April 18, 2025 • 71 mins
In this episode of Digital Coffee Gaming Brew, host Brett Geiser delves into the internal conflicts at BioWare, discussing former lead writer David Gator's revelations about EA's preference for Mass Effect over Dragon Age and the challenges faced by the Dragon Age team. The episode also covers the release of Lords of the Fallen 2.0, updates on the next Battlefield game, and NVIDIA's new GPU drivers. Other game updates include Skull and Bones Year Two, Assassin's Creed sales figures, and Overwatch 2's new stadium mode. Additionally, Geiser touches on broader industry topics like government views on video games, China's tech claims, and impending tariffs on tech products.
Here are 7 key themes discussed in this episode:
- Bioware’s internal conflicts and EA’s marketing missteps
- Updates and content changes in Lords of the Fallen
- Battlefield’s new features and skill-based matchmaking
- NVIDIA GPU driver issues and pricing challenges
- Ubisoft’s sales strategies and Skull and Bones content
- Overwatch 2’s new Stadium mode and player base
- Societal views on video games and male participation
Here are three fun facts from this episode:
- The new "Stadium" mode in Overwatch 2 will be a big change, featuring third-person gameplay, unique hero abilities, and no hero swapping, leaning more into MOBA-style strategy.
- Lords of the Fallen 2.0 now includes a free Friends Pass and co-op play, plus over 50 post-launch updates, making it a much bigger and more social experience.
- Skull and Bones is finally getting land combat—years after release—so players can soon jump off their ships for sword fighting and firearm battles on land.
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Welcome to a new episode ofDigital Coffee Gaming Brew, and
I'm your host, Brett Geiser.
If you could please subscribe tothis podcast and all your favorite
podcasting apps really does help.
But this week I'm gonna be talkingabout some drama and interesting things
going that basically what's goingon with BioWare, the, apparently the
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Mass Effect team, the Dragon Age team,didn't really like it and he didn't
really understand how to market it.
So that's gonna be aninteresting thing to talk about.
Also, Lords of the Fallen 2.0 is out.
We're gonna be talking about thatthe next Battlefield game and some
interesting things they're testing outis probably the best way of saying it.
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All right, NVIDIA's new GPU driversare out, and we're gonna be talking
about Skull and Bones year two, becausethat's still a thing apparently.
Talking a little bit about Assassin'sCreed, shadows and like the sales of it
because they never give numbers and it'sa very interesting thing that's going on.
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'cause before they would actually givenumbers, it's the best selling one.
Numbers, it is selling really well.
Here are the numbers.
But this one is it's the best selling.
No numbers, just take our word forit type of thing and talk about that.
And a little bit about Overwatchtwo in its new stadium mode.
I have not played it a little newsabout June Awakening and it's not, great
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news, but it's news in General King.
And Come Deliverance two update.
We're gonna talk a littlebit about marathon and people
aren't that excited about it.
Also we're gonna talking about.
Apparently the GOP thinks that menplay video games all day, and that's
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why it's a drain on Medicare andnot really the underlying issues
and just playing video games.
And so we talk a little bit about thatand why they're wrong, because apparently
it, and it's just one of those thingswe're talking about the tariffs and kind
of China's technology and why you nevertrust what China says because really
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you just never trust what they say They,they have said amazing things about
their stuff and then when you look at thenumbers or you look at the fiscal product,
it's not actually what they say it is.
So they're always lying aboutit, which is always funny to me.
Anyways, let's go on with the show.
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Mm. That's good.
All right.
I hope you're having a fabulousFriday because it is Friday.
But we're gonna get into thefirst thing about BioWare.
'cause apparently it's, it wasn't allrainbows and sunshine at BioWare when
there was mass effect in Dragon Age.
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Fortunately there's no more DragonAge, but from the former lead writer
at BioWare, David Gator, I thinkthis is his last name, sorry if I
mispronounce, it claims that duringhis time at the company, EA preferred
the Mass Fix series over Dragon Age.
He worked at BioWare for nearly twodecades and was involved in every
Dragon age except for the veil guard.
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Move.
He stated that EAs market team favoredmass effect because it was perceived
as modern and action oriented.
Which is funny because BouldersGate three, so clearly the EA
hires, the dumbest marketers.
The don't reallyunderstand games or gamers.
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So you may be wondering why EA is doingso terribly, hire better marketers.
Anyways he expressed that DragonAge was always just shy of the
acts since Dragon age origins.
He noted that the variations in DragonAge games might be due to BioWare team
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tendency to overreact to feedback andcriticism along with EAs influence.
So it.
The game was all about an overreaction towhat was going on, and just poor hiring
practices, putting people in leadershippositions that they should never been in.
Listening to the crazies isprobably another reason why.
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It's why Veil Guard didn't do very well.
Secondly, I've played a bit of it.
I'm never excited to play it.
I am interested to see it, but everytime I play it, I get bored 'cause it's
just not, it's not a good game overall.
The writing's not great and thelook of it feels way too cartoony
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from Inquisition and the other one.
So it should have been its owngame, meaning it should have just
renamed it to something else,probably would've sold better.
But when you have a specific like artstyle and writing direction of it and you
completely flip it, it doesn't do well.
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Anyways.
He also previously criticized EAsuggesting they should follow learning
a studio's approach with Boulders.
Gate three after EA indicated thatthe veil guard did not resonate with a
broad enough audience because you didn'tmake it for a broad enough audience.
You make a game forthe majority of people.
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If the majority of people do notresonate with gender ideology,
you don't make it for that.
That is a very specific veryniche and very unsuccessful way
of making a successful game.
Majority of people do not agree withit, so stop putting it in your games.
It's that simple.
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The creator and former lead writer ofDragon Age discussed the experience
at Byer before leaving in 2016.
You noted that the twoteams had a very different.
Diff different cultures and operatealmost like separate studios,
which makes sense when you formteams around specific things.
Each team will be differentfrom the other one.
It's, that's just how humans are.
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He was asked by BioWare Managementto write a science fantasy story
for the game Anthem, which wasinitially, which initially has been
conceived as a hard sci-fi setting.
He received feedback from Anthem teamthat he was, his writing was too Dragon
age leading to difficulties in his role.
First of all, the dude created Dragon ageorigin, so he shouldn't be criticizing him
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at all because that was a fantastic game.
Fantastic.
Writing record H twowas still pretty good.
Inquisition was alright,I, to be fair, it just.
It got not as good as Origins, but Originswas really good in the writing terms.
I'll even put Inquisition as still prettygood writing for what it was because
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Vegar just kinda like just killed.
It didn't do very well.
He mentioned that Anthem team appearedto be asking against Ma making an
RPG and did not provide him with thenecessary tools for storytelling.
After 17 years at BioWare, heleft following a failed attempt
to negotiate a creative directorposition, expressed his de desire
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to leave the company post BioWare.
He developed Stray Gods, therole playing musical and is
working on a project called MEUs.
Apparently it's a card deckbuilding game, but we continue to
work on Anthem for several years,which ultimately didn't happen.
They canned it, but it's a reallyinteresting thing that's happening.
So the same company, but theteams hate each other, which
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goes with cultural problems.
You're supposed to be a COHEs, you'resupposed to be a main cohesive team
with your own specific cultures.
And if someone from that teamcomes over there, the, it
shouldn't be looked as negative.
And if the dude wroted Dragon Ageorigins, you probably should listen to
the dude or help write it or whatever.
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You should listen to him,creates great stories.
Anthem was okay, apparently not entirelyhis fault because if the team doesn't
help you out, you're screwed with creatingreally great stories within the game.
Anthem seemed to be doomed to fail becausethe team was a little too pretentious, a
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little too entitled and very narcissisticabout, oh, it's too much Dragon Age.
How dare you plebs that play.
RPGs.
We are not RPGs.
Even though our company wasbasically founded on RPGs,
that's how they got popular.
They created Boulders Gate and BouldersGate two, which if you haven't played,
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I recommend you playing Boulders.
Gate two is better, butthey're both really good games,
so you can't hark on that.
And it's another reason whyVeil Guard just wasn't as good.
'cause it felt like it wasbasically mass effect with dragons.
The comet's not that good.
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It's okay, but there's no depth to it.
It's very repetitive.
It, it was just not a good game.
And I know that.
BioWare had asked for help from themassive ACT team to create combat for it.
So I know exactly where it came from.
'cause it feels very mass effect.
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And mass effect has greatcombat, but not in this sense.
It's tragic because BioWare used tobe a great developer with great games.
Bulls Gate Two, Knights ofthe Republic, Jada Empire.
Great game.
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Never Winter Nights, haven't played that.
Recommend you playing it
and then up sitting, justmade better versions of it.
Never winter nights two Knights of theWorld Republic to by far the better
story out of the two execution, notso good because they were rushed.
But better story overall
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it.
What do you do when it seems likeEEA doesn't want them to succeed.
They just don't know howto market an A fantasy.
RPG, are you serious right now?
Mass Effect was quote unquote better.
They were both great games.
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First of all, dragonAge is a fantastic game.
It was the spiritualsuccessor of Boulders Gate.
If the marketing director fromwhatever team did not tell them to
make, to play the games to understandit better, terrible boss, you
should have your employees beinglike, look at, play these games.
Figure out why players like thesegames and market it that way.
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Didn't happen.
Ye is incompetent.
They do not hire good people.
They do not hire competentpeople, unfortunately.
And it shows.
It has showed time and time again when
Titan Fall two came out and youwedged it between Battlefield
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and Call of Duty stupid move.
Who thought that was a good strategy?
And people love Titan fall too.
They still wanna play it.
They're still asking for anotherTitan Fall game because Titan
fall was a really good game.
Like
you hire the wrong peopleand this is what you get.
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Anyways.
Moving on to lower the Falling two,
which is released by CI games.
It is a remake of an older versionof Lord the Realm or Lord the Fallen.
I don't wanna say Lord, the realms,which is actual game, that is
spiritual successor of one of the.
Recent games, I forget the gamenow, but Lord of the Fallen
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2.0 is described as definitive.
Definitive edition of the gameincludes over 50 post-launch updates.
There is a free friends passavailable as part of the update.
A small delay has been announced forthe steam release due to technical
issues while the ea Epic Game Store,windows Store, PlayStation five,
Xbox s and x versions are unaffected.
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It looks like it adds co-op toit as well, which, hey, at least
they're going with the time.
They're looking what Elder Ring is doing.
They're like, should probablybringing that in as well.
It's not a bad idea for it and if they'remaking a, a sequel to the game, probably
look at what Elder Ring has done andimprove upon that and make it your own.
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I think Lord of the VAs is a fine game.
I don't think there'sterribly things wrong with it.
I think there was a lot ofissues in the beginning, but I
think it's a really good game.
