Baruch loves to do the either/or argument.  In his black and white world, he sees no grey...

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This.. game. I don't think I've in all the years I've been playing games (since the 80s) seen something that disgusted me so much in this genre.

This thing is the combination of everything shallow and vapid greedy executives want to use to make money from a product, without putting anything of substance in it, and the saddest thing, its worked.
When I hear how my 6 and 9 year old nephews are allowed to play it, I lose all humanly faith in my brother for letting them.

I believe even if a game is designed by a company today is made with things like microtransactions as part of it, that you can still find something memorable in the storytelling and world building. Asura's Wrath was one that demanded you to pay out to unlock most of its content, but despite that the story and narrative was amazing.

This however, its so blatantly cash grab, so shallow in its execution, and is marketed to children who are drawn in by the shallow aspects of it without any depth, which makes kids want their parents to buy buy buy more points in it to buy more costumes and shit, money that could go to better things like going to the cinema to watch a movie or any other game with a meaningful story.

Even when I was a kid, things like saturday morning cartoons were made with much of an expectation to market it to sell toys, things like transformers and thundercats. But in there, they contained stories and characters you could get invested in.

Fortnite is born from the shallow and empty extension of corporate greed and low expectations pushed into the undeveloped minds of children. I think this is cancerous to them, instead of giving them something of substance, its just feeding their lizard brains the same way kids want to eat sweets all day every day. 

This.. game. I don't think I've in all the years I've been playing games (since the 80s) seen something that disgusted me so much in this genre.

This thing is the combination of everything shallow and vapid greedy executives want to use to make money from a product, without putting anything of substance in it, and the saddest thing, its worked.
When I hear how my 6 and 9 year old nephews are allowed to play it, I lose all humanly faith in my brother for letting them.

I believe even if a game is designed by a company today is made with things like microtransactions as part of it, that you can still find something memorable in the storytelling and world building. Asura's Wrath was one that demanded you to pay out to unlock most of its content, but despite that the story and narrative was amazing.

This however, its so blatantly cash grab, so shallow in its execution, and is marketed to children who are drawn in by the shallow aspects of it without any depth, which makes kids want their parents to buy buy buy more points in it to buy more costumes and shit, money that could go to better things like going to the cinema to watch a movie or any other game with a meaningful story.

Even when I was a kid, things like saturday morning cartoons were made with much of an expectation to market it to sell toys, things like transformers and thundercats. But in there, they contained stories and characters you could get invested in.

Fortnite is born from the shallow and empty extension of corporate greed and low expectations pushed into the undeveloped minds of children. I think this is cancerous to them, instead of giving them something of substance, its just feeding their lizard brains the same way kids want to eat sweets all day every day.

Well, hopefully, the players will see that there is no benefit to living life like that game. 

Also, I want to be super clear on what "scamming" is, because the above video tosses it around all over the place when it really shouldn't be.

When you go on, I dunno, Amazon and buy a Pokemon t-shirt and receive the Pokemon t-shirt that you ordered, that is not scam.
If you get a rock instead and neither the seller nor Amazon will refund you, that is a scam.

Very, very important distinction here.  Just because you pay for something you didn't like or later think was overpriced, that doesn't make it a scam.  It makes it a very unwise purchase.  And yes, the very low age of the buyer definitely makes this an unsavory business practice, but it's not fraud.

Summary of video criticisms:

1) Fortnite is stuffed to the gills with microtransactions for cosmetic skins and other virtual items
2) Fortnite has no story
3) Fortnite is marked to kids

All three are correct and there are plenty of other guilty parties.

1) Any EA game is stuffed to the gills with microtransactions.  Hell, look at Fallout 76.  You have some paint jobs that run you like $20 as well as virtual items that give a gameplay advantage.  Other games also have lockboxes, which are essentially a legal form of gambling.  Fortnite is bad, but it's definitely not even close to the worst offender.
2) Online shooters like Counter Strike, Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Team Fortress also have little to no story.  That's also the norm for fighting and racing games. 
3) Guilty without a doubt and yeah, that chicken man skin is stupid and cheesy, but I dunno kids really eat up stupid and cheesy stuff.

I mean, I love Rocket League and it's not all that different from Fortnite's model - free to play with paid skins and no story, just different gameplay modes that you play either with bots or with other human players, and aggressive marketing to certain demographics.

I don't see a logically consistent argument for concluding that one is morally wrong and the other is not.  Perhaps popularity really is the deciding factor here.

Fortnite actually does have a story, as I understand it. It's just that no one really cared about the story. Most players never touched the story, but would rather play the multiplayer, so it didn't have as much priority with the developers as they original planned to give it. As for the microtransactions, I'd gladly accept cosmetic items for sale in a free-to-play game, which grant no advantages in gameplay. That way, people who just want to give it a shot can play it for free, while more devoted players can opt for optional stuff. I prefer that over a developer charging full price for the game, then charging extra for those items. EA can go fuck off with that shit.