How Greed Ruined Gaming

recently Ubisoft dropped the world's

first quadruple a game called skull and

bones and in true Ubisoft fashion it

kind of sucked you will see that skull

and bones is a fully-fledged game he

said it's a very big game and we feel

that people will really see how vast and

complete that game is it's a really full

triple quadruple a game that will

deliver in the long run guys we promise

that not only is this game real but it's

complete and we did finish it people are

really going to see that we did finish

the game and that's how good it is it's

not a little secret that big studios are

dropping big stinky poop out of their

butts for 60 or even $70 now in the past

decade it seems there's been a trend of

AAA games releasing in unplayable States

the game is broken buggy or even

unplayable remember when they used to

make games that worked upon release

remember when releasing a game meant

that it was done you'd think if a game

is ready to be purched purchased by

millions that it should be in working

condition

right right guys I'm going to need to

get out my exercise ball on green screen

for this

one this isn't going to work very well

Triple A studios are so caught up in

overworking their employees to launch a

non-working game that everyone hates

that they spent $70 on riddled with

predatory microtransactions after you've

already purchased the full game and they

don't see how much that hurts their

franchises in the long run because their

current model is designed for maximum

profit and not maximum enjoyment of

consumers isn't that counterintuitive 2K

started putting ads in the game after

you already bought it hello oh this

hurts my

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butt not use my [ __ ] cyber Punk released

