Game Companies are NOT Your Friends
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
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0:00 - Introduction
2:14 - Electronic Arts
5:39 - Blizzard Entertainment
9:23 - Valve
16:12 - Rockstar Games
19:45 - Microsoft
23:16 - Konami
28:08 - Nintendo
36:52 - Closing Thoughts
39:08 - Outro
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Nintendo's biggest prideful act is "Nintendo games don't depreciate in value".
I’ve never gotten that as I see sales on their games relatively often
@@MrCoolioFTF maybe it's a different type of value, such as sentimental value, so following that meaning if for example you liked a few snes and nes games that still hold sentimental value, then the nintendo switch online retro game library (or whatever it's called) doesn't sound so bad, therefore they make money off you buying that subscription
nintendo games stay 60$ for ages before being on sale, but yeah, true for 90%
@@MrCoolioFTF what are you looking at, melee?
@@rockfire1669 Switch eshop and Walmart
Moral: You can love but don't worship. These companies are not your Gods and blindly kissing their feet solves nothing. Take it from Patrick Star himself:
"Hero worship is unhealthy."
Which ep did he say that again ?
@@Flairis Season 2: I'm Your Biggest Fanatic
I appreciate this wisdom
Love that you pulled of Patrick Star being smart
Worship is a form of self hate and self denial
Video games went from cheat codes to microtransactions.
This is so true !!
Good ole pay to win
most annoying part is they arent even micro anymore. mf $20 for a cosmetic package 😭
But you do have to buy a book usually made by the company
no, they went from entertainment to enslavement
Great video. Corporations are not our friends and only care about our money. Its totally fine to be a fan of a product or an IP, but being a fanboy of a corporation is absolutely crazy.
What does IP stand for?
@@josh9159 Intellectual Property
I ❤ From soft untill they prove me otherwise.
@@RJ-cq8dd you love their games...not the company itself. remember that.
@@trgdyfps in extension i love the company and especially their mastermind Mr. Miyazaki.
“Hey guys, mega game development company here giving my 2 cents on current political issues. I, as a faceless and soulless entity, will pretend to care about your grievances”
How did you lose your verification badge?
@@TH_5094 check his community posts
@@TH_5094 he was getting bullied for buying his channel (he did not, sorry ShortHax for calling you a bot) and so he used a bug that removes his badge without removing the data of the badge
Basically what Supercell did
And somehow people will believe me
Nintendo: has fans
Nintendo fans: Are so passionate that they spend a decade of their lives making a tribute game without expecting anything in return.
Nintendo: Is that fucking competition I smelled?
Hory shit, rarry get the rawyer I think this non-profit seeking game is going to put us out of business
@@scoundral2995 dont forget that they PARTICULARLY hate non-japanese fans.
Well NOW maybe it would be competition. As in people playing the free game over the title 😂
People returned their copies of SV. Long time fans. To bad that won't change anything because it's the highest selling because of the access and normalization of technology in every home. Possibly a Switch and smartphone in everyone's hand starting at school age kids.
They have officially hit their next generation of *MAJOR* players I believe. They released a game that is major nostalgia bait
If Nintendo fans get to play a Pokemon game with actual effort in the development they might demand the same from Nintendo and that's a big no-no for the yearly shovelware that it has become
yeah that's something sonic would say
Minor correction. Bungie was acquired BEFORE Halo was finished. The investment from MS was what actually enabled the game to become what it did. The OST for the first game actually came with a mini documentary that went over this development and the crap the game looked like before Bungie was acquired.
No ruining the 69 likes
As an indie developer, Steam is realistically the single good platform you can publish to... They don't just host your game but offer many other features and free promotion, and I believe that the 30/70 cut is reasonable for what they offer.
I'll never understand why people gave Steam flack for that 70/30 split back when Epic was trying to make their storefront 'relevant.'
@@jbktpl1245 cuz steam make them more popular cuz if someone puplish soemthing on epic he may get 10k sells when the same game get puplishes on steam there will be 100k sales (this is just a thing so you understand it isn't 100% true but has the right meaning)
@@jbktpl1245epic lost all credibility when they went all ninja deep into exclusives and paid publishers. This is why I will never purchase games on epic, I own games on steam, uplay, origin, rockstar store and chunk in Xbox pc store. Not to mention my games in ps lib
I think people don't understand how reliable and overall good at promotion Steam is compared to other platforms and how the money paid to them are really for a not a bad service. I dare you to compare how stable the download from their server is, compared to other launchers and stores. And those other functions that Epic lacs are important. There is a reason why Steam is successful and them being monopoly on PC is mostly because of how inadequate the competition was, not because of their monopolistic behavior. I would just blame other platforms for being shit.
@@Kwad_rat yup. this is so true
Indie developers are nice, the anti piracy screen for just shapes and beats is just one of the developers talking to you and telling you how you can support them without buying the games they make
yeah that one's pretty cool. also kinda shows how some people don't quite seem to get piracy, i guess.
even if you can't pay for it before playing, knowing a game is good and being able to spread the word after playing it and experiencing it yourself, then buying it when you can afford it, still ends up better than following all the "don't pirate indie games" stuff and not playing it at all. obviously, the "buying when you can" part is important, but for smaller games, word-of-mouth has value too.
as long as that is kept in mind, and people do pay afterwards, i don't quite see the issue with the matter. maybe people are too used to thinking that a copy of digital data has inherent value? the value is in the experience and the developer should definitely be paid at some point in the process, whether before or after
@@noxxyy I pirated hollow knight on pc in 2017 and when I got a switch in 2018... I bought the game. I bought the game and dark souls
@@arishkhan-jw6qu sounds good. enjoy your gaming :D
But I wouldn't go extreme on this opinion either because over the years I've definitely seen some evil indie game developers.
Here's some quick life advice: Just because somebody is a scrappy underdog doesn't mean they're a good guy.
Tl; DR indie developers aren't always peaceful, sometimes they're just harmless
@@klaykid117 yeah sometimes Indi devs can be pieces of shit
I know any of these sins can be applied to any of these companies but pride just fits Nintendo perfectly.
Always afraid of people outshining them
I'd say sloth also is perfect for valve
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Nintendo fanboys are insane
@@gavinangus5518 valve is anything but lazy, they just are not working on the things we actually care about
This is true and heartbreaking. I’m a big Pokémon fan and the only way for them to to not be like that is to not support their games. But it’s makes it unfair. We shouldn’t have to choose to not spend money on their games to give us games worth buying.
