@@chr_mehearts pay to have an advantage would just make progressing a little more easy but pay-to win is just paying to have an absolute advantage that no f2p player can surmount
*turns on Xbox and joins party chat* "How are y'all doing? Let go get this W!" *Dies in first 3 minutes of match* "Alright, well I'm hopping off for the night, see you guys tomorrow" *Turns off Xbox*
Either they don't know the game they are making or the head developer thinking about suicide and he wants to fuck with everyone before he takes himself out
I just can't understand their thought process. TWO times their games failed because their games literally did not have enough players in the entire world for their game to function. Clearly, their goal should be to accumulate as much of a playerbase as possible so this doesn't happen a third time. What do they do? -Release a game on the console with the smallest playerbase of the big three -Charge money just to access the game, when their main competition is free-to-play, and when the franchise's previous entry was free-to-play -Charge money after purchasing the game to play individual rounds The payment model of this game would be a bad idea for a free-to-play game with a pre-existing, strong playerbase. This is straight up suicidal. I'd be genuinely surprised if this wasn't some sort of social experiment to see just how big of a failure you could make out of a franchise.
Actually, your argument about the smallest playerbase is invalid, since they probably did that to have crossplay through the windows store between pc and Xbox. Still, why would someone play this trash.
@@ShadowHunterOO It wasn't even in a shithole in the first place. A majority of the complaints about the micro-transactions and other shit were complete lies.
How to jump start a dead franchise: alienate almost all players by making it an Xbox exclusive and put up a paywall so high that you can see it from space
It gets even better - Xaviant since released a reply to the backlash in which Josh states that they limited the daily matches because they were, and I quote, "scared of all the people rushing back, overloading the servers" :D
That should automatically have earned him some "Gamer of the Year" award. Also it would be quite the achievement to put on your resume. (Interviewer:) "Well I don't wanna give away too much, but you seem like a good fit for the job. We still need to interview some other candidates, so you'll be getting a definite answer... Hold on. It says here that you _won_ a round of The Culling 2? _Won?_ Damn, I can't imagine the level of dedication that must've taken. The waiting alone... Forget the others, you're hired!"
It's pretty obvious what they're doing. They make an absurd idea people come along and trash talk it making it gain popularity. The Devs then proceed to ""give in"" and take the idea down to respect their ""fans"" who they hope will now buy the ""improved game"". They are hoping stupid people will think the game has been improved or something even though they did literally nothing.
You win by not nopeing out of the lobby before a match is made. It's more a war of attrition with the server itself. Glory is yours, if you're patient.😌
Halo reach: Managed to sustain a semi active player base for 11 years Bad company 2: Managed to sustain an active community for 11 years Star Wars the old republic: Managed to gain a huge spike in players after re-releasing on steam The culling: Managed to kill their entire player base in a day
Why are you comparing known franchises, with passionate playerbases, with a steam money grab made by people that have a history of not making good games?
pc @Fa Mulan it wasn't ereleased on PC initially was it? im talking about the xbox playerbase the reason reach lost alot of its player base on pc is because microsoft introduced this stupid leveling system on pc had they not done that they would have been able to sustain a health polayer base on pc too
@@danang5 nah almost every single mobile game takes off to some degree, remember that pile of shit clash of clans? yep still massive and was the biggest grossing game at one point although being free, same with raid, same with tons of other absolute copy and paste shit, too many adults stuck in a situation of not being able to use a coping mechanism for places like work or outside of home so they get into the biggest trend going and feed the system, heck i played a game years ago about green army men, literally like a clash of clans but green army men and didn't seem special or big in any way, a Chinese owned game marketed towards Americans and Russians, i only found out they receive thousands of dollars a day alone for a game nobody seems to know of, like at all by people buying 'packs' or resources on game which turns out to be like full triple AAA pricing for characters to unlock and increase power in. people always says and claim kids possess these markets of games like mobile or thre mommy or daddies, but they dont at all, same way EA makes billions a year from fifa, from ADULT men not just kids, a majority of actual adult men without special needs or a legal status of such pouring there hard earned money into a gullible system that pays nothing back out. i say it always but there is a demand, otherwise we'd have regulations and such or pathways to not allow weird little sick hentai games to be a market on steam, or Battle royale pastes, but thats the thing, people keep buying, then they complain its broken or its not getting updated and released because its Early Access, its crazy since the consumers are actually the ones in control yet we cry and shout about things not changing, why dont we change our actions and mentality? sorry thats my 2 cents.
Somehow, somewhere, the dev team for this game sat around and thought, "Yeah, I know people didnt play our game even when it was free, but SURELY theyll play it when we take away that free to play aspect, but ALSO make you pay per match"
I feel like I'm the only person on this platform who doesn't see a single change. What the fuck is everyone on about with this "comments moved", I'm not being sarcastic. I literally see no fucking change.
I know right? I hate it. The only seeming quality is that when an Ad plays now, it resets the comment section (as it always has done, very annoying) but since the comments now work by clicking on the comment button (instead of a scroll down) it pops back right where you left off. I love this but besides that it’s kinda weird they moved it
Shr1mpSush1 yeah you run around a bit where you get ammo (birds) and resources, then you have to build a fort for a few minutes and then you have to fire at each other’s forts for a bit, and then repeat
It's like when you go to a lazer tag place during off-hours, and pay $8 for a game with only one other person, who just chases you around the whole time.
That model sounds like an AI scanned the last 5 years of "successful" games and then it made a game using that data, but everything's turned up to eleven.
I was top of the leaderboard when the first culling game was “popular”, and it really does pain me to see how bad xaviant has tarnished their name and ruined everything they had going for them, and still haven’t learned. 1 free Match per day??! How do they think that will even work? They don’t even have a playerbase anymore and they think they can get 16 people to use their free token at a set point of time to even start a match? They have got to be some of the dumbest game developers of all time.
Same. I loved how dedicated the small community was, and not gonna lie, I loved the first one to death. Then the devs kept making bad decision after bad decision. It was easily one of my favorite games of all time, and then they shit on it, and tried to make a sequel. Honestly a very sad moment.