with game-breaking glitches because it

wasn't done but despite not being ready

delaying the release by another year

would piss shareholders and investors

off so they decided that this was the

best financial decision for them

regardless if the game was done so they

figured hey some profits is better than

none am I right guys hey who gives a

[ __ ] if this type of [ __ ] happens

currently the game apparently works

great now they' fixed many of the bugs

and everything but it's too little too

late in my opinion you get a reputation

for doing that sort of thing Diablo 4 I

couldn't even play couch Co-op without

glitches that made the game completely

unplayable there was no option to just

play offline Loc Al for no reason so we

couldn't even enjoy our Chad Chad Eddie

burbeck Warrior roleplay I ended up

uninstalling the game after several

tries over several days and never played

again which I don't understand we solved

online multiplayer roleplay like 20

years ago greed is such a driving factor

for why so many people just hate AAA

gaming now and it's hard to deny Ubisoft

CEO spouted how you shouldn't expect to

own the games that you buy as in gaming

will be a service if you don't own the

game you buy it can be taken away

modified patched you spent money on a

product you don't own which is just

terrible and also explains why Diablo

has no option to play offline when

servers go down then what when Tony Hawk

Pro Skater 5 released in 2015 the full

game was actually just a modified demo

disc that only had the first level on it

and then authorization that allowed you

to download the rest of the game to your

console they did this because they

didn't have time to print the full game

disc and when servers for the game went

offline buying the full game disc now

does nothing it's pathetic and that's on

top of how the game just didn't release

in a playable State John richello the

former CEO of EA notoriously greedy

company and who is now the current CEO

of unity in 2011 proposed a model that

would charge players real money to

refill their ammo in online multiplayer

Shooters like Battlefield this scumbag

was partly responsible for expanding the

popularity of microtransactions in games

and even proposed to charge Gamers per

bullet fired in games he said when you

are 6 hours into playing Battlefield and

you run out of ammo in your clip and we

ask you for a dollar to reload you're

really not that price sensitive in that

point in time since he's now the CEO of

unity a popular game engine for Indie

devs in 2023 John rip me off cello

introduced a pricing system that would

charge devs each time someone installs

their game that's on top of already

paying thousands of dollars a year to

use Unity that's like if Adobe charged

me every time I uploaded a video on top

of already paying them 50 bucks a month

not even they are that greedy that's how

greedy this guy is there's more

specifics to the pricing but this

absolutely kills projects especially

ones meant to be free this dude is a

villain to the industry and I don't know

how he became the CEO of another company

to ruin it's just really sad the

direction that modern gaming is taking

with not only these greedy CEOs but

going for massive games in terms of

scale and file size there's absolutely

no reason that Modern Warfare needs to

be over 200 gab um being buggy and

unplayable but also uninspired in the

era of every single thing needing to be

a remake this era of large companies

prioritizing doing what's safe and

pleasing shareholders leads to the same

games with less and less content being

released over and over again at an

expensive cost sure a big game staying

$60 for several decades technically

means games have gotten cheaper over

time due to inflation $60 in 1996 has

the same buying power as $120 today

that's like twice the

price but really Modern Warfare 2 again

really Modern Warfare 3 again do you

know how difficult it is searching for

things with when they just didn't change

the name of the new game this drives me

insane they could have released Modern

Warfare 2 2 or Modern Warfare 3 2 the

Remake just give me something instead of

innovation in gameplay and discovering

new ways to optimize games through

creativity and how they manipulated

memory to fit on the tiny 64 megabyte

cartridges of the N64 now we have

Juggernaut games that have no business

being over 100 GB which I just find

ridiculous like did you even try

optimizing anything why is fortnite 90

GB why why is 2K now consistantly over

100 gab that's just a side note that's

always pissed me off but studios are

clearly getting sloppy in exchange for

time and money why wait a few more years

to put out a beautiful working

exceptional title like Zelda breath of

the wild when you could just pump out a

Pokémon game every year in worse and

worse condition and make an even more

absorbent amount of cash vast open world

world with nothing interesting to look

for or find just to call it open world

and sure many games do this well but

maybe focus on a great gameplay

experience before just jumping into the

open world Trend because games that

release in unplayable conditions mostly

end up with a quickly dwindling player

base yeah we just go to B we'll be there

soon no worries yep off the B flag it's

around this

direction yep yeah yep that's

Direction yep I think we going the right

way that couldn't play when there was

hype around the game and never stuck

with it or opened it again due to the

sour taste it left in their mouths even

if the developers fix some bugs and

glitches postrelease like taking a

delicious pie out of the oven before

it's done so it's just like hot soupy

egg that might give you salmonella

there's a reason games like Red Dead 2

and GTA 5 have a dedicated fan base to

this day playing online and solo even if

you need to pick up each can of beans

one at a time Rockstar did something

right and it's releasing a game that's

done the bar is on the ground but first

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the video but in the wake of AAA Studios