I'm not suggesting anything, but piracy would screw nintendo over while you get to play pokemon!
@@Linkman8912 no. Nintendo is very strict on their pirated games. I see what you’re saying but I want to support the devs. Game freak is a great and passionate company. Just forced to meet punctual releases and meet a quota for money. Especially since pokemon is one of their biggest money makers. It isn’t fair to game freak that Nintendo has a different agenda. Though the company itself has its downfalls too. The reason why game freak has a serious down trend in quality is because they refuse to hire a larger team and are still required to meet the time crunches. They feel that a bigger team makes the number of people passionate about the games much less than what they have. Which makes sense but is contributing to the loss of great games.
The sad part about Konami is that they still are unknown and have fallen from popular studios.
How does a company have the sin of gluttony
EDIT: as soon as you showed the mere image of Microsoft it hit me
I didn't think of it at first, but it really does fit.
Fit's EA too...
BAHAHAHA
Yeah, some companies just love to eat (and usually destroy) other companies. Microsoft is one of the worst of that kind.
@@planescaped fits steam too
@@cewla3348Valve is great, they have the steam deck and support Linux
Update: found out there’s a Valve section of the video. I will update once I’ve watched through it.
Update 2: I do not have enough information to rethink my opinion of Valve, but I have taken the videos information about Valve into acknowledgement. I still think positively of Valve, though it has its pros and cons.
The artists are who made what you love, the businessmen are who ruin it
stop being so naive....
Businessmen become artists and cringe is the result. Artists become businessmen and the result is ruin. One who falls between both to begin with will excel beyond either
@@ffejpsycho It's not really
ok@@LineOfThy
Usually, but also some times, the businessmen ACTUALLY DO reign in incompetent artists and ensure that a game is being made at all. For examples - see stalker shadow of Chernobyl and metro 2033.
No, Nintendo did NOT save the gaming industry from the 1983 crash. For a start the crash only affected north America, it didn't touch the home micro based European games industry. Secondly it didn't save the NA industry, it restarted it.
The problem is that in this world, its not only gaming companies doing it, this car manifactures, gadget companies, phone companies, condom companies, they all do it its a much much bigger problem
I think everyones just too afraid to say it: Thats the result you get from capitalism. Plain and simple
In short - realise that game companies and pop culture in general are not gods. You can enjoy their products but don't worship them, they don't deserve it and they can't fill the hole in your heart.
But you can
@@lurossa7738 smooth
@@muda1312 like your brain
Exactly. Read the comments in a game like the Simpson hit and run, and you'll see how much passion they out into it, but also how much they rant about Fox breathing down their necks.
read somewhere that this is a cultural shift is caused by the downfall of religions, seems crazy to think these two things are somehow related, but it kinda makes sense
after everything nintendo's done i just can't bring myself to buy games from the company anymore. It weighs too heavily on my mind when I'm playing any of their games
I only buy their old ones, nothing beyond the Wii for me
I buy secondhand games, 3ds and ds mainly because I don't have a switch and I don't want to anyway
I can't even play their games they cost too much
@@jovinprime This is also a major problem with the company: not to mention the inconsistency in quality among their $60 titles ):
@@objectionable6693 yeah. their worth is determined by the brand name. Like mystery dungeon and animal crossing were only put up there because people are just gonna buy them. Mystery dungeon fandom would probably just be glad with having a game, and animal crossing was already building up to be next thing. They just rode on that and put a tag on them for just that. They never go on sale either, and to put things worse they cost $80 in my country and 100 dollars with tax so I cant even bother getting a game. Wasted my money on a switch in 2019
Remember everyone, there's nothing wrong with Piracy against Corporations.
That's not exactly true. If everyone did it, corporations could not exist - and if that's what you want, then well, it's a different issue. Entirely, lol.
Though Nintendo makes me angee so pirate them >:(
So in the end there is nothing to pirate anymore? 🤨
Agreed when I emulate Nintendo games, I always make sure the game is made by a corporation and not made by an indie studio. Indie games deserve your money, not companies that see you as walking wallets
The way this video is structured is amazing. Playing the game of "Guess the Sin" is so fun whenever a new section pops up. And when you said "You already know the final, deadly sin of them all" you were so right! Guessing the answer correctly made me feel so satisfied. Also, the structure of this video makes the complex world of video game companies make sense when you look at it from this perspective. You can clearly see the sins they possess.
Wrath is the only one that wasn’t very obvious to me. I still think it didn’t make much sense.
I honestly thought nintendo would be wrath, because copystriking youtube, shutting down entire tournaments and making bullshit lawsuits looks like hate.
Valve, EA and Microsoft were the most obvious.
There was a meme circulating around the internet back in the days during the Pokemon Uranium incident.
A child prodigy from Africa or something successfully created a device using woods and tools to be capable to run Super Mario Bros. As a sign of congratulations. Nintendo's staff fly over there and told the kid that they either destroy this new competition or the kid will be sued for 1 million USD.
Or something like that.
I may hate it if Blizzard and EA became the norm.
But I fear the day when Nintendo's practices became the norm.
Hold up this true?
@@getplayed7272 no. It's a meme. But it's scary to think about.
@@getplayed7272 Its sorta based on adjacent incidents
@@zurielschubert9410”this didn’t happen but the fact that i thought it did is terrifying”
@@turtleyoutubeaccount yeah
As heart breaking as Konami's turn was, this wasn't entirely out of character.
This is the same company that owns the Yugioh franchise. We can only hope that their recent endeavor with the Silent Hill franchise again is a sign that things might get better for fans of those games.
I hate how Yu-gi-oh suffers from the Pokemon issue, except it's even worse because the company has other notable IPs that get thrown to the corner.
Lol that's adorable.
I bet you have a long happy life of gaming ahead of you, and you won't find yourself being disappointed on a weekly basis for the rest of your life(or as long as you "IdEnTiFy As A GaMeR" lol
My tip: Just give up on gaming.
Seriously. Just forget about any future releases, and find another hobby.
Avoid gaming news, and anything current, and don't even get into retro gaming.
If you can avoid all things gaming for about 6 months to a year, you can finally "return", and by "return" I mean enough current(current to today) games will have dropped in price, they'll have faded from public light, and you can go get games for a fraction of the cost, and you'll be totally unaware of all the flaws of the game and it's release.
Staying current on gaming is just torturing yourself. The gaming community will always be permanently depressed and enraged because they're indulging in an industry that abuses them. Just drop out, "go your own way" and let everyone else be enraged in trying to stay current.
And yes, that means giving up on competitive games(or anything requiring the internet) entirely.
