http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vid...-the-Tomb-Raiders-Exclusive-Release-Is-Stupid
interesting stuff from jimbo
interesting stuff from jimbo
JIMQUISITION: Rise Of The Exclusivity Wars
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I looked at the video lists and comments and thought, wow, this can't be serious. I looked at the introduction to the whole series and okay it's not serious. I watched the video and... wow. It starts as though it's not serious but this guy really means it. Wow. Just wow.
Yup. Jim is 100% anti-MS. He NEVER and I mean NOT EVER lashes out at Ubisoft or EA or Activision or Sony or Steam or Indie Dev or Nintendo or any other greedy corporation. He only ever and I do mean ONLY bashes MS.
Every single one of his videos is anti-MS, that's why I love him.
Go ahead, try and prove me wrong, I dare you.
Every single one of his videos is anti-MS, that's why I love him.
Go ahead, try and prove me wrong, I dare you.
Can anyone sum up this video?
Only if you triple dog that dare. Keep in mind, I take in very little gaming media anymore beyond this forum, and maybe a youtube vid here and there. My question is kind of proof of that. If it's about MS getting exclusivity, then in my opinion, it's not stupid. The proof is in all the media coverage it seems to be getting, and as someone who doesn't look at gaming media too much, for me to notice any game really getting a ton of talk is nothing but good for MS and SE. As the old saying goes, there's no such thing as bad publicity. (Try not to take that too literal, but I feel like this is a case where it's appropriate.)
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Honestly, I think this is partly a case of media trying to wring the juice out of a hot story, but also a seamless transition into the conversation at hand of what constitutes an exclusive, what should be an exclusive, and how it should be an exclusive. I also think MS is an easy target. Many of their exclusives are essentially just timed and end up on the PC at minimum. It's harder to argue the negative of exclusivity with Sony or Nintendo because of how beloved some of the brands and developers making the games are. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think MS is simply an easier target to hit on due to their style of publishing.
I'm straight not feeling his backdrop, at all. It resembles.... Well, you guys know. Otherwise, he's got a great production value even if his message is skewered extremely. But yeah.....
Reading the comments here I was wondering what could have been said? After watching the vid never seeing this guy before he is spot on. With that, who cares? I doubt very much he would have made this vid if Sony was the one that did this dastardly move. No prisoners in the "console wars"...
I kinda agree with him on this exclusivity BS.
Both Sony and MS are being d!cks with this stuff, I'm not going to point fingers to see who is the worst culprit because they are as bad as one another IMO. MS writing out a big cheque for TF and Rise of the TR is just wasting cash, cash that could be used towards developing there own 1st party studios and games that would pull customers to there platform. Buying 6 -12 months exclusivity of R:TR isn't going to make me spend £350+£50+£35 to play that one game, I can just wait it out for the deal to end and it will be released on other platforms.
Another annoyance I've come across recently and Ubi are the worst for this is craving out and cutting up your game for DLC exclusivity, so people on one platform have a cut down version of that game. It's a stupid practice and it should stop. My fear is that MS will spend huge amounts of money for deals like this but will only see a small percentage increase in sales of the X1.
If a game could not be brought to life without funding like this (Sunset Overdrive) then the practice is fine, as that game would never see the light of day but if a game is going to go multi-plat anyway then it is different because all you are doing is screwing over customers because they have platform X instead of Y and this sort of practice only harms consumers, it's not being competitive it's carving up the gaming community, just like Sony are doing with a 12month DLC exclusivity deal on Destiny.
I would of posted in the R:TR Exclusive thread but when I saw people were backing this kind of crap I was shocked and dismayed.
Both Sony and MS are being d!cks with this stuff, I'm not going to point fingers to see who is the worst culprit because they are as bad as one another IMO. MS writing out a big cheque for TF and Rise of the TR is just wasting cash, cash that could be used towards developing there own 1st party studios and games that would pull customers to there platform. Buying 6 -12 months exclusivity of R:TR isn't going to make me spend £350+£50+£35 to play that one game, I can just wait it out for the deal to end and it will be released on other platforms.
Another annoyance I've come across recently and Ubi are the worst for this is craving out and cutting up your game for DLC exclusivity, so people on one platform have a cut down version of that game. It's a stupid practice and it should stop. My fear is that MS will spend huge amounts of money for deals like this but will only see a small percentage increase in sales of the X1.
If a game could not be brought to life without funding like this (Sunset Overdrive) then the practice is fine, as that game would never see the light of day but if a game is going to go multi-plat anyway then it is different because all you are doing is screwing over customers because they have platform X instead of Y and this sort of practice only harms consumers, it's not being competitive it's carving up the gaming community, just like Sony are doing with a 12month DLC exclusivity deal on Destiny.
I would of posted in the R:TR Exclusive thread but when I saw people were backing this kind of crap I was shocked and dismayed.
His video on gamer entitlement is pretty good as well. Anyway, I just subscribed to his video yesterday after someone link this video in the Tomb Raider forum.
For me, his points are mostly agreeable, but what he did successful compare to others is his humor. There is just something about British humor that is hard to describe, yet irresistibly funny.
On a side note, totally missed Feedbackula from Gamespot, it was funny as hell as well.
Those are just the first three I found searching "Sony" on the escapist channel. I'm sure if I took the time to search the videos themselves I'd find plenty where he goes off on Sony and their business practices.
Jim Sterling is not a fanboy, and he most certainly is not biased. He is however dumb as a box of hammers. I think that's why he comes off as fanboy-ish sometimes, particularly if you are watching him for the first time. But after a few videos it becomes clear he is an equal-opportunity moron.
Jim is almost always spot on even if he can be a bit weird at times. This was a good video and I totally agree.
A funny gif once in a while is ok, but the gif you posted is a bit low class if you asked me. You are better than that Kvally.Jim Sterling?
No, I mean dumb in that he presents very obvious observations as if they are stunning insights. That's part of the reason you see so many people chime in that they agree with him. Obvious points are obvious, after all. The only thing he offers beyond those obvious points are his shtick.
At the end of the day he is just another dancing monkey act in the internet. Now you could argue that his dumbness is a act, that it's all part of his shtick. But I don't see it. Sterling is more Bill O'Reilly than Stephen Colbert.
If you like his shtick, that's cool. I used to watch him pretty regularly myself. But after a while, it started to become more irritating than funny. But of course your mileage will vary. Just don't kid yourself that there is anything there that.