Yoooo…. SAME. That shit was so flat and subtle you could almost miss it 🤣 perfect

I missed it. Explain?

It comes out of nowhere too.

@@JasonMatsoukas google docking

@@blushslice how can I undo what i saw?

The industry does everything they can to drum up hype and get preorders and first week sales, because they know that waiting a year or more after launch will get you a better deal on a more complete game

I miss the days where dlc were full on new campaigns or new characters to use.

I actually experienced this for the first time in my independent (no longer living or being financially supported by my parents) living with Star Wars Battlefront 2. I got the game a year or almost half a year after it came out. Certain things like the price, MT loot boxes, buggy were being fixed.

I miss there being special bonuses if you 100% completed the game or for beating a difficult challenge

Same. Been burned too many times. You get better value if you wait.

I was going to make a comment until I saw this one; hundred percent agree!

that just resumes what the world is into, not only games... Full pocket ppl are trying less, putting less affort on their productions whatever those may be and mass consumers are mediocre enough to consume and support whatever shit is being offered... the few who are not satisfied end up getting upset or even tend to start getting violent or with traces of mental imbalances, this kind of ppl like Lextorias who actually put some effort to make something really valuable is like fresh air from all the stupidity, mediocrity and these despicable scams

*manner, but all corrections aside I absolutely agree with you

@@Linkman8912 ha, good catch. Now I’m wondering how long I’ve been spelling it wrong

Yeah unfortunately the people spending money on games aren't even always the people with enough to spend. Some millionaire spending $5k on gacha can make a headline or a KZfaq thumbnail, but these companies prey on people making closer to minimum wage, where even $100 is a way higher percentage of their income.

2017-18 was probably the worst we’ve had it in a while, but now companies are even trying to justify hiking their prices despite the amount of money they already make. I really hope the customers by some sort of crazy miracle, just stop spending so much money on in game purchases or mediocre titles.

@@sosmooth13 yeah it's not some local industry, this is a world wide business. 60 dollars for a good released game should now remain a standard or else subscriptions will take over.

So many zingers haha

Sounds like your friend is an idiot

THATS WHAT I WAS GONNA COMMENT OMG

I have YT premium. Please tell me he put an ad in that section.

@@hatsjerhe did

Ope didn't finish the video before I posted this. I see you made the same link

Yeah its sick how they exploit people like that. I was gonna talk about it more than just a mention, but didn’t have the time in the video. Jim Sterling has a great one on it actually: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bbldd6qFp8C5YWg.html

@@Lextorias cool, ill have to check it out 👍

I refuse to buy the microtransactions in these games cuz I remember being a kid and actually playing games that did not have this monetization garbage

@@redseagaming7832 agreed

TOOOOOOODDD -Jim, at the time.

I’m not 100% knowledgeable about what a gacha game is. Are those the type of games that have you spend little bits of money here and there? I do this for fortnite every 4 or 5 seasons. Sometimes even drop an extra buck if I realize I’m missing out on in-game currency in games like Destiny 2 for something. Do those examples count?

@@sosmooth13 In this context it's a reward system with some randomized reward rate, like say item drops in a Diablo game, but monetized. The prizes can be character units, art skins, weapons, skills, etc. (Unlike the video claims, the rates are displayed for all to see and they all have upper bounds on their cost. And if one can't do math nice people on the internet will tell you what it requires. For most games this is an outrageous $500+ if you buy the scam gems raw like a dum-dum.) For 98.5% of the player base, they spend $0 on these games and treat them like MMO's, to be played over months and years. Most of those who have self control only pay for the worthwhile deals, a $5 monthly sub, an annual ~$30 unit selector ticket. Where it becomes infamous are the whales, who are people to whom money means nothing to them, or addicts who get to a dark place where they only care about the game and ruin themselves financially. True buddhists realize the point is in not having things, as once you have something you can no longer want it. And if there's nothing left that you want, there's nothing left to look forward to or desire. And then, why, you might as well be dead, right? I'm not familiar with Fortnite, but I did hear it used to have lootboxes which are indeed gacha. And things can get really funky sometimes: Azur Lane is a gacha game all but technically: it's barely a speedbump, people will get all the units very quickly. The *true* monetization scheme of that game is selling skins. While the flipside are games that push the power ceiling up constantly like Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. And something like ArKnights avoids ever truly raising the power ceiling, but is more ponderous at the rate it gives top units. This kind of system can be implemented in very different ways on the practical level. What is interesting is they all stem from Mobage - old, simple browser games that sold cards of cute/cool characters/monsters or lewd girls. Which in turn is influenced by Magic The Gathering and Baseball Cards. Paper Magic The Gathering is so much worse than gacha games. But hardly anybody ever seems to notice.. $4 for one randomized cardboard rectangle and like 10 pieces of trash....

Yeah, people are too easy to forget and forgive the existing TCG/CCG models when they're worse gacha models, you can only pay with real money.@@BMoser-bv6kn

@@BMoser-bv6kn ðe gacha system in pj sekai works similarly to what you described for azur lane

just because it's EA doesn't mean it's 5190% p2w there's spore which doesn't have p2w stuff and i'm pretty sure they didn't put p2w in plants vs zombies 1

@@xxGreenRoblox oh well. I take it all back. as long as those 2 games are ok. then they are fine. EA are the worst company in the world. why are you defending them?

Everything new that's came out is a red flag from EA. Literally can't play Jedi Survivor. It's been a year, and it's still unplayable on pc. Good thing I just only tried it on gamepass.

​@@xxGreenRobloxEA was only good during the 2000s when none of this greedy trash existed

True. Sometimes they make a decent game like the Dead Space Remake

Thanks!

I appreciate the concern. It's not so much pushing myself to make the video in 2 weeks, but more that I could've always done this, I just procrastinated before. So don't worry, I'm not pushing myself into any burnout. Just working more regularly since my videos are getting some traction :)

Thank you! To even be compared to him is an honor.

@@Lextorias I feel the same too Keep it up man,

So the ad role here was on purpose - i knew it 😂👌🏼

Nope there was an ad right after he said that and looked deadpan at the camera. I thought it was funny though

there was it was kinda funny

thank you! I appreciate it

Thank you!

Halo died with 4 thanks to modern greed crap

Thank you!

Even deus ex got ruined by modern greed its crazy

(Or was there a youtube ad break there that my adblocker plorped?)

Judging by other comments, there was a KZfaq ad there

@@PhoenicopterusR ah I see

Yes but there is still a 50/50 aspect so you can spend 180 wishes to get one copy of the character. At Least genshin is mostly single player so you won't spend thousands dollars to become the best player because you can't fight with other players. Spiral abyss is the biggest reason players want to have the strongest characters. Other than that people pull characters so they can look at their hot waifu/husbando

That also a trick to make you spend thats what you dont mention idiot Yes you can have a guarrented char at some point but you will have to grind for long times just like every sibgle trash system they do now You really dont understand lol

​@@animae008exactly it is pure scam to make you frustated and then you pay and if you dont prepare to grind for hundreds of hours these dev are terrible