10 WORST MICROTRANSACTIONS in Recent Games
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- Here are some recent games with terrible microtransactions and pay to win mechanics in games.
Hopefully we see less of these in future games.
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0:00 Intro
0:17 10. Call of Duty: Warzone
1:57 9. Pokemon Unite
3:34 8. Marvel's Avengers
4:51 7. Shark Cards in 2021
6:47 6. Spider-man emote - Fortnite
8:19 5. Phantasy Star Online 2
9:36 4. WoW Tokens - World of Warcraft
10:47 3. NBA 2k22
11:59 2. Legatus Pack - Star Citizen
13:35 1. Legacy - Hry
Never forgot call of duty charged $1 for a red dot on a sight … 1/60th of the cost of the game for a dot .
😅
Ha! That's right, how could I forget that shit lol 😆
The nerve! Lol
This is why I am glad that my monitor adds its own crosshair/dot for games like that. Makes things so much better and more accurate than most games built in crosshair and I'll never have to buy a scope or dot to play a game properly. BTW the warzone crosshair is ever so slightly left side biased.
@@proffessorX why even play a game like that in the first place? If the game wants u to pay for a red dot, then that is already a major red flag
The rose skin taking months to fix was definitely on purpose. They could easily fix it sooner but now everyone bought it cause it's broken. So if they fixed it immediately people would want a refund
Damn.
But the thing is it was weird bcz Roze skin was an MW Season 5 exclusive and there was literally no way to buy the skin after the season ended... Also when the season was going on people were actually not yet using the Roze skin and there was no talk about Roze skin, it was only after the season 6 ended and we got closer to CW integration, it got major traction, so Activision was not able to make money off it after it got traction bcz it was a limited-time item, so they just left it and the people who were playing the game during Season 5 (and bought BP) only had access to it...
@@flaminG-Ghost It came in in bundles later on, so yes, you could get it. It might have been a different skin, but when you unlocked the operator you could play the challenges to unlock the dark ones. Also they added in another pretty similar skin to the CW Battlepass too.
@NerdWitDank Spetsnaz Mil-sim
there was no issue with the skin. straight bots with cheap ass setups who cant see shit are the only ones who complained and people complained like months after the skin came out 👎🏽
I'm just surprised they keep making these NBA2k games, like eventually it has to stop at some point
As long as it turns a profit, it won’t.
Only nba game on the market. Sports Leagues selling Licensing to game companies hurts communities so much. Madden is probably the best example on a publisher absolutely trashing a game but being the only nfl game available
How long has Madden been going on?? Don't count on it..
I just keep away from sports games ... they are always PTW.... just go outside and play some real sport!!!
It's always been the formula with NBA and most sports game in general, sure buying a game yearly for updated rosters and graphics wasn't the best deal ever but now with how much people shell out for mycareer and myteam, they aren't gonna stop any time soon.
Hot tip, they knew the skin made you invisible. Whole idea was to leave it there, play dumb, get as many people to buy it so they can exploit it, then 'fix it'
Eh, shitty practice, but at least the only ones that actually spent money for it are shitheads anyway
The problem is, as long as people keep supporting these practices it will never go away.
Unfortunately so. Lots of little pp energy.
"yoU'Re jUSt bRoKe tHO."
Nope I just don't waste my money.
@@The_Mad_King_Aerys even if I could afford it I wouldn’t 😆
@@The_Mad_King_Aerys the kids saying that have their parents pay for shit
I think the worst is when there are cosmetics that are low effort (could be made with MSpaint) selling for more than $10. Like the $80 valorant skin that just made the guns blue.
Or that other skin that costs $250USD. The price of 4 new games minus tax.
I always love how things like the call of duty skin are supposedly unintentional. They put in a glitch skin or an extremely OP gun that can only be acquired with real world money. Then It’s magically broken and needs time to fix it. Gotta get them sells in.
Yeah cause they know content creators will make videos of it, then all the kids will be like omg I gotta get that to win 🤦♂️
Lmfao I never experienced this once and I play warzone everyday. That’s not considered pay to win😂 like what the fuck🤡🤡🤡🤡
Bobby Kotick is a shark.
@@ScottySweats you under a rock?
@@JagsP95 no some people just don’t experience some bugs I guess. Lol still not pay to win
So, a lot of the star citizen ships are actually flyable in the alpha, and they're pretty damn fleshed out. I'm not going to defend their arguably predatory fundraising approaches, but the flight sim gampley is pretty damn enjoyable for the decent selection of flyable ships.
I've never seen another game that people love to shit on so much. Like obviously the people playing like the game or RSI wouldn't be raking in hundreds of millions of dollars lmao. I've got a couple thousand hours in the game, and I still enjoy flying around with my friends and checking out new ships.
@@chasekidd i enjoy the game too but this video is a big lie he say most of the ship are not released when 90 % are released lol
How is it "predatory" to literally just have a game package for 45 dollars that gets you lifetime access to the game and all future updates with no monthly sub fee? Who's holding a gun to someones head forcing them to pay a thousand dollars?
@@Baleur While I am definitely a big defender of Star Citizen, and as I mentioned above, I love playing it, it is 100% predatory when it comes to marketing.
The cycle ships in and out of the store, often raising the prices of the ships when they come back, creating a sense of urgency when a ship you might want is being sold.
The ships are defined basically as gifts given to you for pledging money to the game, not as you buying the ships, specifically so they can ignore any refunds/returns or disputes.
