Beg Like Dogs For Electronic Arts! (The Jimquisition)

There was an ad at the beginning of this for me, and I'm not sure if it's because someone monetized this or youtube just found a way to be more of a dick.

Alex S

I'd happily pay for more Monster Hunter: Iceborne's but trash like Battlefront II? I can't imagine a fan, especially a Star Wars fan wanting to be tortured for another season.

Forest-Mourner

Here's how I see it: * microtransactions - $$$ for a hat * season pass - $$$ for the promise of maybe shit DLC * monthly fees - "christ where is all my money going?" * MMO - "I poo into a sock"

Fun video! I'll never pay a sub for a "live service" but really a solo single player experience. Just feels like a piss take. Happy to pay for MMOs though. Usually find I actually save money when playing an MMO because they're so all consuming that I don't buy other games.

I have to wonder, what's the difference between games with microtransactions, season passes, and monthly fees and a good old MMO? Seriously, the line is blurred for me.

Jason Youngberg

Shit ain't new. Back in the 50's, people would get their knickers in a twist about their TV shows being constantly interrupted for commercial breaks. By the time I was born, that was so normalized that when people complained about commercials, I wondered what they were so angry about. BUT... Fast forward to the 2000's, and VOD comes in, and then Internet steaming a few years after, and suddenly nobody has patience for commercials anymore, and ad-men have to find new ways to get eyeballs on their work. Same thing happened with the merchandise-driven cartoons of the 80's; come the 90's, we had Fox Kids and Nicktoons and Disney Afternoon offering better-quality stories with less commercialism, and the old ways couldn't compete. The Bots Master, which you reminded us of a while back, is an excellent example. It was tailor-made to be the next merchandise-powered 80's cartoon, but released in 1993, when everybody was watching Batman: The Animated Series. So it never caught on. I think biologists call this "ruptured equilibrium": things only stick around as long as the environment that permits them to prosper endures. Once the environment changes, everybody has to evolve or die. Jim apparently thinks his wailing on public opinion will be able to rupture the equilibrium. Eh, maybe. Personally, my money's on the post-coronavirus economic depression and the corresponding drop in people's disposable income. Makes shelling out hundreds of dollars for a game look a lot less palatable then dropping $20 bucks for 3-4 games on your wishlist during the next big Steam sale.

Asterion Del Toro

Nah, we need a name for this kind of behavior. That way we don’t blanket gamers that don’t exhibit this kind of behavior with those that do. My recommendation would be “Overspenders”: people who only enjoy things if they can keep spending money on it, as opposed to just paying for what they need to enjoy it. If you feel like a game is less because you can’t put more money into it, you are an Overspender.

Dying Breed

Can we officially use the word 'pathetic' to start describing game fans again? I got called that a lot for liking games when they were complete experiences back in the day that I in some cases still replay to this day in their original form. Now it seems like the word has been disallowed as gamer culture has become mainstream, and yet.... it fits better than ever.

Trevor Bond

thank god for Pork shoulder.

Forest-Mourner