DLC Has ALWAYS Sucked | A Rant/Analysis of Microtransactions

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Join me in this Rant, Video Essay, Analysis, whatever this video is, as I discuss how microtransactions, loot boxes, battle passes, and more have slowly destroyed the gaming industry. Blame Fortnite, Apex Legends, Call of Duty, but in the end, blame weak-willed gamers and corporate executives.
#Fortnite #CallofDuty #FallGuys #ApexLegends #SyntheticMan

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  • @thefishmin5851
    @thefishmin58513 жыл бұрын

    Guys, I heard he's dropping a podcast on our asses. The guest he has kinda talks too much and doesn't give Synethic man enough space to talk.

  • @SyntheticMan

    @SyntheticMan

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, his name is Fishguy or Manfish or something...name is slipping my mind at the moment.

  • @thefishmin5851

    @thefishmin5851

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SyntheticMan he was pretty forgettable tbh

  • @mistersippi2945

    @mistersippi2945

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow... Another podcast. It’s not like there’s lots of those around.

  • @larniieplayz6285

    @larniieplayz6285

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mistersippi2945 that’s fine

  • @marchans-christianpiech3297
    @marchans-christianpiech32973 жыл бұрын

    The cyberpunk part aged well :D

  • @SyntheticMan

    @SyntheticMan

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol yeah...I definitely mentioned it in too many videos because I've been getting this type of comment a lot...

  • @yqafree

    @yqafree

    3 жыл бұрын

    Screw cyberpunk when we have custom robo! C'mon guys!

  • @jamesthomas9619

    @jamesthomas9619

    2 жыл бұрын

    To be fair I think most people were fooled by that game and had no reason to believe they were lying to us

  • @LucasCunhaRocha

    @LucasCunhaRocha

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jamesthomas9619 I knew it from the start that would it be bad, wanna know how? Because I was on the same fucking hype for Spore back in the 2000s... and if you look at all those big dissapointments they were all the same shit as spore. Hell, No man sky was worse than Spore, that was a fucking feat on itself

  • @ambustio9807

    @ambustio9807

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@LucasCunhaRocha they fixed no-mans sky tho

  • @ricksterdrummer2170
    @ricksterdrummer21702 жыл бұрын

    I miss the good old days when “additional content” was something you got from completing the game…

  • @ps123fan

    @ps123fan

    Жыл бұрын

    thats an idea, say its a game, but they, say, they make you play x amount of hours and you get the dlc for free, or you can pay and get it in 1 sec, imagine that. so, they'll earn extra money, cause some will buy and some will not. i dunno. its easy to say, ohh shoudve been in the game to start with, and we've maybe all said it at some point im sure, but maybe games litteraly cost so much to make they have to do it to keep companies aflot? maybe, maybe not, feels annoying to us, but we're not the guys making the games. still feels like a cheap move though ofc.

  • @ElPatron42069
    @ElPatron420692 жыл бұрын

    I watch your channel because you make me feel normal I swear we agree on 99% of the same stuff. And I don't just watch you because I agree with you. It's just refreshing to see someone be honest

  • @richardhambel648
    @richardhambel6483 жыл бұрын

    I love how you predicted the legion of Cyberpunk fanboys and exactly what they would be saying

  • @leto1178
    @leto11783 жыл бұрын

    Just imagine making a game that is fulfilling to the player, a game they like to play for years to come, a game they paid for once and the play for thousands of hours without microtransactions. Don't you see how this is bad for getting the most money out of consumers?

  • @jacketofthe80s13

    @jacketofthe80s13

    3 жыл бұрын

    only game like that were rpg's from like 2010 to 13 actually no 2009 to 2013

  • @kkjunior29

    @kkjunior29

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good times , there won't be another generation of gaming like the ps2 and ps3

  • @Swordart2022

    @Swordart2022

    2 жыл бұрын

    There is no such thing dude také down these rose tinted glasses.

  • @larniieplayz6285

    @larniieplayz6285

    2 жыл бұрын

    ?

  • @larniieplayz6285

    @larniieplayz6285

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Swordart2022 pretty sure there is

  • @kylereynold4271
    @kylereynold42713 жыл бұрын

    This is why games from the ps2, xbox, gamecube and Dreamcast ruled: No real DLC. There were experiments with DLC but nothing that would alter a already finished and finalized product. Like if gaming development improved, why do we need DLC? If Resident Evil 1 from 1996 had DLC, it would be miserable. If Silent Hill 1 had DLC, it would be miserable. Like what happened to that? Like platinum editions and greatest hits? Like again, I ask, if game development is so much improved, why do we need DLC? Awesome video dude too. Keep these rolling out.