Their are multiple tiers of exclusive clubs you have to buy into either through subscriptions or just spending a ton of money.
The high pricing of the ships in general is 100% whale bait. They aren't priced that high because they cost that much to make, it's because there are enough people willing to buy them that they can price them that high.
Also hull-limited ships, pretending like there is a limited number of ships available when it's a digital good to create an artificial demand to justify sky rocketing the price.
It's a good game, I've spent over 1k$ on it, I don't regret buying into it, but I can recognize that their business tactics are in no way ethical, and prey of the fact that people with too much money to spend, or just enough money to afford it and have a fomo will buy the ships.
@@chasekidd Do you really think it is unethical ? (genuine question) If it were to feed big fat publishers with only promises (as the video pretends) I would agree, but the game has no publisher so to speak, that's the big difference that is very rarely touched upon. RSI doesn't have a traditional business model, and it seems misplaced to judge it by traditional standards. The game kept on a crowdfunded model with rewards at the level of the investment (until some recent external investment at least), so no big investor on a capitalistic model is fattened from the money put by backers. The benefit goes to the company (who functions and grows thanks to it) and to... the backers themselves who get (progressively) delivered their dream game, therefore I do not see how it is unethical. In a sense, this business model could be seen as more ethical than traditionnal ones, as no greedy middle men extracts value from the work of developers, and all of the money invested actually goes into the game. It is even done with a level of transparency that has no equal (to my knowledge), so again, only more ethical to me. It's "direct marketing" meets the gaming industry.
Big fan of the channel! But if I may make some correction to the Star Citizen segment, almost every ship you showed is flyable in the game. Watch any twitch stream and you can see for yourself. As for the $40,000 pack, there is a reason for that too which I will explain in great detail why they did that in a response video.
I actually came to this video because of your reaction video about it. :)
Keep it up. Big fan.
The fact you think $40,000 reasonable for a video game content and that you can justify it is just wow bro…
@@pbeatz911 link to video ?
Your justifying a $40,000 micro transaction…… were you also dropped as a baby?
On a happy note, NFTs are being banned in South Korea. Let's hope the same comes in our own respective countries as well.
Well said.
Finally someone doing good..
NFTs are the Future of the Metaverse. They ain't going anywhere.
@@RayRaeTV 15 years ago they said virtual reality was the future, so...
@@RayRaeTV Well, the Metaverse can keep the damn things then, no one with half a brain cell would get caught up in that stupid pyramid scheme.
The sad truth is that these devious practices exist because people keep paying for them.
Indeed, it blows my head up!
@@DavetheNord There's probably a pay to win mtx out there that does exactly that. If not it's only a matter of time. ;-)
Cough* Sims 4 players
It's all those trust fund babbies who's parents don't give a fuck what their kid does. Mostly single moms living off of Alimony.
@@DeeReeseBeats FIFA players
Just as an FYI, Sims 4 doesn't have pay to win mechanics or mtx's, so it doesn't fit with the theme of the video. It's DLC is overpriced though, especially in total and especially the newish kit pack rip offs.
Doesn’t paying thousands of dollars at one time negate the term MICROtransaction?
My man asking the real question here.
Pretty sure its a Macrotransaction at that point, lol
Full of so much spaghetti it's a macaronitransaction.
Basically yeah
Strictly speaking, yes, a microtransaction is the payment of a small amount of money to gain an advantage or item in a video game.
More broadly, though, the term "microtransaction" is slowly being expanded to include any additional transactions or purchases within a game after the initial purchase of the game other than monthly membership fees.
With Star Citizen most of the ships are in the game. The much bigger ships are still in development due to the limitations of how the server architecture and game engine works together. All ships will be earnable in game and you as a Player can only fly 1 ship at a time regardless of how many ships you own.
yeah, but you can have up to 3 ships spawned at once, for your buddies who just got them auroras or something
@@domusdebellum3042 sure, that sounds like fun.
@@GomulDart it is for people who only have auroras or mustangs.
Out of the list of ships scrolled in the video, I believe all but one are flyable in game. The picture showing the Mustang Omega even states "Flight Ready" which means it is flyable in the game. The content creator is woefully misinformed on the subject around the current state of Star Citizen. As far as Micro Transactions, all the flyable ships shown are purchasable with in game currency, not real money, if you so choose.
The ships are still in development for one reason, and one reason only. Chris Roberts.
I love this new generation of Gaming. Where quality doesn't matter anymore. It's all about the profit and who get to have the greater sales with the least amount of effort because people keep giving them money without hesitating or acknowledging first. What a time to be alive
Thats what happens.
Capitalism at its finest. Decades and decades building it up into something wonderful to just shit all over it in the end for a quick short sighted gain without any consideration of sustainability 😌
It's not entirely the companies faults. i mean, would you, realisticly, don't do something that would earn you tons of money?
The people buying and supporting this shit are a big problem too.
yes, it's pretty sad that Companies do that, but there are still more than enough games and publishers that don't do that. just stick to them i guess
Remember when we use to just get completed games and have couch co op with friends and family. Now it's whatever the most popular games get the most updates while you have dig for the games u want to play or watch as the series you love get left on a shelf to rot away
Gaming sucks now a days. Broken games. Macro transactions. Wokeness. :(
I haven't bought anything new recently because there is just so much garbage.
