How Good Games Go Bad

it's Arch production let's face it we have all made mistakes from a young age we've been continuously confronted with choices where sometimes through some hindsight you might have been better off with the other option nonetheless he moved on from your mistake hopefully learned from it and now you are where you are today watching a pretty lengthy YouTube video that you hope is worth your time watching in the every evolving progress of mankind we've been confronted with choices and with every mistake made no matter the severity we learned and moved on video games have been a thing for more than 40 years now with games like pong and Space Invaders kickstarting the industry in those 40 years a lot of mistakes from both developers and Publishers have been made and learned from resulting in games consistently reaching entertainment levels that nothing in our entire history ever could have matched or reached for that matter honestly games are incredible and hopefully they continue to get better and better to satisfy our spoiled needs ice hopefully because recently there's been a trend with successful gaming companies making detrimental and easily affordable mistakes that ruin the game's their fans love oh so much in this video we are going to identify soft and once again hopefully learn from the mistakes Ubisoft Nintendo and valve have been painfully making enjoy the show [Music] [Music] valve is simply incredible they single-handedly changed the entire gaming industry with their revolutionizing games with almost every title they ever released reaching 95 to 99 positive reviews on top of creating insane games they branched out and created the biggest gaming platform that's so widely known that I'm willing to bet that you have it on your computer open right now Steam and if that wasn't enough they released multiple affordable top Quality Hardware like default index VR headset not to mention the steam deck a portable desktop computer that has better price performance ratio than most species you can buy at this time if there is one company that I dare to call the best it would hands down beef off software they are simply unrivaled but while calling them the best a specific part of the community which includes myself also kind of despises them valve is an interesting company while most game studios have one big group of developers working continuously on one title at valve they often shift their attention to the most important matters an example of an important matter up to recently would be the development of Half-Life Alex Alex is another title that just changed how we expect VR titles to be the immersion story and combat are professionally thought out and Polished developing such a banger of a game requires only the best of the best to develop and a very good chunk of the time this shifting their Workforce to the economically most important matter whilst insanely benefiting that specific title and being the reason by Valve is the successful company they are today thus one particular title Pretty Dirty Team Fortress 2. TF2 is my favorite game ever and I'm saying that even after playing it for more than 10 years now almost half my life I've been playing Team Fortress 2. but why why is Team Fortress 2 such a good game and why would such a good game be done dirty I have seen countless of videos of countless of TF2 YouTubers explaining why the game is so good and while all of they say is completely true I think most of them miss the biggest reason why Team Fortress 2 is a one-of-a-kind game yes I'm sorry OverWatch players I don't think your game is even within the same competition range of Team Fortress 2. I'll explain why in a hot second but allow me to explain briefly the basics of Team Fortress 2 first cf2 is an arena based shooter with 9 classes to pick from 14 official game modes to play and has over 50 maps that is Team Fortress 2. sounds pretty bland doesn't it and that is exactly the issue with explaining Team Fortress 2 to someone unfamiliar with the game TF2 is a game with layers to prove my point here is a random number generator all classes are numbers in game by one to nine and whatever number I lent on I will explain by his addition makes Team Fortress 2 one of the best games ever and we got four okay that is the Demoman the demo has yes just like all the other classes a primary weapon a secondary weapon and a melee weapon its primary is a grenade launcher the projectiles which we call pipes shoot in a curve and they explode on player impact if you miss the enemy they bounce instead roll and explodes a bit later each pipe you shoot does 100 damage on player impact meaning you're able to kill 8 out of the 9 classes with just two pipes the skill issue with the nade launcher is that you have to kind of predict where the opponents will be when you shoot your pipe as they take some time to travel simultaneously you don't want to be too close to the enemy as this flash damage might just hit you as well but here's the first layer to the grenade launcher if you shoot the pipe on the flooring and time the explosion you can pipe jump and get some insane High to reach otherwise off-limits platforms another layer to this technique is that when you Propel Yourself fast enough you can reach another pipe midair for a second explosive jump though if an eye with thousands of hours under my belt can't consistently build this off the