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  • čas přidán 15. 08. 2024
  • Asmongold Reacts to Diаblо Immоrtаl for the very last time.
    Who at Blizzard thought it was a good idea!? 0:00
    Diаblо Immоrtаl Revenue Leaked 4:12
    Activision-Blizzard Investigated Itself.. 7:45
    $25,000 NZD for 1 Diablo Im9mortal Gem 9:06
    Diаblо Immоrtаl Free Player Attacked by Quin 9:26
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  • @Bongoslam
    @Bongoslam Před 2 lety +368

    I love that Diablo Immortal defender. "Mobile games are predatory so it's ok that this mobile game is predatory"

    • @brilobox2
      @brilobox2 Před 2 lety +33

      ‘Mobile gaming is trash cash vampirism timewasters, that’s just how it is bro’.

    • @franchstar1
      @franchstar1 Před 2 lety +23

      @@gringoboy701 what cycle?

    • @joeblack5253
      @joeblack5253 Před 2 lety +21

      @@gringoboy701 how much exactly asmon donated in the game? I consider less then 10k. So how many ppl watching asmon? If they wont pay, how much are blizz loses?

    • @Graphaeli
      @Graphaeli Před 2 lety +6

      @@gringoboy701 L

    • @unifyabor7142
      @unifyabor7142 Před 2 lety

      Predatory VS a military squad of just a few

  • @Kirisame312
    @Kirisame312 Před 2 lety +4572

    Diablo Immortal is pay to win, but free to watch. All the commentary has been incredibly entertaining.

    • @rightful4973
      @rightful4973 Před 2 lety +63

      It’s repetitive honestly. It’s either delusional takes from people somehow praising the game OR the usual list of reasons we all know the games dogshit. I honestly haven’t seen an in between conversation as far as commentary goes.

    • @notaninconspicuoususername6065
      @notaninconspicuoususername6065 Před 2 lety +182

      Free to win. I feel like a winner every minute I'm not playing Diablo Immoral.

    • @OGK_Kash
      @OGK_Kash Před 2 lety +35

      @@rightful4973 because this isn't an 'in-between" issue.

    • @cr0wN_
      @cr0wN_ Před 2 lety +24

      @@notaninconspicuoususername6065 I feel amazing that I just cleared entire story in 2 days and uninstalled it.

    • @h.s.6037
      @h.s.6037 Před 2 lety +7

      Between this and Amber Heard going down in flame... I can't decide which one is the most entertaining.

  • @avenderiel
    @avenderiel Před 2 lety +295

    Ironic that in the decades old battle against Diablo, evil incarnate, it turns out that the last boss is Blizzard itself.
    Sounds like one of their usual "plot twists" actually.

    • @GooeyEngineer
      @GooeyEngineer Před 2 lety +1

      Blizzard going full “lady in the water”

    • @Raven777777777777777
      @Raven777777777777777 Před 2 lety +15

      Looking forward to that Diablo game where Diablo, Mephisto and Baal joins us to defeat Activision-Blizzard.

    • @Mangaka-ml6xo
      @Mangaka-ml6xo Před 2 lety +3

      In the lore, isn't Diablo the Lord of Lies ? which make those posts really funny if they're real.

    • @nyloaf
      @nyloaf Před 2 lety +1

      Turns out the real enemy was Greed

    • @Parlisko
      @Parlisko Před 2 lety +3

      @@Mangaka-ml6xo Diablo is the Lord of Terror. Meaning he can not feel fear. The one you're thinking about is Belial, the Lord of Lies.

  • @ItstheJunit
    @ItstheJunit Před 2 lety +72

    Its hard for addicts to come to terms with reality Asmon; The issue is every time they are defending their drug of choice and when it comes time to rationalize it they can't do so properly. The game is what it is and it needs controls for children to not fall into the trap of predatory gambling.

    • @morgans1262
      @morgans1262 Před 2 lety +1

      Exactly, many of these games are just straight gambling

    • @gregorysmillie2008
      @gregorysmillie2008 Před 2 lety +3

      Guys like Stew also make thier money off these games. So they are gonna either defend them to the last or have some goddamn integrity like Techtone and tell you exactly what they are upfront and clearly Stew has none.

  • @alexandermartinez732
    @alexandermartinez732 Před 2 lety +797

    “It’s not P2W if you never win!” That is unironically the funniest phrase I’ve heard come out of the diablo memes because of the layer to it

    • @Ryuzaki712
      @Ryuzaki712 Před 2 lety +20

      pay to think u can win?

    • @fletchhunter8915
      @fletchhunter8915 Před 2 lety +5

      Pay to take. You pay they take. Also known as Heads I win tails you lose, you can flip

    • @nicomilord
      @nicomilord Před 2 lety +2

      HAHAHA they can't even win even tho they are paying therefore not p2w Lmfao

    • @Beedulgi99
      @Beedulgi99 Před 2 lety +9

      Finally, pay to lose!

    • @Kindi001
      @Kindi001 Před 2 lety +2

      pay to shame lol

  • @Evelaraevia
    @Evelaraevia Před 2 lety +392

    Stew literally skipped over the part of quin saying that "studies show most whales are at risk gamblers and not people who can actually afford it." and stew had 0 response to that. That's pretty damning evidence to me that this shit is predatory.

    • @billbadson7598
      @billbadson7598 Před 2 lety +21

      This is how you know evil exists in the world

    • @shlongbongchewy
      @shlongbongchewy Před 2 lety +15

      @@billbadson7598 and the slavery, sweat shops, child trafficking, sex trafficking. But also this

    • @MiCHU.94
      @MiCHU.94 Před 2 lety +2

      @@shlongbongchewy and all this you have in blizzard quarter

    • @zarthax1750
      @zarthax1750 Před 2 lety +3

      @@gordonlove5121 they aren't saying that this isn't bad they were saying that choosing this as the reason you know evil exists over all the other fucked up shit is a bit weird no one is saying this isn't evil just not really the benchmark for evil or the best and most decisive evidence to the fact that evil exists.

    • @shionkreth7536
      @shionkreth7536 Před 2 lety +4

      @@zarthax1750 Yes, but THOSE organizations aren't local and public, like this is. This is right out in the open for everyone to see; the company, itself, publicly mocking criticisms of it.

  • @Darayavahusan
    @Darayavahusan Před 2 lety +30

    I work in the online gambling and I can say with absolute certainty that Diablo immortal is essentially indistinguishable (for the human brain) form a complex slot game for kids. I would testify that in court if someone called me as an expert witness.

  • @doowtnehpets
    @doowtnehpets Před 2 lety +84

    I grew up on Blizzard games. I remember playing Warcraft 2 and StarCraft with my buddy on dial up all the time. LAN parties playing Diablo 2 late into the night. They inspired me and my friends. In high school me and my friend took programming classes and wanted to start a company like Blizzard. We were going to call it R&S Entertainment. It saddens me what they've turned into. I hope no young developers aspire to be anything like the company they've become.

    • @vitorprocopio6796
      @vitorprocopio6796 Před 2 lety

      i agree, i feel the same stephen, it would just change the country but it would be the same history as mine. It looks like they brought people from Market like banks and etc to work in Games companies/producers and it has become this shit

    • @vitorprocopio6796
      @vitorprocopio6796 Před 2 lety +1

      @@DD-ym3nk because this is the way the "games" are going, games are becomeing pay to win, and Diablo was something that fans never would think that would choose/follow this way.

    • @SmurfKenny
      @SmurfKenny Před 2 lety +1

      @@DD-ym3nk Gambling for kids! Is it ok for you? There is like 0% doubt that they market games for kids! There is also 100% proven that they have used addiction and behavior experts to maximize the extortion of weak-minded, young, and inexperienced people.
      Also, the real Diablo fans deserve something much better, also on mobile!

    • @onurcandemirbilek4874
      @onurcandemirbilek4874 Před 2 lety +1

      I remember those days. Me and a few of my friends had a lot of fun at the Ian parties. I remember the photos of the blizzard office. It had gone viral back then. It looked like a great work environment. Think about it, the studio of your favorite game was a great place. Blizzard should have been a paradise :) First of all, their partnership with activision, then the harassment allegations against female employees and the addition of diablo 3 and immortal to this, the company destroyed its entire image, unfortunately.

    • @albertobernal2537
      @albertobernal2537 Před 2 lety

      The "don't you guys have mobile phones?" bit still resonates, hahahahha, Blizzard and the shitty road they had ahead back then is like Todd and his "it just works"-Gamebryo engine.
      It's called auto-flatulatitis: when smelling your own farts becomes harmful to your health... and stock price ;)

  • @OmniOmega
    @OmniOmega Před 2 lety +223

    How is this guy so chill about saying "Is he upset that he spent 21k and never got a 5 star gem?". The fact that people are so calm about having spent so much money, 10K 20K fucking....100k. Bruh, a fucking game should only cost about $60 at max, unless it's some bundle bullshit. There are people throwing away money that can buy a full steam library of games, or a god damn luxury car. In some cases, life changing money ... on a glorified slot machine that will lose it's value do to the next big slot machine coming up.

