SWBF 2 Campaign Trailer and Pay to Win Fan boys Rant!

[@WorthABuyreviews]

Back to the reviews after this video guys, I just needed to get these things off my chest :)

[@Xoniksken]

Off your "Loot Chest" Har har

[@aquaglow1]

Interesting to hear your thoughts Mack 🕵

[@elijahbosworth7126]

I don't know if I've missed this, but is your problem only with the loot crates which give advantages etc, or also the loot crates in games like overwatch where its entirely cosmetic? I agree though.

[@GuillieDaShogun]

Wrong, your grandparents elected trump. They have been ruining the country for about 60 years now. Or have you not noticed that most people over 60 are both spineless and completely incompetent. MOST, not all.

[@zoombapup]

Sadly, it ain't just games. But hey at least the singularity will come soon!

[@OverlordZephyros]

And this is why I love this channel

[@IamMortui]

Drue Bloem I think his keyboard broke.

[@DetectivePoofPoof]

DAMN I love your rants! There are just so few people these days with an actual spine, saying what they actually think. And I'm sick of all the platitudes and the "But before I say ANYTHING even slightly critical let me just reassure you guys how much I love this game/developer/publisher and how much I support them at least 5 more times, because I'm terrified of negative comments". Your honesty is very welcome and refreshing.

[@MrPeterGoldman]

Last time I was this early, Visceral Studios was still making a single-player Star Wars game...

[@beckcarter4401]

MrPeterGoldman this made me sad

[@cocobitz7730]

too soon... man

[@kevinwilson455]

Single player, linear games telling a story are no longer allowed due to market trends showing that it's easier to make a multiplayer game with micro-transactions that will keep retards coming back and spending money over a long period of time. FUCK that art of game making, FUCK telling a story and FUCK making a good game!

[@alangarner1423]

Miss Dead Space :(

[@mrdangerdave]

Well fecking said Mack! I stood up and gave my screen a standing ovation to you sir... One is also slightly pished from a good bevy but keep speaking the truth my honorary Jock Gamer friend!

[@ParadiseDecay]

Well said Mack, I think a crash is coming!

[@WattsOnTheUp]

Well, if I'm anything to go by, the crash should have been here by now... I'm not buying this kind of crap and never, ever used microtransactions! More people should be like me! [half joking, but not about not buying this crap]

[@KT-ti9bk]

Nicholas Dragonborn telling you, youtubers and wanna be streamers are the ones buying this shit.

[@baemheadshot86]

interesting thought, the gaming bubble of 20XX xD well its either this or the mobile gaming problems will soon be gaming problems just in general. aaand i'm gonna need a new hobby

[@DikkieDikism]

there is no crash coming, the gaming industry is making more money then hollywood each year.. and that amount of money is rising each year aswell. Dont kid yourself, people want to be in that dream no matter how much it costs as we've, as a people.. as humanity, created a world people dont really want to live in anymore. Thats what i think lays at the very basis of all of this.

[@baemheadshot86]

sounds about right. they have to be making mad cash with those newfangled business models, for them to be in every bigger game. in the end money talks and as long as it's talking, more and more of this bowel movement of a concept finds its way into all types of games. people who dont partake and pay up, will be along for the ride or shift focus on other things. it's cool that people like mack and jim sterling are speaking up. but honestly, history shows that predatory tactics like whats happening right now with microtransactions in games, just work in the context of a company. and somewhere, people seem to vote for that shit with their wallets. or so they make it seem at least

[@rhysoden4211]

You can blame "Whales" for this. They are only the 1%-10% of the audience but provide over 50% of the company's income. Thus games are designed around these "Whales" which include adding more micro-transactions, quantity over quality and gambling instead of appealing to the masses. Unfortunately this minority will always exist and we cannot do anything about it.

[@rattek2749]

It's funny because in Futurama when Fry says "shut up and take my money" it's a joke about people buying into bullshit because of hype.

[@hudson9334]

Great video. Absolutely love the way you're speaking on this. I'm pretty sure, sadly, that this is going to be a circle that won't be broken anytime soon. Loot boxes boil down to exploiting the young and the gullible to highly addictive gambling. Sad stuff, man.

