Maaan you hit a real nostalgia spot for me there when talking about making friends on Xbox. My best and longest known friends IRL I met on Xbox Live. I'm surprised you never mentioned the Xbox Live Party system, which essentially killed the trash talking part of Live, but also the social part. NO ONE spoke since they'd be in their own parties. :/
+CreepsMcPasta I always loved parties, what me and my friends would do was just try to get a party of whoever 8 people we could find to join, and it was a mess but god damn it was a fun time
TBF, if a company is paying you money to advertise their game, it’s probably good practice to not shit on it, despite whatever the company told you. Dunkey has made plenty of hilarious videos on terrible games in the past without shitting on them, it’s likely it wouldn’t have been too hard for him to do it when MS was literally paying him to do so. The rest of the arguments in this video are completely valid, and Microsoft deserves getting shit for lots of reasons, but in this case i think dunkey just made a mistake.
TribuneAquila They should’ve known how he acts in his videos, he’s completely honest in his reviews and he’ll completely shit on a game if he wants to no matter if there is money in it or not, he’s not like IGN where they get a couple thousand dollars and give the game a 9/10
It's only $20 a year, includes cloud saves, and a wide, growing selection of NES games with online multiplayer. Beats XBox's $20 a month that was in place last I checked.
My Problem with Nintendo is that how they try to kill all traces of the Wii U with the "Switch". First of all: the ports from the wii u to the switch. Kid: Dad, why does every game has "deluxe edition" written all over it? Dad: Do you want the game now which is the same game of an console nobody wants talk about none reason, just with new content which could have been practical as an 10 Dollars DLC? Second: Why the hell are the newest Title so frking boring, still so overhyped? Odyssey and BotW were like so empty (dispite being open world level) and not really benefictial at all for the main story, Fifa? Underflail(got to admit, the music is cool)? FARTNITE?!!?!?! Third: minor things. Look at the Wii U, in the menu you are getting greeted by a frking Mii you have created, many other miis from other players rush in to fill the empty Menu, then the Options, Icons, Games, ETC pops in.(When you have your birthday set, the wii U even gratulates you with a rebate coupon) And the Switch? I felt like they copy/pasted the nintendo DS menu just enlarged HD texture.
Best part about this is that someone at Microsoft will have had to officially watch this as it says Microsoft sucks and its viral, which means they need to know why.
To add on to exhibit Z: The Final Fuckening (5:24) When Castle Crashers was released, Playable characters such as the King, Open Faced Gray Knight, Evil Cultist, and the Necromancer were all unlocked by completing certain levels on the Insane Difficulty (For Example, you got the Necromancer once you finish the industrial castle) However, Microsoft decided that for the Xbox 360 version of the game, you had to purchase a Character Pack using the Microsoft Points (remember the 400 for 5$ bullshit?) The reason why this was stupid was because that meant all profits were going directly to Microsoft rather than the Behemoth; who had publicly stated that all their DLC revenue made from the Pink Knight and Blacksmith packs would have gone to a charity to stop Breast Cancer. So yeah, fuck Microsoft.
WTF???? When me and my brothers got our xbox(which was used by another guy) we didn't have to pay for character packs. Damn didn't know that people had to pay because I love that game :/
Naval They did make pink knight free but that was about it, everyone else, including the blacksmith (which was an actual dlc character for all platforms), weren’t though, thankfully the remastered edition doesn’t pull this shit but it’s still unfortunate that the 360 did
@Ezana Wright Fun fact way back in the day when internet was more expensive the Nintendo DS had voice chat natively in the console on Pokemon Diamond and Pearl when you met up with friends in game and it was free. Nintendo has regressed
@Luminosity Didn't they just raise Gamepass' price for some reason (or are planning on it)? Not saying its bad, but it is starting to reach a point where they've put all they've could put on Gamepass, and we are starting to get filler. If the FTC doesn't block the deal, then it might be fine.
This is one of Dunkey's realest and most cutting videos. He calls out the corporate scam bullshit that Microsoft does on a daily basis. The soft people at Micro(dick)soft continue these practices in broad daylight without shame. Of course Dunko still includes his signature humor to lighten the mood, but his language gives away the fact that he really feels strongly about these subjects, and he doesn't pull any punches. Big respect for big Donk.
