 I've been trying to keep things peachy just happy dope content on the channel We've been doing well man 500k like a week ago what we had now like 515 But every once in a while I watch a video or I just experienced something and I'm like this still happens But I date back to like 2k 16 15 14 13 where buying VC was like it just continuously gets more tedious now this Okay, guys, I'm not gonna rant too much on the channel I know some y'all like to sit there and enjoy me yelling at some but I don't want to have to do this Some of this stuff should just be obvious and I'm sure the devs know this so it's not like I'm bringing some new info This is stuff that everybody knows that everybody acknowledges and yet still exists Those who don't know micro transactions is basically when you use real money to buy virtual money in the game Now there's a place for micro transactions in video games It makes life easier because I know some y'all like to sit there and pretend like you want to grind for Everything and there's games where I appreciate that but people have work people work at full-time and then you come home You're not trying to work full-time again Just to get VC to enjoy a basketball game and you know what for specific games like they rely on micro transactions like Rainbow six They run DLC every few months and it's dope content It keeps the game moving and for those games you sit there and you go, okay, you know what that's palatable We can deal with that I'm willing to pay for this content because rainbow six is a game that lasted what a drop in 2015 and each year It's becoming more and more relevant more and more people are wanting to play the game But there's a point you reach where it becomes out of control where everything becomes pay to play I've been slowly keeping tabs on the my team community Which is like just being gutted and destroyed from bad pack odds and Two incredibly expensive packs I stopped playing my team last year because of that reason and from what I'm hearing has gotten even worse this year on top of The fact that especially early on in the year it takes up until February Where they start really adding the best diamond cars, etc. Right because right now They're just giving 86 overall players and people are spending hundreds of dollars on packs to get him now If that's what you want to do with your money go at it But even when you look on the my park side, let's do the math real quick So it takes approximately $50 so you could upgrade one player fully But one player it like it's a pretty big niche like I have a pure sharpshooter But I also want to get posters and slam on folks. I'm gonna wait want to make a slasher right two players But you know what I feel like I want to have like a playmaking player But can also shoot like a sharpshooter playmaker. That's three players But yo, I have too many guards now like I want to switch it up. I'm trying to experience everything That's why I bought the video game. So I also want a big man. I want to go pure rebounder Just dominating the paint that's four players right there. So that's approximately for me $200 I don't know what the rates are in America, but I'm pretty sure they're similar now Let's say you want to play on the park to get said how much is how much is that 200k VC for each player, right? Multiplied by four. That's 800,000 VC. All right, so let's say you get 250 VC for every park game. Let me pull out the calculator. It'll take you playing 3200 park games to get enough VC and keep in mind to 250 on the park is pretty good You have to get a pretty high teammate grade for that to work So that's assuming every single game you're on point That's also assuming you win most of these games if not all because that win bonus is also gonna translate Of those 3200 part games is gonna take approximately anywhere from six to ten minutes to complete a game So the amount of grind require you're better off just going to Walmart Landing a job working for a cool 15 hours Instead of playing the game for what feels like 200 plus hours just to get enough to get four players So you can fully experience the park let alone the boxes you have to buy on my team The numbers are absurd this year's managed to get even more absurd Who would have thought that's possible if you told me in 2k 18 the micro transaction wait You said 2k 17 was 2k 18 is gonna be a whole new level of crazy I would have been like how do they do that? How would they even get worse than that? But not only at launch did they have high haircut prices which you couldn't even preview and some y'all acting like agent You can't preview them in real life. Bitch. This isn't real life Stop using real life arguments when we're talking about 2k in real life You also can't zigzag like this and bang with a sharpshooter where you could do it in 2k, right? So stop with that argument. I don't want to hear real life But for the first time in my memory in 2k history They reduced the VC price of a product in the game because people were really angry about it People are like first of all if you go to the barber shop in the beginning of the game That's where one of the places where your game would crash and you would lose your player So one I didn't enter the barber shop But for the people that did you couldn't preview the haircuts on top of that They cost it a lot of money for example the Tim's in 2k 18 costs 9,000 VC 9,000 can we do the math on how long it take to get Tim's it'd take me playing 36 full games on the park Do well on all of them just to buy a pair of Tim's and probably the most frustrating part for me was at launch The game was one way and then the first thing they did before they fixed the East Coast West Coast issue on Pro M Before they fixed the fact that you need to send two squad invites to get into a game or every time you hop on the stage You get lagged out before they fixed real game breaking issues They decided to make it more difficult to get points on playing on these different game modes I know pro I'm saw a huge nerf. I know park also did and so you really just sit back like that was the number one Priority now there's two ways to look at this one way is they're trying to make the game last long Like I want the game to die in a month. I'm trying to play this game for a while I want to enjoy it for a while at no point should any game mode feel like you have to spend money just to compete now Thank God give credit where it's due I did the attribute boost seen a huge nerf from last year right last year I was angry that nobody