Modern Gaming is a Scam
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- Опубліковано 27 бер 2024
- In the past few years the gaming industry as a whole has taken a nose dive in quality. The modern day gaming landscape is aiming to exploit us and ironically itself to the fullest extent. They use varying strategies to squeeze every last cent out of our pockets while also attempting to cut corners at every opportunity. In other words: They are scamming us all.
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Hey there people!
I know it has been a while and I do apologize for that but work has been keeping me from working on this video a LOT and in addition to that I had to figure out how to even make a video that has next to no gameplay so that took me a little while too. Well I do hope you like the end result. Feedback is as always appreciated!
I am currently in the process of gathering all the sources I cited in this video (guess who never once thought of bookmarking even a single one of them) and once I am done I will be posting them in the description of this video.
Ok turns out I cannot fit all my sources in the description so....I may just add them to this comment....maybe
I haven't been able to add half of my sources to the description and I don't wanna clog this comment with even more sources so the latter half of the video has no sources in the description T-T
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I said macro intentionally LOL
How stupid is this video?
40 years ago, games of pixel art, low-quality music, and made by less than 10 people, cost 60 dollars.
Nowadays, games of beautiful graphic, massive open world, engaging stories, cinematic music and voice acting, made by near 1000 people, even after 40 years of inflation, yet still cost 60 dollars.
And you are complain about price and microtransactions.
The issue is not the industries. They are not the cause. The people are the cause. If hundreds of millions of people stopped buying the trash that is only when companies will give good games again because as of right now we don't deserve good games when we keep spending quadrillions on buying this crap. Don't blame the assholes giving away poison blame the endless hordes that keep stupidly believing the poison is fountain of youth water. As long as the masses keep buying crap the companies will sell crap because they are giving what the people want. People want garbage so these industries sell it for billions. Pal World is a tiny nearly worthless drop of hope in the endless oceans of garbage but most people still refuse to play it because they want more garbage. Stop defending the players that buy the crap.
_"Games are a service."_
They arent, they're a product...
Don't pay for the service. Close the game when you read EULA and delete it from your system. It's that simple.
Games are services until players stop paying.
@@neolynxer
I rarely play modern titles these days.
Staples are Fallout 1 & 2, Deus Ex, System Shock & Sim City franchise.
@@B-26354 good for you. Those are all excellent choices.
That will soon be the standard, thats what theyre trying to tell you.
@HOTCHIXBRO
Games are developed in today's market as services rather than a completed product.
20-30 years ago they were developed as products.
People...... just stop spending your money on *crap* (insert whatever annoys you) games and the problem will die a natural death.
I wish it was that easy for the gaming community. Alas it is not
@ItsHawx agreed you can not get new games MTX, etc but we are the minority and wouldn't affect them. I have alot of retro games so I barely play new ones I had more fun playing nfl blitz than most of the new games I have
this is a thing really prevalent in the destiny community. Yes they may have lost 45% of revenue but that is because they had way too high goals set for themselves. They are still making bank. Admittedly less bank now with game fatigue but there are still people that endlessly spend money in it. I new someone who could not stand not having every single item in the store and they kept buying everything season over season.
It's never going to happen. People nowadays are so desperate for constant content that the thought of not having a new game RIGHT FREAKING NOW is not an option to the ADHD rattled mind.
It is morally acceptable to pirate games.
The worst part is that these games aren't even good. Most of them are just high graphics, poor gameplay clones of one another. An endless torrent of overpriced under performing, unfun dross
This is mainly due to the high cost of development. Because it costs so much the developers cannot take many risks to innovate in their product so they stick to tried and "true" methods, which leads to stagnation and for some reason they then also get mismanaged which is honeslty impressive
Video games are going for the Hollywood blockbuster movie type and Sony started it all
@@ItsHawx How high cost can a repaste of a FIFA or Madden be? Yes, I understand the cost of ground up projects, but a repaste?
IMO.. and this goes for all yearly releases, madden, 2k, sports in general. If you bought last years version, you should get the new one as a 30$ dlc. Buying new? Then full price. This seems fair for the repaste stuff. It's not like you're creating an all new game. I'm not that current on team rosters and such. A game from 5 years ago is the same to me.
Baldurs Gate 3, Spiderman 2, Alan Wake 2, Armored Core 6, Elden Ring, Totk, etc. You just say the most boomer ass argument just retire gaming at this point if all you guys do is complain more. Go find another hobby
It’s hilarious that AAA games spend millions of dollars on there games. Just for indie games to kick the snot out of them each time.
You love to see it
Sadly it only happens in steam
@@A1stardan“only“ on the largest platform for the most common platform to play games on
@@A1stardan it's sad, but true, 10-20 years ago you where presented with a choice, PC or console.
I experienced the PS1 to PS2 to PS3 anti consumer problems and chose to go PC over PS3.
It was nice to have a console back when a PC cost a fortune in the 90's to early 2000, but from 2004-2006 and on that changed.
The system I build in 2006 that could play Battlefield 2 at near max settings cost less than 2 times the launch price of the PS3.
Pondering on the difference between the 2 groups I realize, I have not bought a hard copy of a game since 2006. (besides Elder scrolls collectors edition that sits unopened on the shelf).
And I have never been in a situation where a game is forever backward incompatible with my system. (except games that require mods as they use GPU and give AI infinite APM)
They say they spend millions! most are just copy and paste of old games!
"There's not an unlimited amount of money"
Tell that to the U.S. federal reserve.
is that why inflation is so high
Nah fam thats cus of our current A-hole of a president.. who just raises taxes & increase inflation, as he pleases. @@ItsHawx
There is literally no money in there. All spent and or accounted for by private parties. Our Government is Trillions in debt
@@eyespyyourspy1328 Crooked politicians don't know how to say no when so much is going into their pockets.
Technically currency, not money. Money would have intrinsic value like gold or silver, industrial use.
The era of broken products
Feels more like 'the era of broken everything'.
Don't worry it's not so bad 😂
@@leunam3004 100% correct.
less product for more money
(irl too)
@@notinterested8452are you prefer to eat a $hit?
Prices have increased... and digital copies cost the same as a physical one, makes asbolutly no sense at all.