3rd Way You don't have to be crazy to think this video didn't hurt them. In absolute terms, maybe it hurt them. In relative terms, it really didn't. But even in absolute terms, people watch Dunkey's videos for a laugh. If you seriously think a significant amount of people watched this video and thought "Oh yeah, that's it, a company did something terrible to Dunkey, I'm going to boycott them on his behalf" then you have some interesting notions about human behaviour. Most people are familiar with the idea that big companies are simply shady. It doesn't mean they do anything about it. They watch, laugh, and move on. Especially if the video isn't a call to action, and it's not. Even if you wanted to do anything, what would it be? Unless you're a mac user, you're not going to boycott their OS (admittedly if you're a mac user, you were already boycotting their OS). Unless your friends don't have a Xbox, you're not going to boytcott that, either. So what are you going to boycott, really? Nothing, as I see it. Microsoft has stakes in so many things that even if you did want to boycott them, you'd probably be supporting them without realizing it. So no, really, you'd have to be crazy to think this hurt them, buddy.
The only reason companies charge is idiots pay for the non-existent service of online. And they pay by the millions. If you had the option of doing nothing and being paid billions of dollars per month and the only downside is people whined about you on the internet (which will happen anyway) what would you do? Would you refuse billions of dollars coming in monthly?
@The amazing guy But Microsoft owns Windows as well. So this isn't a plus point for them at all. I don't know what that has to do with being consumer friendly.
@CobourgRailfan PC players don't have to buy an Xbox to play Xbox games. However, in order to play PS and Nintendo exclusives you have to buy their consoles (as of now Sony released some but not all exclusives to steam) It doesn't benefit Xbox players, it benefits PC players.
@The amazing guy But that has nothing to do with being consumer friendly. Consumer friendly means being friendly towards the user of your product, not making it more available. It is perfectly fine to not release games on PC if that company does not know how to optimize a PC port well enough. One problem could be that the game might use features that only the unique console has (For instance with the Wii U it was the touchpad; with the PS5 the SSD) making it fit for PC could mean that some features can't be adapted well enough and the time and cost it goes through, isn't really worth it. This is therefore usually understandable and not an issue about consumer friendliness. Consumer unfriendliness would be connected to the actual use of the product as a consumer or connected to the treatment of the consumer in general. For instance always online DRM, Pay to win features i.e. having to pay to play a game properly that you already paid for, aggressive copyright protection such as taking down let's plays, refusing refunds for canceling pre orders, planned obsolescence and voiding warranty in cases where the consumer attempts to repair the product itself or has it repaired for them and denying manufacturing defects to the extent that companies would rather defend themselves in court rather than actually address and service the issue.
@CobourgRailfan What about game pass, it is very cheap, and it packs a lot of value (also gives you live if you opt for ultimate). It has a lot of value and will have more since Microsoft bought Bethesda. My only gripe with it is that the Gamepass offered on PC doesn't have as many games as the Xbox (Hopefully they fix that soon). Another thing is that all games released on Xbox series x for the next 2 years can be played on Xbox 1. Their support for PC and the old Xbox might actually kill the sales of the series X, but at the end of the day the consumer gets benefits from it.
if anyone wants some of the music 0:00 Kirby: Triple Deluxe - File Select 0:23 Twisted Metal (PS3) Theme 0:33 Blinx - Time Square 1:32 Animal Crossing - Resetti 2:28 Chibi Robo - Midday Majesty 3:47 Face Raiders - Options 3:53 Tomba 2 - Time Stopped 4:05 Grow Home - Bud's Theme 4:39 Donkey Kong 64 - Mad Maze Maul 5:23 Final Fantasy 6 - Dancing Mad 5:35 Final Fantasy 6 - Dark World 6:15 Resistance 2 - Main Menu 6:46 Blinx - Shop
To be honest, I feel really bad for xbox owners and gamepass subscribers at this point. If Microsoft couldn't offend millions of xbox users now with Redfall, then I honestly don't know how they are going to put this together. And I don't admire that a lot of people are scared about what they should except from Starfield after this. From that Todd Howard who haven't put out any bugfree game yet in his entire life.
Thanks, I was trying to remember throughout the whole video what I had heard Microsoft was acquiring recently. Blizzard has been so insanely corruptly corporate already for the past 10 or 15 years maybe it’ll cancel out somehow
I am surprised nobody has mentioned how dunkey has met some of the most toxic people he would never meet in a 100 years but actually he has found some of the most funniest and best people ever
Meanwhile in September 2019, I sent my joycon that had a terrible drift problem to Nintendo and they sent me a BRAND NEW joycon that works perfectly. And it was free of charge, even though my joycon was well out of its warranty. And the whole process (from me sending mine to getting the new one) took less than 2 weeks. Nintendo isn’t perfect, but they got this one right :)
Yes! They did the same thing to me with a wii that was like 5 years old. They sent back a refurbished system, and I'm still using it to this day! You can tell Nintendo really takes quality assurance seriously. UNLIKE MICROSOFT.