"But it's free to play!!!"
"The battlepass really doesn't cost that much!"
"Just wait for an update!"
I'm just going to say this now, any game that lets you pay money to skip a grind, is not worth playing in the first place. Because it means that the developers intentionally made the grind unbearable to encourage spending to skip it
any assassin's creed game made in the last 3 years (origins, odyssey, valhalla)
@@BradyAndros absolutely I have tried all three and couldn't get into them. It might be an unpopular opinion but I like the old assassins creed better.
@@havkreaper_2552 that isn't an unpopular opinion at all.
Apparently it is because people find the trio to be amaaaaazing
@@BradyAndros Speak for yourself. I love running around in the historical worlds and so do many others. The only people who have problem with the newer games are those that wanna beeline the mainstory before anything else
I love how people talk BS about star citizen. There is so much you can point out, but instead of talking about what is the real problem, they just talk about fake assumptions.
I personally started to play star citizen and "buying" the ships for real money... I can't recall seeing it shoved in my face in game like what call of duty dose
honestly its really only advertised on their website, when you get in game you'll see no sign of any microtransactions, you could play without having to see a single one.
@@ryanellis233 This is because there is no micro transactions and never will be. You can buy ships for real money now to support development, but you will not be able to buy ships for real money when the game is released. This game simply don't have, or never will have, micro transactions. gameranx is negligent and/or lying.
@@ryanellis233 exactly
@@Ruudscorner not the first time either, and the last time they did it.... it was the same person too.... and to even go as far as to even contradict their own clip in the video is hilarious. they are literally turning into Kotaku with their ill informed and idiotic clickbaity bs
In Star Citizen I have flown almost every ship that you showed in your video in the game over the last 2 months.. So you might need to go back and update your information about star citizen.
I was going to say the same but i think there is a Polaris in the middle of his scroll down his list of ships that dont exist but players in CIG are flying anyway
Remember when you bought a game it was finished?
Pepperidge Farm remembers...
Not really, I played Driv3 and Spyro:ETFD
To be fair, you can actually play and fly most of the star citizen ships right now.
More like "To be ACCURATE"
That and a starter package (all you need to get everything in the game including all ships) will destroy you at a devastatingly shockingly high price of $45 bucks. 😲
This channel just continues to flat out lie about almost every game they “report” on.
Despicably poor journalism.
@@lopaka79 This.
@@jbirdmax IDK about everything, but they are extremely miss leading about Star Citizen. I think they need to actually revisit the game, because I'm betting their info/experience is like 3 or 4 yrs old at leats
Almost every Star Citizen ship you showed on the "roll", is in game. The 40k package was requested by players and created by RSI. You can buy a 50 dollar game package and play the all the content, which is the price of most games nowadays. Still, good video.
It would barely take any research to learn this. Guess we can't trust anything he says in his videos if thats all the effort he is gonna put into it.
@@skitsnack1 I understand this was a pretty blatant error but Gameranx genuinely does make good content, especially compared to other video game “journalist” channels.
@@namesizack normally id agree but this is a blatant oversight at the least
The video isnt good if it has straight up misonformation of that caliber
Just like every other journalist, just reads the snippets he read somewhere.
I really like how consistently you post, most CZcamsrs don't so it's helpful you do.
👍🏼
@@gameranxTV thank you, falcon 🤝
What CZcamsrs do you watch 😹😹 most people taking CZcams seriously upload most days
Been like this since 2k15 gameranx and acg are my main places for game reviews. My likes tend to line up with jakes, falcon too and acg is a more full time reviewer, between the two I've never been led astray.
Not only are they are consistent, they also have quality too!
Not fan boying on Star Citizen, but you got that mostly wrong. Most of the ships are flyable in game now, and the expensive ships require multiple players.
So even though they are purchasable in game with in game currency, you can just buy them outright with real cash. Making them pay for convenience.
Pay for convenience is actually a pretty spot on term. I will use that from now on. :)
That could also be said for games that employ a battle pass where all players earn rewards from it but paying players can do it much easier. In my opinion it’s all still pay to win, as you are paying to skip the grind required to “legitimately” earn the item. Not sure how star citizen works so maybe it’s different there
Pay for progress is a more fitting term
Hi, I Have to disagree on what you said about Star Citizen.
1. Star Citizen is not a pay to win
2. All most every ship is in the game and the ones that are not in it are being worked on.
3. all you need is the starter ship that costs $45 and then buy all other ships in game.
4. The game is taking so long because CIG asked it's backers is they would want planet side action on ground and they said yes.
so CIG had to start over on the project for it to have ground combat and landing on planets with out a loading screen
The game does have it's issues as it is in alpha but it is a good game that will make a lot of other games feel weak.
Thank you and I still liked the video.
They also started from the ground up, including building the studio. There are a few tripple A games with as long develop times as SC but with full studios and ready engine to start with.
@@Solver1 And additionally , they invent groundbreaking new game technology, that every other company will lick its fingers for, once they come out with it. And how people can not accept that this takes time, is beyond me.
@@pbeatz911 It's because most don't understand Star Citizen isn't your average shelf title - it's more akin to an ever evolving ecosystem.
THIS JUST IN! - If you keep giving greedy companies your money, they'll keep taking it.
The complaint about Star Citizen is a stupid one. Most of the ships being sold on their website are flyable in-game, by anyone. The game has 48 unique ships to choose from, and that's not including their variants, which would put it up over 100 different ships. There aren't that many that people are still waiting on, with the ones still in production mostly being larger capital ships that most people won't ever buy.
