00:00 - 00:05 | So I'm sitting in my kitchen, when my friend's like "Hey, Risitas, check this out |
00:05 - 00:07 | "They're re-releasing Archeage in a month bro." |
00:07 - 00:10 | And I'm skeptical. "It's p2w." |
00:11 - 00:16 | "What could possibly be different about it this time?" and he looks right at me and says |
00:17 - 00:21 | "This time it's hosted by Gamigo." |
00:21 - 00:24 | Gamigo |
00:29 - 00:31 | Gamigo |
00:31 - 00:34 | These people turned a golf game p2w |
00:38 - 00:40 | Gamigo |
00:41 - 00:47 | And I asked him, like, "why is this gonna be any different from the other games Gamigo buys up and kills in a month |
00:47 - 00:50 | And he looks right at me, totally serious, and he says to me, |
00:50 - 00:56 | "It's buy to play, so it can't be pay to win this time" |
00:58 - 00:59 | This is the same guy who bought a |
00:59 - 01:01 | 100 dollar BDO founders pack. |
01:04 - 01:06 | "Can't be p2w if it's b2p!" |
01:06 - 01:08 | He believed it back then, too |
01:13 - 01:14 | Gamigo |
01:14 - 01:16 | The game's barely even out |
01:16 - 01:20 | and their discord's already on fire |
01:21 - 01:27 | They can't even keep full-time employees |
01:35 - 01:36 | They brag about having |
01:36 - 01:39 | "hundreds of volunteers" on glassdoor. |
01:41 - 01:44 | But no, seriously though. I get it. |
01:44 - 01:47 | We all want to relive the fun of AA at launch, |
01:47 - 01:49 | before Trion fucked it up forever. |
01:50 - 01:53 | So I'm sure Gamigo will do right by their players. |
01:54 - 01:56 | Oh my god |
01:56 - 01:58 | Every game they touch turns to p2w dogshit |
01:58 - 02:02 | And every company they acquire gets lost to the winds |
02:05 - 02:07 | Gamigo |
02:10 - 02:11 | "This time..." |
02:11 - 02:13 | "This time AA won't be p2w" |
02:15 - 02:17 | Gamigo took Aura Kingdom, told its players |
02:17 - 02:20 | things would be different from now on, and then turned around |
02:21 - 02:28 | and sold XP and game currency in the cash shop the next day like it was nothing. |
02:29 - 02:30 | Gold in the cash shop? |
02:30 - 02:32 | In the cash shop, yeah |
02:36 - 02:39 | They've done this for over a decade |
02:40 - 02:42 | Imagine falling for the AA meme a fourth time in a row |
02:50 - 02:55 | But I guess it's worth it to ride a boat. |
02:56 - 02:58 | Can you at least do cool boat stuff? |
02:58 - 03:04 | I mean, yeah, I guess you can sail around and try not to think about |
03:04 - 03:09 | how you got scammed by the same con a fourth fucking time in a row. |
03:09 - 03:11 | MMO players must be into abuse or something. |
03:16 - 03:20 | "This time will be different." |
03:23 - 03:26 | And now he's saying, "if I can just... |
03:31 - 03:36 | ... get a good week out of this game, it'll be worth my 70 bucks" |