10 Things That Are RUINING Video Games

A required internet connection for single player games is one that really pisses me off EDIT: What I mean is when someone plays a single player game that requires internet and their internet goes out for a minute and the game forces them to stop playing because of that

people that dont play games making all the decisions

The mentality of everyone trying to be the "next big streamer" honestly ruins most multiplayer games for me

I worked for Tuxedo Labs on teardown, and a little while after my contract ended, Tuxedo was sold to Embracer. I've been told I'm lucky I left when I did.

A lot of these boil down to "People in authoritative positions making decisions while neither knowing or caring about video games or their players"

Most if not all of these are just symptoms of the real issue: corporate greed

I smell a class action lawsuit around the "you don't own your games" philosophy. When i buy the game, the market place doesn't sell me a rental. There aren't any other commodities that I buy that can be stolen back because the company feels like it.

I love watching your videos for the last several years, but I have 1 request: please add the names of the games that you show. I play a lot of video games, and sometimes you show games that I would love to try, but I have no idea what they are called. Keep up the good work

If paying full price for a game doesn't equate ownership, then piracy doesn't equate to theft.

I miss when games were made for the players and not the companies.

Yeah... I've stopped playing competitive online games entirely. Co-op is fine. But any form of battle royale, global leaderboard or clan v clan game is officially off my list. Too many cheaters, too much toxicity, and too many titles of the sort. Also, disc format needs to make a comeback.

DRM makes the game worse for people that actually paid for the game, rather than really slowing down any form of piracy. It's madness.

People making games who dont play or even like video games is one major issue.

Battleborn is a sad story. Even the story mode, that could be played as a single player, was server based so when they shut down the servers, the entire game became unplayable. Gearbox also did absolutely nothing to promote the game. I only knew about it because I had been invited to beta test it. The people who worked on the game worked really hard and put so much love into it and you can tell. But how things went down makes me think Prick-ford (yes I know thats not his name, I am calling him a name) never liked the game and thats why the company did absolutely NOTHING to encourage people to play.

Further to #4 - Ubisoft ealier this year removed The Crew from everyone's online libraries only to yesterday in the Ubisoft Forward announce a new Crew game coming out next year.

What is sad, it’s the same thing in other industries. My wife works in the Aerospace industry and the company had record profits for the companies history. They had enormous layoffs following because of unrealistic expectations in profits.

One word can sum up what is ruining video games - greed.

I would add, using companies like Sweet Baby Inc and other DEI companies to tell them how to make games.

Hey Gameranx fam! Hope all is well with you and yours. After beating Dragon's Dogma 2, I've moved on to Fallout 76 for the first time. I figured now was as good a time as any to try it out, especially with the show dropping recently. IMO, the Fallout show season 1 was both enjoyable and entertaining. I'm the sort of person who falls in the group of: If it takes place in the Fallout universe, I'm probably going to like it, group. It definitely draws on current lore to a degree, but it also feels like they're going to do their own thing while keeping the games fresh in their minds. For me personally, I'm okay with that so long as they continue to add MANY more enemy types and characters we know and love. I'm excited for the next season. Huge Gameranx fan here, I've been here for years. Thanks for all the great and informative videos!

I literally don't buy new games anymore, I wait till I hear things or give them a couple months for a sale