    • @Strongbah43
      @Strongbah43 Před 2 lety

      This is the part that is disgusting. People should be destroying these dummies for wasting 100k on trash games. "Mobile gamers" sound like gambling addicts that hate charity.

    • @killval849
      @killval849 Před 2 lety +19

      Yeah I cannot believe that it’s real.

    • @TheBones1188
      @TheBones1188 Před 2 lety +11

      Gambling is one hell of an addiction. Especially when it's a little per purchase and individual purchases can be easily justified.

    • @Metallijosh100
      @Metallijosh100 Před 2 lety +4

      For sure that bit is the most mind blowing bit, no matter what argument you want to make, for someone to spend 15K (USD) and only get "1 of the best item", and then DEFEND that in ANY way, is just wild.

    • @genuinejustin6269
      @genuinejustin6269 Před 2 lety +4

      Even if I had that kind of money which 90% of people don't, I still wouldn't put that kind of money into the game. Maybe a couple hundred at the most. And the worst part about Diablo is that people are spending literally 10s of thousands and not getting what they want.

  • @WhyDoBabiesStareAtMe
    @WhyDoBabiesStareAtMe Před 2 lety +353

    Just patronize the entire gaming community, tell them how they're supposed to enjoy things, and then tell them they're wrong when they get upset by all the predatory monitization. Surely that will win the favor of gamers!

    • @hexadroid6884
      @hexadroid6884 Před 2 lety +28

      sadly they are making more money than ever, so they don't care.

    • @WhyDoBabiesStareAtMe
      @WhyDoBabiesStareAtMe Před 2 lety +16

      @@hexadroid6884 Yep, I'm afraid you're right. People are so used to being pestered by microtransactions, and conditioned by predatory advertising practices that they are much more susceptible to getting suckered into these black holes of money disguising themselves as a game. Then there are guys like the one in the video here that have deluded themselves into thinking that pouring huge sums of cash into a game of any kinda just to progress is a good thing.

    • @enalb5085
      @enalb5085 Před 2 lety +19

      DONT ASK QUESTIONS
      CONSUME PRODUCT AND GET EXCITED FOR NEXT PRODUCT

    • @hex5874
      @hex5874 Před 2 lety +1

      asmon does the same when he says you dont need gacha to enjoy games

    • @Giliver
      @Giliver Před 2 lety +4

      Mobile Andy's don't care
      Amber herself could shit on their bed but as long as it comes with a lootboz they'd thank her and ask for me.

  • @g0kuenuan
    @g0kuenuan Před 2 lety +65

    Diablo immortal: An analogy
    Imagine a restaurant where you can enter and eat for "free". you can pay by washing dishes (no money required)
    The only thing that they don't tell you is that the food that you can eat is only the gunk you wash off the plates
    You can also eat full course meals if you pay real money to play a slot machine and hit the 777 jackpot (chances on winning are 'balanced')
    You can also watch other people eat, or have them take big massive dumps on you. that is also free

  • @SlomoStee
    @SlomoStee Před 2 lety +33

    It seems Stew is out of touch with modern marketing strategy towards children/teens and gambling with real money in games.
    Quin gives outrageous examples as he always does lol, but the meaning behind what he is saying is absolutely correct.
    The mobile gaming business model that companies are adopting (loot boxes etc) is a terrible plague that we need to stamp out before it becomes normalised.
    As gamers, we understand the industry and we need to educate parents & kids about microtransactions and gambling in games.
    Asmongold you are doing a great job at pushing back on this topic - keep up the good work dude

    • @ColdNapalm42
      @ColdNapalm42 Před 2 lety +1

      Too late. All of this IS normalized. The problem is Diablo Immortal went WAY beyond all the BS that other companies have done with their layers and layers of predatory pricing. It makes BDO and LA and every other Asian P2W grinder games look like kindergarten playtime.

    • @JCglitchmaster
      @JCglitchmaster Před 2 lety +1

      @@ColdNapalm42 was going to say the same. It's gotten so bad that the new OW2 announcement makes me want to keep lootboxes instead because it's less cancer than what it's changing to.

  • @PatrickMageez
    @PatrickMageez Před 2 lety +133

    its a sickness in the mind to think that it's acceptable for mobile games to be designed to drain your bank account

    • @getwave8041
      @getwave8041 Před 2 lety +19

      The real sickness is f2p'ing a whale's game. Playing an unfair game is one thing, but being the second class, and fodder for whales is entirely a different thing.

    • @Sanquinity
      @Sanquinity Před 2 lety

      Once upon a time, at the start of Smartphones, mobile games looked so promising. Smartphone games would be the killer of handheld consoles. Then the shady, exploitative mobile games started appearing. First slowly. And once the bigger companies started catching on faster and faster. And now we have the shitshow that is mobile games today. Even worse, people find it normal now. It's idiotic. And, for me, proof that "the average person" is a fucking moron who loves to set themselves on fire to support a company or person they like.

    • @Lobsterwithinternet
      @Lobsterwithinternet Před 2 lety +6

      That or they're too young to remember the games that you could buy on the app store and didn't require microtransactions at all.

    • @PatrickMageez
      @PatrickMageez Před 2 lety +13

      @@getwave8041 TRUE. Which I why I wont even install this garbage. I will not become a 2nd class citizen when the whole point of gaming is to actually escape the same shit IRL.

    • @OtonashiRio
      @OtonashiRio Před 2 lety

      True .

  • @aquatikcamel4034
    @aquatikcamel4034 Před 2 lety +961

    The content surrounding Diablo Immortal's disgusting monetisation has been an excellent source for entertainment 👍

    • @Phryguye
      @Phryguye Před 2 lety +13

      It's like watching car crash TV.

    • @Michael-zi2qg
      @Michael-zi2qg Před 2 lety +6

      Sad part is Blizzard wants to be taken seriously, but we are all laughing.. and its not with them

    • @Mystery_Box-
      @Mystery_Box- Před 2 lety +3

      @@Michael-zi2qg ouiiiiii belive me they laughing too : 24 milion in 2 weeks ^^

    • @user-zt9kf5cp9s
      @user-zt9kf5cp9s Před 2 lety +3

      let me generalize: the drama surrounding blizzard entertainment for the past like 5 years or so(somewhere around the release of BFA or so) has been an excellent source for entertainment

    • @isaacgame7304
      @isaacgame7304 Před 2 lety +1

      Excellent source of content farming*

  • @slydexxter8737
    @slydexxter8737 Před 2 lety +34

    I played through diablo immortal, I had completed the story, I done multiple rifts side quest, got beyond lucky winning the 1 and only time I played pvp going 5Kills/0Deaths aquired the BP being the only pur hase i had done in the game etc. I had to delete because I got to the point I started to feel I needed to excel in power because I was getting frustrated not getting powerful gear as fast as I would in d3 or d2 . The game is Hella pay to win and even in the shadow clan the leader said who ever is top in rank by july 4th in the shadow clan will get 100$ gift card which I would have been thirst as fuck to get that card and honestly if I hadn't been following asmongold my compulsiveness I would be dropping 100$ just for the one gift card. The fact that immortal wants your money and clans are pushing people secretly to drive them to spend money fucking sucks and backing out was probably the smartest thing I had ever been able to do .

    • @x0gucx
      @x0gucx Před 2 lety +1

      There are apparently clans actively kicking members who don't spend money because they know they are bringing them down.

    • @slydexxter8737
      @slydexxter8737 Před 2 lety +3

      @@x0gucx yeah the shadow clan i use to be with but still had a discord before booting me after realizing i left the clan 3 days later was telling people they needed to start buying the 100$ legendary crest pack every paycheck or what ever was left over from Their checks after bills and removed anyone with no job

  • @tacotuesdaygaming3926
    @tacotuesdaygaming3926 Před 2 lety +35

    Quin was on the right track with the casino analogy, it's free to go in but it's gonna cost you to have fun.

    • @joshualayfield768
      @joshualayfield768 Před 2 lety

      Facts he was spot on.

    • @antssaar863
      @antssaar863 Před 2 lety

      "Entropia universe" its literal mmo casino (thou you can technicaly win money and take it out. There used to be people who made living there just trading), it makes diablo immorals look cheap to max. For 100k You can get maybe mothership, some decent (but not best) gear/weapon and some ammo.. You would still be decades and milions of euros away from maxing anything :P If You want feel like kraken there, they asked bout 3mil dollars for Your own planet (probably cheaper to buy one that already exsist and modify it to Your liking). There are monetysasion tricks in entropia that even blizzard have not figured out yet 0_O

    • @justsomerandomasiandude4111
      @justsomerandomasiandude4111 Před 2 lety +1

      yes its is just like a casino, BUT do you let your children go to those casino? I agree that parents need to monitored their child more closely but it also need someone to decided what kind of game should those kids can reach. its goes both way you know?
      Using ad that have gambling elements on kids contents is stupid, cause they're kids so wtf does they know about it. Sooner or later some of them gonna blow a 10k or maybe 20k on daily in those games and after that the addiction will kick in. Then its just gonna go down more.

