Making The World's Most Expensive MMO

[@thespiffingbrit]

*I hope you like fetch quests.... because you just bought £1500 worth of award winning fetch quests!*

[@Oblithian]

I hope the sequel lets people play your mmo. Think of all the players available.

[@rolling_jones]

how and when did I buy something? You cheeky bastard...

[@EEEEEEEE]

E

[@Kernwadi]

Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes. But together we can stop that...

[@GeorgeDCowley]

Play Magical Camp.

[@fgzhtsp]

A game without gameplay eliminates the problem of bad gameplay. Absolutely stunning.

[@midgetsow]

That's how we got Diablo 3.

[@AlexVonT]

I snorted some tea out m'nose. 😂

[@SageArdor]

@@AlexVonT that sounds painful.

[@AlexVonT]

@@SageArdor gloriously.

[@charlesfranks1902]

Not to mention the reduction of game related bugs.

[@Tekshipie]

Honestly... Other than the insane price, an MMO that's all about walking around large detailed towns and chatting could totally work.

[@vxicepickxv]

Isn't that just The Stanley Parable?

[@MightyCaesar37]

The base vr chat experience

[@dragonboyjgh]

Animal Crossing?

[@Duckyy-mw5mj]

Death Stranding or something like that

[@LutraLovegood]

@@Duckyy-mw5mj Death Stranding has guns and vehicles so no

[@loddzee]

Imagine being a person who just spent £1500 on a fetch quest game only for it to be put on sale for £20 directly after.

[@Eliastion]

Well, it sucks, but at least the game is awesome!

[@techhelpwizardgenie3146]

Thats some Bethesda level shit right there.

[@DaysofKnight]

@@techhelpwizardgenie3146 Godd Howard is going to haunt you in your dreams for that one

[@AndrewMitchell123]

devestated xD

[@AndrewMitchell123]

@@techhelpwizardgenie3146 or EA, or ubishit

[@Jakub2]

this dude is a genius at marketing. He manages to make a game seem even more attractive by using it in such unique ways that encourage other people to get the game and try it. He adds features by finding faults in how the game is balanced, while making the audience think it's bad, but it's all used by the devs to make the game seem more interesting.

[@LutraLovegood]

Perfectly balanced marketing.

[@TypicxlSortOfOdd]

bot lol

[@Jakub2]

@@TypicxlSortOfOdd nope :)

[@afeathereddinosaur]

Spiff, you did it! You inspired Blizzard's next 100 games

[@thespiffingbrit]

Why do you think I am the executive board

[@PushThatMakesYaMove]

@@thespiffingbrit not "at" the executive board, but THE executive board. Hope you make a video about that particular exploit.

[@mariegamer2146]

@@Known_as_The_Ghost Teabolo 😂

[@JacoDeltaco]

you guy have phone?

[@tree4104]

@@JacoDeltaco before long its going to be "Do you guys not have money?"

[@ozzycommander]

Spiff: Imagine spending 1000 pounds trying to get yourself a new game, that only has fetch quests Star Citizen has entered the chat

[@businesscasualsauron]

Not to defend Star Citizen, but at least you can get into the game for a -lot- less than 1000£! When your business model makes SC look like charity, you have created true evil.

[@dreadwind8216]

@@businesscasualsauron lmao, as a as a commentor and a person who knows an addict to SC it is just meaningless combat and fetch quests, hopefully the campaign will be more fleshed out

[@dreadwind8216]

@TheMacel66 i know, i really like the game its just funny to see my dad say what's the point of rdr2 when he plays star citizen

[@onebear6504]

Meta verse was supposed to be a thing xD Spiff must've been Zuckerberg's guru

[@JohanFaerie]

I'm surprised Spiff hasn't actually started investing in developing a tea drinking simulator, where you brew and drink tea.

[@ReiDaTecnologia]

Why play it when you can do it in real life for x69 more enjoyment :)

[@YouTubecanfuckagoat]

Big Coffee would never allow it.

