Terrible Products Fail And That's Good

[@magnaquam]

I think the “modern audiences” we hear about don’t actually want to use or play these products. They just like the idea that the products are being produced.

[@gregowen2022]

Nailed it. They love celebrating the ideas existing, but don't actually want to engage with them tangibly

[@kafarske123]

Yes... This exactly 😂😂

[@PrincessFionaYT]

That’s exactly why the movie Bros. failed. But did they learn anything? No. They have been doubling down ever since

[@ardendragoon]

The moden audience is themselves. It's all self insert wank material. Its the difference in how boys and girls play with toys. Boys become that character, and girls make the character them. If you have a sister growing up, you'll know that batman at the tea party. It's the feminization of entertainment.

[@deathbysloth]

They believe their worldview is so unassailably correct and moral that no product should exist outside of it, regardless of if they actually consume said product.

[@dksoulstice6040]

Ubisoft stock dropped 11% after reports of Outlaws' underwhelming sales. I can't imagine what's going to happen after Assassin's Creed Shadows flops.

[@HyperboreanPC]

We just gotta get that stock low enough for them to sell off Rayman to Nintendo

[@ryanvandoren1519]

​@HyperboreanPC im amazed nintendo hasnt just bought it from them yet

[@Defa_Noob]

Wish I was in on the board meetings when their games keep flopping and their stocks fall drastically, they really hit rock bottom and kept falling.

[@Mewseeker]

@@Defa_Noob Isn't being a shareholder qualify you for that? You could buy a single stock if you really wanted to. Or am I mixing this up with something else? XD

[@ahabwolf7580]

They'll buy up some Indie studios and release a few bangers that were already basically finished and the stock will come back and we'll repeat this entire horrifying cycle all over again. Or something.

[@dclobberandreik4376]

"Thank you for being considerate of where you spend your time and money" Brother, I have to get my car's entire suspension replaced. Hell no, I am not buying Concord

[@Pressbutan]

Bingo. I only have so many monies, I can’t be wasting them on shit like acolyte merchandise

[@PepPepsReviews]

It’s our fault… *crickets*

[@MamaMOB]

So what you're saying is if you didn't need your car's entire suspension replaced you would buy it? Why? I don't care if I had a billion dollars I still wouldn't buy this shit.

[@MamaMOB]

​@@PressbutanAnd again that implies that if you had more money you would. You're stupid if that's true. Otherwise you should stop implying that. Might be why they keep making this crap.

[@dclobberandreik4376]

@@MamaMOB Nah. I am saying that there are so much more important things to buy than it and with how expensive things are getting, it's especially not worth it. Even as a meme, it's not worth it.

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

I miss when if a video game failed, the people making it admitted they screwed up, acknowledged their mistakes and learned from them. But now no one takes responsibility, they blame EVERYONE, the customers, the reviewers, youtubers, the freaking government, I'm surprised they don't blame god almighty while they are at it, but never themselves. Until these companies and creators get their egos in check this crap will never stop.

[@gregowen2022]

Yeah, the only one I can think of in recent memory is CDPR. Cyberpunk was a disaster, so they got to work and I here it's a great game now

[@thatguy1080]

​@@gregowen2022 nah, not even CD Project Red was immune to this. I believe one of the community managers or lead developers said that we were all joining the bandwagon and the game wasn't THAT bad on launch (it was)

[@MrDarcykampe]

@@gregowen2022 That was because they had no choice nor were they immune.

[@user-gm4kv2my4u]

I miss the old days when being out of touch could be seen as a charming (though very annoying) quirk. Fable 2 fans: Hey Peter, these menus are clunky. Borderline unusable. Peter Molyneux: You are RIGHT. Menus are clunky and shouldn't used! Fans: Wait, what? No. That's...not what...we me- Peter: Yes. YES! WHY are we even using menus! We can stream line the process. No menus at all! Maximum immersion! It'll be brilliant - I tell ya! Fans: ... Development team: * cries into pillow *

[@benmcreynolds8581]

Totally agree. Studios SHOULD do whatever it takes to show the customers they CARE. I mean they'd have nothing without customers, right? Which makes this "chapter" in gaming (where they blame the fans) makes 0 sense. ~I wish the gaming industry would get back to the 00's era vibe. When mag's would have demo discs. Where they would dive into game development BTS stuff. I just miss seeing the behind the scenes stuff, the process of putting ideas together & finding out what works best through a play testing process. I think we just need to see glimpses of gameplay more and stop with all this "radio silence route that game companies take now.. its awful." Their current approach is definitely creating this sorta reverse psychology effect because they just aren't approaching how to handle this gaming world "in these long spaces between games." While projects are being worked on sorta thing. The entire gaming industry needs to find better ways to approach & do these things. It will benefit gaming as a whole. The companies & the customers will be in a better place. We gotta improve things. If they want to keep making $$$ they gotta improve things.