@@nignamedmutt7270
(or anything requiring the internet)
You mean most academic channels, finances and job applications too? Physical filings are literally on the way out.
Another sad part is that Yugioh originally wasn't supposed to be a card game, It was originally a bunch of death game manga WITH the card game included but people loved that card game so much that they just capitalized on that instead. That's why people loved season 0 so much
It's sad that people need to be told companies aren't their friends
That's why I dont feel bad for modding my 3DS/Wii U anymore. When you don't make your games available for the next console...then it's your lost. I would have bought Switch versions of 3DS games if they made then available in some form. Pokemon Diamond and Pearl had a system where they had a second screen on the switch....theres an idea.
The diamond and pearl remakes on switch sucked complete ass, the only time where split screen was even used at all was in the Underground and the execution was absolutely horrendous
Its quite sad how the majority of people are blind to the fact that Nintendo is a super shitty company. Just because they've made great games they're willing to turn their blind eye to it.
I would have added Riot here as well. Because Arcane was such a huge hit and positively talked about show people literally forgot they had the same lawsuits up their ass that Activision Blizzard currently has. Yet people make videos like "Riot did what Blizzard couldn't". Like stfu. They both soiled their sheets and Riot just happened to change them faster and now people are blinded by the brand spanking new clean white sheets.
Well said.
I love Nintendo games, the company sucks.
@@superhappygamer1162 Nintendo is the Disney of video games.
Yeah but honestly Riot has always been way more user-friendly than most companies. They don't even fit in the Greed section, since they never force you to buy anything and everything gameplay-related in their games is free. They usually listen to feedback from the players and almost never fail on their games, even though they release 1 every 10 years. I don't think Riot should be considered anywhere near the other companies
Wanna know why people apparently blind to that? Cuz of the shitty ethics of "separating the art and the artist".
I agree wholeheartedly, but I think it's important to separate Dev teams from the company overall. Not completely, they are still part of the company, but the Dev teams are where any genuine care for the players might come from. Do I trust Nintendo? Not really. Do I trust Eiji Aunoma? Yeah, probably.
I do agree... in most cases... there are cases that not even the devs can help it.
Then you have Sega, which is perfectly fine and funds stuff like Ryuugagotoku, who has to deal with Sonic Team, the most overrated, incompetent studio still pumping games after 30 years.
Dev teams good,
Corporate businesspeople bad.
I mean, the harassment in Blizzard was by developers and higher-ups, so...
@@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon dev teams good when they are actually good people
Brand loyalty sucks and it's definitely true that a lot of people don't recognize it. However, Valve does have the best launcher/marketplace by far. And they are usually consumer-friendly. They are also a relatively small company and although they haven't released that many games recently, what they have done is pretty crazy, such as all their contributions to VR and the Steam Deck (which basically started a new market by itself).
Valve is not a small company
@@coupon7639 define small then. Small compared to ConcernedApe (Stardew Valley)? No, Valve is huge.
Compared to Blizzard? Blizzard has 10 times as many employees as Valve. Hell, even Epic games fired ~850 people in the end of 2023, which is nearly double the employees that Valve even have in total.
The research done by the guy is okay, but not good in regards to Valve, which I know, because I follow what they do since more than a decade, it's a shame really, because he gets crucial things wrong, which makes me question all the stuff that he said about the other companies as well...
For example, he claims Valve reacted to the EGS by lowering their revenue cut, which is just plain wrong. Valve lowered the cut before the EGS was even announced. They did it after multiple game developers came out and complained about it, causing a lot of headlines. Hell, I wouldn't even be surprised if those complaints and headlines were the reason Epic Games decided to launch the EGS. With the amount of features and polish it had (or rather has), it could very well be the case.
Also I find it a little ingenuine to say that they don't make games. If you play Dota 2 or CSGO/CS2, you know that the amount of content and changes they made to those 2 games alone in the last 10 years is pretty damn huge. With the amount of work they put into that, they could have released at least 5 other games.
@@coupon7639 300 employees, Activition, electronic arts, epic games, ubisoft, rockstar etc all have employees in the thousands.
I think company social media profiles certainly aren't helping this. Lots of people have already developed parasocial relationships with celebrities and internet personalities and are doing it with companies, too. Giving them these personas that make people antiquate them with Indie developers so they can do no wrong, no matter their business practises or behaviour.
I'm absolutely appalled that people are still buying EA's products even though there are ALWAYS massive backlash in every single new game they released in the past decade.
People just didn't learn.
People like taking it up the ass.
Gamers especially.
They'll never admit it.... but boy do they LOVE IT....
It's equal parts addiction and apathy. On-top of being greedy, companies like EA are also predatory. They squeeze the weak until they're empty, then toss their withered husk on the pile.
Must consume
EA makes games for normies and people who generally don't play a lot of games so they don't have standards and thus think that's how all games are.
People are addicted to hypes, and to be part of a hype.
The overall sentiment I've heard over the years of people who hate getting treated like shit by these companies but buy their stuff anyway is essentially they would rather continue to buy and play the games because it's easier that way. I've almost given up trying to bother anymore.
Yep, it’s so annoying. Nothing will change until people stop supporting disgusting behaviors. Though, despite the fact that I barely buy any, I should fully stop buying Ubisoft and Bethesda games instead of only buying them at a steep discount. I already don’t buy from EA, Take-Two, Activision-Blizzard, Bungie, and a bunch of smaller ones.
@@Go_Coup it's surprisingly easy to unwittingly mess up a boycott you're trying to do, but the sentiment actually being there to begin with is already great.
@@Go_Coupit's pretty easy for me since I dont care about fps and sport games
I said to someone on Reddit (I know, it's my own fault) that they shouldn't support companies that are shitty and won't take responsibility for being shitty and I got the response that "you can't expect people to give up what they like." Yes, I actually really can expect people to not pay for or watch content that actively makes the hobby you like worse.
@@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown , in this clown world, people think happiness is the main purpose of life.
It's not about games, it's about large corporations
Another reason to hate game companies is that sometimes they’ll use game developers, passion for making games as an excuse to make them work crunch hours, and pay them less. They’ll also use developers as a shield to block criticism for decisions that they made and forced onto the developers. Remember that game developers are just trying to do their job. If we want real change in the game industry then we need to start blaming game companies that are making these bad decisions. (Besides Indie games but that’s a different story)
Wish more people would know this and not idolize companies as gods
I love how all of them fits perfectly in greed
Nintendo fits almost every one of them by themselves!
