i bought the witcher 3 about 6 months ago with all dlc for $10 and its one of the best $10 ive ever spent, funny how you still see all the old cod games still being sold for $60, its disgusting.

@kingquan3826

11 ай бұрын

Not to mention they’re broken as shit and so many cheaters on them

@damonalfero3125

11 ай бұрын

I've bought witcher 3 like..... I wanna say 6 or 7 times. Mostly at full price different consoles... and yet..... I'm ashamed to admit I've never finished it. I play a lot but then get overwhelmed with how much content there is in the game.

@moonwatcher99

11 ай бұрын

@@damonalfero3125 Just turn off the question marks. Trust me, that alone helps big time. Turn them off, then only farm a few at a time in between chunks of main story.

@stupendously_silly

11 ай бұрын

​@@damonalfero31251 thing I learned throughout my years of gaming is its ok to let go of games that doesn't vibe with you no matter how perfect the score it has or everyone else around you say its the best game ever. I like witcher 3, spend 300 hours on it but I can't get into Stardew Valley. Bought it twice just to see if playing it on a portable makes it better. It didn't so I let it go. Plenty of other games we can choose from these days.

@mattalan6618

11 ай бұрын

@@stupendously_silly i bought Fallout New Vegas thinking id get into it. i got like 10 hours into it before i said it wasnt for me

The bigger question that I have is _how does it take 2 parents five months to notice that their entire savings is wiped out through micro transactions?_

@Krotas_DeityofConflicts

11 ай бұрын

These stupidass parents kinda deserve what happens to them. You shouldn't have given a child an access to your bank accounts in the first place

@dreamingacacia

11 ай бұрын

Well if you're looking at how bad the work conditions in Asian countries is, you'll realized that it's possible to happen. Especially in urban China where the mid income employees suffering from overworking and social hierarchy so hard that if you don't flaunt your richness you'll lose position in the society. What's worse is actually the people defending microtransactions without thinking about the consequences to the whole society as if they're not even part of it, but they are.

@d-emprahexpects849

11 ай бұрын

And also, why their banks wasn't giving a single hot crap about notifying them? "Hey your life savings which you have carefully NOT SPENT for the past 20 years, have gone down 25%"

@CarlosIvanFocus

11 ай бұрын

​@@d-emprahexpects849because banks couldn't care less. They're like the honey badger, they don't care.

@vandarkholme4745

11 ай бұрын

They can't and won't, because they have a lot of customers and are government-owned companies with no competitive pressure to provide service. Also most of these "internet addiction" cases (as we call them in China) happen to kids in working class families that have, sadly, little time to pay enough attention to them, let alone worrying about mobile game spending...

I used to drive for Schneider. The whole trucking industry has had a driver shortage for 30 years, it's a good move to reach new people who might be interested.

@Caady

11 ай бұрын

Modern times require modern solutions

@dianapennepacker6854

11 ай бұрын

Been wondering if I can do it after I get a liver and kidney transplant. Thing is I can't leave my area for long once I get settled in. Think I have to see a doctor twice a week for a while at least from what I was told but not entirely sure if that is for X amount of time.

@concinnus

11 ай бұрын

Honestly, it's weird that it took them this long to think of it.

@aaronbaylis3606

11 ай бұрын

@@dianapennepacker6854 Used to work in shipping, they have long distance freight drivers(away for a few weeks) and inter city drivers(home each day), you could probably bid on one or the other after certification

@goldenfiberwheat238

11 ай бұрын

What’s it like? I imagine backing into the dock is hard

Okay, number 10 is exactly what advertising should be, relevant and un-intrusive. If all advertising was this way, I wouldn't care and wouldn't use ad block.

@Subject_Keter

10 ай бұрын

I remember getting heros of thr storm ads or overwatch ads WHILE looking up Heros of the Storm wiki... like bruh.

Actually #10 is pretty brilliant. I'm not a fan of job simulator games myself. But if I played a medical one (my field) and saw ads for new jobs in my area, I wouldn't be that pissed. Beats combing through Indeed or something. 🤷‍♂️

@dmb25108

11 ай бұрын

As a truck driver who plays ATS I actually fell out of my chair laughing when I saw this, and thought brilliant move.

@danielthomas7193

11 ай бұрын

@@dmb25108 yeah my Uncle is a retired truck driver from over 40 years of work. He never paid attention to video games. But if I showed him this, I imagine he'd give them a little respect.

@justintantiongloc6987

11 ай бұрын

Agreed it's an awesome addition to the game. Not to mention, unlike other sponsored content, this one is actually inviting players to come *make* money, rather than to spend it on brand products.

@hettbeans

11 ай бұрын

Agreed, feels like a brilliant move. It's an ad in a video game trying to give people money rather than take it from them.

@BlackMoonHowls

11 ай бұрын

@@danielthomas7193 My uncle is dead so.....

What really gets me with Number One is that, unlike a lot of cases of kids bankrupting their parents with Microtransactions, this girl was definitely old enough to know better.

@bladerunner3314

11 ай бұрын

I would say that tid bit with her friends is an idicator she did it, to belong.

@eternaldarkness3139

11 ай бұрын

Yeah because there's no way a company could possibly manipulate a child. Also, why don't adults actually Look at their credit card statements? How do you not notice $13,000 / Month being spent, for 5 months. People, look at your bills, and your bank balances

@osamaruta4540

11 ай бұрын

Reading up more on the story, she was essentially bullied and Peer pressured into it.

@Astraeus..

11 ай бұрын

@@eternaldarkness3139 The far better question is, why are they allowing kids to have access to their credit card in the first place? Most financial institutions have reloadable credit cards, as in you need to actually transfer money to it, but it still works exactly like a credit card.

@SpikeTheWolf

11 ай бұрын

Was it genshin?

