I’ve never understood this argument. What games are you playing that unlockables are hidden behind lootboxes or tough grinds?
Off the top of my head, Destiny 2, Shadow of War, Battlefront 2, Battlefield V, Assassins Creed Odyssey, the newer Forza games, and recently Far Cry New Dawn. Though I didn't those games in part because they had a reputation as tedious grinds unless you spend money, so I can't confirm them personally. Destiny 2 and Shadow of War had to rebalance the gameplay after micro transactions were removed so there's clearly something to that argument.
Few things are most sadder than seeing Bob pretending what He actually cares for create a better enviroment on YouTube
I know I say "Bob is out of touch" a lot but that video really is like the modern version of "old man yells at cloud".
Sorry for the "mad on the internet", but I want to talk about autistic promotion of hbomberguy. Let's grant Bob's premise that PewDiePie, Markiplier, Game Grumps et al are just screaming at "hipster chucky cheese nighttrap" and raking in millions of views, and that people should watch retro gaming channels instead. Why promote hbomberguy? He's not a retro gamer outside of 1 stream. The only content he's known for is shilling No Mans Sky by screaming at the top of his lungs and asking anti-feminists about skulls in a forced attempt to make it a new meme.
If Bob wanted to promote retro gaming YouTubers, he could easily have promoted people like LGR and 8bitguy. But those guys mainly talk about old school PCs and home computers, and since home computers weren't part of Bob's childhood they are obsolete junk to be forgotten asap.
Okay, what about JonTron or AVGN/James Rofle? They talk about Nintendo all the time. Can't promote them. They don't preach woke opinions on Twitter and sometimes even expressed anti-woke opinions. What about SNESDrunk? Nope. He's willing to call a spade a spade, and as we all know farmed out low effort mascot platformers trying to cash in on the Mario and Sonic fad were all flawless masterpieces with no flaws. Plus he advocates piracy instead of buying your SNES collection every few years on the e-shop like a good
corporate shill boy. Game Sack, Metal Jesus Rocks, and I'm sure many of the others use emulation, modded consoles, flash cards, and other after market parts to make retro gaming more convenient. Obsolete wasteland ghouls the lot of them.
So hbomberguy it is, the only person on the internet autistic enough to agree with Bob's ignorant opinions. I'll also go out on a limb and say that if the rumours that hbomberguy has plenty of skeletons in his closet are true, then they likely have a "I'll look the other way if you look the other way" type of agreement. But promoting him only damages Bob's argument by making it look like he doesn't understand retro gaming channels on top of not knowing what the sub2pewdiepie meme is about.