This is getting out of hand.
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- Pokémon Unite has an Alolan Ninetales skin that costs $40. That is a real thing.
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I think that's basically what it is. Testing the waters and seeing what they can get away with.
Heck, if they did $100, some people would buy it. Maybe not a ton, but enough to make money.
I hate it. But I hate it more when it's tied to a Nintendo property
It's even worse when they release a app that people spent thousands on, and then shut it down...
One thing to remember is Pokemon isn't made by Nintendo, they don't control it. It's all Gamefreak
@@dwarfy2k264 Which really sucks, Pokemon Duel was actually a fantastic game...
Its called whaling, its better if a few people spend very much then many people spend little. Its a disgusting tactic to maximize profits…
@@dwarfy2k264 wasnt this some chinese company? I thought gamefreak outsourced this.
I think the real issue is that "microtransaction" doesn't mean "a small transaction for something" anymore but "a transaction for something small"
well said
That does not make sense. At all. Investopedia: “A microtransaction is a business model where users can purchase virtual items for small amounts of money.” Wikipedia: “Micro-transactions [..] are a business model where users can purchase virtual goods with micropayments.”
Also, that’s simply not how language works. ‘Micro’ says something about ‘transaction’, comparable to ‘microchip’ and ‘microp*nis’.
@@leedevee alright, so, let me start off with a problem I had recently.
So I was on steam, right, and I was looking for an RPG on there, cause I really liked games like Persona 4 Golden and Undertale on PC.
Having some money burning a hole in my pocket, I checked out some games with Steam’s tag system.
Firstly I checked “RPG”, which - obviously, right? Where else would I check?
However, under “RPG”, I didn’t find the right games. I found titles like Horizon: Zero Dawn and Far Cry, games that had RPG *elements*, and were called “RPGs”.
So, I went to the next one. Y’see, Persona 4 Golden has a really fun party-based system, and so do a lot of classic games, so maybe I could search under “Party-based”?
I did it, and again, what came up was not what I wanted. The new final fantasy games, yknow, the ones that have mainly 3D action combat, which is not what I was looking for at all.
Alright, now i’m a bit frustrated. So, maybe I should try “Turn-based”?
I put in the “turn-based” tag, and I actually got some of the ones I wanted!
I thought, but looking closer at every one, they were all quickly produced garbage from RPGmaker.
Ok ok ok ok ok, well maybe the whole RPG thing doesn’t even need to be there. I really like games like Danganronpa, so maybe the “anime” tag would help me find one singular cool game?
Anime tag it is. But you know what’s under the “anime” tag? I sure didn’t. Basically all the games were either
1) Regular puzzle game with anime girl to the side of the screen, or
2) The same generic trash we saw from the “turn-based” tag, only more refined.
So at this point I was at my wits end. Frustrated, I went back to the “RPG” tag, and looked at what games were popular with the community.
Within a minute I found the kind of game i’m looking for, Hylics 2, which looked amazing. Being a stickler for sequential order I picked up Hylics 1, which also had the same tags: “RPG”, “Turn-based”, “Party-based”, the whole shebang.
The game’s great, by the way, but I really want you to ponder something. Why? Why did I have so much trouble finding this game, when it was liked by its community and had fantastic scores? Why did it take so much trouble to find a good game?
Thought over it? It’s a simple answer, really: marketing. For games to get out there, they market to whatever tags they can, hoping that someone picks up their game, irregardless of its genuine quality.
Games have a huge problem with this, using specific terms for things that fall in a much more grey area, it’s the reason why, although they’re marketed as “rogue-likes”, some games in the genre are referred to as “rogue-lites”. There are differences between the games, rogue-likes being 100% random for most of the game, and rogue-lites instead offering some progression within your playthrough (with items you maintain, levels you gain, etc after dying). It’s a small difference, but to many roguelike fans it’s a big difference.
This long essay is to provide an example I hope you’re getting now, words do *not* always follow their definitions. Same thing with slang, same thing with any language, words are ideas but they aren’t static, many of them can be fluid and reused for improper situations.
It’s especially so for commonly used words, something like “microtransactions” I dunno. When a word is commonplace, often times people will use that word in reference to general ideas, like purchases in already purchased games, rather that literally “micro transactions”. Nobody would use “macrotransactions” for large purchases, we already have words for that, and most consider stuff either DLC, downloadable content that adds stuff to a game (often for a hefty price), or microtransactions, unnecessary fees for stuff the developers could have likely put in the game themselves. There’s a reason there’s no “free microtransactions” when there is “free DLC”, it’s because we associate the word microtransaction with unnecessary fees of any kind, not added content, and especially not small fees.
If a game released DLC for $1, that transaction of buying it would be almost microscopic, but as it’s something that legitimately adds to the game, it wouldn’t be a microtransaction.
Look man I know this is bait (and a bad one too mate like come on you can do better, Ken M is looking!), but whatever I had a fun time writing it.
Honestly though, baiting for a reaction under an Arlo video’s comment section is selling yourself short. Even if you spit your “controversial” takes all over the place, good quality bait is much better than lots of it. If you wanna troll people, do it better
I've been constantly upsettifused microtransaction is not less than a dollar.
It's funny how that Alolan Ninetails skin costs basically as much as the mainline Pokemon game that debuted Alolan Ninetails itself.
Or one or two really good indie games that have all the content included in the game and that aren't repetitive garbage.
@@abramdavidson988 Whether the mainline games are good or bad wasn't the point of the comment.
@@abramdavidson988 .. every game is repetitive.. that is what mechanics are, a base line function you interact with over and over. they aren't limitless, they are almost always extremely limited. and indie games.. are just as repetitive if not more. look at binding of isaac for instance, or any roguelite. you do the same thing.. over and over and over. but the way the game is set up it makes you believe your having a unique experience each time. it's the same as pokemon, you play it with each new installment being fairly similar in nature but each time use different pokemon, just like you get different runs depending on items in isaac.
your comment was pointless. good job.
Lol
Someone probably: why spend $40 on a Pokémon game when you can spend $40 on just one Pokémon?
Correction a skin for one Pokémon
It's not even for a Pokémon, it's just to make a Pokémon you already have look slightly different.
Would you rather: get this fox with clothes or buy a complete game with lore and storyline with hundreds of Pokémon with tons of features
Hard choice
guys its Tencent...like this does not surprise me at all
Imagine spending 40$ dollars on an actual videogame instead of spending that on a funny virtual stitched face or funny ninetales clothes.
-People who have less than half a braincell.
"Micro" is not about how much you pay, it is about how much you get.
Out of all the languages you chose to speak facts
or little
@@sebastianbarron5063 😂I maybe late to the party figuratively but damn thats a helluva quote.