[@silverscorpio24]

It's the beautiful culmination of making a piss-poor product and then trying to bully and gaslight people into paying up.

[@MamaMOB]

Yeah that's Disney's new business model. Same with most of Hollywood, the gaming industry, comic books, basically entertainment in general.

[@jamesneese7663]

True but it's been working for years now so SBI and cohort figured they could keep the scam going forever

[@leviticusprime4904]

@@MamaMOBhow did we get here?

[@fattiger6957]

That's the whole basis of every western entertainment industry. No company is actually "woke", they just use it as a shield to cover their greed, incompetence and laziness.

[@the_fool_of_space]

​@@leviticusprime4904 entitled rich kids thinking theyre always right

[@fcold9402]

Patriarchal world where the two heads of the rebellion are princess Leia (woman) and Mon Mothma (also a woman). Also, there is a very clear line of good and evil in Star Wars. That was the entire point of light side and dark side.

[@Saint_Sigismund]

The Dark Side tempts even good people by appealing to their base desires: it takes effort to adhere to the Light.

[@wingsoffreedom3589]

Patriarchal world is redundant just call it the world

[@robonator2945]

first half right, second half wrong. The Dark Side has done evil things, but the Light/Dark dichotomy is between order and passion, not good and evil. If two things can be called the primary reason that the Jedi Order fell it would be that they were repressive to Anakin which led him to grow resentful and distant, and their own trust in systems and rules prevented them from being aware of or acting against growing threats. Both of these were internal and intrinsic flaws of the Jedi themselves. Sheev lit the spark, but they poured the petrol on themselves. He grew in power without their awareness because they had become blind to the messy reality of the world and trusted the system too much to realize what was going on, and by the time they did they were so entrenched they couldn't do anything about it. Add in that he was only able to mould Darth-fucking-Vader into Darth-fucking-Vader by being the parental-figure which the Jedi had knowingly taken from him, and it's pretty clear cut that he only took them down because of the Order's own internal failings.

[@ninjafoxgamesgeekery]

Where Jaina Solo is far more badass than Rey Palpatine. Disney had an easy lay up if Episode VII had kicked off with Grand Master Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy with Ben and Jaina as Jedi Masters, then introducing Finn and Rey as new Jedi. Keeping the EU books as "legends of canon" would also have given them dozens of stories of source material to adapt into animated canonized version by trimming out the over the top aspects and removing any retcon contradictions and filling in the gap between VI and VII that way. Make the books like Logan treated the comics. "About half of it actually happened and not like this."

[@totesmagotes213]

And in the past they may have shown a fallen Jedi or the Jedi Order having hubris which led to their downfall. Nuance like that is good in storytelling. But telling us the bad guys are good or the good guys are bad is just straight up lore assassination.

[@happyfatguy989]

About a year ago I told a friend I wanted a “Jedi solving a murder mystery, something completely disconnected from the Skywalker saga” and little did I realize then that a monkey paw was curling…

[@jamesneese7663]

.....the idea is a good one. The Acolyte was not.

[@CptPhilippnes]

Interestingly enough, I seem to recall a story like this in a comic that took place during the Old Republic but it was less of a "who dunnit" and more of a "why dunnit"

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

That was one of the myriad problems with The Acolyte: there was no mystery to the supposed mystery.

[@xaikken]

@@CptPhilippnesbetter question anyway

[@gregowen2022]

Hahaha, same here. I've been asking for quite some time for a story in this massive universe that doesn't take place in the 60 year span of the Skywalkers. Hooo, boy, joke's on me. I should have more specific about wanting a *Good story

[@totesmagotes213]

Weird how “this isn’t for you” and “just don’t watch/buy it” have come to fruition and these folks don’t seem to enjoy the results of those phrases being used against their customer base.

[@ytsuxmuhd4998]

It's their dumb method of reverse psychology. What do you mean you don't want [thing]? Well now you can't even have [thing]! Yea I'll bet that makes you want [thing] now, doesn't it?

[@jamesmassey1992]

Ubisoft will say "Gamers don't want single player games anymore" while ignoring Black Myth Wo Kung and Warhammer game sales.

[@fattiger6957]

And a new, massive budget live service game flops every week.

[@LowResCatExplosion]

And also Yakuza, the latest of which is called Infinite Wealth because that's what the series produces for Sega every time

[@Homerstar]

Don’t forget Astro Bot.

[@papieatsnoodles4952]

Dont forget Stellar Blade aswell

[@Pressbutan]

I’m not sure what people expect when you tell them “this isn’t for you” and “if you don’t like it, don’t watch it”. No wonder people aren’t lining up when they’re being excluded from the start.

[@ytsuxmuhd4998]

What's expected is for it to have some kind of reverse psychology on you. You say you don't want it? Well now you can't even have it. Now I'll bet you REALLY want it don't you?