[@Clear_Ski3s]

Obviously the gaming industry is in a very bad place now, and a crash would be good. But the sheer amount of sheep and gamers who just dont know how good games can be, or just don't care is easily enough to make the investors happy for years to come. I haven't seen a decline in profits for AAA games, so it's nice wanting a crash but I don't see it happening. I think we'll need to be content with the smaller games that do have a genuine goal to be good games.

[@phsyco91100]

I wish all gamers could be red pilled by Mac

[@undergrounder]

We need a crash!

[@JesusProtects]

Under Grounder Viva la revolución!... Of gaming.

[@mud2479]

I bet the crash will come with Star Citizen, they are selling fucking $400 dollars ships already, years before the game is released

[@FlawlessWorldAces]

I agree. WOAH!

[@earlofdoncaster5018]

And games' companies aren't too big to fail!

[@Jizzyjangle1]

Are you referring to the gaming industry or the capitalist world? I hear isis is recruiting

[@hackmiyer4234]

Mac i get that we shouldn't buy these games to support them, but we still want to play games. You still get to play every game (yeah i know its your job too play games) . I'm a big gamer but none of my friends are. They buy all the big AAA games and don't even realize that they are getting fucked over. They just see the good graphics and pew pew X ray vision. AND THEY LOVE IT! That's why nothings going to change. Most of the AAA crowd don't look up reviews and if they do its by IGN or some big company. Edit: The SWBF 2 trailer has 42k likes and 1k dislikes.... yeah nothings changing anytime soon...

[@WorthABuyreviews]

You don't have to buy the loot crates and DLC's though

[@r390gt1lm]

Hack Miyer want to play games? There are loads of awesome indie games, or buy big games on steam sales so they get paid shit. Or best of all, pirate the fuckers

[@inputfunny]

While not buying the microtransactions is great and all; even just buying the game only is still supporting the companies putting this crap in the games.

[@marcopg8112]

The same happens to me, my friends think assasins creed and fifa are the best games out there. The cant get past superficial aspects nor do they want to. Ignorance majes people happy i guess

[@r390gt1lm]

Woupsme problem is that vast majority of people who bought it were clueless parents buying a game for their kids who wouldn't shut up until they get the new call of pewpew

[@Blootrix]

I don't think the people that defend this kind of stuff in games are idiots at all. I think they don't have much else going for them, I think they don't know known any better and I think they love the thing that they are defending. I don't even think of them as Fan Boys, I think of them as Sad Boys. If you are, for example, a 12 year old who's only been gaming for two years, you wake up, go to school for 6 hours, get bullied, come home, eat dinner, listen to your parents scream at each other, go to bed, repeat, repeat, repeat, and the one thing you have to look forward to in your year is a single game, and you get that game, and the one thing you've looked forward to for your whole year, through all the bullshit and mundanity of your life, is a game that people left and right are tearing down, how can you as that 12 year old even begin to let that happen without defending the one thing you have left? Fair enough, that isn't the case for everyone, but I'm willing to bet a vast majority of the people defending this kind of stuff aren't in the best of situations, or they wouldn't be so invested in a single game. You're absolutely right in saying that the current system that is running rampant among games is corrupt, twisted and deprived of any love or care whatsoever. But I just worry that people will continue to fund these systems if they feel attacked. All in all though, great video and you did a great job in explaining how things could be better.

[@mcfakenamesir6796]

This is a very thoughtful comment that has a lot of truth in it. Typically people who are extremely invested into a game generally have something unfortunate going on in their life and that emotional energy is being redirected to a game as a defense mechanism. People who don't have much cling to what they do for shear life. It's unfortunate that a good portion of them never got to see some of the greats. My favorite was battlefield 1942 and it went on for years until they finally shutdown the servers. If some of these fanboys grew up on stuff like that they would have a better perspective on what is worth defending. Boycott is a practical method though it is difficult to do when you have a cult following fan base. A great method is to motivate someone who is independently wealthy to come into the market and begin to release solid, modern, yet old-school quality of games. By doing this they will achieve considerable market share and some of the big guys will start to re-figure their methods if they are consistently getting blown out by this new guy's group. A medium group of people who could build off passion and dedication could do it too but it is hard to get enough people together that aren't enslaved by money. Imagine someone like Elon Musk put his mind toward developing the next Call of Duty. Thankfully he's busy trying to get us to other planets before we nuke ourselves. Hell with Mack's dedication of supporters I wouldn't be surprised if he could somehow spinoff a little gaming development company. With his attention to detail and the commitment of his patreons I bet in 5-10 years time with consistent effort he could have a system of producing games.

