From Battle Pass To Battle Ass (The Jimquisition)

[@OriHadar]

I've been watching Jim for several years now, and I still do not understand why sometimes he opens the video with self-praise. It's just pathetic

[@koala5232]

Clearly, you haven't realised what a gift Jim Sterling is.

[@Graavigala85]

OriHadar because its Jim Sterling, son

[@romulino]

Probably sarcasm but maybe, just maybe, you *Really* don't get the jimquisiton... thank god for him.

[@memebump7612]

It's amusing too.

[@woopet1]

Because it's Jim Fucking Sterling Son.

[@annoyingfrenzy3493]

Made the mistake of listening to this while typing a midterm paper, now there's a lot of me being overly sarcastic and cynical to Ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamian culture. I think this may be the best paper I ever wrote.

Son if you were sarcastic towards those cultures then you have missed the point.

[@ericlueck5838]

Thank Inanna for Jim.

[@moffant4916]

Sounds hilarious, hope you have a good teacher who enjoys it.

[@Rc3651]

I bought something similar in StarCraft 2 called a "War Chest", which was a skin pack with the proceeds going to SC2 eSports. To unlock the skins you'd have to play the game, gaining XP, and every 'level' you'd get a new skin. The potential skins are time-gated though so you can't do it all at once, you have to wait for the skins to become unlockable in phases. I bought one and excitedly played to unlock everything because I thought it was just a glorified and interactive skin pack. The game kept connecting me to Singapore for some reason though no matter what I did to try to prevent it so I took a break and decided to play something else for a while. I came back a bit later and couldn't find the War Chest on my profile at all, and the skins were listed in a ~$45 bundle on the marketplace. So I messaged Blizzard support asking for a workaround or for the rest of the skins to be added to my account and they told me that when you buy a War Chest you're not actually buying anything. You're just buying the opportunity to unlock skins, and if you don't unlock them in time then the opportunity goes away. I was flabbergasted. Maybe they said that in the initial purchase but even if they had said it in bright red letters I probably still wouldn't have comprehended that anyone could do something so scummy. I asked for a refund and for the existing skins to be removed from my account but they said that you can only get refunds within 72 hours... for a ticket to what's apparently a months-long event, and for something I had hardly used. What a fucking joke! Some people might call me an idiot for buying something without understanding the terms and conditions but I've seen quite a few other people who made the same mistake. So thanks Blizzard, people asked for skins for years and you couldn't add them because of "minimum system requirements", and then when you do you find new ways to scam people out of their money. I've spent many hundreds of dollars on SC and SC2 since release, including going to their eSport events and buying merchandise, but it's good to see that it's never quite *enough* money.

[@DavidGarcia-oi5nt]

Damn dude that's fuckin rough.

[@dasninjastix]

I can’t wait to pre-order the seasonal Lilu-Dallas battle Multipass for Shadow of Mordor’s Creed: Call of Battlefield’s Fronts 3

[@moosemaimer]

Turbo EX α

[@Fuzzy_Barbarian]

I'm gonna wait for the HD remaster. Maybe they'll even include *new* microtransactions!

[@WorldzMo5t3pic]

What about the Premium Gold Deluxe Edition?

[@albertvargas5872]

I literally read that in Lilu's voice, makes it more hilarious!

[@alphonse360]

And knuckles

[@TheGrumpyBrit]

Was anyone else trying to "skip ad" at the beginning, wondering why a Jimquisition episode had an ad on it?

[@TheGrumpyBrit]

Sadly, sometimes yes.

[@hazukichanx408]

I totally thought it was some random, shitty ad. I was like... "What the hell is this? O_O"

[@schregen]

Hey, that's me! I thought that was an ad. 😱⛩️😱⛩️😱

[@ormus1746]

I thought it was childish gambino....

[@davestar4718]

Its a wrestler i think.

[@beyondthesky70]

Remember when you could just buy...the whole game? Pepperidge Farm Remembers

[@redseagaming7832]

Nico remember when you could buy the game and it did not have any glitches and it was complete there was no nagging video game company saying buy this DLC now Red Sea remembers

[@KhayJayArt]

Nico NO FAIR I WAS GONNA SAY THAT .... but I liked it anyway. : P

[@хле6-ц8б]

You still can

[@brQdfrQd]

RED SEA GAMING Actually no, I don't remember any full game I bought that didn't have any bugs or glitches. And I've been around for 30 years.

[@TristandeRobillard]

Sherman, I don't think you've spent enough time around programmers to understand what Mi Ke is saying. Programming is a ridiculously complicated field. I lived with two of them for about two years and they never stopped tearing their hair out at the code for their projects. See, the thing about programming is that you can never fully know if there are going to be problems until you run the thing. And even then, when a problem comes up, you don't know what's causing it. This is because all code is nothing but text to be interpreted by a machine in order to carry out a sequence of instructions.You are actually telling the computer "Do this," in a completely different language, and hoping it does it, but then sometimes it doesn't do it, and you don't understand which part of "Do this" it didn't understand, so you have to comb through it, finding potential problems and changing things until it works, except sometimes changing it creates MORE problems that you don't understand, and the whole process starts again before you even fixed the first problem. It's unbelievably difficult to work with. Also, there is ZERO way for you to account for how the code is going to run on the infinite possible computers with different hardware and software configurations that could also play a part in buggering up your code, so you often have to find a way to figure out a solution to a problem that doesn't even exist on your own system. I mean, I once had a computer that installed my Nvidia drivers in one location, but glitched out and searched for the drivers in a completely different location, thereby meaning it could never update my drivers, because it couldn't find them until my programmer friends figured that out after hours of examination. How the Hell was Nvidia supposed to know that was going to happen? You can't blame them for that. So please understand that Mi Ke is speaking from the perspective of someone who has to get a game running using nothing but text written in a coding language. That's it. The hundreds of hours of content in modern games all boils down to text. And somewhere in those hundreds of thousands to sometimes millions of lines of text is the source of the bug, and you have no idea where it is. How do you even begin searching for that? I'd say that the months it takes to fix these kinds of problems are mostly spent finding the source of the problem rather than actually fixing it, so be a bit more sympathetic. It is not an easy job. I'm a goddamn English major and I could understand that from observation alone. What's your excuse?

[@yuurou7927]

I can never pronounce AAA with my own voice now, and I'm feeling cooler every second. Thanks Jim.

[@brokengames9020]

it is called mafiAAA. 11:15 Ubisoft games are a scam.

[@NiuhiNui]

And, what they did to Jiang Wei.

[@yuurou7927]

Terry Wilson It's Zhang He.

[@CornishCreamtea07]

Customer: Excuse me can I have one Battle Royal please Publisher: How about 10? Customer: No thanks one will do Publisher: OK 50 it is

[@ultimateblade4127]

Customer: Please no. Publisher: Oh, 100 you said? Right away, then.

[@TheSefirosu200x]

Uh, no. How about absolutely fucking ZERO?

[@ArrowValley]

I wonder if we’ll go in a loop and comeback to a day when full priced games contain full content with no nonsense .

[@Alex-mb2cy]

Reillyington86 God of War is possibly the only recent game which does that.

[@alaeriia01]

Alexander Becker And assorted Wii U ports on the Switch, and that Mario game.

[@thepuzzlemaster64]

+Reillyington86 I think that'll happen when most of the AAA companies will go bankrupt... Not sure if that's possible though.

[@WorldzMo5t3pic]

When the industry eventually crashes again, yes.

