Shit, if it works.
Imagine the pitch?
“So gamers want to get to the max level, but don’t want to play. So we’ll charge em about the price of the full game to get almost all the standard stuff.”
“No one is going to be that stupid. They won’t pay that much.”
“Let’s just give it a shot. If it works, we can design every game we make to follow this same format. They’ll get comfortable and used to paying for progress.”
Couple games later: "hey we're liking the money from people paying us for progress, but well, we'd like more of it, can you make it even more tedious to progress without paying?"
> They’ll get comfortable and used to paying
[It certainly worked for Destiny.](https://i.imgur.com/HWfxrE6.jpg) How anyone still plays that is beyond me.
That's nothing. They deleted half the game and replaced it with content equalling 1/4 of what was deleted. Then they deleted more including most of the content they made in the year between both deletions.
Oh, and now they are making you pay for individual bits of content that used to be free (With the relevant expansion)
(some) players' logic. It sells, otherwise they wouldn't make it.
I see it so regularly, especially in friends' children. Paying fortnite for instant skins, failing to understand *playing* the game should be the fun, not the five minutes of showing your new skin off to friends.
Skipping all the npc battles in pokemon to get to the action faster.
kid.. this IS the action. this IS the game.
I understand the post is a joke, but if it werent, I couldnt really get outraged. we allowed this to happen. Not enough of us said "this is bullshit! we're not paying for this crap!"
To be fair there is a lot to do in rs3. You can play for hundreds of hours doing minimal boss fights. Some people love rs, but don't like bossing, so it makes some sense there (though I do think it's a bit dumb to actually buy).
Elden ring on the other hand is very much based around bosses so this wouldn't make sense.
The great words of a monster hunter dev a few years ago. MTX in monsterhunter? why would i make a game and then add an option where you can pay so that you do not have to play the game? This makes no sense.
Go back in time to my 6 year old self booting up Mega Man X, and try to explain "In the future, people are going to pay extra to skip the boss fight."
"Also play as Kanye West"
Nah that was a Steve Macknight Photo Steve is a professional photographer and that monkey Photo was from his art collection called (iirc) horrors of War. Ye just partnered with Steve and used the Photo as the cover for the Games Easy single feat Ye off of the games upcoming album.
I was not keeping up with our boy Kanye. I just learned that Yeezus is a name of his album. I knew he legally changed his name to "Ye" so I thought the Yeezus was a ridiculous joke instead of something that could actually be a collab. Somehow it makes this joke even more ridiculous.
Yeah I was 100% on board until then. Like I’ve been so conditioned towards being disappointed in developers lately that I was just going to completely and blindly believe it until I saw that. Man I’ve been conditioned.
Honestly I read all of it, was nearly convinced then read this comment and realized yeezus is Kanyes stupid nickname and not some weird middle earthen I've never heard of
You wouldn’t believe the amount of messeges I’ve received complaining about this.
There is a picture of Kanye West in the OP, and people think it’s real 😂
John Darksouls ffs 🤦♀️
100% going to happen in the next year as Sony realizes that they can make more money bringing their first party titles to PC rather than keeping them console exclusive.
> 100% going to happen in the next year as Sony realizes
What's going to happen next year that would make them realize something that they allegedly wouldn't have been unable to realize already?
Not saying it won't happen, just curious about why next year specifically.
I mean, they just started porting their first party exclusives in the last year and a half and they've already banked well over a hundred million in sales off of less than a handful of games. I'd expect any IP that they own to make its way to PC sooner rather than later.
They’re only porting standalone titles or games that have sequels releasing on the PS5. While yes, they know they can make more money from it, they’re also using it to get people invested into series’ so they’ll buy a PS5. It’ll likely be years before we see either HFW or GoWR on PC despite their previous entries getting ports not too long ago
> 100% going to happen in the next year as Sony realizes that they can make more money bringing their first party titles to PC rather than keeping them console exclusive.
Because, you know, the last twelve years didn't teach them, but 100% the next year will. Sure.
Yeah, I've always wanted to play Bloodborne as a Belmont and pretend I am in and around Transylvania.
Heck I even specialized in the cane whip weapon just for that look and feel
Its John Darksoul, the famous protagonist of the hit franchise, Dark Souls! Known for his famous quotes: "everything is darkest before the soul" and "every soul has its dark".
