This TikTok Star is Scamming his Audience with Fake Games

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  • čas přidán 10. 07. 2023
  • TikTok Star 'NIK' has been scamming his audience with Asset Flip games, while taking in Thousands of Dollars on Patreon. His latest game 'Greed of Man' is an RP game made of pre-made Assets that show he hasn't put any amount of time into ACTUALLY developing the game.
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  • @BigfryTV
    @BigfryTV  Před 11 měsíci +3045

    I'm noticing some of his fans coming over to point out that I'm an "Adult dogging on a 17 year old" - Same tactic that other scammers in the past have used. Just because your a teenager, doesn't mean you're off the hook for being a POS. Sorry. I mean, how can you even defend him when 2 months before announcing Greed of Man, he admitted that its too ambitious for him to make?
    Children.

    • @Spat1o
      @Spat1o Před 11 měsíci +352

      "I'm a kid so I can do whatever I want"

    • @ryantactics9968
      @ryantactics9968 Před 11 měsíci +60

      Thanks that was an entertaining and good awareness video all in one. I agree, he should be held equally accountable to an adult in this situation.

    • @ShadowDreamer100
      @ShadowDreamer100 Před 11 měsíci +134

      Children defending more children.

    • @supernatural396
      @supernatural396 Před 11 měsíci +116

      17 year old thats making 3000$ a month on patreon btw

    • @iondegenerate
      @iondegenerate Před 11 měsíci

      ay fuck em age isn't an excuse to be a pos

  • @countblacke
    @countblacke Před 11 měsíci +4118

    The problem with scam games like this, is that actually talented indie devs who want to make something like this game WITHOUT it being a scam, are no longer trusted, and cannot secure funding for their legitimate project.

    • @sheikhsadab
      @sheikhsadab Před 11 měsíci +39

      Indeed

    • @CrownKing2499
      @CrownKing2499 Před 11 měsíci +25

      100% sad truth..

    • @MortiXD09
      @MortiXD09 Před 11 měsíci +21

      they should start taking better care of their hair then.

    • @aviv123654
      @aviv123654 Před 11 měsíci +25

      As a full-time game dev with multiple games on steam I completely agree! its so annoying

    • @elguitarTom
      @elguitarTom Před 11 měsíci +19

      Not really. Just look at Star Citizen. You just have to be a really good con artist

  • @user-tp5yb4hr4w
    @user-tp5yb4hr4w Před 11 měsíci +1799

    the game might as well be called, "The Greed Of Nick"

    • @user-tp5yb4hr4w
      @user-tp5yb4hr4w Před 11 měsíci +66

      shit man!, I've seen skyrim modders make free mods better than this dev.

    • @Dissenter
      @Dissenter Před 11 měsíci +10

      Would be funny if that's actually what he meant lowkey when he named it.

    • @Ignas_
      @Ignas_ Před 11 měsíci +1

      The Greed of Child

    • @thebriz1868
      @thebriz1868 Před 11 měsíci +2

      I see what you did there

    • @ChrisKhaled83
      @ChrisKhaled83 Před 9 měsíci

      That would be apt.

  • @nhilist5774
    @nhilist5774 Před 11 měsíci +443

    Hes too busy blowdrying his hair made my day lol

    • @lukasdark0997
      @lukasdark0997 Před 11 měsíci +23

      Hairstyle is an asset flip

    • @DumLad
      @DumLad Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@lukasdark0997 Good one 🤣

    • @bringbackdislikes3195
      @bringbackdislikes3195 Před 10 měsíci +8

      @@lukasdark0997 Nah man it's the only thing he coded himself
      which explains why it's so garbage.

    • @incarnateflame3462
      @incarnateflame3462 Před 9 měsíci

      he needs to throw the whole thing out and start over
      not the game
      i mean his hair

  • @1800SEXHOTLINE
    @1800SEXHOTLINE Před 11 měsíci +502

    Already got banned from their discord. Mods are completely out of control, and protecting their leader. Disgusting.

    • @kanthanesankandiah760
      @kanthanesankandiah760 Před 11 měsíci

      They are worst as pro mass shooter. Hopefully they will not visit Asia until a decade after Russia Ukraine war. If not , 4chan will destroy their career and reputation

    • @gamerbeast3616
      @gamerbeast3616 Před 11 měsíci

      Who whouldent they protect him are you dumb

    • @thedoomtestament4547
      @thedoomtestament4547 Před 11 měsíci +1

      What a wuss

    • @sybsygstgstsgysg5330
      @sybsygstgstsgysg5330 Před 11 měsíci +50

      You see it all the time, minions protecting their nasty leader

    • @johnnylego807
      @johnnylego807 Před 11 měsíci +12

      Nothing new under the sun, this same experience is extremely what goes on at the highest levels of government.

  • @SirBlackout_
    @SirBlackout_ Před 11 měsíci +1321

    Another prime example of how nothing good comes from a “TikTok Star” 🤣

    • @CcSmokecC
      @CcSmokecC Před 11 měsíci

      Short form content is a cancer

    • @tealover70
      @tealover70 Před 11 měsíci +6

      I mean you can’t lie, it’s great for pushing out new games people made.