I just came across this video. Being an SC player, it makes me wonder about the rest of his video. I'm guessing he doesn't base it off experiance with the game, and just reads out something he saw online.
@@robertmcgregor724 I know that thats exactly what they do. I made a comment on an older video saying that they were pronouncing names from the KotOR games incorrectly, and so badly that it was clear they didnt play the games.
@@robertmcgregor724 and besides that on the website he shows it even says flight ready lol
It is very apparent that ZERO research was actually done to substantiate the claims this person is making. To that, it throws question into anything this channel is stating. Do your research before making a fool of yourself.
Cough* yeah! Who would spend that much on capital ships psshh not me hahaha!!! *Shifty eye movements*
The last one is probably just money laundering vs people actually buying it.
Or a rich person just spending their money 🤷♂️
@@3sgtecelica possibly but I suspect money laundering
@@FiveTwoSevenTHR crypto sales are subject to taxes though. Seems like a bad way to launder money.
@@3sgtecelica people don't launder money to avoid taxes, they launder it to hide illegal income.
@@FiveTwoSevenTHR hide illegal income on a public ledger. Smart.
Loved the video. The problem for me is the complete miss on the Star Citizen comment about all those ships shown not being in game. This is completely wrong and misleading. All those ships are flyable. In fact the game itself is entirely playable albeit many of the more complex features are not in the game yet. The current game is still an amazing experience to play. BTW you can pay $45 for the base package to play the game and then earn in game currency to buy whatever other ships you want. Great content overall, but i would highly recommend thoroughly doing your research before posting an "informative" video such as this.
I enjoy Gameranx and I try not to blindly defend CIG, but some basic research would be nice.
Lack of research is probably less laziness and more a draw back to having to put out near daily vids to play the algorithm game. Idk it’s a miss but not something I can be suuuuper mad at
@@redlethal4358 to paraphrase... "I would strongly suggest doing some or ANY research before posting an 'informative' video such as this." Serioulsy
True, I still feel disappointed in RSI given that I paid over $250 dollars as a backer right when they first opened. I have pretty much given up hope that a real game will ever come out.
@@wittigrxn I have spent over $2k and do not regret a penny. I worked 30 years in IT (no not as a dev) but I accept and understand that code development "at this level" takes TIME, lots of time. By at this level I mean developing a game that is "millimeter in scale and light years in scope."... IE "all-the-things" will be physicalized in the game world at 1-to-1 scale.... and the game world itself will be light years in SIZE... NO ONE has ever done this before... IT IS GONNA TAKE YEARS... So? HTFU.
as an indie game dev myself, what really grinds my gears about predatory microtransactions and P2W schemes is that I know there are lots of small game development groups or individuals that have actually found tasteful and fair ways to implement microtransactions and rely on this method as their primary source of income. BUT then you get these huge companies coming in doing it all for more profit and ruining the concept, leaving a bad taste in everyone's mouth and making it even more difficult for the smaller studios to earn their living.
So...? Your problem is that the huge companies are better at making money? Or that being better at making money creates huge companies?
@@thedarkemissary the point I was trying to make and maybe didn't word well, was that bigger companies don't necessarily need to add microtransactions to their games, while for many (but not all) smaller groups it's the better option to publish a game for free and make their income through microtransactions.
and just to clarify more, I should say that I don't like games with P2W or say gamble-like microtransactions either, regardless of the size of the team that made it.
What games do/have you make? Not trying to be funny, would honestly check them out if I can
It's all part of the plan to keep the little guys down and the big guys at the top forever. Competition? Psh. Don't want that! That interferes with PROFITS.
Game companies can't be happy having a literal ton of money, they want ALL the money.
And gamers keep giving it to them.
Greed sucks
not just game companies but all mega corps are like that, the are all greed AF
Such a lack of self awareness. Replace the words "game companies" with the word "people."
Star Citizen has been playable with almost all the ships for quite some time, though it is still in alpha… and a lot of the ships are purchasable in-game with money earned in-game. Any real world money is a pledge towards the game development.
Lots of videos on CZcams showing those “un-flyable ships” flying and fighting and landing on and around space, planets, moons, and space stations.
Were you expecting Gameranx to actually do a little bit of research to maintain some semblence of journalistic integrity?
@@vertisce2845 I'll be honest, I did expect more from them. (Sigh), guess its standard procedure to write first and investigate later.
@@vertisce2845 Actually, until now I did. But game journalism obviously has gone down the drain.
not just that... its the backers that asked for such packs... cig put in because of that.
This is why I unsubbed from them last year… they are the CNN of gaming news.
You can play a decent amount of the ships in star citizen. As the game is a playable game also. That's a lot of misinformation for a single game.
Honestly, I'd take $5 horse armor over any current year microtransaction schemes.
Hell yea, I want 5$ armor whores also! That sounds amazing, and I'd like to inform whoever is in charge that I'll take 10 of them immediately, please.
Then that's how it booming
That's how it all started however.
Crazy to go from horse armor to worse business practices than the F2P Asian games of the past.
How to stop microtransactions
Rule #1: If you come upon any microtransactions in a paid game, simply ask for a refund.