I think the Unlimited only applies to how many matches could be played, although it's useless since there's 0 chance someone is going to buy it anyways.
@@maziu27 Tfw you wanna shame someone so bad you use "You gave Charlie money to support him" as an insult. Try again man, I'm sure you can come up with a good one if you think really hard. I'll give you a start, I'm a brony porn artist.
The worst bit: "Win tokens by winning matches" This means that even if it manages to take off, winners play for free and new players have to pay more to lose. It's literally the opposite of the pay to win model
God, I didn't realize that was the same studio that did Lichdom: Battle Mage. Like, Lichdom was far from AAA, but it was still a really decent single player game with really cool spells. You could combine spells and make crazy stuff. It had a really strong concept and gameplay, even if the story was like a 6/10 at best. And it looked cool, like good animations and particle effects. How far they've fallen.
It was also one of those games that does the annoying thing of making achievements have stupid numbers, so once I evened out I uninstalled, which is a shame
Fort Hater OP is making a comparison with Charlie’s statement and another statement. That other statement is an obvious one, as yes, 60 seconds is a single (1) minute, so therefore, OP is basically saying that yeah, no shit it’s a bad franchise.
I imagine that one dude that just buys 3 tokens, waits 30 mins for their match to start, then they die at the first encounter. Repeat this three times and yell at their mom “MOM WE’RE OUTTA FUCKING TOKENS”
Hons Hon Central Right? EA has the power to push people around, and show the money they gain from their practices. They are successful, despite being bullies. These culling guys are trying to jump on the gravy train, but run around like chihuahuas, a minor annoyance.
It’s so laughably self important. It’s the shittiest game and it’s all like “you should bless your lucky stars that we’re letting you play this masterpiece of a game. We’re doing you a favor by giving you a free round. You don’t even deserve that. We’re that nice. You’re welcome... where’s the applause?”
Ngl this just sounds like a way to get free advertising. Just say something so stupid that people make videos on it. Then just remove that feature when the game is released.
People like to say all publicity is good publicity. That's not the case when your trying to sell a product. Maybe there is some guy out there who likes to collect shitty games, but other than that I can't see people wasting $6 for no reason.
The Culling, the original was fun, the only problem was that as time went on they listened to their community a bit **too** well, like they started implementing stuff left and right because one person requested it, until eventually the game turned to shit and lost popularity, I was around it's final days, and I gotta say it was pretty sad seeing something so good just lose it's life and eventually come to a complete stop, till eventually servers were shut down, and it became a piece of history
So this should be a lesson that the players can be slightly liable for a game's downfall, because they're dumbasses and devs should never listen to them.
I believe this is intentional: they're getting a shitton of free publicity, and they'll follow it up by saying something like "we listened to feedback and will be changing to blahblahblah", and will switch to a F2P model. They're probably hoping that this gives them enough press that they'll be able to get a stable playerbase.
I doubt it's only just a publicity stunt because it is an XBOX exclusive. Also there are already better free to play battle royale out there like COD, apex legends so why even bother to play this shit.
@@kurseng Not sure why people are arguing with me as if I think the devs had a good idea. It's a terrible idea, regardless of motivation. My opinion is that it the pricing scheme is *so undeniably over-the-top-stupid* that it can only be intentional.
Yea that always annoyed me greatly. When i played they did keep up on it with constant bug fixes, new content for every holiday as well as lore/story driven events and server maintenance but they charged way to much for the game to then turn around and ask 15 a month to play it. . I found out recently everything but the latest expansion is included with the subscription now and that it was dropped to 12.99 a month. I also heard that they began a system to exchange in game gold for game time which does sound like it would reward loyal players and help with the inflation of the ingame economy which had become almost impossible for a newbie to compete in. In the past they had dropped the price of the old stuff but they are doing now what they should have done 10+ years ago price wise. if someone has played since launch and bought every expansion they have paid them thousands. Even right now at 12.99 its gonna be 156$ per year + the cost of the expansion. But even that's not really worth it considering how much they dumbed it down and ruined the story with the panda nonsense and who knows what other fresh sins since i left. They did a fine job making a fun game up to and including cataclysm i'll give em that. If they would have done the smart thing with their pricing earlier and kept up with the quality content they might not have dropped from 12 million peak subscribers to the 1.7 they had at their lowest. from what I hear people are very happy with classic and getting back on track with the storyline and what not but stuff was getting hairy for a while.
What do you mean? This business model is clearly what every gamer wants. Instead of swimming in our piles of money, we gamers should be spending it just to have the chance of being graced with a battle royale game so good that its mere existence is a miracle. Is xaviant games so out of touch with society that they think people will pay a fortune just to play their game? Nay. They know that anyone and everyone would go straight into debt and sell their souls just for the chance to play even 5 minutes of this unearthly masterpiece. I wouldn't be surprised if an entire religion formed around this game. Ok, for real though, how dumb can xaviant actually get? Could this be the first time in history that an entire company gets collectively diagnosed with a mental disorder?
Lawbreakers was actually FUN as FUCK though, just their brain-fucking-dead team poured all of their money into marketing instead of actually maintaining the game. Its a shame honestly.
I will forever blame the Overwatch community for killing that game. As soon as it was announced everyone said it was an overwatch knockoff and that itd kill overwatch blah blah blah. I pre ordered it. They only wanted 30-40$ for the game not even a full 60$ Man it was fun as hell. It was like unreal tournament almost. Classic arcade shooter with some fun characters to play. The gameplay was also pretty smooth and it played well. It was actually a good game but no one gave it a chance. Probably wouldve done better with more characters. The gamemode they had with Justin Roiland voicing the ball was the best game mode. The Zero G zones in the game were a fresh change of pace as well. I wish the servers were still operational. They shut it down.
GenocideGeoff That’s true, every game that is an FPS and has characters with abilities seems to be an “overwatch killer” which I wish would be a statement that stops. Would be better if people took these games a base value and not say it’ll kill this game or that game.
Nintendo: let's make a universal online pass that players can use in almost every game Valve: we'll add customization features for free games so people can stand out Xiavient: I like the business model of that EA company
generic username :v That’s because of the community attributing value to those items not Valve itself. Valve practically invented the lootbox and heavily monetised their games with cosmetic items.
