think I’ve played maybe 3 recent games I’ve mostly been playing ps2 era games recently and boy do I miss not having micro transactions shoved in my face every couple of minutes
As much as I've been following the dumpster fire that is the AAA industry, I haven't seen any of this b.s. first hand 'cause I've moved over to indy or "AA" style games that are largely unaffected. There's tons of games coming out this year and the next that aren't out for your wallet, unfortunately it takes a little digging to find some good ones that appeal to your tastes.
Reminded me about "People as things, that’s where it starts.” “Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes . . .” “But they starts with thinking about people as things . . . ” from Carpe Jugulum
@ gator007 So true, though! We humans are nowhere near as advanced as we think we are. And some things, we just straight up make worse by our constant meddling.
Dude where do you work, I love my store. I mean Vons hasn't treat me that badly. I mean 8 hour shifts do kill your legs and I'd like 15 minute breaks rather than 10 but at least they're still paid.
@@crackingbreznuts3343 Oh, I work at an independent chain that runs throughout Alberta. They refer to employees nipping off of shrinkage as "grazing", among other things.
"The Socially acceptable way of behaving in your game, should be paying"... "The Socially acceptable way of behaving in your game, should be paying"... "The Socially acceptable way of behaving in your game, should be paying" "The Socially acceptable way of behaving in your game, should be paying" "The Socially acceptable way of behaving in your game, should be paying" "The Socially acceptable way of behaving in your game, should be paying"
Mother: "You need to get out and meet people instead of saying inside playing video games all day!" Kid: "BUUUUTTT MOOOOOMM! This is me going out and meeting people!"
Too bad Warframe already exists and is controlled by a small tight band of developers rather than a huge mega Corp. . . Never mind, that is actually f-ing great.
@@devaunbeats you win in warframe by getting friends to grind loot with. you get friends by impressing people woth your character's appearance. to do that you need fancy skins. you can buy these skins. case closed
devaunbeats You knows Warframe has a new frame every 3 months at an $80, $50, $20 package. Sure you can do it all Free, but to keep up with the Jones it’s gonna take cash and crazy amounts of hours to get all the research completed.
EA: I struggle with the concept that we're a bunch of bad guys, and called nasty things. The Effing Public: Then stop treating us like animals who are there to be basically butchered! On a more serious note: When I was growing up I learned that killing whales and dolphins was bad and that these animals need to be protected and preserved. That those who targeted whales and dolphins were the most heinous of people and were in the same category as people who poach tigers, elephants, and gorillas. Yet to these people, treating humans (to some the highest order of most sacred life) as dolphins and whales (something also held as sacrosanct) and then both these things are ripe for exploitation? How much more dehumanizing can a company get?
The contempt that this guy Jorgen actually has for gamers is breathtaking - calling us whales. He thinks we are like the humans in The Matrix to be milked for anything they can get.
Really it's the gambling industry that came up with the term, for players with lots of cash and are easily addicted to games. They've been milking their players for far longer, and now the gaming industry is using the same tactics. Yes, it's extremely offensive and de-humanizing...and honestly, that's the point of it. They don't want to feel like their customers are people, they want to remain distant and only look at the ridiculous profits that flow in.
And sadly, he's right. Sure, most people playing these games can resist (and even more people can just not play them in the first place), but they're going after the most vulnerable.
I regret to inform you dearest sir that "arena" is not actually in Pittsburgh, that's in DUNBAR, slightly over an hour SOUTH of Pittsburgh, and is in reality the sad remains of the closed-down movie theater in a mall I spent far FAR too many years roaming around and shopping in back before it became a glorified flea market in more recent years. Fortunately, you will also apparently be in town in time for the last day of the Fayette County Fair, the fairgrounds are literally right down the road at the next intersection of the highway from the mall, so there's that to enjoy while you're there. (PS- the address of the mall may say Lemont Furnace, but that is indeed all part of DUNBAR, a town you will likely never see because it's over the hill beyond the fairgrounds in a little river valley and looks a bit like one of the towns in Fallout76, but nicer.) I wish you a safe journey and may you enjoy your adventure to the mountains of southwestern PA.
I find people I deal with IRL to be the absolute worst. But then, people online or in games aren't much better. I just don't have to deal with them as directly. ;p
Kids are pressured and bullied to spend money on micropayments because you don't want to look like a "default". It's a huge problem in Elementary Schools over here as well.
RokushoTheRavager It’s more like the video game equivalent of instant ramen noodles. It’s not that great, yet it will keep you satisfied for a bit, but it’s ultimately bad for you in the long run. This is coming from someone that was curious about Fortnite the day he got a Switch.
@@jbreitz87 1. Kids don't have money, their parents do 2. Video games can be just as addictive and predatory as nicotine/nicotine industry 3. I would rather be addicted to nicotine (a stimulant similar to caffeine) than be addicted to Fortnite lmao
For real? That's terrible. I feel so old, when I was in elementary all I had to worry about when it pertained to video games was if someone had Pokemon Red to see if I could trade someone my Pinsir for their Scyther......
Try Rimworld -- a game that require a 2000-hour obsession for six months before decide the game sucks. (I kid, it's just one of those "That game sucks. And I should know, I've got 2000 hours logged..." experiences.)
On top of what you mentioned, I sometimes wonder if part of the reasons they are able to dupe people into believing social gaming is the future is that old misconception that gamers are secluded, don't interact with others, don't have friends, etc... and by making social gaming they are trying to nab people who want to prove others wrong. Wouldn't' be the first time companies used existing social misconceptions for social engineering.
Ah loot boxes. Don't we just love the encouraging of addiction in trade of money out of greed? Cycle just continues always until the Big Man tells them to stop.
It'll end when game companies get even greedier and pull their bribe money from news outlets and a big stink pops up sending them to the grave along with the rest of the industry.
I think, I'm done with Triple A multiplayer anything. This shit is getting waaaaay to out of hand and quite frankly indies have been better in every way lately.
Honestly I'm just done with the mainstream entirely. Hasn't been a good anything since 1999. Sometimes I think y2k was real and we're now in some combination of a "Matrix/VALIS" type arrangement. Like, things are so absurd and stupid now that I am honestly questioning reality.
Capitalism ruins all good things, games aren’t a vision or a dream that is turned into something special- its a game churned out every year designed to pump as much cash out of its players as possible. Profit above anything else.
@@ViewtifulHound I wish I had a solution for human nature. Greed is what ruins everything, not just games. The number of just general 'things' in the world that happen the way they do solely for profit's sake, to the detriment of the majority, makes so furious sometimes I want to slip on a Grendel mask and just go out there trampling. It's worse that we all just let it happen. This is our own fault.
I know what you mean. My mom always wanted me to get her into video games. I didn't because i just didn't want to teach her how to play. Now it's because it is actually dangerous and she wouldn't know what to look out for.