    • @rdr.erased
      @rdr.erased Před 11 měsíci +3

      That term should be illegal

    • @frenchfrog2248
      @frenchfrog2248 Před 11 měsíci +21

      everything happening in TikTok happened on CZcams js

    • @sybsygstgstsgysg5330
      @sybsygstgstsgysg5330 Před 11 měsíci +11

      @@frenchfrog2248 no

  • @Dailyfiver
    @Dailyfiver Před 11 měsíci +283

    These scammers always pitch an idea that would take a AAA team decades and people throw money at it lol.

    • @kenosabi
      @kenosabi Před 11 měsíci

      Yep. People are f***** dumb these days.

    • @calamorta
      @calamorta Před 10 měsíci +10

      It's honestly hilarious. Dudes promise the world without even being geniuses or something like that. If at least these dudes were national news by the time they were 6, sure. Trust the guy who might change the whole system. But pretty much anyone who talks big and knows where to get community assets gets enough hype.
      In Brazil we have a game called "171". It's basically GTA, but in Brazil. Guess what? Years and years of Patreon money and the game is trash.
      Some people actually believe small/solo teams can deliver something not even the likes of Activision can. Lol. Never ceases to amaze me.

    • @EvilSantaTheTrue
      @EvilSantaTheTrue Před 10 měsíci +1

      Decades?

    • @Dailyfiver
      @Dailyfiver Před 9 měsíci +12

      @@EvilSantaTheTrue Yes decades. So many games take over 10 years that don’t have a ridiculous scope like “one to one scale of the earth and you can buy a plot of real land and get a job etc.” like those games that get crowd funded by “first time developers”

    • @SinfullyHera
      @SinfullyHera Před 8 měsíci +6

      @@EvilSantaTheTrueA fully open world with dynamic economy that spans the entire globe with fully dynamic buildings just to name a few things? Yes, decades.

  • @wulahi7359
    @wulahi7359 Před 11 měsíci +1293

    As someone who had high school classes with this guy this is hilarious

    • @Arooification
      @Arooification Před 11 měsíci

      Was he always an asshole

    • @moonpigeon9
      @moonpigeon9 Před 11 měsíci +31

      Lmao

    • @Dead2you
      @Dead2you Před 11 měsíci +90

      dudes definitely going to get absolutely LUNCHED

    • @AwakenedG-Music
      @AwakenedG-Music Před 11 měsíci +118

      We need stories NOW

    • @Cipxvr
      @Cipxvr Před 11 měsíci

      Hold the fuck up tell me more you cant leave us hanging

  • @flowbeatbox
    @flowbeatbox Před 11 měsíci +129

    That speech as you’re falling off the map at the end was the cherry on top 😂

  • @Reeryte
    @Reeryte Před 11 měsíci +692

    Developers like NIK makes it harder for gamers to trust us. I have a lot of ideas for potential games, but I know that I would need a big team to make them, so until I have a team with enough people I am sticking to smaller single-player games. Multiplayer games are very difficult to develop as a solo/small developer. If NIK is serious about game development, he would go and learn about game development and then go and make small games and build up to more larger games. During my time studying game design at university, we were constantly reminded about scope and how to avoid scope creep. I hope NIK can learn from this and make good games. Bigfry is amazing at calling out developers and I am looking forward to playing Transience.

    • @user-tp5yb4hr4w
      @user-tp5yb4hr4w Před 11 měsíci +15

      sorry mate, but this nick guy is an obvious grifter, he's using free assets off of the store and flipping them in his game and calling it a game, however i guess the only thing he's actually paying for is the server, and servers cost money each month, but that could be a very cheap server only costing him a few hundred dollars making it look like he's working on the game while providing the game at early access.
      but i agree with you when it comes to single player games.
      there is an indy game i just got on a steam sale who has been developing his game for the last few years, his game is called spacebourn 2, the game is kind of a mix of star citizen and NMS, but it's starting to look like a great space game, it's early access, and for the amount of work he's been able to do just by himself is pretty damn astonishing to admit.
      i wouldn't know if he's a grifter since i can tell his game has some real love put into it, he's using some kind of tts program to give voices to NPC's in the game, likely because he can't afford to pay voice actors and it sounds ok sometimes not so much, but i wonder if the dev would be cool with someone giving their voice talent to the game for free, kind of like modders for skyrim, they always needed voice actors for their stuff and having a real person who sounds good with the voice lines instead of using a tts program sounds so much better, especially the tts program he's using in comparison.
      so i would be willing to be a volunteer on a project to support it. and the dev would download my voice files and listen to them and clean them up a bit maybe give my voice some tone to make it sound more professional or something, if it's not good enough i would do it again and fix the parts of expression and tone he needed in order for it to sound right.

    • @ThunderRod
      @ThunderRod Před 11 měsíci +2

      What advise would you have for someone interested in getting into game dev

    • @mikehunt3688
      @mikehunt3688 Před 11 měsíci +7

      @@ThunderRod game development honestly covers a pretty broad range of skills, from programming to UI design, and to make anything decent by today's standards you either need a really good idea that just works (art, gameplay, music, etc all just happening to come together perfectly), or you need a team of people with those different skills that can live up to today's standards. Now you can learn each part and solo it all. One of the biggest issues, I think, with games, is the speed you have to be able to create them while still maintaining relevancy. Sure, you can learn programming, ui design, music production, etc and pump out a game on the level of GTA V, but its going to take an incredibly long time and by the time you release it, our standards in gaming will have changed, and your game will no longer be as good by comparison.