[@davidc1878]

Totally agree. I'm middle-aged and I am completely dumbfounded by this era where entertainment companies increasingly show contempt for their audience and antagonize the fans in both marketing and PR. Baffling.

[@SquallLionhart409]

Fun fact, the current number of players online on the Korean server for Starcraft: Broodwar is 16614. It is 2AM in Korea. This is a game that was released in 1998. This does not count players on LAN or just playing offline. 16614 is only 23.8 times as many people Concord had at peak.

[@Bucketus.Lord.of.Buckets]

Dustborn failed so spectacularly you forgot it existed

[@skarjj1]

no, it was overshadows by an even bigger disaster Concord.

[@andrewtaylor940]

To be fair Dustborn was at best a niche indie whose only hope for notice was for how horrible it is. It’s a taxpayer grift marketing not required.

[@Bucketus.Lord.of.Buckets]

@andrewtaylor940 it has been advertised on console dashboards for a while though

[@Crusadatron]

So another one bites the dust…

[@killianfree3804]

You know, I never heard of dustborn. Was it another failed game or project?

[@Vicious0Sephiroth]

So cringey when the one lady was on stage saying "she's a powerful leader..." *crickets* ..."...SHES A POWERFUL LEADER..." one person: "woooo" "YASS, YASSSSS"

[@ASpooneyBard]

It reminds me of that scene in Edward Scissorhands when Edward's "father" reads him a poem and encourages him to smile and laugh because it's supposed to be funny. "Yes, that's right. You should get excited. It's important and cool."

[@iprobablyforgotsomething]

@Vicious0Sephiroth -- It was so uncomfortable... . Usually my secondhand embarrassment at least has the benefit of being inspired by watching *fiction* onscreen, not irl. : s

[@aredjayc2858]

Powahful Leadah is comedically awful

[@vexvega5225]

"Anyone that tells you, you have to try everything is a moron." Thank you for saying it

[@totesmagotes213]

Any time anyone tries that line on me, my response is “have you watched every show and movie that have ever been released? Since the answer is no, do you use information that you have obtained to determine if you’d like to watch the show or movie or not?” I have yet to receive a good answer to that question.

[@EJ_Red]

@totesmagotes213 Exactly, the whole "Don't knock it til you try it" mindset is really stupid once you start realizing people value their time and money. I have only seen hypocrites believe in it as they use it as a lame excuse to defend their interests.

[@JohnDoe-vm5rb]

Ah yes, the Acolyte, created by Harvey Wienstien's personal assistant, Leslie Headland. The woman who read and handled all his appointments, emails, messages, arranged all those meetings with all the actresses; says she knew nothing, and the first thing she did was write a play about a boss abusing and exploiting his staff after she stopped working for him. Knew nothing of course.

[@arostwocents]

She was complicit. Too many people are happy to accept things are just one bad apple rather than systemic. We see how systemic DEI/anti-🐻‍❄️ racism is and everything else is the same

[@Crihnoss]

Every time I hear the "yass, yass" I groan in cringe.

[@dovahfett5919]

That single "whooooooooo!" And just immediately grasps onto that one person

[@Chuck9852]

Funny, I say yass, yass every time i see these talentless freaks change their status on linkedin to "looking for work."

[@BennysGamingAttic]

10:54 looks like she's trying so hard to remember all the buzzwords she can use to make herself the victim XD

[@TheMikepatota]

That’s exactly what’s happening

[@TriggerTheStrong]

There's going to be a basketball minigame for Yasuke too, just you wait.

[@Nukestarmaster]

lel

[@Defa_Noob]

They're going to introduce a completely new armor with the Air Jordans logo that'll be shoehorned in mid fight, and Yasuke will say "I wanted to wear something that made me feel like me" and then he'll literally dunk on all the enemies.

[@Blodhelm]

Yeah, they'll even do something stupid like add hip hop music for a character from Africa hundreds of years before it was invented...oh wait.

[@AClockworkHellcat]

@@Blodhelm Somehow, using African tribal music instead would be declared racist.

[@gregowen2022]

HAHAHA, oh I'm dying to see what they come up with. Fake prediction: Yasuke tells Naoe "we need to build a new future..... For Us, By Us" More realistic prediction: Yasuke intervenes when some soldiers are accosting a peasant, who is yelling "I can't breathe"

[@DelightfullyMADD]

Make Free Demos Great Again~ Seriously though, I'm old enough to remember a time when many games had free demos available so that you could download it early, give the game a try and see if it would work on your system or if the game itself seemed fun and like something you'd like to buy. It was very pro-consumer and honestly there were numerous games I ended up buying when they came out because I _GASP_ _SHOCK_ actually knew the game would work ahead of time and knew I'd enjoy the game!

[@gregowen2022]

Agreed. Playstation has some demos...... but it's in the highest tier of their subscription. That's BS.

