Why Gameloft is the literal devil incarnate: Blitz Brigade Game Review

If you haven't heard of Gameloft, you either don't own a smartphone or you don't use it for gaming much. Gameloft is THE biggest mobile game developer. There was a time when it was well liked within the mobile gaming community. Maybe its still well liked. What I meant was, there was a time when I respected Gameloft as a developer. In the past, Gameloft made games of incredibly high quality for the time. They were just clones of better PC games but they were as good as you got in the day. The Modern Combat series remain one of the best FPSs on the platform. But what they've been doing lately is making "Free 2 play" games that actually cost hundreds of dollars to play. Today I'm going to tell you why I have come to hate Gameloft and why you should too.

As an example lets take the game "Blitz Brigade". A copy of sorts of the PC game Team Fortress 2. The gameplay seems fun. The graphics seem to be of good quality. And all of this is free? Yes, with a catch of course. The crux of the game is the online multiplayer, where you basically pay to win. You need to pay money

To pay money

to pay money and buy shit.

You pay for more classes,

  you pay for better weapons,

you pay for giant vehicles,

 you pay for consumables and single use items

you basically everything and those who can't literally can't kill a thing.
For example, I literally shot directly at a guy's head for 20 seconds, while he was killing all my teammates, and did next to no damage. He then, of course, turns around and shoots me once, and I'm dead. 3 people shooting at this guy and his you couldn't tell unless you looked very closely that his health had gone down at all, while 3 people who couldn't afford to pay for giant guns lie dead around him.
Well, that's just one guy right? There must be games where the other players are also not able to pay for wins. Or you probably have a lot of cash you can possibly spend on this game? Yeah, there might be - if the server let you stay on for more than 2 minutes. I've seen the reviews of this game and I'm definitely not the only one with this problem. 

The game takes forever to "log in" 

Check my internet strength. No connectivity my ass.

and then when you finally find a server 

 

and join a match (both of which also take a million years),

and you finally start playing, you face SO MANY connectivity issues, I can't even...

I can't count the times I was shooting at the enemy, got a "no connectivity" and then came back to my body lying dead on the ground and my enemy celebrating.

Still no connectivity

 And if you can stand all that, within a few minutes, you get booted out of the server for "bad connection" despite getting 3 bars on my wifi (check my "logging in" screenshot). This has happened to me literally EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

And then, it keeps me offline.

I took these screenshots from literally 2 games, and both times I was booted offline. I've tried heaps before too and literally every time, I'm booted off the server.

Well, that's not too bad. You can still play single player "training missions" right? First of all, you still have to "log in" to play these missions. Secondly, there is no way you get to the second level, let alone the other levels, without paying money. Think I'm exaggerating? To unlock levels, you need to get heaps of stars by completing missions. The one of the missions of the first stage, I killed every single enemy, got multiple multiplier chains, hunted down all secret items and let no one escape. My score? 4975. The score you have to have to get 3 stars? 27500. The minimum to get one tiny little single star? 10000.

10000 maybe would be possible if you can get every enemy one after another with superhuman reflexes and keep the multiplier going for the entire thing. Even then, you can't get to 27000. Oh, but conveniently, you can pay to get to the next level.

What's that? You'll level up in the single player by playing the same missions over and Over again and then play multiplayer to catch up to the rich noobs without paying? Oh...you only get exp the first time you play a mission. So, you can't even do that.

Every little thing about this game is designed to make you cough up cash. It's as bad as I've ever seen it. If you can't pay (and I can't because I live in Nepal and $1~Rs100 imagine paying a $100 for a single virtual weapon) then you might as well not play this game. If you can pay, then pray that the server doesn't randomly boot you out for an imaginary "bad connection".

Gameloft, please, if you want, charge us decent money for the game but please drop this leeching "IAP" system you've got going, that you're using to suck money out of us like a whore sucks mayonnaise out of hotdogs. As it is, this game just sucks shit.

How Do I Promote My Youtube Videos If Google Keeps Banning Me!!! Google's evil Ghostbanning Policy!

So, I recently started a YouTube channel to publish my short funny animations. As of now, one of them is uploaded, and I'm working on a second, based on Amazing Spiderman 2. So, it turns out, making the video was the easy part. I waited and waited, but my video literally got no views. Like, zero. I waited and waited. Eventually I got desperate, as people do, and against my better judgement, I posted a couple of "hey, check out my channel" comments on a couple YouTube videos. And when I say a couple, I mean a couple. It was on 3 or 4 "If movies were real" videos from Smosh, as my animation was based on a similar premise (check the end). I wasn't bombarding heaps of videos, whoring myself out. I just needed a few people to check my videos out. They were short and moderately funny, if I do say so myself. Pretty soon I realized, while my comments looked as if they were published from my account, when I logged out and checked the videos, my comments weren't showing up. I googled this and found out that Google had "Ghost banned" me. Basically my comments looked like they were being published but no one else could see them.

Now I know what you're thinking- "Advertising your channel can be as cheap as a few dollars. Just do that you cheapskate." But I'm from Nepal, and $1 is equal to 100 Rs. in the local currency. Would you spend a 100 or 300 of your local currency to pay for ads that would only ever get you very few views and even fewer viewers?" The only way I could pay for it anyway is if I could earn money from my videos through adsense.

Talking about adsense, the minimum payout rate of adsense is $100. While this may seem sensible in the U.S. or the U.K. or richer countries, I would much rather get my payouts quicker, especially cuz I can't get any views. Imagine if you had to wait until your account had 10000 in order to get your money when you're getting no views (literally none) whatsoever. That's what I have to do.

Google has basically stopped me from promoting my videos. New channels on YouTube have to be either lucky or rich, rather than creative, because there is no way to get your content out there, other than paying for advertising. There are no avenues left to me. I don't know why I'm writing this blog either, because there's no way people are going to find this and read this and sympathize. I hardly get a few views on this blog in a week.

If you'd like to help me out, check my animation out and if you like it, tell your friends.. It's only 49 seconds long, so it won't take much of your time. You an find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snqkBa7tSzY . It's called Movies Literally, and it's basically about what movies would be like if the title defined the plot. It literally has 0 views at the moment, so, you'd help me out a lot.