@@jmlkhan5153 Well, that's rather extreme. Since 2000 and on, we had Diablo 2, Civilization 3, 5 and 6, Stronghold, Half-Life 2, Tropico 1 and 4, Baldur's Gate 2, Neverwinter Nights 2, Warcraft 3 and Starcraft 2, Morrowind and Skyrim, KotoR 1 and 2, C&C Generals, 3 and RA3, Far Cry, GTA 3, NFS Underground and Most Wanted, Portal 1 and 2, Supreme Commander, Mass Effect and Dragon Age (yeah, 3rd installments of both failed, but the first were awesome), Fallout New Vegas, Borderlands 1 and 2, Bioshock, Saints Row 3, Minecraft, Terraria, Starbound, Stardew Valley, Factorio, Dead Space, Elite: Dangerous, The Witcher series, the new King's Bounty series... And that's just the mainstream games. I purposely excluded controversial titles, console exclusives, small-scale-but-immensely-successful indie games like FTL and Binding of Isaac, niche titles such as Crusader Kings 2, Cities: Skylines, Chivalry and Life is Strange, all online games (so an entire MOBA genre). So I'd say there was a LOT of good stuff past y2k, even though I'm a gamer since 1990.
@@riseoftheflutes1739 think "Anthem" "Fifa" etc. I play plenty multiplayer games, like Monster Hunter, Smash, SMM2. I try to avoid anything that forces loot boxes, pay2win mechanics etc.
I guess the term is broad, but essentially I avoid games that force feed predatory transactions to me and artificially inflate difficulty and play time .
Haha! Almost immediately after watching this Jimquisition, I saw a Playstation tweet from yesterday promoting a new "pro-fishing" game, and guess what it had (Other than a hilariously out-of-place adrenaline pumping song for a FISHING GAME)? Added social elements & likely vectors for micro-transactions. It's a fishing game alright, but not for the players, no - this is the devs/publishers fishing for "(super-)whales". If it weren't so scummy, I'd almost applaud the meta-ness of it.
apparently online is the only social way nowadays, as opposed to people sitting in the same room together, but yeah, it's way better. we should just be playing Sonic 2 in split-screen, lol.
This is my problem with the industry idea of games as a service. Look games as a service aren’t bad by default. MMOs are games as a service, and you typically pay a subscription and they continuously provide content. Its just companies nowadays want you to pay money consistently, but are scared of the word “subscription” and they want us to give them the money, without providing the content to back up the money. They want something for nothing but promises. And gamers are getting fed up and don’t trust the companies anymore. Because they destroyed the trust and then pretend they don’t know why we hate them.
I love how you keep exposing these guys with these videos showing how developers really see customers. It actually helps me when it comes to the games I will support. I don't buy microtransactions, but I think it's time for me to not by games that think of gamers like this. Hopefully more videos like this will bring enough awareness to people/policymakers/consumers to get these things banned once and for all. So gaming can be more about gaming.
I bought the mercy skin. It’s been literally the only micro transaction I’ve ever purchased in 10 years. But at the end of the day games are products. The problem is there is so much subjectivity in how they can be valued. I could easily buy 100 dollar in lootboxes and not care. But I don’t find any value in gambling digitally where I can’t win actual money. Some people apparently do though. Red dead was worth my hundred dollars. Destiny 2 was as well (keep in mind I never played destiny 1) . Honestly I think it’s just too subjective to expect to have everything. Games should simply be labeled to know what objectively one should expect. If I knew destiny 2 was gonna have an annual pass I probably wouldn’t have got it though. It didn’t say that in the description though. At least I don’t recall it being obvious.
What a wonderful way to look at someone who has mental issues, just call them a super whale and exploit them. Let's keep supporting these companies, they clearly care about their customers. It should be illegal, and we'd be better off if it was.
Do we have conclusive proof yet of the number of these super whales that have mental issues? Obviously it will be a certain percentage, but do we know how many of these whales are just rich people or people who genuinely just have enough disposable income to fund this? I know there's a few pretty strong anecdoteal items, but do we have any large studies yet?
Whale and super whales are a casino term for players who spend much more than average gamblers. The term describes their impact and presence and has no physical connotation. So it denotes addiction and gambling quite well for the video game industry's direction
Even the online games I play are usually as entirely non-social experiences. The purpose of the other players is to serve as superior and more unpredictable AI to play with/against.
this is all also fascinating, because I'm fairly sure the majority of players are also introverted, that is, their desire for social contact is easily fulfilled and they prefer playing in tightly knit groups, not massive social media networks which cater to the general population, which (depending on who you believe) is anywhere from 50% to 75% extroverted
Say what you will about EA, I still think it's very progressive of them to let a synth run the company.
The brotherhood of steel tried to warn us dammit!
I believe they prefer "Artificial Human"
I bet he leaves the cap off his toothpaste, too.
@@patricom05 "Mechanical Surprise"
It's not a joke, they found him inside of a meteor.
"People want to play games together"
Does that mean more local multiplayer games?
"No"
"You can't get them to spend money if they are actually playing together, make them fight each other, matchmake unfairly and display the premium guns that the losers were killed by." - Quite ethical business strategist at [insert favorite AAA-publisher here]
@@Haan22 Similarly to how they could have just made free cheat codes in Dead Space 3 that would give resources to those so called "mobile users" who are like "I need this now" "I want this now" if their goal was really what they said, but that wouldn't make them all the money in the world. Yet somehow you still see people defending these companies who blatantly lie like this.
with only ONE COPY of the game? And give the second player a free ride? Remember when microsoft wanted it so you couldnt even watch a movie if kinect detected a second person in the room?
“Stop being actually social, so you can be more 'sOcIaL'“ I guess
"Everyone wants to slay demons... as a FAMILY"
Nothing brings to mind the picture of an ethical industry like the concept of 'hunting whales'
Jim-faced-Cat into sexy Venom is probably the most Jim Sterling opening of any Jimquisition ever.
We must start a dreadful movement. To get every cat photo overlaid with Jim mother ******* sterling son!
Sounds like fighting game terminology.
@@DaddysFlipside
Finish him!
Hearing them go on about whales unironically is a dystopian snapshot of a morally dead industry.
Exactly! I kept thinking about Dishonored 😂
Unlimited profit at all costs, whether legal or moral has been present in humanity for a long time. Entire Nations have been founded upon this one principle.
@@heckyes Back then the merchants still had a concept of "us" they as part of a nation.
Now they wish to be above it all.
There was no moral standard in gaming from the begining. It is about profit
All industry is morally dead. You can't kill what never lived.
The term "whale" comes from casino jargon! Where's the argument that micro-transactions aren't gambling, when they are literally using the terminology of that business?
To be fair, the term microtransactions could Apply to simply buying a cheap indie game digitally and even p2w microtransactions can be honest, you can spend the money on actual things you know youre gonna get by your own choice rsther than some random rng.
And its not Loot Boxes anymore but `Surprise Mechanics` :)
Then you have Konami who make slot machines and pachinko games for brick and mortar casinos... Makes you wonder what other publishers and dev outfits do the same, and try to hide it.
Have u seen NBA2k20....? they are using actual pachinko machines in the game it self ...they just don't care anymore....
@@salsaandbrwx1449 That's not how the games work :) Most of them don't even offer good 'direct to buy stuff' anymore. The awesome shit is in the Slotmachines - I mean lootboxes.
And yeah. Using Casino-terms should be a wakeup call for the law-making bafoons.
Just watch the legendary "make players into payers " speech Jim showed here in full. It's amazing how few fecks are given about us customers x)
4:40 "The biggest mistake humanity ever made is getting to know itself better"- Jim sterling 2019
Them's some deep words Jim.
Put that on a T-Shirt!
@@ElvenMans I would buy the fuck out of that shirt.