  • @Gruntvc

    @Gruntvc

    3 жыл бұрын

    Resident Evil on PS1, lots of extra content to unlock on the disc for mastering the games. Resident Evil in current year, but all the extras as cut content for dlc. Looking at you RE7 and RE2 Remake in particular.

  • @blindedjourneyman

    @blindedjourneyman

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@abovethelaw4417 says you dreamcast homebrew IS STILL an active community. Many of us only recently realized what all those plugs in the gc were for

  • @blindedjourneyman

    @blindedjourneyman

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@abovethelaw4417 theyre damn good games. Enjoy ur graphics all I gotta say.

  • @blues4509

    @blues4509

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@abovethelaw4417 outdated according to what? Gaming has stopped progressing in any real fashion (gameplay) as soon as the seventh gen started. It's just been "do the same thing but make it look prettier" or in more often cases "do the same thing with less content but make it way prettier".

  • @jaydenc367

    @jaydenc367

    3 жыл бұрын

    Game development improving wouldn't change the addition of DLC. DLC is meant to add to a already complete game and be something the developers never thought of when making the game originally.

  • @tatakainokaizen7140
    @tatakainokaizen714010 ай бұрын

    my guilty pleasure is finding old videos where synth was still hype for cyberpunk.

  • @glazersout4272
    @glazersout42722 жыл бұрын

    The greed of your typical AAA games company these days knows no bounds.

  • @flowerclown7428
    @flowerclown74282 жыл бұрын

    Unlocking stuff in Smash Bros Melee, Kirby Air Ride and Timesplitters 2 were so much fun and rewarding. I really do miss the GameCube and PS2 era of games

  • @96crashban
    @96crashban3 жыл бұрын

    I fucking hate battle passes. So many games do it now you have to make it a second job just to complete them. FOMO is what makes it terrible. Other DLC is bad too, I just miss the old days

  • @marks2807

    @marks2807

    3 жыл бұрын

    That is what happens when governments crack down on the loot boxes. Video game companies find another way to bleed us with battle passes.

  • @marioPop76

    @marioPop76

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm guilty of spending 100s of hours in Fallout 76 in 2020 and this year just to complete their seasons. I do enjoy the game even if I've completed everything, but I can't afford to keep spending so much time just for something like seasons. Plus, that break time allowed me to finally finish the Raiders side of the Wastelanders update, allowing me to finally get every single trophy (I have a PS5) in the game. That questline itself was a snap. Now for an even longer break.

  • @thebuzz7282
    @thebuzz72823 жыл бұрын

    Oh god the ending part about Cyberpunk was some unreal foreshadowing 😂😂 the fanboy part too

  • @ciscoperez6879
    @ciscoperez68793 жыл бұрын

    Synthetic Man is a LEGEND!!! One of the best YT’ers on this platform! Syn I bought a gaming laptop so I can record my gameplay and start making videos. You are a huge inspiration to me. The love u have from games only comes from a lifetime of gaming but I hope you blow up soon bc you deserve it 1000%.

  • @SyntheticMan

    @SyntheticMan

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thx man, glad to hear that I've inspired you, and I hope you have more success than me lol. But seriously, your compliments mean a lot to me.

  • @HandheldGamer1991
    @HandheldGamer19913 жыл бұрын

    You know what on another video i did comment that i am disappointed with the mario 3d colection that they made and some group of fanatics started caling me entitled for what having some standards? Gamers these days i swear are a bunch of drones

  • @tim6454

    @tim6454

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thats just people in general

  • @YamiMarik2
    @YamiMarik23 жыл бұрын

    Man Kirby Air Ride was the shit back in the day. Didn't have any friends to play it with but still fun to do solo.

  • @SyntheticMan

    @SyntheticMan

    3 жыл бұрын

    My friends all hate the game, even my brother even though we grew up playing it together lol. So when I eventually review it, it'll be tough to convince them to play it. Still fun solo though, I agree.

  • @HyperAlexis1s
    @HyperAlexis1s Жыл бұрын

    Bro I appreciate the simplicity of your videos. You funny asf unintentionally keep up the great work, and screw modern gaming.