A huge thanks to Falcon, Jake and everybody who makes gameranx happen. if this was a TV show it would be something I would be so excited to get home to watch. Good, clean compelling content! The fact I can see it here daily is insane really

Hey Falcon. Appreciate the shout out. I agree that the cheats in a closed beta is bad. My hope, like you said, is that they’ll be able to single out the cheaters and obtain the code as well to fight this. I believe the game has potential, but if they don’t address the cheating prior to the official release then the game will die well before it is a chance to really live. I also wanted to call people out that use cheats with that video. It’s sad that cheating has become so common now that they are cheating within a closed beta. Love the video.

@aleaallee

11 ай бұрын

Well, cheating is fun after all, it gives you a higher rush of adrenaline than playing without cheats would.

@SGTSkully

11 ай бұрын

@@aleaallee A higher rush knowing that the cheater can't loose, has cheat software doing the work for them, or knowing that they can tell their parents they are doing good and ask if they're allowed to come out of the basement and go out in public yet since they aren't a disappointment anymore only to find out that they still are? There is no higher "rush" other than the rush of hoping you don't get caught and banned. Outside of that, my video still proves that the cheaters have no life, no skill, and no morals.

@PippetWhippet

11 ай бұрын

@@SGTSkullyProbably just the power they have over the other people not cheating.

@SGTSkully

11 ай бұрын

@@PippetWhippet The sad truth is that they don’t have power. The cheats have the power. All they’re doing is moving around and pulling a trigger. Maybe pushing a few buttons. They have no power because the cheat software takes it from them to give them the false idea that they’re good when they’re truly not. Like I said in my video, I’m not good but the cheaters are even worse. If they have to use cheats it’s clear they have no skill at all. No skill = No power. The real power comes from those that play it legitimately and the developers who ban the cheaters, if they do. The “thought” of power may be there, but it’s just a thought. There’s no substance behind it. That thought is like a fart. It stinks, but eventually fades away. Just like these cheaters. Personally l, I think developers need to use hardware bans if they aren’t. I’d love to see an anti-cheat that can send a signal to brick a system, or at least the ability to load the game. I think it would be hilarious to see someone complaining on social media that their system bricked and “they don’t know why”.

@GabberPinguin420

4 ай бұрын

ubisoft and adressing cheaters... look at siege, idk about pc but cheaters on console are insane, almost every match and after more than 1000 reports i never got a notification that someone got banned. Its a joke. after 8 years on that game i gave up.

The microtransactions thing has gotten ridiculous. It's gone beyond just saying "it's just cosmetic's just don't buy it" it's actually affecting the effort put into expansions and future content now because companies see they make far more from just selling skins that they themselves didn't spend much $ on making. Also half the price of a game? C'mon now when is enough a enough for these people buying this nonsense

@josuesosa1157

11 ай бұрын

Have u seen fortnight and cod and even sports games all have a form of gambling these days so if people pay for players then others will pay for skins with their life savings

@elnogal9298

11 ай бұрын

people have been payin 30$ for legendary lol skins for 10 years lmao this is nothing new

@FadeToNothing

11 ай бұрын

​@@elnogal9298Hence the problem lmao just because it's ongoing doesn't mean it's not an issue

@KingJohnMichael

11 ай бұрын

That first part of your comment is pure speculations

@karthis5911

11 ай бұрын

This has been going on for a fairly long time. Back in like 2008 I remember playing online games that had you spend around $10-$20 for a cosmetic item ( so a jacket for example.), then you need a few dye that are random to get it in the color you want (like $5-$10 for a bundle and you will want a few + praying to get lucky eoungh to get a good color.), more for mounts and ingame advantages.

I remember when buying cosmetic horse armor in Oblivion was an outrage. Now people buy cosmetics left and right. Especially in Blizzard games. I know people that have bought every mount in the store and have spent $100s in in-game gold to buy auction house mounts. They already have mounts that all work at the same level

@RedDev1l757

11 ай бұрын

It's because back then we knew how stupid it was. Now there's a whole generation that's grown up with it and sees it as normal. It's only gonna get worse now

@lyianx

11 ай бұрын

Because its predatory.

@Cman04092

11 ай бұрын

Cause people are stupid.

@thedarkemissary

11 ай бұрын

​@@therotten6152You're both wrong. You couldn't show off your Oblivion horse armor to anyone. Wasn't no multiplayer. Wasn't no social media. Buying in-game cosmetics is a social interaction. It's the shoes everyone else has, but you don't. It's the car that all your peers desire. It's the party you don't want to be left out of. Nothing is more normal than wanting to take part in the majority. It's why you drink. It's why they buy the things everyone else buys. Including in-game cosmetics. Shiny.

@lisah-p8474

11 ай бұрын

My friend shares his Xbox games with me (via "home console") and since he pre-ordered Diablo he got a fancy mount. We've been counting down the days to play this together. So I spent like $8 on the cheapest mount and armor so I could also be a cool kid with a fancy horse. We laughed so hard at the fact that I have been suckered in by actual HORSE ARMOR. As an Oblivion oldster this shook me to my core. 😅 I feel like Todd Howard is laughing at me somewhere.

you guys make amazing videos! hats off to you falcon, and all the writers, editors, and anyone else who has a hand in making the engaging content yall put out!

@gameranxTV

11 ай бұрын

🤝

Dear gameranx team, Thanks for producing enjoyable content so frequently. Your hard work is appreciated 👍🤗

That bamboo grove looks so real, it’s unreal…

@Kizerlk07

11 ай бұрын

Engine

@ademasdanjuro

11 ай бұрын

@@Kizerlk07 Thanks for watching

always love to see all these gaming stories every month

@slyzorretrogamer5562

11 ай бұрын

I agree, these stories is one of my fav topics in Gameranx lineup.

That Diablo 4 one is really insane considering how solitary the game really is.