If we went over every brilliant Quote from Jim Sterling. We'd have an Almanac.
@@ty_teynium screw that, we'd have a *religion*.
gold
"People want social games!"
The kicker is I actually do want some games to be social.
I want social games like they were 10-12 years ago. I remember fondly the days of Halo 3 and Reach, Gears of War 2 and 3, and Modern Warfare 1 and 2 when my friends and I would play and holler at strangers and the strangers would holler back at us. I remember the time when I was 16 playing MW2 talking to a marine that got back from Afghanistan and how cool that was. I remember the time I and other gamers helped a kid in the lobby going through a depressive episode and how heartwarming it was despite how terrible gamers can be. Man those were genuinely great times! You really don't see that much anymore. It's so silent.
So yes, as an extrovert I do want social games.
The Boss Tweed gaming industry doesn't want that.
They want it where if I'm playing RDR2 or Witcher 3 I can be perpetually harassed by others to play a game I do not want to play or buy things I don't want to buy. They want a game where I'm encouraged to spend money and harass others to spend money.
That is NOT social gaming.
That is a pyramid scheme.
Even worse, it's likely a *global* pyramid scheme. One that wants to reach out to the entire world, if it alrea y hasn't done so by now.
Well said!
They wonder why sales are "below expectations"...it's because there's a difference between what they believe and what reality is like, they have a severe psychological defect which blinds them to that fact.
I feel you and I wholeheartedly agree with your concept of social gamers. I wish those days of halo 3 still existed
Best thing about the past multiplayer games was that you could actually call out your opponent for being bad. Now you cant even say gg ez
Grumpy old bastard here. For me, socializing in video games is a drain of the mental energies that hobbies (such as video games) are supposed to replenish. I play games to escape people, not to be bloody surrounded by them and have them come in and just ninja my god-damn quests out from under me (forcing me to wait until something respawns or whatever). Couch modes? Hell yes. But that's not what's happening here, is it?
AAA gaming is a fucking joke anyway - and that's when the games actually friggin' work, which is a whole other topic and *don't even get me started on that*.
Thank fuck for indies, and - of course - for Jim Sterling.
What's the equivalent of a high five for us anti-socials? A quiet tip of the head and shuffling off to you, sir
Switching "Whales" for "Cattle" would imply the business model is sustainable...at least they're not fooling themselves...
Too real!
Cattles implies there's a lot of them. Whales, in the sense of whale hunting, is a better euphemism.
just waiting for the slaughter
Sustaunable unless you burn down the rainforests for grazing lands, or you factory farm them and only feed them corn and they fart out greenhouse gasses.
There is no ethical consumption of microtransactions (except maybe Path of Exile or Warframe...)
"Cattle of the Sea"
-COME GET UR WHALE BLUBBER M8!!!!
6:22 Imagine unironically calling people "whales" and "super-whales" at a talk like this. The way these people de-humanise their customers is nothing short of disgusting.
De-humanizing your enemies is often the first step any leader takes, because it allows those that work below you to stop seeing their techniques on them as inhumane. This is manipulation tactics used in warfare being performed so casually in the game industry. Says a lot about how it is these days, doesn't it?
In crime it is called 'neutralization' you are trying to convince yourself you are not a bad person for hurting these people. They deserve this. It is a common thread in business and politics these days, dehumanize then destroy.
It's also why the slave trade was ever a thing.
@@charlesmelenyzer8919 yeah I have heard about that tactic.
It's easy to do something terrible if you have a distinct disconnect from it.
Giving it a label that would make it inhumane or inhuman gives you this.... I hesitate to say "reason", but excuse is too weak a word.
The technique just seems to flip the right switch more often than not... and people do what you want like you intended.
Androids? Nah fukem.
meanwhile there are children who are literally bullied at school for being "default" skin in the hottest games. That's what these companies want when they want social interaction, peer pressure
The funny thing is I’m sure everyone will say blame The parents or blame the teachers. Here’s a better idea how about we blame the media for commercializing everything. Have you ever Seen someone bullied because they don’t have the cool clothes or because they wear off brand basketball shoes while the cool kids have Jordans or they must be inferior because they still have a hand me Down iPhone 4 instead of a brand new iPhone 12.
We have been okay with allowing bullying to be a consequence
Of not being rich because the rich can make money by parents caving
In and buying things to keep their kid from being bullied. The goal
Of the corporations is to teach people if you don’t spend money on our flashy thing your kid deserves To be bullied. The schools aren’t going to stop the bullying because when they try to stop it the teachers get in trouble so the teachers just give up and let the kids be bullied. Why don’t someone create legislation to try and stop the bullying simple because the legislators are in the pocket of the corporations that make money from people just giving in and buying the thing so their kin don’t get punched. And then the bullies get a new batter thing and the cycle repeats and your kid now needs your money for another flashy don’t bully me token.
I knew. I keep telling everyone that fortnite and its fans are pure cancer. This is just proof.
Social interaction is the exact polar opposite of why I play video games lol
I play games to escape others and my sad life
Much of the reason I play so many games is because I have little social interaction in the first place lol
Exactly. After exhausting myself having to socialize, I wanna recharge by going home and playing games alone, not having to deal with more people.
It makes me ill. I hate the feeling that "someon else" is in my living room, when I'm trying to de-stress from work.
I now only play singleplayer games, like Bloodborne, Mario Galaxy etc.
factorio turns me into a basement dweller lol
when Jim's face pasted onto a cat looks better than the Cats trailer
100%
I feel like it belongs on r/imsorryjohn
Romantic Outlaw I gotta wonder who thought doing the weird live action Cats movie was a good idea. Seriously that had “animated Disney musical” written all over it. Then again Disney just wants to remake shit.
lol comical funny i wonder if they shiver from from that frostburn. will they left with thier tongue stuck out or be clever enough to fix it with a little spit shine.
Less scary.
"Facebook sure does make a shit-ton of money. Could we produce our own competing service?"
"We make games though."
"What's your point?"
-EA
"My point is that we can't do what Facebook does half as well as it does, and frankly sir, we've had multiple years of flops; we dont even make games that well. Plus, every other company is doing the same thing and so there is so much competition we will almost certainly have more flops."
Android Wilson: "you're fired."
If only we could monetarily OWN THE HUMANITY AND EVERYTHING IT HAS EVER POSSESSED.
Gaming Industry says: "Gaming is social! It's what humans need! That's why we provide it!"
Gaming Industry means: "A social environment creates peer pressure and the need to impress others, because a social hierarchy exists now. We can monetize that pressure"
Spot on mate 👍
It's exactly what they are doing.
When people say gaming is social, they mean it's fun to play co-op with a sibling or make a new friend while getting help to run a dungeon or a community-created map. If the "social" part of playing video games is simply to keep up with the Joneses and have my character tricked out with all the pricey mounts and armor and whatnot, then I'd rather not play OR I won't spend money. I don't think I'm speaking out of turn when I say a great part of the appeal of video games, in theory, is that we can escape that sort of shit by being almost guaranteed a reward of some sort for our dedication and personal skills. The way it should be is that we pop into a lobby, look at someone's decked-out armor and mount and say "Wow, this person put a lot of time into this game, and look how far they've gotten. One day that could be me, if I try my best" or "Wow, that person is lucky as fuck with the RNG". Instead my reaction is "Fucking P2Ws ruin everything".