  • @Gruntvc
    @Gruntvc3 жыл бұрын

    There's just so much crap we gotta deal with now, it almost completely ruins the fun of even being a gamer. Older games are generally better than many newer ones. Not always, but a lot of older games did interesting stuff that likely won't be replicated today due to pc culture, laziness, and greed. As for DLC, I miss the days of customer friendly Expansion Packs. They gave you more of the game you liked at a reasonable price. Blood Dragon is my favorite of the entire franchise. Didn't care for Far Cry 4. Didn't even play 5, Primal, or New Dawn. The dlc for Far Cry 5 was terrible compared to Blood Dragon. Wolfenstein, before New Colossus & Youngblood killed the franchise again, had a great expansion for New Order called the Old Blood. Standalone like Blood Dragon and it was $20 too.

  • @SyntheticMan

    @SyntheticMan

    3 жыл бұрын

    I never did end up playing Old Blood, I'll have to play it if I decide to cover New Order.

  • @Gruntvc

    @Gruntvc

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Synthetic Man, Old Blood is a good soft reboot of Return to Castle Wolfenstein 2001. New Order 2014 is better, but Old Blood gives ya a nice little expansion to that gameplay. Sucks that the only Wolfenstein available on Nintendo Switch are the bad ones. You can buy both New Order and Old Blood pretty cheap now.

  • @vibezzz7211

    @vibezzz7211

    3 жыл бұрын

    wdy mean by pc culture lol

  • @garrethboland5646
    @garrethboland5646 Жыл бұрын

    Smash Bros having DLC characters is really where I think I'm going to draw the line. My 6 year old nephew asked, "Uncle, how come you haven't bought all the characters yet?" I'm 34 and he's just a little too young to understand that paying for video games you've already paid for was not how it used to be.

  • @Jacob-sj5nn
    @Jacob-sj5nn3 жыл бұрын

    We should just wait for games to be $4 on sale and then buy them. I'm sick of buying $40 games that are half baked.

  • @jacketofthe80s13

    @jacketofthe80s13

    3 жыл бұрын

    welp if everything is on psn xbox store and all that dream will just be a pipe dream. aceing out physical releases kill the chance for even a 19.99 or 10 dollar sale

  • @jacketofthe80s13

    @jacketofthe80s13

    3 жыл бұрын

    and with it being on their stores they got ya by the balls

  • @jamesthomas9619

    @jamesthomas9619

    2 жыл бұрын

    Shit 40 dollars if you're lucky, lmao sometimes their 70 and still suck

  • @Jacob-sj5nn

    @Jacob-sj5nn

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jamesthomas9619 Most AAA games are ass yet you'll still have Ubisoft Fanboys that defend the game of doing the same thing over and over while charging 60$

  • @OneFlockOneShepherd

    @OneFlockOneShepherd

    11 ай бұрын

    Yup that's what I'm doing, I'm playing all the 360 games I missed out on now.

  • @trevor_mounts_music
    @trevor_mounts_music Жыл бұрын

    I'm old enough to remember being PISSED about the halo 2 map pack. You are 100% accurate in tracing the origin of this bullshit back to good ol' Halo 2.

  • @Skumtomten1

    @Skumtomten1

    Жыл бұрын

    Yea, also remembering how it screwed up matchmaking by splitting the playerbase and kicking people out of the lobby if they didn't have the dlc.

  • @abundancebundles

    @abundancebundles

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Skumtomten1 it was like that in halo 3 as well wasn’t it?

  • @coolzombieslayer
    @coolzombieslayer2 жыл бұрын

    That kirby's air ride section made me so sad I loved it SOOOOO MUCH I would play it with my neighbors for hours... I wish games had some soul to them again

  • @justinstoll4955
    @justinstoll49553 жыл бұрын

    Blame FIFA and 2K for micro transactions.

  • @ThatZenoGuy
    @ThatZenoGuy3 жыл бұрын

    Nitpick, Horse armor actually doubled the HP of the ingame horses, it was not cosmetic. However horse HP really did not matter as there was fast travelling.

  • @immodestguy3885
    @immodestguy38853 жыл бұрын

    Synthetic Man's vids are great background noise. Whenever I play AC (The good ones). I agree with most of your points in your videos. I know you weren't in this for fame, I know started a KZread channel to recommend older games. But goddamn you need more subs. Thank you for making this channel and giving me a new appreciation of older games!

  • @mikem.s.1183
    @mikem.s.11832 жыл бұрын

    PERFECT COMMENTARY, excellent reflection on this subject. 👌 "Cancer that is mobile gaming." A mid-twenties KZreadr with such vision and wisdom. Hats off to you. Super glad I subbed when I did.

  • @NewOrderOfAlexandria
    @NewOrderOfAlexandria2 жыл бұрын

    Man I miss playing Infamous 2! Good to hear you talking about that forgotten masterpiece!