was talking about the fact that you could have plus five to all your attributes And I would never know that guy over there have plus five right and I thought that was such a Monumental buff that nobody was talking about that we couldn't even see for opponents had used this year Like it's pretty difficult one. It's not as easy to get skill boost. You can't just buy it. Thank God So there we go like that's thank God. All right, thank God. They didn't go in the direction of park cards Park cards could have literally been the end of park and playground Whatever you want to call it by attribute boosts and park cards. They were so close to making playground park Literally what happened to my team and turn it into a pay-to-play But when we take it to the scale 2k's taking it where every year you're making less VC doing the same things in that crazy Like there was one reviewer who gave 2k a 3 out of 10 and then apparently 2k reached out to him and say yo You want to change that they literally asked him Yo, what's up with the rating because and the reason he gave him a 3 out of 10 was because he said the micro Transaction ruined his experience so 2k dumbed down the gameplay to appeal to casuals Casuals are being turned off because it's paid to play and you would think that with the crazy micro Transactions and the amount of money that's being made you would think for sure We're not gonna have server issues and for me it only ever clicks when I hear someone from a different community talk about it I was up to karma. I watch him right plays professional Call of Duty man shout out to karma And once you're in the 2k community for so long We just get used to the fact that we try and join a game But it kicks our friend and we're like we'll get it next game this happens But in other communities, they're looking at us like yo, what's happening both this never happens in my game like in Rainbow 6 I got 8 characters for $20 yo $20 and it was over a year's worth of DLC for $20 I got countless hours of enjoyment playing with those new players. I found some new people I love to play with I yo buck. I love buck. First of all, he's a Canadian something needs to happen There's no possible way every year it could continue to get more extreme. I get it. All right I don't sometimes I feel like we're going too easy on 2k then I feel like we're going too hard on 2k But on this issue of micro transactions, there is no reason it should be this much have it have it Okay, you know what sometimes you feel like 2k 15 you were pushing it, but it was alright 2k 16 I'm like, are you out of your mind 2k 17? I knew for a fact you're out of your mind So I don't even know how I could begin to categorize 2k 18 $9,000 for a pair of Tim's 9,000 VC. I wouldn't be surprised if next year it was 9,000 real American dollars 2k for the first time ever Saw people angry about something that was so blatantly ridiculous and they reduced the haircut cost They say it's good cause significantly less to get haircuts now 2k saw all the deleted players and I a bunch of people who submitted tickets Was getting like 200k a million to I saw someone get 4 million VC back for one deleted player I don't know if that was a bug a glitch But people were getting compensated for for one day wasted money on their player if they spent VC to the time that they spent But three like the the inconvenience that the entire thing caused so I saw that and I was like, okay 2k might be onto something so let me just say this I'm all right paying micro transactions to upgrade my player I want to be the first player to hit 85 so I can grind to 90 95 100 99 you get what I mean. It's 2017 we all recognize that micro transactions exists in every video game video games that have no business with loot boxes and pack openings Are making them now just so they could benefit off micro transactions I think it was GTA 4 the first one to really do DLC big and like a whole wave of companies start to do DLC And it might have been EA with FIFA and Madden that really popularized Microtransactions and buying virtual currency and then now everybody's doing that but there's limits I too can't got a brilliant idea to help you take micro transactions to the next level because me as a consumer I only ever want to see you make as much money as possible at no point am I ever worried that you make it money To ruin my experience if you take it too far. I want you to take it as far as possible So stop tip-toeing lines you're slowly decreasing the amount we make off the same stuff We've been doing for the last five years next year We need to take things to a brand new level. I'm gonna help you do it We need to have little kids applying for a line of credit You don't pay them back in a month and keep on they could get as much money as they want to buy VC There is no limit if they default then you could take everything they own You can destroy their credit and ruin their futures. Isn't that a brilliant idea? Not only could you ruin the experience that they have playing the video game But then you can ruin their lives at the same time I'm telling you wrongful of good ideas because we're tiptoeing too much here every year It's slowly getting worse and worse is never a huge jump until you look back three or four years So I'm gonna come out. This is a ground-breaking idea. I know y'all have never heard anything like this before So let me say it 2k reduce the cost of virtual currency Make the game palatable when it comes to microtransactions and make a good game That everyone's going to buy and then people will just end up buying microtransactions if they want to how does that sound? How about instead of focusing on Siphoning everybody literally everybody for their money We just make a really good game that people are gonna enjoy what polish game with no bugs and glitches They probably never thought about that it never occurred to them that that was an alternative There's so many dev teams like Naughty Dog. They do it right Ubisoft has messed up for multiple years But even there's if you be soft can turn it around 2k you can too That's what I've learned as a consumer that if you be soft can do it 2k you can do it to Ubisoft dug themselves out of a monumental hole They weren't they rated like the worst company in the United States or something like that or was that EA I was a lot of like fishy video game. If you enjoyed the video make sure to drop a like subscribe if you guys are new I'm not doing too many rants. So I'll catch you guys on the next one. I'm out peace