Thank you so much! I love these kinds of comments, I immediately want to make another already!

I appreciate it!! Man. You all commenting so positively feels great

Thank you secret agent Puggles! (That's right, I know you're CIA)

Yep, that’s the only reason I have faith still - is that the silent majority of gamers still just want a fun game, no pay to play past a purchase. Mobile games monetization deserves a video on its own as the foundation of our ACTUAL games taking that monetization pathway. Diablo 4 wouldn’t be this way if Genshin and those other mobiles didn’t come to PC, and excel to new heights. Thanks for the comment man :)

@@poxxyplaysgenshin is 100% the diseased sheep that will poison the flock

Hey! Thanks so much I appreciate it, I’m happy you’re happy with it!

Acrostic, I’ll pop you up on my wall! Thanks for the comment, it’s a different kind of video than I’m used to making

My man! 😂😂😂🎉 I appreciate you

I haven’t tried it yet, shooters haven’t appealed to me as much recently but the rise in games like Helldivers 2 (from what I heard its great) and Elden Ring, keeps my hopes alive for the industry. with the dragons dogma 2 pay structure nonsense going on rn, it’s disappointing

UE5 would be the first positive change… I swear, even the game feels slower now than it did, or the physics were slightly altered? I don’t know

Thank you!

Thank you so much! If there was one main thing you’d improve for yourself as a viewer, what do you think it could be?

​@@poxxyplaysI think add more pics of what you are talking about like at 2:12 like you can add a pic when you were explaining how skins could equate to prices of games in 3:17 you could like show examples of those. In short show examples of pics of some stuff over the gameplay or something cuz like I would like to see what examples you are talking about sometimes.

@@skyshark0326 I was debating on how much to show when editing it, knowing that more of that is good, thanks!

Radiant the man, the myth!!! Thank you :)

I agree for the pay to win aspect, realizing now I didn’t address very clearly that for Rocket in general, it’s just about the insane influx of monetization for the game that stands an issue with me, because it forces Psyonix to focus on increasing their shareholder’s revenues from the game, rather than make the game actually better. However, I enjoyed in the early days when every car DID have their own unique hit box, but given how many cars they’ve sold, I’m happy they share hit boxes now. So there isn’t any sort of actual pay to WIN in RL. It’s a double edged sword of a point I was trying to make, like “even a free game’s developers are now stood more to focus on profit” rather than the gamers who made their game popular. I hope this helped for what I was trying to convey a bit! Thanks for the interesting comment

@@poxxyplaysYup, then I guess we're on the same page :)

I’ve never played it cause it looks god awful, is it heavily monetized?

Hey, but hey - hey, at least we all have a new car pack or item store skins 😂 oh! And don’t you remember that update where Psyonix said “with our increased amounts of profits from draining the players wallets, we fixed the servers, added more servers and made them faster!” Oh… wait……

Thank you kindly Zend, or should I say, Wend?

@@poxxyplays W reply🤝

@@poxxyplays you got a discord server?

@@imzend Not one for subscribers or anything similar, I may do so in the future for sure. I feel like I'm pretty small still for having a community that may want that, but your interest is peaking my own!

It’s like two sides of the same coin. Microtransactions in general spawn a necessity for Game Companies to continue to increase profits, a smaller or independent company (as Psyonix was) would never have disabled player trading on their own, and would not have monetized it as much as Epic has forced them to. It is not a directly pay to win game, however monetization in-game has increased dramatically and with EVERY GAME that does it - over monetization always leads to dog ass. In this case, step one of dog ass was the item store on the main page, and the items costing anywhere from $5 to $25. Step two of dog ass, is disabling player trade and ruining a functioning economy for the entire trade scene. Step three is gonna be something worse 😂 idk what though. Thanks for the thought!

I agree completely, you remember what it meant to have White Zombas? Or the white Draco wheel era of Rocket League? So much fun, and the player interaction was off the charts.

Thanks :) and I’ll keep that in mind! My only thought was I dislike when videos stray from the topic or theme, so I try to not - even if it is now only 3 1/2 minutes, yknow?

you’re already on my wall…

Hope you enjoyed :)

Thank you, and I’m still very novice to the whole record, commentate and edit process, I’m gonna try and make some banger videos with some banger thumbnails!

@@poxxyplays awesome, I'm cheering you on!

But you can’t do the last level of abyss until you’ve done dailies for over a year as F2P with good luck on banners on yknow? I shouldn’t be forced into a year of repetitive daily gameplay to reap the same rewards as someone does in one week of whaling, I played it for a bit and never spent a dime - and for three months i was hooked cause it genuinely is fun, but once the only content left was whale only, I realized I wasted so much time. 5 star Eula + her sword combo from back to back banner pulls was pretty cool though.

@@poxxyplays do you think it is a problem not completeting the last level of the abyss? I dont think it is at all, it is an optional content and not necessary, it doesnt gatekeep you from the story or anything else, just an extra. Also I think getting good artifacts on xingiu matters much more than having a shit nahida build, so I think artifact is probably the problem and not characters, I have an F2P with soo many good character but none of them have any good artifacts which is a problem that even faces whales.

@@Nobody-eu6tb I only think it is a problem due to the rewards that it gives, especially for a f2p player, not completing the abyss is a huge disadvantage to the primogem grind. Artifacts are done decent enough, but the tedium of grinding them until you have the PERFECT rolls is something only a whale can dream of. The set amount of dungeons/ley lines that you can do over time is the worst thing you can do to a f2p player, it's the same thing as like mobile games energy systems to play the next round. It is ONLY there to make you pay, yknow? Cause they know players love to grind, so take that away - microtransaction heaven!!! lol good comments though, making me a think about genshin again lol

@@poxxyplays I am not gonna defend the artifact system because it is a poor design as well as the resin system. However going back to the abyss, 180 primogems for the twelfth floor is just not worth the grind for, it is only one wish if you miss out on a single cat or picture event you lose like 360 primo at the bare minimum, on average patch gives out 6k-11k primogems, on that same patch the abyss goes through two cycles, and clearing out the 12th floor twice is only 360 in total, that aint worth suffering at all. The funny thing is that people who played this game 24/7 at some point and whaled wants a harder endgame because the game is too easy. The amount of grinding I have seen from F2Ps clearing out the whole abyss is insane ngl, it really comes down to whether you will enjoy the game or not if you wanted clear out the 12th floor.

@@Nobody-eu6tb I agree totally, when I play games though I take pride in being able to clear all content in it, and if I can't do that based on my own grinding in the game in any amount of time I want to, I don't wanna play it y'know? It's the same reason I stopped playing WoW, or certain dumb mobile apps. If you don't do "x, y and z" every day/week, you fall behind - and I think it's worse that in gacha games (which WoW basically is now too with the WoW token), you're either always ahead or can catch back up if you spend money. I'm also speaking on a broad more universal aspect of the monetization across all games as well, I'm not completely familiar with all nuances from a lot of particular genres. Ultimately this video is just explaining my point of view and I'm not some nut who wants everyone to agree with exactly my POV lol, I appreciate the convos like this one though, that lemme learn from different perspectives

Hey I appreciate the offer but I gotta get better at making them too ;)