Im going to steal that because thats hillarious
DAM!!!
im reusing that
I love how everyone has moved past the fact that Arlo is a muppet and just accepts him as another person. Like, it barely even registers anymore. I think that's awesome and hilarious.
No he’s not. He’s just another person.
SHUT
He's not a muppet. He's an Arlo.
Yeah, sometimes I feel like I'll be watching an Arlo video and someone'll walk into my room and just be like "...Is that a muppet?" And I just say "This is normal. Very normal."
Arlo is a muppet? I don't see it
Kind of obsessed with how arlo’s head and hand moves in this one, like if he was a puppet (which of course he’s not) I would say that’s some kickass puppetry
I just imagine a man under the table shaking arround the sticks
@@aigeneratedwauigi2696 sticks? Lollll
Man under the table yeah right. Don’t be silly😜
just buy a real ninetales at that point
even if it's just a plushie, it's cute and a physical thing that you can enjoy in multiple ways
I hope you weren't insinuating R-rated enjoyment with that plushie, because that's where my mind went.
@@albatross1688 :(
@@maroonai In my defense, I can only think of a few normal ways to enjoy a plushie.
@@albatross1688 Damn, I though my mind was explicit enough and didn't even think of THAT! I'm thankful that my Furfrou plush is still in-tact (And mainly it's hard to find a decent one). If you're going to go there just buy Sexual Wellness toys, much easier to clean anyways. Don't be like Deadpool now!
Even better, make one yourself! I personally love to sculpt, draw, and animate different Pokémon, which honestly is a lot of fun and leads to me liking the Pokémon a lot more, even if you’re not good at art, it’s great fun. Every time I find myself wanting, say, a plush or a figurine of something, I just make a little sculpture of it.
Nintendo: Sakurai and his team poured their blood, sweat, and tears into this Smash Character. Their moveset is chock-full of cool references to their original series, we made sure that their model and animation is up to par, and they come with a new stage and lots of music to use and listen to in-game. It's 6 dollars.
Tencent: lmao 40 bucks to put a coat on the cold doggo
Facts 😂
I still don't fully understand Smash Ultimate's value proposition. Everything about that game is too good to be true.
Hey, every new Smash fighter is not just a brandnew respectfully developed and balanced character with a stage and new music.
Each one also comes with a special Spirit Board (new spirits) and a new Challenge Mode (with at least 8 stages) as well!
Each one comes with 7 alternate (free) costumes!
Some fighters are more than just 1 character (Pyra/Mythra, Steve & Alex & Zombie & Enderman, Byleth, four different Dragon Quest Heroes).
Some of them come with multiple stages (Joker, Steve).
And some have 50+ new music tracks (Terry).
And best of all, all of it is brandnew content. Things we never had before.
5,99 per fighter pack is alright for what you get. The 2 Fighters Passes are even more worth it, since you save 5 bucks with each.
The Mii costumes for 0.79€ however, are not worth it, especially if you have already paid for them in the last game. Geno, Lloyd, and Monster Hunter should have been free this time around. I love the Mii fighters but paying for most of their costumes drags them down.
But a Pokémon skin for 40.00€ that does absolutely nothing is just.. wow. Whoever made that decision, I respect your courage. Hell is definately not hot enough for you.
@@webbowser8834 this is how life could be all the time if we weren't in a society that values profit above all else :)
@@webbowser8834 Smash Ultimate is essentially capitalism working how it was designed to. You provide a good or service people want to consume, people buy that good or service and you get lots of money. Tencent and Pokemon Unite are essentially Capitalism gone wrong, where you have people who use exploitative tactics over providing a quality product to get rich quick.
One big reason for doing this: a $20 skin looks much less ridiculously priced when it's next to a $40 skin (even though $20 is still outrageous).
Reason #2: if they do get away with it, they can push for a $50 skin next time.
Tencent, EA, Activision and many other game developers has a full team of economic analysts and psychologists min-maxing the amount of money they'll earn. So if they chose 40 bucks is because the data shows that if they decided to sell at 10 bucks it won't sell 4 times more, and 40 bucks for the comunity seens to be the tipping point.
@@BlueLegion I won't be shocked if that ends up being the case. Shit like this makes me give up on current generation of games and stick to older games (and indie games)
@@TheMaxinR You listed publishers, though. not developers. Developers usually aren't all that evil
With $20 you can buy a better game than pokemon. Hell, you can buy Hollow knight, which is better than most $60 Nintendo first party games in the switch.
Microtransactions have become so normalized that when I tell people that for the most part cosmetic micro transactions should not be a thing and just be a part of the 60$ game that you bought that look at me like I’m crazy, or entitled. The way I see it is if I spend 60$ on a game then yeah I’m entitled to a complete product, that includes cosmetics. There are some exceptions but you get the point
of course this is a f2p game but more than $5 for a skin is ridiculous. Then you have games like Overwatch where you have to pay full up front and then still pay more for everything. Or (*shudder*) ubisoft games. It truly is gross this has become the norm
@@randomname9723 I sorta give overwatch a pass cause the characters were free
@@randomname9723 The only thing you pay for in Overwatch are more loot boxes (which are dirt cheap anyway). In-game they're quite generous with giving free loot boxes (which also changes according to the current season, like everything's halloween boxes during halloween) and they actually contain 4 items so every box has 4x chances rather than the usual 1 from every other game. Plus you can actually just earn in-game currency for cosmetics (which is much more forgiving)
@@nekowatt2402 omg please dont defend Overwatch, Lootboxes are gambling, period.
@@bencheshire I was not defending Overwatch nor the lootboxes. I was saying that Overwatch's lootboxes are far more tame and unpredatory compared to much more malicious examples.
Other games (such as gacha games) literally enslave you to buy loot boxes in order to gain an advantage and have a better experience. At least in Overwatch the lootboxes are literally optional (as they should be) and are far more generous than other examples.
When they start adding Pikachus with hats:
"Wait! Don't be fooled. It's just a regular Pikachu with a stupid, cheap hat. It doesn't do anything the original can't."
"But it's got a new hat. I want it. I want it. I want it."
And that's on you
A Pikachu???
Perry the Pikachu!!!????
I get the reference
@@OzCroc good crocodile, haha
Sooooo basically TF2
40 bucks. Thats nuts, man. I hate this crap. Should rename them multitransactions or megatransactions or something.
Macrotransactions would be the correct term I believe
@@chase86903 Insulting corporate slap in the face rip offs is a better term
See the term microtransactions is a crafty deception, "Oh is just a small purchase, no big deal. Just a microtransaction don't even worry about it." If they changed the name it will hurt buisness, maybe not a lot, but enough people would be turned off. The only way it could be renamed is the passing of legislation.
at least dwarf fortress is still free
It's why people have really moved onto calling it "monetization".