@@jaksida300 if you look a bit earlier in the replies someone brings up that you can actually refund your items in most of valves games. Also they can be used as items in trading.
@@vlmpineapple3934 they added basic shit, its still boring and terrible. A sub par single player game, and doesn't work at all as a Co op game since you can't complete quest together etc
VLM Pineapple that’s honestly kind of sad. Because to me that says enough people are playing 76 that Bethesda will keep updating it. I’d love to see the sales numbers because I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the most profitable fallout game solely due to micro transactions
this is like that movie "The Producers" where they actually try to lose money with a broadway play but it turns into a massive success, except this time it actually fails
the probably got the idea from that movie except without the big insurance payout for when it fails expect Xavient to be goin’ under within 5 years tops
EA is a publisher , it does not even make games anymore. Respawn , which is a fantastic development studio is pretty much what's keeping EA's reputation alive.
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Imagine a person you're chasing screaming:
Please dont kill me, i can't afford another match
*understandable have a great day*
You don’t know how much this made me laugh
Bold of you to assume someone actually plays the game.
@@fish5580 true
This statement actually fucking hurts
Evolution of games:
Play to win
Pay for an advantage
Pay to win
Pay to not play
Next: pay to pay
mw when the
isnt pay for an advantage same as pay to win?
@@chr_mehearts pay for an advantage is sort of like pay to progress. It makes progressing easier
@@chr_mehearts pay to have an advantage would just make progressing a little more easy but pay-to win is just paying to have an absolute advantage that no f2p player can surmount
Xavient Games: "There is no game. Now give me your money."
The Dark Side of pretty much every corporation: "There is no product. Now give us your money."
Nice profile pic bro
It's ya boi Skeletor thanks g@mer
There Is No Game: Wrong Company
@@jaygay6576 At least There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension was a good game...
I- I mean non-game!
So if Charlie was the last player standing by the end of the game, does that mean he won the Culling 2?
he didnt just win a match, he won THE game
That is the greatest fucking thing. That is a massive alpha move.
@Spastik please no
@@kadesitton5762 This is the greatest plan
The whole game was the battle royal it was a game to see who the last person still queueing up is
Who looked at this and was like “Yeah, this’ll work”
me
EA will someday
Tod Howard
EA take notes
Someone at xaviant games duh
*turns on Xbox and joins party chat*
"How are y'all doing? Let go get this W!"
*Dies in first 3 minutes of match*
"Alright, well I'm hopping off for the night, see you guys tomorrow"
*Turns off Xbox*
Lmao
That's me on warzone
Either they don't know the game they are making or the head developer thinking about suicide and he wants to fuck with everyone before he takes himself out
@@slyace1301 good bucket list option, "fuck with gamers b4 i leave." So many ways to do so ✌:)
*Last seen online 4 years ago*
Charlie probably gave them the most publicity they've had in years
Facts
White Rice his name is jim sterling
Cr1tikal basically *is* the marketing for this game, and even he couldn't convince people to play this on a lark before this fake coin-slot update.
@NoRegretss probably
I had no idea about this game until now
If EA is Lex Luthor, then Xaviant games is the Condiment King.
Then who is Darkseid?
@@The-kr9rb Bethesda or Blizzard?
@@mattheholic2 hmm, no
something even more evil than EA
@@The-kr9rb the lootbox websites
@@The-kr9rb Konami
This sounds like the worst business model I've ever seen in my life.
Nice to meet another Kreator fan.
sick pfp coma of souls is a great album
This sounds like the worst business model youve ever seen in your life...so far
Oh but you have heard of me
Ol
The game: *Fails and dies in seconds with 0 people playing it*
The people who made it: “People love it let’s make more of it”
That sounds like the restaurants in the Kitchen Nightmare
Tseye247 dude I played the sh*t out of the culling origins (the first one)
The original culling was beyond fun, my favorite BR by far legit. The problem is that a lot of updates just made the game worse.
This is almost the exact quote from Alan Partridge, pitching a regional detective show.
Who is even giving them the capital? Like they must be so far in the red after 2 DOA games like that.
This makes EA look like a charity foundation.
Comedy gold
EA bad
Activision good
Ea is good
@@Mohsinahmedd they nake gud games (mostly) but they just have a huge paywall for everything
This is gonna give EA ideas... terrible ideas...
I just can't understand their thought process.
TWO times their games failed because their games literally did not have enough players in the entire world for their game to function. Clearly, their goal should be to accumulate as much of a playerbase as possible so this doesn't happen a third time. What do they do?
-Release a game on the console with the smallest playerbase of the big three
-Charge money just to access the game, when their main competition is free-to-play, and when the franchise's previous entry was free-to-play
-Charge money after purchasing the game to play individual rounds
The payment model of this game would be a bad idea for a free-to-play game with a pre-existing, strong playerbase.
This is straight up suicidal. I'd be genuinely surprised if this wasn't some sort of social experiment to see just how big of a failure you could make out of a franchise.
Actually, your argument about the smallest playerbase is invalid, since they probably did that to have crossplay through the windows store between pc and Xbox.
Still, why would someone play this trash.
They did everything opposite.
This genuinely looks like an episode from a comedy show where the protagonists meet the parody of EA
Yeah that is so bad that the audience thinks this couldn’t actually exist in real life
Yeah man like South Park 😂
It’s like being proud of a turd that keeps returning because it won’t flush.
Underrated
Me talking to the who 13 month old turd won't flush: DONT WORRY MR TURD, HE DIDNT MEAN THAT
pretty good AVGN impression my friend.
You have learned well
Wise words
This comment should have got the best comment ever medal
Next game they release is gonna be 'The Culling: Mobile'
10 dollars on playstore. 5 dollars to play. 10 more to play one game without the adds.
so just the culling right? i mean the whole franchise already looks like a mobile game
No way they aren't
It’s sad that you are 100% correct
Their game looks like that terrible battle royale Free Fire
Why does “The Culling” sound like a shitty horror movie? Lmao.