demoman's second weapon is the sticky bomb launcher it allows him to launch sticky bombs that he can detonate whenever he wants the stickies turn the Demoman into a big brain technician that can single-handedly destroy an entire push with this gun as well you can stick a jump which is easier to do in a pipe jumping because you can right click to detonate whenever you want to [Music] finally he has a bottle the demo is a drunk alcoholic and with his bottle you can reinforce that fart into your enemy's head and while standing on the scorps you can cheer on that immediately just after that is already a lot of things I said about the Demoman but this is just the top of the iceberg TF2 has an inventory system aside from having many many hats cosmetics and tones it also has a very broad variety of weapons the nade launcher so his primary has three different options the lock and loads which somehow has three nades and just two barrels don't ask me why removes being able to do damage after missing a shot and instead only deals damage when hitting enemies but hey in return your projectiles fly a lot faster which makes it easier to hit them the Loose Cannon allows you to fuse the pipes before shooting them making it harder to use but dealing a lot more damage if you time it correctly the fourth option is the iron bomber the explosion radius is a lot smaller but the pipes don't roll when you them anymore and instead just stay in place they are all very small changes to the weapon but big enough to encourage a different playstyle which makes simply switching his nade launcher to another launcher a very fresh experience but again there is a layer you can also switch from a Nate launcher to a pair of boots yes you hit that right you can wear boots isn't that nice Jokes Aside the boots are to choose if you want to dive into demo subclass the beauty of the characters in TF2 is that they have subclasses by switching your primary to your pair of boots your secondary to your Shields and your melee to your swords or even the bottle for the matter you become a demo Knight the boots and shields gives you more HP and the shield also allows you to dash into the enemies which does damage and provides more Mobility from the multiple Shields you can choose one is particularly fun the tie Turner allows you to have full control of your mouse when charging forward this allows you to trim a technique which I'm not even sure how it works but you basically can jump off slopes and fly through the sky towards your enemies it's a bit tricky to learn but once you have it mastered every map simply turns it to your playground there are players so good at trimping that they literally fly from one side of the map to the other in one charge it's amazing each class has so many layers to the play style and I would love to talk about it for many more hours but for the sake of not derailing even further from the topic allow me to explain why TF2 is a one-of-a-kind game and that answer is simply the interactions and how you're able to express yourself I know TF2 is often regarded as a head simulator but that joke is actually why TF2 is so darn good the insane amount of Cosmetics to choose from allows you to kind of Cosplay your character however you want to be this is the heavy awesome class with awesome deeper layers that I won't get into but he doesn't look awesome right now let's make him what I think is cool wow very nice but giving your character cool Cosmetics is nothing special every nowaday game has cosmetics in the game for the players to buy and them to get rich off but in TF2 it's different the economy in Team Fortress 2 is quite frankly dead by the economy being dead means getting all your classes decked out in your favorite Cosmetics costs less than even two dollars the fast amount of cosmetics in the game allow you to cosplay as basically anything you want like the Sleepy heavy the heavy lifter or if you like Jojo the JoJo Cujo or Dior Brando the Christmas bird and so on and let me tell you playing against this or this is a completely different experience the Cosmetics Supply wears will tell you immediately what kind of player it is if I see the Sleepy happy walking around even though he is an enemy I know he's friendly even on the official servers evil 10 out of 10 times finds friendly players just goofing about having dinner or enjoying the few of the newer players struggling to kill the sweaty or one when you as a player get to fully Express whatever you want to be in a safe fun environment you have one of the best games ever made and this is the reason and there are still many others what team Fortress 2 is so amazing and now we have the problem valve they developed this Gem of a game and I'm eternally grateful how they created this casual free-to-play game but the way they treat it right now is a huge mistake and honestly just straight up disrespectful unless you've been living under a rock you are probably aware of the bot issue what if I told you that out of the hundred thousand concurrent players playing right now that about one-third of them are Bots and not the harmless spots that Idol for drops in AFK servers which they exist too but Bots that spew racial slurs hate crime and other horrible things that everyone in the server will blatantly spinboarding crit hacking which is a hacking method to always do three times the amount of damage you would normally do and