Reminder that Hades, possibly one of the best games of recent times, filled to the brim with content, playable for hundreds of hours, costs 25 dollars
"People these days just don't play single-player games anymore!"
Spider -Man and God of War proceed to smash multiple records, each.
Add Hollow Knight onto there and that brings it up to $40
Talk to em!, I feel the same way about monster hunter generations ultimate and that game has an ABSURD amount of content and goes constantly on sale with none of the micro transactions that rise has.
And is included in Xbox gamepass like, bruh
and celeste, the best designed game ever, costs 20 bucks
Thank you for bringing up the point of neurodivergency and microtransactions. I have a few mobile games on my phone and one of them released a banner where it had one of my favorite characters who didn't get the limelight very often, so seeing them featured made me feel ecstatic. At the time it launched I was working in a dead end job and in the middle of a depressive episode so I didn't see a problem dropping 100+ dollars trying to get this character bc I thought "I'll be happy when I get this so who cares what I do", that I should indulge myself in the "present moment" bc I felt like I had no future, that I had a job so I could make back what I spent. When I did finally pull that character I looked back at how much I spent and how insane I felt trying to just chase a few bursts of serotonin that would only last five minutes at best. Your quote about this entire thing preying on people who "can't afford it but have a hard time saying no" really hit the nail on the head and what the people behind Pokemon Unite is doing is disgusting. Kudos to another great video!
for real, and the fuckers that defend it as just cosmetics and if you dont like it dont buy it actively make it worse because this shit shouldn't cost 5 times a high tagged game, or 20 times an indie game
valorant is the most recent one to screw me, and it was because I was so starved for a shooter since titanfall gor hacked, and unlike every other game people actually used their mics in val and that had a hefty emotional impact at the time, mixed with my cosmetically driven gamer brain, want for collection / completion, and it was csgo like so a knife for 60 is such a good deal compared to the fuckin thousand dollars a knife costs in cs
and I have ended up spending 400, a number my brain still wont fully process because it can't confront that idea
and what I love is that well over 200 of that is for skins and guns I didnt like very much, but cause I was getting relatively cheaper skins for guns I did like it just kinda snowballed
and I barely like that game when I am not talking to someone, imagine how fucked it gets for games I actually like
and like he touched on later in the vid I could buy whole games, and I knew that fully well, I bought some games In a sale later, and dropping $400 on that stupid games stupid cosmetics was effortless, but getting a dozen full games at like 80% off was a super difficult decision and I spent days mulling it over
these micro transactions are predatory even when they are simple, and the devs know it, that's why they put them in their games
@@ParaFox404 play Northstar friend :)
@@blueyandicy pc died, but I will
Neurodivergency is a meaningless buzzword. Do you realize exactly how much that umbrella covers?
@@SirBlackReeds What do you want him to say? "People who are easily addicted to gambling?" Gamblers? Would you consider kids gamblers? Like ofc not all ND people fall for this but this shit is more prone to affect people who's brains aren't normal...hence neurodivergence. It's the same thing as saying video games have gotten worse over time. It's a statement that only affects part of the industry but specifying would be pointlessly semantic.
God, Arlo, my man. I can literally FEEL the swears you're not saying in this video.
Arlo's financial strategies at the end of the video is worth more than the Alolan Ninetales skin
And you didn't even have to pay for that.
I’d say far more valuable for a hypothetical price of maybe ten Ninetales skins
Aye legitbread! Love your vids
what's sad that 40 dollar skin is still cheaper what i seen in league of legends, i swear they were selling some for 50
I dunno....I mean, this is the same guy that bought a store's entire stock-worth of Starlink...
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Although Arlo doesn’t seem mad I can sense the sheer amount of anger he had saying “Micro-transaction” specifically the micro part
You can see it in his eyes.
@@Socioromanticism this made me laugh, thanks 😊
Arlo will have heart attack if he ever played gacha game, if he played genshin he will keel over
Arlo, you're incorrect about one thing: You can't get gems from lootboxes. It's only available via purchase. Tickets are what you're thinking of, that can be earned and grinded for. Gems are hard currency only.
Hey, I just wanted to leave a comment appreciating how good the puppetry in these videos is! The way Arlo expresses is very fluid and playful and there's a lot of fun interaction between face and hand.
Disco Elysium is a groundbreaking RPG that a group of talented developers poured their heart and soul into for 5 years. It's also apparently as valuable as an Alolan Ninetales skin.
*less
@@WeeklyComedian It tends to be 40 bucks as well as far as I'm aware
Hollow Knight is a beautiful and haunting metroidvania with hand drawn characters. In addition it had free updates and DLC. You could buy one copy for your self and two more to gift to friends for the price of this Ninetails skin!
@@veggiedragon1000 For bringing up Hollow Knight, you have earned the Chad Charm
@@jammiedodgems6872 Yay :3
It's in my top ten favourite games for sure.
Didn't Mario Kart Tour also have "microtransactions" that were 40$?
How is anyone shameless enough to put 40 dollar microtransaction into games. Especially a game targeted at kids.
Stuff like this should make games M rated right away. Matter of fact, it should be a law that developers need to display the total price of in-game-purchases in stores (retail and online). Or alternatively an 'unlimited' tag, if there is no finite price.
It is as important for consumers/parents as the age rating.
We should rework the entire age rating thing anyway
@@runo4155 I completely agree. From what I have researched, the ESRB rating system is based more on opinion than objective descriptors.
Honestly, this could be the only way to make a change. I bet Nintendo would think twice about releasing an "M" rated Pokémon or Zelda game...
Those are actually really good examples of what to buy with my $40
There is a tag for that in europe
"I'm a cheap skate!"
*Proceeds to buy 500 copies of star fox model ships*
But they were on sale!
@@jaredjjacobs Not just on sale, on clearance.
Dayum, no wonder I can't find any myself.
Toys to Life has the advantage of you actually getting a physical item.
This video really makes me think about how special Monster Hunter is in this day and age. They release countless free title updates for their main line games AND their spin-offs, and when they drop DLC that costs money, you’re basically getting an ENTIRE GAME’S worth of content from that purchase. Sure they have micro-transactions, but it’s typically about $2 for a special layered armor or sticker set. Mainly, if you want a particularly cool looking armor set or weapon, you just… play the game to get it. That’s it. You know, how it SHOULD be.
Or Easter egg... Repent
There was an image on the internet that I think demonstrates this point beautifully, where they had a full painting for $60, and then two smaller, different paintings (representing DLC) for $10 each or whatever. This was underneath the caption "DLC THEN" or something to that effect. Under "DLC NOW," they had the same $60 painting as the previous example but with a rectangle cut out of the corner, and two squares that comprised the missing rectangle each running for $15.