Rule #2: Follow rule #1
Won't work when people spend hundreds in F2P games and devs go "our skins are cheaper, so it's fair"
@@wiertech9 he said paid games. F2p is fine with reasonable price like 10$ or lower. Or for good cause like pink ribbon
@@raveenbikha yea but what about pay to play or subscription based games with the same problems?
@@acefreak9561 pay to play idk but subscription isn’t bad like wow but not now with their harassment stuff.
It’s support the game with new expansions etc. Nowadays is just support them make good money but want all the money mostly ceo
@@raveenbikha im ok with the subscription but having a predatory scheme like gacha, loot boxes or god forbid nfts on a game i have to pay monthly to access would be real ass scummy.
My feedback on this video;
Don't know other games but really familiar with Star Citizen so my feedback will be based on that.
First: Pay to win: No, first of all every player can earn the ships and everything is balanced. For example if you bought a big, expensive ship in the game you can't do anything unless you have a crew of a lot of people. And a same number of people in starter ships can take you down, its a fact.
Also there is literally nothing to pay to win. What are you winning? Its a space sim game with player interactions and massive active communities. Us as the playerbase who wants to support the game, are buying stuff with our disposable income. The main reason why 40k package is hidden after 1k spending is to prevent people who spends money instinctively and irresponsibly to go get that package when they just found out about the game.
Also I find your take on star citizen section is disrespectful, with no research whatsoever and misleading. But we are not angry or hateful, we just want you taking it seriously and objective. Doing a lot of research and talking with backers, making another and a good video take on this would make you win back a lot of people who loves Star Citizen.
@@Aeon-Lynx yeah, it was pretty obvious they hadn't done any real research when he didn't even know the studio name. He said Roberts Space Industries when that's just the game's website and an in-game company. That's normally the big sign of just someone ready to hate on SC when they don't even bother to look up that it's Cloud Imperium Games...
That's the same for GTA Online. There's nothing to win and you can earn it all in game.
FYI, I have a $300 fighter in Star Citizen and I absolutely get my ass kicked by anyone with a simblance of knowing what they are doing, regardless of what they are flying. And I love every minute of playing.
Key detail there lads, the ships are actually flyable ffs
@@aguspuig6615 it's like these guys substitute knowledge for Kotaku articles.
You guys are killing it in these dark times, respect 💎
The worst microtransaction was the one that started it all; horse armor in Elder Scrolls. The first time you could add something to your game after purchase, with IRL money. It was $5 for literal armor for your horse. After that the floodgates opened. Now we have half the content behind a paywall in $60 games. DLC that runs in to the thousands of dollars (see the train sims on Steam). We have pay2advance, pay2win, pay2finish, free2play, free2start plus more. We have Star Citizen. Pre-purchase incentives and tiered editions. Cosmetics, oh so many cosmetics and their microtransactions. Battlepasses. Premium currencies. I don't want to list anymore, it saddens me too much.
Hey, it's helped most of us to know what games to avoid, at least ;).
You're so right. They tested the waters and now we have to contend with the bs. I started only getting games when there is either a full version or I see that they don't add Dlc/transactions after some time, triple-a and indie, both.
Unfortunately, I think NFTs are going to turn into the same thing, if not much worse. People ridiculed the concept of horse armor and cosmetic DLC back then, yet in 2-3 years the market was saturated with it.
Slight correction: WoW tokens can either be redeemed for a large amount of gold OR for 30 days of game time.
They don’t boost the amount gold you earn.
Straight up! It was meant for the long time players who had a bunch of gold to buy in the AH in hopes to put gold back into the wow economy and fix it. Instead people abused it.
It can also be exchanged for Battle net balance up to a maximum of $500
I can see how they could have interpreted that from other sources, I don't think any of them actually play the game. To be fair I don't play it either anymore and neither do most.
@@Govakhelsborne To be fair......
@@DrkestShadow what? I know about the token and that's only one of the reasons I stopped as did many
The Star Citizen portion of this video is inaccurate. Yes, that pack is really expensive but the vast majority of the ships offered in packs are flyable. And if you check the ship page it will tell you if it's not, and if so, what stage it's in. If you purchase a ship that's not currently ready, you will be given an alternate ship as a free loaner until the ship you purchased is ready.
Also, to purchase the pack mentioned, you have to have spent $15,000 already or by buying the praetorian pack for the same amount. To access the praetorian pack, you must have already spent $1,000.
When I saw Charlie getting mentioned, I tried my best not to giggle.
I love how Falcon paused before saying “Moist”
I couldn’t believe I saw Cr1tikal mentioned on here. I used to watch him when CZcams was barely getting started
That is completely wrong about how the WoW token works. It gives you gold or game time not an increase to hold earned.
What?
I must have completely misheard what he said. I thought all he said was people buy them for money and sell them for gold but I was only half paying attention. I quit right before they came out anyways
12:15 Happy to report that at the time of gameranx's posting of this video (Jan 11, 2022), and in fact since as far as a few years back, all the ships shown in the scroll are all flyable in game (except the Polaris which is in development) and most are purchasable in game with no extra real money spent (just base game/starter ship need be purchased for $45).
EDIT: typo/grammar
watch?v=7Wq3nVtFGRE for the scrutinous of you that prefer to confirm for themselves. (more power to you my friend)
You guys do know that most ships in Star Citizen are playable right?
and that they will all be available in game
I'm guessing you were paid to say this.