[@soupwizard]

@@ReiDaTecnologia Not everyone has access to tea though

[@indominusrex1652]

If spiff would announce a tea drinking simulator that is coming soon then Big Coffee would release a coffee drinking simulator and sue the tea leaves out of Big Tea for copying their idea

[@MrSkysenGames]

There's a game like that called Ampu Tea, where you make tea with a robot arm. Then get frustrated and flip the table, because the robot arm keeps ruining the tea.

[@TheSkyRender]

You basically made Second Life with modern MMO sensibilities. Well done.

[@Bananahammock681]

Less sex dungeons though, sadly.

[@TheRealHelvetica]

“I’m creating an mmo without any gameplay” The Spiffing Brit creates the Metaverse.

[@finnvost9349]

I'd argue he made Death Stranding except you can see people

[@gideonhatch4582]

well actually he just made a normal mmo game all of them do this there is no progression and its really expensive

[@RisingRevengeance]

This is still more gameplay than every blockchain game combined

[@Wyzai]

Kind of yeah. No gameplay. You can look at stuff. You can enter stores to buy stuff for real money. Only difference is I think metaverse doesn't have any quests at all and therefore has less content

[@SuperPope69]

​@@gideonhatch4582 the Destiny games are technically MMO and have great progression and story. Though definitely expensive 😂

[@raultrashlord4404]

I'm so accustomed to seeing half hour exposé videos on MMORPG Kickstarter scams that I thought this was one of them lol.

[@sehnsehnsehn]

Funnily enough, as big of a "scam" as this game seems to be, this is actually a very niche MMORPG genre called Social mmo! One such mmo currently being developed is Palia, focusing on the social and non-combat elements of mmo's

[@DTinkerer]

Cool

[@kevinhunter7581]

I like how Spiff gets "best staff" as soon as he left. 🤣

[@0potion]

Honestly sound boring, admittedly I find basically all in on those boring as Sin though. I don't like the way that all of these current-gen mmoser just farmfest World of Warcraft ruined it. I miss old school EverQuest and Dungeons and Dragons online

[@enter_feeling6042]

@@0potion It´s basically like vrchat. People go and communicate with each other, if you don´t like it, fine. No reason to shit on it though.

[@kalistothenes]

Disgusting boomer idea destined to fail

[@Nicolae_XV]

I can't imagine the amount of pride and accomplishment this will instill in its player base. Truly beautiful

[@shadeblackwolf1508]

Still more feature complete than any of the NFT game proposals i've seen.

[@averyrobinson8854]

This is the most increadible rpg I have ever played. Nonstop lore and endless wordbuilding. Ever since I grabbed Roxanne’s size 11 shoes I knew she was my npc waifu. Never had so many creative quests to complete each contributing to the lore on the smallest details. 10/10

[@herogibson]

The way you described your quests it doesn’t surprise me they were award winning. Sounds exactly like wow, and that game did pretty well.

[@guidojacobs2002]

I would love if there was a single level 2 character here, and it's a virtual Spiff using integer overflow or some other exploit that Spiff overlooked.

[@electricspider2267]

A gamedev should definitely do this; have the game detect if it's being recorded therefore it must be a yt'er and mess with the player in subtle ways.

[@ericlamb4501]

I know Spiff is making this as a joke, but its sad to think if the video game industry could get away with it, this is *exactly* what they would do.

[@oonbaki]

Great to see one of the first players, Naxon, shift their life path to become an influencer just to promote the game.

[@bobjhon7391]

This dev should pay you for this advertisement of their game, you have genuinely sold this to me.

[@Radnugget]

Spiff literally just created VR chat

[@deamonrodriguez7032]

Yeah pretty much

[@AaronShenghao]

You mean Second Life?

[@chadsnazzy2634]

VRChat is more of a social hangout type game, right?

[@housewilma4904]

i mean even VR chat actually does have games robolox style recreations of prexisting ones but still.