The Ninetails skin costs as much as MHW Iceborne, an expansion that adds hundreds of hours to a game that was already hundreds of hours long. Some developers get it, some don't, I suppose
This reminded me of early on Mario Kart Tour where there was a Baby Luigi and his kiddy kart $40 banner lol
Remember how a Diddy Kong bundle costed $60, the same as a Nintendo Switch game?
@@thewhitelightning9775 and I recommend not defending Nintendo's garbage "microtransaction" bullshit. You do know it's aimed towards kids, right?
I remember there was a Twitter account for things cheaper than that
exuse me WHAT`? are you jokeing
@@TigerWolf111 This is literally the "think of the children" argument I don't care about children they should learn the value of money their parents should teach them instead of having Pikachu/Mario babysit them.
Buy a plush of alolan nintales and if that doesn't make 40$, commission a artistic friend clothes for your plushie, maybe even just like the skin.
This. 40 bucks is at least a decent sized plushie. Bonus points if you spend that money supporting a small business or a single artistic person via commission instead of dropping it in the pocket of a megacorporation.
Build a Bear would like to know your location
What a great idea
That's a whole god damn game never mind a decent plush.
@ThatLoudCockatoo I don't know, I got two pokemon themed toys from them as presents and the faces were kind of...off.
@@Blackemperess Yeah, some of them aren't great. A lot of them look really nice, others not so much. I have the eevee set.
$40 is literally as much as the cost of an *entire Yo-Kai Watch game on 3ds!*
It's as much as any single Pokemon game on 3DS too, ironically.
@@TheQuashingoftheTub most 3ds games were 40$
Now I see why you mentioned in your reaction to Sora, "Oh, 50 cents for a cosmetic." Lol! Mii costumes were never much I cared about, especially considering Ultimate already has a very good collection prepackaged with the game. But this one skin is just...what? 40 buck...for a cosmetic? I'm sorry, but that has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard in a long while. And, like you, Arlo, I'm a penny-pincher. There is no way I'd even spend more than maybe a dollar for something like that. But I think Smash has the right idea. 50 cents for a cosmetic is respectable. And in some of them, you even get a bonus music track. For 40 bucks, you could literally purchase all the DLC fighters for Smash Ultimate with all their music and all their stages. How can you buy that much for the same as one skin? The greed of this world is honestly just appalling. Keep vigilant my friends, don't waste your money on unfair transactions. Remember, something has value, and compare that value to other things around you, in this case let's go with Mii Costumes. If you can pay 50 cents for one outfit...why should you pay literally 80 times the amount for essentially the same thing in another game? That is an unfair exchange. It's not what we'd call, "Fair Trade". So, be careful my friends and shop smart.
But "respectability" has no place when talking about money. This skin is completely useless and optional, amd if they want to charge a lot for it, it really doesn't matter
If I ran the numbers right, you can either buy Ninetales once, or the Sans Undertale Mii skin over 50 TIMES!
Again at the end of the day, skins are skins, but did you see how it *destroyed* the internet upon reveal? If any skin were to be that ridiculous price, it was Sans. And yet...no. 75 cents. Coulda even been 5 bucks like a regular fighter. 75. Cents.
So where, might I ask, does the $39.25 on Ninetales go??
@@jakethedragonymaster1235
I can say that $39.25 is certainly not going towards improving Pokemon games and fixing their horrible bugs...
Arlo: The idea of spending any money on something purely cosmetic is baffling to me.
So that's why Arlo doesn't wear any clothes.
I mean clothes aren't PURELY cosmetic, they protect you from the sun, the rain and from getting into jail for public indecency.
@@RaffoPhantom They also are, you know...physical objects instead of a bunch of one's and zeros. This is literally like those stupid NFTs.
@@RaffoPhantom The cold, as well. In harsher temperatures, we're totally incapable of surviving without them.
@@thatsadcanadian1670 yeah, ya can’t cut a skin like fabric. Can’t just say ”I’ll have the ones”.
@@digital_pocket_watch Yeah, I just wanted that fun "trio" and "rain" is a more fitting opposite to sun but I agree I could have gone with heat, cold and jail as well, true true.
Tencent being like this shouldn’t surprise literally anyone.
Yeah
Literally just don't download, play, or support this
@@RhythmGrizz or play and just don't spend money. It's not hard.
God, that explains it
Pokemon Company not tencent. This is the new reality of the Pokemon Company.
@@HunterAero This
The ending skit was incredible. I'm glad these kinds of skits are being integrated into the main videos. Well done Arlo!
25 years ago: "Pokémon - Gotta catch 'em all!"
Now: "Pokémon - Gotta buy 'em all!"
Unless its sword and sheild where its: gotta catch the ones we want you to.
Gotta cash em all
The worst part about this is once this game stops being played, you won't be using the skin anymore. Might as well literally burn $40. At least if you spend it on a game that's yours, you can play it over and over again.
The way we make this whole thing stop is by showing these companies that microtransactions are not profitable for them. That's the only way...well also legal legislation but that's a different can of worms.
The whales can't stop without help. Most of them have an actual addiction. So many of them don't even actually have enough spare money to be spending that much
We need to spread the word! We need to get everyone to stop buying microtransactions!
I hear you, but the main objection will be along the lines of "yeah, but if I pay $40 and love the game 3x as much, who are you to say that's bad value?"
You're still right that once the game goes down it's essentially burnt money, but even assuming you still hold on to all your old consoles and physical games (like I do), realistically ask yourself how often you expect to go back to that game, on that console, and play as long as you did when you first started? No remasters, no ports, no emulation.|
Even for myself with Metroid Prime 1.00 on GCN, I will play the Wii Collection Port purely due to pointer controls. At which point, how is owning that GCN version different from previously paying for a game that is no longer supported?
The pricing is bad and the business model is predatory but this argument is a little bit weird to me. We don't feel that way about a $10 or $15 movie ticket. It's not wrong to pay for an experience that's ephemeral or a good that's not durable it's just about managing expectations. You're absolutely not literally burning $40 it you're getting a skin but you're still feeding into a bad system at a rate that I personally find objectionable.
Edit: I absolutely agree that the right move it to not pay into these systems especially for large companies that can afford to have a game go south!
I have been playing these kind of games for 5-7 years of my life and I can safely tell you 90% of freemium game players would spend so much less than any PC or console gamer in the same time span.
Their money not really come from 1% whales but from the 9% "dolphins" which pay the reasonable amount.
But hey it's more sensational to report about the 1% that spend exorbitant amount than 90% that spend less and 9% that spend reasonably...
I love how much screen time arlo himself has. Hes very fun to watch
I always forget there's someone controlling the puppet
Same. He's a puppet. He needs to be seen. Puppets are great.