@thename2138

11 ай бұрын

welp, they bothered to make something good with their lazy asses and money hungry mindsets, so they will throw random optional insanely expensive cosmetics that you can barely see. im still upset about warcraft 3 reforged

My parents worked for Schneider and got screwed over constantly, they promise a lot to get you in then milk you. I also remember when my step Dad got $64k back pay from his VA disability. Was life changing for all of us and to have one kid ruin a family for something like Genshin is a sad reality of what can happen to anyone in 2023. Love you team Gameranx~

Think we are passed anything being weird anymore in gaming 😂

@gameranxTV

11 ай бұрын

😅

@Imperialofficer07

11 ай бұрын

Yeah you can say that about anything in 2023. We passed the concept of weird in world events.

@rayvintankerson6818

11 ай бұрын

@@gameranxTV i farted in a cod lobby last night it was pretty weird

@austinteed3248

11 ай бұрын

​@@rayvintankerson6818ever fart so hard you make your back crack?

@daymaster1

11 ай бұрын

I agree on the inside, but on the outside I disagree, only because I don't want to become complacent. More of a self check, but wanted to throw my thoughts out.

I keep saying - the "micro" in microtransaction refers to what you receive, not what you pay. 😂

@JorgeRodriguez-xz5ec

11 ай бұрын

Good point 😂

@darknesswave100

11 ай бұрын

Damn didn't think of it that way 😂

The main issue I have with AI is with especially AI generated art using an AI trained with the art of non consenting to it artists. They’re kind of stealing people’s work. Using AI for inspiration in general is fine by me, just have to be careful where the things the AI uses to generate content come from.

"We don't use AI to make our videos, we use a team of humans." Sounds like something an AI would say.

@Subject_Keter

10 ай бұрын

Aint a AI just a person you dont know and cant yell at effectively? Mf acting like we know what everyone is doing.

The "Not the actual team" disclaimer. I love the team's sense of humor

@michaelmonstar4276

11 ай бұрын

Some people would probably think it's actual footage of them.

$64k on mobile games?! Lord have mercy.

@believeinmatter

11 ай бұрын

Think about it from the perspective, that some countries, like China for example, don’t have access to video game consoles. But they do have phones, so picture if you could put all your money you’ve put into console gaming into an app 🤔

@dislikecounter5191

11 ай бұрын

That's nothing a game I play the top whale easily spent millions a year

@Campy-dCamper

11 ай бұрын

Skins are getting expensive as well. $20 for a cod skin $15 for a dead by daylight skin.

@dreamsickle955

11 ай бұрын

There should be a limit on how much can be spent on one game. This shit is killing gaming

@Nathan_Coley

11 ай бұрын

I play Raid Shitty Legends (F2P) & you'd be surprised at the whales that spend stupid amounts of money near monthly!

The diablo thing drove me insane when I saw it while playing I was so angry I couldn't even speak for a couple seconds. You guys are also like the only people who've I've seen talk about that.

@ryninabin3518

10 ай бұрын

Too many people worship anything Blizzard makes, or any choices it makes because they're obsessed with the company name. If any other game did these kind of micro transactions, these same Diablo 4 worshippers would riot. But because it's Blizzard they throw their money away. I've seen so many people get so nutsy over the armor and mount stuff for Diablo 4 it's insane. Especially since the game looks nothing like a Diablo game.

You can definitely make more as a truck driver, more or less. I just started working at a semi body shop & I get a grand a week, with time in a half for overtime & all I do is order parts & drive them in for service lol

E3 being gone hurts a lot. I grew up watching G4TV coverage of E3 and it was the biggest event of the summer, along with the Tokyo game show. It was a spectacle with all the big games being shown off, new consoles, tech etc. I really don’t understand what went wrong

@flclhack

11 ай бұрын

it’s just a different world now. i totally understand where you’re coming from, it’s just a weird part of getting older and experiencing change.

@exploringandstargazing

11 ай бұрын

I always wanted to go to an E3 convention. Now I never will 😢 I would have loved to have been there for such announcements like Halo 3, LoZ: Twilight Princess, etc.

@Gloryboyquan

11 ай бұрын

@flclhack Lol Ngga We In Online World Now Man ? Can't u C even If u Buy A Game U Don't Even Own It Now ? Even if u have The Disc Lmao There's No data on the Disc U Still Gotta Download The 99Hr Install

@demetriuservin2874

11 ай бұрын

@@Gloryboyquanwhat shit internet u have to have to wait for a 99 hour install though

@Gloryboyquan

11 ай бұрын

@demetriuservin2874 Damn Brah I'm just talking in general 😳

I never miss a gameranx video, but "Weird Gaming Stories" are definitely the ones I look most forward to seeing.

I’m using AI in an upcoming game to help me write code faster. For financial reasons I need to release the game by the end of July and while I have the skill to finish all the systems by then using AI as a starting point for systems is just so much faster than pouring over stackoverflow for hours on end. Which also give me more time to focus on visuals and testing. Update for game devs: yeah it’s already a flop with the marketing strategy so the date has been pushed back to October. Note do not spend money on google ads without a lot of research for a trailer like big companies. I spent $300 usd and got 116k views and 2 wishlists.

@tyreonbooker5304

10 ай бұрын

Thats cool because you're one dude with a deadline. The issue is multi-million dollar companies with a history of screwing over people like you with the motivaton of "cutting costs". It's one thing when indivisuals are using programs to assist them in their work. its another thing when a bunch of rich assholes think they can use tthoseprograms to get away with being lazy

Photorealistic games are amazing and all, I mean that genuinely, but they make me appreciate games that have a stylized art style even more.

@CartoonHangout

10 ай бұрын

That's how I feel, too.

Great video as usual. I think it's also cool to see Falcon acknowledge the whole team at Gameranx and talk about the creative process behind these videos.