Because that word is overused in horror titles
Sounds similar to The Thinning by Logan Paul
Because it probably is.
I thought he would talk about a horror movie
Reminds me of the purge. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if there was already a horror movie called the culling.
*turns xbox on, plays one match of the culling*
"well, that's enough for today"
*turns xbox off*
"Dies from first person I ran into because I'm new"
I guess I'll see you tomorrow xXpussysnatcherXx
Joshua Williams bruhh
@@justadude5386 thats not how quotes work
@@carlwheezerofsouls3273 lier
@@MarioMario-yb3iz ok bub
The devs should be paying us for playing this game.
That's what ads are for
@@treshkun6257 don't ads give the dev(s) money
Literally
@@brickwall6332 ads use money to show up
And to earn money from ads you put ads that is not yours on a vid that you own to earn money
@@Appleman-ty6hg you just explained what I said
The Culling: Reverse Psychology Edition
Such an inspiration
hey guys don't buy our game!
1000th Like
Hmmmm... Nobody is playing our game... Let's make people pay for the game, and then make then pay more so that they can actually play!
for masochists
This actually feels like a money laundering scheme
It definatly is
@@michaelz.3993 Definitely*
@@tituswheatbread9646 just dont
@@michaelz.3993 what? why not? Do you not want see you made a mistake?
@@RubenTafteberg nah i just don't like douchebag redditors who point out every damn mistake you make to make themselves feel superior
The culling 2 is one of the worst single player game's ever
I see what you did there
It took me a second to get that
Nice
There’s no gameplay
what do you mean 'game'?
This game makes cash grabs look like a fundraiser for starving kids in Africa
Valentim Santos 😂
Lol lol lol lol
Lmao
As a an african kid, can confirm they fed me this week.
@@sechabatheletsane9784 bruh
"Okay, so our problem is we don't get enough players into our games..."
"Let's make it harder to play"
"ugh, we have a small player base"
"let's make it smaller"
Being “harmlessly evil” is like being a cactus without thorns. It’s pointless.
Its funny how he made it a pun yet speaks the truth
@@lukehickling8024 yeah
300 iq
Ok that was good
I see what you did there
Battlefront 2: Fucks up with micro-transactions
The Culling: *Pathetic*
Battlefront 2 managed to pull itself out of that rancid shithole that The Culling kept digging into.
The Culling: Hold my beer
@@ShadowHunterOO It wasn't even in a shithole in the first place. A majority of the complaints about the micro-transactions and other shit were complete lies.
@@Speedojesus Maybe, but the point is that literally nobody likes microtransactions, except for the company
Ashe yeah, microtransactions suck, but thankfully some games do it right where microtransactions are cosmetic only
This franchise is still evolving...
*Just backwards*
Why I read that as Devolver? Like Devolver Digital? They actually have neat games, like Hotline Miami 1 and 2, Ronin, Enter The Gungeon, etc.
@Evilpimp so you don't get the reference
@@Mordeczka1234 you sound dumb as fuck in that reply. Other than that, this was funny.
Ah, another 19 years old.
@@GonFr14 minus 10
How to jump start a dead franchise: alienate almost all players by making it an Xbox exclusive and put up a paywall so high that you can see it from space
Well said, Master Kenobi
the price has the high ground
Thank you Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi
*THE GREAT PAYWALL OF CHINA*
Thank you master kenobi
It gets even better - Xaviant since released a reply to the backlash in which Josh states that they limited the daily matches because they were, and I quote, "scared of all the people rushing back, overloading the servers" :D
They have to be snorting bath salts off a hookers ass crack at this point.
@@yves_23This is a roast far beyond my comprehension
@@yves_23 this comment has me crying and laughing like a damn hyena holy shit
@@yves_23 lmao, aint that the truth, the devs were probably on a 10 day crack and meth binge when they came up with that brilliant thought
Never trust anyone named "Josh"
"This Is The Worst Video Game Franchise"
"This is the greatest franchise of All Time"
Perfection
Not funny
Didn't laugh
haha didnt expect to see u here lol
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be
I just posted this lol I was didn't look at the comments before hand lol 😅
@@nuclearisok3353 mlg anime pfp says something isn't funny 🤔
The Culling: Mom's Credit Card
Nice joke
The Culling: Mom's credit card, the son of EA: family's credit card
Nice
I wonder if they even have enough _developers_ to start a full match.
At that point, how do we even know that there's a game beyond the lobby? There were never enough people to even play test it lmao.
…. Good question
@@Cenentury0941 a few matches were won
I wonder if they even have the HQ to have developers to work.
Your being generous by calling them developers lmao
Everyone else: "WTF is this trash?"
EA: "wait, he may have a point!"
Clearly an underrated comment
Mayank Kumar it’s now at 306 likes. Not as underrated.
Culling: pay per match.
EA: Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!
EA Bad amirite guys?????
wait what
Can u imagine being the one guy who won a game in the culling 2
That should automatically have earned him some "Gamer of the Year" award. Also it would be quite the achievement to put on your resume.
(Interviewer:) "Well I don't wanna give away too much, but you seem like a good fit for the job. We still need to interview some other candidates, so you'll be getting a definite answer... Hold on. It says here that you _won_ a round of The Culling 2? _Won?_ Damn, I can't imagine the level of dedication that must've taken. The waiting alone... Forget the others, you're hired!"
Jim Sterling? He stated in his video of The Culling coming back, where he ended up being one of the top players in The Culling 2.
*joins game and goes to take a piss* "VICTORY" oh shit
or got into a game at all
DHGMRZ17 why’d you edit your comment but leave the grammatical errors
Imagine paying for a game to play it, after buying it.
Even EA isn’t this shitty.
EA is a close second.
Hell, I bet even EA themselves would be shocked that another company managed to out greed them.
Welcome to MMOs.
Apparently you haven't heard of Fallout 76
Battlefront 2 was basically that at launch
I can't tell if they're incredibly stupid or greedy. Probably both.
definitely both
100% both
Both for sure
It's pretty obvious what they're doing. They make an absurd idea people come along and trash talk it making it gain popularity. The Devs then proceed to ""give in"" and take the idea down to respect their ""fans"" who they hope will now buy the ""improved game"". They are hoping stupid people will think the game has been improved or something even though they did literally nothing.
it sounds more like a money laundering scheme tbh, I can't imagine such level of stupidity being possible
I think the best comparison for their evil is Eddy from Ed Edd n Eddy.