kicking the real players from the game I am not making this up if you play on an official server which most people do you can get kicks from your own game on top of that they steal your profile picture and name so he can no longer identify with the bot and wish the real player in the kick menu and they join server service at once in big groups so you no longer have the majority to vote them out it has gotten so bad that the bot hosters coated the bots in a way that if they meet another bot in the opposite team that they won't kill each other it's ridiculous and let's not forget the real players that are hacking I would say around five percent of the non-bought players on official servers are straight at ball hacking being abusing or aimboarding this is why Team Fortress 2 sucks and there is no one else to blame than valve valve has their own anti-cheat called vac Biff vac which stands for it doesn't work or valve anti-cheat now I don't know where all the buildings valve makes go but they certainly aren't going to where they should go the floss of their anti-cheat shouldn't come as a surprise for the Cs go players though as they also get the same treatment for their game though to be honest it's about 7 million times better optimized for CS go but still a major issue in the high ranks nonetheless valve makes the best games ever but their inability to maintain their multiplayer games has changed the company for being known as the best game company ever to a lazy money-grabbing tech store oh almost forgot this story actually gets worse the real problem by eyeing others the spice valve after enjoying all their games for so many years is simply because of their horrible communication or rather no communication check this out your game hasn't gotten a major update for 1930 days out of nowhere valve stopped making content making Comics making cinematics basically stops creating anything TF2 related and the only updates the TF2 players get are community-made skins in gambling cases that valve makes money from around 1600 days ago the TF2 Community started to ask valve what is going on no response then 1500 Days Later public figures like pyrocynical RT game mutsahar and iPhone line stack tips started to post about it and put social pressure on valve to login into their Twitter account for the first time in three years which valve did and they posted TF2 Community we hear you we love this game and we know you do too we see how this issue has become and we are working to improve things there were practically radio silence for three years about anything Community related and left the place for four years without a single content update and finally they said something the community was in tears finally something that we can look forward to finally valve is doing something for our beautiful game that we all love so much they finally listened anyway that is the last message they ever posted on a Twitter account Bots are still an issue though they can no longer spam a chat that they will rape and kill your mom at the cost of anyone who doesn't spend money in their overpriced game story not being able to chat in game yep if you are free to play you can no longer chat in-game Bravo valve just Bravo learn from the mistake of others you can't live long enough to make them all yourself and this isn't only true but also a great business strategy to maximize your own success companies that make mistakes like valve are aware of the wrongdoings those who wear are still RV fell since they made TF2 16 years ago are as disappointed with the state of the game as their loyal fan base is the truth is by abandoning TF2 valve or rather the decision makers at valve aren't economically getting punished there and to nowadays Society where seemingly everything exists just to make money valve just doesn't care but the mistake valve made can't be fixed with money they lost all respect and support from The Gaming Community and are now known as a game company who doesn't care about their own games and only about selling other people's games valve please fix foreign is Ubisoft now recent Ubisoft has been mediocre at best but that's not what the mistake I want to mention is about it's about how they progressed or Derek College progressed throughout the years with their competitive shooter Rainbow Six Siege Siege is currently in its 27th operation to avoid confusion an operation is basically offensive word for a season [Music] the game was really fun fast paced and also intuitive taking the settled 5v5 game standard we have seen in titles like Call of Duty and encounter strike in a more tactical environment the the game wasn't perfect but by it being in year one you could tell that things like the oversaturation of the outside hitbox issues and smaller aspects like the unpolished movement when faulting where he definitely thinks that needed to be fixed in the upcoming updates skipping two years later we arrive in the best season rainbow has ever seen Parabellum in the five skipped operations we had one entirely dedicated to fixing issues in the game Operation Health which fixed almost all the issues the game had Parabellum introduced us to a fun new map called villa which is still popular to this day and like every season before we got two new operators this time because of the previous season we got two Defenders Maestro a slower operator with the first light machine gun on defense