[@DarthUmbra]

I would also add Horizon Zero Dawn. Everything was there in the beginning and they only started working on the expansion later. I would compare that to the first Starcraft and the Brood Wars expansion.

[@lonelyzombie3128]

I have the feeling that at some point they will start putting commercials in games. You'll be in the middle of a boss fight and just at a critical moment you get interrupted by a advertisement for viagra.

[@lost_pantheon]

"This dragon is too hard? Get harder!"

[@ProjectWorkshopRO]

lonely zombie o believe you didn't see the cup noodles quest in final fantasy xv? Game is good... But god, that quest...

[@lonelyzombie3128]

Yes I have that's what made think that they might start doing this with other games

[@lonelyzombie3128]

I have but never played it.

[@Ckoz2829]

LostPantheon “Conquer the dragon, ravage the princess. New: Cialis Lance. Get Medieval on them.”

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

It's _"Player Choice"_ for me not to buy any of their shitty games!

[@brokengames9020]

But this is not _EA's player choice_ You are a bad boy... send some food boxes to HQ.

[@michaelm6048]

I don't consider that a choice at all. Buying shitty games is a choice. Not buying shitty games is an instinct.

[@connorwalters3240]

There is a card/board game shop only a couple of minutes away from my house, and it has some of the best pro-consumer business practices I've ever seen! Here are a couple of said practices: 1) There are two separate stocks of board games, one that you can purchase, and another that you can't. While you can't buy the latter, you can play them for free. At any time, with any friends and/or employees, you can sit down and play one of these free games in the store without spending a penny. This collection of games is far more diverse, and contains games that can be bought in the first collection, essentially creating a sort of free trial system. 2) Every available snack that they sell on the side costs only $1. This is both simpler, and cheaper than other stores. 3) Selling loose non-rare trading cards for literal pennies, and individual rare trading cards for their appropriate value. 4) Costantly offering discounts and bonuses for their customers, all while providing them with as much information as possible. So, say, displaying how much one would save on a quantity discount, or participation in local tournaments contributing to store credit, etc. The point is, they do this, and make a crap ton of money because they ensure that their customers don't feel cheated and stop coming back. Quite the opposite, they have a huge and loyal consumer base and manage to turn a profit. Absolutely no idea how or if AAA companies would implement these kinds of practices, but it's nice to fantasize.

[@davidcolby167]

Part of the problem is that a small store isn't a corporation. Corporations like...are legally REQUIRED to make a larger profit for their shareholders. They can't just make a profit, they need to show growth or they can get sued. We need to change how we incorporate economic entities to fix these problems. ...basically, the way to fix the gaming industry and all other industries is to fix capitalism. Good luck!

[@missivory_missraine]

Sounds like a nice hobby store, but small business and big business play different games. Big businesses, and corporations have quotas to fill. Thus the need for a good profit margin. Look at mom, and pop stores like your hobby shop. They rely on businesses like WoTC, GW license (if they have AoS/40k), Paizo (pathfinder), and the many companies that make board games. Their profit margin is pretty tight, and reliant on their community alone. If their community doesn't like a certain addition then they HAVE to make a change or else shelf space is rotting.

[@PaveMentman]

--- Yeah, I remember the boss / owner of the (not Gamestop-)video-game-store one time said me this : "Don't give discounts; give extras" So basically if a customer tried to haggle the price down even slightly, we simply tried to offer extra things with a slight (hidden) discount ( E.G. a customer wanted to buy game asked few euros off; we offered an accessory with few euros off if they purchased both in a bundle ). So basically we were doing bundles that nowadays (finally) are done in digital-video-game-stores also. We also had the mentality of wanting the customers shop more often with relatively low prices instead of having to have to pay till "bankrupt" and then never visit ever again. (( It helped that basically this video-game-store more or less was more of a (profitable) hobby of this owner since he was basically a salesman of everything from automobiles to boats and so on. Eventually he just turned his main job to be "realisation / actualisation of assets", which most of the times meant that he bought bankruptcy estates and then sold forward the assets. )) This really cannot be say most of the "micropayment"-stores majority of the (maybe-a-little-overbown-)games have (as in reality they're "macropayments" that objectively want more money for less content in comparison especially to their predecessors)... --- --- ---

[@Demonologist013]

Are you talking about High Gear Games?

[@PaveMentman]

+Demonologist If this question was meant for +Connor Walters, then "High Gear Games & Hobbies" could be a possible answer. As for the store I worked at, it was basically a spin-off "Nordic Games"-store couple of decades ago; for the sake of semi-anonymity I won't mention the name of store at the moment. --- --- ---

[@HEYBUDDYMAN86]

“We’re gone with finite experiences.” Okay. I’m done with AAA “experiences.” I pretty much only play “finite experiences”

[@knotgradaunknown7414]

I'll drink to that,mate. clink

[@mikeaft3585]

Helo yesss pls reciev a like fmor Me, thknas. Also, Fuck CoD. And Konami.

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

I already have such a large number of old games, if I tried to go and play through them all I'd end up wanting to replay the first one before I was even halfway done with the others!

[@Nionivek]

What sucks is I like some REALLY long games, if a game is fun enough I am more than willing to play it until I get absolutely sick of it. I have games where I've intentionally avoided the ending just so I could have more fun playing. Yet out of Ubisoft's mouth I know what they actually mean and how they will deliver that experience.

[@Rozonkomo]

No hate, but I find it really funny that you would say you pretty much only play finite experiences while having an MMO race as an avatar. That gave me a chuckle.I realize you qualified your statement, thus no hate, but still funny.

[@noahgray543]

Jim, I think I speak for the majority of us when I say: when I dream of Jim Sterling, it's a lot more "steamy" and a lot less nightmarish.

[@chubbycatfish4573]

PUBG sounds more and more like a shyster trying to milk his pyramid scheme as much as possible before its inevitable collapse.

[@the_womble_king4357]

I like PUBG, and play it, and have a lot of fun. But I looked at the event pass and thought no way am I buying that, it's not worth the money. But meh, I didn't lose anything from not buying it. I just don't get some skins. And I still get the new map which is excellent.

[@bilateralrope8643]

That seems quite likely. Sure, PUBG got a big audience by being first to market. But I've not heard a single thing about it that would make me interested in it over most of the other battle royale games out there. Even if I ignore the entry fee.

[@Openreality]

J D It already has inevitably collapsed. Why do you think that they tried to sue fortnite and are now blatantly stealing from them and making it worse? I've tried Fortnite and it's nothing to write home about and I like having a completely random character before each match it's kind of fun however I'm not good enough to survive the first twenty minutes. I'm glad I have it on the switch.

[@hazukichanx408]

But but but! He has a "cool" competitive multiplayer tag! He can't be an unscrupulous little shit-dribble with his mind on his money and his money up his ass! ...Wait, yes he can. Nevermind^^

[@stonedsavage7814]

Peter von Feldt you can set your characters looks to random once you have enough skins unlocked making it a nice suprise in the beggining on each game.

[@gagglegames]

TF2 tried to do this with contracts, though they suffered by not updating that game more than once every century. Or every year, I forget how Valve time works.

[@lennykappa3535]

Steam Condenser A damn shame as the new model of tf2 contracts is probably the best implementation of a battle pass.

[@fuss1052]

The Principality of Sealand Especially since now you can do contracts anytime you want, it's no longer limited to a certain time window.