Technically it does, they own the product they can make it as high as possible (I think it's dumb asf too. That's just the reality sadly)
Physical exists?
They're taking in lots of profits if you don't take in account the costs of making physical and shipping them to retailers. Digitally.
Wen digital games were being first talked about, they told us without packaging, disc burning, store space, digi games will cost at least 30% less!
Never even dropped a penny and in a lot of cases, digi games cost more than disc versions!
@@lunalildragon241do you have an IQ below 70? Grow up, troll.
The problem started when a bunch of idiots decided pre ordering games is a good idea. In addition to that the ability to update games afterwards gives the publishers another excuse to push out unfinished garbage.
Pre-Orders are such a bad trend man....Though I do not see them going away at all anymore. I mean I guess I hope people at least just pre-order from studios they can trust at this point
Pre-ordering from reliable companies, with a proven track record is fine. Continuing to pre-order from companies that provide a crap launch experience time after time is a problem.
The real problem? MBA's and Marketing Executives having over represented influence on the budget, and development decisions. Steve Jobs from Apple Understood you can't go ask what people want - people are GREAT at recognizing a problem, they are TERRIBLE at making a good suggestion of how to fix it, and it has to do with the fact that MOST people (those marketing execs and MBA's included) don't consider second order consequences; and good decissions need to think about second, and third order consequences.
If you want a prime example? Go look at World of Warcraft Pre and Post Activision buyout of Blizzard. It is Activision that shoved the dungeon finder in - which immediately lead to increased toxicity in the game. It is Activision that pushed for casualization of core systems to be more accessible - and the end result was taking an already fairly easy to master game and trivialize it. And beyond this, more changes pushed ultimately lead to a growing chore list to push for more Daily Active users and push people to play more - until, people got frustrated, fell behind (because they say, went on vacation for a week) and they quit the game - some people would go back for the next expansion but less, and less over time.
So the real answer? Avoid games from the big conglomerate publishers (ex: Ubisoft, Activision, and EA).
I never believe in pre orders at all and I was called old timer
The only excuse preorders has to exist, was to "ensure" you could get a physical copy on release. Even that failed tho.
The only way I can see to fight this trend is to simply never buy the game. Even if they fix it later, if it's broken at launch, they will not get my money. Policy I made for myself after Battlefield 2042 came out. Gotta fight these guys by keeping your money.
Modern American life is a scam
I remember life before the internet, I prefer that age.
I remember life before smartphones...man that was stressful
@@ItsHawx I don't recall being stressed before cell phone s quite the opposite
As someone who also remembers it, I prefer the here and now. That being said, I do agree we are being scammed, but that's because we have no regulations on corporations. Regulations are the antidote to capitalism's corporate takeover.
different upcomings I suppose?
I don't
Those times were BORING
Modern Gaming is the Next Hollywood
This could mean so many things
Kid touchers billionaire government agents, lfg 🇺🇸🇺🇲 the patriots are in control
@@ItsHawxnone good if we’re talking about hollyweird.
I don’t care about the developers who make these crappy games. They got the blood on their hands too. If they get fired, good. Maybe the business men should buy some talent instead of buying hookers. Attitude reflects leadership. And developers with terrible attitudes give everyone bad games.
It really fucking is, shit's being made for investors, not costumers. Luckily, unlike in hollywood, there's still indies.
This is why my reason for pirating a game is valid
I don't own a game I bought? then company don't own my money for the shit they pull off
If anything I'd say this gives more validation to emulation as companies cannot be trusted with keeping games alive rather than piracy but I see where you are coming from
No not just emulation, fat quadruple A games. I’m glad i didnt waste money on cp2077 for example
It’s stealing no matter what label you put on it it’s illegal period.
@benjamintudor9475 you say that like we care any more. Their actions should have been made illegal long ago.
Unjust laws deserve to be broken. The letter may not be unjust. But the spirit certainly is
@@benjamintudor9475some laws are meant to be broken
Problem:
Solution: Ignore AAA devs, buy indie?
That simple.
Indie games have the problem of sulking really bad most of the time.
@@artemiseritu That's why you do research? See reviews, don't immediately jump on bandwagons. I assumed people did that when it came to AAA games but fact AAA industry is still alright and kicking prove me wrong. Quality of indies is most of the time on par or better than AAA games when it comes to gameplay.
Correction: Just buy GOOD AAA games. 🤷
Correction: Just buy GOOD GAMES.
I like most of the Sony stuff (not into the games for little teenagers though).
I like FromSoft, Rockstar, ... yeah, I'm not good with company names.
I like "cheap" games, too.
...Deep Rock, Ender Lillies, Steamworld, Sea of Stars, ...
still can't remember the dev's names. 😅
Stop buying live service games and buy single player
The AAA company's are now making indie sized teams and a lot of them in order to combat this AAA bad movement. Big business always sucks the joy outta anything good for their own benefits. Hopefully this fight last long enough to wake all corners of gamer community up to this madness.
We're gonna go through a second video game industry crash, like what happened in the 80s long before I was born
It was good for the industry.
We need it.
I've been praying for the videogame industry's downfall
I went through the last one. It got rid of the bloat in the industry (for a while). It'll be good for it in the long run.
@@therabidscorpion old enough to have been through all of them. The industry always came out better on the other side.
Loving alot of these new indy games and watching these bloated mega corps that have destroyed games the last 20ish years choke on it.
Glad I’m older and merely a casual gamer. I’ll teach my children not to place much value in video games and social media.
Videogames are a form of art, though, and we can't let an artform die.
At least not what it was before the gaming dark ages.
Its not just the gaming industry.
Everything gets more expensive but the quality or service lower.
Luckily for them this planet is filled with codependant consumers that blindly consume any garbage presented to them.
Yes.
So true.
Luckily? No, they worked hard to mold society in such a way to mass produce this kind of people
This is why indie games are becoming more and more popular. They don't pull of the same blatant shit that AAA studios do. Many indie titles are also offered through GoG, allowing consumers to really own their purchases.
I emulate older games and still play them to this day such as ps2 games.
Owner of GOG : ☠️☠️☠️☠️.