not to mention a magnified scope and also not to mention bulletproof cameras that can taste people to death and Alibi a speedy operator with a faster shooting lower damage gun and an ability that spawns fake versions of her and also also not to mention both of them had an alternative weapon which was basically a drum mag fully automatic shotgun what not to like about it additionally they also reworked the map Clubhouse which was previously kind of meh and turned it into one of their best maps even four years later they also introduced a system that still shines to this day which is the operator pick and bend system all these changes were awesome and only reinforced the direction that players wanted the game to go unfortunately three months later we move on to operation Grim Skye grimsky wasn't a bad season but you could tell just looking at the patch notes that Ubisoft started to push the game into a different direction out of the two operators added one of them is called Clash this bald angry Woman by the way perfectly represents my emotions towards Ubisoft Clash was different she was a Defender with her main weapon to be a shield she was made to stand in door frames or in open rooms shocking the opponents with her Shield to slow them down she also had a gun as a secondary but she could only use it when she earned a crypto Shield not to mention the gun choices were dirt for it doesn't take a genius to understand that playing s or playing against Clash just isn't fun this bald woman wasn't Parabellum Siege Clash started something and the players felt it coming anyway the season was by all means still enjoyable and Clash was bent most of the time anyway moving on to the next season we get the next step in the wrong direction operation winds Bastion this operation still haunts the community to this day allow me to explain for the mistakes in this season we can't only blame Ubisoft but also the players who exploited the game not exploiting by being a cheater that is a horrible past that happens around tier 6 and by the way is still an issue in year 7 but exploiting with skins see in every season Ubisoft releases at bundle with camouflage themed skins in operation with Bastion they also got introduced this is what they look like okay here comes the issue Can you spot the enemy here she is how about now did she by the way also noticed the fourth guy alright one more how about now okay I'm just taking the piss now but you see the issue they made skins that basically turn you invisible when playing on half the maps in the game the community immediately responded that they hated it and that I ruined the first person shooter aspect of the game and turned every match into a hide and seek game now as opposed to valve Ubisoft actually responded relatively quickly it only took three months of crying for them to respond their response was that it's now bent in pro league great news for the 60 people that are playing professionally but how about the hundreds of thousands of players that aren't in pro league see this is the issue of Ubisoft they only care about two things Esports and money in the following two years they continue to release and allow these overpriced broken skins to terrorize The Gaming Community and to make big buck from selling them if that was the only mistake they made that would not be too bad but let me explain how they balance their guns and their characters let's say you have two playable characters to choose from one does 50 damage per hit and it's really fun to play because he's fast and the other one does sturdy damage and aside from being bad is also super slow and in general a chunky character obviously this isn't very balanced and everyone would like to have a good time will enter playing the fun and better character a the balancing theme of this game knows that people love character a and not just because of the damage but because it just feels fun to play so the perfectly normal balancing team rationalizes and says okay let's Nerf character a to do 4D damage and leave everything else about him untouched also both character B to 40 damage per hit and to make something so he's fun to play as well problem solved now we have ubisoft's balancing team see ubisoft's balancing team likes to play golf and just like in golf they want to reach their goal with the least numbers of steps taken and they do this they Nerf character Ace movement speed leads to super slow so the character no longer feels responsive like character B nerfed the damage from 50 to 30 and call it a day they've ruined the overpowered front character to the same level as the underpowered boring character this is balanced on paper but what they truly did is make everyone's favorite character as bad as the other one so they are both equally bad and both aren't fun to play this is ubisoft's idea of balancing their guns and operators they have a fun character called IQ she's fast has fun guns has two explosive grenades to destroy utility with but unfortunately also has a basically uses ability yet iq's pick rate is above average I mean it's understandable really everyone would rather play a faster character rather than a slower one now Mr balancer what would you do would you change everyone to be more like IQ which the players love but requires considerable effort or B Nerf IQ to be more like the underpix rest yep that's another hole in one for Ubisoft nerfed next