Too many games are adding microtransactions and releasing half a game and offering the other half as "dlc"
Wish developers would stop this trend but I doubt it will happen
Charging close to 60usd , i dont mind if developpers did that, if the sold the game for 20usd.
I wonder how much money was washed clean through these micro transaction operations.
Can’t believe that’s never crossed my mind. Cleaning up so much dirty money
With all the corruption at EA, its pretty much a given that money laundering is rampant.
Yeah, maybe you should actually research Star Citizen, it’s in production, but still playable and also almost every ship you showed was fly able and you even showed in-game footage of one you said wasn’t flyable.
WarFrame had some that pissed everyone off. Digital Extremes announced an event where they were bringing back premium cosmetics that had not been available for years. When we got to see the prices, they were HIGHER then when they were originally released AND you had to buy a special premium currency that couldn't be used for anything else. It was so bad that they made some changes within 2 days, adding a bundle of the standard premium currency with it.
Man i played a crap ton of warframe when I had no job probably almost 200 hours then I stopped right before the Plains of Eidolon and some other updates and i feel like i dont know how to play the game anymore.
No one actually needs those prime accessories... You most certainly speak of the prime resurgence, yes? There are so many prime accessories, ofc if you would buy them all it would cost over 100$ but who needs those??? Yeah they look cool but they're not needed to enjoy the game. Just decide which ones are the most worthy of purchase and buy those. It's not pay-to-win content, it's just pay-to-collect
Edit: spelling
@@NMG.11 This video and this comment wasn't solely about p2w, so why are you so fixated about that aspect?
@@jagodaduda2976 yeah, you're right. Then let me rephrase it. The guy can't really complain because of the said cosmetic prices anyway, because when they were first released they were intended as limited edition content so... If Digital Extremes decided that they should give a chance to collectors to buy those cosmetics ofc they would sell higher. So if you want a full set of extra cosmetic armor and another gimmic you need to pay like 20$, 'cause that gives you 3x "regal aya" which is this events special currency for instant buying either full weapons/warframes or cosmetics. I see that as a very reasonable price for someone that is a collector, 'cause that's the actual target audience. Again, those were meant to be exclusive limited items yet they returned, so ofc they are more expensive now...
@@darkseeker102 yeah, I never got the hang of it, I might just start over….
Used to be microtransactions..now it's NFTs
Nah. There's still a LOT of pushback vs NFTs by most in the gaming sphere, for now. All it will take is a publisher to use them intelligently and have them usable across multiple games and cross platform that they will go mainstream.
The average gamer pre-orders, purchases microtransactions, buys loot boxes, and plays mobile games, burning money through those dumpster fire. NFTs are still relegated to crypto bros and people who want to try their hand at low cost investing who happen to also game.
Yes another gameranx video
woo
Regarding star citizen, every picture you showed of ships besides maybe 2 or 3 are in the game and you can fly them all. Also it is not pay to win by any means. A $60 ship can beat a $300 ship any day, depends on the pilots
and you can buy either of them in game with just a $45 ship.
Appreciate Falcon for recently sectioning his CZcams vids. It's all about that small but impactful improvements.
They need to learn that when you can just "pay to win" it eats at replayability. The most replayability is in grinding stuff. If the grind is over so is part of the desire to play. I play mostly like many others, to grind stuff out.
Only if the grind is properly balanced and actually enjoyable. Lot of games make the grind ridiculous to incentives paying
What? That's completely contradictory. Fact is, most people play "pay-to-win" games longer, cause they've paid to win and are winning because they paid. Whereas, if they grind and get nowhere, they quit. Therefore, the model works perfectly, those who will pay, pay to win, win because they paid, will continue to play because they win, and will continue to pay, because they play.
@@thedarkemissary But the point is, once you've won, where do you go from there?
@@tomread8748 You win again. That's why cheaters exist.
Also, I notice this pattern where in the psst you'd grind to improve in the game. Now that you grind for skins, you're not playing the game, you're just grinding for the sake of grinding. You don't do a challenge because it is fun, but rather for the rewards and that's worrisome.
@@JonatasAdoM But the challenges are also fun.
Another video, another load of info that's really helpful
GTA Online is a classic example of everything that I despise about online gaming in general.
From micro transactions, to hackers/cheaters/griefers to pre-pubescent zit faced cretins that try to act tough but clearly give it away that their balls haven't dropped when they squeak over voice comms etc. If I want to socialize with my mates, I'll do it in person and face to face.
We'd have GTA VII by now if not for GTAV online. Everyone who puts money into that fucking game is guilty. Fuck all those people. GTA VI would probably be Vice City, and it would be amazing if GTA VII would be Las Venturas. But no. Stupid assholes putting tons of money into GTA V stopped any progress from Rockstar. 'Member when they were supposed to release single player DLC? They saw the money online was getting them and they said "fuck it". No effort, tons of money.
@@TayR0C From a purely business point of view, I can understand why Rockstar haven't bothered with a GTA 6 as yet, as GTA online to them is a cash-cow that keeps on delivering... for minimal risk and financial investment etc. Obviously though, it doesn't do anything for those of us that are eager to move on with the series. I suspect though, that if a GTA 6 does eventuate... that Rockstar will double down and make it online only (like Battlefield 2042)
If that happens, I will walk away from the series completely and move onto something else.
In pokemon go, you have to fly to like 5 other continents to get the regionals. World record holder by far.
The wow token let's you buy gold, it doesn't increase gold earned.