@ventonburste

11 ай бұрын

that Simpsons bit though 😂

@KingJohnMichael

11 ай бұрын

​@@ventonburstevery accurate lol

Buying Blood and Wine for $10 was a steal for me. In fact, I felt so bad that I actually paid full price for Cyberpunk 2077 on launch day just to help out CD Projekt Red out....and well thats a whole another story

@thename2138

11 ай бұрын

i dont think paying the devs before hand has any effect upon enhancing their motivation

@goldenfiberwheat238

11 ай бұрын

Imagine shilling for a large corporation

There's armor in diablo 4 that cost up to $30 I'm not sure why this armor was picked out, but the rabbit hole goes ever deeper

The trucker advertising story is awesome. That's the kind of add that I'm okay with. You're going to see billboards anyway.

It’s like inkjet printers.. they sell the printer for $40, but the ink cartridges for $60..

Turns out Falcon has been A.I. the entire time.

How on earth does someone not notice such a huge amount of money going missing over 5 months? Did the parents never check their bank statements?

@Sir_Zombie1ted

11 ай бұрын

Maybe they thought the bank was cutting service fees - it is MUCH money but some people are fvcking loaded and don't feel that a couple of dollars vanishing is an issue.

What really gets me is, what if the trucking company is so meta that their advertising department also thought to just pay Gameranx to be featured on this list. Big brain moves right here

Blizzard is testing the waters to see what the price point that people will be comfortable with. As the sets or armor have different price points. This set comes with weapon skins also.

@SkodzGaming

11 ай бұрын

we must avoid buying these 20-30$ skins at all cost! 10-15 would be more reasonable!

@hettbeans

11 ай бұрын

$20+ microtransactions is nothing short of disgusting like the video says. That is not a microtransaction. That is a regular sized normal ass transaction.

@Pardisecity

11 ай бұрын

@@hettbeans it's cheap compared to fighting games if you we really want to be honest about it.

@eternaldarkness3139

11 ай бұрын

Too many people who purchase these ingame items fall into one of two groups: The irresponsible, and the I don't care about cost. To my Bro-in-Law $21 = 10 minutes of work. You think he cares about the price? His sister falls into the other camp...

@uh8myzen

11 ай бұрын

@@hettbeans If it doesn't hurt competition, doesn't impact game play or restrict completion then who cares. However, I don't get why so many gamers have such a predilection for playing dress up with their characters that they are willing to pay even a dime over the initial purchase price to do so.

For the consol war, even if Playstation and Nintendo didn't have as good of exclusives that they have, I think Microsoft is just doomed to be the underdog when it comes to the consol war. Microsoft exclusives are usually playable on PC and, nowadays, on Gamepass so you can play their exclusives on so many more devices. So as a consumer of games it just makes more sense to buy the other 2 consoles that have exclusives only on their consoles while also either having a PC and/or gamepass on my phone(which is way cheaper)

@chestor2314

11 ай бұрын

Bro exactly my point and i still find nintendo hella scummy but yea ps5 and nintendo mostly got the good stuff on there console (people gonna say Pc but lets be honest when has a Pc port ever been great)

@fatbroccoli8

11 ай бұрын

Xbox have just fumbled their whole thing, all you need to play Xbox games is a subscription and a Samsung TV

@fatbroccoli8

11 ай бұрын

@@SomebodyBanThatGuyif things were the other way around xbox would be doing the exact same thing as PlayStation, each company is just doing what is in their best interests (except imo Xbox it's screwing the pooch on that and I'd be surprised if they even make another Xbox anyway) Btw do you know Baldur's Gate 3 isn't releasing on Xbox because Xbox have a policy that their games have to be the same on Series S and X, meaning that the X is being held back by the S... that is not what I'd call consumer friendly at all

@chestor2314

11 ай бұрын

@@SomebodyBanThatGuy xbox just needs stop trying to do too many things at once they have cloud gaming,game pass and the stupid ass xbox series s(which hold back developers) they gotta make mistakes to learn hopefully they do betted next gen also all the companys are the same bruh they will try to do what makes them more succeful for sony its making very good priorty titles and same with nintendo xbox just gotta step in no way are they a underdog though its a fukin trillion dollar company

@jessiemoore3094

11 ай бұрын

Sony doesn't have any high value exclusives anymore. They're on pc also.

I'm a CDL Instructor and I got my CDL because of ATS and never looked back. The in game ads could be the push someone needs to make a career decision for themselves. IMO the ATS ads aren't nearly intrusive as something like the NBA 2k in game ads. It's a billboard, you just drive by it. Plus the plan for ATS is to have all 50 states so if the game gets funded and reaches its potential, as a fan, I'd be happy

I wait for this to come out, every month. Thanks to the team for making it.

Honestly real life ads for trucker in Truck Simulator is big brain move !

@gameranxTV

11 ай бұрын

😅

I like your take on the first entry with the advertisements in the game. I honestly feel like that was a very relevant advertisement in a very relevant situation especially when considering like falcon said, This could be a life-changing thing for somebody

I gotta admit that trucking simulator ad is genius marketing

Loved the stock footage with the disclaimer. 😂 Number 4 had my mouth gaping like a fish in shock.

Falcon, I'm not sure if answering would be too much inside baseball, but now I'm curious since it's been brought up. Who does write the scripts for yall? You and Jake? A whole team? Do you have writers and the VO guys just read the script or do you help write the script? More curious than trying to start a flame war (it IS the internet). Just curious

Number 9 reminds me of a Kyle Hill episode where he made a "computer" out of Magic the Gathering cards. Because science.

Kind of cool for Schneider to be advertising that way. When I got my trucking license, the instructors said that Schneider is the best company to work for. They retrain you when you go work there for 3 months, so even newbies can get fully up to speed, they do pair-driving until you have a set amount of hours, pay is good, etc. And the truck are REALLY well maintained. So you don't have to worry about your truck flying apart like some companies.