The suggestions of how to spend $40 at the end were hilarious
true! his performance is just so fun to watch and i love how much personality is in his movements
but also what do ya mean a puppet, he's a lil monster
I want an Arlo plushie,and no one cared when I tried to petition it in the comments 🙈
I blame a lot of this on sword and sheild as well as its dlc, and especially home. Sword and sheild basically taught them how many of there fans are easy marks that will not complain about anything they make. Sword and sheild had them charging 60 dollars each for less content, less time, and fewer features then a 40$ game, and people defended it. The number of people defending it by saying “the games have flaws” is sickening..
Not to mention when they did add DLC, it ended up being bloody expensive. There's no point in criticizing GF (or Nintendo for that matter), because as long as their products print money they have no reason to change. When it comes to Pokemon-likes, we're better off supporting indie efforts instead. Those devs could really use the sales. I'm done adding to GF's coffers.
To me, i blame tancent making expensive skin in every single game. Like pubg gun skin and some uniform skin cost $1.000
I blame pokemon go tbh. Thats when they really got into the micro transaction doorway. They did have pokemon home but $5 a year was reasonable for pokemon storage even though it was and is a pay wall for pokemon
@@crashez35 Pokemon Bank was alright for me, $5 a year as a kid was fine because I got a small eshop card every Christmas, and it just made it really easy to transfer and protect my Pokemon whenever I restarted a game.
Pokemon Home is ridiculous bs, and was too expensove for me when I'm already stuck with Game Pass and the $20 a year Switch Online. Ugh.
@@TheQuashingoftheTub yeah and im still fine with pokemon bank as well because it is good for what it is without an absurd price. Pokemon home is where I draw the line though because of the hiked pricetag along with storage that isn't propotionate to the price. And the gts features shouldn't even have a paywall when it should have been in the base game.
I love that he does a lot of in-front-of-the-camera-stuff lately. It's just always hilarious, whether it's the business meeting bit, the whole end of the video, or him watching Samus getting attacked by a shooting star
Despite him being just a puppet, you can *see* the despair in his eyes.
I think it says a lot about how expressive and emotive the Arlo puppet is that, when he put the money in his mouth at the end, I genuinely got grossed out for a minute about how unsanitary it is. For a puppet.
Arlo’s puppeteering skills are really impressive, coming from a fellow puppeteer!
@@joshmay2944 It is impressive, but with the high standards set by Jim Henson and Co. the bar has been raised significantly over the last 45+ years; anyone who is into puppetry needs to become more life-like to even be taken seriously.
@@MungkaeX "It is impressive, BUT...."
He’s not a puppet idiot, he’s an arlo >:(
(For legal reasons, this is a joke)
@@rib902 perhaps I could have worded that better. Puppetry as an art form has been elevated significantly over the past 45 years, so the level of audience expectations are now far higher than it was a generation ago. It is a testament to Arlo’s skill that he can be considered impressive by today’s standards.
Arlo: "You should buy this tiny, little, miniature trashcan for like $5, that would serve no other purpose than for you to throw ~$35 in it, so that you can proudly tell 2 of the richest companies in the world (Nintendo and Tencent) that you didn't fall for their tricks and bought a $40 useless feature for their app, even though you could still end up buying it with a damn mis-click!"
This topic is so worrisome that hearing Arlo's flabbergasted voice laughing in apathy over it was greatly uplifting, and hilarious.
Intentionally making an unreasonable demand and then "compromising" by scaling it back to what you originally wanted is also a common psychological tactic. If someone wants to sell something for $20, knowing that's more than the current $15 items, they might instead try to sell it for $40. They will get a few suckers who will buy it at that price, but they KNOW most of them will complain, and then they will claim "We are listening to the feedback and lowering the price to $20", and then they will make it seem like those who understandably STILL complain are being unreasonable. "We lowered it by half! What more do you want?" while not brining up that it's still more than the $15 items. (Nevermind the fact that $15 is itself WELL beyond reasonable either)
Hoping nintendo is doing this with the NSO expansion, I can’t believe they would launch it as bad as it is
Side rant: happens with stores as well. They incrementally raise prices of things over the year, so that packet of (let's say) bacon that originally cost $4.29 becomes $4.89, then $5.69, then $5.89, then OH look! a sale on bacon, now it's $4.29! Over a dollar off! What a deal! But the sale only lasts a week so hurry up!
Except no. I work at a store and when we do price changes it always goes up. Very rarely does the price of something go down, and even then it's like -.20c. Compared to the +.90c minimum increase to most of the other things.
Course it could be that I live in California and the only thing that doesn't go up are wages for non-CEO's.
@@orangegalen dude i just noticed thats today when i was at work putting up sale stickers. The prices of the items were increased and the sales were like "buy 4 get 1 free"
The 'ol 'Door in the face' strat
My country's president did this with both CO² credits and the (ludicrous) public fund to invest in political advertising.
And some people here basically worship the dude...
I'm the completionist types and there's nothing that turns me off a game more than paywalls for simple collectibles
I mean the game itself is free, so some paid skins are to be expected, especially with this genre of game
@@RyanYeehaw of course but charging 40$ for a costume is absurd. costumes aren't that expensive to produce. Assuming 10 people worked a full week paid 20$/h to make the skin, the production cost would be 8 000$. Divide that by the price and you only need 200 sales to break even. In a fanbase of millions of people and kids who dont know better, they will make a significant profit off of this.
Sorry for the rant but microtransactions are the scumiest part of modern day game development IMO and it gets me tilted
Yea I've had a weird relationship with overwatch bc I can't get all the skins for my main bc I didn't play on day one and pay hundreds so my collection is just infinitely incomplete :/
As a fellow completionist, MOBAs are not designed to be completed
@@UltraBall23 the thing is that it's pokemon, ame pokemon has the gotta catch em all tagline
When microtransaction cost as much as a full game, you know there's a problem
Well you can have games that are lot more fun like seen for like 1,50
Arlo is having a Sesame Street moment while explaining the meaning of ‘Microtransactions’ 😁
Ironic considering Arlo looks like Grover's botched clone.
This reminds me of Caddicarus and the Crash Team Racing "Micro" transaction scandal. Back when CTR first released, he made a video warning about how the skins in the game seemed overpriced and that the process for gaining in-game currency was under-balanced and literally random. Just a month or so later, Caddy had to make another video about how CTR raised the price for both the skins and the in-game purchasing of currency to astronomical levels AFTER people gave the game praise. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF YET AGAIN!
I think there's a key difference -- the microtransactions were smuggled into CTR after release. Unite had egregious microtransactions from the get-go.
Both are equally disgusting, ultimately.
@@BornFlunky To further pinpoint that, after *reviews*, particularly when the MTX heat was stills being tossed around by governments, iirc. The difference is CTR is Pay-to-Play (looking at you Sport2K series), while Unite is F2P.
