Comments by "Kameraden" (@Alte.Kameraden) on "Upper Echelon" channel.

I'm glad that I'm one of those few gamers that would of jumped out as I've avoided the PS4 and XBox One entirely, I avoid most AAA titles so I've not really been exposed much to these practices. Most of which I have been have only been on games like PangYa, Mabinogi, War Thunder, and World of Tanks. Which are all free games, of which have all become progressively worse, being I play them casually, I may disappear for a few months maybe even a few years on some of them before returning, the shocking shift/changes is barbaric. PangYa I retired early Season 3, came back late Season 4 and what I saw was depressing, and made me not enjoy the game anymore. Same thing happened to Mabinogi and World of Tanks for me. I went away even Mabinogi starting a new account because well my old one was hacked, and poof gone for good. Well lets say they have Loot Boxes, and Gachas, etc. All new content on Mabinogi is in the form of loot box like gachas, which ruins any fun of actually playing as you're never going to get anything new unless you pay pay pay pay and pay a lot to boot. I was deeply saddened to come back to World of Tanks and see the same practice. I avoided Company of Heroes 2 because of Day 1 DLC/Micro Transactions on a $60 Dollar game. I never fell for it, never bought into it. If people did what I did, well we wouldn't be having this problem. But sadly. Over all because of my own purchasing practice, and gaming habits, I've been exposed, but not consumed. When I get exposed to a new game doing this I shake my head. I've been playing games since the original NES.
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@iEssense Gacha is loot boxes, where do you think they got it from Gacha have been around for well over a decade now, long before companies like EA introduced Loot Boxes. Loot Boxes are a Western AAA copy of the Asian Gacha system, a system that carried over into Asian mobile games, then copied by western mobile games, then by western Publishers. GACHA is LOOTBOXES. They're the same thing. So if Loot Boxes get banned they would have to include Gacha as they're literally the same concept.
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Ya but this time he will likely struggle to find a job. xD
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@shadyknux Which games? I've not seen any.
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@atespeach5672 Shrugs COH series is like comparing the Movie Top Secret with Saving Private Ryan, one is comical other is serious. Plus from what I noticed a lot of people can not get into MoW series, it's too, complex to play. COH2 is amusing to play with smiles, laughs, and considerably more forgiving to play. I myself own MoW ASII and eventually uninstalled it as I find myself never playing it. Game is too realistic for a RTS game to be insanely fun. I had more fun with it using the creation mode and just goofing off than playing it seriously, and honestly, that doesn't make it a good game. I finally picked up COH2 when there was a mod that unlocked all commanders, and units. So no more paywall. It's a blast.... pity 95% of it's content was put behind a pay wall. Want a Tiger I? Sorry gotta grind or buy to get one. etc
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I said it a year before RDR2 came out that I wasn't buying the game. Doesn't matter how good the single player is. I knew this was going to happen to the multiplayer. I will pick it up for "Cheap" one day on PC likely, but that is it. I've lost all enthusiasm for Rockstar games. I've been buying them since Lemmings. Back when they were DMA design. I've owned games like Body Harvest, and State of Emergency. But what they're doing now is "Fremium" model on a game we have to pay for, and they're lazy about it. GTA Online was a warning of the future, and only idiots didn't see this coming.
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@lowercasesteve I don't see your point? It's about the business practice, it has nothing to do with the singleplayer. I'm looking back at GTA IV and Red Dead Redemption's multiplayer modes which were not filled with the grindy garbage that GTA Online turned into, what they've turned Read Dead Online into. If you're not upset with that, well that's your problem. I have nearly 1000 hours put into GTA V most of that on GTA Online, most of that time spent grinding. I'm done with it. I'm not paying money for a grind simulator. Read Dead Redemption's multiplayer was better. GTA IV's multiplayer was better.... why? They were not grindy piles of trash.
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People were not bitching about it likely because they didn't want to get blacklisted/banned from participating in the BETA. lol
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Soon everyone will be banned and Party and Business controlled bots will remain. They will ban people accused as bots. 😮
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War on Micro-transactions isn't lost. JUST DON'T F**ing BUY THEM!!!! how hard is that? F** I rarely even touch a game that has micro-transactions in it anymore. Let alone buy content through said systems. If they're grindy, well F*** them, I'm not playing the game, they can shove it. It's that simple. I don't see what is so hard in that.
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This is the reason I can not get into the game. The moment I realized I had a grindy gacha system to unlock knew characters it crushed my soul. I didn't know about the rest of the horror being I've not played it much. Gacha mechanics ruined some of my most favorite MMOs, like PangYa and Mabinogi. Gacha is the worst mechanic in gaming history and like Loot Boxes so badly needs to be banned from gaming in it's entirety.
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Mobile Games are filled with rip offs, cons, and complete asset theft. Heck there is a Trailer on youtube as an Ad that uses Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 footage, but when you go to the google App store page it has War Thunder and World of Tanks asset flips in the screen shots and promotional images. So the entire game is a absolute con.
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Of course TLOF2 comes up in said person's review. They're still mad people hated that game but love Ghost of Tsushima. I find it coincidental as I've been wanting a game exactly like Ghost right down to the setting it's based in for years, maybe not on the Island of Tsushima in particular, though that is an Island I often occupy on Mount & Blade Warband Gekokujo, I was hoping for something more broad across the entire series of Islands but heck, this game was a pretty big start.