The big story here (and in so many of these summaries the last few years) is truly what's going to start happening when you start to merge them all together... Yes, we've got deep fakes now, but imagine what happens when you take the prime elements of the bonus story, #4 and #5 and plug that into your basic toolset for content creation (for better or worse). You've got a mind-bogglingly powerful resource for not just games, but large and small screen cinematics, special effects, independent creators, terrorists, black mail, etc... At some point we're going to reach that unremarkable summit and fall right off the goddamned edge. ...But I also read WAY too science fiction so what do I know?

I feel like AI wrote the AI explanation

I think that bone armor in Diablo 4 is a macro transaction and not a micro transaction, just my opinion though

@Athasin

11 ай бұрын

I think comparing a skin in a game that you will play 1000s of hours to a DLC expansion for a single player game is like... buying a shirt vs buying a book. They're worth the same even if they offer you different types of experiences.

@jarredlucas4000

11 ай бұрын

@@Athasin holy shit I hope you don't influence the economy anywhere near me, fuxking yikes.

@SYLRMHA

11 ай бұрын

This is the dumbest thing I heard all day and I just came from that ukulele apology video...

@Telmach

11 ай бұрын

In game purchases are shady, I already bought the game so I should own it. However, in 2019 when money still had value, you'd have more of a point. Where I live however, a package of hotdogs costs $20. It used to cost $4.

@MrNosounder

11 ай бұрын

@@Athasin Yeah lol, the skin should cost 1.99 at most.

XDefiant was really fun when I played the open beta last weekend. Without SBMM, the matches feel more evenly matched. Funny how that works

I love that you kick this off with the weird nature between video games and ads for non-video game careers and didn’t at all mention how the U.S. military has been using COD for this for years.

I am glad this came up on my feed love these weird stories every month 😀

I really enjoyed that little behind the scenes we got of your guys's writing process. I remember when impractical Jokers started showing the behind the scenes stuff the show improved vastly. It would be really cool to see more behind the scenes stuff from this channel. Just a thought. Thanks for always producing great content anyway

This trucker idea is amazing. I was just thinking the other day. If they automated farming robots and sold it as Stardew, people would work all day everyday. Turning video games into jobs and Vice Versa is probably good for the future.

Do you guys remember when LA Noire came out and the facial animation blew us out of the water? I opened it up the other day and it looked so rough compared to what’s happening now! Still was a great accomplishment for it’s time tho

I have no idea which dataset the Myst devs used, my problem with AI is the sourcing of all the training data If you're doing it in house and not scrapping stuff other people made, have fun We can still talk about companies firing artists and using AI to save some bucks, but that's another issue we haven't seen much yet Given how much the current models still hallucinate and fail hard, it should still be easy to notice stuff that had no human hand in it

@Gutek8134

11 ай бұрын

Even though I'm nothing of an artist myself, it'd be nice to see a law forbidding usage of someone else's work to train and use the trained AI for commercial usage. Why only commercial? Because I like some of those AI covers, ok?

@purplecat4977

11 ай бұрын

Here's the thing I don't get. I hang around with a bunch of artists, one of whom has a fine arts degree and teaches art. All of them, ALL of them, first learned to draw through tracing, and the fine artist was openly encouraged (as many artists are) to go to museums and attempt to reproduce paintings there. The guy who does comic book style stuff has some favorite artists in that genre and you can see it in his style. I'm a writer, and we're told that if we want to get published, we need to read as much as we can in the genre we're writing because we need to learn the style that is expected for that genre, and in some cases expected to write actual clones of stuff that's already been successful, like 'do it in X person's style'. People are already 'scraping' the work of other people without permission, not just as a dirty little secret, but as industry practice, in some cases whether we like it or not (the 'read in your genre to reproduce what other people are doing' thing turned me off to publishing completely). And sure, the people whose work is being used this way are probably fine with it, because who doesn't want to inspire the next generation? But if even one person wasn't fine with it, their wishes not to be used for that inspiration wouldn't be respected.

@eternaldarkness3139

11 ай бұрын

How do people learn? What is taught at art school? What influences an artist? Why is no one concerned about the cashier that's replaced by a self-checkout?

@LarkyLuna

11 ай бұрын

The automation of workers is something talked about in left groups forever ever since industrialization began Also I'm all for automating industry and cashier workers and everything that is just a repetitive mindless task Unfortunately the incentive is to pocket the money instead of benefiting the replaced workers in any way

@LarkyLuna

11 ай бұрын

People don't (or shouldn't) use the traced works they used to learn commercially for starters Also all AI is doing is minimizing a function related to the dataset it has It can't learn anything out of it's dataset and it has no interpretation or understanding of what it's doing We always bring something from outside our study, from other personal experiences I feel like that's different from a generative model that has the single tasks of crunching and spitting the reference art

Sooo is Bethesda about to get sued by Disney since they made a deal and Bethesda is backing away from that deal?

@liverpoolfc1023

11 ай бұрын

No they re-negotiated a deal.

Amazing video gameranx,fantastic job. The most ridiculous things is that Microsoft instead of not working on making the Xbox series x/s better with updated and have maybe somewhat better exclusives games for there awesome consoles too. They are so busy working on cloud gaming that most people don’t really care about cloud games that much too.

4:48 seeing his face always reminds me of the "Damn, you see that sh*t? Anyway im Rod Sterling" meme 😂

Who remembers Oblivion horse armor? Remember when we thought that was crazy?

@FragginWagon76

11 ай бұрын

Yeah… I bought it

For the AI entry, the people most hesitant to use AI are the ones who know the least about it. In my work we just started researching how AI can work in our field, and the more you use it and research it, the more you see its limitations. It works best as a tool, not as a replacement, and should always have a human making the final decisions.