[@pandoravex4791]

This game kinda reminds me of an existing game I have. I forgot the name, but basically you’re a painter and you board on an island and befriend the people and take painting commissions. All you do is explore the island which is pretty, interact with the NPC’s (if I’m not forgetting you can make a kid jump off a roof) and paint. 😂 Found the name: Eastshade Looks a bit like Skyrim.

[@joshuaparker3450]

Only Spiff would break a game by creating a broken game within a broken game He really is dastardly evil lol

[@HerculePyro]

Spiff doesn't realise he's just recreated Club Penguin. People are absolutely willing to play a game just to run around doing mundane things chatting with their friends

[@greenerell484]

true

[@quantustremorestfuturus5434]

1500£ and no gameplay? Is it The Sims 4 by any chance?

[@MultiLoska]

And being Sim’s it’s an EA game! Taking ppls money over and over lol.

[@Sumirevins]

Atleast it doesn't eat 55 GB on the hard drive like can someone tell what in the hell are these gbs doing because the storyline and gameplay is 50 mb max lol

[@indominusrex1652]

​​@@Sumirevins well items in the game are entities that can be interacted with so that would tank your fps if you place many and rack up quite the space as far as i know

[@heakhaek]

Has he tried DLCs yet?

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

..Wouldn't that pretty much apply to all Sims games, aside from maybe the weird offshoots like Urbz?

[@SutaSafaia]

If this game has a sandbox mode where the only idea is to just craft the best mmo world you can I think I am absolutely sold on it.

[@GoblinKnightLeo]

It is actually staggering how cynical Spiff is about the gaming industry.

[@Mini_Squatch]

He understands game design and the shortcuts developers take, as well as having a very good understanding of real-world economics, so its not surprising at all, really.

[@warrenpeterson95]

He's a very cynical Brit

[@theincrediblehibby8239]

'Tis the British way!

[@ArcNine9Angel]

@@warrenpeterson95 I'd totally respect him taking on that mantle if he wanted to.

[@AndrewMitchell123]

nah, hes just realist xD

[@willowdrakon]

Just an mmorpg where you do brainless tasks sounds like something I would unironically enjoy

[@JoshuaHouk]

I shudder at the exploits that would be found if Spiff and Josh from LetsGameitOut did a collab.

[@lukejensen9933]

The universe would be doomed

[@lukebrown2674]

Too bad Josh loves coffee and spiff loves tea. The 2 will never mix

[@sebbes333]

@@lukebrown2674 WRONG! It just means more TEA to Spiff ;P :D

[@KingofWolvesii]

@@lukebrown2674 can be a competition on who can break a game first ( and who can break it in the biggest way)

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

@@KingofWolvesii Josh is a brute force exploiter, Spiff is more about picking apart the mechanics and finding interactions the developer didn't expect. Josh's are always going to be bigger breaks (Coffee Stain literally uses his Satisfactory save as a benchmark for optimizing lmao), but Spiff's are often more impressive.

[@thedoofguy5707]

This reminds me of those hardcore roleplaying persistent world servers for good old Neverwinter Nights. No one could actually go out adventuring because starting gear had massive penalties, and for gear with no (or at least lower) penalties, you needed astronomical amounts of gold. So everything everyone did was just stay in the starting towns and spin tales about the grand feats of their ancestors. Because *THAT* is "true roleplaying", and not doing quests and exploring the world according to the people who ran these worlds.

[@Firroth]

You should have ended it by activating full PvP. Since it's the only other thing to do, and everyone is the same level, it would have turned into an immediate bloodbath.

[@kiwigamer4671]

“It has a to be not fun” omg he’s making Oblivion.

[@UnclePutte]

This all vibes so frightfully well with the soullesness of both actual MMO's and the MMO tycoon games.