I. Alright, moving on tothe next Battlefield game.
Battlefield six or whatever elseis going to actually be called
doesn't, it still doesn't haveofficial name, so that's why I said
whatever else it needs to be called.
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Fans are participating in an early buildof the game through Battlefield Labs play.
We play test program.
Participants of the play test have leakedfootage to, despite is non-disclosure
agreement, which I think is really funny.
It's like you're notsupposed to share stuff.
We'll share stuff anyways because wewanna keep you accountable because
of what you did previously, which iscalled Battlefield 2042, which was
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not a great game when it launched.
It was okay, not great.
I still don't, I don't playthat much anymore because
don't really care about it.
Play Delta Force if I want to.
Better game, wish Delta Force didn't havethe specialist or whatever they call it.
But there it is.
But, so the controversy right now isaround, I. The skill-based matchmaking.
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Now, they said that this has alreadybeen implemented since 2042, which
is not the best way of saying it.
Hey, we've implemented in the worstbattlefield game title to date.
It's should you really be adding it?
Now, the lead producer of Battlefieldaddressed the rumors about the SBMM.
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In the post stated that heavy SBMMwere skill separations prioritized
as considered problematic, buthaving a skill value for matchmaking
is necessary for balanced teams.
But it didn't really work all the timebecause there were times where I played.
And it was very unbalanced, so I get it.
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But yeah, if you're gonna do this typeof like matchmaking skills should be like
the least amount it should be judging onbecause it's battlefield, big battlefield.
You're gonna have tonsof other players playing.
It doesn't really matter as much.
Then Call of Duty, which is smaller maps,even though I don't really agree with it.
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And I think X defined did a goodjob of not really having it.
But if you're going to have it,
skills should be the leastthing you worry about.
It should be the lowest value forfiguring out who plays the game.
If you do that, it'll be successful.
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If you don't, we're gonna have problems.
And people are veryskeptical and they should.
And they should be.
I. Because Battlefield 2042 is a greatexample of what not to do for a game.
Scoreboard really wasn't there?
There were tons of problems in it.
Just performance issues was lacking.
Specialists were just half begged.
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I think 128 players can work, but theyhave to be very well designed maps.
But I do think there isa way to make it work.
And the vanilla games were,vanilla maps were not good.
There were too many open sightlines for snipers to kill you on.
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And that was the biggestissue of all of it.
And the maps looked like there wasnever a battle being waged, ever.
And this was supposed to belike civilization has fallen
everywhere type of a thing.
And it's like that.
It was just like.
The setting was great.
The execution of the setting wasnot destruction, really wasn't there
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anymore, even though it was likethe most destruction we ever had.
And I'm like, dude, like it's not likeBattlefield Five had better destruction.
Battlefield One had, like the previoustitles that were subpar or better, had
better destruction than this game did.
Portal was the saving Grace,which they basically ignored.
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I'm glad this supposedly comingback as Portal 2.0, but you
cannot ignore this game mode.
I keep on saying, if you bring backportal again, put all the previous
battlefields in that it'll saveyou and it will make the game last
as long as possible, even post.
Development.
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And even after Dev after support isdone, people will come back to play it.
People will come back to play Battlefield.
Four people come backto play Battlefield One.
Why?
Because these games were really good.
Battlefield four was notgood when it was launched.
It took a year to actually fix themap, which people seemed to forget.
The game was awful when it launched.
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Battlefield Four was horrendous.
I got cut outta matches so many times.
I didn't play it for a while 'cause I'mlike, I don't really wanna deal with this.
Evolution was okay.
It was more of a gimmick thananything else, but it was there.
Teachers Shanghai.
Shanghai is still, Istill enjoy playing it.
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One of my favorite maps, I like theBattlefield Two maps a little bit more.
They were a little bit harder to do.
Golf of Moment is I still find fun.
You though you have a terrible team.
You're screwed.
Like they need to lean in ontheir past stuff and try to
implement them into portal.
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I Portal should actually be battlefield.
Battlefield should be portal.
You put the old games in and thenyou just have a new game and you put
it into portal, and then you havethese different portals to go to.
Different types of games isthe best way going forward.
They want a live serviceportal is your future.
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Now.
Whatever you're trying to do, which Iswear if you put but more call to do
stuff in here, I will not play your game.
Forget that.
All right, so Nvidia is releasing a newGPU driver, version 50, sorry, 576.02 on.
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Now already happened April 16th, 2025.
The driver includes numerousfixes for bugs and crashes
affecting its game ready drivers.
Reports of issues include blackscreens, game crashes, and
general stability problems.
Driver fixes stability issues withWindows 11, version 24 H two, which
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I have, and A-B-S-O-D or blue screenof death while playing dlss four game
games with a multi frame generation.
That's great.
Have your most selling point if youcan actually buy a 50 of 5,000 series
and the highlight of the 5,000 seriescrashes your game and crashes your system.
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Great.
It addresses random black screened issueswith a 50 series GPUs and general system
disabilities Concern specific game.
Related fixes include crashes in Fortnite,star Wars Outlaws, and Monster Hunter
Wilds, as well as stutter issues.
In Overwatch two, it's not a new game.
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The release notes indicate a significantnumber of fixes taking up two pages, which
is unusual compared to typical updates.
'cause typical updatesaren't that big with Nvidia.
So usually a MT thathas the worst problems.
But I haven't heard as manyproblems with a MD, which is
funny 'cause NVIDIA's supposed tobe the good one and you're not.
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Really?
I would actually was gonna upgrademy GPU this year and then I kept on
hearing reports about low sale, likelow availability, higher pricing,
not very good performance fromthe 40 series to the 5,000 series.
And I'm like.
You know what?
I know I have a 30 90, butI'm just gonna wait it out and
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then I'm like, you know what?
Screw this.
I'll just wait for the 6,000 series,and maybe they'll have multi frame
generations and it won't evenmatter because it's all a gimmick.
I forgot to mention that the driver alsosupports the GForce RTX 50 60 TI GPUs,
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which is launching at the starting priceof 3 79, which actually will not be
the starting price because of tariffs.
I know there's a supposed pauseon it, which will get later
in the show, but it will not.
That will not be the starting price.
I guarantee you, you're probablygonna have to add $200 or more
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to that, so you're probably goingto be spending about 500 to $600.
It's probably close to 600 to$700 to be really honest with you.
Even the quote unquote, not even mid-rangeor mid-range GPUs are inching towards the
thousand dollars price point, which goesto show you MSRP does not matter anymore.
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Especially if we make it in China.
Probably shouldn't bemaking it in China anymore.
Alright, moving on to Ubisoft.
And it plans for significant contentadditions to skull and bones for those
that are still actually playing this game.
And it's year two update, includingnew maps, ships, and land combat.
Oh my God.
They're finally allowing you to goon land because What's that one?
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What's that Rear one from Microsoft?
I don't remember the name.
It's basically like a sea of thieves.
There it is.
That one already had all this stuff.
Plus you could get onother people's boats.
Plus, you could actually.
Walk around your boat.
It was amazing technology that cameout several years before this came.
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Hubsoft is just, they can't catcha break, but it's also their fault.
They can't catch a break a lot of times.
So year two, the showcase occurred.
April 14th, 2025.
Season three, guts and Glorywill introduce land combat and
allowing players to engage insword fighting and firearm combat.
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Wow.
Amazing.
The game that launched a fewyears ago finally has land combat.
This is truly an early access game.
This game was not launched to becomplete, and that has been Ubisoft's Mo
for a little too long and they deserveeverything that's coming to them.
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'cause this is a travesty.
Players will be able to rescueskilled crew members known as
officers during season three.
Woo.
Season one titled Ascent IntoChaos Launches on April 15th, 2025.
So it's already live and includes aloot enhancing item feature, challenging
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world tiers and a new sch mediumship and a death tides PVP mode.
Season two Oath of War will launchin September excuse me, summer
of 2025 featuring mega fortsand frigate larger large ships.
Alright, big forts kinda soundsa Lego Season four Eye of the
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Beast will introduce the Krakenand Hunter's Guild this winter.
A free weekend of Skull and Boneswill take place from September
17th, which is right now to.
September 21st, 2025, allowingplayers to try the game and purchase
it at a reduced price becausenobody is really playing this game.
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Skull and Bones was released on February16th, 2024 for pc, PlayStation five,
and Xbox Series as, and the game isreceived from IGN, which is a seven
out 10, which I, you probably needto knock down like two extra ones,
five out of 10, always have reports.
Record player engagement shortlyafter the game's released, but did
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not disclose specific sales numbers.
Sound familiar becausethey always do this now.
They're like, it's amazing.
We had record amounts ofplayers playing the game.
All right, which salesfigures don't look at that.
Alright, we'll look at team numbers.
That's not true.
Then what is, you won'tgive us the numbers.
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You won't really tell us the numbers.
You just say it's doing really well.
Trust us, bro.
It's okay.
The launch of Skull bones coincidewith a 200% increase in players
of playing Assassin's Creed.
Four black flag.
Because it was better 'cause youcould actually go to land at the time.
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Now you can over a year later.
Not really good.
Alright, speaking of sales numbersand Ubisoft, so there's this guy
called Matt and do wanna say his name.
He's only on blue sky by the way.
So it means that he willnot get fact checked at all.
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I do have an account.
I actually, I made a second accountbecause it apparently blocked me.
Apparently I made him madby asking for sales numbers.
Never asked people to show their work.
So the sales numbers of AssassinsCreed shows has been the best selling
video game in the US by number salesfor each of its first three weeks
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since launch, only three weeks.
Data source.
The information comes from certain NanaAnalyst map based on data available
through April 5th, which he nevershares year to date performance.
Year to date, assess Screech ShadowTrails only Capcom's must Monster
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Hunter Wildes in sales, which it alsotrails significantly by Schedule one
because Schedule one beat out MonsterHunters Wilds critical reception.
The game has a Met critic rating of 81.
Characterize is generally favorable,and 80% on 16,000 steam reviewers.
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Team user reviews at are positiveranking overall reviews as very positive.
Recent update game has continuedupdated you, player, the player base.
The game has generally reportedlysurpassed 2 million players
shortly after launch supposedly.
'cause we don't reallyknow what the numbers are.
Here's my issue with all this.
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I went to Blue Skies.
Blue Sky 'cause it was on therebecause that's where you post things
that you will not be fact-check.
'cause if you post it on X, then peoplewill fact check it through community
notes and said that yes it did sell.
Mind you, no salesfigures, just trust me bro.
It did sell well.
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That's not how you convincepeople that it did sell well.
I am fine if you make a game thatsells well that I think is not
very good, I'm fine with that.
But show your work.
If it's math, show your work.
If it's sales figures, show your work.
Stop telling me to trust you,bro, because you said it.
Something is selling.