[@Sonichero151]

ValVe came up with the loot boxes........ Blizzard made it popular...... ValVe came up the battle pass........ Epic Games made it popular...... Am I the only one realizing that ValVe might be the real Devil here? EA and Activision are demons...... But ValVe is the Devil subtlety creating these things that then the demons use and popularize

[@mikeaft3585]

​@@Sonichero151 psst… hey... didya know that.... tf2 is fucking FREE? the battle pass is a tool. it can be used to do good like frothnight, or evil like literally every other battle pass

[@archiebellega956]

@@Sonichero151 Well, Valve's game is free to play. They had to make money ( although CS:GO had price tag back then to deter cheater, which proven to not work). They had to get money back. Not the "buy $60 and buy the BP too"

[@B_Skizzle]

Ah shit, now that I’ve watched a video mentioning Fortnite I suppose I should expect my recommended videos to be flooded with low-quality Fortnite content.

[@StilvurBee]

yup. there was "TOP 100 FORTNITE FAILS" in my reccomended already i should mention that the thumbnail was one person holding another person over an edge (poorly photoshopped, ofc) with a red arrow pointing at the person getting held

[@StilvurBee]

i've seen it a few times... do those kinds of videos actually appeal to people?

[@Davivd2]

OMG KID STEALZ MOMS CREDIT CARD AND CHARGES $250 ON FORTNITE!

[@PopulousTheBeginning]

Runescape are doing the same thing. $11 monthly subscription game that is already rammed with pay to win micro-transactions and now there's a RUNEPASS that you have to pay for that unlocks more crap.

[@sparkingconduit]

Runescape? Is that the free MMO from like 2006? I didn't know that thing was even still around!

[@CANISLUPIS100]

Aye I just watched your populus video yesterday lol

[@erebusvonmori8050]

I never minded the Members only content back when it was the only monetisation

[@kingqasmoke2802]

sparkingconduit it's from 2001

[@evillecaston]

It's $11 a month now? Sheesh, I still only pay $5. At least you can technically get the RunePass for free...although it's too much trouble and time to be worth it in the end. No thanks.

[@XxBUMGODxX]

Triple ayyyyy publishers are just making me nauseous now. Jim really makes you wanna take a torch to their whole existence

[@davevd9944]

So far I only respect CDPR I hope they never turn corporate. Them being their own publishers saves them from outside corruption and aslong the orginal owners are at the helm nothing goes wrong...I'm afraid what happens when they retire.

[@XxBUMGODxX]

Dave Vd and I guess they do consider themselves indie, but they already made their stance on mtx and they don't seem like the evil hypocritical type.

[@rickadams4540]

Since 2018 - Jim Sterling: Making you wanna go out to Home Depot, buy a tiki torch, and *USE* that *ucker.

[@animorph17]

You can actually do that you know, remember the whole social movements and how unions came to be, way back in the deregulation eras when most companies acted this way. Boycott them. Spread the word. If EA touches something then never go anywhere near it.

[@madmaster0015]

Legend has it that Jim Sterling does not age. He looked the same way when he came to the mortal plane as he will 100 years from now. The Legend lives on!

[@Gigawood]

Oh my god, the “19 retired loot boxes” thing in paladins sounds like an alternate reality nightmare of Warframe’s prime items system (both current and ‘vaulted’).

[@shadeknight6537]

How old does that make me when I remember when Battle Royale modes in shooters were called Multiplayer Deathmatches?

[@zilentis1835]

FFA.

[@YadonTheCat]

It's a completely different mode though

[@krivdik]

pretty normal, it usualy started with basic item/weapon and some games even had it set up that once you died you were out for the round and was waiting until only one remained and then next round started, go look for weapons around map and kill your opossition,, different execution but still,,,battle royale-esk ?

[@umbaupause]

I guess it is glorified last man standing, with a huge map. Oh well.

[@unironicallydel7527]

battle royale is nothing new. Just putting a new label on it. it a deathmatch with a circle.

[@IAMUtubeSockPuppet]

Ah, I was wondering where Runescape got the idea for its latest, grasping monetization scheme. A game that charges a subscription, has microtransactions, has de facto lootboxes, daily log-in bonuses etc., AND now a version of the battle pass. It's the gaming form of the nine circles of monetization hell.

[@Romanticoutlaw]

IAMUtubeSockPuppet I can't believe runescape still exists in Current Year

[@exantiuse497]

IAMUtubeSockPuppet It used to be possible to pay for membership and most of the MTs with in-game cash, is that no longer the case or has the game become worse since the couple of years ago when I left the game?

[@IAMUtubeSockPuppet]

Pretty much what SotheX said. Sure you can pay for it all with in-game gold, if you're already wealthy and high level enough to afford the price of bonds (ever increasing because of inflation and additional monetization methods using them). New players? People who can't make $8 mil a week just to keep membership, or who don't want to use a lot of their playtime to do it? They're probably going to pay up the $$$. And remember, just because you make 100's of mils a day on a near max character, doesn't mean a fresh FtPer looking to go members is going to be able to do it. And no, I'm not in that group. I earned 4-8 mil/hour easily doing Runecraft of all things, and could make similar or better money doing PvE, but I couldn't keep up even the 2-4 hours it would take to buy a bond because it made playing feel like a chore instead of something I WANTED to do. But the constant flashing and marketing of microtransactions to my face wore on my psyche and flat out made the game less fun. Not to mention I'm definitely in the camp that thinks the quality of other updates has greatly suffered in the face of so much effort being poured into microtransactions. And even if you make money for nothing by playing the market, you're not buying microtransactions ex-nihilo with your in-game GP. You have to buy a bond that ultimately WAS bought with real world money. Even if you never give Jagex a single real world dollar, you're still playing into their monetization scheme.

[@martinjez1]

Thank you for calling out Hirez, they've been pulling simmilar shit on Smite for quite some time...

[@davevd9944]

They deserve a bit of extra flame, I've hated those fuckers since they killed Global Agenda. I really liked Global Agenda, fucking twats.

[@CANISLUPIS100]

Hirez fucking killed smite, the one moba I actually enjoyed.

[@zenoooooo]

Dave Vd hirez also straight up murdered tribes ascend. They're a garbage company.

[@SamareRein]

I wish he'd take a trip down the rabbit hole that is hirez. So much shit there and they need called out big time.

[@Efgand0894]

Hirez does and will do stupid things, they add some OP weapons in battle royale and piss off players, and the adding essence in paladins too. Most of the time I feel that they don't know what they are doing

[@misanthropicmaniac6435]

I hated PUBG long before it was cool.

[@Openreality]

MisanthropicManiac I wasn't even a fan of overwatch or destiny. And I never liked PUBG either.

[@firstname3388]

I loved PUBG, back before it became the absolute fucking garbage it is now. R.I.P

[@ZantetsukenGilgamesh]

Sherman Herritt I hated the developer before he even helped mod H1Z1

[@AEtherimp]

Sherman Herritt I hated H1Z1 when it was called DayZ.

[@rattlehead999]

+MisanthropicManiac I hated PUBG when Battle Royale was still an Arma 3 mod/mode...

[@c_Railyn]

I liked it a lot in Dota 2, primarily because Valve were transparent about why they started the practice: to help fund the increase in size of the game's yearly International tournaments. As the practice expanded, they started adding stretch goals, things they'd do if they reached certain thresholds, and 25% of all the money that was spent on their battle went straight into the tournament prize pool. Turns out, people are pretty damn willing to throw money at a company when they know for a fact that that money's being put right back into the community.

[@donovansexton3726]

I will say this about Fortnite, if you buy the battlepass once and get through enough tiers (which isnt hard) you earn enough vbucks to get the next battle pass for free. I bought the first one and havnt spent real money on the pass since and I've had it every "season". On a side note if anyone plays Fortnite you might want to buy the campaign version Save the World, its wicked fun and you get vbucks for doing normal shit like advancing the campaign. 👍😉

[@markoliimatainen2565]

Yep, i have already earned more vbucks from this season, so i get next season free and some leftover vbucks for some cheap items.