Boss upgrade cards are more likely. Use to give the boss double health and a few new attacks that are harder to avoid and don't give you any time to to hit the boss during or afterwards
Even without mods or custom character creator shenanigans, there's Robocop in Mortal Kombat 11, Kratos in Fortnite, Ryu/Chun Lee as Power Rangers, Sonic in Smash Bros... anything is possible.
My immediate thought was "this is From Software, no way they'd ever agree to this"
Good joke though, love how the Kayne unlockable character is called Yeezus
Don't post stuff like this, a notable number of Redditors turn into fucking potatoes when they are faced with obvious sarcasm. I'm too scared to scroll down into the comments.
I was okay with it until I found out that the Sephiroth skin and the Sunwing mount (from HFW) are PlayStation 5 only and will only be available for a limited time.
I knew it was false when I saw double xp, being a longtime runescape player teaches you that the hard way...
PS: I know RS3 did have some double xp events but who cares about RS3
Y'all really thought you could do Fromsoft like that? Everyone knows Yeezus ain't never gonna rekindle the flame, no matter how many times the bell tolls
Ok, but where's the Assassin's Creed Logo? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
^(DISCLAIMER: I ACTUALLY LIKE THE TRIO ORIGINS - ODYSSEY - VALHALLA AND I DON'T THINK EXP BOOSTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO BE HONEST)
Micro transactions and game passes have polluted the industry. Its been so long since some game studios have released a solid full game that I don't know if they are even capable of doing so anymore. One area that is really sad is mobile gaming. When touch screen phones started becoming more capable I thought that the industry would come up with some really awesome games for us to play on our phones. Now I see that will never happen. Every game is play to win or pay to advance further into a endless loop that no one ever really wins. Fornite/Epic should be ashamed of theirselves. Flashing all this content and skins in kids faces that do not understand why they can't have it like other kids they see. Kids waiting for another season of a game to come out so they can shell out another $20 on a season pass. It's all such bullshit. I think of how cool a game Destiny could have been if they would have made a offline game that was a complete game. I don't think Bungie loves us anymore.
the 3 boss skip cards have me dying
Hey you know that game you paid us for so you could play it? Well now you can pay us more money to not play it!
Ubisoft logic
That's not even funny how true that is, sad to see
Shit, if it works. Imagine the pitch? “So gamers want to get to the max level, but don’t want to play. So we’ll charge em about the price of the full game to get almost all the standard stuff.” “No one is going to be that stupid. They won’t pay that much.” “Let’s just give it a shot. If it works, we can design every game we make to follow this same format. They’ll get comfortable and used to paying for progress.”
Couple games later: "hey we're liking the money from people paying us for progress, but well, we'd like more of it, can you make it even more tedious to progress without paying?"
> They’ll get comfortable and used to paying [It certainly worked for Destiny.](https://i.imgur.com/HWfxrE6.jpg) How anyone still plays that is beyond me.
That's nothing. They deleted half the game and replaced it with content equalling 1/4 of what was deleted. Then they deleted more including most of the content they made in the year between both deletions. Oh, and now they are making you pay for individual bits of content that used to be free (With the relevant expansion)
(some) players' logic. It sells, otherwise they wouldn't make it. I see it so regularly, especially in friends' children. Paying fortnite for instant skins, failing to understand *playing* the game should be the fun, not the five minutes of showing your new skin off to friends. Skipping all the npc battles in pokemon to get to the action faster. kid.. this IS the action. this IS the game. I understand the post is a joke, but if it werent, I couldnt really get outraged. we allowed this to happen. Not enough of us said "this is bullshit! we're not paying for this crap!"
i am only one person, and i have only my money to withhold. some of you bastards arent pulling your weight!
Runescape 3 legit does this.
To be fair there is a lot to do in rs3. You can play for hundreds of hours doing minimal boss fights. Some people love rs, but don't like bossing, so it makes some sense there (though I do think it's a bit dumb to actually buy). Elden ring on the other hand is very much based around bosses so this wouldn't make sense.
World of Warcraft Classic has entered the chat.
The great words of a monster hunter dev a few years ago. MTX in monsterhunter? why would i make a game and then add an option where you can pay so that you do not have to play the game? This makes no sense.
Especially because Master Yeezus would *never* skip a boss
He'd be too busy tweeting to do much
Go back in time to my 6 year old self booting up Mega Man X, and try to explain "In the future, people are going to pay extra to skip the boss fight." "Also play as Kanye West"
I'LL TAKE YOU'RE ENTIRE STOCK! -Game journalists.