...And holy hell, many F2P's are aspirin-indulgent with all the tricks being pulled...
CTR didn’t “raise” the price for in game currency during that update. They _”introduced”_ a price for in game currency during that update. Before that it was free
At the very least, you can still get all the skins without paying a fucking cent. ya grindy but its possible if you don't having anything to do on the weekends.
@@pippo17173 it doesn’t matter if you can “technically” get them for free it’s still openly exploitative and scummy
I’d rather spend $40 on taking my family to a crappy movie. It’s been done several times before, but at least I was experiencing something with people I care about
Your puppeteering skills are quite impressive, Arlo
Remember when you completely owned a game? Yeah, that was fun
It was also far from perfect. Apart from the fact that there were glitchy, buggy messes back then, there were also ones that were put in intentionally in order to extend the length of time players would spend.
"What does 'micro' even mean?"
"It mean one millionth."
"Oh so a microtransaction should be a million times bigger?"
"What!? No! The exact opposite!"
"Make the transactions bigger!!!"
Nono fuuuuuuuuc
the micro in microtransaction stands for the part being sold
*$60 for every new Pokémon.*
Theory: they got the idea from Other Arlo.
I’ve never heard a remotely valid argument as to why costumes in these games should ever cost more than a dollar or two. They don’t take that many resources to develop that they’re ever worth a decent indie game in cost. It’s absolutely ridiculous
Because whales will pay for them. That’s the only justification that’s ever been needed.
It depends on who's making them to be honest. Take LoL for instance, sure the have skins that hit around 25-30 bit those skins are insanely well put together. For instance the DJ Sona skin has a full built in free soundtrack that you can share with your team in game.
The theory that people who don't believe overpriced microtransactions are bad follow is that people won't pay for a skin that isn't worth its price. If that holds true, offering any skin for any price is acceptable. That is why some people are fine with things like this.
ive always seen skins as more of a donation bonus than something youre paying specifically just for the skin for. Something to make it so that the game is, as they say "free to play." The issue here is, this isnt a donation at this point, its a premium.
The ONLY valid argument I've heard is Path of Exile. They have said the purchases are there with the sole intent to directly support the game.
Most of them are "founders packs", but they are upfront about the purpose of them.
I'm glad you're bringing attention to this. Marketing this stuff to kids is really messed up since kids (and teens) are more susceptible to FOMO than other age groups.
Yea. especially teens. Im so glad Im not super into this game. right now I have a job but where the money goes doesnt matter right now but if I loved pokemon unite I could see my self spending lots of money. I already do with pokemon go but its not to a huge extent
lol the bits and visuals for the pokemon unite callout videos are so next level good
"Why not just make it $1000"
Honestly, I'd rather see one person ripped off for a grand than twenty-five people ripped off for $40.
I mean, it would be kind of funny
They’re not ripped off if they deem the skin to be worth $40
@@sonofben3322 the target demographic of this game cannot seem if it is worth $40
@@artifice4723 the target demographic of any moba cannot be children
@@sonofben3322 This is Pokemon. This is very much a child friendly game, made for children. Pikachu, charizard, all of these mascots were made to appeal to children. They are the target demographic.
So here's the thing, those tickets Arlo was talking about as far as I've seen is not in the capsule you use energy you get from playing games, those tickets are fashion tickets for your character, not the skins of the Pokemon. To get the tickets for the skins that Arlo is talking about is from boxes you open after getting all the rewards in the Battle Pass. Even so, this Ninetales skin is not available with those tickets you use to get the skins, at least the last time I logged on the game today. So the only way to get this skin is shelling out that $40 on gems to buy it. I don't blame Arlo for getting mixed up though because they have TOO MANY different items and currencies to get the Pokemon, held items, consumable items, clothes, and skins in this game.
Edit: My luck must be poor cause I only ever got those types of tickets from the boxes at the end of the Battle Pass, yet when I use the Capsule it likes to give me the same pair of shirts, sandals, and pants for what feels like a million times. So the Holowear Tickets used for the Pokemon skins can come from Capsule pulls too. Still stands though, only way to get this Ninetails skin is shelling out that $40, no way to grind for it in game currently.
Unless they updated the prizes, you can get holowear tickets, 10 at a time, from the energy capsule, it's how I managed to get the gardivior skin
Just to add to this, the convoluted items and currencies is a psychological tactic developers use to get people to spend more money.
@@stevenmcreynolds4948 It's not in the Holowear Ticket Store. You can ONLY purchase it for Gems.
@@tristanneal9552 the only money I will spend on this game is for the new battle pass, everything else I can farm for myself
@@stevenmcreynolds4948 Holowear tickets are still a prize yes. You also receive them if you pull one of the costumes (Pilot, Berry and Stakeout), but already have it
Better ways to use your money than a ninetales skin:
1) Use it as a tissue
2) Use it as toilet paper
3) Use it to make a pinata
4) Buy a pinata
5) Send it to Arlo
6) Send it to me
7) Buy a used Pokemon game cartridge like BW2 or Platinum (of course you'd need more than 40 dollars but whatever)
8) Leave it on the path for someone else to have
9) Basically anything that doesnt involve buying the ninetales skin
metroid prime remastered (:
You were firing on all cylinders this video Arlo. Loved the impression of the execs
"I've got ideas on how to spend money better." Ok, let's see where this is going- "Just buy different games you can play _forever."_ Wow, first on the list, and I'm sold.
I died so hard as Arlo went down. My friend unironically bought a heaping of tape once to actually use on art projects. And then the trash can may as well have had a picture of Pokemon Unite on it.
That said, any legends remember when you could _earn_ bonuses like cosmetics through _playtime,_ not shelling out more money? I swear, you could buy a Wii game for the same price as this skin. Hm, Mario Galaxy, or Ninetails skin? Gee, idk, hard choice!
Legitimately, I have more fun playing a dead game from over a decade ago with the most bare-bones content progression (earn in-game currency in levels, pay said currency to unlock, oh say, characters. No pay-wall option in sight) than I do whenever I feel persuaded to pay to play.
This isn't the age of Arcades anymore, and even then, at least people were spending literal scraps for the whole thing, not dozens of dollars for aesthetics.
Multiple Wii games, in fact! Gosh I miss the Wii.
@@jonathanwilliams1271 Really? Dang, even better, then. I thought Wii games were 40 apiece. What price are they?
@@spidey5108 now they're pennies, or you can just emulate them.
@@spidey5108 SMG like you mentioned was $20 during the Wii's lifetime, as were many others. I think all of the ones on the Wii U VC are $20 online, but if you want a disk, they're a few bucks at GameStop or online.
arcades are a completely different ballpark. instead of buying a game at full price to play it whenever you want and for however long you want, you pay literal cents for 1 sitting. either way, you're actually getting something worthwhile out of your money.