@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447

11 ай бұрын

well, that's comforting to know

@420trippyhippie

11 ай бұрын

I agree, they're the tools of the future and whether people like it or not, AI is here to stay.

@KryyssTV

11 ай бұрын

The thing to keep in mind is the anti-AI attitide is being driven by industrialists and investors who have multi-million dollar businesses relating to IT but completely underestimated how big a deal AI and machine learning was. This is why we don't see people like Musk and Wozniak calling for a ban on AI but rather a temporary halting of R&D. Why though? Because you can bet they want time to restructure their investments to not be left behind on a very profitable business. So don't just buy into whatever you hear. Look into who's pushing the agenda and consider why? Is Musk really a pioneering humanitarian who is deeply concerned with our collective futures? Or is he a businessman who's first priority is to himself and the size of his finanical holding? AI is the next industrial revolution. We've seen this all before. In the 1830's the first industrial revolution devestated many types of jobs in the textile and blacksmithing industries. But people adapted by moving into expanding roles created by automation. In the 1870s the second industrial revolution caused further shoft in employment, but people adapted. The rise of computerisation has impacted every industry and with digital cameras and graphics applications impacting even traditional creative industries - but we adapted. So the fearmongering over AI causing mass unemployment and the destruction of economic systems and society as a whole would is utterly baseless as AI implementation would need to go against the pattern set by every technological revolution which has occured over the past 200 years.

@tyreonbooker5304

10 ай бұрын

The tool it's self isnt the issue. it's that fact that corporations are fucking greedy. We are in a situation where Writers, Actors, Voice Actors and Artists [both 2D and 3D] are overworked and underpaied and we know for a fact that if some investor thinks that they can "cut cost" by using AI instead of paying a human THEY WILL. Dispite the limitations of current AI they are already making those moves so imagine what happens when it gets better. And THAT is what most of the protesting is about. It's one thing when a relatively small business uses AI to give themselves an assist or advantage. It's another when a multi-trillion dollar company starts layinginng off staff because the computer can do it.

@420trippyhippie

10 ай бұрын

@@tyreonbooker5304 the thing is - this type of thing has been happening since the dawn of the modern age. When the computer came out, I guarantee that many people likely lost their jobs because those jobs became obsolete thanks to computers. But it also created opportunities for those that were willing to work WITH the computers. Another example could be the transition from DVD to Internet streaming. Think about how many people lost jobs because of DVD stores going obsolete, at the same time many people also gained employment because we now have multiple heavy hitter streaming sites. This might also create a a niche market where hand crafted art is sold at a premium and AI art is mass produced for the majority.

I'm curious Gameranx, I've been debating on getting into some hobby writing then maybe career if i'm good at it. Any tips on how to to start with 0 experience? Kinda interested in video game story writing/planning

#10 those kind of ads aren't bad at all. Its a billboard which is a real piece of advertising in the real world so it blends in with the game environment to make it a simulator. I wouldn't mind games using ads like this to fund themselves. As long as the ad fits the game environment, billboards in a driving game is a good example.

I had wondered if Gameranx had a team to analyse and interpret everything. I thought it surely couldn't just be Falcon and Jake making the entire channel run so beautifully. Thanks, Gameranx team, you guys are a daily comfort to me 🙌❤️

The only problem I have with AI assisted stuff is because I can draw I am afraid that AI art will make it less cool. Ya I can spend years getting good at something, but AI can do that in seconds. So it is mainly my fear that skills people practice overtime will be useless because of AI.

@purplecat4977

11 ай бұрын

If you're using digital media to make that art (as many people are doing, and rightfully so), you're already doing exactly that to traditional media artists. I have a friend who made an entire tarot deck using watercolors, like actual paint on paper. Watercolor is a REALLY hard form of painting to master to the extent that she has mastered it. When I tall other artists that the pictures I'm showing them were all done by hand, they go from admiring the pretty pictures to open awe and/or jealousy. But I have to tell them, because it's possible to get the same effects with considerably less practice, skill, and time, using a digital art program. Before digital art took off, the only conclusion for someone to come to would have been that the cards were all done by hand.

@highdefinist9697

11 ай бұрын

I would say that this simple fear of "but what happens to my skills I am proud of?" is easily 90% of the motivation behind criticism of AI. And, at least in some cases, it is unfortunately simply true: New technology makes some skills obsolete, and that is a sad situation for many people. Still, there are many ways of getting around this: Learn a new skill, define self-worth differently, adapt (i.e. learn how to use AI to make your own art better), or just enjoy all the great things other people will produce using AI.

@thename2138

11 ай бұрын

@@highdefinist9697 i wouldnt mind if ai got to do everything to make our lives easier and more enjoyable, but i dont really like the idea of ai replacing artists

@highdefinist9697

11 ай бұрын

​@@thename2138 Compared to the history of book printing, or mass manufactured clothes, AI generated art will probably not "replace" artists, but it will more likely create two tiers: "High quality manually created art", sold at a premium, and "mass-manufactured AI-art". The former will be more niche, so there will be fewer artists, but the job will still exist. Meanwhile, the rest of the population can enjoy the benefits of art being more accessible - similar to the benefits of book printing.

@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447

11 ай бұрын

but that was true for all previous forms of automation too. take sewing for example

The big difference with the trucking ads is 1: it's not interrupting gameplay to show the ad, and 2: it's actually relevant to the game, and not just some random ad because money.

Although it may not be the main reason, emphasis on cloud services is a part of my Microsoft is struggling. And it's not just in gaming. The work they are putting into azure is noticeable and other windows/microsoft products are feeling the effects.

The chapter marks in Falcon's videos seem to only have titles like Number 1, Number 2, etc. The chapter marks in Jake's videos seem to always have the name of the game in them. Is this a thing, or should I up the dosage of my meds?