    • @ThunderRod
      @ThunderRod Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@mikehunt3688 Yeah I'm not looking to do everything lol, mainly just programming and general game design.

    • @helloar14
      @helloar14 Před 11 měsíci

      @@WarAuthority I remember his game! It has been the showcase of Stencyl (game engine) for a long while. I assume Stencyl is the one he ended up leaving, because it's a no-code engine for beginners (which is not something bad, but of course very limited by nature).

  • @aurin_komak
    @aurin_komak Před 11 měsíci +45

    I thought the "solo dev tries to make GTA as his first project" was just a meme among game developers lmao

  • @AntiSerpent
    @AntiSerpent Před 11 měsíci +214

    Scammers need to be banned from all platforms.

    • @kenosabi
      @kenosabi Před 11 měsíci +4

      Good luck with that bub. 😂

    • @MrSeatbelt
      @MrSeatbelt Před 10 měsíci +1

      somebody hire this man!

    • @Triver24
      @Triver24 Před 9 měsíci

      Indeed

    • @romad6963
      @romad6963 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Scammers are not people

    • @jasonanderson5034
      @jasonanderson5034 Před 7 měsíci

      @@romad6963 yes they are ... alot of themm live in the third world and have no job opporunities and have a chocie die or live ... they steal from people in the first world who wont die if they have no money the first world feeds the homeless and jobless the third world lets them die because they dont have money hmmm i wondeer why ... its not because they cant is because the first world lives off of them its not that hard to understand are encomny would be destroyed without their cheap labor and natural resources

  • @DyingBobby
    @DyingBobby Před 10 měsíci +11

    All of his game names sound like they came from a random name generator 😂

  • @greek7281
    @greek7281 Před 11 měsíci +299

    The interesting thing about these things is the lack of due diligence and just the overall naivete that people have when going into these kind of things like. 2 minutes of google to figure out that NIK is a scammer and shouldn't have 300+ people on patreon making nearly 3K a month absolutely insane how gullible some people are.

    • @GmodCaboose56
      @GmodCaboose56 Před 11 měsíci +37

      "2 minutes of google to figure out that NIK is a scammer"
      Average TikTok user: Ain't nobody got time for that!

    • @greek7281
      @greek7281 Před 11 měsíci +32

      @@GmodCaboose56 Lmao. yea I suppose I forgot its the average tiktok user we talking about their entire brain capacity's worth of thought isn't even 2 minutes.

    • @nibblesnarfer
      @nibblesnarfer Před 11 měsíci

      3 fucking K a month? The fuck am i doing with my low wage ass job, jesus.

    • @joshuaandrewson3091
      @joshuaandrewson3091 Před 11 měsíci +3

      Dude it's fuckin tiktok we're talking about here, I won't have that much of a high hope when it comes to intelligence.

    • @stt.9433
      @stt.9433 Před 11 měsíci +3

      The people giving him money are most likely zoomers who don't have any idea how long game development takes.

  • @jdakiller1017
    @jdakiller1017 Před 11 měsíci +123

    What worries me the most is how people look at that guy and then believe all the shit he's talking about/selling lmao.

    • @spiderzvow1
      @spiderzvow1 Před 11 měsíci +12

      People will only see what they want to see.

    • @nibblesnarfer
      @nibblesnarfer Před 11 měsíci

      Dude is an attractive teenager. Imagine if he was an ugly ass mfers.
      Attractiveness still count.

    • @Mittens...
      @Mittens... Před 11 měsíci

      They use tiktok so they aren't capable of critical thinking and they've got a tiny attention span. They're the prime target for this stuff.

    • @GiegueX
      @GiegueX Před 10 měsíci

      Most of them are minors or people whose brain melted due to the overexposure of information on TikTok. So yeah, it's kinda understandable how these scams work on that cursed platform

    • @cerealhit555
      @cerealhit555 Před 6 měsíci

      Yup. Complete fools

  • @The-Man-On-The-Mountain
    @The-Man-On-The-Mountain Před 11 měsíci +37

    "A game where you can be whatever you want, and do whatever you want."
    That's not even a red flag, that's the same as "I am scamming you". Everytime I hear that I stop listening. Let alone when a triple A company makes that statement, my eyes roll to oblivion.

    • @mute_ed984
      @mute_ed984 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Careful - you might go blind 😉

  • @kennywilson1894
    @kennywilson1894 Před 11 měsíci +133

    Honestly always wanted to learn game development. If that man made his game in just a few hours then I'm 100% going to learn how to make my own map

    • @oliver_twistor
      @oliver_twistor Před 11 měsíci +14

      Go for it! With the tools and resources available today, it's much easier to start creating than a decade or two ago. There's books, videos, online courses etc. Much of it is even free. As a developer myself, I would like to say that the three most important skills to have are perserverence (don't give up even when it gets tough, because you will face hard problems), attention to detail (computers need exact instructions; if a line needs to be ended with a semicolon, a colon or a comma won't cut it and it will break your game) and perhaps the most important skill --- curiosity (be willing to try new things and be prepared to fail many times). Good luck!