"Let's reach out to the whales and super whales to help us!"
- AAA Games Industry, and also Aquaman
HA! Noice.
This looks like a job from AAAquaman
"Now with our new social networking systems, we can replace those 5 or 6 old, well-established, friends with 50-60 newer, shallower, friendships."
@@lilylopnco As someone who runs a Discord server with 120+ members, and see the same 5 all the time, I totally get it.
Sadly.
As someone who's close friends have all left him and desperately uses discord servers to fill the void........ I don't get it.
I think I'll stick to older single player games and supporting the modding community still around them.
@Vorname Nachname Sad but true. Luckily one of the only good things from the coming massive recession/depression around 2020 is a lot to most of these companies will go belly up. Not much of a consolation considering another across the board decrease in quality of life for most of us like the last time, but hey, its something I guess.
Don't forget the Indies!
Right I have such a back catelog the only games I buy new are the single player games often times the quirky indie titles, ones like sinking city and hell blade just in a effort to support such ideas.
Don't really have to stick to "older" games. There are still newer games out there that sticks up to day one dlc standards only(because god forbid a game that doesn't have a day one dlcs nowadays, early access indie games included.)
EDF5 on steam is one good example. Just cause I'm addicted to it for a week now...
Yakuza series!
If they want to give players "choice", why not just include cheat codes, or an option for infinite items?
It makes their microtransaction argument dead in the water.
That's how it was before, but the industry learned you can make money off of people's impatience.
@@nickclark1815 would say justified impatience.
I mean
If the game is made super grindy AF and with timers that go over 24 hours...
Am not saying paying to skip them is good tho.
That crap shouldn't be there in the first place.
They're gonna make cheat codes paid DLC (or already have if you count P2W games)
@@MagicDragonesk Funny you'd mention that. Dead Rising: OTR actually had honest-to-goodness cheat codes as paid DLC way back in 2011. Fred Dutton of Eurogamer pointed this out, and even Jim Sterling made an old video about it. www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-09-capcom-sells-dead-rising-otr-cheats-as-dlc
95% of games I've ever played and WILL play is single player. I pay for the game. period. No preorders. No seasson passes. No m$
And I thought I was one special kind on that 😂
I only play a few games that have multiplayer options. And even then, rarely do I engage in playing with others. Maybe a co-op shooter like the Borderlands franchise or building a community in Minecraft. The rest, if it doesn't have a robust and quality single-player experience with an engaging story and fun gameplay, I won't spend one thin penny for it. And microtransactions? We used to call that Nickel and Diming someone, IE, greedy bastards finding ever more excuses to take money they didn't earn.
I'm with you 100% man.
100% for me.
This is why I’m still annoyed that to play Diablo 3 I have to be logged on constantly. I loved Diablo 1 and 2! Let me play single player! In the meantime I’m just gonna play Skyrim or Sragon Age Origins for the 4000th time...
I just want to say.
The whaling industry exploited its source of income until near (and in some cases, complete) extinction.
Just sayin'.
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I rarely buy AAA games anymore.
That's what the golden parachutes are there for: When the whaling airship sinks.
Not to mention, the famous Megalodon reached such a Goliath size, by turning to large baleen whales as its primary food supply. Yet ironically, it is believed that Megalodon went extinct because it simply became too massive and specialized for its own good. It apparently began to starve itself out of existence, once sudden climate change and continental drift drastically decreased the amount of large blubbery whales available for it to hunt.
Coincidentally, the mobile market and TRIPELAAAY industry attained unsustainable growth and have raked in billions of dollars, by almost exclusively targeting “whales” with their predatory microtransactions. Now it is almost a continuous struggle just to keep earning more money for investors and shareholders, and governments around the world are finally starting to catch on to these microtransactions as we have. If loot boxes and pay-to-win mechanics get banned, and these companies suddenly cannot ensnare “whales” nearly as much, then their golden goose will be removed. Hence they are doing everything they can to prevent the “legal climate” from changing. The one key difference is that these “Megalodons” are creatures that I wouldn’t mind seeing go extinct.
@@markcobuzzi826 Sharks are my number one fear in the world next to the ocean, but even I feel sorry for the Poor Megalodon. AAA industry though? They can go extinct for all I care. They are horrible people.
@Tenyoken Sekia
Yup. Amen to that and thank God for Jim.
Social interaction isn't a bad thing when it's genuine, but the kind of interaction promoted by social media and, all too often, games as well is shallow and meaningless.
Exactly. They don't want you to make friends or have a good time with other people. They want you to look at the "Epic Gear" that the other guy is wearing with envy so that you'll spend money to keep up with the Joneses. A kind of social interaction that is only detrimental and toxic.
You are but a means of acquiring social capital. The interaction is transactional by nature. You're just a number. Capitalism, baby!
Yeah I like social interaction in old games like GTA IV and MW2.
Yeah it isn't about interacting with people, that is what I was doing with games like SOCOM on my PS2 and the early Xbox Live games. Now a days it's all about getting harassed by random strangers who never speak a word to you so you feel a need to buy the stuff they harassed you with.
I don't want social interactions in my video games. I get all my social interactions at work, thanks very much. I don't do twatter, skullfuck or anything like that. I hate multiplayer games because people are twats. I want a solid single player core game with occasional coop . Multiplayer should always be side dish, not the main course.
When I sit down on my couch to play a game after a long day at work, the LAST thing I want to do is interact with MORE people.
You don't work you neckbeard.
Hell, im moving out primarily so i can have MORE privacy and solitude.
Nathan Iliescu lmao what? Go be a toxic troll somewhere else
Amen
ohh i can appreciate a coop game with a friend or collegue... but when a game forces me to interact with total strangers or spam my facebook friends with stupid "come play this crappy game with me" pop ups in order to progress through the game yeah...that ticks me of. but mehh sometimes i check them out but i am really surprised that people actually spend so much money in those cheap crappy farmville games XD and this is coming from someone who is really impatient when playing a game ^_^ but i would never even consider wasting real cash on those cheap shitty mobile games...
If I wanted social interaction I'd step out my door more and play that crappy perma death mmo called life.
You just don't like it cause you didn't GIT GUD!
Like, please, just let me play ;-;
@Drexel Petrone Have you tried the Communism DLC? Everything is FREE there :D
@@belisarius6949 yeah I tried downloading it but it just doesn't work
Drexel Petrone the game mostly sucks because there's no replay value. I mean you can't even return to your character once the game is done
I object to Wall-E being included. He's got more personality then every AAA exec combined.
Personality AND ethics!
And a heart
A. Freeman And R2D2
I’d prefer Ultron to Andrew Wilson. Not only did he have personality, he didn’t consume and trick people into joining forces with him and then killing and eating them.
Unicronic arts....
Don't forget Johnny Number 5 and ED-209
Yes Android Wilson, Social Networking in video games is so important! That must be why some of the biggest games this year have been single-player games.
I like how Robo-Wilson doesn't say how players "keep playing the game with friends", it's "consume the content together". Maybe Andrew's one of those Aliens from They Live.
Wilson has such a awkward why to express himself
People who like human interaction dont play online games because online gaming is toxic af
People who like human interaction don't play Video Games in general.
or gamers ask/beg to be able to mute everyone.