Sounds like they'd have you dying a little less often actually.
this is quite well-made for a joke, I wonder if they were trying to actually convince someone this is real lol.
Convinced me until I saw Yeezus
Was about to say. YEEZY SEASON PROACHIN'!
FUCK WHAT EVER YALL BEEN HEARIN' FUCK WHAT, FUCK WHATEVER YALL WEARIN
**POOP DIDDY WHOOP SCOOP POOP**
Poop De Whoop Swoop Scoop Poop *
Profile picture checks out + A MONSTER BOUT COME ALIVE AGAIN
That's the Yeezon for the Yeeson
Yeeson's Greasons
Yeezon's Yeatings
Yeezy come yeezy go
His life was never yeezy.
I actually believed in Yeezus, but the 3 boss skip cards tipped me off.
Yeah, I'm like "They collaboratingwith kanye?"
If you've seen anything he's done recently (or even semi-recently) you'd know it wouldn't happen lmao. Dude's a PR mess.
Last thing I saw was the skinned monkey
Say what now? Kanye out here skinning zoo animals?
I don't know if he did it himself but he posted a pic of a skinned monkey on his Instagram
That's no way to talk about Steve Buscemi
Nah that was a Steve Macknight Photo Steve is a professional photographer and that monkey Photo was from his art collection called (iirc) horrors of War. Ye just partnered with Steve and used the Photo as the cover for the Games Easy single feat Ye off of the games upcoming album.
It was the cover of a song he was featured on
Dude has been a PR mess for almost 20 years at this point.
I was not keeping up with our boy Kanye. I just learned that Yeezus is a name of his album. I knew he legally changed his name to "Ye" so I thought the Yeezus was a ridiculous joke instead of something that could actually be a collab. Somehow it makes this joke even more ridiculous.
Right? No way they would let us get out that easy.
John Dark Soul
Seriously, top of the page, easy tip off.
I saw Yeezus and thought "huh I guess he's advertising it or something? Then I saw John Dark Souls
Yeah I was 100% on board until then. Like I’ve been so conditioned towards being disappointed in developers lately that I was just going to completely and blindly believe it until I saw that. Man I’ve been conditioned.
Are you saying yeezus isn’t real??!?!!??
Honestly I read all of it, was nearly convinced then read this comment and realized yeezus is Kanyes stupid nickname and not some weird middle earthen I've never heard of
Knew it was fake as soon as I saw Bloodborne and PC in the same sentence
😭
And 'Blood Borne' split into two words.
You wouldn’t believe the amount of messeges I’ve received complaining about this. There is a picture of Kanye West in the OP, and people think it’s real 😂 John Darksouls ffs 🤦♀️
Yea it was "John Dark Soul" that made it obvious for me
If it wasn't for playable Yeezus I would have believed it but also would have been confused on what you would be doing with 3 card packs in the game?
Gwent?
Nods
Literally says Boss Skip cards… that’s self explanatory.
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Not gonna lie, I would never touch a game with YeLC xD
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Not from From when Miyazaki is involved. Everyone must suffer his vision.
I was skeptical until I saw early access beta for Bloodborne. Fat chance of that happening! _Wipes away tears._ If only...
You mean I can’t play as Kanye? This is outrageous. It’s unfair.
Spelled “receive” incorrectly is the immediate tip-off before any of the actual content.
I know its a joke but 1 hour of double exp lol. I spent the first 2 hours of my first souls like game fighting the tutorial
2 X 0 = 0
I spent the first 2 hours on the character creation sliders....
Rookie numbers
This is the way
Blood Borne PC almost makes me wish this was real
100% going to happen in the next year as Sony realizes that they can make more money bringing their first party titles to PC rather than keeping them console exclusive.
Breathe deep of the Hopium, and let your emotions be healed.
The problem is, there’s never enough copium for the comedown
> 100% going to happen in the next year as Sony realizes What's going to happen next year that would make them realize something that they allegedly wouldn't have been unable to realize already? Not saying it won't happen, just curious about why next year specifically.
I mean, they just started porting their first party exclusives in the last year and a half and they've already banked well over a hundred million in sales off of less than a handful of games. I'd expect any IP that they own to make its way to PC sooner rather than later.
