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File: 834d423b5d2cc58⋯.png (196.75 KB, 1152x1272, 48:53, 2000px-Star_of_David_3.svg.png)

aa467b No.14215703

Video trying to justify jewish practices in vidya, like microtransactions, lootboxes and day 1 DLCs:

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=VhWGQCzAtl8

Yes, this about the channel we all like and love, Extra Cucks Credits. They do have a sizeable influence over some of the gaming community (or at least over self-proclaimed gamers), so I think this issue is a bit of a concern. The main person behind EC, James Portnow, is a professional in the game industry, and as it has been proven time and time again, the game industry is a gigantic ciclejerk.

Portnow seems to be using Extra Credit to convince people that money-grabbing practices in videogames are totally justified, and that the increased cost in AAA production is due to inflation and the games getting better (what's the last AAA that was even worth $60? I certainly don't remeber it), and it's definitely not huge marketing campaigns what have drove the costs up.

I do think we should push back against this attempt to drive the cost of games even higher, without increasing their actual quality. We may not usually care much about redditors and EC fans, but if the opinion of this groups is changed, companies like EA and Ubisoft will manage to drive up the price of games, and that affects us all. Please consider leaving a dislike in the video or comment explaining why vidya should NOT be more expensive and money-grabbing practices are not legitimate.

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111596 No.14215722

I don't even have a YouTube account.


367511 No.14215732

File: f43ed3e2ff73d3a⋯.jpg (119.8 KB, 1024x575, 1024:575, IMG_2255.JPG)

Wow OP, I really totally give a fuck about extra faggots and the nonsense they spew.


012ff4 No.14215737

File: 86cc2b7c1f520d2⋯.jpg (354.52 KB, 1280x720, 16:9, 55e37d7093b416a8b2abe78f6d….jpg)

Kill the normalfags. Thats the answer.


b7a159 No.14215739

File: a163285caf1b4b4⋯.jpg (33.65 KB, 600x600, 1:1, carlos.jpg)

I guess they are trying to earn few Extra Credits.


8d0534 No.14215753

>There are people who bank on the fact young kids don't know that save for minor bugs games can be shipped day one without need to "fund patches and updates" Sad


aa467b No.14215779

>>14215732

You'll do if the consumers are convinced that games should be $75.

They are pushing the narrative that "games cost more now" and therfore "studios need more sources of revenue, like lootboxes". Remeber Star Wars Battlefront II, the 2005 version? Well, now compare it with the new one. Would you rather have companies producing pure shit or good new games? If the public opinio is convinced that big jewish companies should try to get as much money out of their costumers pockets as posible, good new games may never see the light of day.

We'll just get more EA Battlefronts to replace the Pandemic Battlefronts.

>>14215753

Sadly, no one seems to be telling them otherwise, and many are swalloing that lie. Which will mean more Overwatch, more Fallout 4 and the like.


11560c No.14215781

File: a35647ac90f5bf1⋯.gif (3.54 MB, 348x418, 174:209, 6f257d4d0d0a5807a0dee9fcd1….gif)


0a50fa No.14215826

>>14215703

Try the GG thread, if you make it past their shitposting.

>>14215781

>3.54 MB for a gif that has no reason to be a gif


d2a8e4 No.14215836

>>14215779

Games being more or less expensive isn't gonna make them better, and you shouldn't be buying them anyway.


ff31a5 No.14215860

>>14215826

It's animated?


1316a7 No.14215898

Interesting how the video doesn't address these games' huge marketing budgets, not to mention other ways in which they could reduce costs, such as reusing assets in order to avoid paying extra people to produce more content.

"Games are becoming too expensive to make" is really just another way of saying, "It is not profitable to make multi-billion dollar AAA experiences" and that problem can be solved by cutting down on all the bullshit, such as voice acting, marketing, whatever the fuck community managers and other business types do, and other game related bullshit like huge and empty maps and incredibly scripted and cinematic scenes that cost more to produce than the fucking game engine itself.

Loot boxes are a shitty way to try and wring more out of someone's pocket. Most every new kind of monetary strategy has potential to be abused, so when he says that we won't have to "tolerate predatory practices" it seems like he's ignoring that fact.

Fuck EC, why do they still have an audience?


8b7d69 No.14215945

>>14215898

>Fuck EC, why do they still have an audience?

Shitty indie devs. I've seen many people who want to make indie games watch their videos even though the vast majority of their videos only apply to AAA games.


05c895 No.14215957

File: 2799b83dda22903⋯.webm (5.58 MB, 482x360, 241:180, push out the talent.webm)

>>14215898

You're right. Video games have never been cheaper to produce and distribute. They spend huge bucks on fancy bells and whistles like celebrity voice acting and face mapping while completely avoiding any kind of effort in developing story and gameplay. They claim that production costs have skyrocketed, but the cost of digital distribution is virtually negligible compared to the old days of mass-producing CDs and cartridges and shipping them out.