Constantly coming up with horrible, predatory scams that no one falls for.
Eddy redeems himself by the end of the series though
True, but at least Eddy has some redeeming qualities. This is just irredeemable.
@@kiatorrette5631 the end of the show is genuinely good and sweet
Don’t do my man Eddy like that. No jawbreakers for you
Always chasing the Big Dollar...
imagine wasting a dollar to wait for nobody to join the lobby because nobody is dumb enough to pay for this game lol
Well, except for one person...
Imagine wasting 7$ because you paid $5.99 for the base game lmao.
I bet they made it so it won't refund you if you leave match that hasn't started and theyll go HAHA WE SCAMMED THEM THERE
Am 300th like
ArtWithDatDude Official didn’t the people get refunded?
Lmao this monetisation scheme is literally illegal in Australia and in probably in a lot of other places too.
and also could be a money laundering scheme
I wish it was in America
Even if it legal nobodybwill playbit anyway
"This Is The Worst Video Game Franchise"
"This is the greatest franchise of all time"
Mister Dinner Insert Spider-Men pointing at each other meme
The duality of man
@@true_neutral3378 I was looking for this exact comment.
Roblox is the worst game of all time. Nothing beats it.
@@arctorusmedia roblox isnt even a game bruh
The Culling: Money Laundering
Oh boy, i'm so excited to pay just so i die in the first ten seconds of the match.
lol what match tho?
RIP Benny Harvey..
Is this an actual joke? How can a company be so stupid. It honestly amazes me that they are still around
they aren't around, they're just an illusion
Drugs.
me4tgr1ndr specifically crack
Well i dont think they'll stay around for much longer
@@boxie5938 They won't be after this. Game is 100% DOA and will likely be the bullet to the head they've been begging for.
"earn tokens by winning matches!"
Oh, you mean like the 1% of the time you actually win in BR?
It's like gambling (there's very likely RNG in it too), but you get nothing out of it. No money you get back, you get no fun, nothing.
You win by not nopeing out of the lobby before a match is made. It's more a war of attrition with the server itself. Glory is yours, if you're patient.😌
Get good
Good thing it will be more like 10% since no one will be playing
In this one you got a max 16 players and min 8 so its bad instead of horrible
“The culling: shadow legends”
Why tf does this have 50 likes? This isn’t even funny. Y’all have some low standards
@@Scramble4 why don't you delete it then
@@siyacer dont feel like it
I think it’s funny. Haha!
@@corpuscularcrevistipalus4640 no
Halo reach: Managed to sustain a semi active player base for 11 years
Bad company 2: Managed to sustain an active community for 11 years
Star Wars the old republic: Managed to gain a huge spike in players after re-releasing on steam
The culling: Managed to kill their entire player base in a day
Why are you comparing known franchises, with passionate playerbases, with a steam money grab made by people that have a history of not making good games?
@@super8bitvideos because the culling before the Devs turned into cartoon villains was actually a decent game
pc @Fa Mulan it wasn't ereleased on PC initially was it? im talking about the xbox playerbase the reason reach lost alot of its player base on pc is because microsoft introduced this stupid leveling system on pc had they not done that they would have been able to sustain a health polayer base on pc too
Well its not called “the culling” for nothing
There’s a new killer bean, and I think Charlie should watch it on stream/video.
We’re getting a whole series
Bl1tzs agree
MiLk Fghy let’s go boys.
Yessirrrrr
Wasn't he watching it on stream yesterday?
They should just develop shity mobile games that’s where they will find their success
i doubt they will find success even in there
@@danang5 nah almost every single mobile game takes off to some degree, remember that pile of shit clash of clans? yep still massive and was the biggest grossing game at one point although being free, same with raid, same with tons of other absolute copy and paste shit, too many adults stuck in a situation of not being able to use a coping mechanism for places like work or outside of home so they get into the biggest trend going and feed the system, heck i played a game years ago about green army men, literally like a clash of clans but green army men and didn't seem special or big in any way, a Chinese owned game marketed towards Americans and Russians, i only found out they receive thousands of dollars a day alone for a game nobody seems to know of, like at all by people buying 'packs' or resources on game which turns out to be like full triple AAA pricing for characters to unlock and increase power in.
people always says and claim kids possess these markets of games like mobile or thre mommy or daddies, but they dont at all, same way EA makes billions a year from fifa, from ADULT men not just kids, a majority of actual adult men without special needs or a legal status of such pouring there hard earned money into a gullible system that pays nothing back out.
i say it always but there is a demand, otherwise we'd have regulations and such or pathways to not allow weird little sick hentai games to be a market on steam, or Battle royale pastes, but thats the thing, people keep buying, then they complain its broken or its not getting updated and released because its Early Access, its crazy since the consumers are actually the ones in control yet we cry and shout about things not changing, why dont we change our actions and mentality?
sorry thats my 2 cents.
@Andy Gygi its not the game so to say im disrespecting its the consumers under them.
It’s called pubg mobile
@@Dockheadclash of clans is actually a pretty good game tho lol
I love how Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing is becoming more adopted as the benchmark for shittiest barely developed game
Big Riiiigs
You're Winner!
It's.... _always_ been like that. Big Rigs is and has been one of the most infamously bad games in existence. Where the fuck have you been?
Every so often, I watch avgn's video on this game lol.
It is a great boost.
@@stanknight9159 When I hear people talking about fortnite, I just have to watch his video on Big Rigs.
Somehow, somewhere, the dev team for this game sat around and thought, "Yeah, I know people didnt play our game even when it was free, but SURELY theyll play it when we take away that free to play aspect, but ALSO make you pay per match"
Whoever moves the comments section on RUclips deserves to be culled
In culling 2. They might have a sliver of fun with culling 1
I feel like I'm the only person on this platform who doesn't see a single change.