[@TheRixtah1]

I can testify as a former addict that video games were my one real escapism when I was a young kid. They were what I looked forward to at the end of the day and whenever my Dad took them away because that was his asshole method of disciplining me I remember becoming almost physically sick with depression because it felt like games were all I had. I couldn't imagine being a kid today and having these sorts of games to look forward to, the thought is depressing.

[@mcfakenamesir6796]

It is conditioning in the sense that it makes it easier to produce games since the expectation has been eroded. I liken it to lies by omission. If you were raised only being shown 50% of something then that is all that exists for you. For those folks they can't escape the matrix unless someone shows them clearly how good games can be. The idea with proof in a format that is accessible and in a way that they can understand. Until then it is a foreign concept. With the schoolyard talking about the latest hogwash it makes it more difficult for someone to talk up some previous game that may be better but just isn't current.

[@blahblah7720]

+Mcfakename Sir lol it's funny how you talk about fanboy,conditioning,lie by omission,only being shown "50%",widely accessible proof and the "matrix" before talking about your melon musk and Mars mission+nuke...What a fucking meme.0/10! If you are interested,go check eyespy channel,he have video where he show the CGI.It's quite a meme indeed. i recommend this one for instance ; kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5XSp36DmL52p9E

[@highground3521]

This game is pay to win... i get it you can earn lootboxes but it will take you over 2000 hours gameplay to get there.

[@mud2479]

In many years people that have grown with all this loot boxes, MTs and shite games will look back and say: "Remember when games were good?, we had loot boxes, skill progression, xray vision, skins, we could even pay to beat the game faster....now it costs $20 dollars to upgrade your graphics from medium to high and $40 to ultra + shadows with the "High Octane Graphics Elite DLC". "

[@askers_]

Mack, most movies/games spend 2-3x the production budget on advertising. Not saying that it should be that way, or that its right, but it's how they all do it.

[@FenryrGrey]

That explains why entertainment resembles a huge pile of bantha dung.

[@tristbjorn]

And thus we get a lot of shitty cookie cutter movies. It's the same damn problem. Investors wanting high returns.

[@killarun4288]

AAA industry now is in bubble. Every games are homogenized, they're copying each other. Soon everyone will be playing multiplayer and GaaS type of games such as destiny. And there will be no market left for new game

[@Judgey19XX]

Anyone else finding themselves playing older and retro games?

[@Judgey19XX]

LongHaired Yeti // There's only a handful of modern games that I find decent, but to me gaming began to die from about 2009-2010. Now I mostly get older games I missed out on for my PC and I've gotten in to collecting retro games and consoles.

[@xr8em_554]

I still jam c&c 95

[@aquaglow1]

Battlefront 2 looks designed by a focus group rather than someone who wants a fun game

[@RDR911]

Have you played it at all, or read any comments about it online? People seem to love it.

[@cortezbaldur413]

Alex Gambrel yeah sadly alot of people suffer from instant gratification and think the game is great when they only play it with friends. play it by urself and u will see its pretty meh. not bad but not amazing.

[@pizzalord135]

Worst game I've ever played as well. And to compare it to BF3 wtf is your damage?

[@doomslayer9513]

Mack you speak my mind everytime, I am 32 years old and I want to cry too about how fucking stupid the people who live in the world right now, so much ignorance, I feel depressed.

[@sunnyjim1355]

Whether you know it or not, you're a Kekistani, so rejoice. Shadilay, my dude.

[@1Life2Little]

Try being 41...

[@MrDemented669]

people need to u tube "BILL HICKS on Marketing" follow his advice.. just planting seeds...

[@darryltomkins7790]

You speak the truth Mack! Too many games are focused on money making nowadays, not the gamers! Been let down with so many games recently, it's poor.

[@Descenter1976]

imo, there last great game was Bad Company 2! If... no when they make BC3, I'll be so sad if they fill it up with DLC, season passes and Loot crates!