[@charcharmunr]

At that point it's more "pay to have a constant Skinner Box on your cosmetics and stuff" but I suppose it doesn't matter if you actually enjoy the game enough to play it that much anyway.

[@KineticFetus]

Kind of sounds like a tactic to get you addicted to playing the game.

[@madengineerkyouma]

As much as I like Paladins as a game, I agree that its monetization is a bit garbage. That's why the only lootboxes I've ever opened are the ones I got for free from events and stuff, and I only buy stuff when I know what I'll get. At least now that it's out of beta and they promised no more big changes in the system we can be sure nothing like OB64 will happen again.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

TheDarkM good thing its on switch too

[@demsterclippy4252]

If they could suddenly force in a feature liek the event passes AFTER it left beta, i wouldn't be very optimistic. Being less bad than the devil holds little water, and after the trouble paladins had gotten into already, this is quite a ballsy and stupid move. They'd have to fix their market from the ground up before getting any funny ideas.

[@Daxank]

Except that you technically know what you're gonna get out of the lootboxes in paladins since 1: they tell you what you can get in them 2: there are no duplicates! Let's say a lootbox has 10 different rewards, you'll get all of them in 10 lootboxes.

[@avengedlol6698]

Daxank So if I only want 1 item I might have to open 10 cases, it's still gamble even if you can get all the rewards. Why not let me buy the item directly.

[@Daxank]

Because they're not as successful as they'd hope to be and try to get more money that way to survive. Maybe if Paladins becomes a huge sucess then they can stop the shit stuff but for the moment they can't afford it.

[@irishvirus2009]

Hirez has done this with smite aswell, if you look over there everything they've done with the skins, chests, battle pass etc has been happening for years

[@irishvirus2009]

Forgot to mention.. smite had a season ticket which was 1 year long but last year decided to split it into 3 and sell each part for the same price as the one year version

[@markoliimatainen2565]

I just uploaded smite again few days ago and was shocked when looking all god skins, as i could not find basically any new direct buy skins as everything is behind loot boxes and they put tons of low effort skins so people would have really low chance of getting the skin they want. Smite is reason why i stopped buying anything from hirez games ever. I just got scammed from the loot boxes by getting the skin i wanted in last one, essentially spending many times more than i wanted.

[@Avirx]

Wow I didn't know Rocket League was doing this too. I haven't played it in almost a year so I had no idea about the rocket pass or the loot boxes. The already had good and fairly priced DLC or it was when I last played so why do this? What a shame. Rocket League is a good and successful indie game and now it has fallen to the dark side. There's no way I'm coming back to it now.

[@aaronhuntus478]

Rocket league doesn't have a rocket pass YET but if they implement it its over for me

[@moviemanreviews5577]

avirx8 No they fell to the darkside the minute they implemented loot boxes. I still play and enjoy the game a lot but I hate that it has loot boxes and it's just indefensible really. I just don't get ppl who LOVE OW and bc of that they feel they have to defend the dumb loot boxes. That's just silly. It's possible to love the fun game but hate the slimy loot box scheme. Idk why that kind of nuance is beyond so many OW fans. Also I haven't noticed the Rocket Pass and I just played the game yesterday. So it doesn't seem to have been implemented yet. But if and when it does I might just stop playing it all together. Loot boxes are already inexcusable and then for them to be putting more crap business practices. Forget it. Psyonix would be beyond saving.

[@thrpotatoasfgfejfidieiidkr7071]

I'm ok with the loot boxes because I just trade them, you can get hella cool items just by trading the crates you get.

[@Avirx]

@ZTV Gaming OK I didn't know you could trade. I haven't played Rocket League in a long time. I guess the trading sort of makes it OK. I still don't like it though. They could've easily allowed people to purchase the cosmetic items directly. There was no good reason to use loot boxes at least not a consumer friendly one.

[@moviemanreviews5577]

avirx8 Exactly! Loot boxes are inexcusable and indefensible. Period. I trade the crates too but the loot box system should never have even been in the game to begin with. It sucks bc the game itself is awesome. Stupid greedy business practices ruining good stuff again...

[@crane8819]

This kind of stuff makes me _not_ want to play some games. It's too much bullshit when all I want to do is come home from work and relax while playing a game that I enjoy. I don't want to work at home too, that's why I quit playing WoW and MMORPGs in general. Playing games for fun is all I want to do these days, I'm too old to grind dozens or hundreds of hours for skins lol.

[@depreciatednull]

Then don't farm skins???

[@GOLD-gr8hg]

Try some dark souls man.

[@GOLD-gr8hg]

Hours of quality gameplay with some good replayability imo. I have played all 3 games atleast 30 times each now.

[@monmonstartv5159]

If you honestly think that the only way to have fun in modern games is to "grind for skins" then I don't know what the fuck game you're playing

[@GOLD-gr8hg]

Cody Brown halo 5 actually has good multiplayer even if the story isn't good.

[@isocryd]

Pubg is not gonna update. They’re not even gonna try. They know they’re at the end if their skill. All they knew was how to put assets together, but they never knew fine-tuning. All they can do is sit on the game they already made and throw insults at other games, hoping that will bring people back.

[@Solibrae]

If they can't do it they should hire someone else who can.

[@jellyfrosh9102]

it's pretty obvious they're just in cash crab mode until the BF5/CoD battle royales come out because the only thing keeping Fortnite from consuming PUBG entirely is the cartoony art style. As soon as a realistic art style BR comes out, PUBG is fucked.

[@megaflamer]

except they have the cash to hire a crack team of coders and proper devs that could completely transform the entire game if they felt so inclined. Which obviously they dont

[@jellyfrosh9102]

Because why would they when they can just cash grab, make a quick buck, and let the game die? Much easier than actually putting effort in.

[@SingeScorcher]

Jellyfrosh And much less profitable long term. Like a little child being offered a 20 dollar bill right now, or 1 dollar every day for a year, they take the 20.

[@Psycorde]

Sudden Quite Shallow is sudden

[@ridori7376]

Thank god for -Jim- Shy

[@heldaneurbanus5135]

hey 10-0. Thank God for Jim and thank God for DE. ... and Shy ofc (mostly - when she draws stuff).

[@tlofrank5689]

White Void where is Shy?

[@Mate397]

Provide time code because I didn't see Shy anywhere.

[@Slait486]

9:30 It's not exact timing, but she commented on the tweet and it happened to make it into the screenshot.

[@mikeg5039]

Im actually kind of glad games are all including battle royale, it makes it so much easier to avoid them. Even battlefield might not get my money since bf5 is just an expansion pack

[@Tjoeb123]

" Essentially a couple months' subscription to an ongoing sense of pride and accomplishment." Pride and accomplishment..... Pride and accomplishment..... PridE And accomplishment.....

[@SeaOfTides]

People charging meritless males for artificial ego inflation's so evil. Like pushing drugs and casinos and prostitution and snake oil.

[@09csr]

Oh thats what EA stand for these days.

[@ectogamut]

Just keep modding Skyrim until the rest of the industry decides it's interested in actually making games again.

[@Elkott]

I must be getting old, I haven't played any of these games you discussed, while I used to buy a new game nearly every week nowadays I buy a game only rarely and only if it has a good single player experience and no greedy monetization in it

[@popcorngenerator1925]

Good single player experience.....god, those were the days.