AA is becoming the new AAA. being able to offer indie new concepts and refreshing takes reinvigorating the genre, while also having the budget and manpower.
this is why I never buy AAA games on release anymore. not only are they overpriced but they are unfinished full of bugs or MXT or a mix of all 3. Meanwhile indie games are destroying these supposid AAA games and are actually fun and worth their price.
"this is why i dont buy AAA games at all"! XD fixed.
Yeah, as an OG gamer myself, I just stopped playing games altogether recently. I’ve had more than enough of these scammers disguised as companies.
I've been a longtime competitive gamer, lately I've been playing Helldivers 2, flight simulator, and frostpunk. Amazing breath of fresh air
I just play old games. Problem solved.
@@headphonesz6527 Frostpunk is awesome!
I've been gaming for over 25 years and I'm done with modern games
@@r3tr0sp3ct3r Same here. I don't get why people even bother reviewing modern games since we know the deal with them. Old games are where its at. God Bless.
A crash is necessary and inevitable. It happened before, and was followed by a golden era of gaming.
The Golden Era lasts for 2-3 decades. I presume it can be extended for longer periods of time. Unsure how that will happen.
Optimistic. Most of these crap games are publicly-funded. Gov'ts trying to grow their own domestic gaming sectors. CDProjekt Red is BAD about this; Ubisoft and Activision are global investment vehicles. They have zero risk. It's very likely that, in the event of catastrophic gaming market failure in any country with large investments in their gaming sector, you'll see an American Obama-era bailout for 'too big to fail' or 'cultural legacy' reasons.
Reminder: communism is just the practice of forcibly-distributing accountability, and taxpayers will bear the brunt of the fallout from these crappy practices.
the industry needs rebooted..and yet the big companies are richer than any other time in the history of gaming....
Any game that has micro transactions is a game I will never buy.
take a look at helldiver2
100%
This is why I give up playing Halo Infinite, these microtransactions were so overwhelming, that was the moment I stopped playing.
correct. technically microtransactions are for the games that are free to play, but you pay for some perks. even still...
Damn I feel u on that but very soon there will very few games for you to play
20 years ago, we were all playing FarmVille and mafia wars, wondering why anyone would pay money for progression. Meanwhile psychologists got it right back then (for once) and raised the alarm on how the business model was weaponized gambling.
Naturally the gaming industry said “So you’re saying it has tremendous potential to make money? You’re saying we can release absolute crap games, just good enough to get people to the online store, and make even more money whilst doing it?” They then took this information and acted accordance with their values.
Back in the day, the tobacco industry grew under the genuine false impression that smoking was harmless. Their sin was the propaganda campaign they built to defend their bottom line after they learned how bad it was for people.
The gaming industry is far worse. They knew what they were doing up front and built an industry around it.
I don't understand who is actually spending money on these things.
@@ClearGalaxiesIf you look at the content and who it is catering to then you will see the age they're targeting
@@ClearGalaxiesLike There's no 40 yr old man who is gonna buy a skin on fortnite though. Most of em are 7-13 year olds depending on the skin/content. There are a few older ones who grew up with fortnite spending on there just because.
@@ClearGalaxiesCoD is targeting low IQ teenagers who this is the only thing they know because they can't see past the window at this point.
They beg their mommy much like the fortnite children to buy mtx. You can tell bc of the Cod UA-camrs/Streamers finessing them with their content.
@@ClearGalaxies whales, people who are especially susceptible to gambling
I can't remember the last AAA game I bought. Seriously, looked up my Steam library and what is installed and looked up my physical library. They are all either indie or re-releases.
dude, I was "upgrade your patato to keep up" PC master race.
Recently bought Forbidden West on PC but only was able to play it today. Cutscenes with more than 3 characters in them make the fps drop to 8 to 14fps. Some of the optimization settings cause lower fps and stuttering, like what the hell and to get a stable 60fps I had to mod in a better version of DLSS. I have more headaches with trying to enjoy these games than....enjoying them.
I am now just skipping the cutscenes in my game cuz I refuse to look at cutscenes with 8fps and just pause the game and look at them on youtube.
I am so glad I started playing more indie games since I started UA-cam cuz I would most likely still just be playing Destiny 2 because of how crappy most other triple A releases are now.
Actually though. My library has mostly older games that were finished products or indie games. How bad BF2042 was at launch was the last straw and I'm glad I didn't buy it. They didn't deserve my money.
The last new AAA game I got was in 2022 after that I only played indie and old AAA titles
Oh I did. All said "oh what a stellar port" or "the optimization is great". None of the ones I looked at mentioned that a specific setting makes it worse. The cutscene thing was mentioned but I didn't know it was THIS bad
Persona 5 was for me
The solution to this is to stop preordering, wait to see how the game plays at launch, don't buy it if it's broken or borderline unplayable. Even if they fix the game, say 'Nope. Release a complete game if you want my money. Better luck next time.'
It's not that simple
@@LAGator-qu7tc It's very simple. Keep buying and preordering, they will continue to release it whether it's ready or not and figure they can fix it later. Gotta fight these large companies by not opening your wallet if they launch a subpar or broken product.
@@smileydude12 how would you know if the game is broken or unplayable at launch ?
@@LAGator-qu7tc Early access betas. Plus there are always gonna be a group of die hards that will buy on launch day. Let them be the guinea pigs.
@@LAGator-qu7tcwatch other people play it
15 years of whining about this on UA-cam. I've seen the numbers... a game with microtransactions and lootboxes makes so much doe, no amount of whining will change anything.
Stop gambling with lootboxes, stop paying, stop hyping up games before it's obvious they won't have additional monetization.
It's there because it works.
Useless idiots are too many out there
That's what I always say. If it didn't work, the publishers wouldn't do it. We players are the only ones to blame for the situation. There's no point in us bitching about the evil games industry in whatever online forums and then buying the games anyway.
Also, don't play a game that has microtransactions. As long as the game has a player base, it will attract the people that buy microtransactions. So just by playing the game, even without buying microtransactions, you are already supporting this practice.
If the core mechanics of the game is fun then lootboxes make it better. CSgo is an example
e sports and other online competitions are a huge problem ,they give the impression that gaming is still popular and profitable..when as far as im aware most of these online gamers only play 3 or 4 games..none of the e sports winners do anything else ...