Games cost more because companies will it into existence. They don't have an iota of knowledge as to what actually makes a product great or the pitfalls of the development cycle, they only understand marketing and financial analysis.


43a455 No.14215975

File: c624303e15060d2⋯.jpg (74.28 KB, 535x594, 535:594, 88271.JPG)

>the anti-gg faggots are pro-jewery

who coulda guessed!

I like how all the females are fat and dumpy and all of the avatars are a different race, I think he covered literally every nationality on the globe. Faggots.


012ff4 No.14215998

File: 225d585f05835e3⋯.jpg (62.64 KB, 640x853, 640:853, kad gonziderin.jpg)

>>14215975

Nobody likes GG. They a cesspool of useless fucks worshiping pozzed individuals. Muh based

>jew

>fag

>child molestation enabler

>nigger lover


43a455 No.14216004

File: 88c9073253973d4⋯.png (271.66 KB, 517x396, 47:36, 88c9073253973d4b7abcb9f8f0….png)

>>14215998

There was a time before that was the case, the initial responses remain solid litmus tests.

Seems like ExtraCredits were also bernouts, is that a better reason to call them faggots?


f65ad3 No.14216036

>(((Extra Credits)))

Isn't the writer for this a guy who only worked on vidya abortions and never pushed a single fucking game out of the door?


8a4fc7 No.14216057

File: 00228604f4ea406⋯.jpeg (12.01 KB, 248x248, 1:1, check em.jpeg)

check em


39613a No.14216143

>>14215753

>>14215779

>There are people who bank on the fact young kids don't know that save for minor bugs games can be shipped day one without need to "fund patches and updates" Sad

Those young kids also seem to be getting unintentionally raised to think that those F2P micro transactions in mobile games should be the norm for proper console games. (Eg, why can't you buy more healing items/lives with REAL money in this console game, type of stuff).

>>14216036

I remember hearing the same thing, like he was basically hired as some sort of "emergency" designer hired on games that needed help getting finished, which gets even more suspicious when that role supposedly doesn't even get their name in the credits/has to keep it confidential (to apparently not make the developer/publisher look bad).

Mr Portnow, what games have you worked on?

I can't tell you, it's a secret.

How can anyone not read that and think, this guy seems a bit off? There tons of other past game designers/programmers/etc out there willing to teach/talk about game dev and their experience making said games and yet the world gets stuck with Portnow who could just be making it up as he goes along.


a87741 No.14216164

>>14216036

>"No man, I'm totally a pro. I made a youtube channel to talk seriously about games because I'm in the industry. I'm so professional that in my video about Videogame Addiction I ended crying my ass off and passing a /r9k/ tier sob story as serious study"

I seriously don't know how did I like those fags back in the day.


f65ad3 No.14216179

Someone should post "the we're running out of air internet" webm at around this point. Unless the person who had it saved left this place altogether.


e956ac No.14216195

File: 48d12e5d9879d8d⋯.webm (7.11 MB, 320x180, 16:9, What the fuck is this nig….webm)


012ff4 No.14216232

File: b81c4dcdf435809⋯.png (270.92 KB, 381x322, 381:322, confused looking anime gir….png)


e956ac No.14216250

>>14216232

We need datacaps because the air's bandwidth is being used up.

It's true because extra credits says so.


aa467b No.14216313

>>14216195

>>14216232

>>14216250

That one is actually true… well, was actually true. They just stopped using binary and turned to analog, since todays devices can work with a much higher resolution. The problem no longer exists; technology has solved it for us.


ef1f93 No.14216348

>Games cost a lot to make so we need to Nickel and dime you

>Clearly the answer isn't that we shouldn't spend so much making a game


5e565f No.14216518

File: 2ab56a1cb6b81fe⋯.jpg (62.65 KB, 500x750, 2:3, 2ab56a1cb6b81fe563ce3d8274….jpg)

>>14216348

Pfft. Uh, wow. Don't you want to like, make games that are good duder? How are you going to make Call of Duty with your mom's allowance? Ell em ay oh.


b3fc8f No.14216528

>>14216313

So why worry about it and try to mitigate it now if we both still have time to fix it and can simply adapt to it when it actually hits?


aa467b No.14216608

>>14216528

I recallseing the EC video a while ago and asking my father (who works on this kind of stuff, I don't really know anything about it). I remeber TVs somehow being changed, and everyone having to buy new antenas or cable TV. Apparently, it was related to this issue, the spectrum crunch, and it was a measure implemented to free more air bandwith. I think the radio spectrum was also dimished. If you are interested in the topic, google "spectrum crunch", cause I'm afraid I don't know much about it.


b58497 No.14217048

File: 177a5270d5ccd06⋯.gif (1.81 MB, 457x321, 457:321, 1462588087803.gif)

The only remotely valid point made in the video is that game costs have not kept up with inflation. Beyond that, it's pretty much a load of hot air.