@Syed Muhammad Izaan Ali Microsoft didn’t even do that it was Mojang and 4J Microsoft doesn’t do shit with Minecraft they just own Mojang which owns Minecraft
i mean game pass is great with 200+ games for $15 a month with so many huge games i can't even list them all i have never experienced any problems with xbox live over the 10 years ive been playing on xbox toxic teamates? just mute them also psplus? aint that a thing? and we can all agree that nintendos servers are way worse but its like halve the price my point is, is that i don't see why everyone hates xbox live
Holy cow, I spent so much time trying to find that racing game from my childhood and all the efforts were futile. And here, I've found it. God damn ANTZ Extreme Racing! Thank you dunkey, you're a legend.
Ah, the beauty of competitive markets. Expectation: Companies will screw customers over less and less as they compete for business. Reality: Companies will screw customers over more and more as they see their competition getting away with it.
@Yurichtube yeah say that again in the face of all nintendo fans out there buying several pairs of joycons and then rotating their repair cycles, it's ridiculous
That red ring thing was awful. I remember my uncle was so invested with this. He bought the Xbox 360 elite to avoid this and we ended up replacing it 3 times. Then he made us look for certain assembly numbers or something to get a good one. Which finally worked and the console lasted from 2011-August 2015. Fun times lol
I remember my first RROD call with support: "dont stand it vertically, it's not made for that" "it's literally like that in every commercial in use!" "yes" I shit you not
2:56 Sony did the same thing with my PSP. I kept sending it in and getting it back still broken, until I was told my warranty expired. Still one of my most bitter memories to date. I loved that thing and they let me down.
still, Nintendo has a lot to improve concerning Online. Switch is hardly arguable as a fine hardware, but it shows a lot of mistakes and limits that are no longer acceptable or bearable for this generation of consoles.
Microsoft have seriously corrupted the entire gaming industry through their shady business of extorting large amounts of cash from the players. And it's absolutely disgraceful! That really sickens me! 😤
I feel bad for all the soldiers overseas who were getting red rings. At the time it was pretty common I heard. You just wanted a moment to kick back and play Xbox and you got shat on by MS
Microsoft is living proof that you really don't have to give a single F to be successful lol. Make something the world relies on (windows OS, etc) and you can afford to make all the mistakes you want afterwards with 0 repercussions. I'll never forget buying a XBox 360 Elite edition from a person on a local classified and turned out it was broken with RRoD. As a 14 or so year old kid that shit suuuucked lol, saved up for quite some time to buy it. RRoD was something they should have never been allowed to get away with!
@kaanwyd when you let people play a bunch of great exclusive games online for free, and then all the sudden make them pay, they get mad. That's just how it works
Kqaan most people don’t want multiple subscription services on top of one that ultimately just gives publishers free money for restricting a feature everyone should have
@kaanwyd it is worse from others, because 1. Nintendo online doesn't get you any good games unlike other subscribtions, all it gets you is bunch of old ROMS you can play at any time on anything for free 2. Nintendo doesn't have dedicated servers, which means you are paying for using your own internet. 3. Online gaming is a joke itself. If one person on team has shitty internet, entire match will have lags.
I had 3 360's red ring on me but I never sent them in for repair. Got a replacement plan where I bought it so when one went bad they'd veryfy the red ring and I'd just grab a brand new one. Good god I can't imagine waiting two months minimum to get your console back. Must have been absolutely maddening.
Their worst decision was buying Rare in 2002, and buying Ensemble earlier in 2001. They ended up not ruining Ensemble at first, but then Ensemble had a big idea for a Halo MMO because they were tired with RTS’s, then Microsoft turned it down and made Ensemble work on another RTS. That RTS was a Halo game which later ended up being Ensemble’s final game, that game was Halo Wars in 2009. They ruined Ensemble, but it’s far from what they did with Rare. Everybody from the N64 era left Rare, and after that they made subpar games that were just placeholders so Microsoft could at least have some exclusives to release that year before the big boys could release. I know Sea of Thieves was ok, but if they keep going and Rare is not showing any success, I honestly think Rare’s end is in sight.
I guess that's why Sea of Thieves is highly anticipated. Why it topped number one on Twitches most viewed for multiple days and come launch will likely be a huge success and will likely top Twitch again when tournaments for CS and League aren't on.