[@Strict666]

I really liked BF3 but I hate the "premium" thing EA has been doing ever since that game (Or maybe before but that's when I first heard of it)

[@projectxvr6864]

Love bc 2 still a massive community playing it still on PC

[@fastdak25]

During BC2 DIE gave out free DLC constantly (new maps) while saying they would never charge players for new maps. Well we saw how that turned out with their next game, BF3.

[@SwissMilk0]

remember a big reason why ptw has got so bad it's cus they target kids that don't understand how shady it is , it's been going on so long now that a lot of those kids are now adults and just seem to accept it..

[@qet4645]

It's really sad that you don't have 146 MIL viewers instead of thousand, so the message could be spread even wider. I shared it but I believe most of my friends and so on already have your back on this! Love you and what you do! Keep up the good work Mack!

[@markkelly9621]

I've been out off Star Wars battlefront by the supposed crap play in the first game and the loot boxes in the second game. I was put off the lord of the rings game for the loot boxes too. put comments on developers videos marketing games telling them loot crates etc have stopped you buying them. put pressure on games reviewers and journalists to ask more difficult questions and call them out when apparently take bribes for reviews.

[@Gaardian]

Pissed as a fart on the bandit - mack

[@coppermine64]

Bang on the money again Mack. Fucking greed has been killing this PC games market more and more each year. The price of PC games was always a pro over the consoles because you could get the same game for 29.99 tops but 45 - 50 quid for the consoles. NOW regular PC games have equalled console rip off prices. I have a new Steam voucher in my inbox offering me 50% off of Civ VI digital deluxe. IT'S 70 fucking quid for a PC game? They are offering it to me now for 35 quid which is still over the top as the reviews are all shit. 70£. I love Civ, but I wont be touching this title EVER. Fuck the shareholders, I won't even get it for 20 quid. They can fuck off. Civ was once the top selling PC game. Then they started releasing on the XBOX and turned it into a cartoon of a game, but it was console price AND since arriving on that platform, Firaxis prices have rocketed. fuck 'em. Thing is so many PC players now have come over from the toy machines and they gladly pay console title prices for PC titles. I'm fucked off with it all. If no-ne buys the shit, then the prices will come down, and they'll get the message that we're fed up with paying for only portions of the game that has been stripped. All the games are at it now.

[@demolicious1]

Yes! Taking power back into our own hands ! IT FEELS GOOD!

[@MR3DDev]

Finally a game critic that doesn't fall for the "games are too expensive to make" bullshit. Thumb up for Mack

[@doublehirn]

Cant even remember the last time I gave EA some money... so so long ago

[@SoloSebo]

Mack I have not bought AAA at full price in over 10 years. COD MW was probably my last AAA game bought at full price (minus Blizzard AAA overwatch and D3) The games do not interest me same shit different day. Never bought a DLC. Never bought a lootbox...

[@popcornfilms1]

Mack new queen of dragons breaking the wheel

[@safcnashy6242]

*mother of dragons

[@sldlsndns3420]

mother of guys, guys

[@Flecco]

The key is to buy things like prey. Seriously. It's everything that should fail in today's market and it's fucking amazing. Breath of the wild is too. Vote with your wallet. The more games like battlefront that flop the better off we will be.

[@blahblah7720]

no,they killed the real prey ( and nearly killed humanhead studio) for this garbage.

[@harryhunt1735]

its the younger generation that i think to blame i think the reason behind it is they got into gaming by playing those shitty free to play games on their phones and ipads and start buying micro-transactions using their parents cards, and now its moved into our commercial AAA games its sad they weren't around when you paid for a game and you got the full game but now that online is out developers dont need to get testers in and fix the bugs they just use these "Betas" where the game comes out in like a month or even just a few days there the testers and the devs know that they can just fix the bugs that get reported and just patch it in, 15 years ago that wasn't the case they needed to make sure the game was pretty much bug free because they couldn't patch it in later as most people didnt have online back then, one of the many cons of online gaming.

[@servantofthemosthigh2525]

Harry Hunt good point..fuck mobile gaming

[@iJamie8467x]

Good luck getting me to buy DLC. People need to stop buying these shitty games with these shitty micro tractions. Kill the parasite now before it grows too big. It's already too big but soon it's going to be the whole fucking spider web Too note: I am not part of the problem. My Game list is now old classics and Indies. It's fucking sad. I want to enjoy games again like I used to when I was younger, the shit storm seemed to start after 2012

[@cebraulkenne8571]

I have literally not spent a single penny on EA, Activision or Ubisoft in I cant even count how many years it's been. Most of my purchases are indie and retro games. There is still such a gigantic library of old undiscovered gems I'm satisfied to play these while the industry goes under. I've got my life boat ready.