[@tesnacloud]

There was a problem with free demos. Often the company making the game would make a great demo, then half ass the rest of the game. Of course, right now Ubisoft is half assing the entire game, so I can't call a lack of demos an improvement, but we should remain skeptical even if demos make a comeback.

[@LibraritheWizardOfficial]

​@@tesnacloud That doesn't work anymore now that we all have access to indie reviews, and even watching entire playthroughs via both videos and livestreams. A stinker of a game hiding behind a great demo will swiftly be called out.

[@aragmarverilian8238]

Killing stormtroopers with her bare hands. Whaooow! Such powah! Much skillz!

[@gregowen2022]

The gameplay is hilarious on that one. Even the regular ones, not the bug montages. It just looks awful

[@JohnDoe-vm5rb]

It's sad because it was a way to make stormtroopers dangerous. You can't stealth takedown them without something you unlock later because of the armour or something

[@aragmarverilian8238]

@@gregowen2022 If one day my book series gets adapted, I would warn my friends beforehand to have a dynamo and some heavy duty power cables ready. This way they can power the nearby city when I start rolling in my grave.

[@master_samwise]

She watched Tala in Obi-Wan Kenobi and asked "Is it possible to learn this power?"

[@aragmarverilian8238]

@@master_samwise Wokejutsu!

[@MyChannel-vm6dw]

Companies have every right to make DEI / woke / "the message" games and consumers have every right to choose to not buy these products. The market will decide.

[@RustCole01]

I suppose that is a major reason why these folks take such great offense to DEI being criticized. It is designed to avoid the free market and merit based results. They get funding from activist investors who want to promote an ideology. And then pressure companies into hiring them and cosigning their moral virtues. It is actually wild to see these businesses get hijacked by social activists that still manage to tank a company that has a substantial amount of the business being subsidized. Imagine what a productive company could accomplish if they had that kind of head start...

[@theketaminekid1241]

Get a life, and unsub from critical drinker.

[@RustCole01]

@@theketaminekid1241 I was the baby that was on the cover of the Nirvana CD

[@tommybruneel9573]

14:49 didn't you pay attention?

[@nalaka3488]

The funny thing about AC shadows is they were so close in their idea to get the buzz they wanted. All they had to do was make the black samurai a side character. It’s close enough to historical accuracy for them to pull off without too many complaints and still tell a story the majority of people would want to experience

[@fattiger6957]

I really can't understand why people were still excited for AC in Japan when we already had better AC-style games set in Japan, namely Ghost of Tsushima and Rise of the Ronin. Games that are better than anything Ubisoft can make. I have no sympathy for anyone who buys a modern Ubisoft game and is disappointed in how bland, buggy and unremarkable it is. Ubisoft has been a joke for many years and everyone should know that by now.

[@1-upking119]

In my opinion, I don’t think it’s a terrible idea, but there’s hardly any Asian representation in AC to begin with. The only main Asian character we get is in the China Chronicles game, but nobody really played those as far as I’m aware. It would’ve been cool to see a Japanese samurai, but now we just get a discount Yasuke (who I still think is one of the coolest dudes in history) and it feels weird. There have been some pretty good black leads like Adewale in AC, it just would’ve been cool to see some Asian characters get the spotlight.

[@lastmanstanding7155]

​@@1-upking119 real. But Asians rank higher and don't have poverty. They also don't listen to hip hop and rap. Sorry chief. Race grift is more important.

[@hstafford078]

"Treat yourself as a business and treat their own time and money as capital.". This is some of the best life advice that can be given. Not just with games, but with everything in life. Great advice.

[@aokaminariki2.5]

The "bad ai" bug in Star Wars Outlaw is not accurate. The reason the enemies don't attack you is because of the main character's hidden ability. The "Mary Sue" field. Anyone within 10 meters of the character will be instantly idiotic if they are male. Just thought I'd clear up that misinformation.

[@azurerider812]

Funny. I laughed.

[@RoosterTease]

I can tell I'm chronically online because I saw the first sentence and got heated😂 read the rest and giggled, ima go touch grass yall have a good one

[@mateobareo4229]

People use the sunk cost fallacy when making excuses not to leave their terrible relationships too lol

[@LordReginaldMeowmont]

The power of many is the free market. The writers didn't really understand "the power of many."

[@yassinefarah2423]

I imagine the complete failure of Dustborn and Concord secretly left their respective devs weeping in hatred.

[@arostwocents]

Dustborn they were delighted as it meant the EU will fund future propaganda to succeed where it failed. The Heavy Rain company probably cried, they are a business that needs profit to stay open Norwegian development doesn't work like that

[@PrincessFionaYT]

The shippers love this stuff. But I’m not sure they even watch it any longer than it takes to grab a frame to trace for their terrible Tumblr art.

[@Nukestarmaster]

Which stuff? Certainly not Concord.

[@insensitive919]

Blue lipstick is an abomination.