    • @antssaar863
      @antssaar863 Před 2 lety

      @@justsomerandomasiandude4111 I didnt protect diablo, quite oposite XD Just pointed out theres even worse version of online casino that even blzzard could learn. I havent playd blizzard games past 6 or 7 years. And only playd warcraft 2 exstensivly and heartsone, when it came out.

    • @justsomerandomasiandude4111
      @justsomerandomasiandude4111 Před 2 lety +2

      @@antssaar863 bro... I was replying to that Taco guy 😂, forgot to tag him in the comment 😅

  • @tenabletheory
    @tenabletheory Před 2 lety +240

    I think these guys are trying to justify their own gambling addiction. They're upset people are trying to take away their fix. Spending 100k on loot boxes for a game is not healthy no matter how you try to frame it.

    • @MusicalMadman1two3
      @MusicalMadman1two3 Před 2 lety

      LP

    • @bentucker2301
      @bentucker2301 Před 2 lety +2

      Yeah that's the, it's a mobile game, line.

    • @kalych4037
      @kalych4037 Před 2 lety +2

      Those whales dont look upset, they look calm and happy. Upset are people who try to dictate how those whales should spend their money.

    • @hallow6763
      @hallow6763 Před 2 lety +9

      @@kalych4037 they look happy cause they get in to their addiction you will also see an Heroin addict happy when he gets his hit, does that make him over all happy tho? I doubt it

    • @mattr.1804
      @mattr.1804 Před 2 lety +10

      @@kalych4037 every addict is happy when consistently obtaining their fix. The unhappiness comes when the fix is no longer available/affordable.

  • @bellenber
    @bellenber Před 2 lety +271

    Diablo Immortal has become the gift that keeps on giving, endless entertainment without having to pay a dime. Who knew I never had to play it be entertained.

  • @jeremymorse43
    @jeremymorse43 Před 2 lety +25

    This dude is clearly going in the opposite direction for the same drama chase he blames you for. Also Quinn's annalgy is great. It's not about the gambling it's about the drug dealer tactics the game is pushing. Free samples in the guise of daily log in rewards. Then dangle killer deals to get you hooked and once hooked they offer more and more of the drug untill they don't need to market it to you anymore because you come looking for the fix. Simple addiction logic.

    • @x0gucx
      @x0gucx Před 2 lety +5

      But he'll just blame that on the guy for his unintelligible accent that uses clear English words, never once did I get lost by the guy.

    • @chalkboard-4649
      @chalkboard-4649 Před 2 lety

      Don’t have to buy nothing

    • @jeremymorse43
      @jeremymorse43 Před 2 lety

      @@chalkboard-4649 didn't say you had to buy anything. Pointing out The tactics to hook you into buying something. Don't have to buy nothing as you say i a non defence. You can make that case for any and all bull shit. Try using your brain a bit instead of leaving it in the drawer to collect dust. Take it out play with it treat it to a book once in a while.

    • @waterbender6288
      @waterbender6288 Před 2 lety

      @@chalkboard-4649 yeah but your game experience is severely hampered if you don’t buy anything or play into the gacha mechanics. Look at warframe for example, lots of monetize, 0 gambling. In fact a while back they had a gambling system that let you roll for your dogs fur pattern, saw that one guy spent like hundreds of dollars on it and got rid of it. Like it really isn’t hard to have a good f2p game that makes money and doesn’t rely on gambling.

  • @alg3249
    @alg3249 Před 2 lety +18

    They need to make a reality tv show where they group up game developers in a house for a year or so to make an MMO and the challenges are to put viewers requests in there and to agree on different things to put in the game and if the game is successful they hold the job titles + pay...like they have a character design challenge and they vote on who gets cut for the worst one.

    • @vlecxius
      @vlecxius Před 2 lety

      Can you imagine how a show like that would go? One getting cut off for having the worst character and the guy going: "without me, there won't ever be another character possible!". Most shows like this are heavily scripted, but I feel like with Blizzard developers there would be no need for a script. They are naturally childish.

    • @TitanSubZero15
      @TitanSubZero15 Před 2 lety

      So basically hold a show for developers to win a job as game devs (which doesn't pay much to begin with) to make a MMO game in a year (impossible)? What world do you live in?

  • @kevinupton900
    @kevinupton900 Před 2 lety +100

    “It’s not pay to win if you never win!” Laugh my ass off gold

  • @Hey_Mister
    @Hey_Mister Před 2 lety +15

    HE PANICKED!
    27:41 : Pauses exactly when a study was going to be mentioned.
    29:17 : Skipped forwards after derailing the conversation, skipping the argument entirely.

    • @mattr.1804
      @mattr.1804 Před 2 lety +4

      Yep; this dude is a total joke. I hope he drives himself to bankruptcy again because of this game.

  • @Shajirr_
    @Shajirr_ Před 2 lety +6

    "you would never even consider purchasing anything", except that we also made the entire UI push our cash-shop super-hard at every opportunity we can...

  • @Shajirr_
    @Shajirr_ Před 2 lety +6

    Never in my life back when I still played Diablo II I would have imagined that Blizzard would turn into one of the shittiest game devs companies in the future, betraying everyone...

  • @Craider79
    @Craider79 Před 2 lety +63

    As a dad of an 8 year old I can tell you this: YES Diablo Immortal has adds running in every damn piece of kids media. It's actually insane! Where are the god damn lawmakers?!

    • @Evision5
      @Evision5 Před 2 lety +4

      Well, Ted Cruz would like to talk with Asmon. So there's that if it actually happens. That might be the only shot we get.

    • @kaydens6964
      @kaydens6964 Před 2 lety

      It’s a free game, if your kid steals your credit card for it, then you have failed parenting.

    • @comfyblue11
      @comfyblue11 Před 2 lety

      in my yard

    • @bhec7715
      @bhec7715 Před 2 lety

      I’m with you until you call for daddy government. Just effing be a parent: problem solved… wow your kid gets ads for Diablo. Oh, the humanity! I swear, It’s people like you that ruin, literally everything, and bring government into everything. Meanwhile, the problem is easily solvable. Don’t let your kid buy IAP’s…wow, so damn hard…

    • @nom6758
      @nom6758 Před 2 lety

      @@kaydens6964 ah yes, blame the parent for blizzard phychologically manipulating their children (manipulation which was tailored to prey on undeveloped brains by real psychologists) to steal their credit card (which means behind their back). You really shut your brain off on that one, you seem to be trained well.

  • @JoeManLuke
    @JoeManLuke Před 2 lety +81

    I absolutely despise that condescending attitude that people like Stew have. They aren't having a commentary. They aren't trying to listen to arguments and understand and refute, they are just having a laugh from their own bubble. Him talking about echo chambers from being a big streamer was so ironic as he sits there being validated by his own chat and getting donations. He's literally doing the exact thing he's talking about and doesn't even see it. Its painfully obvious that he's just fishing out buzzwords from Quinn's video and not even trying to understand the context.

    • @psihopats666
      @psihopats666 Před 2 lety

      First videos asmon watched from this guy i was like yea whatever, but now i think Stew is just full on braindead... i cant even...

    • @kalych4037
      @kalych4037 Před 2 lety +1

      You are same for people like Stew. You dont listen to what he says, you just try to force your opinion to him and you dont even see that you do exactly what you hate about him.

    • @MagicalMedic
      @MagicalMedic Před 2 lety +20

      @@kalych4037 That's a lot of assumptions. 🙃

    • @kirkvanallen5202
      @kirkvanallen5202 Před 2 lety +13

      @@kalych4037 someone’s spent a lot on Diablo immortal and is upset people dislike the game he blew a phat stack on.

    • @kalych4037
      @kalych4037 Před 2 lety

      @@MagicalMedic That is what Stew thinks about all his haters.

  • @gabrielgodinho6033
    @gabrielgodinho6033 Před 2 lety +8

    "If you decided to pay, you would get there a little bit faster"
    Thats called pay to win

    • @akaxjenkins
      @akaxjenkins Před 2 lety +4

      and it's not a little bit. 10 legendary crests(the bound ones because the not bound ones are not possible without paying) take literal months to get and 10 crests are nothing.

    • @gabrielgodinho6033
      @gabrielgodinho6033 Před 2 lety +1

      @@akaxjenkins its absolutely ridiculous, and they give this bs corporate response... not to mention all the currencies and the fact you get stuck at a certain level ,so you pay to not grind

  • @IronCactuar
    @IronCactuar Před 2 lety +10

    Never heard of this Stew guy before today, and I have never known a guy to be so wrong about everything

  • @TopObject
    @TopObject Před 2 lety +344

    As someone with first hand experience in gaming retail, F2P models like diablo immortal have driven me crazy. I have had multiple parents return to my store after losing thousands of dollars in games with lootbox mechanics or microtransactions. Their child convinces them to add their credit cards to their account without the parent knowing the available security measures to protect themselves from "unauthorised" purchases.
    This could be for a one-off purchase such as a special skin or to access things such as subscription services. The parents think hey its only $5, and it gets my child of my back for a few minutes and makes them happy.
    This is where its already to late.
    The child then sees another skin or "chance to win" an item they want or "i need to get this item because im stuck in the game and dont feel like im progressing, and the game just told me its a great deal" and they know that their parents card details are already saved in the game.
    Surely their parents wont notice another $5 missing? proceed with payment.
    How many and how often do new skins, dances, emotes appear in these games? The child is not concerned with the actual physical cost involved, it sounds crazy but they dont understand or cant make the connection that all those $5 payments add up, they only see a Item that they need/want.
    Whilst I wont give exact details, one lovely customer had their son spend in the area of $1500 over the course of a couple of months to a ForkKnife game, the child only saw skins that he wanted cause his friends didnt have and he wanted to be unique and special, his mother didnt realise till she received her bank statement.