[@-tr0n]

it's pretty funny but for a "gamer" this is the first year i've ever bought a current generation videocard. i normally refuse to buy new AAA games (after so so so many disappointments), so i'm a good 3-4 years behind the curve anyways!

[@doomslayer9513]

Same, I have thousands of good old games, hundreds I still never played, I am so good!

[@demolicious1]

And you haven't had hours of brainwashing to recover from either! These kids are going to need years of therapy.

[@PHeMoX]

Honestly, the budgets for big triple a games do not make sense anyway. A lot and I do mean a LOT of money is wasted. Not just on marketing, but more so on actual development. Quite a lot of games now use Hollywood actors for voice-overs and they often aren't even that great (read: literally phoned in and edited in post-production). Yet... it does account for hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted.

[@LengthyEmperor]

I am with you Mack. Are you going to be the leader of the #BoycottBattlefront2 movement?

[@ploppyploppy]

#SayNoToHashtags

[@Mixail747]

These are Casual players. And there is a lot of them, I'm pretty sure more than us, gaming connoisseurs, so to speak. They don't have much time for gaming, but they do have money. Money to buy any hw they want, money to buy any game they want. But they don't have much time. So they're actually glad there is pay-to-win mechanics, meaning that they can launch a game and get all the pretty stuff they want for cash (which they have enough of).

[@cyanson71]

i agree with you mac, and ive been not falling for this bullshit for about a year now. No add ons, no dlc, no season pass no loot crates at all, now ive even stopped buyin triple a games altogether. tired of buying crap games. love ya mac.

[@travmanwilliams]

If only the rest of the world did this, problem solved.

[@cbecomis]

When I heard about visceral games I literally wanted to throw up. EA is a pile of bantha piss. Thanks for crushing my dream of a good starwars game you bastards!!!😭

[@Oh_fur_fox_sake]

Quote from fallout 4 why do all the hard work when you can take what you want at gun point gaming raiders

[@ZRAGE6]

I fucking love your videos, you are so right on the pay to win bullshit it's a joke, and I am sooo fucking sick of loot boxes in every game it's just makes me want to throw up 🤢 and then drown someone in that shit. Keep up the good work man for real thanks for not being fake like the rest of them.

[@CommandoMaster]

Star Wars is overhyped.

[@pilgrum0]

im content with playing indies and my backlog steam library until they fix this crap and have been since watchdogs.

[@theelike4302]

I don't get how people can't understand how to vote with their wallet.

[@NightSSc7]

This garbage is why I don't really care for any AAA releases at the moment. Also, you deserve more subs.

[@WoollyMittens]

The bell wasn't abused nearly hard enough this time.

[@jase1976]

Out of control greed ruining everything in all areas of life. Support indie and mid-tier games.

[@MindlessMiles]

It's all because of console gamers!

[@creeepperfan]

Not really its because of kids who do mostly play on consoles but there are some on PC.

[@captaincc2735]

I think a lot of it is people over the age of 30. We have the money. I am guilty of doing it.

[@thewisebread3653]

Can you retro WAB COD MW and WAW

[@zerotactix5739]

The Wise Bread they're not retro yet. Also mack has said cod was good until mw2. So you got your answer.

[@thewisebread3653]

Knife Guy Gamer just want to see his thoughts I bought WAW and man it's campaign is fricken amazing and so immersive you felt as if you did everything zombies was good and so was the multiplayer they actually had flank routes designated spawn points and recoil if he reviews it after cod ww2 comes out he would probably get mad at cod ww2 after seeing how fun the old ones were

[@arcticridge]

you just need to git gud masck, can't wait for jar jar dlc!

[@HappyBacon777ttv]

I mostly agree with the DLC. But one game comes to mind when I think of worthwhile DLC, and that's the Borderlands franchise. Pretty much every DLC (especially Tiny Tina's assault on dragon keep and claptastic voyage) was awesome.