To be fair, most of the Seven Deadly Sins kind of collapse in on themselves, anway.
Envy, Lust, Greed, Gluttony are all similar behaviors, just nuanced.
Pride, Wrath, Sloth usually have the same motivation.
no shit, they're companies
@@doodleBurgerswho would have thought
@@WilliamMcAdams Lust, Greed and Gluttony are similar. Envy is more akin to pride and wrath and sloth is its own thing tbh.
So I'm not sure I agree with the steam section. Steam gained and continues to gain popularity because compared to other launchers, Steam and Valve actually brings value to the games on the platform. No other launcher has as much of a focus on features for the users. For instance, Steam's controller support is second to none. Most of them lack forums for support. Some devs that went Epic exclusive have told their customers that if they want controller support, that they should add the game to Steam as a non-steam game. Other devs use Steam's forums in place of official ones, even when they aren't even selling their game on Steam. No other launcher has put as much effort to making their games playable on Linux. On the contrary, some such as Epic have made efforts in the past to specifically block their launcher or their games from working on Linux through Proton.
I get why you brought up their refund policy, but the fact of the matter remains is that even now the default of most gaming stores is to NOT allow refunds. Before Steam did so, the only store that did was Origin. Epic when they started initially did not allow refunds, and when they did start doing so, many had problems actually getting the refund to go through. And it's still a weekly occurrence where somebody will try to get support for something that happened with their account only to be told by the epic subreddit mods that their subreddit isn't for support (because those posts make them look bad) which leads to them taking it elsewhere. So it's pretty common knowledge that even now EGS is not worth using. People log into the site to claim the free games, but never install them, instead often choosing to just buy them on Steam.
You also bring up the 30%, and act as if Valve does nothing and just holds it over the devs heads. But that argument is BS. Valve charges very little to be on their store and devs make it back basically immediately. Which basically means that after that little bit of money, all that matters is that for every copy of the game sold directly on Steam, the dev gets paid and Valve gets paid at the same time. Valve has incentive to ensure that people buy from Steam, because if users aren't buying from steam, then Valve doesn't get paid either. So over the years Valve has worked to make their platform actually worth using.
In comparison, many of the competitors have far more money than Valve and yet they can't seem to come up with a halfway decent launcher. Because to them, there is no point in competing on quality. Epic has outright stated as much themselves btw. Rather than draw in users organically, they prefer shortcuts. By offering publishers deals and consumers free games, they hope to build a userbase that is less likely to consider Steam. Problem is that this growth is inorganic and not stable. Most people who have an EGS account only have it to claim the free games, but they never download or play them, and when they do, they buy it on steam or pirate it.
Very few people actually buy games on EGS compared to the users who just claim the free games, and people have chosen not to buy specifically because they think Epic might offer it for free. Epic built an audience of players that do not pay for things. Inorganic growth falls apart over time. The second Epic ends the free giveaways they will lose most of their userbase, because those people were in it for the free games and the experience with EGS is worse than piracy, so anybody actually wanting to play those games will either pirate the game or buy on Steam or elsewhere.
And over the years EGS has been described as a marketing black hole. Games go onto EGS to die. Other launchers have similar issue because using them is such a drag that many would prefer to pretend they don't exist. Like I've got an EA account and a Ubisoft account, but I don't use their launchers because I've had frequent bad experiences with them and would rather not play a game at all than be forced to use them. So as a consumer, I can confidently say that those other launchers didn't earn their cut. In fact it is always the customer that decides this, the money ultimately comes from them. Steam sales dwarf the other stores, it must be doing something to draw in most customers, Devs that go exclusive on EGS for the bribe still tend to use Steam for their forums and advertisement.
That right there proves that developers see value in being on steam. They just want to use Steam's services to drive people to the store that supposedly offers them a better deal, but because EGS is such a marketing black hole, they know full well that it's actually Epic that isn't earning their cut. Furthermore, devs can generate keys and sell them on third party sites. And Valve takes 0 cut of the revenue in that instance. If I buy a game on said third party site, they get a bigger cut and we both still enjoy the benefits of steam. Valve further rewards devs who sell a lot on steam by offering them a higher and higher cut. So whether they sell a lot of copies on Steam or some third party site, they tend to take away more than the 70%. Valve also eats a lot of the costs that a dev might see if they sold directly to consumers.
For instance, chargebacks have devastated some indie developers. People buy their game using stolen credit cards and sell on grey market sites, then the owner of the card notices and does a chargeback, which penalizes the dev. If a dev sells on Steam or some other third party store, that store will usually eat the cost of the chargeback. Steam also offers consumers steam gift cards. You buy a 20 dollar card and it will cost 20 dollars for you. But it actually costs money to print and sell these.
Valve eats the cost of these cards, and the money comes from the they take, not the developer's cut. When asked when EGS would offer gift cards, Tim Sweeney outright said the cost to provide them would outweigh their own cut. As such, they don't offer gift cards. Valve offers developers storage, bandwidth, they eat the processing cost for payment. They offer cloud saves, online matchmaking, they work on proton support, controller support for other controllers, they handle regional price recommendations (but allow devs to choose their prices), they sell in many many markets that a smaller developer might not be able to handle.
So ultimately the 30% argument holds no actual weight. Everybody wants the best value for the least money. So I don't blame developers for wanting a better deal, but as a consumer I also want the best value for my money. I could choose to pirate everything, or buy from grey market sites, use a VPN and abuse regional pricing, buy physically on console used, but instead I choose to buy on steam/itch/gog and certain reputable third party sites, and I've always advocated against buying from grey market sites especially due to them harming indie devs in particular.
I've been a PC gamer for a little over 10 years and in that time I watched Steam grow it's userbase organically. Valve isn't perfect, their handling of content on their platform is inconsistent at best, but compared to other platforms that languished in the same time period they still come out looking quite a bit better. Not only do they treat their userbase quite well, but they also treat their workers well too. Whereas Epic is well known for supporting crunch development culture.
Valve also hasn't handled their IPs the best way, but everything Epic touches has turned to shit. Fall Guys is practically dead, Rocket League a shell of it's former self. There are games on EGS that didn't even last half a year. The only modicrum of success they have had in actually penetrating the PC market is by pushing EOS for games sold on steam and that usually comes with the issue that games that have worked fine for years suddenly stop working, sometimes outright requiring an epic account to even launch. In fact that's basically how all of their competitors work now and have worked for years. If they can't get you to buy their games on their own launcher, they will force you to use their launcher in addition to Steam to play the game. Each one tries to force growth, but that growth falls apart because at the end of the day, nobody actually likes those launchers and more and more end up pissed enough that they eventually just choose not to play those games than use that launcher.