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That doesn't make any sense.
Ubisoft, to date has not shared any salesfigures on Assassin's Creed shadows.
This company, which apparently this guyhas been former, has worked previously on
other developers, has not shared any data.
He just says, through the datathat I've seen, it's sold.
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I don't know what that means.
If you cannot share yourdata, it's not true.
Please share your data.
Let us go through your data.
If you can't do that, thenyou are being misleading.
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I am fine.
If Assassins' Creed sells well,it will not hurt me whatsoever.
What I am critical of is people,especially Ubisoft and those people,
this dude Matt saying it's sold.
Well, trust me, not how this works.
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Stop saying that.
Show where the numbers are.
Show me if you said it was behindMonster, wilds, monster, hunter,
wilds, then show me the data.
But how much was it behind?
Was it 30%?
Was it 10%?
Was it 50%?
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What is the data?
The, we've had 3 millionplayers play the game.
What does that mean?
Because Ubisoft has asubscription service.
That people can use and thenreportedly have 2 million players.
So did you just decide to put allthose 2 million players, be like, look,
2 million players played the game.
'cause they're on our subscriptionservice, which makes no sense.
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Like I, we just wanna know thenumbers and you can't provide them.
It's weird, like previously whendevelopers were happy about good sales,
they would provide the sales numbers.
They don't,
they did well.
How well did it do, trust me?
Not the good argument.
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Why are people making worse arguments?
If your game sold?
You should be wanting to show the numbers,but it's really suspicious when you don't.
I don't know, it's just weird.
Alright, over watch two.
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It has a new game mode calledStadium It release, it will be
launching on April 22nd, 2025.
And stadium mode is considered asignificant change to the game.
Reason being is because you it's,it leans more into the Moab type
of a thing with different typesof abilities, different types of
things you can do with a character.
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It's in third person mode.
It's supposed to be the gamechanger of Overwatch too, we'll see.
It could be fun, it could be not.
It all depends on if players aregonna actually play the game.
Let's be honest, since Marvel rivalscame out, Overwatch has not been doing
very well, has lost a bunch of players.
'cause players should have just becomejust tired of just Blizzard in general.
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Blizzard is not what it used to be.
Blizzard made great games in the past.
The last great game it madewas the original Overwatch.
I will not consider Overwatch twoa great game because it J, it's not
even a two, it's just Overwatch, oneand a half, and people right to say
that it's Overwatch one and a half.
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But the, they made StarCraft twoWarcraft, Warcraft two Warcraft three.
World of Warcraft Diablo one, Diablotwo, three, and four is all right.
But again, they don't make alot of original games anymore.
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They did have one in development,survival game, got canned.
So here we're at.
So Stadium is the best of seven game modethat includes shorter rounds and allows
for strategic planning between them.
The mode also allows players toenhance their heroes with added
survivability, damage and ability buffs.
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The mode will feature 17 heroesand nine maps at launch with plans
for continual e evolution andadditional addition of new heroes.
King Director Aaron Keller stated thatstadium mode has been in development
since before Overwatch two's launch.
So why didn't you justadd it into Overwatch?
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One, it was, there was a contentdrought and you just hold that back
until suspiciously, until we seethat Marvel rivals is doing well.
Weird.
So weird.
Stadium mode is designed to caterto players' desire for more downtime
strategy, emphasis on power fantasy.
The mode eliminates hero swappingencourages players to build around
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their challenges, which I wouldactually play in instead because.
All right.
I picked this hero.
All right.
I gotta figure out how to make him better.
And so to help out the team, it's five.
E five.
I'm probably gonna have an issuewith it 'cause I don't consider
five E five a really good mode andprobably should have never happened.
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'cause to be honest with you,two tanks is the best as always.
I'm sorry.
Just is one tank is just awful.
I don't play tanks.
I used to play tanks in Overwatch.
One because it was fun.
Have another tank to peel for me.
Still got blame, but not as badly.
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And just the tank synergy was just, therewas nothing like it, but Overwatch two yo.
And it's not that good.
Sorry guys.
Oh, you're, I just love just thegaslighting of the player base.
Oh, you just six V six 'causenostalgia no, we like six V six.
It worked.
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And it proves our point.
Alright, so I have someunfortunate news for June.
Awakening has been delayedto June 10th, 2025.
Players who purchased the deluxeor ultimate edition will have
early access starting June 5th.
The delay is due to feedback fromongoing persistent clo enclosed beta,
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allowing the development team more timeto implement changes, fund comp plans
to host a large scale beta weekend nextmonth for players, for more players
to participate and provide feedback.
A combat livestream is scheduled.
Oh, actually it was scheduled andso if you wanted to check it out.
I'm fine with this, to be honest with you.
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If they make a decision, look at.
Our game is a good, is pretty goodstate, but there's some issues
with it and we need more time.
I'm fine with that.
'cause that just allows them moretime to make the game better.
And so if they make the gamebetter and people like it,
it'll be a successful game.
If they did, what if they pull anEA with Battlefield 2042, oh it's
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in a great state, it's awesome.
And then they launch itand everybody's what?
This is not good.
And that's where you have the problems.
Alright, moving on to Kingof Come Deliverance two has
received a patch of 1.2 0.4.
Update.
Update introduces a newhardcore mode for players.
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So Kingdom deliverance, the very morereal, the more realistic non-fan.
Medieval RBG is gonna get more realistic.
Hard mode includes.
The removal of fast travel so you can nolonger fast travel could be interesting
and requires players to select anegative perk before starting the game.
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Oh, brutal.
Negative perks includes sweaty.
Henry smells worse when he doesn't shower.
Might want to take that one.
Bashful.
Henry cannot ask villagers for directions.
And then Psalm nolu.
Henry can wake up in a differentlocation after resting.
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That would be funny.
Just fall asleep in your houseand you're in a different town.
I'd be scared if go to sleep.
I'd be like, I don't wanna go to sleep.
No, not gonna, okay.
I have to go to sleep because eventhe regular mode, it's very realistic.
If you don't go to sleep youactually start to fall asleep.
I played the original one.
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If you don't sleep, thegame will make you sleep.
Alright, patch 1.4 0.2
also provides various fixes and rerebalances for standard gameplay
such as rebalance prices of herbs,a new hairstyle option for Henry
and fix for safe out issues.
Specifically for Xbox players,you want more power to them.
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I'm a little, I was a little cri,rightfully cRI critiquing the gay love
scene between the two main characters,which previously in the original
game had no indication of that.
So weird.
And then the introducedintroduction of a random black dude.
So will I pick it up?
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Probably eventually when?
When it's on sale.
But right now I'm good.
All right, so once you finally unveiledmore information on Marathon, so
this game is an extraction shooterbecause we don't have any of those.
I, there's a dearth ofextraction shooters.
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We'll be released on September 23rd forpc PlayStation five and Xbox Series X
Marathon will support cross play andcross save on all platforms at launch.
No, here's the funny part.
Bungee confirmed that marathon will bea premium title, but not be full price.
I don't even know what that means.
That's a marketing speak for what?
We don't know what we'regonna charge right now.
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That's really what it means.
'cause they don't knowwhat they're gonna charge.
They're trying to figure it out.
They're like, should we do $40?
Should we do the regular one and $70?
Should we do a hundred dollars?
Because you know that'sgonna eventually be coming.
Looking at you.
Grand Theft Auto six.
Which if it is a hundreddollars, I'm not playing.
Plus, I'm not really quite keenon what they're gonna be doing.
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And to be honest with you, I've grandup auto games that I never finish.
I like start and I'mlike, yeah, this is great.
And I'm like, I don'twanna play this anymore.
I don't know why.
Anyways, the game willfeature three maps at launch.
Ooh.
With a fourth map comingshortly after a marathon, we'll
include a battle pass system.
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'cause man, we are thinking asgamers, we need more battle pass
systems because those are so fun.
The specific price of the gamewill not be announced, will be
announced later in the summer.
Here's all this stuff we don't want,we don't want you to know the price
'cause we know it'll be a shocker.
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Players can loot items from thegame world and other players, but
dying without extracting resultsand the loss of all your loot.
And basically the what correctionshooters are players can be revived
during the match if a teammate is aliveto interact with their death Stash.
Bungees is hosting Close Alphafor this game this month, which
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requires joining the game officialDiscord server to sign up.
Don't care.
There may be public testing availablebefore the game's official release.
Here's a problem, the internetis not really in favor of this.
They really have harken it backto Concord, which is funny because
the con, the one of the developersof Concord's look at guys.
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I know our game sucked.
Can you please stop talking about it?
And this game's gonna be cool?
And everybody's no.
So
I don't know.
I looked at some of thescreenshots and stuff and looked
at some of the videos and.
It's all right.
First of all the original marathon gamesfrom Bungee was created for Mac on Mac.
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It was one of the few games on Mac andit was a single player game because
multiplayer was not big in the ninetiesbecause there really was no internet
didn't really come to the masses until 96.
And even then, good luck trying toplay with the, like the beginning of
my intro is actually the awful internetthing, but I thought it'd be fun
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to actually do something like that.
Anyways,
bungee is not what Bungee was and Ithink a lot of games are starting to
wake up to just because the developer hasmade great games in the past, if those
people leave the games are not gonna beas good as we remembered from the past.
Bungee made great Halo games, destiny,alright, destiny two even worse.
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And the quality has been going down.
Because unfortunately bungee shiftedfrom making great games like a lot
of developers have done and shiftedtowards gender ideology, politics,
mostly leftism and thinking thatwill help shore up game sales.
It doesn't.
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It pisses us off most of the time, and youreally should just stop, make great gains.
It's all you gotta do.
If you have politics againstwhatever everybody wants, great,
don't share it on your business.
You have people that are gonnabe people that are from the left,
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from the right and in the center.
They're all gonna work for you.
Leave your politics out of it.
Just make games.
You're there to do business andthat means doing business with
people you don't agree with.
Unless you're in the opinionmarket then it's different, but.
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This is just bad.
I really don't wanna see bungee fail,but to be honest with you, they probably
are unless they get their act together.
Alright, so I,
here's the problem.
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They announced today about Medicarecuts from the United States, which is
always happening, and one of the majorthings about it is they're proposing
that the reason why it's expensiveis because of single men that quote
unquote play video games all day.
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Now, I don't condoneplaying video games all day.
I think that's actually not good for you.
I think that's very detrimental to you.
Unless you're streaming and that's how youmake it income, then I'm okay with that.
But I still think I. You needto go out and touch grass.
But
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the epidemic of men not wanting towork is not because of video games.
Video games are not thesymptom of the overall larger
issue of society hating men.
Society does not like men.
Society hates masculinity.
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Even though masculinity is good,feminism has decided that society
needs to hate masculinity.
The problem is womenbiologically need masculinity.