[@htidtricky1295]

Not all dlc is bad but why don't developers save those great stories and ideas for the sequel instead of selling us bits of games.

[@Sneaky1ne]

ya they gettin ballzy look at the creation club move and all.

[@KelrCrow]

My problem is that I just really want a good Star Wars game with a single player campaign. I'd pay, say $100, for my perfect Star Wars game - great many hour single player campaign with cannon story, perfect starships with great controls, and some awesome multiplayer. I don't think I'm alone in this. Something like this would make the shareholders a lot of money, make a great game, and even set a precedent for more expensive games. Why can't this happen?

[@iJamie8467x]

Kelr Play the original fucking Battlefront

[@KelrCrow]

I have played the original Battlefronts, and the two KOTOR games, and the Old Republic MMO, and the Jedi Academy/Outcast games. Oh, and the two Force Unleashed games which weren't very good. I'm just saying I don't think it's the money that fans are upset about I'm saying it's the quality of the games.

[@TheRixtah1]

It's because of Konami. They were the first to discover that digitalized gambling is the next big thing and that not only does it maximize profit margins but it actually supercedes all of the revenue that gaming would accrue annually and it requires far less time and effort on their part. All of the current publishers now want to follow their example and are moving closer and closer to establishing fully realized extortionate virtual casinos.

[@theeternalbard4308]

Has it gotten any better over the past 3.5 years? Nah...

[@sparkylfc91]

The only good game I've played this year is the legend of Zelda breath of the wild

[@Valkyriez_Gaming]

Really? Thats some weird standards. Zelda was boring as fuck, I'd rather watch grass grow.

[@sparkylfc91]

Valkyriez 😗

[@servantofthemosthigh2525]

zelda is made by passionate developers and a great publisher on top of it. its rare to see good games these days

[@Flecco]

Try prey Man. Engaging and spooky. Straight out of the 0451 pedigree. On par with bioshock infinite or deus ex (original) in terms of an experience.

[@Valkyriez_Gaming]

I dont care how passionate they are or how great the Publisher is, Zelda was straight up boring for me. I actually legit fell asleep twice trying to play it. I genuinely don't understand the praise for it. Each to thier own and all that jazz though. I'll disagree about the "good games are rare these days" though. I seem to have no issues finding and playing good games.

[@superbabaganoosh]

I used to play COD and Battlefront. I will NEVER EVER EVER buy those games again until they stop the DLC BULLSHIT you have to pay for. YOU PAY FOR A GAME ONCE, NOT 4 TIMES A YEAR THEN GET THE NEXT ONE AND IT BEGINS ALL OVER AGAIN. FUCK THAT!!! I will vote with my money...

[@justince89]

I love these rants..... but also so unfortunately true.

[@eddiesalgado7697]

Consoles are a scourge to gaming

[@nezo1813]

Eddie Salgado no gamers are we are the ones who decide what they do with our wallets

[@GuillieDaShogun]

AGREED console gamers dont even understand the power of a mouse with more than 3 buttons. They dont even rebind their console controls to better fit their individual dexterity limits. Fucking trend following scumbags.

[@albertbord]

funny how lootcrates, microtransactions and shit first came to pc games

[@chipzz86]

Neophysis the loot boxes came from MMOs first Mobile games took it to the extreme And its just not not console gamer are to blame PC gamers have just as much blame

[@SPQRapid]

Mobile games started this. Guys vote with your wallet do NOT buy these type of games that are AAA pay to win. Call of Duty WW 2 also has pay to win............ OMG

[@druss_hb]

I WROTE THIS COMMENT WITHOUT WATCHING THE VIDEO AS SOON AS IT WAS UPLOADED LOL

[@bruhcoin2361]

Druss [Happy Bunny] That's great.

[@silentprotagonist5459]

YOU ALSO TRIGGERED SOME PEOPLE IN THE COMMENT SECTION LOL

[@druss_hb]

IT'S A MEME YOU DIPS LMAOOOOOO

[@techtipsuk]

Your avatar clearly is used to depict your level of intelligence

[@druss_hb]

Richard Dale and you're clearly a mong

[@SmallHunter1984]

It's not pay to win, it's pay to, pay to win; which is even fucking worse. You've gotta' pay to even experience the pay to win, not like a shitty phone pay to win, that I can play for free for ten minutes before I realise how shite it is. 100% with you Mack, we may disagree on the Witcher, but don't support this bollocks, our wallets are the only power we have left. Take you £49.99 and buy a shit load of indies games you've wanted to try instead. Or buy Day of Infamy for yourself and three mates and play that.