I reject the numbers they give. I don't think they are spending billions on game development because the games they are making are either remakes or of such poor quality they must cost a fraction of proper development from the past. They are laundering this money for other projects or motivations. If they are firing competent employees and replacing them with incompetent ones it's safe to assume they are paying them far less money or like I said laundering the money through these avenues.
Interesting perspective, I always thought the budgets were wasted on purchasing assets, copyrights and licences, especially when they always use the same game engines as eachother.
These garbage dev’s certainly dont build their terrible games from scratch, it always looks copy pasted.
You guys have no idea how much costs to make the high graphics 3d models you love so much. Games cost a lot and are bad because they spend all budget on high-end graphics.
@@wellingtonribeiro847 Consumer detected.
Chances are they are putting out the numbers cause those are paid to the CEOs instead of the game they should be developing x D
@@oxfordeducatedhighschoolhe6989 he's condemming the graphics. they cost too much time and money for what they are.
The moral of this video seems to be:
"Only trust companies that aren't in a strong enough financial or good-will position to take advantage of you."
Sad but true.
Oh no not at all
Fromsoftware is one HUGE counter example
Example of companies that aren't in a strong enough financial to take advantage of you. Team Mica/XD Indie who recently released a day 1 full game without mtx called, Reverse Collapse on Steam.
@@ItsHawx I agree with you. I wish it didn't seem like the exception makes the rule though.
Crazy how they'll spend all this money developing a game just for it to be shittier that a indie game made by a small handful of people.
I feel like indie games don’t spend this much on marketing, I’m fairly certain only big established companies think putting that much money into marketing is acceptable.
Which is insane if you think about it. Most indies I have played merely use gameplay for trailers, which alone saves money and pleases customers too as we prefer gameplay trailers over cgi trailers that say literally nothing about a game and waste way too much money
It’s because their game is so terrible they have to spend so much money marketing the game otherwise nobody would care, if these triple AAA games went without marketing, their game would financially fail miserably since every gamer would be talking about the GOOD games like hollow knights.
That’s survivorship bias. Indie games are great because you’ve only heard of and played the good ones. There’s thousands of dead indie games that either got no traction, or more likely just completely sucked.
Gaming went from people with the passion to create and share fantasy worlds with others to a media being about balding business men wanting to make as much money as possible without losing too much and with as little effort as possible. No more passion, no more creative and unique experiences, just a bunch of subscriptions, features that used to be part of the core game being sold later, more gambling than actual casinos, it's all just a graph, and the only care for the rising green arrow.
the corporate suits seen that the industry was raking in more cash than hollywood and they decided they wanted a huge chunk..what they spend it on is beyond me as you can only spend so much in one day even if your a billionaire..
We're on a clear path to a second video game crash.
Gonna agrue against crapcom... DRM added to 10 year old games people bought well before it was added? Crapcom can bite me.
Totally valid. I hesitated adding capcom to the script but I couldn't in good conscious leave them out simply because I like them. While they are slower to introduce anti consumer practices they still add them and that needs to be called out
Naked Chun li mod broke Capcom lol
@@ItsHawx they may be slower, but I would also argue more severe. DRM basically means there is now a server somewhere with an additional switch that must stay on for you to play your game you did NOT agree to be restrained by. THAT ALONE makes it unforgivable in my eyes. Slower or not.
@@therealjaystone2344 that it did... but when them breaking can potentially kill the games I bought from them... Im just done with them.... they can do what they want or release the greatest game ever... they will never get another dime from me.
god I forgot about that LOL
Years ago, Sid Sheinberg of Universal said this about VHS. “You should not be able to pay 80 dollars for a copy of Jaws to watch whenever you want. You should have to pay every single time you want to watch.”
This is what both the movie and game industry would love to do, if they had their druthers. They’re closer than ever to that goal now.
Piracy is understandably frowned upon if you place yourself in the shoes of the devs. But with the shit that game publishers (not devs, most of the time) pull off, it's giving more and more valid reason to sail the seven seas.
While I will never support piracy myself I do not see a single reason why others shouldn't sing some sea shanties
Laws against piracy is just corporate propaganda for us to give them money
@@ItsHawx ALMOST completely agreed. Im not against abandonware or if the publisher does something that turns off the game for you, going out to reclaim it. (Hell I am hunting a few titles that fit BOTH AT ONCE)
But aside from those, I pretty much just say go ahead, guys... Im not gonna argue... just.. not interested myself
You must pirate to play good games thats how trash modern gaming is
Sometimes, if i get dissapointing solo games that requires microtransactions, I 'might've got ones with all stuff unlocked.
Or at mod it anyways.
...Publishers want me to pay $20 bucks for the "color blue" when modders take the time out their day to create something of higher quality for free. This is why I play on PC and sometimes support Modders on Patreon which for some reason is still cheaper than getting the color blue.
Reminds me of Angry Joe getting enraged at the color blue as a micro transaction
@@ItsHawxliterally what i was about to type lol.
IS THAT FUGGIN BLUUUUUUUUE?!!!!
The battle for videogaming as a hobby cant really be permanently lost as long as it operates in a free market. Companies that somehow make their money from the videogaming hobby needs money rolling in, consumers hold the ultimate power by simply buying what they like and avoiding what they dislike.
The problem is that people complain about this games and play it anyway. The guy in the video complained about pre-orders and admitted to buy pre-orders. He complained about Bungie, because he still plays Destiny 2.
Except that money equals power.
Companies literally have the money to brainwash people into buying their games anyway. They have the money to actively harm any 'actually good' competition.
The gaming industry is the only one were a company can make more than ever of things like micro transactions only to turn round and fire the people who got them there because investors always want growth it is a disgusting practice
these people make life changing money in a year and yet they still want more
I don't even understand how they can spend that much money that they'd require more
@@ItsHawxIt doesn't matter how much you make. If you invested in something, you would want profit from it. If it didn't give you increasing profits, you would stop investing.
@@ItsHawx idk what the ceos of these companies spend it on,theres only so much you can buy in one day or week...