  • @IDoneTellYaWhat
    @IDoneTellYaWhat2 жыл бұрын

    Stumbled into your channel recently and am loving a lot of your videos. The Gilbert godfrey reaction to fallout 3's writing made me literally lol. Hahahhaa top notch.

  • @justinstoll4955
    @justinstoll49553 жыл бұрын

    Dude, your rants are pretty awesome. I know you're talking about taking a break but you should purposefully play some shit games to dump on them. Loved your Cyberpunk rant. It was so right. Let's get you over 10k.

  • @leto1178
    @leto11783 жыл бұрын

    Addon, DLC, microtransactions,... What it comes down to is this: You can create something with the intent of creating something good, like a good game, a game you would like to play yourself, you can have that philosophy. Or you can create something with the intent of maximising your profit and or other (ideological) goals. Microtransactions are inherently designed to make the publisher more money, that's why they got introduced into games. Some might be implemented in a manner which is very bad for the game as a whole, very detrimental, some might be less intrusive but they are not in the game to make it a better experience, that's not the intent behind them. Whatever one might think of Steve Jobs, there is a documentary with him in it where he talks about how Apple had been taken over by the marketing department and the products they were making got worse and worse. He talks about how this can and does happen in many companies. You start out with a company that is run by engineers, they don't care about the profit, they want to create a good machine or software or whatever, that's how they think - How to engineer something to have certain qualities, maybe high endurance or performance or low production cost,... or a combination of such factors. Then, when the company is running well and growing, the marketing department and the bean-counters become more influential, they start to run the company and that's when product quality suffers. They know how to sell you s**t you probably don't need or don't even want, they don't think about how to make a great product, other considerations take over. We need to lower costs, production costs, employee costs, maybe we can outsource work to places with lower wages, we need the product out in time before Christmas, whatever. The company goes down eventually after enjoying high profit margins for some years or even decades. Let me assure you, those big publishers and their big developer studios are not going to turn the ship around in any meaningful way. They will ride it out until it all breaks down

  • @SyntheticMan

    @SyntheticMan

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, definitely agree. Which is why a lot of people were pushing for government regulation of loot boxes. If gamers can't be trusted to not buy them, then we need laws to protect the consumer from themselves. The downside of this is that it can easily be a slippery slope that ends with the government heavily regulating what content can be put into games. No more violence, nudity, etc. It's sad what happens to corporations over time, but as always, our only option is to vote with our wallets and hope somebody funds more devs like From Software and CD Projekt Red.

  • @leto1178

    @leto1178

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@SyntheticMan You don't have to restrict yourself to "voting with your wallet" as the common phrase goes, in other words, to basically do nothing else than what everybody does every day anyway. You can also make a video about it and bring things to the attention of people like you are doing here. Moders, small developers, video creators, jailbreak-ors,... they are all doing their part to keep the commercialised life dystopia at bay. Once you put a price tag on every social and cultural interaction, those who rule the money rule every aspect of social-life as well.

  • @izanagiorochi6324

    @izanagiorochi6324

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@leto1178 and we know who rules the money

  • @zenithstudio6819
    @zenithstudio68192 жыл бұрын

    Kirby air ride intro, I see your a man of culter

  • @khaliddemon7475
    @khaliddemon74753 жыл бұрын

    Please talk about Silent Hill 2 'Or the first

  • @SyntheticMan

    @SyntheticMan

    3 жыл бұрын

    I plan to cover Silent Hill 2 next month, I'll try to give it the respect that it deserves.

  • @terrencemoldern2756
    @terrencemoldern2756 Жыл бұрын

    Love the videos man... truly solid takes

  • @beetheimmortal
    @beetheimmortal3 жыл бұрын

    'If they fuck up with Cyberpunk 2077' OH NO NO NO

  • @golDroger88
    @golDroger883 жыл бұрын

    What I don't get is, why buy those games? Do people have no will power?

  • @SyntheticMan

    @SyntheticMan

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's two main groups. Casuals who don't really care about gaming, and don't know any better, content with playing COD, Madden, FIFA, Fortnite, Apex, etc. and not ever exploring outside of their comfort zone. Then there's the fanboys. Redditors who kiss the ground that their chosen publisher walks on and eats up anything they put out. They are so desperate to cling to something that brings them any happiness that they will attack anyone who criticizes their beloved franchises and spend all of their money on DLC, MTX, Lootboxes. Sony fanboys annoy me the most right now because I used to be one in the PS3 era, but their quality has dropped overall in the last 7 years so I bailed to PC. But, of course, the fanboys deny this and buy every mediocre exclusive.