What the fuck is everyone on about with this "comments moved", I'm not being sarcastic. I literally see no fucking change.
@@DDDloki it's on mobile. If you're on pc they're in the same place
I know right? I hate it. The only seeming quality is that when an Ad plays now, it resets the comment section (as it always has done, very annoying) but since the comments now work by clicking on the comment button (instead of a scroll down) it pops back right where you left off. I love this but besides that it’s kinda weird they moved it
@@catfan__ oh my bad, I thought we were talking about the SWITCH RUclips.
no shit it's on mobile. Nothings changed.
Edit. Fixed spaces
Xaviant is just culling all the interest I had in this franchise
Ayyyyy nice
Yeah that's a nice free to play on words
Otto Ryodan 😀 good one
Ayyyyyyyyyy
*killing you spelled it culling
so basically they dug themselves a grave, but wont lay in it
No they dug the grave, then made a shitty half assed wood tombstone, then showed it to a Hitman instructed to kill them
On the contrary, they dug the grave, laid in it, and throws the dirt back up whenever you try to bury it
They have to purchase the ability to lay in it.
Alvin how is Naughty Dog like this ?
@@justchrisgaming173 ruclips.net/video/xowwE8qOmmo/видео.html
Next entry: The Cunnilingus
What's
*Cunnilingus*
Oh no oh no no no
Title: "This is the worse video game franchise"
Description: "This is the greatest franchise of All Time"
Which am I supposed to believe, Charlie.
ur mom
@@joanabrown8Du gay
Your heart
@@viscountrainbows6452
U saucy
Him talking about the culling is the greatest franchise of all time
At this point, they should be the one paying the players to play their game.
@DigitalExtremes
well they can't casue they don't have tokens.. :/
OmniFerro As a WF player...damn
@@sendAJtospace As a WF player I will cry with you.
They didn’t even have enough money to buy a font for the logo so they just used the angry birds font
i completely agree with you
oumar diop said no one ever
Angry Birds Battle Royale isn't a bad idea, actually
Shr1mpSush1 yeah you run around a bit where you get ammo (birds) and resources, then you have to build a fort for a few minutes and then you have to fire at each other’s forts for a bit, and then repeat
It's like when you go to a lazer tag place during off-hours, and pay $8 for a game with only one other person, who just chases you around the whole time.
When you said that people had to pay 5.99 for the game AND only get one match-per-day, I checked today’s date to make sure it wasn’t April 1st.
Cameron Thompson IKR? If this turns out to be an April Fools joke, it’s a very bad one.
It’s okay, you can get 3 extra matches for the low, low, oh so wonderful price of one fucking dollar.
This seems like some sketch money laundering operation.
J4unt probably is ngl. No one in their right mind would make a game so bad as the culling
Dooby Dooand then remake it 3 times
To be fair the first one was pretty fun while it lasted
If it is, they need to up their game.
Thought the same 😅
It sounds like they are challenging customers to play their game. Like “I dare you to play more than once a day” or some shit.
Brennan Hinckle it’s a challenge alright.
EA is a supervillian who has killed many a hero's game franchise, Xavient is just a villain that doesn't know what they are doing.
That model sounds like an AI scanned the last 5 years of "successful" games and then it made a game using that data, but everything's turned up to eleven.
The way some companies act they might as well be run by robots.
I was top of the leaderboard when the first culling game was “popular”, and it really does pain me to see how bad xaviant has tarnished their name and ruined everything they had going for them, and still haven’t learned. 1 free Match per day??! How do they think that will even work? They don’t even have a playerbase anymore and they think they can get 16 people to use their free token at a set point of time to even start a match? They have got to be some of the dumbest game developers of all time.
One v one me in halo reach
@@Julian-qj7pl yeah you tell em julian, show em whos the boss around ere
Same. I loved how dedicated the small community was, and not gonna lie, I loved the first one to death. Then the devs kept making bad decision after bad decision. It was easily one of my favorite games of all time, and then they shit on it, and tried to make a sequel. Honestly a very sad moment.
Natured Virus What were you on the leaderboard? Me and my friend were 7 and 8 lol
(In NA)
"We are lacking players to play our games, what should we do?"
"Let them pay for more players to play with!"
"mind_blown.gif"
I feel like now people are gonna do it for the memes
my brain has a really hard time comprehending this logic
It's only for xbox though, they know that console players even pay for multiplayer so why not pay to play? PC MASTER RACE
Mind_blown.gif literally played it my brain. Nice work using .gif format there
Outstanding moove
they really took “pay to play” to a whole new level
Title : "this is the worst video game franchise"
Description : "this is the greatest franchise of all time"
sending a mixed message charlie..
If you don't know, his descriptions are always "This is the greatest ______ of All Time"
Ramsay Bolton this is the greatest worst video game franchise of All Time?
This is the greatest contradiction of all time.
this is the greatest monetization fail of all time
It's called sarcasm
>"Unlimited Online Pass"
>7 days or 30 days, so you know, "Unlimited" as long as you don't count a week or a month limit as a limit
Tfw you pay so you can have a picture next to your username
I think the Unlimited only applies to how many matches could be played, although it's useless since there's 0 chance someone is going to buy it anyways.
The "unlimited" obviously means unlimited matches not unlimited time lol
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@@maziu27 Tfw you wanna shame someone so bad you use "You gave Charlie money to support him" as an insult. Try again man, I'm sure you can come up with a good one if you think really hard. I'll give you a start, I'm a brony porn artist.
The worst bit: "Win tokens by winning matches"
This means that even if it manages to take off, winners play for free and new players have to pay more to lose. It's literally the opposite of the pay to win model
Let’s just call it win to play
imagine that one guy who actually loves the culling and pays to play these matches and he just stands there for like 30 minutes
absolutely amazing
God, I didn't realize that was the same studio that did Lichdom: Battle Mage. Like, Lichdom was far from AAA, but it was still a really decent single player game with really cool spells. You could combine spells and make crazy stuff. It had a really strong concept and gameplay, even if the story was like a 6/10 at best. And it looked cool, like good animations and particle effects. How far they've fallen.
