13 BIGGEST Betrayals in Video Game HISTORY That WERE PLANNED

Some betrayals in video game culture are enshrined in nerd history forever.

0:00 Intro
0:25 Number 13
2:58 Number 12
5:24 Number 11
8:37 Number 10
10:33 Number 9
12:19 Number 8
15:16 Number 7
17:26 Number 6
20:16 Number 5
24:00 Number 4
25:22 Number 3
27:19 Number 2
30:23 Number 1

[rebann]

"No degeneracy is too great for these nerds"

WHAT A LINE LMAO

[AGnricHuman]

The mental image of Lord British, the game's designer and a supposedly immortal character, being suddenly assassinated in front of everybody is hilarious.

[hollieBlu]

Have to mention that the Corrupted Blood effect was studied closely in 2020 by the WHO because of "World Events" to make a model of how an illness spreads ...still think that's MIND-BLOWING that it's the best model we have even now 😂👌

[DianeCooperTW]

EVE is a game for insane people. It takes more effort than actual jobs and going to college absolute madness

[TimSedai]

When my brother traded in my snes and 42 games for a ps1 while I was away at uni

[SynFenix]

My favorite video game betrayal is the thousands of layoffs and not paying release bonuses that publishers do every year.

[chadbizeau]

I remember playing dark age of Camelot and one of the players on our server (Iseult) who was big in the vault Network boards back in the day passed away in a car accident.

All three realms got together and did a 21 gun salute with ballista and we had an hour of no combat on the server itself. It was pretty heartwarming. And just like the first story we had one guild from Hibernia who had no qualms since coming to crash the party just to get a few extra RP... I remember that guild got kicked out of the main alliance in Hibernia and were pretty much isolated for the rest of the time that I played the game.

[wolfsokaya]

The Nintendo's betreyal of Sony story could have mention an important detail. Nintendo had total control on the cartridge system, only allowing for those who they deemed worty and paid good money, but with the CDs, Sony would have taken that power and money.

[TihetrisWeathersby]

EA shutting down legacy studios and ruing classic IPs

[Kurushimi-]

When judy left me for another girl in cyberpunk 2077 dlc 😢😢

[montywh]

when you mentioned EVE Online, i was thinking of another story that took place long ago. one player managed to get a 9000 dollar ship, and may have bragged about it online, or a friend was a mole for another faction. but he got ambushed on his maiden voyage, and lost the ship immediately in minutes

[ledgicyt]

I always have to activate my gamers intuition whenever I'm playing certain games like if I don't like a certain character, I fully expect them to turn on me.

[harveyweinstein]

Enjoying the longer format videos Falcon.

[SpartanHighKing]

I love that Falcon has been narrating 30min videos lately❤😅

[Black_Jesus]

10:15 why you gotta do that Falcon? You almost made me spit my drink out 😂

[ArcaneSorceror]

Just to throw an alternate viewpoint for the Corrupted Blood incident, the player could've not wanted their pet to die, put it into a kennel, after the raid, goes to major city, pops pet out sees the debuff proc and spread, and form two thoughts 'Huh, did not think that would happen.' and 'Why are noobs dying... oh... my bad.'

[xXDoUbLeDDXx]

Been playing World of Warcraft for 16+ years and that funeral still is the most degenerate thing I've ever heard about in game. Another thing about it too is a lot of the "funeral goers" took all their armour/equipment off and wore roleplay outfits to fit the funeral so when they got attacked they had legitimately no chance of surviving lol. Absolutely brutal haha.

[circadianrebel]

With Nintendo vs Square it is funny you make the "who betrayed who?" joke, because there is more to the story most people forget: early on N64 was going to be CD based. The specs provided to Square included a CDROM for storage. Late in the hardware development Nintendo decided to switch back to cartridges, citing concerns over the physical durability of CDs in the hands of children.

[Kianlewis]

Love the long videos 😊. Thanks gameranx

[SilverSpectre]

Imagine kicking out the people who created an IP that printed gold for you, while you have execs like the former Bobby Kotick, who are just sitting there and literally bleeding hundreds of millions in bonuses alone from your company. And you do it because you are afraid they are going to leave, but end up just pushing them in that direction anyway by firing them instead of doing everything in your power to keep them there.