[@ScCat666]

Another side of the coin that nobody looks in all this is the cost for hardware, electricity, internet bills and disk space in order to be able to play these games. They get bigger, requires more powerful hardware all the time and requires more space every new gen. The consumer also needs to pay all for this shit, while the developers and shareholders only surf above your heads.... People forget that software is just 50% of all the thing.... so if your fucking game needs 100gb of my ssd, I will charge you a rent for the storage space (do you see ppl giving free space for you to store 50gb-100gb on the internet?), oh you game need 10 teraflops of processing power? sure bro, I rent it for you to use MY CPU to run your product. Software is just half of the thing, the another half, that is hardware and resources to use everything, nobody pays attention.

[@KeeperGER]

another awesome video mack!! I agree 100% this time ( dude don't talk shit about witcher 3 :) , I fucking love you ok ? ! and dude im from GERMANY ok ? hehe! )

[@Refulgent_Rascal]

A really good method to destroying these companies is to be a patient gamer. Always wait at least 6-9+ months after a game has been released. You'll either get it on sale or get it cheap since you're pretty much a year behind and their sequel will be out meaning the previous game drops in price naturally anyway. It's pretty much what I do. It's actually much more beneficial to PC gamers too because it means you'll get more longevity out of your system as you'll always be slightly behind on needing the newest upgrade, since you're playing older games. If you can really handle it then go 2 years back instead. Maybe even say "okay I'll allow myself to buy 2 new AAA games this year but no more" so you're getting the best of both worlds. I know with my current rig and following this method I won't realistically need to upgrade my system for at least 5-7 years. Plus I save way more money and I don't fund these fucktard companies, yet I still get to play their games. It's either that or piracy lol!

[@wandererman21]

Mack, regarding game trailers with "Made with ingame footage" that was scripted, and had thousands of cash thrown at it to make a false trailer with no gameplay - you should check out some of Nintendo trailers. Mario and Zelda both use pretty much 100% of actual gameplay footage in the trailers, why? Because that's representative of the product. A lot of people take them for granted but you can't fault them for being honest with their games. If you are not a nintendo fan, look at older game trailers like ps1 and n64. You might find those trailers more honest too because showing what was capable at the time was a huge draw for a game. Nowadays it's all about the graphics because thats all xbox and ps4 fanboys can argue about.

[@WFkSLy]

Honestly if you didn't grow up on Nintendo, where you just needed one game for your summer and that's all you need, then you might have no relative game to know why purchases and exploitation's is a problem in your games. Really, it is not hard, without anyone telling you, to not buy games with micro transactions or loot boxes. I know someone that has spent all their money on micro transactions and really, they ask themselves, really what is the bad in this. Or maybe they don't even ask that question. More like, why deprive yourself of a hyped to heck yearly pew pew game. Why not use that money if you have it. Cost of opportunity is lost in people. Use of time is lost. Critical reasoning is lost.

[@GTACapone]

Hey Mack I got four words for you. Capitalism At Its Finest Looking forward to the next review brother.

[@IAmCaligvla]

The industry really is in a bad shape, it has been for years now actually. Shame really, but it's the price of becoming mainstream; more audience that leads to more investments that leads to more greed and need for investment returns by the end of the day... I don't think there's much solution to this problem, this happened to the movie industry, the music industry and so on. It's just that the videogame industry is very, very easily exploitable really, so this kind of stupidity happens more frequently.

[@alexandsimba]

If you don't have time to play video games, then don't fucking play it! Why the fuck is that so complicated? We used to get a lot of shit talk for playing video games in our free time, and now these casual sheep have made it into a greedy gambling mess.

[@GuillieDaShogun]

I have a great idea. Lets all go to videogame retail stores and pre order the new COD for 5 dollars then not follow through on the purchase and make them waste money making cd's and we can also piss off gamestop. its a win win! Edited for clarity's sake.