[@karnagefails333]

I'm in your camp. 36 yrs. old

[@codafett]

Have you not heard of Fortnite? Is that even possible?

[@Elkott]

codafett I've heard of it, I said I've never played it those types of games don't interest me at all

[@duffman18]

Larry I buy almost exclusively indie games for my PC. If I buy any more modern games, it's years after they're released, so I can get say borderlands pre sequel with all the DLC for like a tenner, or a during this steam summer sale I bought The Witcher 3 including all the DLC for £13.99. But yeah I agree, only go for good single player games.

[@BeardedHam]

Gripping my consensual loot box.

[@insanelol]

It's just an evolved online pass disguised as an overpriced mmo subscription

[@Ironystorm]

You also get a lot of this currency from the pve mode if you have access to that which I quite like. Although I have seen a rise in games that have dailies with pay for more daily type bonuses. Although the pve mode which requires pay access right now, but will go f2p or so they orgionally said before announcing battle royale. Does have lootboxes with rng and rarities and a power progression in there.

[@Hoopla10]

I really liked the PvE (Save the World) but the lootboxes and power progression felt broken. Which in Early Access was fine but I got the distinct impression they'd abandoned us to work on BR (as that's where the money was). I was kind of pissed about that tbh even though I've enjoyed playing the occasional BR. I haven't played either for ages now so I don't know if it's changed.

[@Gamemaster13000]

Hi-Rez games in a nutshell: Fun games, terrible business practices.

[@brokengames9020]

you just described mafiAAA.

[@knavenformed9436]

Don't forget the design rip offs, or do they still do that?

[@Zennethe]

They never did? lol

[@knavenformed9436]

Zennethe Totally did, just looking at the skins remaining in Smite shows it, and they had a minor scandal about it at one point

[@borgKick]

RIP the Tribes series :(

[@ChrisOfTheDead]

I haven't played any game yet that uses a "battle pass" but Halo MCC is adopting some of the ideas in it for their armor unlocks. Seasons introducing new cosmetics, but that's about where it ends. The seasonal items don't vanish and you can always unlock armor from a previous season, and you don't need to buy anything to get access to anything. Just the $10 price for each main Halo campaign and multiplayer, with $5 for ODST's campaign, and each game can be purchased a la carte. Of course, the PC release isn't out yet, so we'll see.

[@Duncan23]

IM glad a big youtuber has finally touched on Hi-Rez's ridiculous monetisation systems. Its not just paladins, all their games are like that

[@android19willpwn]

Tribes wasn't. But that's probably one of the reasons Tribes isn't around anymore.

[@Duncan23]

Android 19 yeah that's pretty much because tribes is older than the trends of scummy loot boxes, if it was still popular they would have added it

[@monkeyking9863]

free to play MMO's have been doing this for years

[@DerangedGodOfMischief]

What the hell is that clip before the intro?

[@buzzedbeelzebub9454]

Pavel Volkovoi It's from Enzo Amore's new rap song.

[@nirobu]

I sympathize with this statement. What the fuck was that?

[@nerdsforever4852]

about the fact he has a consensual penis... he just wanted to let you know

[@justadamazing]

What's an Enzo Amore?

[@DerekBarns]

Adam Henley Somebody so low on the human decency scale he makes Vince McMahon look like a saint.

[@Percilitor]

Wasn't Fortnite originally a horde mode with base building? Is that still a thing?

[@StilvurBee]

it is, but they probably added the half-baked (at release) battle royale mode after seeing pubg's success... i sure hope not, but it really, really looked like that.

[@derrinerrow4369]

yes it is a thing called save the world, they said it would someday be free, but I don't think it is. After earning v-bucks from STW mode and buying the battle pass, I realized that the original mode I had fun and now only play for the v-bucks for BR (I don't even like BR that much)and stopped playing Fortnite altogether

[@StilvurBee]

i didn't even have fun with STW, tbh. the "story" was barely that and the gameplay was pretty much the same but what you're shooting at runs in straight lines. it's not bad, just boring... but, shooters aren't really my thing so...

[@Anarchic1989]

Robin Rippmann they were working on save the world game mode since 2006 or 2009 and after pubg came out they worked on the first version of battle royale in like 6 months I think? (correct me if im wrong but I know it was under a year) and released it and then basically shifted most of their focus on battle royale.

[@heatherv3417]

Listening to Jim Sterling tear one into AAA while I iron clothes XD good way to start the day

[@iluvgir23]

There is a big reason that this reminds me of Club Penguin's paid membership

[@CheddarGetter]

The battle passes, the good ones anyway, also sweat out enough currency to make it so you don't have to buy the next one. Like in Paladins for example, they drop enough currency through the pass and daily logins to make it so you really only have to buy the first one. Idk as a daily player it's been nice. Better than the VIP system that they used to have.

[@drater5935]

Dan Larkin no

[@drater5935]

Williams2809 no

[@CheddarGetter]

Jamie Clarke Well yeah I think it's a great purchase for ppl who already play it all the time anyway. Gives you little.things to focus on.

[@GGamersUnited]

If you're already a junkie, yes. Otherwise you won't put as much time into it to make enough money for the next pass. No system is perfect, but how Fortnite does it is OK I guess(tolerable as Jim says)...better than others.

[@Erebus2075]

because all i need is extra dayli corse to not get completely fucked by them... kay got it, but personally, i am done with all this microtransaction bs on top of god knows how many different subscription models -.-

[@rcblazer]

I don't play any "Battle Royale" (AKA Multiplayer Deathmatch AKA Free-For-All) shooters, and companies like Blue Hole continue to assure me that I made the right choice not to play their game with stuff like this. I think we've found exactly what EA plans to do to milk more money out of Anthem when it gets released.

[@totaldestruction152]

rcblazer There's the whole no respawning thing. That's a little different from a free-for-all.

[@todaysdesperadohatesavocad7109]

Nobody Special Nah, back in the day each gamemode had a ridiculous amount of tweaks. One of them was an option for no-respawns. Nowadays we don't get that level of customization which has allowed companies to say "Look at this exciting gamemode/game" when all they did was take a pre-existing one and change a few things. Hell, they're making entire GAMES out of slightly changed gamemodes. That's my problem with games in the BR genre.

[@iamplaceholder]

you're not alone. i will not play battle royale games either. actually i do not play any games with insidious monetization.

[@comyuse9103]

Don't get me wrong, i love a good, massive free for all kinda game, but these battle royale games are terrible compared to the potential of even last gen games. halo offered so much more fun on a massive forge FFA, the fact that the map wasn't set was a big bonus, so was the total lack of an ever shrinking border (that is a sign of bad map design if you ask me)

[@madbloodgod9442]

battle royale is a fancy name for a deathmath with no respawn and random weapons spawn

[@itry-gu3nc]

I truly appreciated the Nes Gremlins 2 (I believe) background music. That was a damn catchy tune.

[@algeriapower7242]

- start watching the video - hearing jim talking for 10 s about himself ( self golofication ) - laughing out loud - like the vid instantly

[@Manfromthenorth0551]

As a Paladin's player I agree that HiRez do go overboard with the monetization. But don't let that scare you away from the game. Like Jim said the core game is fun and you don't have to pay a cent if you don't want to. There are no P2W mechanics. I've been playing for almost a year and I haven't spent a dime. If anyone is interested in the game and have questions feel free to ask me on Reddit. I'm Paladin51394 (I made my username before I even started playing Paladin's it was just a coincidence)

[@JimSterling]

Paladins' monetization is just frustrating more than anything. When I discover genuinely good F2P games, I *want* to give 'em money, but if their monetization is as absurd as Paladins', it completely shuts down my desire to buy into their model.

