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[Wwg1wga]

Ooblets is engaging in projection when they mention "toxic" and "entitled". Steam isn't perfect, but Epic is just making things worse by telling supporters they don't matter.

 

[Shifty]

We have a thread about this, that video included:

Indy life simulation game Ooblets will now be an Epic Store exclusive on PC

Going off the trailer that looks like the type of filler I'd expect from humble monthly. I'm not sure what Epic is expecting here. Those developer comments are funny though. They got their money and that's all they care about. Pretty short sighted.

www.neogaf.com

 

[Keihart]

nobody likes exclusivity?
I like exclusivity, it usually gives devs some liberties that they wouldn't have otherwise.

 

[Phunkydiabetic]

Who in the hell would sit through a half hour of some guy discussing this? This is ridiculous. Is this really that big of a deal that someone would spend a half hour of their life watching this? Honest question, I want to know if it's worth it.

Edit: or how about a tl;dr up in this piece. Help a bro out here

 

[Abriael_GN]

Who in the hell would sit through a half hour of some guy discussing this? This is ridiculous. Is this really that big of a deal that someone would spend a half hour of their life watching this? Honest question, I want to know if it's worth it.

This particular youtuber is basically long-winded, less-informed, less-funny Jim Sterling. Always hunting some controversy to fake outrage about for those sweet hate clicks.

Nope. Definitely not worth it.

 

[Phunkydiabetic]

This particular youtuber is basically long-winded, less-funny Jim Sterling. Always hunting some controversy to fake outrage about for those sweet hate clicks.

Nope. Definitely not worth it.

I fuckin knew it. Am I wrong in assuming that 98% of these videogame YouTube people are just boring long winded hacks making mountains out of molehills?

 

[Keihart]

I think he got his foot in youtube money making MGS videos before MGSV or around that time, then he started to ride game outrages. No idea why tho, maybe this type of videos are the ones that get more traffic, seems pretty boring to make if you ask me tho.

 

[Abriael_GN]

I fuckin knew it. Am I wrong in assuming that 98% of these videogame YouTube people are just boring long winded hacks making mountains out of molehills?

All you need to do is to take a look at their thumbnails. If it's full of hyperbolic clickbait that makes them look like a fake outrager pretending to be some defender of consumer's rights, they probably are.

In this case, I'd say it's right in your face. Notice how he went to dig up videos that are literally ten years old to ride that microtransactions outrage.

 

[Phunkydiabetic]

All you need to do is to take a look at their thumbnails. If it's full of clickbait that makes them look like a fake outrager pretending to be some defender of consumer's rights, they probably are.

In this case, I'd say it's right in your face.

Fucks sake people take videogames way to seriously. If I ever became this whiny over games I'll just find something else to do. On the other hand there is a big chance he doesn't believe any of the shit he says and knows a market is there for videogame whiners and is there to fill the void. In that case, get your money boo.

 

[Iorv3th]

Fucks sake people take videogames way to seriously. If I ever became this whiny over games I'll just find something else to do. On the other hand there is a big chance he doesn't believe any of the shit he says and knows a market is there for videogame whiners and is there to fill the void. In that case, get your money boo.

When you do it for a job and controversy causes clicks, you look for every sliver of controversy you can find to try and make a big deal out of it to get viewers.

It's a dumb cycle.

 

[Xiaoki]

I fuckin knew it. Am I wrong in assuming that 98% of these videogame YouTube people are just boring long winded hacks making mountains out of molehills?

Yes, yes it is.

Making videos about the "outrage of the week" from the message boards is how these people make a living.

Also, its pretty well known that they will always stretch out any topic to 10+ minutes because Youtube videos that are less than 10 minutes can only have 1 ad, whereas videos that are over 10 minutes can have as many ads as you want where ever you want.

 

[sol_bad]

Nah, Yong-Yea is cool.
I was eventually going to buy the new Crash Racing game but he informed me about the new bullshit micro transactions. This made me realise that you can literally never trust Activision Blizzard ever.

Like them or hate them but these "outrage" Youtubers are informative for people who care about these things.

 

[ljubomir]

His videos are way too long, but his points still stand. I'm not a fan of the medium, but anti-consumerism needs to be called out.

 

[Virex]

Seems like shitting on or berating the people that support you or want to support you is highly in fashion with game developers as of late.

 

[dirthead]

Digital storefront lockin was always evil. It's a bad system when it only works when there's a monopoly.

No one wants to install 40 of these pieces of shit. I'm glad that Epic has revealed how bad of an idea it was in the first place. It was easy to ignore when Valve was the only real game in town.