[@ongar8893]

Sorry but what's a shipper? I'm guessing from context it's not someone who works at the docks.

[@EJ_Red]

@ongar8893 It is a fandom term, shippers are basically people who "ship" two fictional characters together as a couple

[@ongar8893]

@@EJ_Red oh right I understand thank you.

[@ruinerblodsinn6648]

The power of one The power of two The power of the market

[@cailin5301]

😂❤

[@Random_Tangent]

Ubisoft probably spent more time trying to make Outlaws main character look like Rocky from 1985 movie Mask than checking their game features worked.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

And for a company, a failed product can be the biggest sign that they aren't providing what customers want and allows them to reorient themselves towards better products.

[@gregowen2022]

For Disney, that genuinely is my hope. I know a lot of people want them to burn to the ground, but I want to see a couple rebuilding years and get back to the greatness we used to know them for

[@benclark4823]

To bad that it requires them to put aside their massive egos and narcissism to actually accomplish something like that. 😒

[@Mr_Case_Time]

I own a small but successful business, and I would say one of the most important things to learn how to do is to pivot as quickly as possible. It’s easier not to in a lot of cases, but it ends up costing you in the long run. It’s like waiting too long to address a warning light on your dashboard.

[@bloo22ca]

This is EA we're talking about. So I don't think they'll learn unfortunately. They'll just think Star Wars is the problem and find another IP to ruin.

[@adamgreen5680]

@Lobsterwithinternet that's racist 🤡🌎

[@LostOneOmega]

As a father: I've watched you grow since you were 12K subs. I'm here for 100k! Keep going brother. I'm proud of you.

[@Mattyman1987]

I don't feel bad for these people who keep paying for early access. You get what you deserve.

[@nicovandermerwe2747]

I will never understand why people would pay money for the worst version of the game instead of waiting for all the inevitable patches and changes.

[@alessandrobaggi6129]

No drive-by gameplay sections? 😏🤣

[@costarich8029]

My ten year old daughter will overuse a new word she's learned like vitriol, and it sounds just like Amandla.

[@thepunisherxxx6804]

Its so bizarre how these companies seem to want a specific audience to consume their product and often will push away people they don't want consuming their product? A business should want as many customers as possible, and want to cater to what they want. I don't understand how this attitude has persisted so long and all these people have been allowed to fail forward for so long.

[@alexleblanc6364]

That dig at Tate at the beginning was flawless

[@Pressbutan]

I enjoyed that too. 10/10

[@jasongarcia2140]

Flawless? Jeez you've got a low bar for perfection

[@alexleblanc6364]

@@jasongarcia2140 it's just a generic compliment, no need to get upset that our opinions on humour are different

[@TA-by9wv]

Timestamp?

[@randomcharacter6501]

I'm willing to bet Amandala herself wasn't watched the Acolyte.

[@twomo1]

Dustborn, a game that wears literally every single problem with current day media proudly on its denim sleeves, ironically gets outshined due to the over saturation. Its gotten THAT bad.

[@pedroares6562]

Totally agree. I also hate in this new age the consumer need to be very careful because big companies use a lot of cash to say the game is actually good, and if you read only the "game journalist" you may be fooled. I'm not saying there is no echo chambers on the other side, but at least with many views you can made your own conclussions.... Or look for a channel that shares you POV (like this one and me) and enjoy the reviews.

[@gregowen2022]

Agreed. KZbin is becoming more and more useful, especially with gaming. You can watch a regular joe play something and get the genuine feel for how it plays, not an IGN adverti-, uh, review.

[@ubertoss2000]

To be fair. Buyer beware has been a thing for a long long time. The issue is corporate tactics have evolved and now consumers need to be even more vigilant.

[@lmattsonart]

"the quirk of pattern recognition", "I'm using a grin that, unlike most book characters, *does* reach my eyes," i'm SENT XD

[@HyperboreanPC]

"Hyper conservative vitriol" = "They made fun of me cause i can't rap"

[@Slender_Man_186]

Or act for that matter, she had the same bored looking expression at almost all times regardless of which twin she was playing.

[@sardonicus76]

@@Slender_Man_186 “Bored” looking expression or “board” looking expression? Her performance was so wooden, Amish craftsmen were calling her for professional advice.

[@gregowen2022]

@sardonicus76 hahaha, that is fantastic!Your hilarious comment is now "our" hilarious comment, comrade

[@gregowen2022]

@hyperboreanPC ha, yeah, that video made the entire genre of mumble rap suddenly seem less terrible by comparison

[@aerialpunk]

"It's hate speech because I hate it"

[@SourRobo8364]

Meanwhile: Space Marine 2 has just sold 2 million units. It's earned its success.

[@Tepcafna]

How cute...she learned a new word and repeated it at least 3 times in short amount of time.

[@drbjr8223]

'' full force punch from a toddler'' - that has me crackin up.

