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When Cullings Monetization makes Fallout 76 look better.

This is hilarious, first Jim Sterling and Penguinz0 now Bigfry. They might even shut their servers down before they reopen them at this rate

The "unique" challenges they face with bringing it back to PC is that no one will pay for this bullshit.

"One of the worst" Calling it one of the worst is an understatement, it's *_the worst monetization scheme of gaming._*

This would be like paying 5.99 to enter KZfaq's Website Then you can only watch one video of choice, regardless if its 1 minute or 10 minutes. Then after that one video you then have to pay to watch a video, and then pay to watch the next video and so on and so on... And they expect people to pay for this?

6:50 This dude looks like he took some magic mushrooms and is slowly loosing his grip on the real world, and is trying to pitch a dumb business idea to you and your friends while tripping sack

And people say Loot Boxes were the worse but if i had to chose between 2 evils, the loot boxes or literally "pay 2 play per match", I'll pick the loot boxes, least i *don't need* to buy the boxes & i can enjoy the base game. Don't ever say "it can't get any worse" because it always can.

"New players will have access to a 1-day, free trial..." that they'll have spent money on; I guess that initial $6 is a donation?

That dragwah dude sounds like a devs alt account with how hard they were defending the bull.

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."

The culling is like a crazy ex. When she comes back you can’t help but play with it. But then you just hate yourself after

I played The Culling Origins when it was free, I had fun for like 3 days and then it shut down. It was fun but it wasn't great, if they bring that back on PC and make it free for a while then charge like $5 on steam and actually take it seriously I'm sure it'd bring tons of new players to it.

I knew this video was coming once I heard about this !!

the only subscription to a crappy thing ill keep is the one to bigfrys twitch channel. much love fry lol.

Doesn’t matter the game, that monetization scheme makes my soul wanna leave my body.

I bet todd howard is thinking "why didn't I think of this?".

Whenever Bigfry starts laughing in the intro, you know it is gonna be a good video! Keep up the good work and thanks for looking out for the consumer!

Culling directors: Let's go ahead and bring back a dead game, Charge per round, and do it during a global pandemic where money is tight! Internet: No thanks.

Imagine paying 6 dollars for essentially a 1 game trial. Actually fucking insane

Man it's depressing to see all of the originality and passion within the gaming industry coming to a crawling stop.

Did I watch a tutorial on how to kill a dead game?

In the words of Jim Sterling: "I can't tell if it's stupid or if it's just me."

If someone hit me on the head several times I might pay for this

What makes even less sense is it's cheaper to subscribe than to buy tokens

everyone is talking about this .. its just so messed up for how to monetization

thehehe :D your laugh at start just.. said it all

game: you cant just bring me back from the dead like this, just let me die! dev:* pulls out shovel* Just watch me kiddo!

Bethesda "quick wright that down write that down"

5:26 lmao they got me bent if they think they got a good monetization "scheme"

0:14 I'm no expert but i could make better particle effects in a hour probably, its recycled straight from 2010

"how do we bring back more players?" "what?"

That trailer's voice sounds like Bigfry lol

If this was April 1st I would think this was someone's poor attempt at April Fool's Joke. This is just freaking sad AF.

It’s crazy. They had a great game right in front of them.. And a Great fan base. Than they got greedy. There was no Love. No effort. No Reason. No passion. They just wanted money. It’s truly sad cause I supported this game a lot. Loved the game Rip

So they are basically EA Games Ultra Pro Max Mega Plus Evo

Why would I spend $6 a month for a game that was free to play. This is basically like iRacing's subscription service, but you have to buy the game first, can only race in one race a day, and then have to pay for another race. What a joke. At iRacing is a good fucking game.

"This island used to be filled with murder and mayhem, but it's been full of emptiness for too long!" No, the island will never "fill back up" with any of that stuff. They pretty much destroyed what little bit of goodwill that they had left. They pulled their pants down and laid out a Big Ol' Fudge Dragon on the faces of their fan-base/customers. This token nonsense is one of the DUMBEST moves that I've ever seen a developer/publisher make. Tokens died with the arcades, and they're built designed to suck every last dime out of the player! You set the price low and sell cosmetics, that's it. If the game is good, then people will play it, which means they will stay in the game and eventually purchase something. Breaking even at the original point of sale is NOT a bad thing if it gets customers/players to into the game. If they buy-in, then you will see revenue generation. Most companies understand this and you can see it all throughout the gaming industry. I mean, Sony and Microsoft lose a ton of money on hardware/console sales. It takes them years to see even the smallest bit of profit from hardware. They make the majority of their money from software and that's something that'll never change. If you, as a company, are unable to accept that, then maybe this industry isn't for you. The profit margins can be ridiculously high compared to other industries, but it takes more time to actually see the returns.

Well this is sufficiently gory 🤣but I dont need to be ripped off 🤣

Note for devs, never refer to your monetization model as a "scheme".

the people that are making this must be my age older because this sounds like an arcade. the first hackers will be gods

Xavient Devs: "creates convoluted token system" Chuck E Cheese:"Am I a joke to you?"