It was also one of those games that does the annoying thing of making achievements have stupid numbers, so once I evened out I uninstalled, which is a shame
I see that shitty game go on sale on the PlayStation store all the time.
On my ps4 that shit runs at like 12 frames at all times.
@@gerihat-trick7634 I guess they also suck at porting to console. Which makes you wonder how a console exclusive would run from them
You can softlock at the first boss if you don't make the right spell. I'm not the only person to figure that out.
_If you're the only one playing and getting all those W's you basically get infinite tokens._
Modern problems require modern solutions
“The Culling Franchise is bad” *Every 60 Seconds in Africa, a Minute Passes*
What?
Fort Hater OP is making a comparison with Charlie’s statement and another statement. That other statement is an obvious one, as yes, 60 seconds is a single (1) minute, so therefore, OP is basically saying that yeah, no shit it’s a bad franchise.
ursa ironii i thought that would have been obvious to a viewer of Charlie but here we are lol
Wow that's amazing
Idea stolen ^^
I wish I had the tiniest percent of confidence that Xavient games must have to announce something like this
*Pay ¢99 to play one match
EA: *Write that down! Write that down!!!*
Nah, they copied it from EA lol
next is going to be paying to wait for your items to be finished like in those mobile games.
straight outta Guitar Hero Live
😂 that made my day
It's like pre-smartphone multiplayer games.
I feel like even Patrick Star would be against microtransactions
Justin C i feel like Patrick Star would be a better game creator than most imo
I would gladly play a game made by Patrick Star
Mr Krabs on the other hand...
Laughing Pumpkin he’d be like ea
Well as his voice actor stated: "Patrick is definitely a gamer"
Imagine paying for token packs just to die off the beginning of the match wasting a token
Imaginr that?
Apparently the developers didn’t
don't worry, that would never happen as you would never even be able to find a match.
Hey completely unrelated but can you send me your pfp on Discord?
@@ghost_fueled_scarecrow did u get it by now
@@soggySslopster Nah, unfortunately
It looks really cool
I imagine that one dude that just buys 3 tokens, waits 30 mins for their match to start, then they die at the first encounter. Repeat this three times and yell at their mom “MOM WE’RE OUTTA FUCKING TOKENS”
*The Culling comes back...but worse*
Internet: How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man!?
I wouldnt call this "predator"
Cuz I imagine for something to be predatory it has to work, this is just pathetic
This is like the wimpy nerd at school trying to bully a 6 foot 4 300 pound line backer.
Hons Hon Central Right? EA has the power to push people around, and show the money they gain from their practices. They are successful, despite being bullies. These culling guys are trying to jump on the gravy train, but run around like chihuahuas, a minor annoyance.
It's like a child predator telling kids that they needs to get their parents' consent and then have to pay money to get in his van.
Even No Man's Sky had a better launch than this game.
It’s a good game now. However, I don’t see this SHIT ever getting good.
At least No mans sky survived in a good way
FFXIV and No Man's Sky, Gaming's greatest redemptions.
No Man's Sky aged incredibly.
@ぽぴぽろPopiporo get out.
It’s so laughably self important. It’s the shittiest game and it’s all like “you should bless your lucky stars that we’re letting you play this masterpiece of a game. We’re doing you a favor by giving you a free round. You don’t even deserve that. We’re that nice. You’re welcome... where’s the applause?”
Ngl this just sounds like a way to get free advertising. Just say something so stupid that people make videos on it. Then just remove that feature when the game is released.
Considering that they are litterely broke that would be the only thing they could do in order to advertise. But knowing them it most likely isnt
People like to say all publicity is good publicity. That's not the case when your trying to sell a product. Maybe there is some guy out there who likes to collect shitty games, but other than that I can't see people wasting $6 for no reason.
When you're trying to sell something.... ehh maybe making yourself look like a complete idiot isn't the way to do it.
There are still better free br games
@@shrek9025 thats your opinion i have been unable to find a game that can even offer a similar experience to this one. Best i could find was darksouls
The Culling, the original was fun, the only problem was that as time went on they listened to their community a bit **too** well, like they started implementing stuff left and right because one person requested it, until eventually the game turned to shit and lost popularity, I was around it's final days, and I gotta say it was pretty sad seeing something so good just lose it's life and eventually come to a complete stop, till eventually servers were shut down, and it became a piece of history
Same here man, I still wonder to this day where Rainshifter got his ping from...and now I'll never know...
it was fun asf
Week 1 of The Culling was the best battle royale that's ever graced the Earth.
How much time it took to downfall? Just asking.
So this should be a lesson that the players can be slightly liable for a game's downfall, because they're dumbasses and devs should never listen to them.
I believe this is intentional: they're getting a shitton of free publicity, and they'll follow it up by saying something like "we listened to feedback and will be changing to blahblahblah", and will switch to a F2P model. They're probably hoping that this gives them enough press that they'll be able to get a stable playerbase.
just like someordinarygamers said, that it'll leave such a bad taste on everyone that most people won't even bother touching the game
@@chopped586 Probably; I don't expect it to work, I just think that's why they even bothered with it in the first place.
I doubt it's only just a publicity stunt because it is an XBOX exclusive. Also there are already better free to play battle royale out there like COD, apex legends so why even bother to play this shit.
@@kurseng Not sure why people are arguing with me as if I think the devs had a good idea. It's a terrible idea, regardless of motivation.
My opinion is that it the pricing scheme is *so undeniably over-the-top-stupid* that it can only be intentional.
@@Liesmith424 I don't think people are arguing with you, just giving their opinion as you gave yours :)
'You have to buy the arcade machine, and then put in the coins' that just sounds like Blizzard with WoW.