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@Ganbare_Kenji Ya, but i also hope such a game is more nitty/gritty. A Kenshi (game) but Samurai/Japan, with all pro/cons, darkness/crit, brutality, and lore. I want to see a Samurai chop someone's head off for looking at them wrong, I want to see a Samurai Piss on a man in a prison pit who didn't show him the proper respect. Tired of games that hide this stuff. Not wanting to agree with the article, but I want a more 'real' experience, but that article would work in just about every setting. Ivideo
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@Ganbare_Kenji Actually to be honest, this game didn't show the brutality that was the Mongol invasion even remotely to the scale that actually happened on Tsushima. They had ships literally stringed with the bodies of captured women/children which were tired to their ships as human shields when they pushed on to the next Island after they conquered Tsushima, it was pretty brutal/horrific. They used the same tactic when attacking strong holds on the Island. Using civilians to shield them from arrows. So when that writer of the Article says it unfairly demonizes the Mongols. Well shit, that writer doesn't know the half of it.
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@shadyknux They're horrible examples though. PangYa and Mabinogi were utterly destroyed by their Gacha mechanics. They ruined progression, and put almost all new content behind RNG paywalls. PangYa was one of my most favorite games until the Gacha system literally ate it alive. Mabinogi is currently in a similar sorry state sadly, everything is either in a Gacha of sorts whether clothing bags, dolls etc. Which is sad as they actually made some positive improvements with Mabinogi over the years but they still can not keep players. PangYa is literally dead.
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+Upper Echelon Gamers 1. Bethesda yet again Microsoft Favoritism. Remember those Timed DLC Exclusives for the XBox 360/PC and PS3 users had to wait almost forever to get content for Bethesda games? Rockstar did the same thing. It isn't a surprised Bethesda has also come out accusing Sony of being a "Bad Boy" when it comes to Crossplay. (Just like Rockstar who also has a Pander to Microsoft history). Very dishonest of Bethesda. Dare I say, money being passed under the door? 2. The timed Intervals as dishonest as it is, are also likely to limit user playing time. The game likely lacks content. If you let people play as long as they want a lot of users will run out of things to do, they don't want youtubers likely reporting oh how boring the game will get. So if they limit play time, BETA players will not have enough time to finish anything. Get some hype out there, sell sell sell, then release. Use Stress testing as a "Lie" to cover it up. It's a sign this game is going to have problems within it's first few months on the market when it opened up. But they want to create a hype train to sell as much as they can before it falls. 3. They're charging $59,95 for a mostly recycled game with no voice acting at least in a serious fashion. It's a balls cheap game compared to their last two games, and people are being convinced to spend up to almost $90's on special editions while being a "Gaming as a Service" model. Dare I say it, this is as scum bag of a move as what EA does, and I mean this literally, not metaphorically. 4. Perk Card system was likely originally meant to be like EA's Card system for their games... but ya SWBFII fallout likely changed their plan.
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The gaming world today now than ever do not even need publishers anymore. With multimedia platforms you don't need them for advertising anymore, nor for publishing/distribution. Outside of the "up front" money Publishers today are irrelevant. When more and more devs figure this out fewer of them will handcuff themselves to companies like EA/Activision.
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To be honest They/Them is annoying as heck, as it's normally used in a plural form referring to a group of people. It is however also used when referring to an unknown. Say you were drugged/raped, and have no idea who the person was, then the terms they/them fit perfectly. Gender Neutral Pronouns however turn this upside down, as it backhands general english speech. 99.99% of the English speaking community may be confused if not flustered when the term is used out of it's normal context, and I personally had that experience when watching a minecraft youtube stream and a person was referring to a person as they and them, I kept thinking he was referring to multiple people but I only saw one person. Honestly, gender neutral pronouns need to really just be dropped, it's an idiotic movement to force them on society and throw out centuries of language evolution for the sake of political correctness.
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Bethesda already used all it's good well with "Paids Mods" followed by "Fallout 4" followed by "Creation Club." Fallout 76 is just the boil bursting finally. People are sick of Bethesda being a lying scumbag, and they are exactly that, their entire marketing campaign for Fallout 76 was misleading. Issue is Bethesda has been lying/misleading consumers for many years now. I mean to get around the Season pass they renamed Creation Club Content Mini DLC, because if they called them "Micro Translations" or "Paid Mods" the community as a whole would of went ballistic. They still technically did because no "Renaming" of something can change the fact of what the Creation Club was. FALLOUT 76 EXIST most likely because Creation Club wasn't doing so hot on Fallout 4 and Skyrim. You can be assured that Fallout 76 likely even started out as a different game prior to being turned into a Rushed Hack job of a Multiplayer Online game.
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My Aunt teaches business in college up near Chicago. He told me the way they teach new business students today is deplorable. They're basically taught to basically be double speaking liars. ie saying things in a fashion that gives them wiggle room to claim it means more than one thing if someone assumed it meant something else when that something else is exactly what they originally meant. In short making statements that are utter meaningless when being put into bad situations. It is why so many of these companies are run by people who sound like utter idiots because they're taught/trained to respond in a fashion which to normal people is perplexing at best.
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Don't worry go onto the Steam forums and it's the same story. Bethesda's NPCs who couldn't make it into the game, seems to have found their ways to the forums, grateful of the vacation Bethesda allowed them, and are I open defense of the game.
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