How to make your game die a third or fourth time.... WTF!

IT'S BACK! Oh wow I can't wait!! This is going to be sick! No, I absolutely didn't get 10 match tokens and 100 jump tokens to say that.

What the hell... lmaoooo I'm weak!

Yes I’m so fucking happy you are covering this

Absolutely no. If I buy a game, the only additional money I spend is if I want some swag. I am not paying to play on a constant basis

This is worse than those mobile game with an energy system were you have to wait or pay for the energy to recharge.

God I love your wheeze

"First of......I'm gonna dislike the shit out of this" ROFLMAO 😂😂😂😂😂 I LOL'ED SO HARD IRL. The culling aka the biggest scam in gaming history....

this is like mobile game levels of microtransaction

Did they actually go through with it? It's been awhile and I haven't heard crap about it.

Kinda makes me sad... Played the game when it first released :(

We have gone from pay-to-win to pay-to-play model.

Speaking of Dead Matter Devs... Zorko installing RATs on people's computers during the Crysis Mod days

Notice how dumb or clueless Josh looks every time Bigfry pauses the video

EA and Activision: we have some of the most consumer unfriendly monetization The culling : hold my beer

I'm going to guess the dev has twitch streamers paid off to play it for for few weeks

To that Dragawsh character: How much of a cut they paying you from the microtransactions for you to suck them off? Lol. "No one cares for new players." Thats what MAKES the game happen??? What?!

Well, I mean, if their goal was to make noise... success?

The moment I saw their 're-announcement?' I knew straight away that this was a last ditch effort to scam as many players as they could.

I bet that guy is like a boomer who still thinks you need tokens for playing games

this has to be a money laundering scheme like cmon now lmaooooo

This company has some of the absolute worst business decisions I've ever seen. Idk how they aren't bankrupt

Warzone is free.I know the budgets don't compare,but who would play a shitty early access when that game is free.

It's quite sad that it isn't obvious enough to see their f2p plan couldn't keep it up how are people willing to pay for this.

Yooooo this straight up look like a hostage video 😂

Why does the developer remind me of Charlie's uncle from Always Sunny.

If this were a AAA game, I feel like there would be a lawsuit/ban on these kinds of practices. Loot boxes are bad, but this is just as bad. It deserves to fail miserably.

“Sorry to hear you feel that way.” Looks like Xaviant has been taking tips from Channel Awesome.

the dislikes are probably from the devs from that game

If games start doing this I will never fucking play a game again

Hell no I wouldnt pay for that shit lmaoooooo

To be fair I could pay 15$ to play this for 2 months or spend 15$ on a fucking skin pack for call of duty which I already paid 80$ for and the skin pack only effects 1 already designed character and 2 guns that already were in the game

I dont even care about the game, this is why I come to watch, I know you will have original content and its brutality hilarious in its truth. 🤣

How will there be any playerbase? If you are only allowed to play one match a day this will mean a severely decreased population of players playing concurrently.

I'm surprised no one has tried selling Hours instead of subscriptions yet.

How did they come up with this I highly doubt any players will be online what a shady company.

Great video, thanks for this BigFry :D

You couldn't give me 5.99 to play that game 1 time, lmmfao

Even if I was paid for playing this game, I wouldn't.

My first time watching a BigFry stream and I see you just DEVOURING this lmao

"Its been filled with emptiness for too long"

This makes Battlefront 2 on release look the best fucking deal ever.

That Dragawh guy...

Its battle royale. Theres ONLY ONE winner every match = only one guy gonna get a token.

They accidentally made a half fun game years ago and now they are trying to resell it to a new player base and bleed this game dry

The amount of free advertising this game is getting is incredible. Lol

I swear even EA wouldn’t do this it’s like they looked at the jokes made about EA and used it as inspiration for they’re monetization

I saw that bs... i literally uninstalled.. they made it to 10 free tokens a day. There is barely anyone playing that shit

No one played this when it’ was free and now they wanna charge you to play it on a daily basis? The nerve lmaoooo

The Culling? More like The " Coming " all over the gaming community... I'd rather Subscribe to Fallout 76 via Fallout First...

My jaw literally dropped when you started talking about the tokens...

Man I just wanna know how they thought this WOULDNT piss people off. Like no one cares about the game anymore, it was amazingly fun a few years ago but after how they tarnished their reputation with shitty business tactics and clear desperation we were content with leaving it behind. And knowing they have a history of failures behind them they then come back with an absolutely HORRID pay2play style subscription system?? and genuinely think people will purchase it?? I'm surprised the development team still exists move on people..

As some comment said, this has to be a money laundry thing bro, like how?

This idea is fucking cancer for the gaming community. A bigger company is going to pick this up and try it. Just watch. It’s going to be horrible

They won’t even ban hackers as hackers will now make the dev money.

They actually expect us to pay $6 and an additional how much ever for tokens...to play the game over and over. Xaviant has absolutely lost it...

They should just put back loot crates and cosmetics, remove the tokens and encourage community run servers handled by a master server. If that doesn't work, then they're already fucked.

"I'm gonna dislike the shit out of this" oooh you're so badass