    • @caenir
      @caenir Před 2 lety +11

      This isn't directly related, but with online banking I'm checking my account a few times a week. I don't even have much coming out or leaving, maybe like 5 things a week (both income and outcome).
      I guess it'd be hard looking at it if you don't have much in there, but once it's setup it takes like 3 seconds to login. Don't use app, just use website.

    • @k4yser
      @k4yser Před 2 lety +38

      Why would any reasonable parent add credit card information to anything their child is doing, especially in games? They deserve the blame to some extent.

    • @Vikt0rian
      @Vikt0rian Před 2 lety +20

      @@k4yser Why would a parent think their child is incapable of doing harm to others. They bring up arguments like "My child is different.", "My child would never do such a thing.", "I raised my child properly, the other parents just didn't raise their children properly."

    • @Oldlard
      @Oldlard Před 2 lety +34

      @@k4yser they just think they are making one purchase. They don’t realise that the details stay associated with the account and their kids can just keep buying stuff afterwards.

    • @weeveferrelaine6973
      @weeveferrelaine6973 Před 2 lety +25

      As a game programmer, I hate the way mobile apps are being designed. So much of them are essentially coded progression addiction cycles, with a few images and some text to make it look more like a game.
      I really appreciate the indy game scene, where people still want to make games "fun", not just "increased playtime/engagement metrics". It may be less profitable, but it has a lot more heart.

  • @davidebranchet3415
    @davidebranchet3415 Před 2 lety +70

    The real problem here is that people continue to call it "gaming" when it's "gambling". There only difference between a slot machine and diablo immoral is that the later lets you spin for free but without the possibility of winning.

    • @cameronrob5491
      @cameronrob5491 Před 2 lety +15

      Ironically the gambling industry calls themselves the gaming industry too

    • @x0gucx
      @x0gucx Před 2 lety +3

      "But that's just mobile gaming. It's supposed to be polluted in gambling." -stew and other whale pods (whales that go from game to game making different whale accounts for each)

    • @LantanaLiz
      @LantanaLiz Před 2 lety +1

      @@cameronrob5491 You said it before I did! Gambling does call itself the gaming industry and the gap between games and video games is rapidly closing.

    • @LeSyd1984
      @LeSyd1984 Před 2 lety

      Gaming is the activity. A gamer wants to play...
      Gambling is the addiction. A gambler has to play...
      Little nuance but both term can be applied on both industries.

    • @kobzie_16
      @kobzie_16 Před 2 lety

      Well said. I worry for people who can’t see that.

  • @snowieken
    @snowieken Před 2 lety +18

    Being from Belgium, I was kinda bummed when I lost access to buying lootboxes in Overwatch. It felt a bit patronizing how I, a working adult, couldn't choose what I would spend my money on. Now that I see how Diablo Immortal has turned out, I completely understand why that law was created and I applaud my country greatly for it.

    • @bradysward11
      @bradysward11 Před 2 lety

      nice

    • @avenderiel
      @avenderiel Před 2 lety

      How does that work, do you guys get a different version of the game?

    • @ralphritnpeirdje5816
      @ralphritnpeirdje5816 Před 2 lety +2

      @@avenderiel no we can’t download it here in Belgium since blizzard decided not to make an alternative version. Was a bit annoyed at first but didn’t bother to much. Now i fully understand why

    • @snowieken
      @snowieken Před 2 lety

      @@avenderiel and as to OW, we can play it, we just can't buy lootboxes.

    • @Cernunn0s90
      @Cernunn0s90 Před 2 lety +1

      Good riddance. I hope my country follows!

  • @r0xteddy528
    @r0xteddy528 Před 2 lety +3

    21:40 I forget all my problems and drama , I almost died 😂😂😂

  • @Lyfe_Yasharahla
    @Lyfe_Yasharahla Před 2 lety +67

    "I don't know where to start mocking this" 😂🥇

  • @upstateanglingadventures3315

    The " it's not pay to win if you never win" mentality matches up with blizzards "it's not broken if everything is broken" mentality towards wow pvp 😂

  • @milosradakovic8461
    @milosradakovic8461 Před 2 lety +13

    The reasons this guy so passionately defends this game is because :a) he had invested so much money into it he cannot stand that it is being ridiculed, or b) he is paid by Blizz

    • @x0gucx
      @x0gucx Před 2 lety +2

      Neither it's c) he's just that far gone into "that's mobile gaming" mentality. His other videos really support c)

    • @chalkboard-4649
      @chalkboard-4649 Před 2 lety +1

      Or just play the game and stop getting tempted by shiny things

    • @peppermintgal4302
      @peppermintgal4302 Před 2 lety

      A) is not unreasonable at all. (Neither is b) to be fair, but I'm going somewhere with this.) Cost sunk fallacy isn't *simply* a fallacy, (well, an informal fallacy, really,) but it's a cognitive bias. The more you sink into something, the harder it can get to disengage with it. Scientology hooks people using this bias, (they get you to waste time on a psychology test, which itself is a sunk cost,) and its deceptively strong.

    • @peppermintgal4302
      @peppermintgal4302 Před 2 lety

      @@chalkboard-4649 Some people have addictive personalities, dude. Its even genetic for some. It's not something people control.

    • @chalkboard-4649
      @chalkboard-4649 Před 2 lety

      @@peppermintgal4302 sounds like a personal problem, dude. Lol

  • @1Patrick
    @1Patrick Před rokem +1

    Blizzard: _Does a horrible thing_
    Random person out of a million: You're doing a great job!
    Blizzard: See, this guy is the only one who gets it!

  • @Durbit428
    @Durbit428 Před 2 lety +22

    Blizzard went from assaulting the employees to assaulting the customers.

    • @NateTheGreat368
      @NateTheGreat368 Před 2 lety +1

      What will their apology be now? Will they change the name of another character and call it a day??

  • @CaptWinky
    @CaptWinky Před 2 lety +240

    This guy should be getting a check from blizzard. He’s working so hard for them.

    • @reactionninja5819
      @reactionninja5819 Před 2 lety +11

      He has to be getting paid. I don’t think anyone would defend predators this freely without money being involved.

    • @PlaytheListDude
      @PlaytheListDude Před 2 lety +17

      @@reactionninja5819 "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor

    • @jordantyers108
      @jordantyers108 Před 2 lety +12

      think that bald guy is intentionally trying to wind everyone in the world up with his bad takes. you'd have to have a negative IQ to think diablo immortal is not p2w

    • @Tecolote41
      @Tecolote41 Před 2 lety +2

      @@jordantyers108 But he does believe it is p2w…

    • @jordantyers108
      @jordantyers108 Před 2 lety

      @@Tecolote41 I would hope for humanity sake he’s just acting for views or something

  • @mikeoxlong3676
    @mikeoxlong3676 Před 2 lety +1

    Quinn's analogy does not suck. The dopamine hit you get from getting a legendary item is comparable to heroin.

  • @skillcosby3095
    @skillcosby3095 Před 2 lety +3

    I wonder if the bald guy would let one of his kids play diablo immortal with his credit card in hand.

  • @xLionsxxSmithyx
    @xLionsxxSmithyx Před 2 lety +132

    The funny word play about "Never intentionally ignored" is them basically saying "we didn't mean to ignore it we just chose not to notice it and looked away when it was happening so that we could pretend we weren't liable for it"
    it isn't a denial of it happening, it's just a refusal to accept responsibility for it.
    As for Diablo immoral getting over 5 million downloads just imagine how many times it's been deleted too.
    For a "fr33 tW0 pL4y" (I wrote it like that because it's simply not free to play because as of right now it's "Pay to compete" with almost no incentives for anyone to bother playing if they don't plan on spending money) anyways for a ""F2P"" Mobile game it's failing in the market but the thing about mobile games such as Diablo (and there's thousands of them) is that they will always be profitable because there's millions of idiots in the world...
    I want to add that when everyone talks about this game they should address it by it's true name "Diablo immoral" and not "Immortal".