  • @golDroger88

    @golDroger88

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SyntheticMan I don't know, I'm happy with this generation's Sony exclusives (in the sense that there were enough interesting for me, I certainly don't support garbage like TLOU or Sony's policy on erotic games). I honestly never played a game with microtransactions not by choice but simply because it happened I was never interested in any of those kind of games. I think cosmetics are fine because they add nothing substantial to the game but then there's also the problem of preying on the weak, which I'm not too keen on. I don't have the solution.

  • @SyntheticMan

    @SyntheticMan

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@golDroger88 I still enjoyed most of the exclusives but only 2 were must-play games in my eyes (still haven't played Persona 5 though). I just hate anti-criticism people, they encourage mediocrity. As for cosmetic stuff, I think the system works in free-to-play games but if I'm paying $60 I better get my money's worth. Games-as-a-service has creeped into full price games but luckily gamers have fought off the worst of it. Which reminds me, I never talked about Anthem in this video, which was another pretty big blow against EA. So, if consumers learn to draw the line at GaaS, maybe there's a chance for the future of AAA games

  • @vilemk69z98
    @vilemk69z98 Жыл бұрын

    Heyo Synth Man, really enjoyed this vid. What I believe was the last straw for on disk dlc with CAPCOM was when someone hacked into that garbage tier Streetfighter X Tekken disc and found all the dlc locked in a paywall. Keep it up my dude!!!

  • @solidstatejake
    @solidstatejake3 жыл бұрын

    Man, kirby airride. Kids will never know what good games are, i just realized that.

  • @blindedjourneyman

    @blindedjourneyman

    3 жыл бұрын

    Save the roms and isos and show them. My brother is left speechless or excited any time I show him a good game older than 10 years.

  • @stuffstuff6932
    @stuffstuff69322 жыл бұрын

    That comment about CDPR at 26:58 was quite prophetic.

  • @WakeUpUniverse66
    @WakeUpUniverse666 ай бұрын

    Bro legit predicted Cyberpunk 2077s release on the money

  • @blindedjourneyman
    @blindedjourneyman3 жыл бұрын

    Custom robo battle revolution(gamecube). My top 5 game and its just an arena battler where u use customizable robots with templates and gear to settle problems and catch criminals as a bounty hunter and after that you get a fun post game of turnament mode with a hidden final boss for 100%ing that mode and a crapton of "illegal parts" and upgraded parts. Douzens of cool as maps and many cool tracks to listen to did I mention it has a multiplayer mode so up to 4 people can blast eachother to hell on all the maps you unlocked using all the crazy gear you have by the end of said campaign and tourneymode. Best part no dlc and features to enjoy for over a decade a last.edit thank just thank you for mentioning it

  • @otsutsuki8589
    @otsutsuki85893 жыл бұрын

    My DLCs : The Old Hunter , The Ringed City , The Painted world of Ariandel , Thanks From Software !

  • @EsBauti
    @EsBauti3 жыл бұрын

    Good video bro !!!

  • @jayden.exe420
    @jayden.exe4202 жыл бұрын

    Oh no the cyberpunk part so sad to see you hyped up about it and I’ve already watched your other video 😂

  • @mujiha
    @mujiha Жыл бұрын

    My friend and I started ripping into No Man’s Sky the very next day after it was announced. We knew

  • @BucketBoatable
    @BucketBoatable Жыл бұрын

    Technically oblivion horse armor is not cosmetic only. It increases the horses health. Had to point it out because I'm a big patricianTV fan.

  • @vilemk69z98
    @vilemk69z98 Жыл бұрын

    Holy crap, I haven't played Custom Robo in years. That was WAS awesome!!!

  • @davidbriceno3897
    @davidbriceno38972 жыл бұрын

    Good stuff, really putting a lot of effort in this comments man

  • @ripoutyourprejudice
    @ripoutyourprejudice2 жыл бұрын

    Ever since games have gone for having online to acces your games and abandoned expansion packs in favor of DLC I always felt developers were treating me like a sucker. Which is why I only buy games that have stopped their DLC output or have no DLC planned for it.

  • @darkparallax8459
    @darkparallax84592 жыл бұрын

    Kirby air ride is criminally underrated. Great times with that one.

  • @SomeCanine
    @SomeCanine Жыл бұрын

    I have never thought DLC was really needed or good. Games were much better before DLC was around.

  • @zhulikkulik
    @zhulikkulik Жыл бұрын

    I'm okay with big dlcs. Like those for fallout. If it expands the already finished game with new story content - that's good. Or if it's a completely new story/view on original story.