Yea that always annoyed me greatly. When i played they did keep up on it with constant bug fixes, new content for every holiday as well as lore/story driven events and server maintenance but they charged way to much for the game to then turn around and ask 15 a month to play it. . I found out recently everything but the latest expansion is included with the subscription now and that it was dropped to 12.99 a month. I also heard that they began a system to exchange in game gold for game time which does sound like it would reward loyal players and help with the inflation of the ingame economy which had become almost impossible for a newbie to compete in. In the past they had dropped the price of the old stuff but they are doing now what they should have done 10+ years ago price wise. if someone has played since launch and bought every expansion they have paid them thousands. Even right now at 12.99 its gonna be 156$ per year + the cost of the expansion. But even that's not really worth it considering how much they dumbed it down and ruined the story with the panda nonsense and who knows what other fresh sins since i left. They did a fine job making a fun game up to and including cataclysm i'll give em that. If they would have done the smart thing with their pricing earlier and kept up with the quality content they might not have dropped from 12 million peak subscribers to the 1.7 they had at their lowest. from what I hear people are very happy with classic and getting back on track with the storyline and what not but stuff was getting hairy for a while.
If this somehow takes off. All game models will follow suit. So don’t be a shit head and buy in to this. Please.
What do you mean? This business model is clearly what every gamer wants. Instead of swimming in our piles of money, we gamers should be spending it just to have the chance of being graced with a battle royale game so good that its mere existence is a miracle. Is xaviant games so out of touch with society that they think people will pay a fortune just to play their game? Nay. They know that anyone and everyone would go straight into debt and sell their souls just for the chance to play even 5 minutes of this unearthly masterpiece. I wouldn't be surprised if an entire religion formed around this game.
Ok, for real though, how dumb can xaviant actually get? Could this be the first time in history that an entire company gets collectively diagnosed with a mental disorder?
If this gets popular in the game industry, multiplayer games are dead
If this game gets more than 100 concurrent players, I will fuck my own ass. I don’t know how, but I’ll figure it out... not that I’ll need to.
I’d buy it.
@@FrnechFrieLikePie you can use your finger 🤣
I think they are purposefully going for a world record: least sold game ever
and here we see the culling 4 with 0 games sold matching the culling 5-20
"It was less successful than LawBreakers"
A name I haven't heard uttered in years.
Lawbreakers was actually FUN as FUCK though, just their brain-fucking-dead team poured all of their money into marketing instead of actually maintaining the game. Its a shame honestly.
@@Skelatalmaniak they just lied about the monetisation methods and it boned them tbh
I will forever blame the Overwatch community for killing that game. As soon as it was announced everyone said it was an overwatch knockoff and that itd kill overwatch blah blah blah.
I pre ordered it. They only wanted 30-40$ for the game not even a full 60$ Man it was fun as hell. It was like unreal tournament almost. Classic arcade shooter with some fun characters to play. The gameplay was also pretty smooth and it played well. It was actually a good game but no one gave it a chance.
Probably wouldve done better with more characters. The gamemode they had with Justin Roiland voicing the ball was the best game mode. The Zero G zones in the game were a fresh change of pace as well.
I wish the servers were still operational. They shut it down.
GenocideGeoff That’s true, every game that is an FPS and has characters with abilities seems to be an “overwatch killer” which I wish would be a statement that stops. Would be better if people took these games a base value and not say it’ll kill this game or that game.
@@admiralmakron I'm pretty sure they never said they were going Free To Play before becoming available to the public. People just assumed they were.
What business person thought this would work? They looked at EA and went “Ok that but 100x worse.”
This is like when mr krabs made krusty krab customers pay for every step they took
Title: This is the worst videogame
Description: This is the greatest videogame
Who do I believe?
A true dilemma
A true dilemma
God
I trust Charlie more than penguinz0 so I'm gonna go with the description
@@virael3801 I only trust critical other two are fakes
The Culling: Totally Not A Money Laundering Scheme
I wouldn't be surprised if Big Rigs has a more active playerbase and even modding community today.
It literally does
This game at this point is like buying a house just to be able to pay rent for it each individual day.
Its not free real estate my bois...
Nintendo: let's make a universal online pass that players can use in almost every game
Valve: we'll add customization features for free games so people can stand out
Xiavient: I like the business model of that EA company
it's not even the business model of EA, I've never heard ANY company charge PER MATCH ever before, it's really some new low
generic username :v That’s because of the community attributing value to those items not Valve itself. Valve practically invented the lootbox and heavily monetised their games with cosmetic items.
@@jaksida300 if you look a bit earlier in the replies someone brings up that you can actually refund your items in most of valves games. Also they can be used as items in trading.
Skinny White Boy That’s exactly the person I was responding to. Valve doesn’t get off easy just because they’re everyone’s favourite.
@@jaksida300 well currently they get off easy because they take time making their games, so nobody really complains much.
This is the most bold and desperate move I've ever seen from a game developer. Not even Bethesda has sunk this low with Fallout 76 yet.
I heard apparently they were making fallout 76 better though with adding a actual story in the next update.
fallout 76 is ironically getting better with bug fixes and stuff,but still copy paste fallout 4
@@vlmpineapple3934 they added basic shit, its still boring and terrible. A sub par single player game, and doesn't work at all as a Co op game since you can't complete quest together etc
Yet
VLM Pineapple that’s honestly kind of sad. Because to me that says enough people are playing 76 that Bethesda will keep updating it.
I’d love to see the sales numbers because I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the most profitable fallout game solely due to micro transactions
this is like that movie "The Producers" where they actually try to lose money with a broadway play but it turns into a massive success, except this time it actually fails
the probably got the idea from that movie except without the big insurance payout for when it fails
expect Xavient to be goin’ under within 5 years tops
Altough EA is a Money-Sucking parasite, They at least make playable games, where matches can start.
What EA games r u playing. Only semi functional game from them seems to be apex and it’s not fun
@@natefroggy3626 I mean, there's Jedi Fallen Oder, but that's a single-player game so it probably doesn't count here.
@@astracrits4633 you did not just say jedi fallen order is a playable game
For the most part*
EA is a publisher , it does not even make games anymore. Respawn , which is a fantastic development studio is pretty much what's keeping EA's reputation alive.
"That hemorrhoid that plauged the gaming industry for the last couple of years"
Couldn't describe battle royal better myself
I thank you
Royale?
I remember how The Culling made itself less fun with every update.
The Culling: "You know how people pay for microtransactions on f2p games? Let's do that but worse!"
The developer looks so sad in that picture , I can only imagine the stress of reattempting failure