I actually ordered a kit to fix my Xbox 360 myself back in the day. I still have the tool that you use to open the back of the system. Another time the dvd drive went bad and I ordered a replacement part that I installed myself. This might have been a hassle, but actually getting that white box to work and play games again when I had though it was dead, were moments of elation that I still remember fondly 15 years after the fact.
Imagine asking a company “what do you want me to do?” And they respond with “just do your thing bro lol.” then you do it and they refuse to pay. It’s like I asked you what you wanted. Unreal
To be honest, a good online experience do have costs, but nothing near what they charge, it could well be covered in the simple price of the games and new consoles sold. BUT if you know a good percentage of the consoles you sold will continue to pay you each year (for nothing) maybe you can sell the console with a loss (be more aggressive on the price). They should charge 120 usd a year and send you the console at home everytime they update it.
Bro thank you! I still can't believe after buying the console, buying the game, and paying for wifi you still have to pay to play the game you already bought online 🙄
It's hard to believe but CoD4 and World at War both released their map packs for free on Steam. Xbox however, nah you had to pay. Just look at the franchise now. I can't say it's all Microsoft's fault but that doesn't look too good when you consider just how much that franchise milks the fuck out of their playerbase over the years.
Looking back at this video, suddenly, valve's decision to try and do away with Windows altogether makes perfect sense. Everything is crystal clear now.
Ants are fascinating. Despite their size, the more you look at them, the more amazed you'll get by them, because they are such a well functioning society, despite them being a group of bugs that aren't really evolutionarily advanced. Microsoft is the opposite of that. The more you look at them, the less you want to see
I had the shitty white 360 and I’m so proud it didn’t break. I lost it 2 years ago in a fire but I still used it pretty regularly it’s truly a miracle that it survived as long as it did
After six years, one of my friends finally managed to recover his main xbox account, which is a very frustrating process because Microsoft support is horrible, and automatic support, which is the entire account recovery process, is unspeakably worse (sometimes instead of recovering your account and resetting your password with email it just makes a new account just to name one example). When he got if back, he checked his xbox and everything is fine. Checked online and other places, every single thing on his account was gone. Wiped. They basically made a new account with the old one's information. Gotta love Microsoft
@CloakofAuron ooof, on a second thought, they did royally screwed up their acquire of Mixer... I'm hoping they do something soon, but atm its looking a bit bleak.
There was this bug on one of the older windows systems that got really annoying so Microsoft promised to fix it within that year. Next year comes around, all they did was rename the error so technically the previous one was gone.
You cant even look at captures anymore without getting an error message every 10 seconds. And whats this? They DELETE THEMSELVES!!! Unless you connect to the internet and go through this 3.6 Gigabyte update. With my internet that takes days
@Creeper React Forgot to mention that you need to connect to the internet sign in with all 57 passwords and scan your QPI code to save your captures for a bonus 14 and a half days. But you get a bonus 15 and a half days if you sign in with all 58 passwords.
The first 1:20 of this video depressed me. The way he described it was exactly the way it was and I miss it so much. The online experience was just so great back then, it may sound toxic but it really wasn’t, it was fun. It made the stakes high, everybody was talking mad shit to each other constantly and it made it so you were invested in winning. Every time you would kill someone in search and destroy on call of duty, you would hear them rage their ass off for a split second and then their mic would cut out 😂 then after the round you tell them they’re trash and they call you a headglitcher or a camper or something and there would be other people talking the exact same shit at the same time so it was just chaos in the game chat. Everyone had a group they played with, usually a mix of real life friends and people met online, and the camaraderie between you and that group was just so great, the main reason was because the community was so chaotic and always talking shit and you only had your group to rely on, if there was 4 people talking shit against you, you can’t even get a word in, so you need that group. The best moments were when your group was in a heated game with another group and someone sends a private game invite, then you get to play against each other with no time limit, and you can talk shit to each other while playing, which you can’t do in a normal game, this just made the stakes even higher. You would just keep playing until one group admitted they lost, or they would just leave the game and appear offline, and we loved that 😂 When you won, that was the best feeling. The whole experience was just so fun that I can’t begin to capture even a small portion of what made it so great. If you never experienced Xbox live during the Xbox and Xbox 360 days, playing games like halo, call of duty, battlefield, etc. then I truly feel bad for you. You missed what I’d say was the best gaming experience ever, nothing compares to me, it was just perfect. Man I cherish those times. I’m sure I won’t ever has as much fun on a game again as I did back then. Edit: one thing I forget, and the