<Games are getting more expensive to make!!!1

While correct, this can be attributed to a number of factors. Firstly, a disproportionate number of devs seem hellbent in setting up shop in some of the most expensive areas because muh networking. San Fran, Boston, and NYC are three examples that come to mind. Look at the budget that a game like Kingdom Come: Deliverance worked with. From what I can gather, it's not far off from AAA games as far as technical polish goes, yet cost a small fraction of the AAA games, both from being based in a less expensive area to live, and the second factor: Marketing costs. It's no secret that in order to attempt to capture the attention of normalfags, AAA companies have been focusing on gaudy marketing campaigns that are known to rival, if not exceed, costs of development. Getting smarter with marketing budgeting could save tens of millions off AAA games easily. In a highly-connected world, things like word-of-mouth are much more viable.

<Cheaper games are entering the market!!!1

Alright, technically this is semi-valid as well. Thanks to third-party dev tools, and online game clients, games have gotten much easier to make and distribute. As a result, games covering virtually every niche and desire are able to be produced, in theory. The only thing AAA games really have to offer is, in theory, is the theoretical budget to do things that smaller companies simply cannot do. However, it doesn't take 9-figure budgets to produce such games, provided those budgets are being spent wisely to begin with.

Perhaps what's most amusing about the argument presented is that games aren't going over 60 bucks at base cost because people are used to 60 bucks being the standard cost for games, yet gamers have historically expected the complete game when they purchase one, yet things like Day 1 DLC, early access, etc. are perfectly acceptable. Yet people hate these things arguably more than raising the base price of games. I'd honestly rather pay 80 bucks for a game that's complete at launch than pay 60 for a half-game. Granted, I haven't touched AAA console/PC titles since the last gen.


b3fc8f No.14217154

File: af52f9989cbeb18⋯.gif (955.03 KB, 360x360, 1:1, [rattling].gif)

>>14217048

The thing that triggered me watching this was that there was no mention of any actual economics, which is kind of a problem when you're talking about economic shit like the price of AAA games.

The cheaper games thing, for instance, isn't so much conditioning as it is a shift of the supply curve (digital distribution's new popularity and ease of use slashing overhead costs) driving the equilibrium price downward, thus moving actual prices downwards due to the fact that prices tend toward equilibrium.


43a455 No.14217273

File: e6360ad61241cce⋯.jpg (423.93 KB, 1080x1350, 4:5, u34o6b6hg9001.jpg)

>>14216195

Can you believe how sexist and racist he is for only drawing white males!


de2017 No.14217646

>>14215703

They defended day 1 dlc in the past, nothing new.


5db904 No.14217663

Arent there like multiple versions of this channel? I could have sworn I saw some pseudo scientific video in the same format as this and a few ((gender equality)) videos. Found it https://hooktube.com/watch?v=UgrzyEREq00


b58497 No.14217673

>>14217154

That's certainly also worth pointing out. As well as stagnation of graphical quality meaning that current-gen graphics should get steadily easier, and thus cheaper to replicate, theoretically driving down costs for studios in the coming years, barring an increase in the standard for graphical quality.


c0645d No.14218540

File: 05784554dfe0a26⋯.gif (973.69 KB, 400x300, 4:3, blackmanrave.gif)

>Extra Credits

Reminder to never fucking listen to these guys

>OY VEY WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF S P A C E I N T H E A I R FOR THE INTERNET


cf9e46 No.14219041

Why do kikes keep saying the production cost of video games has gone up? It has only gone down.


c0645d No.14219057

>>14219041

we need more money goyim


cf362d No.14219182

>>14216195

I wish we actually ran out of bandspace in the air so phonefags fucked off and died.


2b5c1d No.14221164

>>14216195

that voice is the most homosexual shit i've heard in years. holy shit. i kept expecting him to go "like, totally honey!". ffs. if he's edited his voice it's still just as bad because that would mean he intentionally made it sound gay.


15aaf4 No.14221861

>>14217663

Are they using a program like goanimate or something? Seeing as this video is similar to EC


7fd126 No.14227971

>>14221861

That particular guy uses Adobe Flash, but honestly, they could use just about anything. The "animation" in EC is a slideshow, so all you'd really need is a program that allows you to edit sound and still images together.




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