You’re giving Unite too much credit Arlo. You can’t grind to get this skin lol. You HAVE to buy it.
True
yeah as far as I'm aware, there's no way to obtain those gems without paying
You can get select skins from complete random chance, but to get the cool ones you have to pay 40$
You can grind to get it! Expect it by the year 3021 at the earliest!
The list section had me in hysterics. Like I need the Arlo comedy hour
Your closing spendings were one of the funniest things ever in your video, gave me some good laughs, and you deserve a couple 40s for that. =D Also that "don't" had such a nice sound to it!
"Buy an entire used set of a sprawling, dense political sci-fi book series from the '70s, and tell yourself that you're gonna read it all someday, but... Don't!"
this is my new favorite arlo joke
I felt extremely called out, lol
Pretty sure I know which one he means and I borrowed it from the library in increments back in the day and read it all.
I do not feel like I missed out on anything by not buying it...
Your “business meeting” reenactment was hilarious.
And probably accurate
We HODLing Arlocoins to the moon, diamondhands?
This is my favorite video you've ever made now, Arlo!
There is a reason companies switched from "microtransaction" to "in-app purchase"
By coincidence, last week VALVe's official Team Fortress 2 Twitter account celebrated the 11th anniversary of the Mannconomy update that introduced microtransactions to TF2.
The story really shows how the road to hell is paved with good intentions. VALVe introduced microtransactions into TF2 to act as a kind of tip jar and finance the continued development of the game. Robin Walker talked in past interviews about how the player base wanted to continue to support TF2 feeling that the low entry barrier and consistent free updates merited additional payments. VALVe even introduced a system where community content creators could get their creations added to the game AND would get a 25% cut of the earnings made from people buying their creations from the Mannconomy store.
Now we live in a world where every AAA developer and publisher looks to put price tags on portions of their game even before it's released.
As someone who is studying the Game Design field at Full Sail University, I've heard from multiple of my Game Design class professors that "Micro-Transactions are defined as an in-game purchase that costs *at most* $1.00. Everything above this is considered a 'Macro-Transaction' or, well, just a purchase or DLC"
We should definitely start using the term Macro-Transaction more often. Micro-Transaction gives the impression that it’s only a little bit of money.
Would you recommend full sail to somone who has an associates in game design after taking community college classes?
^I'd also like to know
The comedy at the end. THE COMEDY! Thank you so much for making my day
A 10.5 oz can of Campbells Cream of Potato soup is $1.48 at Wal-Mart. With $40.00 you could buy approximately 27 cans of potato soup (excluding tax) and a total of 283.05 oz of potato soup. That, my friend, is a good use of $40.00.
Most places there is no sales tax on "cold" food items. That's how they exclude prepared hot food and non food items from SNAP benefit coverage, in most states. Also last I checked Great Value(Wal-Mart brand) cream of potato soup was 50 cents a can with no sales tax to boot. Which means you could get 80 cans of it for 40 bucks. Best part? It's identical to Campbell's brand. I know, I've tested it.
Minor correction:
Currently, as of typing this, it is actually impossible to purchase the Ninetails skin without paying money unless you got free gems from the beta or something since you can only purchase it with gems which are unobtainable through gameplay and can only be bought with real money.
Maybe, in the future, it would be made available for Holowear tickets but those are hard to come by and are luck based. For example, I only have 30 after playing for 70 hours.
Edit: Just want to be somewhat fair to the game, 30 is a fair amount of tickets. I can buy a decent skin with it since most of them are like 18 tickets. I never finished the battle pass for the special loot boxes and it seems you could get a fair amount of tickets from that.
Unfortunately some of the good skins like Fashion Style Gardevoir and Fashion Style Eldegoss were removed from the Holowear ticket section with the mobile release and are now only purchasable with gems only (real money, roughly $8.00US each). $8 US is also the minimum amount of money you have to spend to get the cheapest skins since the $4 US one (outside of first purchase) does not give you enough gems.
And that's the absolute WORST part of this skin is that it's exclusive to real money
I have 0 Holowear Tickets after playing for 95 hours. Give me your luck pls.
how many holowear tickets do you even need for an outfit? because I assume 30 isn't a lot
@@Nidolord777 Well, before the mobile launch, you could get some decent skins like the Fashion Eldegoss and Fashion Gardevoir for about 18 tickets which was very reasonable, especially if you completed the battle pass cause you would get access to a special loot box with a 20% chance of getting 10 Holowear tickets. You could get one of these boxes roughly every 1.5 days from doing daily quests and would have a week or so of special boxes before the season ends and the battle pass expires. The pass itself is free but paying for a premium version unlocks more rewards and I think allows you to skip some levels of it. Special skins with new animations would cost 60 or 88 tickets but you have a chance of getting them from the normal loot box at about 0.5%, 0.8% or 1.0%. Thing is that, after the mobile release, the made some, but not all, of the good skins gems only and added some, in my opinion, really basic and boring looking skins where the pokemon just wears a colours team shirt and a hat/ bandana.
Remember when you could get the in game currency by playing the game. Now the only way is to buy it
I noticed Arlo has a little pet Metroid next to him. I bet he named it Robert. No, wait! Arlo Jr.!
Why not Robert Jr.?
@@user-jl7cz2pe6d Who’s Robert Senior then?
@@nickk3077 - He played Iron-Man I think
@@jerryborjon Now that’s just plain silly.
@@jerryborjon Iron Man WAS Robert Jr., that's why the metroid can't be named Robert Jr.
That $40 bit at the end is the most muppet-like gag I've ever seen on this channel and I love it
when you would do this 20 or 30 years ago, the whole game industry would laugh at you...
PS. I love your jokes on the end of the video. Thank you for the laugh
I remember seeing jokes about unite being a pokemon clone of league of legends, but man they're getting increasingly accurate.
As for adding to the list of better things to burn 40 bucks on?
Buy the complete collection of a tv series from before the 2000s, if you find something nostalgic odds are you can get multiple!
Buy a few dozen of your favorite candy bars and feel like a kid again.
Buy 8 large cartons of cheese fish crackers and make the noisiest pillow fort for your cat.
@@THGMR-ox7sd I don't, it's an overrated game copied from others, but you'd know why I listed alternatives if you watched his video entirely.
The funny thing is I think the most expensive skins in League are still less than $40.
@@clairehooks5682 Ultimate skins end up spending more thanks to how their purchase options doesn't line up evenly without being short a few bucks or having left over riot points. Still they popularized spending more than a few bucks on a cosmetic that took drastically less time than developing anything else in the game. Not to mention the limited-time event exclusives which you can spend even more money on, since there's always a low ceiling cap how much you can get for doing optional objectives during it.
Something I bought for $40 a couple years ago: The entire Death Note manga in one 2400 page book.