So the conundrum comes to let'sblame men for all the issues of
society, which is not working anymore.
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'cause men are like, you know what?
I'm done, I'm checking out.
Second of all, the reason why men likevideo games is because one competition.
'cause we are very competitive animals.
Two hero fantasy.
'cause society told us that we don't wantthe dams of distress, we don't want the
knight and shining armor that's done,that's over with equality, rah, until
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I decide that I want chivalry again.
And so what men did islike, all right, fine.
I will go and play video games becauseat least that allows me to do that
until they decide to stop doing that.
And now we're all screwed.
Or we just become drugdealers in schedule one.
So the issue is thatcI society has not.
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Looked at men's problems and said, maybewe should look at this and fix this.
They have decided instead to blame them.
You cannot blame young men whodon't understand how to be men if
they're never instilled how to work.
Why are you blaming themthat they don't work?
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This isn't a cut and dry issue.
Video games are not the problem.
Society is the problem.
You have to look at society and go,look at, we have chase men out of
Boy Scouts because Boy Scouts are notfor men anymore, or boys or whatever.
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We have chased them out of thechurch, especially Protestantism,
because I don't know why
we have.
Chase them out of every single thing,and we've told women to be masculine.
There is an unequal equation here.
When you do this, men becomemore effeminate because
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there needs to equal out.
Will it be a good outcome?
No.
It will be a terrible outcome, and weare seeing it right now in real time.
And guess what?
Schools are made forwomen, not men, not boys.
This is why women do better.
This is why women are goingto college more often.
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You do not make strong men bytelling them to stop being masculine.
You make weak, effeminate men bytelling 'em to stop being masculine
by not showing masculine things,by having TV shows that either have
idiots, terrible fathers, or UofS Oof.
Just terrible role models.
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We have no role models to lookat to show us how to be men.
The church used to do it andbasically said, now we're good.
So men don't go to church anymore.
There are ways to figure out how todo it without blaming us all the time.
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You keep doing this, we check out and weare checked out and you are feeling it.
Men drive society, men protect society.
You lose us, you lose society.
Women build up societies by having babiesand we're not even doing that either.
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So there is a systematic wide issue withsociety and instead of going look at, we
know men aren't really wanting to work.
And playing video games istheir escape from the sh.
I try not to curse from thecrap we're doing to them,
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but we're going to blame theminstead because that has worked.
That has not worked.
I remember one time in, when I graduatedfrom college in 2011, I met with a
college administrator and he evensaid in 2011, look it we're having
issues with guys going to college.
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And I told him it's becauseyou aren't catering to them
and they still don't get it.
If you want customers, you haveto cater to customers' needs.
If you don't, they don't buy your stuff.
I don't understand why marketing isso difficult when it comes to men.
It's like all of a sudden it's Idon't know how to, how do we do it?
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Even in gaming now, it's oh, we havemajority gamers that are customers.
Let's not cater to them.
I'm like, what are you doing?
That's not how you getpeople to buy your game.
Yes, majority of gamingis men get used to it.
Men like things get used to it.
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Feminism is probably the single mostdangerous, modern, I'm gonna call
it a theology 'cause it's really acult I've ever seen in modern times.
It's right up there with communism.
'cause they're really insidious andthey seem like a good idea until
they're implemented from the sixties.
So we've had several decades ofthis and it, it's gotten worse.
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It hasn't gotten better.
It's like the Department of Educationwe're last and we spend the most
money on kids for education.
There'll be something wrong there.
But no, the government instead goesvideo game's, bad guys get to work.
I'm like, that's not, it'snot gonna work anymore.
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You have an internet culture, right orwrong, and largely right, you can call
the red pill or whatever, but they'relargely right about what's going on.
You can hate what they'resaying, I don't really care.
But they're largely right and ifyou aren't paying attention to what
they're saying, you are missing thepoint and you're not connecting to men.
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Telling them to get to workis not gonna work anymore.
You have to fix the issues.
It's like blaming thegun for killing somebody.
It's not the gun.
The gun didn't do anything.
It was the person behind the gun.
The gun doesn't randomly shoot.
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They have guns in the house.
They don't randomly fireoff every once in a while
because the gun doesn't shoot itself.
The game won't, the game's onlybe being played 'cause men are
frustrated and tired of society.
I'm sick of seeing this, likewe have adults in politicians
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that still aren't grown up.
I just blame guys for their video games.
It's no, the video games arebasically just the end point
of what has been going on.
You can't tell men they're terrible.
You can't tell us that we shouldn'tspeak up or we shouldn't speak
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up 'cause it's man's playing.
You can't say that silence is violenceand then tell us why aren't you doing
anything and expect us to do something.
We're like, yeah, no, I'm good.
I'm gonna go in the woods.
My Xbox, I'm just play games.
'cause I'm damned if Ido, damned if I don't.
It's just it.
It's stupid.
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All right, moving onto even better things.
Why you never listen to China?
So China has this new fangledcable called the GPMI.
So original, it's A-G-P-M-I type C. Itsbandwidth is 96 gigabytes per second.
Power delivery is 240 watts and there'sthe type B two, which is 192 gigabytes per
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second, and a power delivery of 480 watts.
The out forms HTM I 2.2bandwidth and the Bolt five
bandwidth, the out forms as well.
The key features is a two-waymultistream data transfer, bidirectional
control, unified connection forpower delivery and data transmission.
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USB, ecosystem compatibility, fast wakeup, and ultra fast transition, enhanced
security that's coming from China.
That's pretty funny.
So
here's the thing, we've seen this before.
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China makes a claim that says thatthey have this amazing technology
that beats the west, all those dirtyWest people, and then real life hits
it and it's yeah, it's not that good.
It's happened time and time again.
Yet reporters still try to golook at what China's doing.
I'm like, yeah, they're lying to you.
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'cause that's what they do and theyreverse engineer everything 'cause
they don't make or innovate anything.
When's the last time you may have hada actual true innovation in China?
Hasn't happened 'cause it never happens.
This is why I'm very skepticalabout everything coming out.
Look at this.
It says it's great.
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It says it's wonderful.
No it is not.
It's happened with their AI model thatsaid that they were very efficient and
they only used millions of dollars.
And in reality, they bought a bunch ofNvidia GPUs and spent billions of dollars
trying to get this efficiency model, whichbasically made them not very efficient
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and close to what chat GPT is doing.
They will continue to do it becausewe are guled enough to think that
China actually innovates anything.
You talk to anybody that worksor has business with China, they
will tell you they will stealyour stuff that you not care.
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And I'm trying to wake youguys up to this stop believing
everything comes outta China.
They rarely work out.
It's usually worse or it's usually stolen.
Those are the two outcomes of this.
This is probably gonna be abouthalf of what it actually is, or
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it's gonna be very unreliable vol.
I will wait for HDMI or display portto come out with their innovations.
'cause there actually are innovationsin that, and this has already been
touted as USBC to actually start to do.
Data signals plus power stuff.
It's already been inthe works for a while.
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This is just like China going, we didit and it's yeah, let's just wait for
the actual people that you do innovate.
Wait for them to actually maketheir announcements, but more
power to China do really great PRstunt that seems to think it works.
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Which now comes about with thetariffs again, because I have to
keep on talking about the tariffs'cause things change all the time.
So
here's the thing, yes, therewas a temporary halt on tariffs
for a lot of tech products.
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Yes.
This is a temporary pause, meaningthere will be tariffs on this.
This is why I've said time andtime again if you guys are looking
to upgrade anything, and if youcan find it, 'cause I know A GPU
is really hard to find right now.
Buy it now because I'm telling you this isgoing to get worse before it gets better.
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Because China is trying to face.
So Trump already enacted a245% tariff on some products.
Do I see it going up?
More than likely, unless China startsto make a deal and take it seriously.
Right now, they're not.
They're hoping that he will balk andthey're hoping that they can get back
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to what normally they get from us.
The issue is all the smart people,all the people that have done work
in China and have done businesswith China, know what they do.
It's not a carefully guarded secret.
They steal our tech, theymanipulate their currency
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and they flood our marketswith cheap China crap.
That's what they do.
And so this is why I'm telling you now,if you can wait a few years, wait a few
years, if you can't buy it now, becauseit's going to hurt in the long run.
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I agree with the administration sayingthat we need to start building our
critical infrastructures in this country.
That means tech, it meanspharmaceuticals, it means our weapons.
It means everything that's criticalto us that we need to procure.
Because if we look at COVID-19and the quote unquote pandemic,
that really wasn't a pandemic.
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China with halted a lotof stuff from US masks.
Pharmaceuticals like, 'cause theycould, that's not a good thing.
And tech especially needs tobe built here because they will
steal it and we don't need thembuilding our phones, building our
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communication systems, building anytech that they could find a way to put a
malware on there doesn't need to happen.
It needs to be built here.
Includes keyboards and mice.
Even though those are low level things.
Still one of the thingsthat need to be built here.
'cause you have no idea whatthey can embedded into that.
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It's a lot of, it's reliant on tech.
Our cars need to be built here.
Tech inside the carsneed to be built here.
It is one of those fundamentalthings that you cannot give a
country that has profit off of us.
Look at they were only number,they're only number two because of us.
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They're number two.
Because first of all, Nixonopened up, traded China.
Clinton decided to bring China tointo the World Trade Organization.
By the way,
he was not a great president on economy.
He literally did not knowanything about economy.
You don't send off your manufacturing.
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That's how you kill a country, andwe're seeing the effects of it.
So what do we do?
I know there's that China, me goingaround about fat, white people
making clothes and stuff, but I meanthat, that's not the reality of it.
That's them propaganda.
Again, what will more than likely happen?
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That robots will be makingthe majority of our stuff.
They'll have few people monitoringthe robots, but robots or machines
will be making the majority of stuff.
The machines make the majority of ourstuff anyways, like repetitive tasks are
really suited for machines, not humans.
So this is where we're at right now.
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There are going to betariffs on tech stuff.
You cannot go around that whatsoever.
So I want to be very clear.
I. Tariffs are coming,unless China makes a deal.
I don't see China.
I know Trump said that they're talking toChina, whatever that means, or they want
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to strike a deal or whatever that means.
And they'll probably doit behind closed doors.
'cause again, they have to save face.
They're not gonna do it in the open.
They're not gonna try to do any of that.
They're gonna do it behind closed doors.
But for now, we have no idea.
'cause we're not in those meetingsand they're not giving us the
reason for those meetings.
Because.
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Security reasons and they wannamake sure that all countries
are respected in that sense.
So what do we do now is
really batten down the hatches.
There's not much else you can do.
I guess you could file lawsuits againstit, but ordinary American Americans
or gamers may not much you can do.
(01:01:24):
Just buy it now and wait is probablythe best option you can, but right
now, very real, that tariffs couldgo pretty high, which will inflate
the price of a lot of things.