    • @CrzyLion
      @CrzyLion Před 2 lety

      step 1: hire jeff
      step 2: explain to jeff that his job is to arrange what the senior execs get to see during their meetings and explain to him *exactly* what that means
      step 3: goddamnit jeff you never told us? aw shucks thats too bad we'll have to fire jeff (whos contract has a clause now making him a millionaire) and hire bob

    • @slimfastsubaru2043
      @slimfastsubaru2043 Před 2 lety +1

      I wonder how many people were like me. I downloaded the game overnight, watched a vid in the morning, uninstalled it before even launching it. May have boosted the dl count without actually playing the shit game

    • @x0gucx
      @x0gucx Před 2 lety +1

      @@slimfastsubaru2043
      I downloaded for the argument of I played f2p and it's sh*t but I never launch it because I have no reason to. I can spend my time in so many other ways than just grinding for 13hrs to get to an endgame that says "f*ck you for not spending money"

  • @npc1374
    @npc1374 Před 2 lety +19

    Blizzard 2018: "do you guys not have phones?"
    Blizzard 2022: "do you guys not have credit cards?"

    • @Avatar_of_Chairness
      @Avatar_of_Chairness Před 2 lety +2

      Also Blizzard 2022: Do you guys not have trust funds?

    • @ironelemental9367
      @ironelemental9367 Před 2 lety +2

      Fans reaction: "Do you not have shame?"

    • @bunnybreaker
      @bunnybreaker Před 2 lety +1

      @@Avatar_of_Chairness More like "Don't you trust us with your funds?" 😋

    • @ironelemental9367
      @ironelemental9367 Před 2 lety

      @@RiseInAfterlife Blizzard cant have my money. Im Dutch😎

  • @Motyogo
    @Motyogo Před 2 lety +4

    After all these years I'm starting to belive that Blizzard has mastered and specialised on one genre: drama

  • @sabayonz
    @sabayonz Před 2 lety +2

    Corporate : we did it boys, we got a lot of number.
    Developer who genuinely love diablo : but at what cost?!!! :(

  • @okamichamploo
    @okamichamploo Před 2 lety +76

    11:30 I love how he hears the analogy of how you DONT have to pay to enter a casino, just like you DONT have to pay to play Diablo Immortal, but you are essentially in the middle of a casino, and then he ignores that point completely and responds to the opposite of what he actually said.

    • @dadthewiseplays
      @dadthewiseplays Před 2 lety +13

      Because he doesn't have a real rebuttal, except "that is how mobile gaming is!"

    • @x0gucx
      @x0gucx Před 2 lety +8

      The part that got me is when he started exclaiming how chill he is after dissing the guy's accent and disavowing all his statements because of it.

    • @Doomweapon66
      @Doomweapon66 Před 2 lety +9

      @@x0gucx Quinn is a New Zealander right? He's got a "legible" accent with his English imho. As soon as I heard Stew try to pull the "I have no idea what he's saying because of his accent" and basically try to invalidate everything Quinn said, my mind instantly said that Stew was acting a little "r..ist" with that response.

    • @b1nary_f1nary
      @b1nary_f1nary Před 2 lety

      That was starting to get painful when he just pretends that he opposite thing has just been said

    • @x0gucx
      @x0gucx Před 2 lety +2

      @@Doomweapon66
      "I don't understand most of what he's saying"
      Yet you still respond to his analogies just fine but then again all of them misunderstood or misconstrued.

  • @davidfeliciano4329
    @davidfeliciano4329 Před 2 lety +157

    This is VERY interesting and honestly something I wasn’t really aware of until Diablo Immortal.
    These guys, these “mobile gamers”, as they have self identified, have thoroughly and completely convinced themselves that the ONLY way to enjoy their mobile games is completely dictated by the spending power of their wallet. To them, a mobile game is a game where you MUST spend in order to enjoy it. They hold it like a badge of honor. These are the rules for mobile games and they cannot be different. I’m curious, would they still play the game if it was free? Like actually free? Or is it the act of spending money that they enjoy? And if it is in fact that, can’t they then see why that is a problem?

    • @kalych4037
      @kalych4037 Před 2 lety +7

      Now imagine that mobile gaming is by far biggest gaming worldvide scene, bigger than PC + Console combined. So releasing Diablo Immortal really opened eyes to a lot of people who lived in their small PC bubble.

    • @VarietyGamerChannel
      @VarietyGamerChannel Před 2 lety +22

      @@kalych4037 And consider also that mobile gaming is by far most popular with kids. It's unironically over. We're all going to die.

    • @khronin
      @khronin Před 2 lety

      No many are ego maniacs that like ruining the game for others--go look at asmons videos--he has a whale that is laughing like the joker while obliterating people in PVP--no skill they should let these whales fight themselves in PVP--it is also unfair to the casual gamer that does spend some money only to get utterly and mathematically destroyed by some idiot spending thousands on it--p2 win is nothing more then cheating.

    • @kalych4037
      @kalych4037 Před 2 lety +1

      ​@@khronin That whale was Rich, Asmons friend and streamer who plays every gacha. Hard to tell how much of his laugh was faking for cotnent and how much enjoyment of slaying other players but it was also wery low rank where most players wasnt much experienced yet. There is some matchmaking in Diablo Immortal that will pair players based of gear and winrate. When i played pvp in DI i reached silver 2 with 50% winrate and i spent 9 Euro so i was small fish but i never felt like game was more unfair than for example League of Legends.

    • @jimhalpert3409
      @jimhalpert3409 Před 2 lety +14

      @@VarietyGamerChannel exactly mobile gaming which guaranteed has waaaayyyy more children and just children in general playing these games especially clash of clans where you pay $100 for cool 500 gems to upgrade your cool base. It’s insane. They’re literally trying to make children future gamblers wasting moneys for a game they won’t touch ever again in a month. I would’ve figured it’d be completely illegal if it weren’t a mature game but the government old hags can’t grasp their heads over technology better than a flip phone.

  • @dustywoood
    @dustywoood Před 2 lety +1

    5:55 - as a New Zealander, my ears perked up after hearing someone mention our forgotten nation - unsure of the context but whakayeah NZ

  • @serket6807
    @serket6807 Před 2 lety +1

    Just FYI, claw machines are actually rigged. Claw machines are designed to basically roll a slot machine on how much power it provides to the claw to grip whatever you're going for. So it's dependent on how that particular arcade set up that claw machine.

    • @metamon2704
      @metamon2704 Před 2 lety

      Did you watch the whole vide because he actually acknowledges that, it still takes some skill to "win" - it isn't random.

  • @TehShadowDeath
    @TehShadowDeath Před 2 lety +23

    "We checked with your bosses and we have confirmed that the game isn't pay to win" - Diablo Social Media Person
    All these people defending Diablo Immortal come across like, "I don't have an addiction.. I can' quit any time.... Just as soon as I spend another 5 grand."

    • @playgroundNW
      @playgroundNW Před 2 lety

      I played the story and enjoyed without spending a dollar 🤷🏼 whoever’s looking for solid pvp in a mobile based game, is smoking more crack than those paying to be “good” at a mobile pvp game lmfao.

    • @BeeBird
      @BeeBird Před 2 lety +2

      @@playgroundNW There is no reason why there shouldn't or coudn't be solid pvp in a mobile game. There is no reason why gambling and different currencies have to be in the game. That's why the state of the mobile market is so sad.

  • @falcor200
    @falcor200 Před 2 lety +38

    That "HERE WE GOO" bit had me crying haha 21:40

    • @3G00dboys41
      @3G00dboys41 Před 2 lety +1

      😂

    • @hansgruber9827
      @hansgruber9827 Před 2 lety +1

      Yea that shit was funny

    • @CptSupermrkt
      @CptSupermrkt Před 2 lety +1

      Holy fuck, I was crying laughing on the train looking like a psycho, that was so unexpected, lmao.

  • @airbornemuffins9385
    @airbornemuffins9385 Před 2 lety +1

    I laughed pretty hard at the addicts in chat screaming that Genshin isn't p2w the moment the sales come up, even though it is famously p2w.

  • @Thatguy-vu5iu
    @Thatguy-vu5iu Před 2 lety +1

    I love being high af and watching the world slowly burn one company at a time.

  • @ade5691
    @ade5691 Před 2 lety +75

    "It's not P2W"
    -Insert clip of Rich Campbell going 44-0 in PvP
    Yeah.... not pay to win AT ALL!

    • @michaelbeleut6480
      @michaelbeleut6480 Před 2 lety

      If you see Rich clap anyone in PvP you already know something is wrong and the game is P2W.

    • @toukoenriaze9870
      @toukoenriaze9870 Před 2 lety

      It's funny because rich even called it p2w lel

    • @BeeBird
      @BeeBird Před 2 lety

      @@omarcomming722 Yes, it preys on the natural human desire to improve oneself. It would be difficult to make a p2w system morally justifiable. I'm not even talking about gambling yet. We play games to escape reality and have fun. We can improve our characters in the game, which is inherently satisfying.
      Throwing money at something shouldn't be the way you improve at anything. And it doesn't "need" to be in any game, mobile or not.

  • @Darktotaled
    @Darktotaled Před 2 lety +36

    I understand what Stew is saying with "Its a mobile game, thats why it is like that" and thats the problem. It became accepted that mobile games are cancerous heavily monetized wallet draining "games" and "there is no problem with it"

    • @Eifion
      @Eifion Před 2 lety +1

      The thing is though is that there are multiple examples of F2P mobile games that are FAR better experiences than Diablo Immortal. While they might not be liked by absolutely everybody there are games like Azur Lane, Arknights and even Guardian Tales/Cookie Run Kingdom that all fulfill a different niche and have almost zero reason to actually spend money unless you just REALLY want a character while giving multiple ways of obtaining them for free. The only reason why I could see why someone would even play Immortal is due to the lack of mobile games that fit the Diablo experience.