[@Gen0Granger09]

I *kinda* agree and i *kinda* don't at the same time. I mean, in terms of gameplay only, you just buy the Champions pack and be done with everything. The lootboxes don't give duplicates, which is really nice. I don't think their monetisation model is absurd per say, just that it's a giant convoluted mess that needs to get cleaned up to prevent choice paralysis.

[@chuckbatman5]

I think Paladins core gameplay is a lot of fun, I actually like it better than the very similar Overwatch. However the convoluted unlock systems and rewards systems very quickly made me stop playing the game, and I'm not about to just pay for the big package holding all the content because then it'll be like PUBG and Overwatch where I paid for something I never play

[@awkwardjoke]

Hi-Rez lost my trust with Tribes Ascend...

[@nightcatarts]

I, too, wanted to give Hi-Rez some money for the time I've spent & enjoyed in Paladins (about 100 hours now) so I bought one of their weekly(?) deals they show above the login rewards on the shop screen. They're incredibly difficult to buy. Seems they won't do anything on a Mac & you need the Steam overlay open on PC to make them do anything, but in the end I managed to give them my money in exchange for them giving me some fun. If that was a simpler process & I didn't have to download the game all over again on another platform to do it, I'd probably have done it after 20 hours gameplay instead of 100. Madness.

[@will21123]

Warframe is coming to Switch

[@killermelga]

I believe the way Jim says "live services" beats the way he says "triple A" by so much he should just start saying the latter normally out of shame

[@tenjenk]

killermelga you mean with contempt rather than ridicule?

[@captainunderpants200]

Every time Jim says "triple AAAIIAAIIAIAIIAIIAAA", I giggle

[@The_Keeper]

'Fuck me running with a well lubed crucifix' Well, there is a phrase you don't hear every day... I'm gonna have to remember it for future use.

[@NatrajChaturvedi]

Valve also used to do these kinds of events and they would cost 5$ at least for tf2 which I used to play then and those were so much better than what BUMhole is doing. They really do deserve all the shtick they get. I mean they could have added new modes and maybe a practice mode or a shooting range at the very least but all they have done on top of adding new crates and this bs battle pass is the bare minimum that is required in terms of optimizing the game and fixing bugs.

[@unbearable4929]

natty_the_great paying 5$ dollers to get crates that i have to pay anthor 2.50 dollers to unbox no thx, tf2 contracts pass system was bullshit and just got a fixed a bit in the most "resent" update.

[@Videogamer96_]

unBEARable The contracts gave you plenty of free skins/weapons/missions to justify the price, not just crates.

[@camm9b095]

Okay, that is probably the best name for Blue hole I've ever seen.

[@unbearable4929]

Videogamer96 but ask anybody who joined for example the gun mettle campaign, they will tell you half of thier loot was crates and shitty disgusting looking weapons which go for 5 cents.

[@Videogamer96_]

unBEARable Gun Mettle was pretty lame, yeah. I was referencing the more recent one last year, Jungle Inferno, which had a better balance of crates, free stuff, and a variety of missions

[@MyMilho]

hirez studios is the perfect fusion of scheming monetization from ea and buggy gameplay from bethesda

[@zarathustra7291]

I regret Archon thanatos

[@NZBigfoot]

Wait there are players that actually spent all that money required to get that skin?... have some self control people.

[@MyMilho]

i play paladins, i'm not aware that much for smite, but for curiosity i googled a bit and found out that was a 1000 dollar skin?? is that really true? why would a skin cost so much???????

[@android19willpwn]

I miss Tribes

[@WorldzMo5t3pic]

While the AAA industry falls indie devs are picking at the carcass. Just look at Warframe and what Digital Extremes have built and accomplished. It's goddamn _astounding_ what they created and the fact that it's free to play just makes it that much more incredible. I don't know if any indie devs watch this channel, aside from Digital Homicide of course, but if there are then here's to you, you magnificent bastards. Keep doing what you're doing

[@UnrealPerson]

It's funny, considering DE is an offshoot of Epic, and they've worked together for a while, most notably the first _Unreal_ games.

[@хле6-ц8б]

Warframe is a p2w grind fest, i don't get the praise

[@zoltanz288]

VelociFaptor i hate free to play. There is always a catch. And mmo games dont last too long.

[@tenjenk]

хле6 check out jims review and love for it

[@Worgen33]

The first game I remember having a battle pass type thing was smite, and this was awhile ago. At the start you would buy into the battle pass for like 800 gems and it would cover the full year and as you played you unlocked more and more stuff. It was a pretty good value especially if you played a lot. The Paladins Battle pass is just kind of a continuation of that but it seems more seasonal, which is what Smite does now too, but each season the cost is 400 gems and you also get a limited time skin with it too.

[@Ealsonspite]

RuneScape tried to bring in the battlepass for two weeks as an "event". Everyone just shat all over Jagex on the forums, 57 pages of it lol.

[@OneEyedKingNL]

and then Jagex proceeds to pray good words on it, because it sold well. THAT'S BECAUSE THEY ESSENTIALLY SOLD A LEGENDARY PET, WORTH 900 RUNECOINS, FOR 400, WHICH IS STILL 10 FUCKING DOLLAR. Best of it, you cant even 100% complete the pass unless you pay 10 dollars for it, and additional runecoins to skip. If they're gonna implement it, they may even tilt enough players to leaving the game, considering they won't lessen their money-hungry ways of Microtransactions anyway.

[@josephhalbohn5962]

I haven’t played RuneScape since that update that put combat skills and shit and changed it up like crazy. Did jagex SERIOUSLY put microtransactions in RUNESCAPE

[@Roadk1ll21]

New market trend 2019: Pre orders for season passes for battle passes for weekend passes for beta weekends for pre-alpha games.

[@brokengames9020]

PREMIUM CONport 30 FPS.

[@glenngriffon8032]

Nice use of NES Gremlins music. Kudos.

[@OnDavidsBrain]

Once again the Triple Ass industry proves why their games will be on my blacklist till proven otherwise.

[@seabit253]

I swear Jim has a wheel he spins before making every video, and if the wheel decides, Jim just finds a random video on his computer and prefaces the video with it. Between this and the Bane skit It's literally a toss up every time you click a video as to whether you'll piss yourself laughing upon entry. Never change Jim. Never change.

[@PlasmaChroma]

I was a little worried for a minute that things around here were dipping in quality but this is a return to great content. Well presented and well covered.

[@europademon]

Thank GOD for Jim f-ing Sterling son!

[@StateBlaze1989]

Remember when the game industry's monetization model was make a good and solid game? Good times...

[@wariodude128]

Wondering when we'll get to see another breathtaking episode of the Commentocracy. Also, when's Boglin Watch coming back? I haven't had my boglin fix in a long time by our number one Boglin Boy Jim F. Sterlingson.

[@johnathantaylor5495]

wariodude128 I would like to see a feature length, 'Oh Ubisoft' motion picture

[@wariodude128]

Johnathan Taylor Then have a Fuckonami movie. After which there would be a third movie where they come together with EA, Activision and WB. The Triple-Ayyyy League.

[@NOG9003]

Commentocracy was very funny for an episode or two but kind of ran out of steam.

[@wariodude128]

Niall O'Gorman Not really. I'm sure there's plenty more bits of gamer messages that are supposed to be ultra serious that can be repeated in a mocking tone; thereby showing how ridiculous it is.