The fact that Sony doesn't allow refunds is why I am very very picky about my purchases & I escaped the Cyberpunk PS4 issue by pre ordering it physically & once I saw the PS4 leaks I returned the delivery box unopened & purchase later for $10.
Modern gaming is like modern radio, i don't bother turning it on
Depends on the radio tbh
Here radio, depending on the radio station, is pretty good
It's wild also how homogenous the graphics to these games all look. I'd rather play PS2 era games bc they were somehow just more fun while looking more like actual games
The need to go more and more photorealistic is kinda...weird cuz photorealism keeps getting pushed making your game look weird at some point. Giving your game a proper artstyle will future proof it and give it more personality
@@ItsHawx Video games which have distinct artstyle or are cell-shaded hold up against time. I think one of the best examples is POP 2008, if it were released even at this year with similar type of artstyle, people would've liked it because of how visually appealing that is.
Only thing that photorealism does is to make all the games look and feel same
@@ItsHawx i still hold out for vr to be the future of gaming despite its flaws and misuse ...its still what gaming should be striving towards ,forget the mishaps,vr was always the future of gaming and entertainment its just it hasn't been done right yet...
oh a gaming crash is definitely coming
I am interested to see if that actually will happen or not. I am more tending towards it will be cushioned out by new studios getting the spotlight forcing the old guard to step their game up
Not really
the era of the emulator is rising again.
some things/fixes can be done.
The era of emulators was never gone.
It is kind of funny how it all comes full circle.
The gaming industry startet with game developers who made games from their garages and elswhere before they became what they are now, crushing everyone else under them.
And now people who start like them make better games than they do now. For the most part.
On the other hand I fear that those small studios become the same way.
Games wouldn't be so broken and full of propaganda if people would stop preordering and buying them before reviews come out...
That's why I only play and review old games. Modern gaming is an absolute waste of time and the companies hate you and are honest about it.
i cant imagine anyone over the age of 50 being hyped and pre ordering games so it must be the under 40s that are doing this mostly...
I’m personally really happy that so many of these live service games are in the toilet.
Capcom may have held out long but they are on nasty down streak that has just started recently some less than 6 months ago. Their retro stuff prices gone up. ex: Arcade Stadium games are no longer sub euro prices anymore on sales and then the DRM inclusion suddenly retroactively has made me ice all capcom purchases. I am a collector so i bought and paid for the old stuff to get 'legal copies' as i in reality have the stuff on other media such as handhelds. No more. Piracy it seems is the only way forward if you are a collector. Literally no options again unless you want to be milked and then removed from your games some day since clearly 'you dont own the games you buy'. Game pass people don't care and i understand but us Collectors care. A lot.
Of course there is the millionaire streamer route if you want to pay eBay prices for real stuff. Can't do that, spent my time and money on a specific retro already. Unable to do that again for others i want as there is literally no limit to top price to pay and i still would not be able to get what i want even if i add a lot more to the budget.
Capcom may be rolling good right now particularly after latest SF success that was pure genius in my opinion with the casual control but there are cracks on the surface elsewhere.
I have noticed Capcom going down a worse route lately. Hence why I didn't wanna leave them out of this video either. Them cracking down on mods after declaring PC to be their main focus platform going forward and then delivering a rather bad release version of DD2 really makes their committment to PC sound iffy.
I'm not reading all that. I just wanted you to know. Give me $200.
Stop buying all video games that are modern problem solved
Facts
Buying older games now lol
Yep. Buy and play old games only and tell your friends about it. I have been saying this for years now and on my channel I only review old games.
lean towards indie and AA
The problem is content creators. They buy all this crap and create videos on it driving up the demand for this kind of thing. Most of the popular creators don't even spend their own $$ but drive their followers to do so. It's going to crash the market again as for some reason we are incapable of adjusting in real time to avoid a pitfall. We have to slam into the ground n burn everything down before realizing it's not the best method. All game studios are held hostage by their boards to maximize profits, not deliver a quality product to consumers. If they could charge for a game being in color, believe me they would
Yep. I have been saying this for years. Which is my as a small content creator myself I have long been reviewing and promoting old fames and telling people to avoid modern games.
yea idiots online over reacting and talking loud about sub par games can convince a large portion of casuals to buy it...they are to blame for companies continuing to make garbage games just as much as the companies themselves..
This is absolutely fueled by FOMO. The people who want to skin every character with every skin available to it gain nothing by doing so, there is no stat increase that comes with them, but they have been sold on the "completionist" mindset and if the next person has it then they will feel like they are the lesser player for some reason. This is the kind of stuff that needs a psychiatrist to talk to about the issue. I am not by any means defending the game industry for predatory practices, but come on if you feel that is really something you need then you have other issues going on that need addressed. "Paying $30 extra to get it on actual launch day"...no actual launch day is the day it is launched to the public at the original price agreed upon, if you want early access because again you feel you will miss out on something then that is on you and your shrink to work out together. The gaming industry is stupid, but gamers aren't too far behind them honestly.
So past few years I have played Mass Effect Trilogy, Nier Automata, Persona 5 Royal, Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core, Remake, and Rebirth, Final Fantasy 16, Elden Ring, Armored Core 6, Warframe, Baldur's Gate 3, Death Stranding, Dragon's Dogma 2, Spiderman Miles Morales, Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption, Tales of Arise, Jedi Fallen Order, Hades, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon, Witcher 3, and GranBlue Fantasy.
Based on that, I do believe I should be loving gaming right now and not knowing wtf you guys are even talking about. Feeling like this is more people regretting very poor purchasing decisions.
The thing is, with every year, games like this are starting to become outlier rather than standard. Those practices, like endless battle passes, in game currencies, dlc content that could've been part of the game and etc.should stop
@@parisulki729 Dude if you actually have enough time to even ONLY play truly great games I question you. There are so many good games it's hard to even do that much.
@@parisulki729This has always been the thing though. Most games in the past were trash, or lack luster. The standard has never been amazing games.
FF7 Remake and Rebirth, FFXVI, Death Stranding, Spiderman, Cyberpunk 2077, Jedi Fallen Order, Ghost of Tsushima and Horizon all have big problems. It may have not bothered you, but it sure bothered other people.
