Or criticism, or just any speech they don't like. You know, just another way to say they're abusing the copyright law to censor people without using the censorship word.

Yeah, this is a continuation of the old song and dance of companies thinking KZfaqrs, reviewers and journalists are supposed to be an arm of their commercial branch and are supposed to exclusively sell their product. So they get pissy and offended when that is not what happens.

Angry truth, anger seeps in when you're affected by this nonsense, and it makes you twist the truth to be even more damning. Neutral hype is just relying the info, by the numbers, and positive hype is like the Bethesda showcases, where the normal and even buggy content are explained as bonus features.

Damn bro spoilers (JK I don't care) 😭

Negative hype is when a controversy becomes bigger than the community of the game, I think. That is not *necessarily* the truth, people can be fooled after all, but it most often is.

Here we are safe - here we are free.

The CEO of BattleState games has invited you to Lake Laogai.

Hi, I'm-

There is a reason corps keep trying to get it shut down. It exposes their lies.

Putting the 'class act' in class action lawsuit.

I could justify paying 250 bucks for the special edition of a game if it came with say a gold plated figurine of the main character, the soundtrack on vinyl, a poster hand-signed by each dev, an exclusive making-of documentary miniseries and a complimentary t-shirt. Ain't no way I can justify paying that amount for a digital copy of a game that's mostly just chock-full of cosmetics and for a game that's ostensibly still in early access or something!

"no microtransactions", so they had to go for *macro* transactions instead.

"We said no micro transactions so we put in honkin' HUGE transactions! It's what the people want, right?"

Like I already own Tarkov. Why would I pay $250 for the PvE mode that interests me when I could spend nothing on the PvE mod.

​@@sabinekine2737 It's kind of like a more extreme version of how Bethesda keeps trying to monetize mods

If only we had some sort of term for this common phenomenon. I wonder, for no particular reason, if Mike Masnick has any ideas.

"This 'No Negative Hype' T-shirt...."

Sometimes cancel culture can get out of hand, but it's also the only way for consumers to fight back. Boycotting has been a thing forever and if you don't like it, then you need to change as a company. Way too many protections for companies instead of consumers now adays

Voltaire once gave a scathing review of a book he didn't like. The king also didn't like the book, so he tried to have it banned. The resulting backlash turned the book into a smash hit, and Voltaire lost face for the bad review. It was in that light, not one of higher principle, that Voltaire remarked, "I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Isn't cancel culture only when the portion didn't do it? ​@@carolbaker2773 otherwise it is... Consequences of one's actions?

Yep, the devs lie to customers face, get called out for it, and then retroactively try to change the wording and redefine what the term “DLC” means in order to double down and fuck over the people who supported them.

me when plagiarism means not crediting the source

Checked the internet and the developer pulled something similar in 2018. Clearly it worked out for them back then, considering how Escape from Tarkov got really hyped up "recently" (positive hype, mind you).

POV: You trusted Russian game developers to not do awful, illegal things.

Nah

Are they massive or in fact absolutely tiny?

@@RowbotMaster If you had a set of massive spheres dangling between your legs, would you dare doing anything at all? Who came up with the term anyway, it's not about bravery, risking those being so much as struck with a candyfloss is nothing but stupid.

Brass balls, yet no spine.

Woah woah woah - do you want this video to get delisted?

Well given the state of the gaming industry that isn't indie, it hard not go for the pitchfork and torches, in fact we might have to some of it.

I call dibs on the pitchfork

Sign up now for the Justified Outrage Edition for only 179,99 for a free life time supply of pitchforks and torches! * * Torches not lit. Lighters sold separately. Pitchforks comply with (non-existant) regulation 218.72 meaning they aren't sharp and don't have a handle.

@@Landrassa1 Oooh, they've got the new Limited Edition Bethesda Pitchforks! =O

factorio reigns supreme yet again

I fully thought the membership mark next to your username was a stake emoji for a couple of minutes 🥩

they're a russian company based in a tax haven whose ceo has allegedly ties to some oligarch or another

Not sure if they even have the time to spare to go after individual developers. They seem to have their hands full trying to get Aple to behave...

@@richardvlasek2445 They may be "based" in Russia but technically they operate out of the UK. At the very least their operations in the EU could likely be shut down over this anyway, which would massively impact sales.

@@richardvlasek2445 In that case, let me make some "they are actually spyware" allegations based on nothing and watch the flames!

@@richardvlasek2445 Probably even more reasons to fuck them over in that case then. Europe isn't so enamoured with Russia right now...

I mean I've given shitloads of money to grinding gear games, but then again I've spent 5-digit hours in their game so feels fair idk

Especially since it doesn't come with say; a statue, physical soundtrack, physical artbook, or anything like that.