    • @oliver_twistor
      @oliver_twistor Před 11 měsíci +11

      Another thing, pertinent to this video. It's very important to learn to scope one's projects properly. Ambition can often be a double-edged sword. Start small, much smaller than you think you should. That way you will be able to complete projects, and by seeing the fruits of your labour your confidence and skills will grow.
      It's much better to create multiple small finished games than one giant unfinished one. There's a reason why many game developers start as level designers or modders. That way they don't have to come up with a game from scratch. Another good way to start is to recreate small well-known existing games, such as Tetris, Minesweeper, Tic-tac-toe, Snake. That's how I made my first games in university. My first ever game was a recreation of the board game Reversi. It sucked and was buggy as hell. You could interject your opponents turn, flipping their pieces right after they made a move. =)

    • @Handabanda11
      @Handabanda11 Před 10 měsíci

      @@oliver_twistorbro just gave the most unexpected and insightful response in history

  • @plaincan5592
    @plaincan5592 Před 11 měsíci +70

    as a solo unreal dev its always sad to see this and personally i think small with games and never talk about them untill i have something and then its only to friends

    • @slackamacgaming6721
      @slackamacgaming6721 Před 11 měsíci +4

      Me too man...but I don't tell anybody what I'm working on...they'll get to see it when it's done...

  • @brandmepls9402
    @brandmepls9402 Před 11 měsíci +34

    Even charlie got scammed by a 17 year old degenerate ticktok and it's just unfathomable.

  • @BadWallaby
    @BadWallaby Před 11 měsíci +36

    "Do whatever you Want! Be Whoever you want!" Except they cant even code 1/3 of the shit people actually WANT to do.

  • @name-oc2df
    @name-oc2df Před 8 měsíci +5

    didn’t realize it is possible to target people with a dumber scheme than NFTs

  • @inthecatsdreams
    @inthecatsdreams Před 11 měsíci +133

    this is the kinda dude that makes me scared to release my projects... he's giving us REAL PROGRAMMERS a bad rep...

    • @megadeth-1a885
      @megadeth-1a885 Před 11 měsíci +9

      don't be afraid because if an illegitimate scammer is making money just think how much a legit one will make.

    • @realtyrone
      @realtyrone Před 11 měsíci +13

      ​@@megadeth-1a885lol. That's the problem. These scammers make WAAAAY more.

    • @LeeseSowwie-tx1vk
      @LeeseSowwie-tx1vk Před 11 měsíci +3

      Been hearing this more and more now it’s sad going to scare off real talented people

    • @chuyuen441
      @chuyuen441 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Why? Just make something and release it. If it's good, it's good.

    • @JasonBolitho1994
      @JasonBolitho1994 Před 8 měsíci

      no the problem is devs suck today and have for a while. no this just adds to it. @@realtyrone

  • @luridftwgaming8983
    @luridftwgaming8983 Před 11 měsíci +23

    “TikTok Star” is just a hilarious term to me.

    • @vewyscawymonsta
      @vewyscawymonsta Před 11 měsíci +1

      You laugh but some of them are making bank. Sponsors pay good money.

    • @CChissel
      @CChissel Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@vewyscawymonstaTikTok isn’t as profitable as people think. CZcams is much better in terms of getting money for content even though it’s still not that great, tiktok is pretty limited.

    • @vewyscawymonsta
      @vewyscawymonsta Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@CChissel There are TikTokers making millions. Whether that's as profitable as YT or not isn't what's being talked about here. We're talking about people making a good living doing something that OP is laughing at.

    • @darinsteele7091
      @darinsteele7091 Před 11 měsíci

      @@vewyscawymonsta tik tokkers think they can do it for the rest of there live, then they go broke lol

    • @vewyscawymonsta
      @vewyscawymonsta Před 11 měsíci

      @@darinsteele7091 Some do. Most of them are young, and bad with their money. That isn't the case for all of them. Sponsors will always pay good money to people with large followings. It is what it is. Laugh, make fun, whatever, some of them are making bank and that was all I said.

  • @RedBeardMortis
    @RedBeardMortis Před 11 měsíci +96

    The dude sympathy baiting over World of Fate by showing only 8 people playing it was the most eye-rolling shit ever. Nik is one of those guys I would've seen on your channel 5 or 6 years ago in a discord call with you telling you to "go fuck yourself" and how "you're a loser."
    Everything this dude touches turns to shit, he gets the bag, and then he runs into the sunset. He's the most famous asset flipper I've seen on TikTok...it's sad.
    The dude replicating Greed of Man in 3 hours was absolutely hilarious to me. The menu system, the environments, everything about it is just insanely laughable.
    Thanks for exposing this goddamn scam artist.

  • @AboutThatTime420
    @AboutThatTime420 Před 11 měsíci +35

    $3,000 a month? That's crazy

    • @jasonanderson5034
      @jasonanderson5034 Před 7 měsíci

      no its not thats nonthing thats petty moneey for a scam

  • @NaudVanDalen
    @NaudVanDalen Před 11 měsíci +6

    GTA V is $15 now. Half the price of this game at the full release price.

  • @ajforkk
    @ajforkk Před 11 měsíci +26

    as a dev, money is crucial.
    not everyone can 3d model, animate, and script. you always need to hire someone to help.
    then these dumbasses just steal the money from legitimate gamedevs like me.
    most of devs are just stuck in a loop. with no money or fame at all

  • @dummyutube
    @dummyutube Před 11 měsíci +64

    The worst thing about it is that all of it could be avoided if he just made all his games free.