I am a sci-fi author who is constantly discussing AI. And you are right when you say it is not a big deal but only because there is nothing anybody can do about it. It is gonna change everything but people are making a bigger deal than they should cuz there is no way anyone is gonna have an effect on how it is progressing. (This is me speaking in short and trying not to write an essay)

@dreamingacacia

11 ай бұрын

It's just more convenient way to use wikipedia or google right? That being said, the real issue would be how a lot of people had been using AI to make profits with minimal efforts in the most extreme crime. For example feeding artworks of others and generate them out while barely do anything other than pushing the button, then sell the work on 3rd party sites. Using generated stories and published as a full book, it's weirdly resembling famous books like Game of Thrones. It's not the tools, but rather how people use it. In my perspective the AI is still not that different from wikipedia or google, some people just use it as an excuse to broke the laws.

@isaacbelcher4984

11 ай бұрын

@@dreamingacacia I have seen. I can't imagine this problem becoming bigger than it already is. As is the case with all new major technologies there will be exploits and controversys. The online market is going to lose a lot of people eventually because of this but that was the same with the 4th industrial revolution when people lost their jobs at production lines. Still a loss for the market but only because the individual became more capable with the help of technology. This pattern will likely be the way humanity will continue to progress.

i actually learned how to alley dock using trucking simulator lol. i brought my gaming laptop to cdl school. the game is surprisingly accurate. also lol you're not making 6 figures with schnieder. you'll make about 40k your first year. 6 figures is for leasing, but you're also paying $300 a day in fuel on top of a weekly truck payment along with other fees like insurance and maintenance. that 6 figures turns into 40k lol. but you're technically earning 6 figures, only more than half of that goes towards operations. but anyway, trucking simulator is probably the most accurate simulator mainstream game

@oogafoo

11 ай бұрын

also trucking was way better 20 years ago. by pay/inflation ratio you were making wwaaayyyy more in the 90s than now. trucking is sort of dead now. mega companies like schnieder have lobbied to make the industry more corporate focused. it's divebombed pay and hurt smaller companies. schnieder is one of the mega companies responsible

I was blown away how much Blizzard/Activision is charging for their cosmetic items. It's down right criminal, and I hope no one buys any of it.

So about the AI one, while I'll say this isn't marvel secret invasion type usage, what bothers me more is as more people talk about what the creators of mist did with AI who's to stop companies like Ubisoft, Activision/Blizzard and EA from doing exactly what they did. That's the part that scares me

@brandongratta9040

11 ай бұрын

Exactly this. There are benefits for smaller developers to use AI that don't have the capital to outsource for a lot of this. The downside though is that the big players equally see this as a way to cut out as many people as possible from profits. Same thing with artists and musicians. If you're an average Joe, using AI for your art in order to save a penny isn't the end of the world. Big companies doing it though essentially kills an entire profession. And from all that data they've provided us, the big companies absolutely will do this.

I think the best example of how shitty the store is in D4, is the horse armor. What started it all way back in Oblivion for $2.50, is up to $16 in D4, with multiple skin packs for that price. You also missed the $28 necro skin pack.

@poultrygeist8253

8 ай бұрын

Just for future readers, I wrote the previous comment 2 months before this one, they've introduced a $20 horse armor now.

What's weird to me is that you talked about how the Switch is outselling both Xbox and Sony combined, and not bring up how the FTC is trying to exclude Nintendo as a competitor.

Whoever does your Falcon animations is totally amazing, they make me smile so much-massive kudos to that animation. The video content is great and those animations are just the icing on the cake for my day, thank you for all the great work :)

I am a PS5 player. Since they bought Bethesda I assumed everything would be Xbox exclusive. I don't know why everyone is still like "Wait a minute, it's not coming to PS?" well no, it's owned by Xbox. Playstation needs to get their head out of their ass, stop trying to block the ActiBlizz deal and develop its own kickass FPS and Elder Scrolls. It will take time, but look at how awesome some of the exclusives are.

@aStranger_

11 ай бұрын

The issue being is they know they cant, they've tried multiple times with multiple different franchised that got killed off. Need i remind you of the "halo killer" haze lol. Playstation has turned into nothing more than a 1st party adventure game machine.

For #8, that Diablo armor is far from a microtransaction I'd be worried about. It feels common place for most games to sell cosmetics for $20-ish, but there is *far* worse things out there. You have games that'll sell microtransactions that barely provide benefits & easily skyrocket into triple digit prices. Usually in the mobile/free to play areas. Though that stuff has been creeping into triple A, $60-70 games over the years. Not to mention further squeezing microtransaction profits by selling any of those items behind "gacha", "pulls", "rolls", "card packs". Whatever lame name they wanna disguise it by, those are still lootboxes. There are lootboxes in games, sold for $100+, that provide you a chance, to get the advertised benefit. Who the hell's buying these, allowing lame game publishers to get away with it?

@gambello1195

11 ай бұрын

People who play only one or two games with microtransactions, and they think "well" I'm not gonna buy a new game soon so I'll use that money to microtransactions", it's like a hobby. And children who have access to their parents' credit card

@rabbitknight87

11 ай бұрын

I play arknights (a tower defense-esque gacha game) and with the amount of entertainment I get out of it I can spare $5 every 3 months or so. I'd never "whale" on a gacha but incorporating a little bit into my entertainment budget for the return I get on it makes sense for me.

@KingJohnMichael

11 ай бұрын

Just inform yourself beforehand

@Subject_Keter

10 ай бұрын

People need willpower.. and the courage to not try and move basically 2 snorlax duct tape together.

E3 was more than just games for people, it was a place to meet and talk to people like minded, a place to make new long time friends especially for people with anxiety. It was a place for fans to be who in today's reality is difficult to be, cosplay was a big part for some and something you can't do anywhere else without being judged. E3 was home to a lot of people and as someone in the UK who never got to go I still enjoyed it as a big part of my years growing up watching it online.