I would like to second the point made about EGS giving out free games, Slime Rancher, I bought it on Steam because of how simple it is to run it on Linux, it supports it natively, unlike on the EGS.
The Steam section was one of the most braindead takes I've heard in a video.
also. the revenue split. isnt even our problem to be frank. sure call me mean. at the end of the day. the developers. are trying to sell me a product. this isnt red cross nurses asking for donations to save kids from dysentary. I also have a job. I work hard at my job. I dont see myself as morally obligated to just buy a game on a "more fair" platform against my own prefrence or convinence. what if the platform. has a shit refund policy and I dont like the game. oh well. guess I "did my part" to support developers. developers are not more valuable than I am. we both work at a job. I have my money. I will decide to do what I want with my hard earned money. I'm not the rich greedy billionaire refusing to lower prices by 1 penny to save 50 million lives here. I work a full work week. I'll buy what I want. and devs can sell where they want. Im not required to go scour non steam stores to find games and probably make the experience worse for myself. this goes triple because Im a linux gamer. and valve/proton makes it literally click and play versus setting up a game in lutris. which is not just click install and play the game.
@@nexus3756 Yeah I never bought the revenue split argument. Devs argued that Steam didn't earn it's fair share, but the consumer is actually decides that.
The consumers are the ones that are actually spending money for the product, while devs reap a percentage of it based on the revenue split they agreed with at that store.
Whether a game does well or not, since it is a split, the dev makes what they earned and the store makes what they earned.
If we want to get into whether the store actually "earned" their money, then we would look at sales on each. Since games tend to sell way more on steam, it is easily arguable that Valve indeed earned their share.
Meanwhile, EGS has often been described as a marketing black hole. It's a place where games go to be forgotten. So I would say Epic has not really earned their value.
Some greedy publishers and devs seethe because they think that if people are buying the game on Steam, those people should instead buy it on a platform where the dev makes more.
But to the consumer, those platforms don't offer as much to the user. Epic offers way less value to the consumer than Steam does and the price is the same.
Devs aren't entitled to more money just because EGS offers a better split. If they want people to buy on EGS instead of Steam, they need to pressure EGS to actually improve and compete with Steam, but this will likely necessitate increasing Epic's revenue share.
There's also the moral tax that comes with buying on Epic, which is that a good chunk of your money goes to Tencent/CCP and even more goes to Tim Sweeney. This is of course subjective, but I can't see myself ever supporting EGS as long as Epic is involved in it. It's been 5 years since EGS started and not only are they still competing with the Steam of 2003, they have done nothing for the pc community outside of trying (and failing) to monetize freeloaders.
Whereas Steam, while not without flaws, comes across as a much better company for consumers, it's workers, and the industry in general. That alone pushes many people to prefer Steam even over cheaper stores.
Brand loyalty is the dumbest concept. Don't be loyal to a giant corporation that sees you as an open wallet, go for whatever get's you the best product for the lowest cost
I know when you were doing your research and fifting the sins into each companies were like "oh my god, this is gonna be so good"
valve is the only company which cares about linux gamers though, they developed the proton compatibility layer which allows linux users to play almost any windows game.
Yes, this is why i only buy on steam these days, i love gog as well but proton is just too good.
The steam deck will also vastly increase the number of compatible games, which is great considering how most other publishers don`t care about linux at all.
Yeah, but the problem is that they take a big percentage from the revenue of the games on their platform
Also hate the exclusivity deals that epic has been signing up , I get that there needs to be done competition for steam but it's anti consumer to have to put your game on one specific store
@@tudytudy3316 That's true, but they also offer more services than "hosting the games", the problem is that Valve doesn't even give a small discount to indie developers or at least a negotiable cut, which is a big greedy move.
This video is surprisingly well made. Can't believe it took me so long to find it.
Watched all the way through without skipping, and can jut say this is amazing.
Ubisoft would actually fit nicely to "envy" role - imitating others and trying to have the same type of games as others, failing constantly with their copycats
This is a really well made video, watched the whole thing and quite liked the approach you took with the Seven Sins. Super creative idea!
This is why we love indie games
Indie games forced to use Steam and get 30% less money
Bluurg thinks indie games are the next coming of Christ.
@@Kringlet Are they not ?
@@mihailcirlig8187 They could use Epic Games but gamers hate that. There's also Itch but idk if it's good.
Ponos (creators of battle cats) suing any fan game/mod (one or the other I can’t remember) and shutting down any videos covering them
L take on Valve, they do a hell of a lot more than "host files"
The entire gaming industry is evil that is why i dont purchase games anymore but pirate them all except for some that requires internet even to play the storymode like COD and some multiplayer games.
I got an opportunity to do an internship as a level designer at Ubisoft but the stipend they were paying was way too low, too low to the extent that you can't even imagine. They were only paying around $500 a month in a first tier city, can you imagine I worked so hard to get this job only to be treated like this? I am done I ain't going to purchase or pay for a single game to these evil corporates.
As soon as you mentioned Valve I KNEW you were gonna give them sloth LMAO
I have to take issue with your PoV on Valve here. Do you have any idea the cost of hosting and maintaining an estimated 9.2 Petabyte library of games and the running costs of serving that up, dupilcated across 20 different locations worldwide, with each one paying the ludicrus costs of getting direct access to the core backbones of the worldwide web in each area? CDNs are hilariously expensive to operate, that's why services like Amazon's AWS3 are so wildly successful, Valve and Amazon are making industry leading internet service features available to indie developers.
Until EGS, Valve took the lowest total cut of any company for game distribution (this is why D2D and Gamespy died, developers found Steam and lost interest in publishing elsewhere), and not only doesn't charge an update fee (unlike Epic) but also provides update packaging tools and version control for both users and developers (Yes, you can downgrade your games on-demand with just a single string in Steam's console, assuming the developer allows it).
Yeah... I have to agree with the part about them stopping making new big games, but a 30% cut is an industry standard that Apple does too, and there's a lot of underappreciated work and money that goes into server stuff, moderation to keep malware off the platform and things like that.
yup exactly and much much more
I'm partially surprised Epic Games wasn't in here for sniping games already scheduled to go to Steam and making them EGS exclusives and not fulfilling promises to improve their store
A wonderfully amazing video thank you for all the time and effort you put into making it. I'll be sharing it will all my friends to build a conversation on what needs to change in the video game industry to have it become a health member of our community.