@@wellingtonribeiro847 Every single game ever has "problems" you look hard enough, that should not in of itself measure anything for anybody
It's honestly share holders problem. Every game must make sure the bar goes up or else the stocks crash and share holders pull out. It's not a sustainable business practice. Since people are turning away to play indie games.
AAA gaming is falling, AA/INDIE is crushing. Look at hell divers 2! Absolutely gaming done right. I believe it will have a positive profound impact on the gaming industry.
You know Hell Divers 2 has micro transactions, right?
@zerascarlet8733 and the micro transaction Is actually micro
And you can found the premium currency in game
And the premium warbonds only advantage is it looks cool
@@zerascarlet8733
Aleast the micro transaction is actually micro And those currency can be found in game
And the premium war bond can be purchase without paying and they're only advantage is that it look cool but other than that they're meh compared to the free one
@@zerascarlet8733 - seriously. I bought it and regret it. The grind on it is too much for a paid/non-f2p game, plus the amount of people griefing teammates is so bad I recently uninstalled and moved on. There's no way to even block griefers. I wish everyone would stop suck that game's dick like it's "microtransactions done right" - no way.
@zerascarlet8733 if you played it you know you can also get those credits to buy the "microtransactions" in game instead of having to shell out money from the get go like AAA games like gta and fortnite
I used to be a Manager for EB and one of the things I realized is, don't trade in your games and don't pre-order shit.
Games these days are pay to play and pay to win TRASH
eeeeh some of them but def not all of them
Simply wrong
"Games these days"? I dont play the games you play lol
This is one reason I'm just modding my current consoles and going PC. The only companies I will really be buying from at this point is Nintendo, GOG and then Steam. Everything else like the Xbox and PlayStation can fuck off. Ownership to them is a joke. If I have to deal with BS ownership and consoles that depend on the Internet so much that they hardly function without it, go to PC. There are restrictions there but AT LEAST things like GOG exist. Where you don't have to worry about your digital games being at risk. Like seriously. The only things we can do is to stop buying them and voice how we feel.
I'm also going backwards at this point. I just Modded my PS3 and have been playing older games with private servers and having an absolute blast! But man. I'm fine with gaming this way. No worries about games be fucked up, I have more control and I can mod new games too? The idea of a console is a joke nao... Like seriously. The benefits of them have been washed away and people are more worried about brands than the rights they have as a consumer. But whatever. I'm going to get back to playing Halo 2. Did you know that you can play the original Halo 2 online right nao In All it's glory? Through insignia and a modded original Xbox you can. Lol don't need new games at all when there are SOOOOO many games I haven't even played yet from years ago.
You can play current Nintendo games on pc too
@@therealjaystone2344 I'm well aware of that but I'd rather keep my switch, I find Value in the way the switch works and the games that I enjoy on that platform. Unless Nintendo start doing BS online restrictions like the Xbox and Playstation, I'm stay with them and PC.
Yup, that's my line-up as well.
Steam has DRM, which sucks, and Valve is slow as hell, which sucks, but Valve is not publicly traded and they're consumer-friendly - they hand out dev tools, dedicated server software, their hardware is built to be repaired the works. My Index was broken and they sent a new one. My account was hacked and they fixed it within a day. Keep an eye on Humble Bundle and you'll always have some decent games to play, for super-cheap.
Nintendo makes good games (at least for each of their games' specific target audience), and their physical games don't require an online connection. It sucks how they treat fans and it sucks how they've moved from selling virtual console games to 'renting' them with Switch Online (which I'll never get), though.
GoG is just fantastic in every possible game. No DRM. Super-cheap sales. Hunting after older titles. Fixes and patches so games run on modern systems.
And then there's emulation for absolute gems that are impossible to get for normal humans. Good luck playing Mother 3, for example.
@@Skeletons_Riding_Ostriches yeah, at the end of the day, I just want to play video games. The steam deck is fantastic so far. Being able to play both my steam and Gog games on it is so great. :3 at least on steam, I know what to fully expect when it comes to ownership. I had a few < no Internet for a month or 2? surprise mother fucker! You can't play this digital game you paid full price for on your home Xbox! Lol too bad for yooooou!>that ended my Xbox legacy and when the PS5 slim came out and they added a lock to the disc drive. That was it. I just dumped the idea of getting a PS5 or new Xbox at that point. I'm going to have a build that can play games soon but I just wanted to get a steam deck to start. It's like the switch in a few ways and it does work offline.( I know there must be some kind of catch though. Lol) So it has a lot of points over Sony and Microsoft right now.
Stop buying games on release day
That’s one of the primary rules I live by: never buy “version 1.0” of anything.
Im really glad that im behind when it comes to games. Just a few months ago i bought a used copy of The Witcher 3 for $8 and ive been loving my first play through just like many people did 9 years ago lol
Nice. I got The Witcher 3 in late 2019 and it has become one of my favorite games of all time.
I'm at the point where I went from being okay with cosmetic only mtx to not even wanting to give them that much. Mostly because it seems like games are just being made now to sell that stuff. Where things that could've easily just been included in the base game are available for purchase within weeks of the game being released.
I stopped buying games if i can't play offline and without updating! I don't like people changing my game every few weeks . I also only buy physical games only . Give me 15 million and i can make a AAA game myself in 4 to 5 years easy .These guys i don't know wtf they are doing lol .
I have so many pysical games from when I still was on console and for the nintendo switch I do not know where to put them now. It is actually a problem for me to find space for them
Gamedev is not that easy. Just watch how many Kickstarters fail, not because it was a scam, but because the people behind the project didn't knew how to manage it.
@@ItsHawx i kept all the ps2 and ps1 games i had as well as the demos from the ps1-ps3 era..all stored away on a rack...
Back in the day we spent a lot of money at arcades. The Golden era of gaming is the time between the microtransactions of the aecades and the microtransactions of live service games.
The dumbest part is a truly great game really will sell itself. Gamers talk about what they love to play because of their passion.
Just spend your damn money making a solid product and your ROI will be through the roof.
You guys: We can't fight this downward spiral of micro transactions and pay-to-win ripoffs!
Me: You cannot win, but there are alternatives to pir... fighting. Fighting! Alternatives to fighting!