    • @Hop.entune
      @Hop.entune Před 11 měsíci +7

      But the.... greed of.... man.
      And money for time. If he invests his time into the games development and doesn't want to have microtransactions in the game, he'd have to have a paid game.

    • @Destinyyz
      @Destinyyz Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@Hop.entune Yeah but theres no point in paying 30 dollars for a fucking asset game

    • @Hop.entune
      @Hop.entune Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@Destinyyz I agree with that. The indie games market is oversaturated with fake games because it's the nitty gritty of the gaming industry.

    • @gladiatorgamer9502
      @gladiatorgamer9502 Před 11 měsíci

      ​@@Destinyyzwhy would u pay for online transaction or pay to buy games😂

    • @gideonhawk
      @gideonhawk Před 10 měsíci +1

      ​@@gladiatorgamer9502how do you get games?😂

  • @George_vv
    @George_vv Před 8 měsíci +5

    You don't get it. It's called play pretend. NIK gives you the cardboard box he found on the street and scribbled on, you make the adventure...
    (This is a joke.)

  • @nikolasrogers3600
    @nikolasrogers3600 Před 11 měsíci +18

    On behalf of the council of "Nik" we disown this Nik and have no association

  • @TWzi_QOd9E7fAYcKiT
    @TWzi_QOd9E7fAYcKiT Před 11 měsíci +12

    Greed of man, indeed.

    • @Yetta_
      @Yetta_ Před 11 měsíci +1

      Literally

  • @Larry
    @Larry Před 11 měsíci +4

    What even is the point? There's literally hundreds of these RPG games for free made with gmod over the past 20 years.
    Only difference this has is your character looks like a reject from virtua fighter 1 😅

  • @josephfranzen9196
    @josephfranzen9196 Před 11 měsíci +34

    Big Fry; the hero the gaming community needs. I’ve been following your channel for years and never have you tried to sell your community something that turned out to be a scam nor have you ever been involved in anything without doing your own quantifiable research. Honesty is becoming a quality that seems to be rarer and rarer these days and we all appreciate the work you do man.

  • @EziosBladez
    @EziosBladez Před 11 měsíci +24

    I recently downloaded Unreal and learned from youtube and in just a single week I made more stunning stuff than this individual made since 2021. Unreal is incredibly easy to work with, but again, placing assets, is not making a game, never was, never will be. I could make scenes, create beautiful lighting, oceans, everything within mere days of learning, so, seeing someone attempting to pull the wool over people's eyes like this is still quite frustrating because they're selling a lie and due to TikTok not caring about scams, or people being sucked up by such things, these people will lose their money to something they believe in which isn't right. But, again, this isn't a new thing, this is what early access has been doing for a long time, people lying more often than not that they'll produce something far better than any triple-A dev.

  • @BrokenHeart000
    @BrokenHeart000 Před 11 měsíci +14

    Moist Critical talked about your video so here I am

  • @jakedev7363
    @jakedev7363 Před 11 měsíci +32

    As an indie game developer seeing somebody steal his fans hard earned money just to buy pre-made assets infuriates me. I hope that more honest game developers who pour their heart and soul into their games can get the spot light instead of scammers like nik.

  • @TheRealestBubby
    @TheRealestBubby Před 11 měsíci +7

    "Greed of Man" literally the most ironic name for a cash grab

  • @KizuTheBunny
    @KizuTheBunny Před 11 měsíci +48

    Pretty much the same case happened with Crunch Element. A tactical VR game that kept receiving updates until October 2022 where the dev just fell completely radio silent.
    But with digging people found out that he was mainly focusing on wanting to become some boy star TikToker. Blake Zonca is his name.

    • @adamofblastworks1517
      @adamofblastworks1517 Před 11 měsíci +3

      Oh brother.

    • @EnoEtukeno
      @EnoEtukeno Před 11 měsíci +2

      And to absolutely no one's surprise, it's another entrepreneur/motivation/mentor channel.

  • @elijahpetrie1679
    @elijahpetrie1679 Před 11 měsíci +11

    40$CAD is crazy for a game that’s not even finished

  • @Ret_d
    @Ret_d Před 11 měsíci +4

    cant belive logan paul had overcome his sins of the past and decided to become a devoloper

  • @Ferer414
    @Ferer414 Před 11 měsíci +64

    It's honestly sad to see how NIK has swindles so many people into buying this and it's even more sad that NIK ain't the only doing this😔😔 and it's only going to get worse with AI being able to make code and assets, so sad to see.😔😔

  • @feelincrispy7053
    @feelincrispy7053 Před 11 měsíci +45

    For a teenager he’s quite smart scamming little kids and making 3k a month lol

    • @gamerbeast3616
      @gamerbeast3616 Před 11 měsíci

      Hes not scamming anyone

    • @Udontlikeice
      @Udontlikeice Před 11 měsíci +18

      @@gamerbeast3616right just ripping them off

    • @Stealthfang270
      @Stealthfang270 Před 11 měsíci +33

      @@Udontlikeice uh, I'm pretty sure "ripping off" is just another way to say scam lol

    • @alexgrm8528
      @alexgrm8528 Před 11 měsíci +20

      @@gamerbeast3616 he literally is, hes telling his audience to buy the game now and that he'll complete it later when we all know he wont

    • @isqis1018
      @isqis1018 Před 11 měsíci

      ​@@gamerbeast3616ok believe that gamerbeast

  • @Sideways.To.Thursday
    @Sideways.To.Thursday Před 11 měsíci +2

    When you bite off more than you can chew, just drop it and start over again with same type of game that you also will never be able to finish.