[@heartman64]

I just don't understand what storm trooper armor is supposed to do at this point. From being taken down by rocks and clubs in return of the jedi to this: getting punched in the face being enough to take them down and render them unconscious.

[@TheSolidSnakeOil]

5:21 - Why is that trooper distracted by that animal, idk its name, but not the dozens of rats running around when that thing is barely larger?

[@mrg2155]

Sometimes bad products succeed, and that is just as bad.

[@BirchTheGreat]

That was what I had always heard as a kid. Yeah movie, show, game, toy, etc was crap BUT it made millions so more of it would be made.

[@bathcat3759]

Losses are just as important as profit when allocating scarce resources in an economy. If you can’t even make back your costs, then you need to stop making them and provide a benefit that people actually want. The beauty of capitalism on display.

[@Vincemaster2007]

Yup! Let people vote with their wallets

[@shaicat]

2:50 thank you for being one of the few people to call the "early access" what it is: a penalty for people who either can't, or refuses to, spend over 100 bucks for this garbage!

[@asaffin1]

"Breakage." I didn't know there was a word for that. Cool. Just a heads up for anyone feeling masochistic enough to want to play Star Wars Outlaws or AC Shadows, you can sign up for Ubi's subscription service and then immediately cancel after processing payment. You don't have to wait until the end of the month and remember to cancel. I feel like that's probably common knowledge, but in case it's not.

[@jackburton1455]

There was an advert before your video for The Acolyte and Disney- Like a shoe shop trying to sell you one shoe....with a hole in it.

[@Azrael178]

AAAA stands for "Absolutely Abysmal Absence of Audience"

[@humrH2360]

The extra A is the equivalent of having extra chromosome.

[@Blodhelm]

@@humrH2360 Here I thought the extra A was for "corporate a*sholes."

[@ArbiterLibera]

At some point this industry HAS to learn social media pats on the back don't pay the bills.

[@anthonymorden728]

You have a fantastic channel man!

[@gregowen2022]

Thank you so much!

[@SapperRJMorgan]

Opening gaming scene: I know these games love heroines but there is a reason why you don’t punch people with helmets on. Just ask hockey players. I realize I’m supposed to suspend disbelief but this is just goofy.

[@GrayskullPrime]

I'd like for someone to explain to me how a "vocal minority of far right KZbin trolls" have so much influence over the droves of woke new audiences, that they refuse to watch a show they all clearly love. I've posed this question multiple times on social media, purely for educational purposes of course, only to have the defenders delete all their posts and dissappear.

[@adamgreen5680]

@GrayskullPrime thinking isn't the wokes strong point. They only do what they're told is woke, even if it's all contradictory

[@laffinkippah]

There's a whole industry dedicated to disparage certain products to the ground. Negativity sells and generates views and click (as an example, here we are both you and me). The Acolyte for example wasn't perfect by any means, but also it wasn't the absolute Christmas-special-level trainwrecks all these "content producers" would have you believe. I've been listening to youtubers talking trash about this "female-driven SW show set in the High Republic" for years before it released. Like I said, it's a new kind of industry. That said, I love my Star Wars games, but being able to render stormtroopers unconscious with a bare handed conk on the head is a couple bridges too far for me.

[@BrennanCh06]

​@laffinkippah it absolutely was that bad. It wasn't as bad as Rebel Moon, but what is?

[@laffinkippah]

@@BrennanCh06 episodes 7-9? Just mentioning them for the sake of fun. Not looking to get into an argument. Different strokes and all that. Also apologies for how poorly written my previous post was. I should have checked it before hitting the Post button

[@GrayskullPrime]

​@@laffinkippahI'm not one of these people who wants everything Disney to fail. But I have to admit, at this point I know what to expect from the start. Especially when I hear the word "diversity". And I'm so sick of watching everything I love get turned to crap, I do enjoy watching these things fail miserably. Yeah, you stole my toy and broke it... But at least it blew up in your face when you did it.

[@battra92]

I absolutely love seeing bad things failing and good things succeeding. I also love that we have access to so many good things out there for free or cheap (Tubi, Pluto, thrift store DVD bins, watching Greg on KZbin etc.) so I'm not under any obligation to watch or play stuff I won't enjoy.

[@Soulfire252]

I don't think she even knows what the word vitriol means. She just figures. Hey, it's a word that sounds like I'm intelligent

[@ericfrancisco6615]

Ubisoft should worry about a lot of unpaid rights usage violations they pulled on Japanese heritage sites and the Sekigahara Rifle Corps. The fact they've intentionally ignored the Corps' request to remove their group's flag will just be the beginning of a lot of litigation.