This is the truth.
Good point, if you like human interaction then playing online games is a good way of making you hate human interaction.
@Hardcore Gamer This is why Barrens Chat was ahead of its time in pre-battlegrounds WOW. We hated everyone equally no matter if they were (/channel R Lee Ermey's torrent of slurs here). Well, everyone who wasn't Horde (but also Horde too because we knew we were worse than everyone else combined).
Oh sure people want social interaction in games, which is why The Witcher 3, an offline single-player game, has been among the top-selling games on Steam for 4 years in a row.
my thoughts exactly XD and how did God of War even become such a widely recognized masterpiece by both critics AND gamers alike?... there isn't even online multiplayer or loot boxes ermmm "surprise mechanics" in there -.-
And Sims3 is STILL laughed at for their Social Plattform 😂
Them: "People want social games!"
Me: *looks at Sekiro (100% offline single player game) sales and Steam stats*
But if people don’t want social games, why do we hate the epic store for having weak social features in games, while having exclusives? If the social functionality doesn’t matter, why does it matter which launcher you use?
Because most of the beef I have seen against epic store was that it lacked the very features everyone here’s saying they don’t need. Wasn’t that also the beef with the Bethesda launcher?
Might work better with God of War (2018) instead of Sekiro, tbh
@@Farscryer0 True. I went with Sekiro because I'm currently playing it and it popped into my mind immediately.
@@IAmAnEvilTaco it wasn't just the weak social features, it was an amalgamation of bad publicity, making games exclusive to the epic store, and utter disregard for the people they claim to care about
Also, why did you shoehorn epic in this episode?
@@IAmAnEvilTaco
First, people do want social games - but only in addition to normal games, not instead of them.
Second, social features of a marketplace have nothing to do with social gaming.
when they say they want 'social interaction' what they really mean is they want 'peer pressure' to buy their overpriced bollocks on the cash shop and their lootboxes.
Little billy next door has this really cool skin, you see him walk around in game wearing this really cool skin. this means Little bill is really cool. dont you want to be really cool like Little billy? oh and no one wants to play with a super uncool person like you, you need to be really cool like Little billy. visit the cash shop today!
This reminds me when the cash shop first came out in maple story.
wasn't there a movie about a Billy walking around wearing skin? Wonder if he should have used the "its just cosmetic" excuse when the police showed up
Good thing I'm old and antisocial enough to be immune to peer pressure (at least to this kind).
@Greig91 Personally, I like playing dress up in games (I typically spend half of my game time on character customization) and I think that's my crux when it comes to online spending. I'm not there to try and impress anyone if my character happens to have a rare skin. I just want my character to wear whatever I think looks cute, dapper, or funny, regardless of other players' input. If the default skin goes well with something I bought or played to earn as a reward, I'll probably pair them together if that's what I'm feeling that day.
Paying more respect to people who don't bother with cosmetics seems like a misunderstanding of the reason why some others may bother at all with it, but that's just my -small essay of personal introspection- two cents. I realize of course that there certainly are try hards out there and a lot of gross elitism within these games, but those people generally aren't very fun to play with in my experience.
Honestly,Why do these 30-45 Dudes want? They will totally Rob the dead if they had cash on them.
BUT THERE JUST STEALING MONEY AND THEN SPENDING IT TO MAKE MORE MONEY STEALING SCHEMES!
LIKE WHAT THE FUCK! SPEND IT ON A CAR! OR A HOUSE! YOU FUCKING IDOTS! THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW TO USE MONEY!
My standard routine when playing ANY game with social options: turn off chat, turn off voice chat.
One day they will have it where you have to pay $50 a month just to keep them off because that would ruin the "fun" of the game.
@@bloodling3885 or selling you $99 for the ability to CREATE YOUR OWN E-PRIVATE servers.
and then the game will force you to "socially interact" which is in reality "spam your other friends with annoying messages in the hope they can hook people with addiction issues and turn them into piggy banks" in order to even get ahead in the game instead of being stuck on your small starting area with crappy useless shit
Nothing makes a game less fun than being forced to talk to strangers.
Edit: Keyword: “forced”
World of Warcraft would disagree
Speak for yourself, random UA-cam commenter.
Modern Warfare 2 search and destroy was fuckin funny as hell back in the day
very racist though so y'know... oops
Unless its toon town. But that game was shut down so bad example.
Let me tell you.
Overwatch reddit: "If you're doing solo queue you're just asking to be paired with crappy players, you have to go with a 6-man team, the game was engineered for that."
An online competitive FPS with a matchamaking based on a complicated (albeit very crappy in the result) algorithm that should measure skill and pair people based on that.
Because fuck yeah, I *NEED* friends that play the same game to enjoy said game.
Of course.
Showing WALL-E when you talked about Android Wilson is not right, because he actually has a personality!! 😄
Hippic at least daleks will just kill us with lasers , better than being nickled and dimed to death over years
And a heart
And is adorable.
Even R2D2 has more personality than him, and he's a comedic relief that can't speak.
Android Wilson also has a personality though - sleazy prick.
My skin crawls every time clips of that seminar is shown.
I can't even listen to them anymore when I come back and watch/listen to any eps with them in them. I end up getting so furious not just at the presenter, but that no one in the audience isn't getting up and just screaming out how horrible it is
"As we all know, EA CEO Android Wilson needs Tungsten to live." Lost it at that.
He had me in tears from the moment he started narrating the interview in that robotic voice and once Dalek started to creep out from the corner I had to put my laptop away in order to gasp for air.
Andrew Wilson also reminds me of Patrick Bateman. But this is just as gold.
If we have Super Whale, we need a BatWhale to fight him.
BatWhale v Super Whale: Dawn of Suprise Mechanics
kamulecPL12 Sounds like a future Jimquisition at the rate things are going.
MARTHAAAA!!!!
"Dawn of Just Cosmetic"
1999 - I need this now, i want this now, i must find a cheat
2019 - i need this now, i want this now, I must pay for microtransactions
Therapist: Cat with Jim's face isn't real, he can't hurt you
Cat with Jim's face: 0:02
Therapist: Jim Purrling isn't real, he can't hurt you
@0:02
Why is your profile pic different in the comment section and on your page D:
*Confused screeching intensifies*
0:02 is my phone wallpaper now.
That cat IS real and WILL hurt you.
Man, do I miss the GC, Xbox, PS2 days. When the primary purpose of a game was an escape, and $60 got you a complete experience.
Well if dumbass people would stop buying into this current day shit we could go back to those times.
@@johnnypatterson7512 That will never happen. People are way too engaged with mobile and casual gaming for corporations to ever go back from the revenues that they create now.
those days were so long ago that you forgot that games were only 49.99$ , until the 360/ps3 when they all went up to 60. not only did you get the whole experience, but it was also cheaper, and ps2/3 online was free like pc
@@thegamegarage69 For PS2 you did have to buy an add-on for internet but I suppose that's not really anyone's fault. The PS2 had just not been desogned with online multiplayer in mind.
Emulators 4 the win
“How do whales find your game?” Echolocation, presumably
Ironically, I believe, the term whale for big spenders comes from the gambling industry. If the game industry starts "comping" whales with small perks like the equivalent of hotel rooms like the casinos do, we know how closely they are learning from that industry.
