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Oooooh The new Call of Duty doesn't seem that bad

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SHUT UP DUMBASS ! IT'S CALL OF DUTY SO IT'S BY DEFINITION SHITTY !

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Ugh I am allowed to like it... no?

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UGH, AND YOU CALL YOURSELF A GAMER?

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ASSHOLE, YOU HAVE NO TASTE IN VIDEO GAME

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STOP BUYING FROM ACTIVISION YOU TWAT

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Ummm ok? Can you calm down?

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POEPLE TODAY ARE SO STUPID

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IT WAS BETTER BEFORE WHEN DEVELOPPERS WEREN'T THINKING ABOUT MONEY ONLY

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Umm are you serious?

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EA, UBISOFT, ACTIVISION AND KONAMI ONLY THINK ABOUT MONEY

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AND SELL US UNFINISHED GAME

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NO WONDER WHY WE GET SCAMMED EVERYTIME

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DLCS ADD WHAT THE GAME SHOULD HAVE. GRAPHICS ARE REALISTIC

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AND GAMES TAKE 15 YEARS TO BE DONE AND ARE FULL OF BUGS

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GOD THAT'S PATHETIC

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FORTUNATELY ON PC

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-AND NOT ON CONSOLE LIKE 10 YEARS OLD CALL OF DUTY FANBOYS-

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YOU CAN HACK GAME, SO THAT YOU WON'T GET FUCKED BY THE DEVS

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*SIGH* oooookay

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Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Battlefield are big gaming series that make profit

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Activision, Ubisoft, EA, Konami are big brands that produce games.

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If you actively play video games, you should know them.

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They have been here for ages and dominate the video game's market, and break selling's records.

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And, even if the record isn't beaten, they sell millions of copies.

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Call of Duty started in 2003, and Activision lets us know it sold more than 175 millions of copies in the world (end 2014).

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Despite selling well and have a strong fanbase, people are complaining about it.

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Graphics, gameplay and scenario are said to be poor and neglected.

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And the franchise slowly becomes considered as a money printer that injures gaming's reputation.

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There also the DLCs and some other aspects that, when it comes to money, irritates.

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And a lot of companies are being criticized for the same things.

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Assassin's Creed is criticized for the lack of diversity in the gameplay due to the annual release of a new game.

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EA is criticized about his DLCs.

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Even though a lot of companies make it through, some of them, like EA, had their yearly benefits collapsing from 98$ millions to 8$ millions.

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It's enough to make you think about it.

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Gamers now consider people that like CoD or Assassin's Creed being taken for mugs

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that waste money over a specific developer only because they don't have taste in video game.

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Are indie game the video game's future then?

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Can a gamer be considered an idiot for like AAA games?

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Activision and other companies, greedy pricks or good guys?

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the second episode of the show "The Case"

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So like in the previous episode, we're going to use a "dialogic" method, with an "admittedly-but-so" plan, then we're going to do a conclusion and an overture.

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So yes, it's annoying to see people making money by recycling games, selling too much DLCs and rushing a game's development.

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Indeed, how many companies use this recycling method to make money easily and without taking to much risks.

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We have some examples like CoD, which is basically the same game every year

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or the HD remaster that are used to sell an already existing game at full price only because "it has 3 more pixels and an anti-aliasing"

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Buuut gamers don't want to admit some of the examples.

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Nintendo is one of the worst when talking about recycling games

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They only do Mario and Zelda games with rare exceptions like Splatoon.

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The left games on Nintendo's consoles are the Mario/Zelda games with the slight differences like Mario Kart, Mario Party, Mario Bros etc.

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Same thing goes for the remasters.

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What was THE LAUNCHING GAME for the New 3DS? Majora's Mask remastered

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For the 3DS? Ocarina of Time remastered

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For their next home console, what will it be? Twilight Princess remastered?

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But there is also the big gaming industry's problem: the abusive use of DLCs.

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Sure, DLCs aren't a probleme if they are complete, like some CoD's DLCs that add maps, weapons, skins and gamemodes for 20€. Or the Battlefield 3's DLCs

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But when we see games like Killing Floor or Payday 2 where you have to pay 5€ for a community skin or else, it hurts.

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Especially because it feels like the DLCs add what the game should have had.

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But the WORST part is the day one DLCs, like Mortal Kombat X or Evolve

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where the game comes tones of skins and features you should be able to unlock as you play

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but no, you unlock it by paying and that, my friend, hurts.

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The only thing left are the rushed games, where deadlines force developers to rush a game's development, failing to have a good game in the end.

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The example here is AC Unity, basically made for ps3, had to be done for next-gen in the last minutes

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which rushed his development and made it flop despite the 3 years of development, where 1+ year was for historical researches.

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And, even though I respect Ubisoft, I have to admit they failed and that the game was unfinished, despite the patches made after the release.

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So yeah it's true that developers aren't always intelligent.

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And that's true that a development studio's goal is to make money, and that's why they take risks, like DLCs, rush and remasters, only to have a "solid" base for their games.

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Which doesn't always make the gamers happy.

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*recap of what I've said*

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So, the video game industry is that bad? Are devs only greedy pricks?

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Let's take a moment to recap the flaws I just said.

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Admittely, remakes and overused sagas are annoying.