  • @timhertens8502
    @timhertens8502 Жыл бұрын

    That suicide game comment aged like a fine wine

  • @Liquid_Mike
    @Liquid_Mike3 жыл бұрын

    No Man's Sky was saved through patches

  • @brandonwombacher2559

    @brandonwombacher2559

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes it was. Have No Man's Sky Myself

  • @tomi210210210
    @tomi210210210 Жыл бұрын

    I like how hopeful you were for Cyberpunk. It's sad, really.

  • @Anijah2001
    @Anijah20013 жыл бұрын

    In my opinion DLC in itself is not bad I mean some actually improves and expands on the game in some way but too much companies are taking advantage of it

  • @jethrojawsvenicesalfarlie528
    @jethrojawsvenicesalfarlie5282 жыл бұрын

    Very Intelligent Young Man respect Due .

  • @abhisekpradhan3370
    @abhisekpradhan33703 жыл бұрын

    Gotta feel bad for the guy after Cybertrash disaster

  • @KyngD469
    @KyngD4692 жыл бұрын

    Kirby air ride and custom robo are so good

  • @ricardokrittsquad2386
    @ricardokrittsquad23863 жыл бұрын

    I miss that custom robo game soooo much sank alotta time into it

  • @jackspade5316
    @jackspade53162 жыл бұрын

    1. Kirby Air Ride was the bomb. 2. Functional unlockables were a problem even before they were DLC, because they disrupt balance. They require time and expertise to unlock, which means the player with the most expertise has an additional in-game advantage. Multiplayer games should be about sportsmanship, not progression. The gameplay itself is supposed to be the reward, because if it's not, what's the point of unlocking a gun you can only use in a game you're not actually enjoying? Progression and balance are inherently at odds. Part of the reason COD gets regular releases is that the games are basically designed to become unapproachable to newcomers after a year or two. Every new release is basically a reset, putting veterans on more even footing with newbies. That's bad design, unless your goal is to sell the same game every year. 3. Despite this, game devs include progression/rpg mechanics in multiplayer shooters because they're easy to monetize, but also because they keep players engaged longer than the gameplay alone would. This is a subtler method of exploiting people's addictive tendencies. In a multiplayer game, the players themselves are part of the content, so getting people hooked keeps the game alive and eventually hooks more players. Even the non-whales help to hook whales just by being there, and even games without DLC benefit. Keeping a franchise popular makes the sequel easy to sell (what's the difference between a copy-paste, annual-release sequel and an expansion anyway?), keeping a game alive extends the sales tail, it looks good to investors, makes it easier to onboard new talent, increases interest in the studio's other offerings, etc. Point is, hooking people is never bad for business, just bad for customers. 4. Cosmetic DLC and unlockables are part of this relentless drive for obsessive engagement, and so are still not great for players. I'm old enough to remember that we used to dream about having games we could enjoy indefinitely, without it becoming stale. But there's a difference between "could" and "need to". Timed content, community events, unlockable items, they're designed to monetize a player's very presence. To be clear, I'm not talking about all unlockables under all circumstances, I'm specifically referring to the endless stream of new content that means players can never really be done with a game until the devs say so. 5. The focus on engagement to the exclusion of everything else also affects game design. You maximize the number of potential whales by maximizing the number of people walking in the door. Bright colors, GPU-melting graphics, a hodge-podge of trends and buzzwords from gaming and pop culture thrown together in a blender without a single thought towards whether those elements make sense being in the same game. You keep people around through Skinnerian mechanics that heighten anticipation without ever providing a satisfying payoff. Because satisfied customers go do something else after a while. You keep the game on your own servers, so you can kill it when you're done monetizing it. After all, if players can play your old game, they won't have to buy your new one. All of which is a long-winded way of saying that even "ethical" monetization and progression mechanics should be viewed with a large dose of skepticism, because they tend to be accompanied by other, less ethical mechanics. And the only reason we view them as ethical is that we just got through a decade of even worse exploitation. And even when it's not meant to be exploitative, it's either directly bad for the player, or entices the kind of player that no one else likes playing with.

  • @Ak1r0
    @Ak1r03 жыл бұрын

    The only thing that I'm hyped for is Elden Ring. From Software have proven themselves many times before and unless something goes horribly wrong with R.R. Martin's writing, Elden Ring looks like to be the game of the decade when it releases. (I mean, they did it twice already with both Dark Souls and Bloodborne in a single decade) As for the casuals, joke's on them. They are slow to adapt and take notice of what is happening and when they do realize it will be too late and we'll be in the corner of the room laughing at them. I'm gonna stick with indies and AA games over the bland and uninteresting AAA garbage that companies throw at the zombies to consume.