Yeah whale is a classic term for a big spender at a casino.
They do. Every game keeps track of their whales accounts. If a whale sends an issue to technical support they will get a good outcome even if the issue at hand (like a technical problem) can't be fixed they will usually get comped either in game currency or items from the in game stores.
MMOs will actually do this.
I think it was used ironically by gaming communities in the beginning.
Free to play games do stuff like this a lot. Like if you used to spend but stopped, they will notice this and everyone over you a "free gift" or a one time only discount.
Not to mention the games start free from the beginning which is the same as when a casino gives you a few chips for attending a show or something.
Wow you got the famous internet feline JIM PURRLING??
Damn you beat me to it
This is top tier.
I smell a new wrestling gimmick for when SterDust gets retired...
Unless it's with the bois, I play video games, to NOT interact with people, even if I'm playing with other people, I usually don't get involved in the social aspect.
Referring to big spenders as 'Whales' was used by casinos for decades before the video game industry picked it up.
Almost like, like, they are gambling
@@assassinxex No, it's sUrPrIsE mEcHaNiCs
Your videos about microtransations/lootboxes should become a lecture at school. Young generations and people need to get informed in general about this. I even dare to say that you should get an education award for your work in this matter.
One cannot stress enough how important your work is and I am sure that you helped out many people with raising the general awareness about this topic!!! Thank you.
Yeah! I didn't realise how serious this whole thing has been until I watched one of his videos on the matter
I know where you're coming from. But lets say that kiddies get to watch some of Jim (fuckin) Sterling (son) in class, and SUDDENLY the pog-fucker shows up... You know the one that fucks pogs 😂 or the Cereal humunculo delivers "pre-milked" cereals 😨
They should probably teach kids how to cook, clean, pay bills and manage emotions too. All sorts of crap you need to know doesn't get taught at school when you really think about it.
Wow how to exploit addictive personalities hmm that sounds like a casino. At least with a casino they give you a nice room and special treatment what does a game give you? Digital currency?
not digital currency, a *CHANCE* at digital currency if you pay enough real currency!
a nylon bag
@@technopoptart and a moldy helmet.
Wouldn't it be great to pay some money, and gain a product? Like, a complete, functioning, enjoyable product to spend my time and money on?
That's the craziest thing i've ever heard.
Believe it or not...
It used to be like that! lol
Back in the good old days.
_"enjoyable product to spend my time and _*_money_*_ on?
"_
You've been conditioned far worse than you think you are.
Or, better yet, a complete, functioning, enjoyable product that never needs updates and that you can just shove into a slot and play.
Offline singleplayer games are king and will always be king.
ΛutistiЄ yeah... but playing uno with your friends is a hell of a good time, sooooo.
Coach co-op is the crown prince then
"singleplayer games are dying" said the company taht only sees total money gained and not total games sold.
Started playing skyrim for the first time last month. I’m happy offline.
@@davidking6242
That's exactly right. :P
Also Darlek Wilson: Socialize. SOCIALIZE. SO-CIA-LIZE!
I honestly hate Facebook and Twitter. That's why I always loved video games... because video games are NOT Facebook or Twitter
Edit: Or Snapchat, or Instagram, or Tik Tok, or whatever else is social media.
I've never actively used any of these social media and I never plan to. Mostly because I couldn't care less about social drama and all that crap.
I never used any of the applications mentioned except Facebook. I just use it for homework from my high school.
@@always_serpico
I actively try to get away from UA-cam. One day I will succeed. I hate-love it and I don't want any more, but every time I need to learn something I end up on a tutorial video and that little red number on the bell grabs me by the eyeballs again...
I mostly use facebook for authorization on various web sites and not for social interaction.
@@skyeplus
Facebook sells everyone who uses cookies, even those who don't have explicit Facebook accounts. They scrape everyone's information from other sites without consent and assign everyone an advertising ID. Zuccy is fucky.
I've abandoned games that required a certain number of "friends" in order to advance. Aviator was fun until they changed it to require a certain number of fellow players.
jenbdiamond
So it’s an MLM basically
Jim, please always take care of your health my man. Nobody can really fill your shoes, and we just need someone relentlessly fighting back against this industry bullshit.
Keep doing what you do, Jim.
If I want SoCiAl EnGaGeMeNt, I would rather play with people I know, and play something more intimate like a co-op campaign, not go out and scream with randoms who's momma is bigger.
As someone with social anxiety, this dynamic the gaming industry is taking really really blows. I find myself playing older games that don't have some forced DRM or online only horseshit
Yup, I'm HFA and I've more or less given up on my PS4 because virtually all the games around demand social interactivity. Perversely, I find myself playing Warframe because it never demands interaction but rewards playing publicly. I get a little buzz out of helping strangers out, even if talking to them is difficult.
Yeah, I also reccomend good indie & early access games. The ones with caring devs and live community are very good, Rising world for exampel
Same boat mate, I think I’ve played maybe 3 recent games I’ve mostly been playing ps2 era games recently and boy do I miss not having micro transactions shoved in my face every couple of minutes
As much as I've been following the dumpster fire that is the AAA industry, I haven't seen any of this b.s. first hand 'cause I've moved over to indy or "AA" style games that are largely unaffected.
There's tons of games coming out this year and the next that aren't out for your wallet, unfortunately it takes a little digging to find some good ones that appeal to your tastes.
@@samerm8657 it's what I do I love my switch for the indies I can play anywhere
"[...]the biggest mistake humanity ever made was getting to know itself better!" - Jim Sterling, 2019
"The biggest mistake humanity has made is getting to know itself better"
Jim Sterling
XD
gator007 seriously. He could come
Up with book worthy quotes like this. This HAS to be in a movie.
Reminded me about
"People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes . . .”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things . . . ” from Carpe Jugulum
@ gator007 So true, though! We humans are nowhere near as advanced as we think we are. And some things, we just straight up make worse by our constant meddling.
"Super Whales"
>Gang Orca
I love this channel.
"Consume the content" - why is entertainment/gaming jargon so terribly horrifying?
Because it actually is.
because its casino thinking
Oh, they don't call their players "Cattle" because the grocery industry already coined that term for it's employees.
Dude where do you work, I love my store. I mean Vons hasn't treat me that badly. I mean 8 hour shifts do kill your legs and I'd like 15 minute breaks rather than 10 but at least they're still paid.
@@crackingbreznuts3343 Oh, I work at an independent chain that runs throughout Alberta. They refer to employees nipping off of shrinkage as "grazing", among other things.
"The Socially acceptable way of behaving in your game, should be paying"...
"The Socially acceptable way of behaving in your game, should be paying"...
"The Socially acceptable way of behaving in your game, should be paying" "The Socially acceptable way of behaving in your game, should be paying" "The Socially acceptable way of behaving in your game, should be paying" "The Socially acceptable way of behaving in your game, should be paying"
thank god ill never develop games for free to play gacha.
6:38 "What makes them thick?"
That Freudian slip tells you all you need to know about what these people think of gamers.
They t h i c c?
LOL, such an underrated comment! :)
Mother: "You need to get out and meet people instead of saying inside playing video games all day!"
Kid: "BUUUUTTT MOOOOOMM! This is me going out and meeting people!"
"I _AM_ socializing, R-tard! I'm logged on to an MMORPG and earning XP with my party using Teamspeak!"