season we have another fast and fun character overpix unacceptable goodbye Sophia now we have a book [Music] Sledge everyone's favorite Defender continue this for a couple more years for a solid Cake foundation and as I cherry on top in one of the recent operations they removed all the fun magnified Scopes from basically anyone who has a pick rate that is a negative and voila you ruined every character in your game and made everyone equally weak and slow and to say cherry cherry on top when they suddenly remade all the Ricoh patterns for every gun like Ubisoft does they absolutely demolished The Recoil of other popular guns boom now it's the perfect game where everyone's weak very monotone to play and the passionate player base the spices you for nerfing their main agents for a solid three years in a row but we aren't done yet folks we are talking about Ubisoft here after all I say cherry cherry cherry on top in the newest season when ads you are now as slow as the slowest operators in the game no matter your character's base speed they successfully turn Siege from a first person shooter with hero elements to a tactical game with shooter elements the place we started playing the game anywhere before year three and to remind you we are now approaching year 8. witness their favorite fast-paced tactical shooter transition into a chest like tactical game it's now all about what ability to pick to counter the enemy's utility rather than playing one of the characters we just like to play and why because of their vision for Esports when balancing things they more often than not look at the pro scene of their game and to not the high ranked casual players their goal for the game is to be a game like Ready or Not where you have to carefully play together to clear the building and you can even notice that Vision back when they showed the game at E3 all the players played slow closely together and extremely tactical ubisoft's web dream unfortunately for Ubisoft it's not about what they want it's about what the majority of the player base wants they crave the faster paced game they had in Parabellum not the chest.org game that Ubisoft imagines valve simply didn't communicate with the Team Fortress 2 players but Ubisoft did worse by forcing their own few onto their frustrated players if you are brand new to Siege it's not weird that you'll like it or even have it as your go-to game that is completely understandable as you never played the good old version of Siege but for the millions of players who played around Parabellum they were forced to adapt or move on from their beloved game and just like this mistake there were many others like suddenly announcing they are from next operation onwards only releasing one operator in return for a new fancy gameplay element which the players didn't see the light of day off till two years later or how about the awfully strict matchmaking restrictions which means she can basically no longer play ranks with your friends anymore or the fact that even right now in year 7 you cannot play a game in the higher ranks without meeting a cheater did I mention that year 8 is around the corner and the servers still go down every other day or how about they took ages to earnest necessarily rework the community's favorite meme operator tachanka and only made him worse than before that's like changing Teemo in League of Legends and then making him even worse but ubisoft's biggest mistake by a mile is forcing an idea they had initially from launch onto a game that was going in an insanely healthy way valve doesn't notice too much about their punishment but Ubisoft is a different story they're also desired Esports scene is basically dead during their most recent major in yonkoping there was an average of 45 000 people watching to give you an idea on how insanely bad that is during the Cs go major in Antwerpen in 2022 CS go averaged on 586 000 viewers with a whopping 2.1 million Peak during the finals the finals in Siege peaked with only 121 000 viewers on top of their Esports scene failing they are also failing in the player base numbers with over half of the players gone in just three years in ubisoft's case we should be happy that when a company makes mistakes that have been made by countless others in the past that they are actually punished where it hurts them the most their wallet I don't like to cheer on Siege stanfall it's a game I treasure as part of my youth and I played it so much that I even went Semi-Pro contesting multiple Seasons with the best of the best in my region the times I went to Lenny fans are one of the best moments in my life unfortunately you can only let something disappoint you so much before you have to let it go in the case of Siege and Team Fortress 2 the player base is steadily declining the players of those games are upset with how they've been treated and finally realized that the frustrations from playing their favorite game are not worth their time anymore there is one company however that has a player base so loyal that if they would burn down their family house and kick them in the balls they would still happily play their games konnichiwa Nintendo in Nintendo's case they don't do one particular game dirty but rather all of them Nintendo has been making awesome games since 1975. with titles like Mario the Super Smash Bros series and The Legend of Zelda engraved in our early memories one thing that