[@servantofthemosthigh2525]

GuillieDaShogun brilliant strategy

[@GuillieDaShogun]

If you pre-order and you don't pick up your order. Most retail outlets keep that money as store credit. Which you can then put toward another pre-order (because they don't want you to get a refund. and it looks good for the employee who "sold" you on a new pre-order.) You then do this until someone figures out whats happening and changes the company policy. Then we will have to go back to our evil villain lairs and think of more evil plans.

[@Ryan-tk]

5:43 LoL What was that? Pissed as a fart? This is why I love watching Mack's videos. So much entertainment! Nice!

[@nosubscribe6233]

I am tired of the special elite forces story. I loved the campaign of original because you saw it from the eyes of a regular soldier dpimg his job.

[@looparquet5444]

"In my pub, the town vicar was pissed as a fart on the bandit" < most memorable and English thing I've ever heard from Mack

[@aguajaneta]

I didnt think anything would surpass no mans sky when it comes to examples of corruption within the gaming industry, obviously i was wrong. Its only going to get worse you know.

[@eloforfree]

I dont believe that you can educate the kids tbh. I think the game experience will get worse and the payment system will be abused until even the kids will revolt themselves because of a limit that will be reached (one day) and the whole system will bounce back and go in the right direction

[@robynhighart2026]

"Hard to dodge" hahaha. Who the fuck even still reads these "game magazines", where they review fps games with a trackpad?

[@Jebethebest]

I loved the SW:BF 2 beta, but out of principal I am not going to buy it since it has micro transactions.

[@ScreamingSeal]

Mac, are you reviewing Elex?

[@micktrice46]

Finding a good game to buy on Steam has been an ordeal to say the least. Shopping for a new game feels like a chore now....

[@el_kraken]

Mack once again proving himself to be the realest nigga out of any gaming e-celeb.

[@EDNOOOOO]

I cant wait for the day where I dont have to cross games off my want list because of microtransactions.

[@SDeww]

iam not buying any games that are full price, and have micro transactions

[@satnav1980]

Why does it go to 3rd person when you use the shield 🛡? That is bloody annoying

[@avx23]

Life = pay to win mate. Sad but true. Agree with a lot of what you are saying but it's a sign of the times, and the times before, and before that. It's a shame when grass roots movements and subcultures end up falling in line with commercial interest but it's just what happens. A Crash would indeed bring us back to more innovation but tell me one honest star wars fan that isn't itching to play this (myself included) and would be happy to go back to lesser graphics / presentation and such. In my case I certainly won't be buying this at launch, apart from anything else I take exception at how it's preying on people with little sense in terms of the lootboxes which to me is encouraging impressionable people to gamble. But it's going to be an itch I'll find difficult to scratch. there's no doubt I'll end up buying it second hand when the price drops to a tenner and even that's going to make me feel a bit dirty inside.

[@avx23]

Worst thing is - (for me) gaming used to be an escape from life. Parents fighting , being hassled or bullied , or life just getting you down ? Fine, it's OK, the fact that I can be a space marine for a few hours a night makes it easier to bear. Now it's like the world has peered inside our little domain and taken a huge big fucking dump.

[@Ciggiesaftersex]

My guess is that there are much larger group of causal gamers who really don't care about all that and buy it because they see cool shiny stuff and this demographic won't really go I don't think

[@IRIICIK.]

Said like a true champ.

[@henningjensen9291]

Mack 4 president!

[@meeesj634]

rocket mesj

[@lpello8402]

Tis the season of Triple A thumbs down la la la la LAAA

[@quirksandfeatures3215]

Children fuck everything up for adults.

[@mikaxms]

Nintendo is the only company saying up yours to the shareholders.

[@doublegi2880]

Why are you people even buying games? just pirate them.

[@lukekirkland3864]

God Mack keeping speaking the truth, luv ur vids

[@Queeg1st]

One of the few people who tells the truth - keep up the good work Mac

[@furiousgeorge8092]

Mack's heart attack - coming 2018.

[@snowalex5675]

All I haft to tell you is I'm buying for jar jar

[@spacecat77]

Everything has a price... these are dark times.

[@SpacialKatana]

The day's comin' where your initial outlay for the 'game' will be the main menu screen. Chrs, maps,accessories, literally anthing for the 'game' will be extra. Mark my words Mack :) Fuckin' travesty.