Nvidia and Amm D alreadysaid that there are going to.
Toss the eat from this veryreal, it's going to hurt.
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NVIDIA's probably gonna be moving alot of their production into Arizona.
It's the ad doing that.
It's just a very practical thing to do.
Very smart thing to do.
It.
Add costs in the short term.
Yeah, in the long run.
Eventually when things, processes getin place, it gets a lot more efficient.
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Might start to come down.
We're gonna see a rise again.
What we all want to hear.
No.
Is it?
What we need to do.
Yeah,
there's no around it.
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Welcome to a new episode ofDigital Coffee Gaming Brew, and
I'm your host, Brett Geiser.
If you could please subscribe tothis podcast and all your favorite
podcasting apps really does help.
But this week I'm gonna be talkingabout some drama and interesting things
going that basically what's goingon with BioWare, the, apparently the
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Mass Effect team, the Dragon Age team,didn't really like it and he didn't
really understand how to market it.
So that's gonna be aninteresting thing to talk about.
Also, Lords of the Fallen 2.0 is out.
We're gonna be talking about thatthe next Battlefield game and some
interesting things they're testing outis probably the best way of saying it.
(00:44):
All right, NVIDIA's new GPU driversare out, and we're gonna be talking
about Skull and Bones year two, becausethat's still a thing apparently.
Talking a little bit about Assassin'sCreed, shadows and like the sales of it
because they never give numbers and it'sa very interesting thing that's going on.
(01:07):
'cause before they would actually givenumbers, it's the best selling one.
Numbers, it is selling really well.
Here are the numbers.
But this one is it's the best selling.
No numbers, just take our word forit type of thing and talk about that.
And a little bit about Overwatchtwo in its new stadium mode.
I have not played it a little newsabout June Awakening and it's not, great
(01:30):
news, but it's news in General King.
And Come Deliverance two update.
We're gonna talk a littlebit about marathon and people
aren't that excited about it.
Also we're gonna talking about.
Apparently the GOP thinks that menplay video games all day, and that's
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why it's a drain on Medicare andnot really the underlying issues
and just playing video games.
And so we talk a little bit about thatand why they're wrong, because apparently
it, and it's just one of those thingswe're talking about the tariffs and kind
of China's technology and why you nevertrust what China says because really
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you just never trust what they say They,they have said amazing things about
their stuff and then when you look at thenumbers or you look at the fiscal product,
it's not actually what they say it is.
So they're always lying aboutit, which is always funny to me.
Anyways, let's go on with the show.
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Mm. That's good.
All right.
I hope you're having a fabulousFriday because it is Friday.
But we're gonna get into thefirst thing about BioWare.
'cause apparently it's, it wasn't allrainbows and sunshine at BioWare when
there was mass effect in Dragon Age.
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Fortunately there's no more DragonAge, but from the former lead writer
at BioWare, David Gator, I thinkthis is his last name, sorry if I
mispronounce, it claims that duringhis time at the company, EA preferred
the Mass Fix series over Dragon Age.
He worked at BioWare for nearly twodecades and was involved in every
Dragon age except for the veil guard.
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Move.
He stated that EAs market team favoredmass effect because it was perceived
as modern and action oriented.
Which is funny because BouldersGate three, so clearly the EA
hires, the dumbest marketers.
The don't reallyunderstand games or gamers.
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So you may be wondering why EA is doingso terribly, hire better marketers.
Anyways he expressed that DragonAge was always just shy of the
acts since Dragon age origins.
He noted that the variations in DragonAge games might be due to BioWare team
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tendency to overreact to feedback andcriticism along with EAs influence.
So it.
The game was all about an overreaction towhat was going on, and just poor hiring
practices, putting people in leadershippositions that they should never been in.
Listening to the crazies isprobably another reason why.
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It's why Veil Guard didn't do very well.
Secondly, I've played a bit of it.
I'm never excited to play it.
I am interested to see it, but everytime I play it, I get bored 'cause it's
just not, it's not a good game overall.
The writing's not great and thelook of it feels way too cartoony
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from Inquisition and the other one.
So it should have been its owngame, meaning it should have just
renamed it to something else,probably would've sold better.
But when you have a specific like artstyle and writing direction of it and you
completely flip it, it doesn't do well.
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Anyways.
He also previously criticized EAsuggesting they should follow learning
a studio's approach with Boulders.
Gate three after EA indicated thatthe veil guard did not resonate with a
broad enough audience because you didn'tmake it for a broad enough audience.
You make a game forthe majority of people.
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If the majority of people do notresonate with gender ideology,
you don't make it for that.
That is a very specific veryniche and very unsuccessful way
of making a successful game.
Majority of people do not agree withit, so stop putting it in your games.
It's that simple.
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The creator and former lead writer ofDragon Age discussed the experience
at Byer before leaving in 2016.
You noted that the twoteams had a very different.
Diff different cultures and operatealmost like separate studios,
which makes sense when you formteams around specific things.
Each team will be differentfrom the other one.
It's, that's just how humans are.
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He was asked by BioWare Managementto write a science fantasy story
for the game Anthem, which wasinitially, which initially has been
conceived as a hard sci-fi setting.
He received feedback from Anthem teamthat he was, his writing was too Dragon
age leading to difficulties in his role.
First of all, the dude created Dragon ageorigin, so he shouldn't be criticizing him
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at all because that was a fantastic game.
Fantastic.
Writing record H twowas still pretty good.
Inquisition was alright,I, to be fair, it just.
It got not as good as Origins, but Originswas really good in the writing terms.
I'll even put Inquisition as still prettygood writing for what it was because
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Vegar just kinda like just killed.
It didn't do very well.
He mentioned that Anthem team appearedto be asking against Ma making an
RPG and did not provide him with thenecessary tools for storytelling.
After 17 years at BioWare, heleft following a failed attempt
to negotiate a creative directorposition, expressed his de desire
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to leave the company post BioWare.
He developed Stray Gods, therole playing musical and is
working on a project called MEUs.
Apparently it's a card deckbuilding game, but we continue to
work on Anthem for several years,which ultimately didn't happen.
They canned it, but it's a reallyinteresting thing that's happening.
So the same company, but theteams hate each other, which
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goes with cultural problems.
You're supposed to be a COHEs, you'resupposed to be a main cohesive team
with your own specific cultures.
And if someone from that teamcomes over there, the, it
shouldn't be looked as negative.
And if the dude wroted Dragon Ageorigins, you probably should listen to
the dude or help write it or whatever.
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You should listen to him,creates great stories.
Anthem was okay, apparently not entirelyhis fault because if the team doesn't
help you out, you're screwed with creatingreally great stories within the game.
Anthem seemed to be doomed to fail becausethe team was a little too pretentious, a
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little too entitled and very narcissisticabout, oh, it's too much Dragon Age.
How dare you plebs that play.
RPGs.
We are not RPGs.
Even though our company wasbasically founded on RPGs,
that's how they got popular.
They created Boulders Gate and BouldersGate two, which if you haven't played,
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I recommend you playing Boulders.
Gate two is better, butthey're both really good games,
so you can't hark on that.
And it's another reason whyVeil Guard just wasn't as good.
'cause it felt like it wasbasically mass effect with dragons.
The comet's not that good.
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It's okay, but there's no depth to it.
It's very repetitive.
It, it was just not a good game.
And I know that.
BioWare had asked for help from themassive ACT team to create combat for it.
So I know exactly where it came from.
'cause it feels very mass effect.
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And mass effect has greatcombat, but not in this sense.
It's tragic because BioWare used tobe a great developer with great games.
Bulls Gate Two, Knights ofthe Republic, Jada Empire.
Great game.
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Never Winter Nights, haven't played that.
Recommend you playing it
and then up sitting, justmade better versions of it.
Never winter nights two Knights of theWorld Republic to by far the better
story out of the two execution, notso good because they were rushed.
But better story overall
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it.
What do you do when it seems likeEEA doesn't want them to succeed.
They just don't know howto market an A fantasy.
RPG, are you serious right now?
Mass Effect was quote unquote better.
They were both great games.
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First of all, dragonAge is a fantastic game.
It was the spiritualsuccessor of Boulders Gate.
If the marketing director fromwhatever team did not tell them to
make, to play the games to understandit better, terrible boss, you
should have your employees beinglike, look at, play these games.
Figure out why players like thesegames and market it that way.
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Didn't happen.
Ye is incompetent.
They do not hire good people.
They do not hire competentpeople, unfortunately.
And it shows.
It has showed time and time again when
Titan Fall two came out and youwedged it between Battlefield
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and Call of Duty stupid move.
Who thought that was a good strategy?
And people love Titan fall too.
They still wanna play it.
They're still asking for anotherTitan Fall game because Titan
fall was a really good game.
Like
you hire the wrong peopleand this is what you get.
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Anyways.
Moving on to lower the Falling two,
which is released by CI games.
It is a remake of an older versionof Lord the Realm or Lord the Fallen.
I don't wanna say Lord, the realms,which is actual game, that is
spiritual successor of one of the.
Recent games, I forget the gamenow, but Lord of the Fallen
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2.0 is described as definitive.
Definitive edition of the gameincludes over 50 post-launch updates.
There is a free friends passavailable as part of the update.
A small delay has been announced forthe steam release due to technical
issues while the ea Epic Game Store,windows Store, PlayStation five,
Xbox s and x versions are unaffected.
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It looks like it adds co-op toit as well, which, hey, at least
they're going with the time.
They're looking what Elder Ring is doing.
They're like, should probablybringing that in as well.
It's not a bad idea for it and if they'remaking a, a sequel to the game, probably
look at what Elder Ring has done andimprove upon that and make it your own.
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I think Lord of the VAs is a fine game.
I don't think there'sterribly things wrong with it.
I think there was a lot ofissues in the beginning, but I
think it's a really good game.
I. Alright, moving on tothe next Battlefield game.
Battlefield six or whatever elseis going to actually be called
doesn't, it still doesn't haveofficial name, so that's why I said
whatever else it needs to be called.
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Fans are participating in an early buildof the game through Battlefield Labs play.
We play test program.
Participants of the play test have leakedfootage to, despite is non-disclosure
agreement, which I think is really funny.
It's like you're notsupposed to share stuff.
We'll share stuff anyways because wewanna keep you accountable because
of what you did previously, which iscalled Battlefield 2042, which was
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not a great game when it launched.
It was okay, not great.
I still don't, I don't playthat much anymore because
don't really care about it.
Play Delta Force if I want to.
Better game, wish Delta Force didn't havethe specialist or whatever they call it.
But there it is.
But, so the controversy right now isaround, I. The skill-based matchmaking.
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Now, they said that this has alreadybeen implemented since 2042, which
is not the best way of saying it.