    • @g.waits4gainz205
      @g.waits4gainz205 Před 2 lety

      mhmmmmmmmm

    • @Kickinoffthenoobs
      @Kickinoffthenoobs Před 2 lety

      Naah not every mobile game are like these...clash of clans is one of them...where without spending a penny u can beat highest ranker..same with codm too. Diablo is totally gambling based...where maxing out is only possible.after spending 110000 dollars.

    • @DerUberGaijan
      @DerUberGaijan Před 2 lety

      Stew is actively trying his hardest to normalize gambling and predatory monetization and pay2win in mobile games. To an extent, it has become pretty normal as far as business practices go, but he's trying to convince players that it's normal to sink hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of dollars into a mobile game, because it's a mobile game. It's a foundationless tautological argument.

    • @DerUberGaijan
      @DerUberGaijan Před 2 lety

      @@Kickinoffthenoobs Clash of Clans is 100% pay to win. Yes, you can EVENTUALLY build up your cards and beat high rankers, but you need to invest time - lots of it If someone else can just pull out their credit card and bypass all of that grinding and time, and max out every card, then that's paying to win. Do you think someone who paid to have a fully maxed out account won't have an advantage over someone who doesn't?

  • @Cav0Ledeni
    @Cav0Ledeni Před 2 lety +1

    This Stew guy is so delusional. "It's okay for all this predatory pay to win systems to be here because it is a mobile game!" what kind of thought process led you to that conclussion? "Ooh, it's okay to take heroin if it's x type of people". Are you insane?
    Baiting for drama? Stop it Stew, you're embarrasing yourself, it's just sad to look at.

  • @rieJW
    @rieJW Před 2 lety +2

    The part I’m terrified by the most is the possibility that the 24 million profit Blizzard made off microtransactions may encourage other companies to do the same

    • @aaronhumphrey3514
      @aaronhumphrey3514 Před 2 lety

      They most certainly haven’t made any profits yet.

    • @gilian2587
      @gilian2587 Před 2 lety

      They need to exceed $1 billion. $20 million won't cover their expenses.

  • @portojohny7913
    @portojohny7913 Před 2 lety +45

    Let’s just start calling mobile games “Gambling Games” so that when one of these guys says “it’s a mobile game for mobile gamers” we can translate it to “it’s a gambling game for gambling gamblers” and then we can both be right

    • @simonshura9144
      @simonshura9144 Před 2 lety

      This actually is accurate i remember spending 200$ on 3 microtransactions last week on some other mobile game

  • @vbenthusiast
    @vbenthusiast Před 2 lety +99

    This needs to be attacked relentlessly, otherwise Diablo 4 is absolutely screwed. Keep it up you crazy berserkers. Give them nothing, but take from them everything.

    • @mrgreen3002
      @mrgreen3002 Před 2 lety +14

      Diablo 4 is lost buddy

    • @NanoLT
      @NanoLT Před 2 lety +2

      There is no way Diablo 4 will have anything like the microtransactions of Immortal. Diablo 4 won't be free to play and will be PC only. Overwatch 2 is fine and it is F2P

    • @gilian2587
      @gilian2587 Před 2 lety +14

      @@NanoLT Your faith runs deep. Deeper than it should, perhaps.

    • @gonggonglive
      @gonggonglive Před 2 lety +1

      Spoken like a spartan.

    • @NanoLT
      @NanoLT Před 2 lety

      @@thecastledude7634 RMT Auctionhouse is on a different level to Diablo Immortal. They are also different mediums, phone games cannot be compared to PC games.
      SC2 is F2P and fine, WoW is pay to play and has some overpriced utility transactions but is barely P2W or anything like immortal and Overwatch 2 has ditched lootboxes entirely. Diablo Immortal is an anomaly. Unless you think microsoft and the blizzard internal purge will cause a leaning towards microstransactions?

  • @RpgBlasterRpg
    @RpgBlasterRpg Před 2 lety +1

    Dead game, keep your money for Fate Grand Order
    Diablo Immortals fools players : Virgins
    FGO players : Chads

  • @SnarkyGamers
    @SnarkyGamers Před 2 lety

    No no no that vending machine pop up is actually probably the most apt description of the crest wheel possible.

  • @lukeaxx6911
    @lukeaxx6911 Před 2 lety +68

    At this point do we even need analogies. We have statistics about the dangers and harm of gambling addiction. Diablo Immortal is a pay to win game that has had professional behavioural and addiction expert's input for the design so it can manipulate and abuse its players. Individuals who are at risk to gambling addiction (including childen/young adults) fall victim to the clever techniques of Diablo Immortal and suffer from it. We don't need analogies when just looking at reality explains the situation entierly.

  • @TheMusicolophile
    @TheMusicolophile Před 2 lety +39

    I’m seriously wondering how far these reaction to a reaction to reaction videos can be taken before it opens a portal to another realm.

    • @termnus77
      @termnus77 Před 2 lety +4

      Who is now going to react to the reaction of the reactor to the reactor reacting to the original clip? My money is on JSH

    • @kirkvanallen5202
      @kirkvanallen5202 Před 2 lety +7

      Can’t even see the gameplay just unlimited cams of the same two faces looking into your soul.

    • @og5102
      @og5102 Před 2 lety +5

      @@kirkvanallen5202 haha

  • @Tiramonium
    @Tiramonium Před 2 lety

    Incognito doesn't prevent the browser from carrying previously existing cookies from the normal mode into Incognito, it just prevents new ones being saved to the browser

  • @JustZyriak
    @JustZyriak Před 2 lety +1

    blizzard 4,5 years ago made a anti pay 2 win tv spot
    Blizzcon red shirt guy "sorry is this an april fool?"
    blizzard 2022 let us release a p2w game.

  • @Kangoshi_ru
    @Kangoshi_ru Před 2 lety +22

    10:31 "Honestly, I can't understand what he's saying all the time."
    I don't speak english (I listen a lot, but I don't have anyone to talk to, so I don't), and even I understand both of you perfectly. It's just hard for me to believe that.

    • @icealchemist250
      @icealchemist250 Před 2 lety

      I came to say the same thing... it baffles me how English is my second language, but I can understand Quin... yet this man who has been taught and understood the language since he was a baby, can't understand Quin because of his accent?
      This man is disingenuous at best... a fkn a**hole at worst.

  • @goingnative5814
    @goingnative5814 Před 2 lety +36

    "I don't know what to say"
    He's a gambling junkie trying to justify his gambling to his gambling junkie audience, Asmon, there isn't much else to say..

    • @Poldovico
      @Poldovico Před 2 lety +5

      He's not even gambling. He plays free to play. He's the krill that the whales eat.

    • @DerUberGaijan
      @DerUberGaijan Před 2 lety +8

      @@Poldovico No, he pays to win. He's a pay to win Andy. He just has a second free to play account, which is even sadder.

    • @Sneedmeister
      @Sneedmeister Před 2 lety +4

      @@Poldovico Defending the gambling is just as bad, if not worse.

    • @Poldovico
      @Poldovico Před 2 lety

      @@Sneedmeister I agree, but apparently I was wrong about that and he has two accounts, one f2p and one where he gambles.

  • @StayVenturous
    @StayVenturous Před 2 lety +1

    The 800% bonus box he describes at 3:13 is actually the valuation of the bundle. The creators of the game are implying that the value is worth 800% more. You spend a dollar and receive 60 orbs (this is already the dollar value compared to the orb purchase system.) Also, there is a weapon skin that you’ll receive. Don’t get me wrong it’s enticing & definitely hooks you in to purchase more. P2W show cases in the early game, but end game it is seemingly reasonable. The issue here is that end game is so far away for the F2Ps that most will quit before getting that far.

  • @thetruthgaming467
    @thetruthgaming467 Před 2 lety +1

    People are absolutely out of their mind trying to say Diablo Immortal isn't P2W. It absolutely is, it's the meaning of P2W by directly selling power. Even worse, as a free player you're severely limited when it comes to end game mats (3-5 star legendary gems, crests, orbs, etc) but if your willing to spend money, there is no limit....

  • @GTDScala
    @GTDScala Před 2 lety +88

    I was 10 years old when I played Diablo 1 the year it released. The butcher scared the shit out of me. If there had been micro transactions in that game I probably would have been suckered into thinking it was normal to pay to progress in a game.

    • @chummer2060
      @chummer2060 Před 2 lety +10

      I was around the same age when I played D1. I remember running for my life when I heard "FRESH MEAT". Had to get creative to survive.

    • @olroyohboy1119
      @olroyohboy1119 Před 2 lety

      I do because they've thrown down the current shit and are digging up old school classics. Warcraft 3, Oblivion, Daggerfall, Fall Out 3, Half Life, they even are digging up SNES stuff. I think they've had enough.