  • @SyntheticMan

    @SyntheticMan

    3 жыл бұрын

    I definitely want to see some gameplay and a release date for Elden Ring before I get hyped, but I have no doubt that it will be a great game at the very least.

  • @Ak1r0

    @Ak1r0

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SyntheticMan You're right, I'm getting ahead of myself, but that just shows the amount of trust and respect I have for FromSoft and their creations. I too want to see gameplay before making my final verdict on whether I'll buy it day 1 or wait a bit for reviews though.

  • @soulfulcabbage7616

    @soulfulcabbage7616

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@abovethelaw4417 shit take

  • @snailgirl420

    @snailgirl420

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@abovethelaw4417 Bloodborne is completely different in terms of flow and mechanics. Dark Souls 1-3 also all have different mechanics. What did you expect? They are sequels, dumbass. A sequel is supposed to be like that.

  • @bryanscoffield2167
    @bryanscoffield21673 жыл бұрын

    do you stream? also I would love to see an asura's wrath video. keep up the good work man!

  • @SyntheticMan

    @SyntheticMan

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have considered streaming but I don't think my internet is up to the task lol. But I will look into it in the near future.

  • @KyngD469
    @KyngD4692 жыл бұрын

    Yoooo KIRBY AIR RIDE AND MUSIC!!!!

  • @zebare726
    @zebare7262 жыл бұрын

    Something that is sad is that both Sony and Microsoft are discontinuing their 7th gen consoles Online store step by step. Which means that content belonging to the 7th gen game will be lost. So sooner or later you can never ever get the ending to Azure wrath to your 360 or ps3.

  • @ajaxmaxbitch

    @ajaxmaxbitch

    2 жыл бұрын

    Rip

  • @Vintagesonic1
    @Vintagesonic13 жыл бұрын

    28:33 Well... this didn't age well.

  • @joshuamagruder2241
    @joshuamagruder22412 жыл бұрын

    A little late but something positive that comes to mind is Resident evil 2. Obviously with the remake you can buy a lot of shit with real money. But it was a game that when you beat it, you were rewarded with literally more playthroughs with some different shit, alternate paths for the characters, and new lore. All the while unlocking shit based on performance. Finish the game fast enough? Infinite ammo launcher. Wanna Speedrun the b playthroughs like a dedicated monster? More infinite guns. Alt costumes, cool Easter eggs for the explorer. Shit was just great

  • @soapmctavish1409
    @soapmctavish1409 Жыл бұрын

    Remember when you had to pay to play online like Xbox live and ps plus or whatever it was called I can’t believe companies made that normalized.

  • @larniieplayz6285
    @larniieplayz62852 жыл бұрын

    Depends on how it’s used imo

  • @dagon99
    @dagon993 жыл бұрын

    Nice coverage. Raw

  • @thesonicgaminggod6956
    @thesonicgaminggod6956 Жыл бұрын

    Kirby Air Ride is incredible!

  • @engineerofchaos7591
    @engineerofchaos7591 Жыл бұрын

    I don't like DLCs but I can tolerate them as long as they cover cosmetics or extra fan-oriented stuff not strictly necessary to the gameplay or story. What pisses me off is when MECHANICS or parts of the PLOT are locked behind DLCs.

  • @TMNuclear
    @TMNuclear2 жыл бұрын

    28:48 future me checking in

  • @ThunderStruck115
    @ThunderStruck1152 жыл бұрын

    2:33 Is that fucking Territory War? I played that with my brother and had a great time. Nice throwback!

  • @grugburnell9334
    @grugburnell93342 жыл бұрын

    Kirby's air ride is good times lol, they should just add it to smash bros as a alternate mode

  • @tardwrangler
    @tardwrangler2 жыл бұрын

    5:00 Soundtrack?

  • @astarteswillum5259
    @astarteswillum5259Ай бұрын

    Cyberpunk 2077 ended up being shit, and now the company that made it is kissing up to Blackrock.

  • @Maartwo
    @Maartwo3 жыл бұрын

    Daily reminder that if you support these business practices with your wallet you are part of the problem.