[@DebuffBluff]

Greg here's a gem you could use "like Ubisoft's stock, DROP that like button." I couldn't resist its suck in my head now that I thought it

[@gregowen2022]

DAMMIT, that is beautiful! Fortunately, I'll have the chance to use it soon when Shadows comes out

[@F0XRunner]

I felt so bad about the cancellation that I went ahead and signed the please DONT renew this show petition (yes it exists)

[@Seventizz]

Cancelled our family's Disney+ a few years back when they were caught trying to groom children. Never looked back and going by this show - doesn't look like we made a bad decision.

[@jeebus2121]

14:45 - Pecan pie...I will fight you over this comment.

[@sonichog]

I'm with you! 😂

[@mark04anthony]

Ditto 😂

[@mxvega1097]

The Acolyte's fan-baiting was irritating. The Acolyte's bold portrayal of a JEDI TOPPING HIMSELF, for misplaced guilt, is unforgivable. Go, Leslye, that's so edgy, first suicide by a jedi in Star Wars. After he was mind-graped by a witch. Wow.

[@Anchor-Supreme]

We as consumers need to bring back healthy skepticism when it comes to buying products and spending our time. I feel like ever since the internet became a mainstay in business we’ve grown lazy in research into what we’re buying. Businesses realized our laziness and they’ve weaponized it against us.

[@asger4876]

The failure of Dustborn have overshadowed by the fail of Concord.

[@davidlutz2242]

The Pecan Pie people are not amused 😡

[@GGBlaster]

“Pecan pie, which is disgusting” You offend me! (jk I’ll have your slice)

[@TheGuesteMC]

"Rampage of vitriol" is one of my new favorite sound bites😂

[@littlebilly8747]

I wasn’t a huge fan of this channel when I found it earlier this year, but now it’s one of my favorites 😊

[@JonSnow-YThandle]

About the Lego set: swapping wings turns the fighters into "uglies" used by pirates mentioned in the X wing books😊

[@TheRose202]

The X-wing's primary guns are on its wings and the TIE/Ln's are on the body...does it only have torpedo pods lmao

[@JonSnow-YThandle]

@@TheRose202 that is a good question. I can't recall how it was done in the books. It's been 20 years or so XD. But it might be that the torpedo launchers were replaced by laser cannons. I can recall that there was an ugly that combined Y Wing engines with a TIE cockpit. It was described as slow and with low maneuverablility just as a Yawing and lacking shields... Like a TIE. The version in the set with TIE cockpit and wings was used by the twi'lek of ryloth if I'm not mistaken.

[@mintswhispers1708]

Thanks for not blaming the whole failure of the show on “woke ideology.” These failures happen regardless because of companies focusing too much on side features and not the main product. The product can be good and diverse at the same time and you seem to understand that. And I appreciate your point on how immediately bigotry was blamed for the show’s failure instead of the quality of writing. It implies that also works as a bad argument in return. I respect that.

[@riotd.r.8363]

Dude, I never had a chance to make a choice about Concord. I didn't hear about it until it was stopped.

[@hockey1973]

"joyous thunderclap of millions of wallets snapping shut"

[@kazekamiha]

The 'Modern Audience' is the same as the previous ones; they want to be entertained and not lectured to.

[@nalaka3488]

I do like that AAAA games has become the industry lingo for massively expensive flops

[@0giwan]

HOLY SMOKES the peanut brittle analogy is GENIUS.

[@desmien679]

You did touch on this with Starwars Outlaws but there's also another concern that I've been noticing in videogames for a while. For decades hardcore games were the cutting edge of the industry in being ahead of everyone else, this was due to the fact that their player base hardcore gamers demanded such expectations of their games. It's what made such games in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s so great. For years there's been a surge of casual players and whales going into such games and almost all are not able to handle the very hard difficulty and ruthless nature of such games (both single and multiplayer games). In catering to them, devs would nerf/change the games from what they originally were and chase off the hardcore gamers. This ended up getting more games to become easier instead of keeping to their core audience and ruining the games. The devs of Elden Ring were aware of this and it's why they didn't cave in regarding nerfing the difficulty of their game. Starwars Outlaws has not only completely nerfed the difficulty of the game but there's practically no difficulty at all (with the exception of some that were bugs). It's one of the reasons why Ubisoft games have been failing horribly because there's no real challenge in playing them anymore and that's a big part of what makes Starwars Outlaws so boring.

[@allenwilhelm7799]

I just did my replay of the DS series and man I had such a better time playing DS2 than I did the first time.

[@gregowen2022]

I agree. I still have some critiques, but since I understand some of what they were trying, I'm able to enjoy the whole thing more now

[@Order-eo3up]

Love your comical view of these terrible products. When you can’t own your failure, it’s worse than the failure itself. The acolyte…..I can’t speak to the game, was an epic fail for the reasons you mentioned in your 2 hour ‘spot-on’ analysis. Star Wars fans….want what we want! That simple!

[@Punkpsychobilly]

Wait, I thought we were a small minority of haters? How do we have such power? Oh, turns out we’re not a minority at all.

[@shortymccutlery8919]

Literally had to pause the video and take a deep breath after that guy said star wars isn't about good and evil.