  • @ShodakonFury
    @ShodakonFury Před 11 měsíci +7

    I’ve listened his defense on penguinz0’s channel about his game and it just made me say “Yep, he’s 17 alright”. He made THE MOST dense defense I’ve ever heard by practically stating that his game was a scam in trying to defend it. I can imagine that his following must be mostly equally dense children who don’t know any better, which is why he makes so much a month. Here’s hoping he’ll be shut down or even face jail time over all the misinformation he’s profited off of.

  • @Firefox66555
    @Firefox66555 Před 11 měsíci +31

    Big fry is starting some new drama and I’m all for it! I love when he calls out devs like these!!!!

    • @helpumuch6887
      @helpumuch6887 Před 11 měsíci +11

      Doesnt seem like he’s starting it, hopefully just finishing it

    • @Firefox66555
      @Firefox66555 Před 11 měsíci +6

      @@helpumuch6887 yeah you’re right, but I love when he calls bs devs like this out, I love seeing them respond with “it’s not my fault” or “my game isn’t an asset flip”

  • @potatoman8153
    @potatoman8153 Před 11 měsíci +14

    Greed of Man here in Canada is a whopping $40.00! For an asset flip. 😂

    • @jasonanderson5034
      @jasonanderson5034 Před 7 měsíci

      40$ in canada isnt 40 $ in america it smore like 25-30 quit trying to exgerate like 40$ in canada isnt the same as 40$ in america genius .. thats lik saying oh it costs 20,000 in nigeria when 20,000 is 20$

    • @ravenanne1734
      @ravenanne1734 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@jasonanderson5034 that's not really how that works. If a price of bread in Canada is 2.50, you could buy 16 loaves of bread or this game at $40. In America, a loaf of bread is *also* 2.50, but the game is $30 so you can only buy 12 loaves of bread. While in a vacuum it may seem like the conversion is fair, in real ass life it's not. When it comes down to it, your money is getting *extra* wasted in Canada.

  • @Epochal_Enigmas
    @Epochal_Enigmas Před 10 měsíci +6

    EA Games might wanna hire this dude right away. He seems to be qualified to work with them.

  • @XY-wy3rh
    @XY-wy3rh Před 10 měsíci +2

    And people still give him $3000 per month. This world is so dumb.

  • @LostFrameDevelopment
    @LostFrameDevelopment Před 11 měsíci +7

    This especially pushes my buttons because it puts a bad wrap on student developers and takes money away from people who deserve it. I am 18 and making a free to play multiplayer game StrangerZ and am a real legit developer practicing and working at my dream job for over 6-7 years. Shame that people like this are the ones who get attention and funding...

  • @Ok-tt2kz
    @Ok-tt2kz Před 11 měsíci +11

    Thank you for covering this, been watching this guy on tiktok for a while and his new game is just a money grab. Already people recreating his new game in like a day on tiktok.

  • @hedgehogbjj
    @hedgehogbjj Před 11 měsíci +13

    As a game programmer and developer, this kind of scam really upsets me.

    • @jasonanderson5034
      @jasonanderson5034 Před 7 měsíci

      ok it shouldnt upset u more then the average scam that actually targets vulnerable people the elderly ... the normal internet scams are worse stealing someones retirement funds is much worse stealing from a senial old lady is much worse then stealing from a dumb 22 year old gamer

    • @hedgehogbjj
      @hedgehogbjj Před 7 měsíci

      @@jasonanderson5034 it does upset me more because it directly affects the industry I work in. I hate that people get taken advantage of but it does make my industry difficult to progress in or get real funding on projects.

  • @TechnoOnFPS
    @TechnoOnFPS Před 11 měsíci +13

    Glad bigger CZcamsrs are getting Involved.

    • @Basil-fp2oc
      @Basil-fp2oc Před 11 měsíci +1

      For real glad this is getting some actually attention

    • @kanthanesankandiah760
      @kanthanesankandiah760 Před 11 měsíci

      Yeah. We will destroy that bastard career for try to scam us.

  • @TheRama2299
    @TheRama2299 Před 11 měsíci +9

    I think I've never in my life seen a fully fledged game of this kind, literally every single one we've seen so far was a scam. I simply cannot understand how can people keep falling for the same trick all the time.
    Gmod RP servers are funnily the closest thing we have to one of these games.
    Hell, I absolutely adore how the guy goes "This is too much for me, it'll take tens of years to complete this game by myself" and then the next upload is "you guys want me to make a game with the entire world explorable?"

    • @johnm725
      @johnm725 Před 7 měsíci

      new idiot born every minute

  • @kryskiller666
    @kryskiller666 Před 8 měsíci +3

    "Look at the asset I just made for my game!"
    "And how did you make it?"
    "Bought it from the asset store."
    That should tell you all there is to know. If a single amateur dude makes a hyper-realistic car with fully functional driving physics and mechanics in a single day, then PERHAPS he's lying to your fucking face.

  • @jaymac7203
    @jaymac7203 Před 11 měsíci +4

    That guy who remade his game in three hours 😭😭 lol 😂 Wtf?