Hey, we've implemented in the worstbattlefield game title to date.
It's should you really be adding it?
Now, the lead producer of Battlefieldaddressed the rumors about the SBMM.
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In the post stated that heavy SBMMwere skill separations prioritized
as considered problematic, buthaving a skill value for matchmaking
is necessary for balanced teams.
But it didn't really work all the timebecause there were times where I played.
And it was very unbalanced, so I get it.
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But yeah, if you're gonna do this typeof like matchmaking skills should be like
the least amount it should be judging onbecause it's battlefield, big battlefield.
You're gonna have tonsof other players playing.
It doesn't really matter as much.
Then Call of Duty, which is smaller maps,even though I don't really agree with it.
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And I think X defined did a goodjob of not really having it.
But if you're going to have it,
skills should be the leastthing you worry about.
It should be the lowest value forfiguring out who plays the game.
If you do that, it'll be successful.
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If you don't, we're gonna have problems.
And people are veryskeptical and they should.
And they should be.
I. Because Battlefield 2042 is a greatexample of what not to do for a game.
Scoreboard really wasn't there?
There were tons of problems in it.
Just performance issues was lacking.
Specialists were just half begged.
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I think 128 players can work, but theyhave to be very well designed maps.
But I do think there isa way to make it work.
And the vanilla games were,vanilla maps were not good.
There were too many open sightlines for snipers to kill you on.
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And that was the biggestissue of all of it.
And the maps looked like there wasnever a battle being waged, ever.
And this was supposed to belike civilization has fallen
everywhere type of a thing.
And it's like that.
It was just like.
The setting was great.
The execution of the setting wasnot destruction, really wasn't there
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anymore, even though it was likethe most destruction we ever had.
And I'm like, dude, like it's not likeBattlefield Five had better destruction.
Battlefield One had, like the previoustitles that were subpar or better, had
better destruction than this game did.
Portal was the saving Grace,which they basically ignored.
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I'm glad this supposedly comingback as Portal 2.0, but you
cannot ignore this game mode.
I keep on saying, if you bring backportal again, put all the previous
battlefields in that it'll saveyou and it will make the game last
as long as possible, even post.
Development.
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And even after Dev after support isdone, people will come back to play it.
People will come back to play Battlefield.
Four people come backto play Battlefield One.
Why?
Because these games were really good.
Battlefield four was notgood when it was launched.
It took a year to actually fix themap, which people seemed to forget.
The game was awful when it launched.
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Battlefield Four was horrendous.
I got cut outta matches so many times.
I didn't play it for a while 'cause I'mlike, I don't really wanna deal with this.
Evolution was okay.
It was more of a gimmick thananything else, but it was there.
Teachers Shanghai.
Shanghai is still, Istill enjoy playing it.
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One of my favorite maps, I like theBattlefield Two maps a little bit more.
They were a little bit harder to do.
Golf of Moment is I still find fun.
You though you have a terrible team.
You're screwed.
Like they need to lean in ontheir past stuff and try to
implement them into portal.
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I Portal should actually be battlefield.
Battlefield should be portal.
You put the old games in and thenyou just have a new game and you put
it into portal, and then you havethese different portals to go to.
Different types of games isthe best way going forward.
They want a live serviceportal is your future.
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Now.
Whatever you're trying to do, which Iswear if you put but more call to do
stuff in here, I will not play your game.
Forget that.
All right, so Nvidia is releasing a newGPU driver, version 50, sorry, 576.02 on.
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Now already happened April 16th, 2025.
The driver includes numerousfixes for bugs and crashes
affecting its game ready drivers.
Reports of issues include blackscreens, game crashes, and
general stability problems.
Driver fixes stability issues withWindows 11, version 24 H two, which
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I have, and A-B-S-O-D or blue screenof death while playing dlss four game
games with a multi frame generation.
That's great.
Have your most selling point if youcan actually buy a 50 of 5,000 series
and the highlight of the 5,000 seriescrashes your game and crashes your system.
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Great.
It addresses random black screened issueswith a 50 series GPUs and general system
disabilities Concern specific game.
Related fixes include crashes in Fortnite,star Wars Outlaws, and Monster Hunter
Wilds, as well as stutter issues.
In Overwatch two, it's not a new game.
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The release notes indicate a significantnumber of fixes taking up two pages, which
is unusual compared to typical updates.
'cause typical updatesaren't that big with Nvidia.
So usually a MT thathas the worst problems.
But I haven't heard as manyproblems with a MD, which is
funny 'cause NVIDIA's supposed tobe the good one and you're not.
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Really?
I would actually was gonna upgrademy GPU this year and then I kept on
hearing reports about low sale, likelow availability, higher pricing,
not very good performance fromthe 40 series to the 5,000 series.
And I'm like.
You know what?
I know I have a 30 90, butI'm just gonna wait it out and
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then I'm like, you know what?
Screw this.
I'll just wait for the 6,000 series,and maybe they'll have multi frame
generations and it won't evenmatter because it's all a gimmick.
I forgot to mention that the driver alsosupports the GForce RTX 50 60 TI GPUs,
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which is launching at the starting priceof 3 79, which actually will not be
the starting price because of tariffs.
I know there's a supposed pauseon it, which will get later
in the show, but it will not.
That will not be the starting price.
I guarantee you, you're probablygonna have to add $200 or more
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to that, so you're probably goingto be spending about 500 to $600.
It's probably close to 600 to$700 to be really honest with you.
Even the quote unquote, not even mid-rangeor mid-range GPUs are inching towards the
thousand dollars price point, which goesto show you MSRP does not matter anymore.
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Especially if we make it in China.
Probably shouldn't bemaking it in China anymore.
Alright, moving on to Ubisoft.
And it plans for significant contentadditions to skull and bones for those
that are still actually playing this game.
And it's year two update, includingnew maps, ships, and land combat.
Oh my God.
They're finally allowing you to goon land because What's that one?
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What's that Rear one from Microsoft?
I don't remember the name.
It's basically like a sea of thieves.
There it is.
That one already had all this stuff.
Plus you could get onother people's boats.
Plus, you could actually.
Walk around your boat.
It was amazing technology that cameout several years before this came.
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Hubsoft is just, they can't catcha break, but it's also their fault.
They can't catch a break a lot of times.
So year two, the showcase occurred.
April 14th, 2025.
Season three, guts and Glorywill introduce land combat and
allowing players to engage insword fighting and firearm combat.
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Wow.
Amazing.
The game that launched a fewyears ago finally has land combat.
This is truly an early access game.
This game was not launched to becomplete, and that has been Ubisoft's Mo
for a little too long and they deserveeverything that's coming to them.
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'cause this is a travesty.
Players will be able to rescueskilled crew members known as
officers during season three.
Woo.
Season one titled Ascent IntoChaos Launches on April 15th, 2025.
So it's already live and includes aloot enhancing item feature, challenging
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world tiers and a new sch mediumship and a death tides PVP mode.
Season two Oath of War will launchin September excuse me, summer
of 2025 featuring mega fortsand frigate larger large ships.
Alright, big forts kinda soundsa Lego Season four Eye of the
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Beast will introduce the Krakenand Hunter's Guild this winter.
A free weekend of Skull and Boneswill take place from September
17th, which is right now to.
September 21st, 2025, allowingplayers to try the game and purchase
it at a reduced price becausenobody is really playing this game.
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Skull and Bones was released on February16th, 2024 for pc, PlayStation five,
and Xbox Series as, and the game isreceived from IGN, which is a seven
out 10, which I, you probably needto knock down like two extra ones,
five out of 10, always have reports.
Record player engagement shortlyafter the game's released, but did
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not disclose specific sales numbers.
Sound familiar becausethey always do this now.
They're like, it's amazing.
We had record amounts ofplayers playing the game.
All right, which salesfigures don't look at that.
Alright, we'll look at team numbers.
That's not true.
Then what is, you won'tgive us the numbers.
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You won't really tell us the numbers.
You just say it's doing really well.
Trust us, bro.
It's okay.
The launch of Skull bones coincidewith a 200% increase in players
of playing Assassin's Creed.
Four black flag.
Because it was better 'cause youcould actually go to land at the time.
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Now you can over a year later.
Not really good.
Alright, speaking of sales numbersand Ubisoft, so there's this guy
called Matt and do wanna say his name.
He's only on blue sky by the way.
So it means that he willnot get fact checked at all.
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I do have an account.
I actually, I made a second accountbecause it apparently blocked me.
Apparently I made him madby asking for sales numbers.
Never asked people to show their work.
So the sales numbers of AssassinsCreed shows has been the best selling
video game in the US by number salesfor each of its first three weeks
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since launch, only three weeks.
Data source.
The information comes from certain NanaAnalyst map based on data available
through April 5th, which he nevershares year to date performance.
Year to date, assess Screech ShadowTrails only Capcom's must Monster
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Hunter Wildes in sales, which it alsotrails significantly by Schedule one
because Schedule one beat out MonsterHunters Wilds critical reception.
The game has a Met critic rating of 81.
Characterize is generally favorable,and 80% on 16,000 steam reviewers.
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Team user reviews at are positiveranking overall reviews as very positive.
Recent update game has continuedupdated you, player, the player base.
The game has generally reportedlysurpassed 2 million players
shortly after launch supposedly.
'cause we don't reallyknow what the numbers are.
Here's my issue with all this.
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I went to Blue Skies.
Blue Sky 'cause it was on therebecause that's where you post things
that you will not be fact-check.
'cause if you post it on X, then peoplewill fact check it through community
notes and said that yes it did sell.
Mind you, no salesfigures, just trust me bro.
It did sell well.
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That's not how you convincepeople that it did sell well.
I am fine if you make a game thatsells well that I think is not
very good, I'm fine with that.
But show your work.
If it's math, show your work.
If it's sales figures, show your work.
Stop telling me to trust you,bro, because you said it.
Something is selling.
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That doesn't make any sense.
Ubisoft, to date has not shared any salesfigures on Assassin's Creed shadows.
This company, which apparently this guyhas been former, has worked previously on
other developers, has not shared any data.
He just says, through the datathat I've seen, it's sold.
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I don't know what that means.
If you cannot share yourdata, it's not true.
Please share your data.
Let us go through your data.
If you can't do that, thenyou are being misleading.
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I am fine.
If Assassins' Creed sells well,it will not hurt me whatsoever.
What I am critical of is people,especially Ubisoft and those people,
this dude Matt saying it's sold.
Well, trust me, not how this works.
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Stop saying that.
Show where the numbers are.
Show me if you said it was behindMonster, wilds, monster, hunter,
wilds, then show me the data.
But how much was it behind?
Was it 30%?
Was it 10%?
Was it 50%?
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What is the data?
The, we've had 3 millionplayers play the game.
What does that mean?