[@shardinhand1243]

aside from changing for the better never change jim you are a rock in terms of both quality of content and character.

[@philippgauert5293]

I absolutely love your brutal honesty, also where do you get these remarkable adjectives that literally have me choking on my own laughter

[@cartmann94]

Double the Upload, double the Fun.

[@mistwolf]

There is no life without Jim

[@drupimlott1300]

I've woken up at 4am as I had a dream he'd deleted his channel and went to join Watchmojo. I've never been so happy to be wrong

[@endanarchy]

Intros like this are pretty much 65% if why I keep coming back. The other 40% is the content, of course. Commentary on the state of gaming is valuable to me and I enjoy it.

[@ZombieDragQueen]

How you do events right in a free-to-play game: I'm currently playing the mobile game "Sailor Drops" (basically Sailor Moon mixed with "Candy Crush"). To access an event (be it a regular non-time restricted event or time-restricted event) you have to pay three keys which you can get in the main story levels by getting a pre-determined score. These keys are also used for unlocking further progress in the main story. Everything is free, so far. So I enter this time-restricted event where clearing two "worlds" out of five (9 levels each) mean you get a new character which is pretty powerful. Clear four and you can upgrade the character to level 5, the highest. The event lasted like a month I hink and though these games rely a lot on luck (do a shitty job 30 times, but somehow the 31 you clear everything with three stars) I got the character and cleared the fourth world without spending money. I just had patience (half an hour wait for a new life), but also got powerups from clearing levels in those worlds and people on the "friends" list sending me daily free lives just like I send them. And you can ask "friends" to help you unlock the aforementioned story progress that requires three keys. So, through community effort, non-dickish event requirements and time constraints you can play and enjoy this game. It makes me open this game more than any other, at the very least just to send some free lives to my "friends", because why not? It's nice to be kind.

[@Killercreek]

All of these passes are based on the Dota 2 battle pass/compendium system that's been put for years. You may have missed it since you're not a moba fan, but valve's system is very much predatory, but starting to get back lash

[@NatrajChaturvedi]

Quantum I think they used to do it for tf2 and csgo as well so it might be older than dota2 actually...

[@Killercreek]

natty_the_great the compendium for ti3 was in 2013. Ti4, 2014 launched battle passes

[@alaeriia01]

Quantum Twilight Imperium IV?

[@NatrajChaturvedi]

Quantum they didnt call them battle passes but the idea was exactly the same in tf2 and csgo before that, you bought a ticket from the man co store (in tf2's case) and you got to participate in an event with special missions where you would earn special gear and badges. Except in the case of tf2, the events often had special maps and modes so they were much much better than what bumhole and even epic is doing.

[@JimSterling]

As I say in the video (this new version), the recent spate of Battle Passes may owe their origin to other games like DOTA 2, but they doubtless appeared now in response to Fortnite.

[@leinadreign3510]

If you talking about fortnite, lets be clear: you were talking about that frikking Battle Royal - Last man Standing mode. You have progress tied to lootboxes in the PVE campaign, pay to play mode

[@Sholuhu]

Yes but the loot boxes are easily earned through playing the game and are in no way tied to the battle Royale of fortnite. Two different games

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Leinad R. The battle royale has replaced save the world mode

[@rollfizzlebeef5384]

Items that change gameplay being restricted to lootboxes tend to tick people off a lot. Cosmetic only lootboxes are somewhat defendable, but gameplay changing items being restricted to a lottery is generally not good.

[@zarathustra7291]

6:50 Actually, fun fact, I'm pretty sure Hi-Rez did both Lootboxes AND battlepasses way before anyone else in SMITE. It's really no surprise that they followed suit with paladins too. (They had both all the way back in 2014) So yeah, Hi-rez are actually ahead of the curve when it comes to shitty business practices.

[@Daxank]

Hey, at the very least, hi-rez's lootboxes never gave duplicates. That's something other companies should have copied

[@zarathustra7291]

They made up for it by putting literally every single crappy item in the game in the lootboxes to give you an inordinately low chance of actually getting the exclusive you wanted.

[@Daxank]

Except when you want everything like I did. And I got everything for almost nothing due to the crystal sales

[@zarathustra7291]

Yeah but most people don't want everything. And I'm not sure why you would want everything since the vast majority of stuff is utter garbage.

[@Openreality]

Zarathustra WOW created this pay wall Hydra that we see today.

[@KennyCnotG]

I absolutely love the Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga music on the shirt advert, it's just so perfect there

[@whoelsebutmatty]

i love how jim can just start out a video with a random music video clip just because he finds it amusing, unless there's a hidden meaning behind it that i'm missing

[@lekoro1]

jim have you heard of the bullshit that runescape is pulling? not only is there membership that went up in price recently but you have solomons store (something most players have little issue with as its mostly cosmetic overrides but you can also buy bank spaces that bits a bit uh... contentious?) treasure hunter where you buy keys (you can also get 1 key a day 2 with members and 3 with the yearly membership deal around christmas and for doing quests etc) with real money you open boxes you get a random thing - note used to be called the squeal (wheel) of fortune and quite literally said spin to win and now runepass it is essentially battlepass you buy runepass and if you do tasks you get cosmetics only issue with its adding more "dailyscape" and is quite literally broken for ironman accounts (accounts that cannot trade with players use the grand exchange or have anything to do with treasure hunter they can however buy runepass as its cosmetics but then one of the tasks is one ironman cannot do at all due to their restrictions) oh and they also added a thing where you can pay monthly to get double daily keys on treasure hunter this was implemented at the same time as runepass IIRC so runescape now has 3 monthly subscriptions (membership runepass and double daily keys) along with literal gambling and cosmetics

[@Jlizard27]

lekoro1, replying because I don't currently have time to respond, but I have some issues with this comment. I'll try to edit this later.

[@ethaneldredge3994]

People still play Runescape?

[@fatcoyote2]

Why did you do that to us? What did we do to deserve Enzo Amore? Have we displeased you? Please show mercy, my lord!

[@diavolo1326]

People don’t understand why people don’t mind the battle pass yet hate it in other games. Fortnite battle royale is completely free where, if you’re smart with the items you get within, you can just spend the 10 dollars once and have every future battle pass forever.

[@Mr_jz_12]

One of hte boys at work does that. Paid real money for the first pass, hasn't paid since, used v bucks made from playing to keep paying for the pass.

[@moviemanreviews5577]

Diavolo Then why implement the Battle Pass at all? Obviously Epic Games knows that a good portion of it's player base will NOT be able to do what you just said. (Nor should they. Players should be able to play any game anytime they damn well please and not feel FORCED to play just to try and get their money's worth) And it's banking on those players to milk more money out of them. It's just a a scam. A ridiculous and indefensible scam.

[@diavolo1326]

Movie Man Reviews well this free game does need to make its money. It’s not like it’s blocking off gameplay mechanics or pay to win. It’s just cosmetics. Not to mention that the free pass just gets better and better each season with back bling, axes, emotes all for free as long as you play. I don’t have an issue with a free game with good quality doing it. I have a problem with a game I already paid for charging just as much for stuff I don’t get to keep.

[@300maks]

Diavolo and btw if you bought the pve mode then you dont even need to buy the battle pass, you earn vbucks in the pve mode

[@moviemanreviews5577]

Uncle Richie But it's a F2P game. FREE to play. Emphasis on the FREE. If it's a FREE to play game then why is it charging for PVE, save the world, battle pass, etc. at all!? You know why? Bc they want to have the F2P business model AND still charge players. It's BS. They are making more than enough off their MTX (you know the way all F2P games do) so there is NO EXCUSE to charge for anything else at all. It's BS but of course fans will excuse and defend it. Just as delusional as OW fans.