losing trust and consistency in the eyes

of the consumers while still pocketing

so much money anyway so who cares there

are games that are trying something

unique and fun and capture that same

childlike Wonder like discovering you

can Chuck the baby penguin off the side

of the map in Mario 64 and those are the

rise of indie

games PlayStation Plus is a service

where you pay yearly to get access to a

huge library of games some older

Classics and lots and lots of Indie

Games I started exploring the vast

library of really cool Indie Games after

deciding I didn't want to play Far Cry 3

for the fifth time nor did I want to

experience the 10 Assassin's Creed games

on here so I started with just

downloading whatever I thought looked

cool and it started with this really

cool looking Chrono Trigger inspired

jrpg sea of stars made me cry excellent

game and one best indie game of 2023

then I discovered tiny kin a game that

outshined Pikman 4 in every single way

in my opinion the world is really fun to

Traverse and the platforming gameplay is

really well paced and extremely fun it's

not as sluggish as Pikman 4 moonlighter

is a really cool game where you manage a

shop by day and go battle dungeons from

materials to sell by night and of course

those dungeons get harder and the

materials get more expensive and in the

same vein I was introduced to an older

game enter the gungon a bullet hell Rog

likee that is extremely fun replayable

and has a pretty solid couch Co-op and

guess what you can buy all four of these

games at full price for 1 and a half AAA

games and Indie Games especially on

Steam go on sale constantly while

writing this almost all these games are

on sale and yet Skyrim is still $60 on

every platform for over a decade back in

my day AAA games used to go on sale for

$40 after a year and it's not like these

games are much shorter to justify the

cheaper cost by any means the hours at

least I put into them are pretty similar

to what I put into AAA titles as well of

course there are stinkers and

masterpieces that live in both Indie and

AAA worlds but but people are certainly

noticing a trend that these giant

Studios not putting out finished games

does not cater well to the price point

and well the fact that they're not indie

Studios hey don't you have hundreds of

employees working on this and it still

doesn't meet the bare minimum

expectations the fact that many big game

studios have garnered a terrible

workplace reputation not limited to

overworking unpaid overtime and sexual

harassment that could be an entirely new

video I'm mainly going after the suits

single-handedly ruining the modern state

of gaming by the power of pure green I'm

aware there are more than passionate

devs on these these teams that want to

see the hard work they've done be

something they're proud of I also want

to clarify I'm not talking about games

with a few bugs here and there too no

one expects a game with zero bugs and

releases absolutely perfect the ones I'm

talking about are the ones clearly

unfinished and rushed and which bugs

make the game unenjoyable or entirely

unplayable there's a reason the guy that

made Roller Coaster Tycoon by himself is

regarded as a God among Indie developers

he made this game in an archaic

programming language even for the time

it was released in 1999 Roller Coaster

Tycoon has an impressive feat of almost

not having any bugs in the game and

during a time where you needed much

support of a team to create and release

a game during this time making a game by

yourself or even with a small team was

not super accessible AAA Studios

dominated the landscape and said here

this is what we got for you and that's

it these are your only options here and

back then the expectation was that it

was done because after release they

couldn't rely on post-release patch and

updates through the internet like they

do today when there were patches they

mostly used to physically ship out newer

copies of the game and this has affected

things like speedrunning and tournament

gameplay and games like Wii Sports and

melee where different versions of the

game matter in Wii Sports One version of

Wii baseball doesn't have this cut scene

at the start of the game and the other

version does in speedr running changes

like this can be crucial to saving time

yes the PS2 and that generation of

consoles had internet connectivity but

developers couldn't rely on everyone

having decent internet and the physical

adapter needed and it wasn't a super

reliable way to install updates to fix

bugs unlike now where a significant

portion of Gamers have internet because

the landscape has shifted from

purchasing physical copies of a game to

downloading it on your computer and if

your computer can't handle the 90 GB

fortnite file then [ __ ] you you don't

deserve to play yet another reason to

cherish physical copies of media I'm I'm

rewatching Nasha for the fifth time and

the season 6 intro song is once again

removed from Hulu and it upsets me

dearly if I had the physical copy of

this it could have been preserved but

now I just have to like play it side by

side on YouTube uh every time I watch an

episode like if Nintendo could have

patched games in the Nintendo 64 era

they would have destroyed Mario 64

glitches and it would have been even

more difficult to get your hands on a

version of the game where you could

perform things like the backwards long

jump but then everything changed when

the internet attacked I'm the face not

Pikachu

hello yes as the internet became more

accessible reliable and better in every

household unless you have spectrum of

course game development also became more

accessible and feasible for Indie devs

you don't need the internet to code

obviously but now you could work with a

team easier online share code game

assets engines tools and the internet

really allowed for community-driven

Indie development in the early 2010s we

saw m craft and Terraria become

increasingly popular in 2015 we got

undertale and this

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song in 2016 we saw also the Pinnacle of