LOL
I booted up The Crew racing game on PS5 the other day, expected a great time, I was met with a menu screen that was an entire multi billboard trying to sell me so many passes and things. Whatever happened to just having a start button, letting a user play what they just bought. How is your first thing to bombard a persons who just bought your thing, with the options to buy more before he has even tried the thing he bought?
I’m not a gamer, haven’t been one since 2010. Only recently got back to it as a distraction from being a workaholic.
"This land is no such thing as civilised. It is a man so in love with greed that he has forgotten himself and found only appetites" ©Dutch Van Der Linde, RDR 2
I quit preorders years ago. Its silly to pay for something that isnt finished especially if its digital and not going to ever sell out. Just wait for day one reviews. Once you master this, its so much better than paying ahead for unfinished products.. Its self control. And not only will it help your pocket, but itll also force devs/pubs to release games in better shape/completed.
I just stick to my N64. :D
All those developers with their experience that got laid off will be the competition that the AAA market should be afraid of. Games doesn't cost millions to make, only the handful people at the top are causing this issue, while the people working on that game won't even get close to 1% of that. Game companies that deal with investors aren't there to give you a great game experience, but they exist to try and squeeze ever single dime out of your pocket and still give you that empty feeling wanting you to spend more to get that happy feeling for one second. That is why I support Indie game companies more and more and enjoy their games a lot. In the past I would buy almost every single AAA game from the big companies, but now it all turned to shit.
Honestly yea! I really want to see what these newly formed studios made up of industry veterans come up with.
Privately owned dev studios, such as larian and arrowhead also just show how public studios are not getting any benefits from going public.
Also man indie games have been stepping up lately. Genuinely insane quality and quantity from them. I cannot wait to see more
Most of those developers will likely leave the industry altogether. There are simply far too many games, period. On Steam alone, 14000 games were released on that storefront last year. Completely unsustainable.
@@lycanwarrior2137highly doubtful. The gaming industry is bigger than movies and music combined and almost half of the world are gamers. So no, there aren't too many games, you saying this is actively going against the consumer. The more options and choices a consumer has, the more control they possess. Imagine a world where there's only a few games to pick from, all under 2-3 major corporations. Oh wait that's basically how it is in other industries. Yeah so more games is the best solution to fight against AAA.
so many people have forgotten that the idea of updating a game was to release a unfinished game that way they can finished the game after its release the dlc concept was for that very reason to . microtransactions should alow you to buy the items because we all cant do some of the super hard things that require to get some of the cool items
25:37 - What game is that?
The riftbreaker! I made a video on it. It is a bit older though so expect some cringe.
Riftbreaker is a top down base building and horde mode(?) game. Pretty fun too! I replay it every time they add a story expansion though be aware the amount of enemies and particle effects can be strenuous for the gpus
Instead of the crazy guy screaming for chocolate in SpongeBob, i just imagine him screaming "Games as Service!" , or "Money!" or "Micro transactions!" or "Always online!"
Honestly now that i think about it, theres alot of inane and insane shit game execs have been pushing out for years like an addiction.
God that is the funniest image ever
I never knew if he was screaming because he liked it or he didn't like it. 🤔
This is the best work of art you have ever made. Keep it up! Cheers
Thank you!
What's that mining game at the end?
2:57 anyone know the background music??
Yoshi's Island OST - Flower Garden
There’s a lot of brain dead consumers who dont think for themselves and they just buy anything because they have nothing else going on with their personal lives. Like another thing, why are we keep getting remakes after remakes? Its stupid to keep experiencing the same thing over and over again
Thats easy, its just like the movie industry. I believe over 70% of movies are either sequels, remakes, or from some other form of media like comics, video games, novels, etc. Familiarity has a higher chance of making a profit than something new. Video games are no different.
@@foyo5497 true
I rather pirate ps1 games than pay 70 dollars for a ps5 game.
25:45 What's the name of that cave-digging game shown at 25:45 ?
The Riftbreaker. The footage shown is from the second story expansion. It is a base building, tower defense horde based game. Lots of fun and the game can be extraordinarily difficult
One thing I adore Final Fantasy XIII (can't recall if XIII-2 had it also) for, was giving players who earn certain trophies a theme for your PS3.
Did it impact your gameplay experince? - No
Did it give you an advantage over other players? - No.
Did it make you happy? - Yes.
And it was free (outside the price of the game).
The last AAA-ish game I bought was Dirt Rally from 2015. I havent paid over $50 for a game in over a decade. There's a lot of good indies nowadays.
There's almost no reason to buy games on release. You're getting an inferior product for full price when you can just wait a year or two for the game to be fully patched, all dlc released and sold all at a discount.
The fact that this seems to be the right thing to do is...disappointing. Especially on pc this is just...infuriating
@@ItsHawx XD its not just PC. It's been the way to handle AAA since game patches went mainstream on consoles. Wait at least a month to avoid the nastiest bugs that (at least back then) were allowed into the game because they were relying on the time between going gold and release date to fix bugs in a day 1 patch.
OMEGA based!
95% of the gaming community does not support these practices, but the 5% that do spend enough to justify publishers to continue this path. These companies tell themselves to continue the live services path because they believe the revenue from one success will make up for the 10 previously failed ones. Is it bad for the industry? No doubt. They do not care though. At least I’m saving money.
That's not true. 95% of the gaming community don't pay for microtransactions, but they still play the game. Having an active player base is what attracts the 5%, the so called whales, to pay for the 95% that don't pay. So as long as you play a game that has microtransactions you are supporting this practice.
Could somebody please tell me what game this is? 25:28
The Riftbreaker. I have a pretty old video on it if you are interested. But do expect cringe cuz I did not know how to youtube
gamers knew for years that all of this was coming. and we still continued to support the behaviours that are making the gaming industry fail. we have our choice to continue supporting behaviours that will destroy the gaming or to stand against it so that we can save and improve the gamin landscape.small actions can save the industry
i saw it coming once call of duty 4 came around and watchdogs,assasins creed as well...these were sub par games to begin with despite the reviews, even back then i could see that if they didn't change the sequels enough it would be the excat same game....never saw what the hype was around cod4 either...its a good game but nothing i hadn't seen before..even back then..