Randy: "...Uh'm not an R-tard..."
“I grow weary of this impudent push for social multiplayer gaming!” - Kratos (Game of the year winner, 2018)
The robot segment had me trying to muffle my giggles at the office. Cheers to the Dalek cameo HAHAHA
Honestly, I think these CEOs have more in common with the bloody pepper-pots than most humans.
"Hey why don't we make a video game and sell it to people?"
- The Ghost of AAA past
Because P2W is getting so much backlash they need to target the Social Gamer to whom cosmetics are the psychological manipulation lever.
Too bad Warframe already exists and is controlled by a small tight band of developers rather than a huge mega Corp. . . Never mind, that is actually f-ing great.
Warframe is P2W
@@devaunbeats you win in warframe by getting friends to grind loot with. you get friends by impressing people woth your character's appearance. to do that you need fancy skins. you can buy these skins. case closed
devaunbeats You knows Warframe has a new frame every 3 months at an $80, $50, $20 package.
Sure you can do it all Free, but to keep up with the Jones it’s gonna take cash and crazy amounts of hours to get all the research completed.
Basically the normies that care more about their social status than games.
Jim. This really shook me. I never realized the FB games which I played and showed my progress were designed around this concept. Thank you!
EA: I struggle with the concept that we're a bunch of bad guys, and called nasty things.
The Effing Public: Then stop treating us like animals who are there to be basically butchered!
On a more serious note: When I was growing up I learned that killing whales and dolphins was bad and that these animals need to be protected and preserved. That those who targeted whales and dolphins were the most heinous of people and were in the same category as people who poach tigers, elephants, and gorillas.
Yet to these people, treating humans (to some the highest order of most sacred life) as dolphins and whales (something also held as sacrosanct) and then both these things are ripe for exploitation?
How much more dehumanizing can a company get?
The contempt that this guy Jorgen actually has for gamers is breathtaking - calling us whales. He thinks we are like the humans in The Matrix to be milked for anything they can get.
Really it's the gambling industry that came up with the term, for players with lots of cash and are easily addicted to games. They've been milking their players for far longer, and now the gaming industry is using the same tactics. Yes, it's extremely offensive and de-humanizing...and honestly, that's the point of it. They don't want to feel like their customers are people, they want to remain distant and only look at the ridiculous profits that flow in.
And sadly, he's right. Sure, most people playing these games can resist (and even more people can just not play them in the first place), but they're going after the most vulnerable.
Look at his body language. It's so disturbing.
Do these scumbags not realize that they're being filmed, or that archived video is a thing?
I regret to inform you dearest sir that "arena" is not actually in Pittsburgh, that's in DUNBAR, slightly over an hour SOUTH of Pittsburgh, and is in reality the sad remains of the closed-down movie theater in a mall I spent far FAR too many years roaming around and shopping in back before it became a glorified flea market in more recent years.
Fortunately, you will also apparently be in town in time for the last day of the Fayette County Fair, the fairgrounds are literally right down the road at the next intersection of the highway from the mall, so there's that to enjoy while you're there. (PS- the address of the mall may say Lemont Furnace, but that is indeed all part of DUNBAR, a town you will likely never see because it's over the hill beyond the fairgrounds in a little river valley and looks a bit like one of the towns in Fallout76, but nicer.)
I wish you a safe journey and may you enjoy your adventure to the mountains of southwestern PA.
I've interacted with too many self-identified "gamers" to EVER want to interact with a fellow human in a video game
Same. There is a reason I avoid gaming communities these days.
Ditto
Hey.. we're not all bad!
Though I honestly don't frequent any communities so I couldn't comment on that. How bad is it?
@@SidheKnight redditors everywhere, everyone thinking they know shit. Lots of furries RPing and then the few good players
I find people I deal with IRL to be the absolute worst.
But then, people online or in games aren't much better.
I just don't have to deal with them as directly. ;p
Kids are pressured and bullied to spend money on micropayments because you don't want to look like a "default". It's a huge problem in Elementary Schools over here as well.
Get a ps2 kids... You'll be happier!
RokushoTheRavager It’s more like the video game equivalent of instant ramen noodles. It’s not that great, yet it will keep you satisfied for a bit, but it’s ultimately bad for you in the long run. This is coming from someone that was curious about Fortnite the day he got a Switch.
Hey its less money those little shits have to spend on Juuling at least.
@@jbreitz87 1. Kids don't have money, their parents do
2. Video games can be just as addictive and predatory as nicotine/nicotine industry
3. I would rather be addicted to nicotine (a stimulant similar to caffeine) than be addicted to Fortnite lmao
For real? That's terrible.
I feel so old, when I was in elementary all I had to worry about when it pertained to video games was if someone had Pokemon Red to see if I could trade someone my Pinsir for their Scyther......
I'm against whale hunting, doesn't matter if it's actual whales or troubled people sinking cash into games
Silly me for playing judgment, a single player offline game, for 200 hours. Apparently I'm supposed to be playing on theses "services"
Give EA your credit card and all is forgiven.
Try Rimworld -- a game that require a 2000-hour obsession for six months before decide the game sucks. (I kid, it's just one of those "That game sucks. And I should know, I've got 2000 hours logged..." experiences.)
"We are the triple AAA gaming industry collective, Resistance is futile . You will do social interactions:"
If they do that, I'll find a new hobby.
"Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be sold to the highest bidder."
@@Blitzkrieg1605 Truth!!!!!
Most ppl play games to get away from assholes, not to interact with even bigger ones.
On top of what you mentioned, I sometimes wonder if part of the reasons they are able to dupe people into believing social gaming is the future is that old misconception that gamers are secluded, don't interact with others, don't have friends, etc... and by making social gaming they are trying to nab people who want to prove others wrong. Wouldn't' be the first time companies used existing social misconceptions for social engineering.
Sees intro. *PTSD flashbacks to Cats trailer*
My condolences! (hands over Brain Bleach)
Let's start a support group. 🤗
Can't sleep, cat will sing Memory.
Can't sleep, cat will sing Memory.
Can't sleep, cat will sing Memory.
They'll get us. And it'll look like a bloody accident.
Oh that's what that was... I was confused.
Where does it end?
Probably with government legislation against such shitty and actually near - if not actually - unlawful business practice.
Ah loot boxes. Don't we just love the encouraging of addiction in trade of money out of greed? Cycle just continues always until the Big Man tells them to stop.
It'll end when game companies get even greedier and pull their bribe money from news outlets and a big stink pops up sending them to the grave along with the rest of the industry.
I think, I'm done with Triple A multiplayer anything. This shit is getting waaaaay to out of hand and quite frankly indies have been better in every way lately.
Honestly I'm just done with the mainstream entirely. Hasn't been a good anything since 1999. Sometimes I think y2k was real and we're now in some combination of a "Matrix/VALIS" type arrangement. Like, things are so absurd and stupid now that I am honestly questioning reality.
Capitalism ruins all good things, games aren’t a vision or a dream that is turned into something special- its a game churned out every year designed to pump as much cash out of its players as possible. Profit above anything else.
@@ViewtifulHound I wish I had a solution for human nature. Greed is what ruins everything, not just games. The number of just general 'things' in the world that happen the way they do solely for profit's sake, to the detriment of the majority, makes so furious sometimes I want to slip on a Grendel mask and just go out there trampling.