[@Letham316]

This is literally the first I've heard of this game ... and they've made a 2nd one. 👀 I was half-expecting another vapid "make a game" simulator, but this is actually kind of fascinating. I enjoy theme park games, and this is an interesting take on that formula. You know what, I spent all these years hoping Frontier would release a new and improved Planet Coaster ... but forget that for now, I want them to make a game like this instead! 🥺🙏

[@collosalFeatures]

Pro tip if you. Want it you can buy it

[@ZeFroz3n0ne907]

Just wanted to say Thank you for the amazing content, Spiff! (Had my yearly cancer checkup yesterday, got some amazing news! 3 years in remission!!!)🎉

[@fluffdafire157]

I like to think that spifftopia is in an alternate timeline where instead of early mmo's being battle grind focused games instead were super story focused like this for years and then a WOW style came in with grinding and people go bananas for it

[@DoubleRBlaxican]

Why do I feel this will basically just be the metaverse

[@EEEEEEEE]

E

[@HCYoa]

still more to do tho

[@pedrolmlkzk]

Metatarsal died

[@alexrobertson557]

Metaverse isnt even close to this good

[@jort93z]

or second life, which is much better and more popular.

[@thefinnishbaconshroom]

10:36 Everyone loves a good fetch guest. They're so thought out, full of lore and great adventures.

[@wrenovator3101]

I could actually see this working in real life. Honestly some people get tired of the constant conflict of lots of games. Maybe just hanging with your friends and everybody having their own unique style would be something they'd like.

[@ianlilley2577]

So club penguin?

[@splitirisbear4589]

I can't wait to see Josh Strife Hayes make a video on this game.

[@buggiesindustries7550]

"imagine spending $1000 buying a new game"..... Me; Looks at Sims 4 DLC 😅

[@brolohalflemming7042]

Or any Paradox game. I stopped buying any of their stuff when Skylines brought out a day/night cycle as a DLC.

[@Magosspud]

Yar

[@cyberfutur5000]

The only quests better than fetch quests are the ones, where you have to escort someone who is really slow. I live for those.

[@onkeldieter5175]

I'm glad to see a sequel. I remember wanting to see spif break this again. All hail gigga pengu

[@epistimonkapetanios]

Don't forget the Swedish chef!

[@Thecarianknight]

The way the game begins is so cool in my opinion! You get all these shots of your landscape while the credits of the actual game appear on screen, and finally, your stupid name appears....

[@SamanthaLaurier]

I love the names of the quests the Wizard has. "Bring me the king" "Find beer" Also, at least it's fetch quests and not escort quests

[@insaincaldo]

What's the difference, in a world where all you have to do is walk and never be in any danger?

[@doomyboi]

@@insaincaldo With fetch quests, you can run to the different points as fast as you like without interruption. With escort quests, the NPC walking with you is slower than a disabled snail and will stop following you if you walk too far away from him.

[@insaincaldo]

@@doomyboi Do you seriously think running is even a feature, that would be convenient. On the other hand, there is no way any of the NPC's in this game got the privilege of any animations, or pathfinding.

[@doomyboi]

@@insaincaldo Bro, he's clearly selling run cycle animations as part of the MTX scheme

[@insaincaldo]

@@doomyboi To the NPC's? now you are losing the plot.

[@aulvinduergard9952]

Instead of having several cities in the zone, you should have the entire zone be the city. Just keep expanding it and expanding it with an ever-increasing number of fetch quests. XD

[@Langharig_Tuig]

I'm always staying updated on this game, great to see you covering it again.

[@05AT1]

I thought this seemed familiar.

[@elijahwallace5300]

What updates are there to keep track of? The game has barely changed after 3 years in EA, lol.

[@marsenpai9078]

@@elijahwallace5300 yeah am also worried. He (cuz he's developing alone) add only cosmetics. I'll buy it when dungeons will be out

[@Langharig_Tuig]

@@elijahwallace5300 Mostly extra building props, it's not much. But we got a nice little communnity going on with some absolutely great creative people. That being said, the update that adds customizable dungeons should be coming this year and that'll be a pretty big one. It's not the most exciting game and it will never be, but it's a unique one and it's a very neat sandbox

[@rando0ne975]

Been watching your videos for years now, and I just finally got myself a box of Yorkshire gold. I immediately brewed myself up a cup, and I was not disappointed. Best tea I've ever had, and I have you to thank for introducing me to it spif.