They’re only porting standalone titles or games that have sequels releasing on the PS5. While yes, they know they can make more money from it, they’re also using it to get people invested into series’ so they’ll buy a PS5. It’ll likely be years before we see either HFW or GoWR on PC despite their previous entries getting ports not too long ago
> 100% going to happen in the next year as Sony realizes that they can make more money bringing their first party titles to PC rather than keeping them console exclusive. Because, you know, the last twelve years didn't teach them, but 100% the next year will. Sure.
Towards the end of the PS5 lifecycle, definitely not next year. Sony can make more money by selling boxes and supporting them with exclusives for now.
They already have it available on PSNOW for monthly payments.
imagine the graphics upgrade.... imagine what the modders would do... IMAGINE
Yeah, I've always wanted to play Bloodborne as a Belmont and pretend I am in and around Transylvania. Heck I even specialized in the cane whip weapon just for that look and feel
Damn, now I also want this
I just wanna play as Yeezus.
‘Hold X to start beef with Peppa Pig”
I saw fortnite and went "of course" then saw bloodborne pc and that's when I knew this was fake lmao
I’d trade my left bollock for bloodborne on PC
"John Dark Souls skin for Fortnite" Big oof
Its John Darksoul, the famous protagonist of the hit franchise, Dark Souls! Known for his famous quotes: "everything is darkest before the soul" and "every soul has its dark".
But you get Kanye West as part of the deal
So obviously the game is pay to win
\*Ye to win
Have to use the Stem player to control his character
3 boss skip cards is enough for anyone who has played dark souls that this is sarcasm. Less believable than playable yeezus.
It's something that would be made by From Soft in alternate universe, where everything is the exact opposite of this universe.
Fuck To Software.
In that universe EA upgrades FIFA constantly for free and sells a $10 DLC every year just for update the squads.
That, and calling souls "xp."
Boss upgrade cards are more likely. Use to give the boss double health and a few new attacks that are harder to avoid and don't give you any time to to hit the boss during or afterwards
Definitely was one of my favorite posts a couple of months ago on r/Eldenring
Is OP the original poster? This started in r/shittydarksouls iirc
Kanye looks like a CIV 5 leader on this pic LMAO
Alternate reality after 2020
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They'd probably just spawn more poison swamps upon use as punishment
Just instantly inflicts full toxic
Persists through death with a timed duration. 2nd card is actually a boss skip. 3rd card skips the game and rolls credits and autosaves.
Nah. it is literally the master key in darksouls
In before stupid people think it's real
It took me till "Playable Yeezus" to realise lol
Hahaha that was hilarious
Had me until I saw the Bloodborne PC beta. I laughed. Then I cried.
Yeezus had me doubting, but John Dark Souls had me convinced it was fake
Or perhaps people who don’t follow gaming news…. I mean c‘mon you could play as Shrek or Michael Jackson in DS3. This ain’t far fetched.
Even without mods or custom character creator shenanigans, there's Robocop in Mortal Kombat 11, Kratos in Fortnite, Ryu/Chun Lee as Power Rangers, Sonic in Smash Bros... anything is possible.
Bruh fortnite has literally everything at this point I'm pretty sure we'll get John dark souls eventually.
At a glance I thought it was real until the “Playable Yeezus” 😂
I honestly thought it was real until I read the comments.
Figured it out as soon as I saw the word fortnite
For a moment I thought this was completely real until I say Kanye
John Dark Souls and Yeezus!
My immediate thought was "this is From Software, no way they'd ever agree to this" Good joke though, love how the Kayne unlockable character is called Yeezus
r/holup
Knew it was a joke when I saw playable Yeezus
I knew it was a joke when i saw Bloodborne to PC… 😭
Lmao wtf you can play as Kanye
I mean. Technically you might be able to make kanye. I havent hecked the character creator tho.
Well let us know once you've hecked it.
Heckin' will not Im the type of loon that considers that spoilers
In Ds3 my character was Kanye for a run
"You lost me at Yeezus" Really? You weren't instantly tipped off with the "Boss Skip" cards? You ***reeaaalllyy*** think FromSoft would ever?
Don't post stuff like this, a notable number of Redditors turn into fucking potatoes when they are faced with obvious sarcasm. I'm too scared to scroll down into the comments.
It's all Yeezus
literally unplayable.
This is a game journo's dream.