    • @alexl7213
      @alexl7213 Před 2 lety

      @@chummer2060 And the most fun co-op move in multiplayer was to block a door and see our mate scream in desperation under the butcher's cleaver.

    • @robloxplayzzYT5600
      @robloxplayzzYT5600 Před 2 lety

      86ed short bow and some jail bars thanks for coming haha

  • @oloseldarion7117
    @oloseldarion7117 Před 2 lety +13

    People like StewGaming are complicit in this hostile takeover of the mainstream gaming space by mobile predatory tactics. To laugh off the obvious fact that a predatory system has already been normalized in one space while it is transitioned into a new one is gaslighting at its finest. Optional systems are not optional when they are designed to exploit vulnerable people.

  • @EndingEchoes93
    @EndingEchoes93 Před 2 lety

    The youtube diablo immortal ad keeps showing 4.2 ☆'s but the play store shows barely 3☆

  • @thelittleheathenfromSweden

    Stew reminds me of a childhood friend who got hooked on smoking heroin.
    She got used, scammed and put in life long debt, lost her home, discarded family and friend and moved out to a tent in the forest with one of her dealers were she recharged her phone by hooking it up to a light pole.
    She was still saying she was doing fine and that heroin wasn't the problem in life and really inhaled every bit of copium she could find to keep justifying the use in her head.
    Addiction can really be a bitch when it sinks it claws into you.

  • @DarokTheMaul
    @DarokTheMaul Před 2 lety +10

    I get more dopamine watching people rage, and watching people defend it than I would ever get by playing

  • @nofxer
    @nofxer Před 2 lety +42

    Quin's analogy was shaky af but he was onto something; just change heeeroeeen (spelt wrong on purpose) to dopamine and it's basically the same thing.. you are still chasing the next hit, and Diablo Immortal is only happy to supply it, provided you got the cash

  • @DamienLavizzo
    @DamienLavizzo Před 2 lety +1

    CZcamsrs: "Diablo Immortal is over!"
    Diablo Immortal: *makes $24m in one week*
    CZcamsrs: "LOL SEE!"

  • @Genesiscoupe3000
    @Genesiscoupe3000 Před 2 lety +1

    Pretend they didn't release the shop, and just play the game and you will see it plays basically exactly like Diablo 3,especially if you use a controller.
    It is fun and you can grind as much as you had to in previous games.
    But then you see they are selling something that will boost your stats immediately, and all the sudden, people on here crying acting like they can't play the game without spending money.
    LMFAO!!!

  • @sinjin8576
    @sinjin8576 Před 2 lety +82

    I can't fathom this behavior when what they should be doing is doubling down on how Diablo 4 *wont* have any of that sort of thing.
    This is actual NPC behavior wtf lmao

    • @MeatMonsterMan
      @MeatMonsterMan Před 2 lety +5

      It will... prepare your angus...

    • @kylevos8551
      @kylevos8551 Před 2 lety

      @@MeatMonsterMan I just beat Diablo 3 only one character to go and playing Diablo 2 for the first time I really hope they can make it not p2w and just cosmetic or something I love these games but I really don’t even want to support Activision

    • @mr.puggin8384
      @mr.puggin8384 Před 2 lety +1

      They stated that d4 will have a cash shop with cosmetics as for what else it’s a surprise ;) 😂😂💀

    • @cidfacetious3722
      @cidfacetious3722 Před 2 lety +2

      @@kylevos8551 then stop supporting them???

    • @kylevos8551
      @kylevos8551 Před 2 lety +1

      @@mr.puggin8384 anything that makes pvp or leaderboards rigged I’m out. Ive Been playing a lot of old games d2 and bioshock series they just don’t do it like they used to. I guess I thought when Microsoft bought them it my make them a little less scummy

  • @VVENDINGEN
    @VVENDINGEN Před 2 lety +19

    I don't get how D:I is supposed to be P2W, just don't rush it and you won't even consider buying anything. I'm currently sitting at 0 hours 0 minutes playtime and not once felt the need to spend money on this incredible game.

    • @princepsdrewski2802
      @princepsdrewski2802 Před 2 lety +3

      Had me in the first half lmfao

    • @royalecrafts6252
      @royalecrafts6252 Před 2 lety

      @@trucid2 play another class or move to another game easy, or go do something productive that is worth the time instead of playing a game lol

    • @VVENDINGEN
      @VVENDINGEN Před 2 lety +1

      ​@@trucid2 I'm 99% sure that in a month I'll approach this game the same way. As in, I won't.

  • @Meister_Wiku
    @Meister_Wiku Před 2 lety

    19:00 in fact, I had an Diablo Immortal ad before this video and the same ad before Asmosns first play session.

  • @notachad4107
    @notachad4107 Před 2 lety +1

    I think the problem for me is I don't feel a sense of discovery in gaming anymore. There isn't a dramatic change in mechanics or settings that create that same holy shit feeling that I got in the the first couple WoW expansions. And I'm worried I never will get that feeling again because I have set my expectations so high its hard to imagine what a gaming company could do to even create an ounce of that feeling again.

    • @pencilbender
      @pencilbender Před 2 lety

      Try path of exile

    • @Sakaki98
      @Sakaki98 Před 2 lety

      It isn’t that you set your expectations too high, it’s that companies have made an art out of getting the most money out of as little effort as possible. Nothing to do about it but support indie devs(along with the few good sizable companies like FromSoft) who still put real effort into crafting unique and worthwhile experiences. They may be harder to find because of how corporate advertisement is, but they’re still going strong.

  • @minecraftplayerplus1
    @minecraftplayerplus1 Před 2 lety +25

    "Idk what language this is but Its obviously not American"
    Nice

  • @akiraokami
    @akiraokami Před 2 lety +25

    I was 13 when Diablo 1 came out, Diablo was never really my type of game though, but it was a lot of my friends type of game, and my friends at that time were in the range of 11-15, so yeah, that would have been the age range they got into Diablo

  • @giocommentary
    @giocommentary Před 2 lety

    22:16 fun fact incognito mode does nothing to already existing cookies, it just disables you getting any from the new pages.
    but they're not looking for your cookies anyway, your ISP collects that data and sells it to third party clients like YT.
    its the same reason you could use a completely different account on your phone but still get the same type of ads.
    tldr: people are scummy.
    EDIT: he litteraly said it a sec later my bad XD

  • @christopherrobinson3857

    Case and point, a Diablo Immortal add played after this video. A better analogy is you take a Chucky cheese joint and turn all the games into slot or roulette machines, with all the bells and whistles, that give kids tickets or other prizes based on where the machine lands, then tell them if they were to give more money/tokens it would increase the rewards, without actually increasing the odds of a return on the original investment.

  • @THEROBOTMAN10
    @THEROBOTMAN10 Před 2 lety +48

    There should be a legal requirement that games like this have to ask players when they create an account, "is paying money for an advantage in game P2W". Anyone who answers no has their account permanently restricted to free to play and all the P2W aspects hidden. Someone needs to help these poor people.

    • @Michael-zi2qg
      @Michael-zi2qg Před 2 lety +3

      But then whales will play with other whales and then when a whale realizes he put 20k dollars into the game and still dont win he might Quit ☹️ whales need freebies to feel good about themself so they wanna stay and keep being whales🥰 Blizzard love the whales

    • @campersruincod6134
      @campersruincod6134 Před 2 lety

      @@Michael-zi2qg whales need easy dubs against normal people to feel good about themselves. All that time working a boring job, saving up money and not doing anything with it - they want to feel superior somewhere right? That’s why they spend half their life savings on a digital experience that won’t last forever. For that small amount of time they feel like a king amongst men… on a video game. These people and obviously people with bad impulse control/compulsive purchasing habits are why these whales continue to whale. It’s incredibly sad. The only “legitimate” whales are streamers who want to buy everything for content. But that in itself is promoting this and pushing mentally ill people closer to getting stuck in the whale loop themselves.

    • @g.waits4gainz205
      @g.waits4gainz205 Před 2 lety

      would be interesting indeed! though no way the money bags behidn the laws let em sadge id love an otpion to opt out of ever being shown ingame purchases but ohh well

    • @iwonderwho
      @iwonderwho Před 2 lety

      They wouldn’t go for it and they’ll absolutely push against it. P2w in a PvP scenario incentives going p2w because the advantage it gives over f2p players. If p2w players are restricted to p2w matches that advantage is gone. Rather infact, it punishes going p2w if you only want to spend a little.
      I do like the idea. It’s a good incentive to keep games from being p2w. ideally games just wouldn’t do that though, because splitting a player base can really hurt when player count drops.

    • @THEROBOTMAN10
      @THEROBOTMAN10 Před 2 lety +1

      @@iwonderwho Oh totally agree, it was more of a joke, mostly I think age restrictions would be a good thing, not much you can do though overall...

  • @brentrossen5134
    @brentrossen5134 Před 2 lety +21

    I was looking forward to Diablo 4 but Blizzard is dead to me now

    • @Badchi
      @Badchi Před 2 lety +2

      Only now?.. No judgment but, man, you’re kinda slow.