[@gwalon2089]

Spiff effectively made the real life as a MMO. I mean in real life you just run around, doing stuff und buying stuff you don´t need.

[@epistimonkapetanios]

Unfortunately. Real life used to be so much more fun in the past.

[@jeff9400]

​@@epistimonkapetanios remember when combat events occured everywhere and often? Life was so much fun back then. Too bad they almost removed combat system. You can't even PvP without being reported nowdays...

[@epistimonkapetanios]

@@jeff9400 But there is ww3 happening right now, based around Russia and Ukraine.

[@Lytr]

@@epistimonkapetanios limited event pvp arena 💀💀

[@nigerianprinceajani]

@@epistimonkapetanios Didn't realize the world consisted of just 2 countries in eastern europe. I always thought it was just the southern part of the northern part of America 🤔

[@gideonhatch4582]

for a wizard who charges you 1 penny to do the quest

[@EmperorNefarious1]

Spiff never fails to entertain me. Watching with a nice cup of tea is just perfect.

[@mattensminger7539]

For the love of the gods. I have binge watched your videos for the last 4 days every chance I get!! I am addicted. I can't believe I just now found you,and your EXCELLENT!! I am beyond addicted I will never get tired of you. With love from your friend over the pond!!!

[@eliteheadhunter830]

This is definitely how shareholders think how games work

[@Bananahammock681]

Sham being one of the first players in... kinda fitting. The balance here is, dare I say it? Perfect.

[@MadnessToTheMeaning]

I've been having a management game spree lately and Spiff has been an amazing source of knowing which game to play and exploit. Brilliant job my mustache twiddling friend.

[@ThatOnePlaythrough]

Thanks for the free impressions Spiff... _sips coffee_

[@LuciferStarOfDawn]

Nothing like watch a Spiff video drinking a cup of coffee and visualize Spiff losing his british mind over the sheer heresy

[@anakinskywalker1627]

How dare you do such a thing

[@user-burner]

​@@anakinskywalker1627tea is just a tad too sweet for me. Granted I've never had caffinated tea, so it might be different I guess.

[@XxTaiMTxX]

I get the feeling that there would be people who enjoy a game like this and would be fanatics about it.

[@DudeCommando]

Continue this. Add a region that grants like 1xp per quest. Charge real world money to take a boat to get to that area.

[@BroccinRoss]

Spiff please release the Yorkshire Tea employees their friends and families miss them and their complimentary bags of leaves.

[@KalijahAnderson]

I love how he pokes fun at other games as well.

[@RickClark58]

Every quest is essentially a fetch quest. You can express a fetch quest like this: do X get Y. Fetch shoes get gold. Kill skeleton get loot. And so on. More elaborate quests are just multiple fetch quests. Search castle for key. Use key to open door, get map. Use map to find treasure. Kill goblin for chest key. Open chest get loot. All quests are fetch quests.

[@sergentboucherie]

I would love to see Spiff perfectly balancing pong

[@swenmcheath1798]

im sure he would be able to exploit the hell out of it

[@builderbasti9773]

Well now I wanna see Spiff exploit Star Citizen beyond belief

[@NiktoNeIgor]

The game that was supposed to be a scam, in the end became a good game. That's ironic

[@KernalGohd]

Its wild that even with the cost I think this "scam" is still better and cheaper than some games Ive actually played.

[@RoughNek72]

SPIFF YOU SHOULD TRY AND BREAK THE AI CHATBOTS. THAT WOULD BE HILARIOUS!!!!

[@someprick7705]

Do you want skynet? This is how we get skynet.

[@Mushroomkillern]

Ahhaha yes plzzz

[@RoughNek72]

@@someprick7705 at this point in time I welcome it.