It's a fucked up world, some people do just have so much money that the differemce between 60 vs 250 on a game isn't all that substantial. Which is at least kinda understandable in my opinion, when you have so much money it must be really different trying to judge the worth of something. Then of course there are others who are actually spending a significant portion of thejr income, and that's something I just don't understand.

Star Citizen would like a word with its $55k+ JPEG

The only video game that might be worth that, from my hours played, is Morrowind. But Bethesda in 2003 still remembered being indie and would have found that absurd.

I immediately recognized it as well. I love that song so much!

"To err is human, to forgive, divine. Humans aren't machines... they have souls, feelings. They live, they die, they love, they hate... and yes, they even make mistakes." - Tarkov devs, probably

Jazz version too

Fucking thank you, I thought I heard it somewhere before but couldn't remember where, the jazz version is just amazing.

“Blacker than a moonless night, hotter and more bitter than hell itself… that is coffee.”

I really whish some based politician bring forward some take-the-piss-law proposal to end this sort of "Actually, screw you" behaviour. Call it... contract of the sale law!

"It's a *feature*...etc."

This deal's getting worse all the time.

"I'mma drop the deal and just pirate whatever you were offering, byeee"

@@mrheisenberg83 "Furthermore you must call yourself Mary and peddle around on this unicycle!" Sorry, couldn't resist.

@@shadiafifi54 Never apologize for adding to the joke. You made me laugh and took me a little ways down memory lane!

We did see something like this with Overwatch 2. They sold it on the PvE mode, only to yank it away after the release of the game.

@@legomaniac213 I think OP is referring to the Helldivers 2 debacle that transpired over the weekend.

@@legomaniac213 Didn't they do that three times? Once when they reported that the PvE was largely being scrapped in favor of a handful of missions coming later, once when they said there would only be 3 missions instead of more and once when they fully dropped the idea altogether.

@@legomaniac213 Methinks @oceandark3044 is being a bit sarcastic here. 😅 What was it now… HadesPlungers 3?

*Cough cough* Helldivers *cough* Sorry, I had something caught in my throat.

I've yet to find a gaming news site that doesn't descend into a cesspool at least periodically. I'd rather let guys like Frost wander around in that cesspool to tell me what the turds are made of than try to sample those turds on rye bread myself.

Seriously. A good company addresses criticism directly, a bad company deflects from it, but it takes a particularly shitty company to try and suppress it entirely.

Did it ever mean something else?

Always has been

Tarkov at least produced a playable game.

@@kylekonop4801 Star Citizen is a playable game, it just suffers from eternal feature creep.

At least star citizen doesn't have micro transactions, just macro transactions

touch grass edition $1499

@@iamtherealzombie and it's designed that way by the request of the majority of people who play it unfortunately they'll have no issues funding the game in 10 years time when they're still releasing concept ships purchasable through war bonds My brother is very hopeful for beta this year :/

Lol

Sony is just helping Frost deliver an actual cold take about Helldivers so he can stop delivering hot ones about it; how nice of them.

IDK, I've seen comments claiming that Sony hasn't done anything to revert the PSN account requirement for countries that can't make an account yet.

everyone i know bought the base edition and just downloaded the free offline pve mod that BSG doesn't want people to know exists

@@weezusQL Same

Can’t wait for that video

But it wasn’t players and bad reviews, or at least not primarily. It was almost certainly that they pulled their product from storefronts AFTER RELEASE, after people had already spent money on it, effectively locking out anyone that lived in a country where PSN wasn’t available. They also silently changed their statement on the Sony site from “PS games on PC won’t require a PSN account” to “some PS games will require a PSN account on PC”. This is extremely illegal in many places, and some of the countries they delisted the game from are part of the EU, which means they were about to get sued by not just a few countries, but an entire coalition. Sony might have the money to fight a few countries off, especially poorer ones and those with fewer/no consumer protection laws, but they’re not going to be able to fend off the entire EU. They had to bend the knee to not immediately go out of business; no amount of corporate fuckery lets you escape THAT big of a lawsuit.

@@tribblesfoxfolk god I hope you're right. Considering you're a rando in a youtube comment, I won't hold my breath, but damn would it be sweet.

@@Hawk7886 Good policy. I'll admit, I can't produce any hard evidence, so it's less of a theory and more of a hunch. I'm pretty confident with my hunch, though, considering one of the locations that got delisted was Metropolitan France, and France does NOT fuck around.

I was wondering if Star Citizen had a website to track their promises like this game has, but I suppose the number of things in "not implemented" and "broken" would crash the internet.

nice

Reply for the algorithm

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Feed it. Make it grow fat with your comments.

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Calories incoming!

To be fair, that whole thing happened over the course of 3ish days and only wrapped with Sony walking back on the decision earlier today. No time to edit it yet.

@@ninacochrane569 Yeah it was just a comment, not a complaint. Don't worry, we chillin here

That's a hard call for me, they are all so freakin' good...