Indie gaming and the face of video game

music playlists on YouTube stard valy

also famously made by a guy it's

undeniable how massive these indie games

got and how massive of a community these

games still had and I feel like that was

really the start of this change of tide

for gaming as a whole the way we consume

games is so different than 20 years ago

10 years ago even 5 years ago and while

I'm disappointed at a lot of the changes

I'm really happy and excited to see the

good changes like this game called minam

main was made by a couple in 6 months

and it's awesome and I love it and I

highly recommend this one for cozy

Gamers I feel like I have access to so

many different types of games than I

ever did at my fingertips with low risk

and low commitment pricing I'd say 2020

saw a huge shift in gaming with large

Studios putting production on hold that

left a gap for some heater multiplayer

Indie titles to drop onto the scene like

Among Us honestly I feel like the Among

Us craze forever changed how and what

games content creators stream and play

and thus Propel the popularity of I'm

probably biased because I am a content

creator but the ecosystem of Indie

gaming has changed so much even with the

landscape of streaming and content

creators I know Minecraft isn't an indie

game anymore but think about how much it

propelled and popularity during the

Minecraft Youtuber era and now a lot of

these creators are being outed as sexual

assaulters moving on phasmophobia saw

this lethal company party animals and

now this new game content warning all

focused on really fun multiplayer

gameplay for a really affordable price

if not free the price and eyeballs make

these games that much more accessible to

people of all ages the goal get as many

people to download this game as possible

content warning was free for the first

24 hours it was on Steam and it Saw 6

million downloads during this time and

after that it's only $8 I don't want to

harp on pricing too much because I don't

think it's a giant factor in all this

you know it does boil down to like

corporate greed but like it it is a

factor when you consider how Indie devs

don't necessarily have the same

resources that big studios have in terms

of marketing and reach I mean content

warning is a game where you literally

are a YouTuber and the goal is to film

spooky stuff and go viral this game was

made for people to play on stream and

make content tent around and it's so

much fun on or offline this is so

painful this way I I don't think they

even know where it

is no okay which

way camera

where this way speaking of the massive

online community Indie Games have we

have creators like game makers toolkit

who first of all makes really cool

informational videos about game design

and Dunkey who host community game jams

where people make and submit a game in

just 48 Hours based on the set theme in

2023 game makers toolkits game Jam saw

over 20,000 entries of course these are

not all full games but all really cool

ideas which are truly impressive to see

done and thought out so quickly and

cleverly roller Drome is a game that was

first conceived at gmtk first game jam

and in 2022 was released as a fully

fledged award-winning 3D arcade shooter

this gets a cool out of 10 from me by

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bouncing off of that Steam and

PlayStation Plus changed how we buy

games with the ongoing sales releasing

games in beta for basically free play

testing games are just more accessible

now than they ever used to be for

everyone involved and our library of

games has ever expanded and yet I'm

still playing the same [ __ ] game from

2001 and yes I actively dislike

ubisoft's greed but am subscribed to PSN

or ps+ for the sole reason that ps+ is

not only much cheaper but offers a much

wider selection of games from a variety

of Publishers Ubisoft does not and is

$18 a month so many of us have played

such a variety of games that maybe at

least my expectation when I've played so

many great indie games that just work

upon release versus big titles that are

just broken or empty just feels extra

disappointing on top of remembering the

Ingenuity that went into a really cool

gaming experience when everyone was just

figuring this whole gaming thing out boo

back in my day gaming used to be good

now everything is [ __ ] you little baby

while you little baby huh that's not

entirely true and that's not what I'm

trying to say gaming in general is like

objectively better now as a whole have

you actually tried to go back and play

some of those games on the original

console the cameras are jarring and make

it borderline unplayable and I know

that's going to be a controversial thing

to say but maybe I'm just used to the

camera controls that we figured out for

this century and yes I love these games

from the bottom of my heart I promise

you that my other friend is also playing

Kingdom Hearts from the beginning and

just wow uh-oh uh-oh oh my gosh oh my

gosh oh but if you don't do anything you

just don't it doesn't matter I mean this

is quality gameplay right here just take

your Nostalgia goggles off for a moment

it's not as black and white as just like

oh older games were better I'm going to

get so much [ __ ] for saying that I'm not

sorry to the Kingdom Hearts fans out

there that [ __ ] is raw so like many

things in this world It's a Spooky gray

area with Nuance you can argue that

gaming is both better and worse than

before and I really just wanted to kind

of write like this love letter to all

the cool Indie Games I've found in the

past couple years and recognize the

impact they've made on my life the

internet landscape and how the good ones

are so full of passion and fun and aim

to do what they do really well instead

of going for a vast open world I want to

to be everything type of game that ends

up just being kind of M I also hope this

encourages you to go check out some of

the indie games that I recommended

please someone else play these games and

if you have please comment below I

really want to hear your experiences

with them like I say when I'm

procrastinating doing literally anything

important by Gaming born to game forced

to work

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