No, you can:
A: use the token to get 30 days of game time, or
B: sell the token on the auction house for gold
@@_Just_John That's what i said
I have to say that Modern Warfare 19 did a good job with their Battle Pass. You paid 10$ for Season 1 and each Battle Pass paid for the next one as there would be enough free and paid CoD point tiers to pay for the next one.
It's still like that.
Fortnite did this in 2018
Yeah.
Yeah but you still paid $60.
It pisses me off that "gamers" that keep giving these games money has the nerve to go online to complain and/or look for sympathy whenever they get ripped off smh
I miss the old N64 days where you play the game to unlock stuff, like in Goldeneye where you can unlock and play secret missions.
I watch this channel everyday and you guys never disappoint!
Microtransaction is the gaming industry's alternate word for "hacks"
Some PS2 games released 15 years ago. Had more content and fully developed products with no micro transactions or updates or any dlc. Game developers today while not all of them like some studios have truly given the world masterpieces. But some have gotten lazy and only care about how much money they can make. And not what they can give the world through their work. It's a shame. People need to be smart enough to know if game developers are willing to release half assed games then people should not give them any of you're hard earned money.
Even Snes and Mega Drive games. Love put into them, stories, gameplay.
@@britishwordplay4335 It's ridiculous how good some of those games were man. Haha It's no wonder why ps2 is the highest selling console ever. Game developers actually took pride in their work. They couldnt rely on updates in dlc or microtransactions to help improve their product. It was like once its out its done mise as well give it our all. Like the DBZ games Like budokai 3 or the tenkaichi series. It's disgusting seeing some of the dbz games today. There are So many others as well but Haha As a kid I played those games and others 10s of thousands to 100s of thousands of hours so much dam fun.
You know, I got to give you guys props for putting the whole list with timestamps in the description. Most list channels don't do that because of metrics and ad revenue, and I'm sure y'all care about that too, but it's a degree of integrity to still do that like you do.
I would give props, if they would do it regularly and not only every 4th video. But hey, better than nothing
Thanks for this beautiful rant, man. It's good to see CZcams channels like you stepping up to help like this.
I still remember my first micro was the horse armor in Oblivion lmao
Genshin impact, you need to spend like $1300 to fully max a character and get their weapon. They release a new character every 3 weeks or so. If you want every character it's gonna get really expensive fast
I dont think pve is considered in pay to win
but what is if you dont want every character? what is if you just want to have fun with a game? do you still have to spend alot of money?
>Skip characters you don't like
>Save up freemogems
>Roll on their rate up
>Tadah you didn't spend $1300
I swear Genshin is Babby's first Gatcha game
@@theArcanaOFZero I dare you to say that on the official twitter of theirs. You won't hear an end to your notifications
@@theArcanaOFZero yeah but what of characters you want, no way you C6 and R5 a character you like on free primos. What happens if you want a character back to back? I get it's a gacha game or whatever doesn't make the monitization ethical.
Most ships that you can buy in Star Citizen can actually already be flown...
& you can buy ingame
From all the ships you showed in the SC part, only the Polaris is not flyable, everything else is
Idk what the worst are, but I know this dark depths "event" that has no content and just skins to buy. Pretty annoying
Dont buy then
@@user-qh4zb4bq9c I'm not. Most people aren't
My personal rules:
1. Never pre-order a game, doesn't matter who the developer is.
2. Never buy anything inside any game. If it demands me to buy something that has been stripped from the complete game, the game doesn't deserve to be played by me.
3. Before buying any game, ask myself if I'm going to play it right away. If the answer is yes, buy it. If the answer is no, don't buy this game now and choose another game from my backlog.
New - 4. Never buy NFTs.
Sound advice! I can't tell you how often I've gotten burned pre-ordering games because I'm slow sometimes. Cyberpunk was the last game I preordered; I've finally learned my lesson!
Another Rule: Never buy any sports game every year. They are basically the same shit rehashed.
@@Timbucktu635 Yes, important one!
Everyone loves to complain about microtransactions and then immediately go buy more. If we're going to get this stuff to slow down, we have to vote with our wallets.
omg i love how you put the eyes on warzone lmao xD
I've flown most of the ships I've bought already. I have to admit that development could be much faster
I…I have no idea how/why people keep paying for anything in Star Citizen.
Honestly I still can’t figure out what people are doing even touching the last two entries. The only thing I can guess at with the Star Citizen one is hoping they can sell of their stuff at a marked up price to make a profit (even still insane).
Star Citizen players share the same brain cells as nft investors.
@@wotwott2319 idk i like flying around a big star system in a space ship
i spent 200 on this game a decade ago and have nothing to show for it lmao
I like Gameranx but unfortunately they’re completely in the wrong here about Star Citizen. the game is playable, the ships are playable, it’s not just a “graphic on a screen” like they said. it’s not like an NFT. maybe try playing it? literally only costs $50 to get a ship and the game.
Sometimes I like to think people aren't that stupid and then you show me a story of people buying ships and lands for a ridiculously expensive price for games that doesn't even exist yet and I just feel like the wrong type of people are the ones with money..
Trust fund NEETs. They are the scourge to us actual working gamers. If it wasn't for them, we'd probably have a GTA VII and Bully 2 by now. But no. Still milking the GTA online teet.
The people buying things at that price point are mainly content creators and rich folk who are throwing money away in order to lower their taxes.
