💼 Careercow Jerrel Oliver Dulay / Sungrand Studios / Sunpro Games / Silver Falls / businesscasualgamer / u/jdulay / idigitaldarwin - Incompetent Game Developer, Anti-Woke Grifter, Pathological Liar, "Just Some Guy", THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE HERO OF THE GAMING INDUSTRY, Buck Broken By Nintendo, Uses dead people as a shield from criticism

[Metamorpho]

20:12

I'm really surprised by how stacked his collection is. He's got rare variants, factory prototypes, and figures like Ro-bow, Wildstorm, and a CIB regular Chompy Mage.

Spoiler: Pictures of his collection

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sUs8UjygdWw:996

Game Dev's FURIOUS grudge toward Activision for cancelling Skylanders.mp4

I'm really surprised by how stacked his collection is. He's got rare variants, factory prototypes, and figures like Ro-bow, Wildstorm, and a CIB regular Chompy Mage.

Spoiler: Pictures of his collection

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Are you knowledgeable regarding the subject of this "Skylanders“ game?

Reason I ask is I knew less than nothing about it until I read up on it today(It seems the game/s wasn't sold in my region, thank the Lord).

If I understand correctly, you needed a game disc, a RFID reader(which I assume was sold along with the disc) and several of the RFID-tagged figures, without which the game could not be played.

When it comes to predatory monetisation models, this one seems greedy as all hell, even for Activision.

Also, this "Skylanders" game was an annual release, into which Activision pissed as much money as they did into Call of Duty and which initially generated as much revenue as COD did! (Probably due to the many and varied figurines released with each installment of the game).

It seems quite obvious to me why this franchise was cancelled: Every time a player looked at his "collection", he would face an uncomfortable reminder of just how much money he has pissed away on gacha over the last six years!

But Mr. Dulay laments the cancellation of this particular game franchise (10 years ago). Either he is a complete NPC consoomer or he's just trying to hawk his figurines.

I'm pretty sure it's the first.

Feel free to correct me if you think I'm being too harsh on Activision, its cash grab game or Dulay.

 

[Metamorpho]

Are you knowledgeable regarding the subject of this "Skylanders“ game?

Reason I ask is I knew less than nothing about it until I read up on it today(It seems the game/s wasn't sold in my region, thank the Lord).

If I understand correctly, you needed a game disc, a RFID reader(which I assume was sold along with the disc) and several of the RFID-tagged figures, without which the game could not be played.

When it comes to predatory monetisation models, this one seems greedy as all hell, even for Activision.

Also, this "Skylanders" game was an annual release, into which Activision pissed as much money as they did into Call of Duty and which initially generated as much revenue as COD did! (Probably due to the many and varied figurines released with each installment of the game).

It seems quite obvious to me why this franchise was cancelled: Every time a player looked at his "collection", he would face an uncomfortable reminder of just how much money he has pissed away on gacha over the last six years!

But Mr. Dulay laments the cancellation of this particular game franchise (10 years ago). Either he is a complete NPC consoomer or he's just trying to hawk his figurines.

I'm pretty sure it's the first.

Feel free to correct me if you think I'm being too harsh on Activision, its cash grab game or Dulay.

1. Are you knowledgeable regarding the subject of this "Skylanders“ game?

I'd say I'm pretty knowledgable on the topic since I'm a part of the 5 people on this site who actually likes the series.

2. If I understand correctly, you needed a game disc, a RFID reader(which I assume was sold along with the disc) and several of the RFID-tagged figures, without which the game could not be played.

You're close, the technology's NFC based. And if you don't care about collecting the figures then you could use stuff like NFC cards or an NFC emulator. The games can also be emulated via Dolphin and Cemu.

3. When it comes to predatory monetisation models, this one seems greedy as all hell, even for Activision.

Also, this "Skylanders" game was an annual release, into which Activision pissed as much money as they did into Call of Duty and which initially generated as much revenue as COD did! (Probably due to the many and varied figurines released with each installment of the game).

It seems quite obvious to me why this franchise was cancelled: Every time a player looked at his "collection", he would face an uncomfortable reminder of just how much money he has pissed away on gacha over the last six years!

Yeah even some Skylander fans agree that the annual release thing wasn't the best. There's also shit like elemental gates only being abled to be opened by Trap Masters in Trap Team and the insane power creep in Imaginators which made it absolute hell to play as anything other than the Eon's Elites, Senseis, or the Imaginators on higher difficulties.

And how the hell did you come to the conclusion that Skylanders has a gacha aspect to it? It's not like the figures that you got were random, the packaging always made it clear what figure you were purchasing. You also forgot to mention that the oversaturation of the toys-to-life market was another reason the series went under.

4. But Mr. Dulay laments the cancellation of this particular game franchise (10 years ago). Either he is a complete NPC consoomer or he's just trying to hawk his figurines.

I'm pretty sure it's the first.

He didn't plug an online store in the video so your assumption's correct.

Also this isn't really a part of my response or anything you talked about, but Sungrad made another Skylanders video where he does an analysis on Jet-Vac.

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

@Metamorpho wrote:

And how the hell did you come to the conclusion that Skylanders has a gacha aspect to it? It's not like the figures that you got were random, the packaging always made it clear what figure you were purchasing.

I just assumed it would be blind box shit because of Activision's reputation for avarice (and because I spent less than half a day finding out what the fuck this stuff even was). Thank you for the correction.

 

[Hongourable Madisha]

Jerrel does a response to Laura Fryer's video about Mixtape, but says it's explicitly not a response to her video, because people might agree with him and then think that she's wrong and doesn't know what she's talking about.

 

[Bilibin]

So Jerrel claims he was contracted to make a huge Marvel project funded by Will Smith but because Smith was disappointed by the reaction to his movie After Earth, the project fell through as Jerrel was waiting to start working on it. This is obviously true and not a lie or evidence of Jerrel being incredible gullible.

1:51

If you don't do some kind of creative job you may not know, but there are people out there who will contact random people, claim to have all the funding in the world and promise to make you the lead on some big project, but in reality it's just some idiot who wants to daydream about their dream project and waste your time. Anyone working professionally quickly learns to spot the difference but our boy Jerrel never did.

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He's also weirdly defensive when someone asks if he lives alone. I think this is like the key to understanding how Jerrel survives. He doesn't make any money at all with his games, he has a very meager youtube income but he's probably living rent free with some old person (cancer status unknown) so he can keep buying random trash from aliexpress.

0:20

 

[Xev]

He seems like a habitual lying autist who lives off his mother.