I bought kh all in one a couple years ago for 40.
What I can get for $40 : a full on Grand Strategy Game that can last me thousands of hours even just with the Vanilla version
$40 retail would get you an entire expansion pack, though I think anything that still does expansion packs (is it just Civilization at this point?) ends up having huge discounts a couple months after release. $40 worth of content for a game like this should probably unlock 8 new characters, one of which has a new mechanic, along with a new role that 3+ existing characters get reworked to fill. I know this is free to play and should constantly release new content, but $40 for a single thing is completely ridiculous.
@@metleon It's not even just a thing, it's a thing that has no gameplay value. There are only 3 Pokemon game styles you should ever buy. Main series Pokemon, Pokemon SNAP 1 and 2, and the Pokemon mystery dungeon series. I'm not going into detail of other companies shortcomings, but know that they didn't bother to work off of the main series and instead made something completely half assed. Mystery dungeon is the only series that seemed to take advantage of the battle mechanics that main series already had ready for them.
@Adolh Feetler How are they a scam?
GC pokemon games are part of main series as the battle system is identical and they have less content than the average main series games. No frontier or contests or even a regular battle tower. Pokémon ranger is just a touch screen ruiner.
That's why you emulate them on PC, not buy them. There is no reason to buy them unless you want to collect them. Although gen 6 and 7 are worth the buy.
Bro, you are a very good puppeteer kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk I broke laughing at Arlo every single time. Great video, as usual :)
Arlo I'm with you on the word microtransactions not being fitting for this. I made it a habit of calling any in-game purchase above $10 a macrotransaction
Shoutout to bug fables, the paper mario we all wish they continued to make
They released it, i just want a sequel now
Brilliant lil game. Love team Snakemouth 😭💖💕💖💕
Worse part there’s people who legitimately believe purchasing a $40 skin is a good deal
HOW IS THAT A GOOD DEAL?!
my valorant player friend be like
I've spent 10 bucks on a battle pass and I'm content. I just. cannot. understand. spending. literally. hundreds. on. gun. skins.
No one thinks that, nice strawman.
pokemon unite fans explaining why wasting your college fund for gems is a good idea
It’s literally the base price of triple A 3ds games
This is why I love watching this dudes videos. I love his humor! it can always make my day better.
- buy 2 copies of Pizza Tower
- buy 8 copies of Reventure
- buy 80 chocolate bars
The way they treat the mainline series as some bastion of altruism which they can't afford to iterate on while actively profiting off of predatory games that ruin their brand is what sickens me the most
did you forget that theres going to be a new mainline game in a few months
@@Scottson You have fundamentally misunderstood the comment. The point isn't "there are no new games", the point is they regularly treat the mainline games as sort of capsule locked in time, making very minor updates from game to game, and very often they (moreso the fans, admittedly) treat this like its a moral issue, e.g. "well the trees look bad, but there's no microtransactions!"
...while five feet away there's multiple mobile game style games with predatory as shit monetization.
"get a few of those enormous buckets of dinosaur figures, and just... Go to town"
This line sent me hahah
Yes
"That's an XL Double-Bacon Cheese-action!" ~Caddicarus
This video made my morning.
Idk why, it was just nice
Love how Arlo’s intros have devolved to just him shouting “Seth rogen!” in a Pokémon video 😂
You could buy so many cool small indie games with that money, the value of skins and games has gotten so out of hand, what’s even worse is this $40 skin is useless when the servers to the game end up shutting down some day lmao
The last part about what to spend your 40$ on was brilliant!
This is a really good video with a lot of great points but the way you said "Megacrayon" at the end had me laughing. But it is a good idea.....
This was a slightly depressing video overall, but that whole sequence at the end definitely goes in my top ten Arlo gags
So I would say that an even better way to use that money is to support Arlo on Patreon for $3.33 a month for one year. Then use the change to buy half a candy bar (why are candy bars so expensive?)
This is possibly the best suggestion
Only slightly? Arlo had full confidence in shilling for Jim Sterling. Have you seen what that bloated buffoon looks like?
With $40 I could support Arlo's patreon for 20 MONTHS
Now thats worth it
This may be because the video was quickly put together but I actually really liked how most of the footage was on Arlo
The most painful part of this is that other games have had skins of $40 and much much more expensive for a long time already and have been getting away with it. Pokemon is very unlikely to be any different.
$40 for an item in a game that has the possibility of disappearing and you might no longer have access to to. $40 that could buy you a game on day one or if you play your cards right will get you several games at a sale.
With near half of this price, I bought 2 PS4 games recently.🤦♂️
Except pretty much every game will disappear one day, by them becoming digital and services it has made the value on skins more on par with them.
By creating a problem elsewhere it makes another thing more preferable.
@@Mabb60 Don't make it free to play then
@@Buglin_Burger7878 Well yes everything disappears one day. Yet the full games you buy mean that years after their release I can still play said game 10 or even 20 years later. The lifespan of so many free to play games tells me that on average that will not be the case. The idea of paying that much for a single item within the game is incredible. Whether or not the game is free $40 is just too much. You can argue that the game is free yet what happens when the they decide to stop supporting it? When the amount of people playing it dwindles to nothing? You're stuck. While $40 spent on a full game will still be there. There will be a means to play it. Nothing last forever yes but I can still play the original pokemon games from my youth now if I want to. Free to play games are on average temporary in some form or another. Once the support ends so does any means of playing it, ever. Digital games? There are means to play them.
@@Mabb60 Not talking about the game itself. They know exactly what they're doing by making it free to play. By doing so they can nickle and dime you with anything they add. Free to play is a continuous stream of money for these companies. Even more so in a game based on competition. The pricing model is built in to how they do match ups. If not competition then it's built on getting everything in that game. Which means that for the pokemon brand these things are a gold mine. They didn't make their game free to play out of the kindness of their hearts, they did it to make money.
That 'What ELSE you can spend $40 on' skit is pure gold
indeed
got me weak
You're a major content creator in my eyes, Arlo.
I don't just put on your content to escape the lack of sound otherwise, I genuinely enjoy your jokes. The other Arlo bit in the unite video was genius.
supporting you on patreon is like a microtransaction for your youtube channel
People are defending this because Pokemon let me remind you that $40 used to be the cost of main series games on launch day
The bit at 8:30 was genuinely so well performed that I actually felt like Arlo was a real living being lol. The puppetry aspect of this channel needs to be played up more.
I love how there is no in game casinos since gen 1&2 and now micro transactions actually depicting gambling is acceptable
You mean since gen 3
@@mlpfanboy1701 Acshually...since HGSS, so Gen 4 ^^.
12:13 this is my favorite part of the video its creative and helpful. Especially for people suffer from lack of impulse control. Real Heros don't often wear capes!