21 dolars for a video game armor in incredible, but what's even worse is the amount of people willing to buy it. As always, those "microtransactions" won't stop existing if people don't quit paying that money

I’m not fully against AI generated content. But I think it needs to be placed correctly. Like the mod for Skyrim writing misc quests to help make more to do that are just time sinks isn’t bad. But should only be a small portion and not replace real writers

@12sorase

11 ай бұрын

the problem is actually with the people that think that ai can replace every part of the creative process, i dont think we are gonna be there anytime remotely soon if it ever happens

@kyberion

11 ай бұрын

@@12sorase I think the quote from the creator of black mirror is pretty good at describing that. He had ai write an episode of black mirror and at first it looked good but rereading it the script basically was just mash of other episodes. Ai can’t replace the creative process probably ever but it can be used as a tool to ease the process like correcting sound errors on video or correcting/finding repetitive pars of writings. It’s a tool not a replacement

@alexjensen007

11 ай бұрын

@@kyberion LLM crap will bring the stagnation. The more of the same shit. Like, for example, some group of "scientists" (hard to call them like that, but anyway) found out, that ChatGPT (so, 3.5 version) actually have only 25 jokes. And it just repeats them all over again changing objects in it. Ofc, larger models will have more, but you should get the idea. The more of LLM's crap will be used, the less interesting stories will become. LLM as an assistant is good. LLM as generator is so fucking extremely and deadly bad.

Regarding the xbox sales - why does anyone actually care who "loses"? You're really just promoting the console wars. That said, Microsoft has invested quite a bit in the cloud mostly to complete with Google Cloud and AWS. Cloud computing revenue dwarfs what they would make selling consoles. I'm also disappointed that you didn't mention the passing of the streamer "Puppers". Guess had to make room for the 1-bit calculator that shows up in almost any type of "make you're own thing" game.

I write stories with Google's exspiremental Bard and it's pretty good at short stories, but you have to structure the story which is pretty cool 😎 I like most of the stories we come up with, it's actually kinda fun to write AI assisted stories.

i worked for schneider for a bit and man... hearing them doing this is actually something i NEVER would've thought they'd do LOL... that being said though, they're a great company... i thought they were pretty chill when i worked there for a while

@michaelmonstar4276

11 ай бұрын

More and more companies are getting younger marketing-people and it definitely shows... A lot of the PR-people are going all in on the "Hello fellow kids!" kind of thing, because those people are pretty much in their twenties or whatever. - The best thing for PR or marketing today is asking what a young Millennial or Zoomer would do. - So for this there was definitely some guy that went "Do you know there's a trucking simulation game that is extremely popular? You should put like ads on the billboards in that game.", and the old heads there were probably like "Are you kidding? Really? Show me. - And how many people play this??". - I would bet on it.

Falcon, I appreciate you not being AI. I also always look forward to these monthly weird gaming story videos, and others. Thanks for the great content from the entire team.

The importation of AI to make shorts has already flooded KZread (and I imagine TikTok but I refuse) with shovel content. The same will happen to the game industry if left unchecked. I personally think AI will take over, just not in the way that we've all imagined.

@ForestRaptor

11 ай бұрын

what is it that we all have imagined? Just so we can come back to this in a few years and say "welp, ya was right!"

@alexjensen007

11 ай бұрын

It will be the same as when UE3 came out. Every fucking male model was the same.

AI is so important to the growth in all industries. It just needs to be harnessed to have people utilizing it to enhance and not fully build or cookie cutter the output. I use AI to help research issues similar to how one would use a google search. In the video game space AI graphic drivers are truly amazing and I welcome more of it.

I want these Unreal graphics be used in something that transcends reality and makes a real world seem trippy.

The thing about what we're calling AI at the moment is not actually AI. It should be called "collective information median" software or something similar to that.

Speaking as a vision disease scientist and biomedical engineer, I use AI to help me with my work all the time. In fact, there are guidelines for publishing in professional journals that essentially boil down to, "Take responsibility for your work." AI is a tool that can be used for a lot of good when handled responsibly.

Not only may we be living in a simulation, God may be some kid that makes tech demos in his spare time.

I can remember watching G4 and all the hype for E3 back in the day. And now E3 is over 😢

Falcon is right. Using AI for assistance is not something new and definitely it should not be stigmatized. In the world of written content creation for blogs or other online portals it's becoming more and more common to use it as assistance.

@Circusofvalue

11 ай бұрын

My marketing agency is basically 30% AI driven at this point - we use it to write the copy, help with seo, web design and customer service... It's great haha

>I'm really not a fan of advertising >uses manipulative advertising techniques 😎

@bloodsweatandbeers4684

10 ай бұрын

Literally in this video no less. Witcher 3 thumbnail somehow alluding to a Diablo 3 story?

What's mind blowing to me is how some people don't keep track of where their money is going every month.

About the AI point, small or big team they are trying to make something with value, something that makes an impact how it should on players. At least they were honest about it. Give the dev every tool he will use'em all and give you the best product

One of the biggest things to remember is that Sony basically has a Monopoly in all of Japan alongside Nintendo. Microsoft does not sell in Japan or other Asian markets as well as Sony does

"We've sacrificed this generation to focus on Cloud gaming." Surely more comforting words have never been spoken to people who have spent hard earned money on their products.

I think ads you can't skip, those are poison, but I think changing irl ads in an in-game billboard ad is actually pretty cool idea, exactly like in a truck sim, or in a racing game, if anything it brings realism into the game, just as long they don't overdue it

@thename2138

11 ай бұрын

agreed, it has to blend with the game without distracting you or ruining your vibe

Schneider is also heavily invested to the company Aurora (self driving fright trucks) very interesting move.