What is Pay To Win?

Josh Strife Hayes Youtooz Plushy! :

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What actually is 'pay to win', can we define it, is your understanding the same as mine?

Or is it a sliding scale of design where money can effect a game more and more?

let's find out.

A big Thank you as usual to the supporters on Patreon and Twitch who keep the channel alive.

[JoshStrifeHayes]

Look I'm using FOMO to make you buy me:

[Dkgow]

Josh has DLCed his likeness. First he was a free youtuber, then he was a free streamer, then he introduced Twitch Subs so we could get badges. Now we have a plush of Josh so we can have him in house. Josh is pay to win.

[kalampakos]

If it wasn't Bethesda with the horse armor it would have been someone else, but God damn it Tod.

[IMrAverage]

"FIFA is just Genshin Impact for people who like middle aged millionaires" is my favourite sentence of the year so far.

[colindanger]

As a sound technician, I’m marvelling at your coffee mug mic suspension. My hero.

[DrHorns]

When the footage of "Clash of Whatever" started playing at 10:00 my monkey brain automatically started looking for the skip ad button..

[WOWOW_]

There's a certain aspect of P2W that I do like, and it's when as a F2P player, you beat a P2W player. It's one of the best feelings.

[Tiwill]

The option to pay to bypass an inconvenience... completely shatters the authenticity of that inconvenience.
For me, that was the most important takeaway from this video.

[georgeblair]

I remember when WoW brought out "Sparkly Pony". Somebody on the boards said, "This is the first step down a road, which has serious consequences." (Or words to that effect). Oh, if they only could see WoW now.

[danielmartin]

bro the microphone in the mug...lmao genius.

[AngryWindmill]

"What is pay to win?"
*Metin2 and Maplestory show up in the background*

[aBadWizard]

"I am 9 inches, which is also the size of this plushie"
Ayo 😂

[Fenrisson]

I feel this video could be shorter... Can I pay to get it shorter?

[muffinfiend]

Stage 8 is a very apt description of my struggle with card games and why I had to give them up, booster packs are the OG loot boxes.

[mrJLJ]

15:00 Horse armor WASN'T just cosmetic! It also increased the health of whichever horse you purchased it for, it gave you one free armored horse (if you didn't have one), and it technically made the best horse in the game weaker due to an oversight by making an immortal horse killable.

[aximili]

Regarding the coohcarnage tweet, we did get two examples where devs did balance the game around the cash shop; both the second shadows of mordor game an the second battlefront game had major overhauls to the game loot balance after the shops was removed/decreased.

[diamondhamster]

Real Life is the greatest P2W game ever made that nobody can sadly opt out...

[michaelcalvin]

I was there. I was there 3000 years ago, when the horse armor was released.
We all pointed and laughed. "Surely no-one would buy that, " we told ourselves.
Little did we know what horrors it would unleash.

[JakeOfTheWake]

35:20 35 minutes of well researched content on the subject, structured narrative, well delivered lines that likely took many takes, and then the guy just explodes to light Todd Howard’s ass on fire once again. Love it.

[graven]

I used to play Apex Legends and i spend unhealthy amount of money for skins and stuff. I often regretted that yet i still did it again, so i stopped playing and it was fine, until i found another game and did it again. I just couldn't help it.
Those games just also exploit time limitation and other stuff to make you do hasty and regrettable decision.

Now before i pay i take a day and really think if i really need that stuff and usually i decide not to buy it.