  • @wickedlunar1998
    @wickedlunar1998 Před 7 měsíci +5

    Dude has deleted all his TT vids

  • @Stig69
    @Stig69 Před 11 měsíci +24

    Also, once you get enough crowd funding, I feel it's expected to hire more devs. That's what the money should be for. If you were gonna do it on your own, you wouldn't need the money.

    • @born2serve92
      @born2serve92 Před 9 měsíci +2

      in rare cases it's because they have an employer and need to quit to finish the game. A good example of a single dev is the VR game "Vertigo 2". It's even critically acclaimed.

  • @gyrthez246
    @gyrthez246 Před 10 měsíci +4

    I'm a 19 yo self taught game developer/game designer and I currently lead development at an indie studio. I started out using free assets to make up for things I couldn't understand back then like coding, baring in mind I started learning game development at about 9-10 yo.
    The thought of somebody coming into the space and essentially trying to guilt viewers into feeling bad for going through what's literally the most average game developer experience ever to end up with 8 players for a p2p asset flipped game and yet still markets himself publicly as a developer is the silliest thing I've seen this year. If you don't spend hundreds of hours on your game it's either 5 minutes in total length, just not that great, or you didn't actually make it.
    This kind of asset flipped shitpile would be semi acceptable in this space if his games were free to play, but the fact he's pricing these things at 20, 30 bucks each? The fact that dude is/was 17 doesn't matter. It's not like he's 11-12 years old and still figuring things out while trying his best to improve. He's out here asking for constant funding and making pay to play games. I was 17 just about 2 years ago now, so if I took a bunch of asset packs and flipped them into a pile of shit and priced it at 100 dollars on steam I'd be all good because "they're 17"..?
    I think the last thing is the criticism.. It doesn't matter how old you are, as a game developer if one of your players does not like something in your game, you should expect to hear all about how bad the whole game is because of this one thing. That's standard and comes with the practice.
    You need quite a lot of mental resilience to be in (and stay in) game development sometimes, you will always hear the bad things that nobody wants to hear, but you have to hear and listen to them regardless, over and over. You need to invest hundreds possibly even thousands of hours into a good quality game. And as a small solo game developer you're extremely lucky if 8 people play your first or second game, even more lucky if 8 people buy your pay to play game. Most people I've spoken to myself included didn't have even 3 players play our first few games on launch.
    Maybe this paints a clearer picture of the average experience for people watching that may not know. I hope so.

  • @lambda-m1676
    @lambda-m1676 Před 11 měsíci +2

    World of Fate's concept is actually pretty interesting...but...
    ....I can already do it in GMod

  • @Seamstress_
    @Seamstress_ Před 11 měsíci +13

    I love how he has the audacity to try and scam people with ideas that aren’t original whatsoever

    • @jasonanderson5034
      @jasonanderson5034 Před 7 měsíci

      how thats not that big of a deal . stealing money is worse then copying assets that u can buy and use their ment to be used

  • @Bob-ri1px
    @Bob-ri1px Před 11 měsíci +3

    he calls himself a developer

  • @spiderzvow1
    @spiderzvow1 Před 11 měsíci +4

    Simple rule of thumb. If it comes from tiktok, its probably fake

  • @Aspect_20770
    @Aspect_20770 Před 11 měsíci +10

    Glad to see people finally talking about this guy

  • @oppai_x9936
    @oppai_x9936 Před 11 měsíci +6

    Bro I ate lunch with this guy everyday last year in highschool and I had no clue he was doin this. This is so crazy

  • @SwurvGG
    @SwurvGG Před 11 měsíci +6

    Amazing video fry. I feel like theres so many gaming scams now that you can make this a weekly series lol

  • @NeonDustShadow
    @NeonDustShadow Před 11 měsíci +2

    Bro he looks Jake Paul in teenager 💀

  • @luigifan1321
    @luigifan1321 Před 8 měsíci +1

    i like how right after saying he's incapable of making a gta online styled game because it would take too much time he then proposes a game that includes an entire version of earth

  • @deralbtraumritter8573
    @deralbtraumritter8573 Před 11 měsíci +3

    Is this kid Logan Pauls kid?
    IT WOULD EXPAIN SO MUCH IF NOT EVERYTHING…

  • @stefanz8364
    @stefanz8364 Před 11 měsíci +3

    "I FAILED THE EXAM?!"
    *takes a step back*
    "Alright I passed the exam so then what?"
    proceeds to be a police officer anyways
    I was literally crying.

  • @mitchelldrake7113
    @mitchelldrake7113 Před 11 měsíci +7

    I’ve been loosely following this game and when I found out it released I was so excited I almost bought immediately. Then this video was the first to come up when I opened CZcams. Thank you

  • @Nitehawkmk77
    @Nitehawkmk77 Před 11 měsíci +5

    Maybe Nik wants to be the Logan Paul of game dev, how the fuck can people be scammed into these games straight from the off has red flags... The few things going about this is being a virtual guy in tiny whities just running pointlessly "run forest run" and i liked the fact can use audio to diss other players or nik 😂

    • @kirkmarcuz635
      @kirkmarcuz635 Před 11 měsíci

      well he canonically look like logan paul so ig that counts

    • @Nitehawkmk77
      @Nitehawkmk77 Před 11 měsíci

      @@kirkmarcuz635 Yup guess that's something but also a complete twat comparison also

  • @Ethan_3D
    @Ethan_3D Před 11 měsíci +5

    YESS! Thank you for uploading this

  • @AsphaltMan11
    @AsphaltMan11 Před 11 měsíci +13

    This is why we follow your channel, always keepin' it real, Thank You.

