shrekfan246 said:
That's not really fair, I remember from that video and the Overwatch video that he definitely takes lower budget people into account. He mentions that more than once; there's people with more money than time and there's people with more time than money.
Next to that, he's also very clear in agreeing with you, and me too, that he'd rather not have any of this at all. Yeah, all of us miss the time when skins and such were not just unlockable but simply available from the get-go. If I recall correctly, his argument regarding micro-transactions is more along the lines is "
If they want to do this, sadly, this is the way to go." A sort of lesser of two evils kind of thing. It seems like an unfortunate side product from the thirst for progression systems, something he strongly dislikes. And if it has to be there, well, better keep that shit in line. That's the context in which TB's argument has to be placed, the context of the regrettable state of progression systems.
Regarding the consoles it seems that he's hoping that this'll bring graphical/quality options to console games. That people on the lower end of the scale can at least choose to tune some things down and no longer have to deal with sub-par performance. Of course, this is a
hope, it could very well be that nothing good will come of it. And considering it's Microsoft, ehhh...
I can't recall that at all, that must've been a while ago. That was relevant like, 5 years ago or something? Can you recall where you heard that? I'm a little curious now.
He can definitely be lofty towards his viewers, it's why I don't really watch his Twitch stuff (once he spent more time explaining why he wouldn't answer a question about the game he was playing than he would've on just answering the question, like, dude, c'mon), but like Sega? At least he doesn't risk his viewers' source of income. But I don't know, I get his position on this. Sega screwed him big time and he's not obliged to work with them. It's not so much that he denies his viewers information as such, but only his perspective.
I mean, I see what you mean though. Yeah him not giving his perspective might not be technically the very best for the consumer. But can a person only hold one ideal to heart? Are there not other lines that can be crossed or things that are important? Someone trying to bring down your business sounds like a good one to me. In the end he has runs a business, and has a business relationship with Sega. And if business A fucks over business B, doesn't that business B have plenty of good reason to no longer do business with business A?
[small]Also, I write business so much that it stopped being a word. It looks weird now.[/small]