Because Ubisoft has asubscription service.
That people can use and thenreportedly have 2 million players.
So did you just decide to put allthose 2 million players, be like, look,
2 million players played the game.
'cause they're on our subscriptionservice, which makes no sense.
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Like I, we just wanna know thenumbers and you can't provide them.
It's weird, like previously whendevelopers were happy about good sales,
they would provide the sales numbers.
They don't,
they did well.
How well did it do, trust me?
Not the good argument.
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Why are people making worse arguments?
If your game sold?
You should be wanting to show the numbers,but it's really suspicious when you don't.
I don't know, it's just weird.
Alright, over watch two.
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It has a new game mode calledStadium It release, it will be
launching on April 22nd, 2025.
And stadium mode is considered asignificant change to the game.
Reason being is because you it's,it leans more into the Moab type
of a thing with different typesof abilities, different types of
things you can do with a character.
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It's in third person mode.
It's supposed to be the gamechanger of Overwatch too, we'll see.
It could be fun, it could be not.
It all depends on if players aregonna actually play the game.
Let's be honest, since Marvel rivalscame out, Overwatch has not been doing
very well, has lost a bunch of players.
'cause players should have just becomejust tired of just Blizzard in general.
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Blizzard is not what it used to be.
Blizzard made great games in the past.
The last great game it madewas the original Overwatch.
I will not consider Overwatch twoa great game because it J, it's not
even a two, it's just Overwatch, oneand a half, and people right to say
that it's Overwatch one and a half.
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But the, they made StarCraft twoWarcraft, Warcraft two Warcraft three.
World of Warcraft Diablo one, Diablotwo, three, and four is all right.
But again, they don't make alot of original games anymore.
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They did have one in development,survival game, got canned.
So here we're at.
So Stadium is the best of seven game modethat includes shorter rounds and allows
for strategic planning between them.
The mode also allows players toenhance their heroes with added
survivability, damage and ability buffs.
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The mode will feature 17 heroesand nine maps at launch with plans
for continual e evolution andadditional addition of new heroes.
King Director Aaron Keller stated thatstadium mode has been in development
since before Overwatch two's launch.
So why didn't you justadd it into Overwatch?
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One, it was, there was a contentdrought and you just hold that back
until suspiciously, until we seethat Marvel rivals is doing well.
Weird.
So weird.
Stadium mode is designed to caterto players' desire for more downtime
strategy, emphasis on power fantasy.
The mode eliminates hero swappingencourages players to build around
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their challenges, which I wouldactually play in instead because.
All right.
I picked this hero.
All right.
I gotta figure out how to make him better.
And so to help out the team, it's five.
E five.
I'm probably gonna have an issuewith it 'cause I don't consider
five E five a really good mode andprobably should have never happened.
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'cause to be honest with you,two tanks is the best as always.
I'm sorry.
Just is one tank is just awful.
I don't play tanks.
I used to play tanks in Overwatch.
One because it was fun.
Have another tank to peel for me.
Still got blame, but not as badly.
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And just the tank synergy was just, therewas nothing like it, but Overwatch two yo.
And it's not that good.
Sorry guys.
Oh, you're, I just love just thegaslighting of the player base.
Oh, you just six V six 'causenostalgia no, we like six V six.
It worked.
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And it proves our point.
Alright, so I have someunfortunate news for June.
Awakening has been delayedto June 10th, 2025.
Players who purchased the deluxeor ultimate edition will have
early access starting June 5th.
The delay is due to feedback fromongoing persistent clo enclosed beta,
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allowing the development team more timeto implement changes, fund comp plans
to host a large scale beta weekend nextmonth for players, for more players
to participate and provide feedback.
A combat livestream is scheduled.
Oh, actually it was scheduled andso if you wanted to check it out.
I'm fine with this, to be honest with you.
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If they make a decision, look at.
Our game is a good, is pretty goodstate, but there's some issues
with it and we need more time.
I'm fine with that.
'cause that just allows them moretime to make the game better.
And so if they make the gamebetter and people like it,
it'll be a successful game.
If they did, what if they pull anEA with Battlefield 2042, oh it's
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in a great state, it's awesome.
And then they launch itand everybody's what?
This is not good.
And that's where you have the problems.
Alright, moving on to Kingof Come Deliverance two has
received a patch of 1.2 0.4.
Update.
Update introduces a newhardcore mode for players.
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So Kingdom deliverance, the very morereal, the more realistic non-fan.
Medieval RBG is gonna get more realistic.
Hard mode includes.
The removal of fast travel so you can nolonger fast travel could be interesting
and requires players to select anegative perk before starting the game.
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Oh, brutal.
Negative perks includes sweaty.
Henry smells worse when he doesn't shower.
Might want to take that one.
Bashful.
Henry cannot ask villagers for directions.
And then Psalm nolu.
Henry can wake up in a differentlocation after resting.
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That would be funny.
Just fall asleep in your houseand you're in a different town.
I'd be scared if go to sleep.
I'd be like, I don't wanna go to sleep.
No, not gonna, okay.
I have to go to sleep because eventhe regular mode, it's very realistic.
If you don't go to sleep youactually start to fall asleep.
I played the original one.
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If you don't sleep, thegame will make you sleep.
Alright, patch 1.4 0.2
also provides various fixes and rerebalances for standard gameplay
such as rebalance prices of herbs,a new hairstyle option for Henry
and fix for safe out issues.
Specifically for Xbox players,you want more power to them.
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I'm a little, I was a little cri,rightfully cRI critiquing the gay love
scene between the two main characters,which previously in the original
game had no indication of that.
So weird.
And then the introducedintroduction of a random black dude.
So will I pick it up?
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Probably eventually when?
When it's on sale.
But right now I'm good.
All right, so once you finally unveiledmore information on Marathon, so
this game is an extraction shooterbecause we don't have any of those.
I, there's a dearth ofextraction shooters.
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We'll be released on September 23rd forpc PlayStation five and Xbox Series X
Marathon will support cross play andcross save on all platforms at launch.
No, here's the funny part.
Bungee confirmed that marathon will bea premium title, but not be full price.
I don't even know what that means.
That's a marketing speak for what?
We don't know what we'regonna charge right now.
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That's really what it means.
'cause they don't knowwhat they're gonna charge.
They're trying to figure it out.
They're like, should we do $40?
Should we do the regular one and $70?
Should we do a hundred dollars?
Because you know that'sgonna eventually be coming.
Looking at you.
Grand Theft Auto six.
Which if it is a hundreddollars, I'm not playing.
Plus, I'm not really quite keenon what they're gonna be doing.
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And to be honest with you, I've grandup auto games that I never finish.
I like start and I'mlike, yeah, this is great.
And I'm like, I don'twanna play this anymore.
I don't know why.
Anyways, the game willfeature three maps at launch.
Ooh.
With a fourth map comingshortly after a marathon, we'll
include a battle pass system.
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'cause man, we are thinking asgamers, we need more battle pass
systems because those are so fun.
The specific price of the gamewill not be announced, will be
announced later in the summer.
Here's all this stuff we don't want,we don't want you to know the price
'cause we know it'll be a shocker.
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Players can loot items from thegame world and other players, but
dying without extracting resultsand the loss of all your loot.
And basically the what correctionshooters are players can be revived
during the match if a teammate is aliveto interact with their death Stash.
Bungees is hosting Close Alphafor this game this month, which
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requires joining the game officialDiscord server to sign up.
Don't care.
There may be public testing availablebefore the game's official release.
Here's a problem, the internetis not really in favor of this.
They really have harken it backto Concord, which is funny because
the con, the one of the developersof Concord's look at guys.
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I know our game sucked.
Can you please stop talking about it?
And this game's gonna be cool?
And everybody's no.
So
I don't know.
I looked at some of thescreenshots and stuff and looked
at some of the videos and.
It's all right.
First of all the original marathon gamesfrom Bungee was created for Mac on Mac.
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It was one of the few games on Mac andit was a single player game because
multiplayer was not big in the ninetiesbecause there really was no internet
didn't really come to the masses until 96.
And even then, good luck trying toplay with the, like the beginning of
my intro is actually the awful internetthing, but I thought it'd be fun
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to actually do something like that.
Anyways,
bungee is not what Bungee was and Ithink a lot of games are starting to
wake up to just because the developer hasmade great games in the past, if those
people leave the games are not gonna beas good as we remembered from the past.
Bungee made great Halo games, destiny,alright, destiny two even worse.
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And the quality has been going down.
Because unfortunately bungee shiftedfrom making great games like a lot
of developers have done and shiftedtowards gender ideology, politics,
mostly leftism and thinking thatwill help shore up game sales.
It doesn't.
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It pisses us off most of the time, and youreally should just stop, make great gains.
It's all you gotta do.
If you have politics againstwhatever everybody wants, great,
don't share it on your business.
You have people that are gonnabe people that are from the left,
(42:20):
from the right and in the center.
They're all gonna work for you.
Leave your politics out of it.
Just make games.
You're there to do business andthat means doing business with
people you don't agree with.
Unless you're in the opinionmarket then it's different, but.
(42:41):
This is just bad.
I really don't wanna see bungee fail,but to be honest with you, they probably
are unless they get their act together.
Alright, so I,
here's the problem.
(43:03):
They announced today about Medicarecuts from the United States, which is
always happening, and one of the majorthings about it is they're proposing
that the reason why it's expensiveis because of single men that quote
unquote play video games all day.
(43:24):
Now, I don't condoneplaying video games all day.
I think that's actually not good for you.
I think that's very detrimental to you.
Unless you're streaming and that's how youmake it income, then I'm okay with that.
But I still think I. You needto go out and touch grass.
But
(43:44):
the epidemic of men not wanting towork is not because of video games.
Video games are not thesymptom of the overall larger
issue of society hating men.
Society does not like men.
Society hates masculinity.
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Even though masculinity is good,feminism has decided that society
needs to hate masculinity.
The problem is womenbiologically need masculinity.
So the conundrum comes to let'sblame men for all the issues of
society, which is not working anymore.
(44:27):
'cause men are like, you know what?
I'm done, I'm checking out.
Second of all, the reason why men likevideo games is because one competition.
'cause we are very competitive animals.
Two hero fantasy.
'cause society told us that we don't wantthe dams of distress, we don't want the
knight and shining armor that's done,that's over with equality, rah, until
(44:51):
I decide that I want chivalry again.
And so what men did islike, all right, fine.
I will go and play video games becauseat least that allows me to do that
until they decide to stop doing that.
And now we're all screwed.
Or we just become drugdealers in schedule one.
So the issue is thatcI society has not.
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Looked at men's problems and said, maybewe should look at this and fix this.
They have decided instead to blame them.
You cannot blame young men whodon't understand how to be men if
they're never instilled how to work.