Spot on, please do continue with a part 2 this was very good. We need to get more traction on this issue, it is a real issue, it has only been gotten worse over the past 2 to 3 years.
I used to work 50-60 hours a week, every week, when I worked at Papa John's.
I don't know if its better or worse than being a dev for Rockstar, but working those long hours for months on end made me...incredibly depressed.
Envy made you depressed, not working 60-hour weeks. It’s that or your diet, the culture, pharmaceuticals, a combination of things, etc., but it’s not caused by working long hours. Humans absolutely were built to work that much, and feeding people is a great cause.
@@Go_Coupwho let you free from the chains?⛓️
@@Go_Coupno working 60-70 hours a week is Definitely the reason why
@Go_Coup Shut up and go work the same amount of time and see if you don't get depressed.
The only criticism I have about this video is the absence of a sin assigned to Bethesda.
Other than that oversight, well done.
Which one are they worse with than the named company?
i would've prolly given them envy, considering their attitude toward new vegas
but that was already given to konami, so i'm not sure what else
afaik they're not guilty of much aside from being greedy and releasing shit games, their sins are pretty similar to EA's
The famous "not a bug but a feature" mindset gives off mad sloth energies.
yeah, i would have taken valve off the list, and replaced them with bethesda. I am not valves friend, but they never tried to screw me over. neutral in my books. vs horse armor.
He coupled up all of my painful and itching thoughts up and made it smooth and coherent. Thank you.
I would love to see a whole video on the smash issues or that whole scene, I feel like you would kill it with that. Love the content!
I can already tell Activision blizzard is going to represent the sin of lust.
As a linux user however, I will defend steam and say that it has done more for the linux gaming community and usability than any single other organisation. Steams Proton compatibility layer based off of wine was made not only open source but made it possible for me to access my epic games library as well
That doesn't make them a good company.
@@Clancyswaythey have to get their R&D money from somewhere. To this day no one has a better product than steam and epic is only popular bc it locks games down and gives games away. Steam supports VR tech as well.
@@Clancysway no but they took initiative. That makes them better than the steam-ing garbage that the other companies today
They had to do that in order to Sell steamdecks and not have to rely on Windows, not because of the linux comunity
@@seba2366 again I’ll repeat my point on initiative. Look at all the competing handhelds. Everyone stuck to windows to save on dev time, valve took it and ran.
Can I just say, I love your videos. But I do happen to notice a copious amount of Beastars music throughout. Nice taste, the ost slaps. Thanks for another amazing video!
You will likely find at least one Beastars song in every single video from here to my most recent one. It's my favorite OST of all time easily.
My first though definitely not last video from you. Very well done, as well as thoroughly entertaining/informative through and through. Good going.
Reminder that the game developers ARE your friends, but the companies that own them are NOT
(Except miyamoto)
Truer words never spoken.
I agree.
Exactly.
I respect all People who work for companies (unless they are shit humans), but companies themselfes, no
@@deadchanel1298 Same I respect the developers who spend night and day making a product but not the companies who only care about whats in your pocket.
What happened with Miyamoto?
I do find this very informative. As a Nintendo fan, myself. The description fits them perfectly. With a MASSIVE fan follow cultivated throughout the decade, such a love-hated relationship is rather mind boggling to say the least. Even worse when you're an artist and a fan. The whole copyright infringement thing is enough to scare you silly. And is kinda sad when you think about it.
In my country you aren’t even allowed to work more than 12 hours a day and 60 hours a week so 100 hour weeks sound absolutely crazy to me
I loved this video! It’s a really good analysis of the company-ness of game development.
12:08:
That's quite disingenuous to say that Valve takes their cut on Steam for "hosting it".
The Steam backend and developer tools receive constant innovation, and have made developers and publishers lives so much easier, it's not even funny.
Don't take it from me, take it from an indie dev that has been "in the game" for more than 20 years by now and remembers the time before platforms like Steam existed (ruclips.net/video/stxVBJem3Rs/видео.html)
Transcript of the relevant part for people who don't want to click a video link:
I hear indies complain all the time about the cut that Apple and Steam take. But all of the stuff that Steam does for you and makes easy I've had to do myself, support myself [...]. I've hired full-time employees to do the stuff that Steam does. I know how much it costs, and more importantly, they do, too. So if you wanna be mad at Steam... fine. But bear in mind that that percentage is not gonna shift.
I just love how in the image of a Rockstar employee that you show when talking about the company, you can clearly see a half empty six pack of bud light just sitting on the guys desk. Not that I blame the guy, if I had to work for a company like Rockstar I would also prolly have to be hammered a disproportionate amount of time too.
I you get hammered from half a pack of light beer, im pretty sure you have diabetes
or if you drink it on an empty stomach@@TheSuperappelflap
was watching this casually when I saw my face at 6:49 lol. I was a 3d artist at blizz for 10 years and the few talks I have online are about art so it feels very random to see a clip of a video of me being used to illustrate a person I don't even know (even if it says "not kevin Meier" for half a second) or on a topic I personally never experienced.
I bet that was funny to see
Young game designers, programmers employees of working to make any game you need to make sure you before you accept a 40 hr a week average salary that has very specific carve outs that pay you the average hours of Overtime at the end of each month.
This way regardless of the week all OT counts to the average.
This way the company can't pull any tricks on you.
Like working you hard for 3 weeks only to cut your hours on the 4th week negating the 3 weeks of 80hr to 100 hrs per week and wiping out the OT balance.
Regardless of this any time per week over 40= OT pay time&half.
Be smart and value yourself.
I was far too naive when it came to this with my employers.
I find it humorous as the Sonic fan I am seeing him using the "Genesis Does What Nintendon't" clip when he talks about Nintendo, lmao.
But it is true, Sega and Nintendo really are polar-opposites of each other. One is aggressive to their fans but produces amazing games, and the other is compassionate about their fanbase but.... their games are... *Questionable.*
(WOW! Sonic fan saying Sonic games aren't that good nowadays, what a revelation!... Get over it. :/)
tbh sega does make amazing games if you look past whatever they're doing with sonic
like there's smtv, monkey ball banana mania, and the yakuza series getting decently popular in the west in the past two years, also puyo puyo tetris 2 to some extent
meanwhile nintendo rushes out an overpriced online subscription service that doesn't even work properly, along with nearly all their titles being full priced with some lacking in content, like with the new mario golf
@@Scrumblo Not to mention that odyssey was likely rushed but for whatever reason nintendo fans insist that the game is perfect and that nintendo can do no wrong for whatever reason when the reality is that their last good console was the 3DS
@@jebkerman7199 ? When people talk about odyessy they say it has too much filler content not that it was rushed the game is definitely complete it likely had 4 yrs.