I literally lost all of my hype and intrest towards buying any new game, I'm sticking to my old collection.
I find myself being more weary of games. But there are still great games out there. A lot of them too!
The horizon forbidden west pc port is great for example
Same
They just embezzling or wasting the money. Def not the real cost
I am guessing a lot of the money just goes into a blackhole of mismanagement thanks to greedy execs
18:24 - Coincidentally, when the whole debacle happened about "digital = you dont own it" i literally thought of the same quote from hercules lol.
This is why I mainly started playing emulated games alongside pretty old games like Aliens versus Predator the Remake not any of the older games but if I ever do you get any of the older games I'm definitely going to play them
Vote with your wallet people! I've bought 3 games over the last 2 years: Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and Helldivers 2. Don't pre-order games, don't buy mtx. Helldivers 2 has mtx, but it's only cosmetics, and they usually have WORSE stats than the regular items, making it more like pay-to-lose, or just a cool way to support the devs. Plus, literally everything can be bought with currency which can be earned in-game. Stop giving these crappy companies your money people. Let their companies fail, force them to provide a good service to their customers
Gonna be honest I highly doubt that "Vote with your wallet" will work. It hasn't worked for years. Hence why I didn't say that myself. But I like the enthusiasm!
I’m still proud of Nintendo for giving me a refund for Battlefront. I got in touch with customer service, explained how the game is Poopballs and I got my money back
I once got a refund for Street Fighter Vs Tekken lol. I played it once and felt cheated, and somehow the store I bought it from understood completely.
If you literally called it "poopballs", mad respect, man. XD
@@LocustaVampaSometimes people are just cool and it's awesome like that, right?! I'm surprised Nintendo was, honestly lol
@@MegabyteRedSectorOh yeah! The rep played it really straight too since it was over the little Nintendo help text chat. But I assume if I said it over the phone, there would've been laughs lol.
I believe I wrote "the game doesn't function nearly as well as advertised on the Nintendo Direct, and is 'poopballs'" and I still got a full refund :)
Wow they did the bare minimum
the clip you used at 8:11 was actually ripped from Blizzcon 2018, not E3.
As someone that was born and raised in Tortuga, I have never left the Seven Seas, mates. And the way these companies are, I will keep hoisting the Black Flag for as long as humanly possible. Arrrr
You're so lame
That's mostly only AAA (and AAAA 😂) gaming.
What about Palworld, Helldivers, etc?
God the audacity of that one ubisoft guy to call Skull and Bones quadruple A is both astonishing and laughable. Like bro the game has less content than some games from the launch era of the ps3 and xbox 360
Palworld is releasing a dating sim if you haven't heard yet. Yes you can date the pals as well...dunno how to feel about that but it will certainly make some people happy. The game itself wasn't really something I enjoyed but I can see why people like it.
Helldivers I made a video on. I like it quite a lot!
@@ItsHawxI believe the dating sim thing was an april fools joke.
You know....I somehow doubt that. Even if it is with how it was received they most likely are making it now LOL
@@NamminammHey, give the fans what they want, and what do they want?
Unholy smut and romance.
People played Skyrim and mass effect.
People don't mind dating other races in games anymore.
Besides, who Wouldn't want a human pokemon, I mean human/pal dating game.
Give the fans what they want damnit!
Now i'm no genius, but maybe, just maybe, it would cost less in the long run to not fire half your staff the moment a project finishes, to then start a new project and hire more staff and train them up
I moved to Indie game over 5 years again and am much happier for it
As for sports games fans? well i try not to generalize about a group of people no matter how **cking stupid they are :P
Friendly reminder that 4 layer bluray disks hold up to 150gb of data.
So theres no real reason to not have the full game on the disk.
When ever I see a "season pass" or some form of currency, I cringe and leave straight away
This is what happens when capitalism takes over what we love.
And AI added on top of that is only going to make this even worse.
Your comment makes absolutely no sense.
Why are you bringing politics into this
@@ToBy11334 capitalism isnt politics.
@@AB-bh6rb capitalism is a social, economic and political system
Shout out to all the ethical pirates out there! Arrrrg
Paradox statement
Pirating games is justified when you don’t legally own the product you’ve bought. Or when you don’t have the means to play the game due to exclusivity.
@@better-shotgun1686 no, there is simply no excuse for stealing, if it's a shitty deal then people should stop buying those games and the market will simply shift towards what people want
There is no justification for pirating other than it's theft for your advantage
@@l.3626 I’m not saying I’ve pirated anything. The only game I’ve considered pirating is Helldivers 2. Fuck Sony (the publisher).
@@l.3626 the only game I have “Pirated” is Helldivers 2, and put it on a homebrewed/modded Series X. And even then, I still payed full price in Sony’s store. I haven’t stolen a game, I’ve only played the game a way that Sony (fuck semi-exclusives. I’ve been saying that since I realized that the MCC isn’t going completely cross-platform) didn’t intend. Playing games in a way that the publishers didn’t intend is common nowadays, Doom has been played on everything that can possibly display gameplay (but ID has basically given the internet free reigns to classic Doom. Finding a way to play the game without paying is extremely easy.)
Gaming development and the modern day clusterfck of corporations was never going to go the distance. When you have a handful of guys on a shoestring budget that can make a better more popular game than an international company with 100s of millions "spent on development" what more proof do you need?
And lets be honest, we can all guess that alot of that development money went into the pockets of useless corporate management types.
I started getting into trophy hunting on PSN and any game with battlepass/lootbox transactions instantly flies off the list of games I’m gonna purchase because a majority have “online only” trophies and I’m not paying $15 for an online mode anymore.
I always pirate games not because am poor but it is only way i can punish companies.
Based, ma man.
Piracy for the win.
Oh man, Destiny burned me pretty hard on its initial launch - realizing that to "level" you'd have to RNG grind the same exact bs unholy number of times turned me completely off. Dipped into D2 after it went f2p, and it honestly wasn't all that either.
Guy on another channel was talking about tech companies and what kind of CEO the have. Engineers tend to be more focused on the product, but businessmen tend to work for the shareholders. The tech companies are making the mistake of thinking shareholders are their customers was the argument and for me it works here too.