"Is Monetization Affecting Game Design? Talk About Games"

[kane_magus]

Before I even watch this video, I am going to go ahead and answer the question. Yes, absolutely, monetization is affecting game design. It has been doing so for years now. I and owsf2000 and many others have been ranting about this asinine horseshit for years. It fucking sucks fucking ass fucking hole. It always has fucking sucked fucking ass fucking hole. It will never not fucking suck fucking ass fucking hole.

Now, to actually watch the video.

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Watch on YouTube

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I absolutely agree with this video. My only minor issue with the video is that it seems like Ryan and Mike are hugely behind the curve if they're seemingly only just now starting to notice this issue and to have a problem with it, due to "oh noes not muh zeldas" or whatever. Ignoring that quibble, yeah, like I said, 100% agreement with them. The whole goddamn thing goddamn sucks goddamn ass goddamn hole.

Comments

[owsf2000]

Yeah, these guys are certainly WAY behind the curve. They probably only woke up because, as you say "oh noes not muh zeldas". Essentially up until now Nintendo has been probably the only holdout from the cheapening of the industry as a whole, but now they've given into the pressure.

I have Breath of the Wild. I don't have a Switch yet, but that's fine - I'll eventually get one. But I'm not going to be buying any DLC for it.

I'm not sure how well DLC overall will work for Nintendo though. They're a publisher that never puts their games on sale (For the most part.) If they put the wrong shit out as DLC or just too much as DLC, then people will really wonder how much value is actually in the base game that'll still be costing 80 bucks years after it's released.

[kane_magus]

To be fair to them, I suppose, they have mentioned this sort of shit in earlier videos, but I'm pretty sure this is the first video of theirs with this being the main, sole topic.

As for me and the Switch, if (and that's a big if) I ever do get one, I might still buy Zelda, but I won't be doing any of the DLC/Amiibo shit, either.

[kane_magus]

Hmm, well, that first link seems to be broken, until and unless they reupload their video to Youtube or something. I any case, I remember they were ranting quite a bit about microtransactions and DLC and other such shit in that one, from as far back as 2014, so it's not a new new topic for them, I guess.

But yeah, even with that, it still seems more like it was little more than a minor annoyance to them, rather than the huge abomination of the video game industry that it has always been, from the start, at least up until now that Nintendo has started doing the shit too and finally brought the problem well and truly home to them.