@@Scrumblo Yeah Nintendo games have been very hit or miss lately, its definitly gotten better with dread and kirby but boy are they trying to push the limits of whats acceptable for 60 dollars.
Tbh I kinda disargee
I don't know about the steam section.
They have a lot of modding, networking and forum infrastructure that is actually really well executed. Does it warrant a 30% cut. Aw hell naw. But it's unfair to not mention how monumental that work is and how much it helps developers
I think it's quite fair for most games released recently on Steam. I don't think hosting a couple gigs of nsfw puzlles that a hundred people will buy is even profitable with 30% cut. On the other hand big companies must have exclusive contracts with Valve, no way company with game with 100 mil in sales would willingly give Valve 30 mil.
Yea the 30% cut i dont thing can be 100% justified. But along with the things you mentioned the number one goal for steam is probably trying to get many customer on board with their platform as much as possible since they are pretty much a game publisher now. And in that area they have be working pretty hard as well. They developed the steam link to try to allow players to play games from their couch. Which a lot of console gamers enjoy. While it has been discountined they still have software support for it if u want to run it with a raspberry pi or something. They have steam os and developed alot of linux support to help linux users play more games. They made the steam deck which is helping reach the handheld market. I say they are doing their jobs pretty well as a gaming publisher
EVERY game developer i have spoken to and seen actually think the 30% is fair the only ones I've seen complain are the ones that sell poorly because the game they made is boring and attract SO few people or big game companies like ubisoft that then realize that farcry 6 isn't good enough to get people to use epic games store
its a 30% cut then if u reach a goal it goes down to a 25% cut then it can even reach a 20% cut so the HUGE games often loose 20% not 30% also they do get mad that's why cod is on battle net and why ubisoft tried there own store then epic games only to admit defete and return to steam because gamers make the choice WHERE they want to buy it and if your game is mid I'm not going to epic games or some launcher I've never heard of @@LiveGameDriveChannel
they are not a publisher they are a game marketplace @@inoukim
Im really happy that Capcom isnt as messed up as the others. Monster hunter is my favourite game series since i ever got my hands on mh3u at like 13 years old or something.
The true evil here is simply being a publicly traded company; it inherently creates evil in regards to video game companies
Amazingly depressing video, but incredibly written nonetheless. This is an amazing essay overall and I'm amazed at the care you put into it, and how tragically true it all is...
your channel deserves way more recognition, what an incredible video!
ikr, cursed is super underrated.
I found his channel with the minecraft video, and watched his MG video.
@@QUBIQUBED I also found him through one of his minecraft videos lol
he was wrong about the steam part though people dont understand how much running a store costs
Great watch, I love the way you structured this video!
Great video! It played automatically while I was playing minecraft but the video is so good I actually put it on picture-in-picture and just subscribed!
I believe Sloth Belongs to Valve
you guessed what curse said
That's why indie developers are the only ones I support now.
Redigit pog
through valve? lol
I mean they are stuck the ecosystem so not your fault.
@@trumandavis3490let me tell you a story before he made Terraria he got the letter from Nintendo well technically I actually got the letter but like couple days after he stopped working on Super Mario Bros X fan game and then started working on Terraria he stopped working on smbx because he knew what would happen to the game
@@artemisDevI can't see how they're stuck, no one forces them to release games on steam.
@@Psevdonim123 if they want a decent player count, then they have to publish on steam
so yes, they're stuck
This is a really valid outlook on companies, but of course it is important to understand people make games, and remembering the people responsible and not the company is important.
the seven deadly sins: greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth and nintendo.
The only thing that really rubs me the wrong way so far is assuming that hosting and letting people download software isn't worth adequate compensation.
None of us host software or even abandonware/retro games and the people that due rely on their day jobs, community support, ads, donations etc.
Especially all the games I play that were made 20 years ago. I'm not going on ebay to hunt down system shock 2 when it's available and will still be available in 30-50 years.
Growing up I actually bought a ton of games because I knew that I was poor and I would never be able to play these games. (some could be played on low settings) I just keep building a library and now at 25 I can play fear 2 on my 1080, Gmod on my 1660ti, and atomic heart on my new 4080. I don't know any other company that would have given a s*** enough to let me keep all this software over the years.
Netflix used to be that guy until they cut shows left and right, same for HBO, Hulu, at some point the license runs out but steam as a service has never let me down. Not a single time. Unlike people steam has always been a consistent and reliable service. AND I CAN USE IT OFFLINE ✊🏾
Yeah, this guy clearly does not understand the costs of running an operation like Steam. Valve is one of the very, VERY few companies that are actually somewhat good, yet people online seem to have some kind of vendetta against them
exactly do they not understand how EXPENSIVE bandwidth can get when people are downloading 100+ gb games constantly the 30% chunk is more then fair
exactly SONY and Microsoft charge that 30% ON TOP of the monthly fee to users + have ADS in the damn store itself STEAMs featured are not ads u cannot pay to win yourself a first page result steams money comes fully from that 30% cut with that they pay for the servers and everything else its crazy how people thing UH they should only take 5% that's "free money" all they do is host it these people DO NOT understand bandwidth and storage costs at all@@lukaszspychaj9210
I'm surprised you didn't talk about Bungie (you did for a brief moment to mention Halo and 343I, and while I agree with your point there, for the most part, you ended up just transitioning to Halo at that point). Especially after they've split away from Activision, they're still treating Destiny 2 horribly. We though it was Activision treating Destiny bad, it was Bungie who was, and still is. You should read up on it, if you don't know already.
Maybe Larian studios wouldn't be a thing if the current state of the industry was different. One door closes another opens supposedly...
The 7 deadly sims idea is such a good and engaging way to portray the information well done!
You improved alot in your video making skills, ever since i first watched your floppa and bingus video, I cant wait what else you have to make. While being on topic for the video, i feel like any kind of possibility for developers to change is direct competition, which, epic games seems to want to do it, while burning out their developers.
So.... I'll admit to being one of Nintendo's fans
I love their games and characters and IPs. And I love that it's one of the few companies where I can pre-order a game with confidence that I will get a playable, and generally really good, game (though Pokemon Scarlet + Violet is VERY worrying that this might be changing)
That said, every point you raised regarding Nintendo and their Pride is... so painfully true. Heck, I'd even argue that the reason the majority of their games are good on release is because of their pride.