All but one of those SC ships you showed are flyable now. They have the words FLIGHT READY under their description.
And you can buy ALL those flyable ships in game, with in game credits.
Also, you released this right in between 2 player events that basically let you fly some ships for FREE, and between some in game events that throw in game currency at you for you to buy the ships you like yourself.
Your info would have been correct... in 2017.
these practices exsist because alot of players don't want to actually play the game to 'get gud'. They want the op stuff with a flick of their credit card because they think they can steamroll the game and other players. So the result is alot of people spend real money on these transactions. Developers would stop putting it in their games if people just stop wasting their money and just...play the game.
Players: Get rid of predatory microstransactions
Publishers: No
Players: Ok here’s my debit card number
Thank you for speaking out against NFT's in general and not just this game. Awesome
Do you know who are to blame for microtransactions?
The consumers. Stop buying them. Especially if it doesn't affect the game in anyway.
We're living in the worst timeline
Although the prices for Star Citizen ships are insane, it is UNFAIR to say the price is just for a picture. Every ship in that footage is in the game and functional.
I understand how ridiculous it is, but what is being said here is just false.
How functional the current (alpha) game is; how the business model of selling multi-hundred-dollar digital spaceships to a bunch of whales funds their project; or how it blew way out of proportion and has been in development for a decade; THAT is all fair criticize.
no only are they in game and functional, they are purchasable in game. $45 is all you need to get into the verse and every ship is available in game.
@@domusdebellum3042 yeah, but with my playtime it will take months to grind for a prospector (just saying that the balancing of income per hour needs a ton of work)
@@ruudhollenberg thats why you join an org. the people who have time to grind rep levels do, then share those missions and certifications with people who dont. and the people who have all the ships will spawn ones in for other players until they can buy better ships. this game opens up exponentially when played with an org.
@@ruudhollenberg I don’t play the game all day. Abusé I have a 7-5 but I can still get PROSPECTOR within a month
I look forward to watching this every couple months for the next 10 years
Honest feedback. Star citizen is already playable with many ships inside the game. Nothing to do with microtransactions or pay2win. Also, the NFT stuff is not really about microtransactions, pay2win or even gaming.
Gameranx should do a list for dlc scams
My favorite one to laugh at is the complete list of train sim dlc
I believe that the reason it remained unfixed in Warzone was because Raven Software employees who would deal with it were in strike, so until they returned, there was no one to fix it.
It's also because bugs like this a hard to locate. It often involves deleting the whole code and redoing the model (at least for me probably because I'm new to this).
And that’s why retro gaming will always remain on the throne (for me). The gaming industry has always been about money for publishers/developers, but their greed has been way out of hand in the recent years. One of the worst parts about it is that consumers are enabling this behavior. Nobody likes being told how to spend their money, but in these cases…..stop supporting BS! Games are about having fun! I don’t know….that’s just me.
spectacular commentary as always 👌
Molyneux is basically Khan from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan for some gamers.
Rainbow Six Siege better be on this list. Because Siege used to be fair in micro transactions. Now it’s gone too far
How?
This comment wasn’t copy and pasted
This comment definitely wasnt copy and pasted.... :Troll:
@@ryanretrogamer7 I just liked your first comment 5 mins ago 😂
@@N0-Name416 I was the original one
The way you said cayo perrico lmfao 💀
Love the vids
Every game with battle passes. Battle passes are basically loot boxes. They think we're dumb.
A very vocally known skin issue that breaks balance lasts about half a day before being disabled or outright fixed in competitive games. Warzone is NOT a competitive game, it's a cash cow. Hence, they fixed the issues but delayed the rollout of the fix for weeks KNOWING it would drive up sales for Battle Passes and level unlocks by people thinking the exploit would go away immediately. Activision made money by not fixing it quickly. This is more ammo for a boycott, peeps.
They didn’t say enough about how bad 2k is. You can actually buy skill boosts and sponsored gatorade boosts to your players stamina and these boosts in total cost more than you earn for playing a game. And depending on the game mode can cost up to 6 times what you earn for playing a game. It in my opinion is the worst aspect to this game and the reason i stopped playing.
gatorade boost?wow microtransaction and ad at the same time.
@@ianvergara9739
For real. I was so confused reading that comment lol.
Actually a huge majority of the player base for Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genisis doesn't even bother with the rare drop and exp boosters, those things were there at launch and largely ignored even with those who had the cash for them.
Yeah and not only that
The main problem is obtaining cosmetics being similar to Team Fortress, not EXP or Drop Rate Booster
i love when falcon rantin about pay-to-win and microtransactions because it's already way too much like thousand dollar and more lmao
Guilty as charged, I only do Cayo on gta5. It's quick and easy plus you don't have to waste chances on randoms being stupid as hell.
4:53 "Shark Cards"
I KNEW IT
watching gameranx video on microtransactions from 6 years ago, campared to this one show us how bad we need to stop spending money on this!
We've gone from being sold quality games, to quality games with time-wasters, to crap games with time-wasters, and now they're trying to sell us IDEAS.
Hey... the entire Star Citizen section is completely wrong. I'm just a normal player of the game and I know that your words are 100% untrue.
Every single ship that you can put money on, you can fly right now. The $40,000 thing is not a regular purchase. That's not even availble to anyone who's not a millionaire irl and wants to support the game. It's not really like you said.
Everything else, A+ , thanks.