Why are you blaming themthat they don't work?
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This isn't a cut and dry issue.
Video games are not the problem.
Society is the problem.
You have to look at society and go,look at, we have chase men out of
Boy Scouts because Boy Scouts are notfor men anymore, or boys or whatever.
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We have chased them out of thechurch, especially Protestantism,
because I don't know why
we have.
Chase them out of every single thing,and we've told women to be masculine.
There is an unequal equation here.
When you do this, men becomemore effeminate because
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there needs to equal out.
Will it be a good outcome?
No.
It will be a terrible outcome, and weare seeing it right now in real time.
And guess what?
Schools are made forwomen, not men, not boys.
This is why women do better.
This is why women are goingto college more often.
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You do not make strong men bytelling them to stop being masculine.
You make weak, effeminate men bytelling 'em to stop being masculine
by not showing masculine things,by having TV shows that either have
idiots, terrible fathers, or UofS Oof.
Just terrible role models.
(47:11):
We have no role models to lookat to show us how to be men.
The church used to do it andbasically said, now we're good.
So men don't go to church anymore.
There are ways to figure out how todo it without blaming us all the time.
(47:34):
You keep doing this, we check out and weare checked out and you are feeling it.
Men drive society, men protect society.
You lose us, you lose society.
Women build up societies by having babiesand we're not even doing that either.
(47:55):
So there is a systematic wide issue withsociety and instead of going look at, we
know men aren't really wanting to work.
And playing video games istheir escape from the sh.
I try not to curse from thecrap we're doing to them,
(48:20):
but we're going to blame theminstead because that has worked.
That has not worked.
I remember one time in, when I graduatedfrom college in 2011, I met with a
college administrator and he evensaid in 2011, look it we're having
issues with guys going to college.
(48:41):
And I told him it's becauseyou aren't catering to them
and they still don't get it.
If you want customers, you haveto cater to customers' needs.
If you don't, they don't buy your stuff.
I don't understand why marketing isso difficult when it comes to men.
It's like all of a sudden it's Idon't know how to, how do we do it?
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Even in gaming now, it's oh, we havemajority gamers that are customers.
Let's not cater to them.
I'm like, what are you doing?
That's not how you getpeople to buy your game.
Yes, majority of gamingis men get used to it.
Men like things get used to it.
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Feminism is probably the single mostdangerous, modern, I'm gonna call
it a theology 'cause it's really acult I've ever seen in modern times.
It's right up there with communism.
'cause they're really insidious andthey seem like a good idea until
they're implemented from the sixties.
So we've had several decades ofthis and it, it's gotten worse.
(49:52):
It hasn't gotten better.
It's like the Department of Educationwe're last and we spend the most
money on kids for education.
There'll be something wrong there.
But no, the government instead goesvideo game's, bad guys get to work.
I'm like, that's not, it'snot gonna work anymore.
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You have an internet culture, right orwrong, and largely right, you can call
the red pill or whatever, but they'relargely right about what's going on.
You can hate what they'resaying, I don't really care.
But they're largely right and ifyou aren't paying attention to what
they're saying, you are missing thepoint and you're not connecting to men.
(50:35):
Telling them to get to workis not gonna work anymore.
You have to fix the issues.
It's like blaming thegun for killing somebody.
It's not the gun.
The gun didn't do anything.
It was the person behind the gun.
The gun doesn't randomly shoot.
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They have guns in the house.
They don't randomly fireoff every once in a while
because the gun doesn't shoot itself.
The game won't, the game's onlybe being played 'cause men are
frustrated and tired of society.
I'm sick of seeing this, likewe have adults in politicians
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that still aren't grown up.
I just blame guys for their video games.
It's no, the video games arebasically just the end point
of what has been going on.
You can't tell men they're terrible.
You can't tell us that we shouldn'tspeak up or we shouldn't speak
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up 'cause it's man's playing.
You can't say that silence is violenceand then tell us why aren't you doing
anything and expect us to do something.
We're like, yeah, no, I'm good.
I'm gonna go in the woods.
My Xbox, I'm just play games.
'cause I'm damned if Ido, damned if I don't.
It's just it.
It's stupid.
(52:03):
All right, moving onto even better things.
Why you never listen to China?
So China has this new fangledcable called the GPMI.
So original, it's A-G-P-M-I type C. Itsbandwidth is 96 gigabytes per second.
Power delivery is 240 watts and there'sthe type B two, which is 192 gigabytes per
(52:29):
second, and a power delivery of 480 watts.
The out forms HTM I 2.2bandwidth and the Bolt five
bandwidth, the out forms as well.
The key features is a two-waymultistream data transfer, bidirectional
control, unified connection forpower delivery and data transmission.
(52:49):
USB, ecosystem compatibility, fast wakeup, and ultra fast transition, enhanced
security that's coming from China.
That's pretty funny.
So
here's the thing, we've seen this before.
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China makes a claim that says thatthey have this amazing technology
that beats the west, all those dirtyWest people, and then real life hits
it and it's yeah, it's not that good.
It's happened time and time again.
Yet reporters still try to golook at what China's doing.
I'm like, yeah, they're lying to you.
(53:33):
'cause that's what they do and theyreverse engineer everything 'cause
they don't make or innovate anything.
When's the last time you may have hada actual true innovation in China?
Hasn't happened 'cause it never happens.
This is why I'm very skepticalabout everything coming out.
Look at this.
It says it's great.
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It says it's wonderful.
No it is not.
It's happened with their AI model thatsaid that they were very efficient and
they only used millions of dollars.
And in reality, they bought a bunch ofNvidia GPUs and spent billions of dollars
trying to get this efficiency model, whichbasically made them not very efficient
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and close to what chat GPT is doing.
They will continue to do it becausewe are guled enough to think that
China actually innovates anything.
You talk to anybody that worksor has business with China, they
will tell you they will stealyour stuff that you not care.
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And I'm trying to wake youguys up to this stop believing
everything comes outta China.
They rarely work out.
It's usually worse or it's usually stolen.
Those are the two outcomes of this.
This is probably gonna be abouthalf of what it actually is, or
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it's gonna be very unreliable vol.
I will wait for HDMI or display portto come out with their innovations.
'cause there actually are innovationsin that, and this has already been
touted as USBC to actually start to do.
Data signals plus power stuff.
It's already been inthe works for a while.
(55:26):
This is just like China going, we didit and it's yeah, let's just wait for
the actual people that you do innovate.
Wait for them to actually maketheir announcements, but more
power to China do really great PRstunt that seems to think it works.
(55:46):
Which now comes about with thetariffs again, because I have to
keep on talking about the tariffs'cause things change all the time.
So
here's the thing, yes, therewas a temporary halt on tariffs
for a lot of tech products.
(56:11):
Yes.
This is a temporary pause, meaningthere will be tariffs on this.
This is why I've said time andtime again if you guys are looking
to upgrade anything, and if youcan find it, 'cause I know A GPU
is really hard to find right now.
Buy it now because I'm telling you this isgoing to get worse before it gets better.
(56:34):
Because China is trying to face.
So Trump already enacted a245% tariff on some products.
Do I see it going up?
More than likely, unless China startsto make a deal and take it seriously.
Right now, they're not.
They're hoping that he will balk andthey're hoping that they can get back
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to what normally they get from us.
The issue is all the smart people,all the people that have done work
in China and have done businesswith China, know what they do.
It's not a carefully guarded secret.
They steal our tech, theymanipulate their currency
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and they flood our marketswith cheap China crap.
That's what they do.
And so this is why I'm telling you now,if you can wait a few years, wait a few
years, if you can't buy it now, becauseit's going to hurt in the long run.
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I agree with the administration sayingthat we need to start building our
critical infrastructures in this country.
That means tech, it meanspharmaceuticals, it means our weapons.
It means everything that's criticalto us that we need to procure.
Because if we look at COVID-19and the quote unquote pandemic,
that really wasn't a pandemic.
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China with halted a lotof stuff from US masks.
Pharmaceuticals like, 'cause theycould, that's not a good thing.
And tech especially needs tobe built here because they will
steal it and we don't need thembuilding our phones, building our
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communication systems, building anytech that they could find a way to put a
malware on there doesn't need to happen.
It needs to be built here.
Includes keyboards and mice.
Even though those are low level things.
Still one of the thingsthat need to be built here.
'cause you have no idea whatthey can embedded into that.
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It's a lot of, it's reliant on tech.
Our cars need to be built here.
Tech inside the carsneed to be built here.
It is one of those fundamentalthings that you cannot give a
country that has profit off of us.
Look at they were only number,they're only number two because of us.
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They're number two.
Because first of all, Nixonopened up, traded China.
Clinton decided to bring China tointo the World Trade Organization.
By the way,
he was not a great president on economy.
He literally did not knowanything about economy.
You don't send off your manufacturing.
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That's how you kill a country, andwe're seeing the effects of it.
So what do we do?
I know there's that China, me goingaround about fat, white people
making clothes and stuff, but I meanthat, that's not the reality of it.
That's them propaganda.
Again, what will more than likely happen?
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That robots will be makingthe majority of our stuff.
They'll have few people monitoringthe robots, but robots or machines
will be making the majority of stuff.
The machines make the majority of ourstuff anyways, like repetitive tasks are
really suited for machines, not humans.
So this is where we're at right now.
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There are going to betariffs on tech stuff.
You cannot go around that whatsoever.
So I want to be very clear.
I. Tariffs are coming,unless China makes a deal.
I don't see China.
I know Trump said that they're talking toChina, whatever that means, or they want
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to strike a deal or whatever that means.
And they'll probably doit behind closed doors.
'cause again, they have to save face.
They're not gonna do it in the open.
They're not gonna try to do any of that.
They're gonna do it behind closed doors.
But for now, we have no idea.
'cause we're not in those meetingsand they're not giving us the
reason for those meetings.
Because.
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Security reasons and they wannamake sure that all countries
are respected in that sense.
So what do we do now is
really batten down the hatches.
There's not much else you can do.
I guess you could file lawsuits againstit, but ordinary American Americans
or gamers may not much you can do.
(01:01:24):
Just buy it now and wait is probablythe best option you can, but right
now, very real, that tariffs couldgo pretty high, which will inflate
the price of a lot of things.
Nvidia and Amm D alreadysaid that there are going to.
Toss the eat from this veryreal, it's going to hurt.
(01:01:50):
NVIDIA's probably gonna be moving alot of their production into Arizona.
It's the ad doing that.
It's just a very practical thing to do.
Very smart thing to do.
It.
Add costs in the short term.
Yeah, in the long run.
Eventually when things, processes getin place, it gets a lot more efficient.
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Might start to come down.
We're gonna see a rise again.
What we all want to hear.
No.
Is it?
What we need to do.
Yeah,
there's no around it.
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