  • @ElPatron42069
    @ElPatron420692 жыл бұрын

    Undead nightmare is still phenomenal to this day. GTA 4 DLC was great too, The Lost and the damned, The ballad of gay Tony, I still have them for Xbox 360 and I know Rockstar will never do single player DLC ever again

  • @SoySalmon
    @SoySalmon2 жыл бұрын

    Sadly this did not age well as fortnite has taken away free vbucks from the battlepass so you will never get another one without paying. But its fortnite so if your still playing that souless cashgrab then I think we got bigger proplems

  • @ajaxmaxbitch

    @ajaxmaxbitch

    2 жыл бұрын

    I thought they're still is free v bucks?

  • @apaceofchange94
    @apaceofchange943 жыл бұрын

    Sure did call everything with cyberpunk

  • @AdonanS
    @AdonanS Жыл бұрын

    Gods, I miss flash games.

  • @MrRhysReviews
    @MrRhysReviews2 жыл бұрын

    Umm EXCUUUUUUSE ME... I believe we called it DLC "Disc Locked Content" 😂

  • @stell2cycle764

    @stell2cycle764

    Жыл бұрын

    DownLoadable Content

  • @ElPatron42069
    @ElPatron420692 жыл бұрын

    I never played that Kirby game but it looks hella fun

  • @ssjswag4673
    @ssjswag46732 жыл бұрын

    27:00 here from 2021 to say Cyber punk was the best disappointment I've experienced in the pass 10 years of gaming

  • @tim6454
    @tim64543 жыл бұрын

    I feel like we grew up together sometimes when you talk

  • @sigma_delta
    @sigma_delta2 жыл бұрын

    wow, this video has a lot of balls, i like this synthethic youtuber 👍

  • @WeatheringwithAtlas
    @WeatheringwithAtlas2 жыл бұрын

    You basically have to buy 2 packs regardless too like "this skin is 1100 points!" But the packs are 10$ 1000 points $20 for 2100 points

  • @KyngD469
    @KyngD4692 жыл бұрын

    Yoooooo custom robo!!!

  • @darthbigred22
    @darthbigred222 жыл бұрын

    Whoa whoa whoa on consoles we had Dynasty Warriors extreme legends first that was like 02-03

  • @kavky
    @kavky2 жыл бұрын

    About DLC that was pretty much a standalone game and well regarded, I remember Total War Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai. I know you've said strategy games are not your thing but to me that was pretty schway, Fall of the Samurai expansion I remember was half the price of Shogun 2 and it had way more content and could even be played without Shogun 2.

  • @narshkajke
    @narshkajke3 жыл бұрын

    where's the custom robo review?

  • @kvj1989
    @kvj19892 жыл бұрын

    Rather be a SP 'filthy' casuel then a MP 'tryhard'

  • @Cxdfc
    @Cxdfc2 жыл бұрын

    Wouldn’t the First DLC be when you could lock on Tech Sega Genesis to play as Knuckles in Sonic 1?

  • @ajaxmaxbitch

    @ajaxmaxbitch

    2 жыл бұрын

    I don't think you could ever play knuckles in sonic 1

  • @ajaxmaxbitch

    @ajaxmaxbitch

    2 жыл бұрын

    And that's not dlc if you're talking about the sonic & Knuckles lock on cartridge

  • @FaisalGH002
    @FaisalGH0023 жыл бұрын

    Lmao I member kirby airride, was a fun game to play after hours of Melee.

  • @samuraiedge9761
    @samuraiedge97613 жыл бұрын

    « if they fuck up even slightly with cyberpunk its gonna piss a lot of people »

  • @user-hl2ho8oc5l
    @user-hl2ho8oc5l2 жыл бұрын

    What is the game right on the beginning?

  • @stevenrith2386
    @stevenrith23863 жыл бұрын

    Did you get ads sense or this video got copyrighted ?

  • @SyntheticMan

    @SyntheticMan

    3 жыл бұрын

    After altering the mvc3 clip it got monetized, yeah

  • @johnkingston1337
    @johnkingston13372 жыл бұрын

    I’ve only ever bought DLC for three games: Crusader Kings II, Skyrim and COD WAW: It takes a very special game to earn more of my money.

  • @XclawX213
    @XclawX2133 жыл бұрын

    Watching this after cyberpunk 2077 comes out, I am so disappointed XD

  • @justinstoll4955

    @justinstoll4955

    3 жыл бұрын

    His flaying of Cyberclunk 2077 was the first review I heard or read which echoed my feelings. Act Man ended up also calling Cyberpunk trash.

  • @Monkeyman-qt1sm
    @Monkeyman-qt1sm2 жыл бұрын

    Omfg I forgot about the online passes, what a terrible idea

  • @Bobmcjoepants
    @Bobmcjoepants Жыл бұрын

    No ones going to say it? Alright well, good use of the Lumbridge theme

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