[@neilrusling-je6zo]

"Slump quicker than Andrew Tates interest in Girls older than 16", OOOOFFF!!!! That one hit harder than the Dreadnaught. Greg is fighting it out with Echo Chamberlain as to who is my favourite KZbinr of the Summer...and its one close run fight!

[@benmcreynolds8581]

Seeing this stuff fail gives me much joy too. I don't get how games can be so out of touch nowadays? I dearly miss how 90s-00s gaming had such a vast range of creativity. I love the amount of risk they took on odd concepts in This Y2K era- the Dreamcast/PS2/360. It should show us that GRAPHICS are not the most important thing.. If you can create satisfying movement, gameplay mechanics, physics effects, responsive parts of a environment that makes you want to explore it, engage it, etc. That stuff is so much more important. Not: {"Who can make the largest game map? Or have the most reflections?"} I think Art style, design, vibe, aesthetic is much more important. You don't need top notch graphics to greatly appreciate and enjoy playing a game. That's why we are seeing such a resurgence of players who have gone back to playing older games because they realized the aspects of gaming that they care about and are unhappy with most modern games. So hopefully gaming will enter a new era. That mixes in aspects of the older era's. With our modern capabilities that will hopefully help make it easier to create a satisfying game (without it taking 8 years to build a broken game. Hopefully) Currently everything is trying to be like a Triple AAA game or a free to play online battle Royale game.. A lot of us miss when we had game selection similar to how the Dreamcast/GameCube/360/PS2 era had a mix of. As well alot of those games came with options for local multiplayer, split screen, LAN parties, or offline modes against bots or other diverse offline CPU game modes. Yet modern games are not only lacking those dynamic options that give games nearly endless replayability features... Modern games are lacking even meeting the most basic standards for game's... They don't seemed focused on the core of the games to be Fun. They over focus on "realism" Rather than adding in Artistic adaptations for the greater good of gaming as a whole.. We could be doing so much better yet people are just coming out with the most bland game design, braindead AI, less care for physics effects... We could be doing so much better than this..

[@theanimeunderworld8338]

"With the superpower, or quirk" Hey, Greg, you watched mha?

[@gregowen2022]

Just one book so far. Took me a minute to realize I was reading backward! lol

[@theanimeunderworld8338]

@gregowen2022 oh volume one? Yeah manga is read right to left

[@leviticusprime4904]

I am convinced that when the secret level show Aries, that sony will basically force Amazon to remove the concord episode, and just turn it it o lost media

[@allenwilhelm7799]

Hey if you like souls games, especially sekiro and bloodborne, play Lies of P! Absolutely the best non-From soulslike ever made and it's not even close.. so good

[@bucketmanpalemin9603]

9:40 those are Uglies from the EU. A ship made up of old Empire and X-wing parts. A repurposing of old parts in an attempt to fill a gap in the military. Replacement "military" with "Market share" and you have the why Lego did it

[@kenmck7802]

My new motto is, If it's "aaa" then STAAAY AWAAAY.

[@0giwan]

Ya know, it seems that companies that make good products make money, whereas companies that try to make money from products are either wildly inconsistent or run out of gas eventually. What I'm trying to say is that business majors ruin everything. They view business as a purely economic activity, when in reality it is a socio-economic activity.

[@humrH2360]

I've often joked that the people make this crap are the kind whose social skills make basic human interaction feel like a hostage negotiation. But when you put it that way, it seems like this is both literally the case and widespread on the mainstream level.

[@blueshark5046]

7:20 And the uncanny face of the protagonist still makes me uncomfortable.

[@SlyFox5679]

My expectations are low normally and if they get any lower I'll have to dig for them 😂😂😂

[@janetracer]

The problem is you were eating pecan pie. What you needed to be eating was peCAN pie.

[@Veo87]

After the failure of Concord and Outlaws, it's nice to see Astro Bot, a genuinely wonderful game, come out and receive huge positivity from the gaming community.

[@ebonhawken574]

130$ for this modern slop, yeah that’s crazy. Glad the game is a giant failure in sales.

[@MumRah]

Stock hit a 10 year low? Will it go lower? My inner mini investor is intrigued 😂

[@gregowen2022]

In November, yes. Outlaws doesn't bode well for Shadows

[@MumRah]

@@gregowen2022 I can't help but wonder if the people making these things aren't planning this...

[@DDoubleCG]

9:33 I know a tax write off when I see one lmao

[@MichaelCravith]

Easily the smoothest "press the like button" transition you've ever done.

[@RyandlaKinelberg]

in star wars EU 50 years after episode 6, the imperial remnant and the republic team up against the yuuzhan vong and due to lack of resources they started manufacturing x-wings with tie fighter wings to save on supplies

[@StevenSchultz-j8k]

I'm too worried about Wukong having malware to try playing it 😂