    • @sitrueis4007
      @sitrueis4007 Před 2 lety +1

      Lmao Diablo 3 was bad how can you expect anything but worse? It's like people have memory of golden fish.

    • @Thiccems69
      @Thiccems69 Před 2 lety +2

      NOW? all the sexual harassment wasn’t enough? yikes

    • @brentrossen5134
      @brentrossen5134 Před 2 lety

      @@sitrueis4007 Diablo 3 was fun to play, I loved the physics, and it wasn't filled with microtransactions

    • @brentrossen5134
      @brentrossen5134 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Thiccems69 I mean, I assume that Blizzard isn't made up of 100% sexual predators and that the overwhelming majority of them are normal people trying to make games

  • @Eladonir1
    @Eladonir1 Před 2 lety

    I feel like that other YT person completely disregards in his analysis the fact that Diablo have amassed a following of mainly PC and Console players throughout it's lifespan as a franchise. We are talking about people who are probably in their 30's by now, and they all have a particular set of values, and these values are completely the opposite of what Immortal is built upon. People can think of what they will, but so far, every game in the Diablo franchise was something to be proud of.
    I strongly disagree with Asmon's view on D3 today, and clearly don't know what he is talking about, when he admittedly says that he stopped playing D3 very early on into its expansion. The game has improved significantly and it shouldn't go unnoticed, or painted in a bad light for how it used to be. Did it see the support akin to PoE? Of course not. It's a game that followed the traditional business model that we all advocate for. A box price, and expansions, heck D3 only had 1 dlc. Point is, you are incentivized as a company to create more content when you are a f2p, service type, live game. D3 didn't have that kind of funding due to its monetization, so there just weren't any reason for a company to invest more money into it, if its not gonna see a return. They still managed to push out some decent, sometimes significantly game changing seasonal content though.

  • @MasterDk78
    @MasterDk78 Před 2 lety +1

    why did blizzard not just make our beloved diablo a full price mobile game? and a demo to download to try it out with a 30 min timer on it every day etc. sure as hell the backfire would not be like this even if it was made for mobile.

  • @Mazxlol
    @Mazxlol Před 2 lety +64

    Imagine defending micro transactions. Out of this world. Just no words.

    • @husher5142
      @husher5142 Před 2 lety +6

      they are not even "micro" transactions these days lol

    • @Mazxlol
      @Mazxlol Před 2 lety +5

      @@husher5142 right!? I mean I refuse to spend even 99 cents. I just don't play the game altogether. Any game that has any form of P2W I don't play with maybe exception to wow classic but even that is in a way P2W cuz people buy gold and buy gear or arena carry

    • @pingapang8155
      @pingapang8155 Před 2 lety

      H's a paid shill so what do you expect

    • @justanotherLunny
      @justanotherLunny Před 2 lety

      Micro Transactions are fine. Predatory gambling mechanisms and "Pay to Win" are parasites. The latter can be tougher in some cases, since the discern between "Getting from X to Y faster" and "Pay to Win" is a fine line and it so it can depend on a case by case scenario, but then we have cases like Diablo Immortal where it's very clear: They want to shake you up for your money otherwise you're never going to be able to keep up with the others even if you spend all your day grinding the game, because by the time you do catch up, either the game has been updated with the "new best thing that you can get by buying" or you have no more joy to get out of the game and most people have moved on.

    • @husher5142
      @husher5142 Před 2 lety +1

      @@justanotherLunny The point is that micro transactions are supposed to be like $1-5 and maybe max out at $20. But these companies are charging $100-200 for mounts and things.

  • @thepig50
    @thepig50 Před 2 lety +34

    I seriously wish we could just spend $60 and get a game worth $60. If only that could happen.

    • @alphadoge3604
      @alphadoge3604 Před 2 lety +10

      Elden Ring was the first in quite a while that I've played that gave me what I paid for

    • @thepig50
      @thepig50 Před 2 lety

      I've never played a souls game and mostly play PC. I doubt I could get Elden Ring running stable. But I know that game would be worth the purchase. If I had a current gen console I would 100% buy it.

    • @thepig50
      @thepig50 Před 2 lety +3

      Shit I'm willing to pay $100 for a game worth $100

    • @actually5004
      @actually5004 Před 2 lety

      There are plenty of games that fit that bill unless you suffer the unreasonable compulsion of only playing newly released games or the need of having every second of gameplay curated and guided by developers. Emulation, sandbox games, flash/unity games, and freeware/abandonware are all worth dumping tens of thousands of hours into if you're even a little bit creative with how you make your own fun with them- and if not I suggest watching movies or doom scrolling social media instead.

    • @thepig50
      @thepig50 Před 2 lety

      @@actually5004 chill. I rarely play games on release. What are you talking about? I never said I didn't have anything to play that doesn't require thousands of dollars. I'm saying that selling me shit in the game is a shit practice.

  • @Wixvhen
    @Wixvhen Před 2 lety

    Okay, so. The problem with 'P2W' models is that they become pay to play after a certain point, but they never tell you they have crossed that line. Because of this, people invest time and eventually money to finish these games in a game that was supposed to be free. Pay 2 Win is a deceptive term. Everybody assumes it means pay to get ahead. What a lot of people miss is that sometimes 'Pay 2 Win' secretly means it's not a free game to finish, and the 'f2p' part of the description actually means 'demo til paying' which has no term.

  • @mihaigraham7274
    @mihaigraham7274 Před 2 lety +1

    Brother, having worked in a gambling place, any sort of gambling option can lead to ruin. You can see people ruin their lives, they can't stop themselves! At least in gambling there is some sort of support for a normal gambling addiction. Forget kids, adults can't be trusted with gambling, a smart "gambler" is a person who doesn't gamble. Games that give a sense of false achievement based on pure luck, is the same as a casino addict getting a win. I will tell you right now it doesn't matter how much a gambling addict wins it is never enough, they will keep playing. All they are playing for is for the feeling of winning, how does this differ from a gacha game?

  • @apophisstr6719
    @apophisstr6719 Před 2 lety +6

    Blizzard:
    "Customers deserve no respect. Look, they are still throwing money at the shit that we fed them LOL!"

  • @quinnlittle9915
    @quinnlittle9915 Před 2 lety +11

    Love how Asmon was reacting to this stew guy reacting to Quin reacting to this stew guy

  • @Sickdudenomnomnom
    @Sickdudenomnomnom Před 2 lety

    I love how they try to make „mobile-gaming“ something different from „pc-gaming“ as hard as they can but then also always make the argument that both are gaming. Absolutely ludicrous

  • @jackalo34
    @jackalo34 Před 2 lety +1

    he kept pausing b4 quin could even finish the sentence so much. it drove me nuts. His comments made me dislike him when I didn't before.

  • @wout5484
    @wout5484 Před 2 lety +15

    Imagine I can't even download Diablo Immortal cus we have laws that regulate gambling to prevent gambling addictions lmao

    • @playknightboy
      @playknightboy Před 2 lety

      You man, and your people are protected against bullshit

  • @FatShady15
    @FatShady15 Před 2 lety +65

    I love how we think of diablo immortal as having a "mixed reception" when in reality the game came out and made more money than blizzard could have foreseen. To the eyes of blizzard diablo immortal has been a MASSIVE success. why would they really care about "whinny free players"?
    It's really hard to see these kind of shitty softwares called "games" disappear, because even if most ppl hate them they still generate enough money, probably even more than the games ppl like.

    • @kaydens6964
      @kaydens6964 Před 2 lety +1

      Idk why people are whining about the game as f2p. It’s like catching a plane for free because the rich dudes in first class is paying everything in exchange for best flight experience possible, they can be getting full service from flight attendants all the way through and I wouldn’t be complaining.

    • @ArcNine9Angel
      @ArcNine9Angel Před 2 lety +21

      That's the sad thing. This literally becomes a beacon for shitty development, because hey, who cares if your 'game' is received badly if it has the gambling mechanics included that make you tons of money? It's just a snowball getting bigger and bigger as time goes on....

    • @Qstate
      @Qstate Před 2 lety +13

      Because some people would rather pay for the flight and fly like human beings rather than having only the option of flying in the cargo hall for free.

    • @kaydens6964
      @kaydens6964 Před 2 lety

      @@Qstate you are still playing the game like a human being, it’s just people who pays for the game getting more benefits. Not everyone is a competitive hardcore player especially in the mobile scene, most just kill off time don’t even lvl to max.

    • @bartolirodrigo94
      @bartolirodrigo94 Před 2 lety

      @@kaydens6964 Exactly my dude, these people played straight for 48 hours after launch and are salty because those who pay have advantages, they don't even consider playing for fun, they either play to win or hate the game all together.

  • @kleinem
    @kleinem Před 2 lety

    FYI - Incognito mode does not mean that you are not linked to google adsense - because they still do via the browser itself, "hardcoded".
    You are just disjoint from all other tracking cookies/networks - but not necessarily google!

  • @AbunaYeet
    @AbunaYeet Před 2 lety

    there is really no need to actually prove videogames with graphic violence is played by teens and young adults. how many of us millenials grew up on counterstrike, mortal kombat, tekken, streetfighter etc. there is literally no way anyone doesnt know that