It's worse that we all just let it happen. This is our own fault.
I know what you mean. My mom always wanted me to get her into video games. I didn't because i just didn't want to teach her how to play.
Now it's because it is actually dangerous and she wouldn't know what to look out for.
@@jmlkhan5153
Well, that's rather extreme. Since 2000 and on, we had Diablo 2, Civilization 3, 5 and 6, Stronghold, Half-Life 2, Tropico 1 and 4, Baldur's Gate 2, Neverwinter Nights 2, Warcraft 3 and Starcraft 2, Morrowind and Skyrim, KotoR 1 and 2, C&C Generals, 3 and RA3, Far Cry, GTA 3, NFS Underground and Most Wanted, Portal 1 and 2, Supreme Commander, Mass Effect and Dragon Age (yeah, 3rd installments of both failed, but the first were awesome), Fallout New Vegas, Borderlands 1 and 2, Bioshock, Saints Row 3, Minecraft, Terraria, Starbound, Stardew Valley, Factorio, Dead Space, Elite: Dangerous, The Witcher series, the new King's Bounty series...
And that's just the mainstream games. I purposely excluded controversial titles, console exclusives, small-scale-but-immensely-successful indie games like FTL and Binding of Isaac, niche titles such as Crusader Kings 2, Cities: Skylines, Chivalry and Life is Strange, all online games (so an entire MOBA genre). So I'd say there was a LOT of good stuff past y2k, even though I'm a gamer since 1990.
Android Wilson. Brilliant.
Who’s next, Bobby Robotic?
Robokotic
Bot Howard, Android Wilson and Bobby Robotic.. finally the trio is complete
Bobby Kotex.......get it right......
Peter MolyNUHUMAN
Robkot
"The socially accepted way of interacting in your game should be pegging."
I haven't bought a "Live Service" game in years now, and my wallet thanks me for it. Now I can spend my money on developers that deserve it.
Define live service. Multiplayer games? Or like pay to play games/online only/etc?
@@riseoftheflutes1739 think "Anthem" "Fifa" etc. I play plenty multiplayer games, like Monster Hunter, Smash, SMM2. I try to avoid anything that forces loot boxes, pay2win mechanics etc.
I guess the term is broad, but essentially I avoid games that force feed predatory transactions to me and artificially inflate difficulty and play time .
@@riseoftheflutes1739 Any game with a price tag but still has micrtransactions.
Also, adding the "demanded" social features is a great way to disguise your DRM.
Haha! Almost immediately after watching this Jimquisition, I saw a Playstation tweet from yesterday promoting a new "pro-fishing" game, and guess what it had (Other than a hilariously out-of-place adrenaline pumping song for a FISHING GAME)? Added social elements & likely vectors for micro-transactions. It's a fishing game alright, but not for the players, no - this is the devs/publishers fishing for "(super-)whales".
If it weren't so scummy, I'd almost applaud the meta-ness of it.
If games are so social nowadays,then why arent there more split screen multiplayer?.
You can't monetize split-screen multiplayer
Only need to buy one game for split screen
apparently online is the only social way nowadays, as opposed to people sitting in the same room together, but yeah, it's way better. we should just be playing Sonic 2 in split-screen, lol.
That's the only multiplayer I've ever played, really.
MP and social focus is DRM, forcing games to use their servers.
Without offline support they can shovel all there crap down your throat constantly.
I know Jim's been saying it for years but it's still kind of crazy to hear someone openly describe members of their audience as "whales" so casually.
*Pulls up video while not paying attention*
*Looks up at the strange silence*
*Sees Jim Sterling as a cat*
*Slowly backs away*
While Jim was doing the robotic Wilson voice, for some reason I was waiting for him to scream "EXTERMINATE"!!!
His Android Wilson voice is becoming more and more self-aware. It’s only a matter of time.
Thanks for letting us know
I mean that's clearly intentional given there was a bloody Dalek going across the bottom of the screen...
Thank you! I’m not alone 😂
Probably because he is quite obviously a dalek
That conference footage will never not make me sick. It's so normal, so mundane, yet so horrifying.
concept of "Escapism" says more about the world we live in now, than anyone would like to admit
Simple...they want MMO game revenue stream and time investment without having to pay for and succeed at making an MMO
This is my problem with the industry idea of games as a service.
Look games as a service aren’t bad by default. MMOs are games as a service, and you typically pay a subscription and they continuously provide content.
Its just companies nowadays want you to pay money consistently, but are scared of the word “subscription” and they want us to give them the money, without providing the content to back up the money.
They want something for nothing but promises. And gamers are getting fed up and don’t trust the companies anymore. Because they destroyed the trust and then pretend they don’t know why we hate them.
I love how you keep exposing these guys with these videos showing how developers really see customers. It actually helps me when it comes to the games I will support. I don't buy microtransactions, but I think it's time for me to not by games that think of gamers like this.
Hopefully more videos like this will bring enough awareness to people/policymakers/consumers to get these things banned once and for all. So gaming can be more about gaming.
jdzspace33 publishers* not developers
I bought the mercy skin. It’s been literally the only micro transaction I’ve ever purchased in 10 years. But at the end of the day games are products. The problem is there is so much subjectivity in how they can be valued. I could easily buy 100 dollar in lootboxes and not care. But I don’t find any value in gambling digitally where I can’t win actual money. Some people apparently do though. Red dead was worth my hundred dollars. Destiny 2 was as well (keep in mind I never played destiny 1) . Honestly I think it’s just too subjective to expect to have everything. Games should simply be labeled to know what objectively one should expect. If I knew destiny 2 was gonna have an annual pass I probably wouldn’t have got it though. It didn’t say that in the description though. At least I don’t recall it being obvious.
"Android Wilson needs Tungsten to live."
-I understood that reference.
"[fifa] now thanks to in-game gambling needs more parents supervision than doom ever did". Good one, Sir!
Bodied.
What a wonderful way to look at someone who has mental issues, just call them a super whale and exploit them. Let's keep supporting these companies, they clearly care about their customers.
It should be illegal, and we'd be better off if it was.
We're almost in 2020. PROGRESS and MORALITY are unknown words as of now... 😥
Do we have conclusive proof yet of the number of these super whales that have mental issues? Obviously it will be a certain percentage, but do we know how many of these whales are just rich people or people who genuinely just have enough disposable income to fund this? I know there's a few pretty strong anecdoteal items, but do we have any large studies yet?
Whale and super whales are a casino term for players who spend much more than average gamblers. The term describes their impact and presence and has no physical connotation. So it denotes addiction and gambling quite well for the video game industry's direction
Ehh it's a bit of a weird area, legality-wise.
It's like the old saying goes - "You can only be crazy if you're poor. Rich people are ECCENTRIC"
When you wake up, proceed with gobbling on your breakfast, and the first thing you see is that thick Venom reaction of Jim... ah, the day starts good.
Even the online games I play are usually as entirely non-social experiences. The purpose of the other players is to serve as superior and more unpredictable AI to play with/against.
this is all also fascinating, because I'm fairly sure the majority of players are also introverted, that is, their desire for social contact is easily fulfilled and they prefer playing in tightly knit groups, not massive social media networks which cater to the general population, which (depending on who you believe) is anywhere from 50% to 75% extroverted