  • @HilarityBribo
    @HilarityBribo Před 11 měsíci +35

    I hate Tik Tokers so much that I think you should let him scam all of them.

  • @jigzyonline2
    @jigzyonline2 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Great video! Thanks for showing people what's going on.

  • @ShiggyMiyamo
    @ShiggyMiyamo Před 9 měsíci +2

    Tiktok.
    My trust of this kid ends there.

  • @Mr.Finklebottom
    @Mr.Finklebottom Před 11 měsíci +4

    World of fate seems like it could've been cool, if it wasn't being developed by Nik. If a game like that was delivered to us in the same way Battlebit was, by competent indie devs who actually care about making a good game, it actually could've been awesome.

  • @xntumrfo9ivrnwf
    @xntumrfo9ivrnwf Před 11 měsíci +10

    Nah man, he's probably blow-drying his hair 😂

  • @HisTruthWillSetYouFree
    @HisTruthWillSetYouFree Před 11 měsíci +4

    People like Nik are making it hard for solo devs like me to gain any traction with more realistic projects, he's over-promising and under-delivering, causing a lot of gamers to prefer the scam tactics of AAA devs. With AAA scam tactics, you might not get your money's worth, but you get SOMETHING, which is more appealing than throwing money at an awesome idea you never see come to life, spoiling the appeal of an independently developed game.

  • @coryjkrum
    @coryjkrum Před 11 měsíci +2

    Just watched this a few days ago cam back today because he got moist 😂😂 on his bad game night and found out he was scammed

  • @RedEyedJEdi410
    @RedEyedJEdi410 Před 11 měsíci +3

    If one thing takes off in this game, I hope it's that every player ask where Nick is, and every player responds "He's busy blow-drying his hair." lol

  • @kiffy2634
    @kiffy2634 Před 11 měsíci +3

    Moist Critical brought me

  • @d3fct
    @d3fct Před 11 měsíci +2

    That guys hair explains everything...

  • @lokucy77
    @lokucy77 Před 6 dny +1

    Every time I see one of these "RP" games, I always think, why not just play Roblox at that point? I'm pretty sure it already has some games like these.

  • @ungabunga7879
    @ungabunga7879 Před 11 měsíci +3

    the guy saying the same joke you did too you about him blow drying his hair is so funny

  • @alexfranco2127
    @alexfranco2127 Před 11 měsíci +7

    There are roblox games way better than this

  • @koalafiedmistake5507
    @koalafiedmistake5507 Před 11 měsíci +2

    This just proves Gmod has just
    settled this one very specific niche

  • @ZacharysGamingExpOG
    @ZacharysGamingExpOG Před 11 měsíci +6

    Any guy that looks like that ain't up to any good.
    Logan Paul, Nick Mercs, Ali A

  • @CMobCMobley
    @CMobCMobley Před 11 měsíci +3

    The minute you said “role playing game” my mind went “Ahh shit, here we go again.”

  • @mqtaidmqtaid
    @mqtaidmqtaid Před 11 měsíci +3

    I mean, it took a team of professionals about 5 years to create a game called GTA Online, but this guy wanted to recreate such a game in... months? and was surprised to realize that it would take "even years" to do it by himself? And then he creates that shit and charges what he charges for it???? Planet delulu calls, they say they missed this specimen.

  • @ggve1995
    @ggve1995 Před 11 měsíci

    Good for you alerting people

  • @mikvance
    @mikvance Před 11 měsíci +2

    He found infinite suckers to pay for a game he’ll never release, like StarCitizen 😂

    • @pumpkinspice5848
      @pumpkinspice5848 Před 11 měsíci +2

      I mean the starcitizen cope is hilarious how much they pay for an unfinished game

  • @FatherLamb
    @FatherLamb Před 11 měsíci +5

    I've LITERALLY seen all the assets in his new game in LOTS of other games. Hell that map is even in pavlov and other titles I own.
    Hes the WORST liar ever.

  • @hansrenlund
    @hansrenlund Před 11 měsíci +10

    On a less serious note than some of the other comments, I loved the "I failed the exam" and then immediately telling the officer he passed and he was given the gear. Fake it till you make it!

  • @owomushi_vr
    @owomushi_vr Před 8 měsíci +1

    Never pay for a game, if it doesn't exist

  • @idkanymore3382
    @idkanymore3382 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Every zoomer wants to make open world games and its hilarious when they think improting premade assets and geo data makes them a bigshot

  • @irish8999
    @irish8999 Před 11 měsíci +3

    hes got balls showing his face after scamming a shit ton of people

  • @SwellHell
    @SwellHell Před 11 měsíci +5

    Thank you for exposing this parasite. Definitely adds up.

  • @voidboi0
    @voidboi0 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Was not expecting the pure treat of you playing this wacky shit at the end 😂 “…Alright I passed the exam, then what?”

  • @MrBeeforeo
    @MrBeeforeo Před 11 měsíci +1

    "premade assets that I bought off a store" yes..... bought