[@atakinpowa]

Agreed

[@leroyjenkinsreturns]

It really is to b Fair

[@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

This is basically what Todd Howard fantasized about while personally coding all the infinite quests in Skyrim and Fallout 4

[@ZeFroz3n0ne907]

I have a feeling Jagex is watching and thinking: "Hell, we've been doing this for 20 years and this isn't even my final form."

[@nicholaslennon]

Looks like spiff uncovered the Star Citizen 2 strategy

[@Secretsofsociety]

It is so weird that you picked this game two days after it crossed my mind for the first time since the last time you made a video on this game. Probably when you were recording this. I swear AI is already pulling our strings.

[@clinicallyinane8098]

Hideo Kojima is about to sue Spiff for plagiarism.

[@Kemot300]

"This is a game where you make a game inside of a game" - Gameception

[@spiritretro3571]

7:50 spiff i didnt appreciate that haunting insight into the current conditions of the world

[@Oblithian]

"It's worth it! The game is twice the SIZE!"

[@moriakpotato]

You're like Liam Neesons in Tooken but for glitches: "I will look for you, I will find you and I will exploit you"

[@XEntertainment10]

This feels like one of those another life type social games

[@aliensaxophone]

This game so reminds me of my WoW at the end the levelcap, grinding daily's just to get that special unique nobody bothers to gather the rep. Epic mount 😂. Back when i was a teenager :P. I guess this game would actually work IRL

[@KennyFrierson]

This feels like a game someone would recommend to me but not explain why they like playing it

[@Cenot4ph]

happy to see this game footage has not been edited to death

[@adamgadbaw7747]

This game was certainly one of the games of all time

[@oppenz3723]

SE, EA, Ubisoft and Konami furiously taking notes

[@-Big_Big]

this game would be awesome if real people could connect and walk around in the world.

[@reignick1133]

You made a game with ZERO gameplay. Sounds *You Role played being Sony making PS5 exclusives.* BRILLIANT!

[@banjokazooie370]

His game is more complete than a lot of modern mmo’s

[@zac9933]

Imagine playing an MMO and every time you walk by the wheat field your game crashed.

[@sparky_8d906]

You didnt need to roast Star Citizen like that 💀

[@LonelyAncient]

so basically MMO death stranding

[@colonelsandersthechickenal819]

So he basically made a mobile game.

[@Shiki0414]

The Spiffing Brit: Makes a game that needs 100,000 quests to level up. Me: I see he learned from Korean mmo devs

[@MrDelta509]

"Imagine if you payed 1000 pounds for a game and it only consisted of NPC quest givers." My mind immediately went to Star Citizen for some reason.

[@Cynry]

There it is, was looking for that comment ^^ NPC quest givers though? Fairly sure there aren't any of those in SC

[@DJdoodoo]

Haha he couldn't resist mentioning Star Citizen 🤣 great video

[@pg21justus-46]

If it's not named Star Citizen imma be disappointed

[@CR1MSONACE]

Dissapointment time =)

[@jamesyoung7400]

I wanted to like MMO RPG Tycoon 2 so much, but when I played it quite a while back there was no option for scaling stuff. I though the GIANT barrels were visually detracting and couldn't get passed it. I'm glad the developer added it! I think I'll load it back up now.

[@manssoderlind6326]

Can we take a minute to talk about how beautiful the world Spiff created actually is??

[@SeraphimKnight]

7:38 "a completeley useless NFT" is a tautological statement spiff

[@LimbieV]

I feel like this fun little exploit video has accidentally become a meta commentary on what games actually want irl 🤣 --> no game play, no pressure, only adventure --> no levels, everyone is equal, no anxiety from competition

[@Alex_192.]

Josh: Set your phasers to torment Grace Spiff: Set your phasers to torment everyone

[@Fordperfect42]

That star citizen dig!! 😂😂

[@Wyzai]

Spiff: "Scam game." Also Spiff: "I was too busy adding content to actually look at subscriber numbers."