[@benjaminmenken5693]

Saying triple a publishers are dirt is an insult to dirt, at least dirt contributes to the environment and allows us to grow food.

[@FroggyMosh]

4:31 I'm sorry. That fish-astronaut is throwing popcorn at it's face. It's adorable.

[@ArthurCrane92]

I was expecting something about Arena Net this week.

[@NatrajChaturvedi]

for or against?

[@tinoesroho]

Let's be real, the only stance here is For Jim. Everyone else is a crowd of cocaine-gargling shitgibbons. ;) There's not really a stance worth taking on the issue except FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP SENDING DEATH THREATS YOU HORRIBLE DICKHIPPOS. Doesn't matter _who_ you're sending it to. Just stahp it. *shakes fist in internet's general direction*

[@ericsantucci6934]

I wouldn't be surprised if Jim took the employees' side against ArenaNet, in all honesty.

[@Bartoc1988]

Everything of importance was said elsewhere. She fucked up. He fucked up. Both are gone for good or worse, but they are gone. Looking at the aftermath, I recommend not giving this creatures more spotlight. In light things tend to grow. Lock it up and look after it in some month and you´ll see it is withered away.

[@ericsantucci6934]

True, YongYea covered the situation better than anyone else could already. Still, I can't help but find it somewhat telling that Jim didn't at least comment on it whatsoever on Twitter. Something tells me that if they'd been fired without provocation or if sexism had actually been involved, then he would be speaking up about it.

[@ryanwrites5531]

This is why I don't get involved in the the toxic cesspool people call the "Battle Royale Community"

[@robinbanksy2926]

Jim shouldn't be so humble.

[@f1nger605]

Though overwatch does deserve blame for popularizing loot boxes, they still do a decent job of keeping monetization restrained. At the loot boxes screen, there's just a small little button that says "store" and that's it. It isn't constantly trying to trick you like PUBG is, and it hasn't come out with a season pass system (yet). It's mostly just been adding to and tweaking the game with the goal of making it better--though whether or not it succeeds is hotly debated. They even recently came out with an "endorsement" system meant to reward stuff like sportsmanship and positive interaction. Again, whether or not they're succeeding is up for debate, but at least their focus is on building a game that is worth spending money on instead of finding new ways to squeeze blood out of rocks.

[@LRCS12]

Hi-Rez, did a sort of BattlePass way before than Fortnite and its own Paladins, they called it Odyssey in Smite and other Ingame Events (there is quite a few per year)

[@joecook3349]

I'm really glad you took the time to shit on Hi Rez a little; I really dont feel like enough people do as far as their monetization practices are concerned. Paladins is really bad, but Smite is goddamn atrocious and Paladins is eventually going to get there. It really sucks because they're both fun games, but good God almighty do they have some of the worst monetization models for free to play games ever.

[@PelsBitsShop]

All I'll say is...warframe, hoverboards, railjack, fortuna, the new war..........that is all.

[@RpiesSPIES]

Don't forget hunting. Those space battles, though. Space ninja's being space pirates.

[@AwayWithYouVileBeggar]

Do we even lift BRO !?

[@coreylineberry8557]

Let's not forget Switch.

[@shirshanyaroy287]

Now the only thing left for them to do is fix the five million annoying bugs.

[@swampfox1007]

Aliens Man we all lift together!

[@postaldude255]

The seasonal battle for the worst battlepass is ON ! :-)

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Ruslan Batukayev fortnite loses, its battle pass is way better than the other crap As for nintendo expansion passes they are a way to reward nintendo though Zelda was weaker than Xenoblade chronicles 2.

[@postaldude255]

Yep , definitely .

[@WindyCornerTV]

Summer of Sterling.......I'm sitting here in the Southern Hemisphere in the middle of Winter with a jumper on.

[@tjparkour24]

Fortnite's pass is how you do it right IMO. It's very clear what you can obtain before you buy, and if you do even marginal research on the topic you can even find estimates on how long it takes to unlock everything. Not to mention that you can level up the pass before buying it, as the free pass is 1 to 1 in level with the paid one. They also have a catch up mechanic in the challenges that means you can get the whole pass done if you've done some dailies before buying it, and just rush the challenges in the last few weeks. There are certainly cynical arguments to be made about it but I think it's done with good intention, and if you don't want to play the game to complete the pass, then just don't buy the pass, you know exactly what you miss out on in advance, unlike the whole lootbox shite. I personally have had no problem supporting Epic Games with my wallet and will continue to do so in future, as the business model, especially for a F2P game in 2018, is exceptionally fair and reasonable and has been since initial release. If there's one thing I want to call out though, it's early access. Fortnite doesn't deserve the EA flag, it is a feature rich game, with minimal to no bugs, which is fully monetized.

[@yinepuiwhite3955]

Friendly reminder (if its not in the video) Jagex, under pressure from their Chinese overlords, recently added Runepass and said "For a fortnight" you can have it. In RuneScape. A game that's already weighed down with a ton of microtransactions and an $11 sub fee for a vast majority of the content. When I quit in 2012 after the Evolution of Combat update, I never knew it'd get that bad.

[@Romanticoutlaw]

Captain James hey I like your pfp, where can I find the full picture?

[@Jlizard27]

Hi hello this was happening before they were bought by Fukong Interactive Entertainment (formerly Zhongji Holding), but that doesn't fit in with your Chinese boogeyman narrative. Shit middle-upper management is shit. British, Chinese, regardless of nationality.

[@comyuse9103]

really? holy fuck. i left because of a combination of the graphics update that came with EoC (god that looked ugly as sin, what moron thought it was a good idea) and the EoC itself (i could use that skill that makes the combat like old times but it still didn't fix what they did to the gear tiers, that is what made it unplayable), so i didn't realize they literally sold their souls. damn, i miss playing with Eek in my warlock gear

[@Dr_Andracca]

What is absolutely sad to me is they actually fixed EoC by adding revolution mode where it was a nice mix of Oldschool Combat and EoC combat. I actually like RS3 more than OSRS in many ways, but I fucking hate their bullshit microtransactions they added to RS3. Here is hoping Jagex doesn't also fuck up OSRS.

[@comyuse9103]

i gave it a try after revolution mode, it only fixed the absolute surface of it. EoC still completely ruined the game by making tiers a hard, set thing and removing the use of just so much stuff. would you use a defender now? of course not (and that pisses me off even more since i just got a dragon defender when EoC came out)! I've found armor is totally useless as well, pure offense is the only thing that matter now. EoC also tanked frame rates for me for no reason, at first i thought my internet was even worse than my old dial-up when i tried, but other people have had the same problem. even worse, i don't want to go back to a shitty 2006 OSRS (where everyone seems to hate change just for the sake of hating change), i just want RS from before EoC fucked everything with a dev team that supports the game and at least pretends to care.

[@nickclark1815]

At this point if a game has some sort of pass I'll just pass over playing the game.

[@Spectacular_Insanity]

"You can't have nice things or even tolerable things..." Truer words were never spoken.

[@VGMech]

Event passes that offer the ability to buy levels are essentially a “pack” of cosmetics that you can get a discount on if you complete the challenges. For example, in PUBG’s case the total cost of all items if you just buy levels is 40 USD. If you complete challenges that can drop to 10 USD. As someone who enjoys playing PUBG but hates loot boxes, the ability to effectively directly purchase 4 outfits was very welcome.