But gosh, imagine how much better they could be if they just... allowed creators to create. I'll forever be heartbroken at the loss of SilvaGunner - that channel helped get me through university. And the only reason I could think of for Nintendo to do this is pure spite
I guess my takeaway is, as others have mentioned
love - not worship
and always be aware of a company's flaws - nothing and noone should be on a pedestal
The Pokémon franchise has never had the same quality standards as the rest of Nintendo.
However, the Super Mario Bros movie is a worrying sign, since that movie was just a cash grab without a very good story.
@@me-myself-i787 It's mostly because the Pokemon franchise is not manage by Nintendo (they are just the publisher), they are managed mostly my The Pokemon Company and devlopped by Game Freak (which is pretty much an indie studio with good funds)
Im still not keen on even loving it. the practices and executions just make me puke, to then hide themselves in the pride.
They have to make good games to mantain loyalty and rack up sales... and sometimes not even that
honestly, they make great games. Genuinely. But. I have refused to buy their games for years, because of shit like this. And I wish more people followed suit.
@@me-myself-i787 I mean it was a Mario movie, of course, it wasn't going to have some super deep and complex lore. It was a movie made for entertaining and is probably rightly labeled a kids movie.
7:50 This guy is actually Pres. Mike Morhaime, the predecessor of J. Allen Brack.
Though my Blizzard Lore may be a bit rusty (I finally dropped their games completely after the whole Hong Kong thing), as far as I can remember, he was well regarded as one of the few remaining good guys of Blizzard’s old guard before he left the company following the Activision acquisition.
Really good video brought things into alot of perspective definitely open alot of light and woke alot of people moving on nostalgia
Steam definitely takes a hefty chunk of the revenue, but it is also the most fleshed out and feature packed launcher. I think the reason that steam is so popular, and that backlash is generated when a company makes a separate launcher is the lack of features performance and value that steam gives player. The steam link, remote play, controller emulation and config support make steam games a much better value for consumers even though it is miles worse revenue wise for devs. The steam CD key market also allows consumers to get an even better deal at the expense of the developer's profits. Other launchers have key redemption but many of them are rarely as populated and competitively priced as steams key market. Other launcher versions of games will sometimes be cheaper because of the higher demand for steam keys instead of other launchers keys. I'd love to see epic flesh out their launcher and add more features but until then I don't think they will be able to reach the same appeal and wide audience of games they aren't giving for free or making exclusive. I'm not sure the validity of this claim but steam also seems to have better download speeds, likely due to their larger network of servers. Many launchers such as Origin or Ubisoft's are infamous, at least in my circles, for poor performance, intrusive and expensive background tasks and lackluster social interfaces. I'd like to see more competent competition but the only mainstream launcher that hosts games they didn't develop or publish seems to be epic at the moment. Itch.io and GOG Galaxy especially have more potential but are currently more niche and indie focused than Epic and Steam.
yes but they also freely promote games u are likely to like while epic CONTANTLY promotes me sports games i have NEVER paid for a sports game thus featuring it on my home page is USELESS
This deserves so much more views and recognition. Great video and great research on all of the mentioned topics, I really enjoyed it a lot!
I was typing a serious comment but then heard the “At least we’ll have more FNAF games. Wait what happened to Scott Cawthon-?” and now I’m laughing so hard.
As a huge FNAF fan that made my week. I already loved and liked the video but that SENT ME
Seriously though loved the video, I’m so glad it was in my recommended today
This became much easier for me to understand and relate to when I came to a realization:
Company executives claim to be responsible for bringing good things to us, but their role is only to EMPLOY the people who do the ACTUAL creative work.
Does doing so bring those things to us? Sometimes, but not always. Occasionally it means keeping the work FROM us, often through cancellation.
Every creative empire is kept afloat by multiple, sometimes countless creators. So ask yourself: does your favorite company truly empower creators? Or is it merely a bunch of greedy execs holding the keys to their IPs, acting as gatekeeper to all the ACTUAL creation?...
This... THIS is why I've started enjoying more indie video games in recent years. There's too much talent out there, and it doesn't necessarily require the rights to old franchises in order to be good.
True. Imagine what could be achieved if we didn't construct our economies around the profit incentive. What would happen once genuine talent - in all fields, not just gaming - was not constrained by greedy executives.
As a Nintendo fan, can confirm.
Nintendo fan here, when I like a game I play, I find a way to give directly to the people in the credits.
I don't buy games from Nintendo. All the games can be acquired for free, even as all of the eShops have been nuked.
I mean Tf2 started the microtransactions which intent caused all of the bunch of microtransactions
Pretty sure it was some other game.
It may have started microtransactions, but _it did it the best._ You are given the ability to freely resell and trade your items, which has sparked a massive ingame economy of real-world money. Microtransactions in other games would be far less egregious if they had similar systems for community engagement to manage distribution.
The entire video game industry is incredibly scummy. Saying that someone is purchasing a "permission" pass to play your game rather than actually purchasing a copy of the work, is a scam. That means games which can repeatedly require logging in to some account to play them, such as GTA V, are scams. I removed that game from my hard drive when I realized I hadn't purchased the game, I had purchased a hall pass to access it which had to be run through Steam and Rockstar each and every time before launching. Charging for a video game update is such a scam. DRM, i.e. some schmuck having control over something you purchased, is a scam. Artificial scarcity is a scam. Charging real world money for fictional video game assets is a scam. Let's go to mobile: If your "game" has a terms of "service" and a "privacy policy", it is not a game, it is spyware. Almost every single game on google play is at LEAST adware, with random popup ads. Stop giving your money to all of these gaming companies. Even Steam, the one you all like to think of as "benevolent tyrants", because you do not own anything you buy from them.
You make incredible videos, please dont stop but also dont overwork yourself
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Correction: Game *PUBLISHERS*
Valve has become a software and hardware company. The games they make are to push the boundaries of the things they decide to push
I love the structure of this video. Well done
10:41 You can feel the disbelief and anguish in their voices, it’s almost comical.
When I heard Valve, I instantly thought of sloth. Because, what are they doing game development wise? I mean, their hardware’s nice. But, what other games can they release(that aren’t spin-offs).
Half Life 3
I'm sorry I'll stop, I just thought it was funny 😂
Gmod is not a valve game it's a mod valve funded it but thay didn't make it
genuinely one of the best video concept I've ever seen.
great execution, original approach.
only downside is not very good rewatch value.
otherwise. very good video!
Really like the concept of this video, really well done.