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because it feels like the development studios prefer to microwave yesterday's leftover instead of cooking a brand new dish.

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But is that the case? Because if a studio does it, maybe it's because it has its reasons.

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Let's look at CoD. The problem here is: if they change the gameplay, the fans will be angry, and if they don't cchange anything, the haters will be angry.

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So is it better to make the people who won't buy the game angry, or make the targeted audience angry?

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As you can see the answer is obvious.

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And that's the problem (which also occures by Nintendo): games are more expensive to make and they don't want to take too much risks.

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That's why Hideo Kojima has been kicked off from Konami.

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And yes, Kojima is amazing, and YES, his games are the best of the best in current video game industry.

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But his games takes years and millions to produce!

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So it's a huge risk that to invest such money and time in such a big project.

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And yes, Kojima's games, because it's Kojima's games, won't flop.

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But here is the problem: if the game flops, it's a huge waste of money for the devs, and not all studios can handle such a loss.

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And if we look at the remasters, it's a good thing, because it allows players to play a game (usually considered as the best of previous gen) they maybe hadn't played.

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It's also taking few risks, because those are games that have been successful and already have a fanbas.

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Now for the DLCs, it's kinda the same thing.

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Nowaday with gamers that want better graphics, open world games, bigger content, it takes more and more time to produce a game.

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But I mean, if there were only that, no problem, just wait 2-3 years for each games to be produced.

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But gamers want everything and want it now.

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Many people said it was lame that the next Mass Effect game is going to be out in end 2016, and didn't think a second about why it was like that.

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So many devs prefer to make an "ok" game, and then make DLCs to complete it and to have more time to make great content.

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Yes, it doesn't excuse things like day one DLCs, but in general, DLCs are 100% justified.

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Or at least 80%...

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No?

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Payday 2's DLCs are made in this way, and it surely takes fewer time to create 1 mission and some masks once every 2 months than creating a brand new game.

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And finally, the rushed games' problem is still the biggest stuggle I'm having.

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Here both time and money are involved.

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Time because of the deadlines, and money because rushed games are usually those made as a transition from a gen to another (developping tools cost more)

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The example is again ACU.

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So yeah, some habits in the industry may be cringe worthy, but if you take time to think about, maybe you'll be able to see why they do that.

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*recap of what I've said*

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So finally... Are rushed games, remasters and DLCs an unbearable trend?

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And indie games in all of this?

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As said previously, the rushed games, remasters and DLCs are due to the distributors, like Activision and EA.

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The worst is when the hype is taking over a game, like Watch_Dogs, which was said to be the Messiah of modern video games.

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But hey, as right the lifetime of the urge to play a game is 6 months BEFORE the game's release and 2 after...

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But I'm getting out of context.

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So it's the deadlines' fault... So maybe being and indie developer is he solution?

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And it's right too that sometimes with DLCs, we can wonder if people are taking us seriously, with the famous "press X to purchase Goro" even though it only was the launching day.

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But in a huge majority of the games, DLCs are a way of saving money by creating additionnal content that are cheaper and less timeconsuming than creating a new game.

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So can we really blame them, when you see a game development's price?

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The remasters are "the old game did well so putting an antialiasing and some little content will be enough".

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It has the advantage of being usually in pack that contain several games, like the "Jak and Daxter collection" or the "MGS collection". And all this for the same price that a regular game.

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So it's cheaper and it's good for people who haven't played it (like TLOU), who can now enjoy it with slightly better graphics

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What about indie games? Usually considered as art more than games, they also use some tricks to sell better (which is what we blame on AAA games)

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Like doing vintage-like game, usually in 2D and with pixel graphics.

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They also use difficulty to hide the lifetime of their games, or use art to make a game more like an interactive film.

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But they are usually cheaper than AAA games.

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But are indie game's selling methods really bad?

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They provide us with content the AAA don't usually give us...

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And that for the joy of hipsters that say:

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*dumbass voice*"It was better before when games weren't made to make money"

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*laughing*

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So funny !

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*recap of what I've said*

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Let's get to the conclusion and overture !

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Indie and AAA games are the same: both are done to be sold, even though one is more blatant about it.

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AAA games, because of their budget, are more likely to produce DLCs, which makes us think that they want money more than indie games.

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And despite rushed games, remasters and DLCs, the video game industry isn't that bad.

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Yes, it's expensive, and like every other business, it's sometime cringy.

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But through all the examples you experienced and the one I showed, we can say that not everything is only black or white.

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It's more like shades of Grey

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*laughs*

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Finally, the video game business has advantages and disadvantages. But as I said in my first episode:

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IF YOU DON'T LIKE SOMETHING, IGNORE IT, GOD DAMMIT.

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It's for example EA's DLCs, that everyone complain about but everyone buy anyway because:

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*douche voice* "Otherwise we are the only ones that don't have it"

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But whatever, we all know how gamers are toward this business:

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*annoying voice* "It's for stupid people LOL

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and all those douches on console are so sad to see their games uglier and more expensive than us on PC LOL xDDDDDDDDD..."

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Ok, understood, SHUT UP.

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Thanks

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And thanks for watching, see you next time, bye !

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*list of the tracks used*

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REMINDER: next episode on the subject YOU want ! Vote in the comments :D