main reason the Xbox 360 had a better online experience was simple, PARTY CHAT. This one feature created so much value that I had no problem paying 5 dollars a month for Xbox live. I remember buying a ps3 after I’d had an Xbox 360 for a couple years, when I found out it didn’t have party chat, I took it back 5 days later. I feel bad for the PlayStation 3 players who didn’t have party chat, online is just bland and terrible without it. With party chat, we could always talk to our group, even if someone was taking a break from online and was playing a single player game, this made us become a lot closer with each other. What sounds better, playing a single player game alone, just you and the TV, or playing it while talking to a group of your closest friends? This question is rhetorical because the answer is obvious. Some of the best times in our group were playing single player games like Fallout and Skyrim and discussing builds, glitches, exploits, etc. This simply just isn’t possible without party chat. Some of the best game memories I have, they never would’ve happened without parties. On ps3 there was no parties and the only way you could talk to each other was through game chat, so if you weren’t playing an online game with voice chat, you can’t talk to each other. This is just absolutely awful, and frankly I would’ve payed double the price for Xbox live to have parties. It’s the difference between a boring, sterile, lonely gaming experience and an exiting, vibrant, social gaming experience. It’s not possible to overstate the value of party chat. Oh and also, that’s why they had to charge for Xbox live, the cost of providing parties. They had to provide reliable voice chat servers for the millions of Xbox live users. Takes a lot of money, why do you think teamspeak was a paid service? Servers don’t come from nowhere, especially when you need enough to host millions of people talking to each other all at once. How the hell discord does it in the modern day is a mystery, but back then, free voice chat services weren’t a thing. It’s also the reason why ps4 charges for online, ps4 has parties, ps3 didn’t. You don’t need a PlayStation subscription though to use parties on ps4, but they make enough from the people who do have the service that they can provide parties to everyone, even if those people don’t have the service. Obviously they could provide the service without charging but what do you expect? This is how companies operate, they have to appease shareholders by meeting certain profit quotas and satisfying their return on their investment. They could probably even provide the service for free and still make profit, but they wouldn’t be profiting enough to satisfy their shareholders. They invested because they expect a certain return on investment, and most of them will divest if they don’t get it, period. Obviously this would be disastrous for them.
If it weren't for their 3rd party, no way I would spend so much money on that piece of shit. In hindsight Sony screwed up big time with their expensive big fat black cube.
I had the non-existent ring of death. My first Xbox 360 would power on but not allow controllers to connect. It also refused to connect to wifi... they actually sent me a new one that worked like a charm for years. Thank you Microsoft.
The video game industry is like every other industry. If dishonest/downright dogshit business policy can extract a single red cent out of you, they'll do it, and once they do it, they will *never* stop digging for more.
back then i was a full heart ps3-gamer, it was a great time. but when sony started that ps plus bullshit i switched to pc. no regrets, one of the best decision i made
Technically it is, as 20% of every game you buy, every purchase in the market and every transaction you make goes to Valve. Still tho, i prefer this. Also, welcome to the club, I hope you enjoy your stay!
bought a series x because I was too impatient to wait for ps5s to be back in stock biggest mistake of my life edit: bought a PS5, best console I’ve ever used. Series X has just been collecting dust ever since
@HomoHarry >$200 for a year of Game Pass Ultimate compared to $120 for a year of PS Plus Premium; (both the highest tiers). Game Pass has 300+ games, while PS Plus has 700+ games. PS Plus is generally more consistent with the quality of its monthly and “extra” catalog selection, while most of Game Pass’ new releases just feel like filler. I’m not even sure if it’s a competition at this point. The only thing Game Pass potentially has going for it is Call of Duty, if that even ends up happening.
Microsoft has always been a money-making machine, without worrying about severely attacking its competitors and consumers. Why would this change in the gaming industry?
@The Mexican Dudewhy tho? I have an XSX and I’m kind of enjoying it (starfeild, payday 3, forza, lies of p, and banjo nuts and bolts are all in gamepass lol)
Story time , my cousin actually worked as one of bill gates many assistants for a couple years until the anthrax scare. At that time she was pregnant and her job was to open his mail for him. she quit because she did not want to open anthrax filled letters because the person was sending it to the rich and powerful. I probably would have done the same tbh
I made money in highschool fixing RROD consoles because it was extremely easy for someone with any technical knowledge to solve. I was like 15. Yet the company that made them was still shipping back broken consoles sent in for service.
An Xbox revision also had a loose power jack, which would spark and actually burned a few people's houses down. Their solution was to not warn consumers of the danger (they gave some vague reason), and just send them a spark-sensing power adapter, which would shut the console down every time it sensed those big sparks. Fixed right?...