differentiates Nintendo from Falcon Ubisoft is that their products are tied to their own Hardware like the Nintendo DS the switch the Wii or the GameCube and literally every single one of them allowed for a fun gaming experience but just like valve Nintendo is focused on the future and with roughly every five years past they release a new game console for their fans to consume the GameCube released in 2001 and came with many Banger games like Super Mario Sunshine The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker not to mention the competitive game Super Smash Bros melee unfortunately if you want to play those games in the current day and age you can't well that's not true you kind of can if you somehow still have a working GameCube and those games if you do not own the console on the games and you still play them in a different way and daddy Nintendo finds out about it I kid you not they will strike you down Nintendo is a company that for some reason only wants things done with them in control if you dare say it emulate the game you are at risk of Nintendo taking action if you are a smaller individual that is not too big of an issue and Nintendo will probably never find out but if you are a content creator or even worse how host a cheerful event for Nintendo enthusiasts to come together and she do not use official licensed Nintendo games and consoles they will take legal action they take legal action against their own fans the GameCube game Super Smash Bros melee has a very loving and passionate community that still plays Grand tournaments together in offline locations you would think having an Esports scene for one of your games that you put absolutely no effort into creating is something awesome for the future of your company and you would be eternally grateful that your fans are carrying it well again I'm not kidding Nintendo did not only deny the smash World store's request for an official Nintendo license tournament but they also never funded any prize pool or expenses that the organizers made for a Nintendo's game in some cases they even shut down entire non-profit tournaments of their games and if that wasn't bad enough let me quickly list some other things Nintendo does to torture their fans in multiple cases fans have come together to make a free-to-play adaption of Nintendo's abandoned games and all they got from Nintendo was a cease and desist letter an adult Entertainer who had Pokey and her username got an email from Nintendo that she has to change her username or she would get strikes Nintendo set up an entire lawsuit and sued a guy in Vermont for selling a N64 on eBay for 25 sorry I just can't keep a straight face reading all of this they also forced YouTubers up to recently to give up 40 of their ad Revenue if they featured any kind of Nintendo game this has to be the most discouraging and dumbest business strategy I've ever seen But worst of all and this is actually not even funny they sued a man called Matthew storeman for simply Distributing their outdated unavailable games for a whopping 2.1 million dollars they practically ruined one of their fans entire life and chances for her future because he made a website where you can download games like Mario shine that aren't available anywhere else because of Nintendo they'd rather have a 20 year old game get erased from history than Distributing it elsewhere and Nintendo doesn't even hide their malicious intents as they have the audacity to now even assume again for not being able to pay up quick enough you cannot make this stuff up Nintendo has become a ruthless dictator and while their games are really really good an ever-growing part of the community can't enjoy the games anymore knowing the horrible things they did to their passionate fans if a company ruins someone's life once again imagine if that were you that person would not want to live on a planet where they are still being glorified by their Community Nintendo isn't being punished economically if anything and this is almost too sad to write down Nintendo is only getting richer by suing and ruining people's lives but what Nintendo is being punished for that's valve and Ubisoft do not is on a moral level the joyful company known for the acute games is more likely than not conscious that they turned into an evil money-hungry Empire and in the afterlife where they get judged before the Gates of Heaven they do not know whether they get in or stay out that is an unbearable pain that only the malicious decision makers of Nintendo will have to burden a quick note if I do not upload the video after this one I most likely got abducted and killed by Mario so keep an eye out on the next video please as a conclusion for the video everybody makes mistakes in their life and that is only normal as without making mistakes we can't progress but if you are actively aware that you're making mistakes and refuse to learn from them something bad will come your way Maids being the Realms of reputation economically or morally karma is a venture good game goes bad thank you so much for watching the entirety of the video and keep going [Music] foreign [Music] thank you so much for the support of my first video it honestly kept me motivated to keep going so thank you and keep it coming boys

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Length: 33min 49sec (2029 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 11 2023