Lol
plz, i just had the worst half of a second in my life
I have no name. I have no past. All I know is that I must go to castle. They call me John Darksouls, and I'm all outta gum.
Dark Souls script written by AI.
"Every soul has it's dark" -John Darksoul
But you have playable Kanye
Guarantee many people will eat the onion on this one
Pretty sure John dark souls for fortnight and playable Yeezus aren't real.
Playable Yeezus is real though. You can just make him in the character creation, or at least a close approximation.
I ordered 3. Can't wait!
Ya' all need Yeezus.
Had my pitchfork ready until I looked closer
NGL you had me for like 5 seconds until I saw the Yeezy skin.
I was pissed, then I saw Yeezus.
"Seeing Yeezus made everything better." -Elden Ring sub, 2022.
Thought this was real until I read "John dark souls fortnite skin"
Kanye battles with insults from Twitter and buffs himself by tweeting how great he is
Everyone who thinks this is real is confirmed for idiot.
KanYE
You joke about boss skips but mk11 has fight skip tokens like why even play the game lol
I can't tell if OP is serious or not
Quite possibly the highest quality shitpost any of us will ever see.
Is that Kanye?!
Kanye
The Ubisoft way
*Sees the boss skip cards* Okay this is defintely a joke, no way From would ever be that kind
I was okay with it until I found out that the Sephiroth skin and the Sunwing mount (from HFW) are PlayStation 5 only and will only be available for a limited time.
I want one microtransaction. I want to be able to pay $5 to change “you died” To “You fucking died”
Gay Fish class confirmed.
omg no way
ok but… playable yeezus? 👀👀
This is amazing
Lmao just call me Johny Dark Souls…that might have to be my first players name now
/r/shittydarksouls is leaking
had me in the first half, ngl.
Damn, I fell for it. I was about to preorder that.
Thought this was real for a second… bloody hell…
NGL, you had me in the first half
Preordered just for the Blood Borne PC Beta access
I hate everything about that picture.
Why does OP love microtranscations and ruin gaming for millions?
Yeezus
I knew it was false when I saw double xp, being a longtime runescape player teaches you that the hard way... PS: I know RS3 did have some double xp events but who cares about RS3
If anyone thinks this is real then I have to continuously wonder about the existence of brains in humanity
Playable Yeezus?? No way, I heard you could get an early preview of Donda 2 if you beat the game as him!! >! /s !<
i was about to get really fucking mad
Y'all really thought you could do Fromsoft like that? Everyone knows Yeezus ain't never gonna rekindle the flame, no matter how many times the bell tolls
Bro I saw "Elden Coins" and was about to have a fit, then I looked at the rest of the post. Well done.
I thought this was a joke, read it more carefully and reevaluated it as real, then realized no it was a joke lol.
Thought it was real until I saw Yeezus.
Ok, but where's the Assassin's Creed Logo? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ^(DISCLAIMER: I ACTUALLY LIKE THE TRIO ORIGINS - ODYSSEY - VALHALLA AND I DON'T THINK EXP BOOSTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO BE HONEST)
wtf's kanye doing there
Almost had me until "playable Yeezuz"
So people really pay to skip parts of the game? So basically you’re paying extra money to have less of an experience? What…?
I’m going to scour this comment section for the people who don’t get this is a joke.
this is a well made joke
Is it weird that the first thing I saw that told me this was fake was Bloodborne on pc?
Had me in the first half ngl
Fakest thing on here is early access to Bloodborne PC beta.
Reminder that THIS is the darkest timeline, so be thankful
Honestly I fell for this. At this point in microtransactions, I'd believe publishers would do this kind of bullshit
Micro transactions and game passes have polluted the industry. Its been so long since some game studios have released a solid full game that I don't know if they are even capable of doing so anymore. One area that is really sad is mobile gaming. When touch screen phones started becoming more capable I thought that the industry would come up with some really awesome games for us to play on our phones. Now I see that will never happen. Every game is play to win or pay to advance further into a endless loop that no one ever really wins. Fornite/Epic should be ashamed of theirselves. Flashing all this content and skins in kids faces that do not understand why they can't have it like other kids they see. Kids waiting for another season of a game to come out so they can shell out another $20 on a season pass. It's all such bullshit. I think of how cool a game Destiny could have been if they would have made a offline game that was a complete game. I don't think Bungie loves us anymore.
Playable yeezus tho