Jim Sterling / James "Stephanie" Sterling / James Stanton/Sexton & in memoriam TotalBiscuit (John Bain) - One Gaming Lolcow Thread

[Keavy Rain]

I honestly believe the most honest statement about piracy ever was from South Park in the episode where the kids pirate music to get inspiration for their band because CD’s were too expensive.

For all the artists who whine about “Muh compensation” I’d argue the record labels and all their fuckshit drove me to the point of paying $10 a month for Spotify and never buying another album because IF your stuff isn’t there it’s probably on YouTube; like CSNY’s content because Neil Young’s a faggot who can’t handle an opposing opinion who’s sole redemtion is his work with CSNY.

 

[Burt Offerings]

I pirate almost every game before I buy it because hardly anyone puts out fucking demos anymore, and I feel absolutely 100% justified in doing so. I'm not shelling out for something that might be gash on the behest of a always dishonest marketing team. You read a couple of pages before you buy a book, you listen to a song or two before you buy a record, you can even try on clothes before you buy them.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Nightdive Studios and others have gone to companies and said they'll do all the work to get stuff up on Steam/GOG and companies will just ignore them or nobody will know who actually owns the rights to something and won't bother to find out. EA's gone back and forth probably hundreds of times on whether or not they'll continue putting their massive old catalog on digital storefronts. Can't blame people if the companies don't even care. (Until they find out it's getting popular and they need to put the kibosh on it so it can just collect dust in their archives.)

I remember the first time I ever experienced something like this was about 20 years ago, when my parents upgraded the computer to Windows...Vista? Whatever it was I couldn't get my copy of Carmageddon 2 to run on it, so I went to the Shiny Entertainment website looking for a patch and instead found a post literally saying 'we know it doesn't work. We aren't planning on doing anything about it.'

So I went and found a pirate copy and it ran perfectly first time AND it put the proper civilians and blood back in, since I owned the cucked European version that replaced humans with zombies. My heart shrank three sizes that day.

 

[Narutard]

I pirate almost every game and I feel absolutely 100% justified in doing so.

Same. Money is expensive.

 

[Raiken]

I pirate almost every game before I buy it because hardly anyone puts out fucking demos anymore, and I feel absolutely 100% justified in doing so. I'm not shelling out for something that might be gash on the behest of a always dishonest marketing team. You read a couple of pages before you buy a book, you listen to a song or two before you buy a record, you can even try on clothes before you buy them.

Imagine if balan wonderworld never had a demo and just dropped.
How many People would be suckerd into buying it?
What did squeenix learn from it?
Just hide the bullshit aspects, chocobo racing Came out without a hint of all the bullshit untill day one.

 

[TheBeanz]

I pirate almost every game before I buy it because hardly anyone puts out fucking demos anymore, and I feel absolutely 100% justified in doing so. I'm not shelling out for something that might be gash on the behest of a always dishonest marketing team. You read a couple of pages before you buy a book, you listen to a song or two before you buy a record, you can even try on clothes before you buy them.

Steam refunds have put a damper on pirating before buying for me. I can normally tell if a game is getting my attention or not within 2 hours, because if it's got my attention I normally play it for longer than that on the first sitting. There's less need to dick about with pirating if you can just get your money back almost immediately (Although I appreciate this only works if you have the spare money to begin with).

Games with shitloads of DLC are worth pirating. My other half pirated the Sims 4 with it's hundreds of pounds worth of DLC, because the sheer amount of it and how overpriced it is means buying it isn't remotely worth it.

 

[Felis Meanis]

I pirate almost every game before I buy it because hardly anyone puts out fucking demos anymore, and I feel absolutely 100% justified in doing so. I'm not shelling out for something that might be gash on the behest of a always dishonest marketing team. You read a couple of pages before you buy a book, you listen to a song or two before you buy a record, you can even try on clothes before you buy them.

I completely agree. I almost never buy a videogame before I've pirated it and tried it out for quite some time and approved of it, and only then will I financially support companies that I genuinely want to remunerate. The companies which I know of that wholeheartedly supported and cheered the 2020 BLM summer of love is very much still on my blacklist, for example.

 

[Mr Processor]

For me game piracy is mainly about having fun with emulators. I bought a mini-PC and put Batocera on it, which is a really great emulation-centric Linux OS. I had pirated in the past, but it was just a few games here and there. Last year I spend some time downloading thousands of roms. The biggest problem I have now is that I don't really have any time to play all these games. I can't even understand paying for a service to play old games only for as long as you have the service, when you can get them all for the price of bandwidth and storage.

What originally set me down this path was when I realized what was going on in the Dreamcast scene. People are having to replace their dead Dreamcast gd-rom drives with sd-card readers so they can still play games on them. It's great that there is a solution, but what about all those games you bought for it? Well, they are useless once the disk drive dies, so you'll be using pirated ROMs even for games you bought legitimately. It's going to be the same for a lot of other old disk based systems. For cartridges you can usually get a retro-clone system, provided the cartridge still works and the battery in the cartridge hasn't died (for games that have saving). Emulation and piracy are really the only ways to prevent these old games from becoming lost media that you have to beg some company to rerelease. (There are a few companies who do well on releasing compilations or minisystems, like Konami, Sega and SNK. Unfortunately not all companies care about their back catalogue.)

 

[catmasterj]

I pirate games because I’m not paying Nintendo again for the same game over and over again. Nintendo and the devs aren’t going to get the money from me buying on eBay so why the fuck should they care.

 

[Tonberry]

Its 1st of April which means its April Fool's a day to have some good light hearted fun with your friends, we've seen the Web 1.0 look here and the Earl K. Farms thread so lets see what quality jokes Jim has in store for us.

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Nothing. Thanks Jim.

I know we've moved on to talking about piracy now, but how fucking bitter and hungry for attention do you have to be to make edgy 'we live in a society' commentary about april fools?
I love that Jim can't even turn it into a 'capitalism bad' dunk, so he has to go for a 'internet bad' one instead. Could've at least made it entertaining by trying to claim that gamers are to blame for april fools or something, this is just sad to look at.

 

[Gloria From Pokemon Sword]

Nintendo hard operates under their own rules, they are the SCP entity in the games industry - don't think about it too hard, don't make eye contact, don't try to understand it. They may have no idea what the adults in the industry want, but they have a fascinating ability to make things kids love, consistently; the manchildren who follow them are a happy coincidence.

The bold part is certainly true: they will live and die doing as they please. But as for no idea what adults want... what do adults want, dare I ask? Because it's not kids who constantly complain about microtransactions in games they constantly buy despite knowing it'll be laced with extra purchases.

 

[Space_Dandy]

Jim Sterling reminds me of Slimer from Ghostbusters, except wearing a pink wig and looking more geriatric. This guy looks like he's aged about 20 years in the past 5 or so. And he's got an unhealthy pale complexion going on that even makes DSP look not so bad.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

I know we've moved on to talking about piracy now, but how fucking bitter and hungry for attention do you have to be to make edgy 'we live in a society' commentary about april fools?
I love that Jim can't even turn it into a 'capitalism bad' dunk, so he has to go for a 'internet bad' one instead. Could've at least made it entertaining by trying to claim that gamers are to blame for april fools or something, this is just sad to look at.

Yeah you can see go read the replies to the tweet and everyone seems to be saying the same thing that people and its kind of depressing, sure some people make jokes like "X company announces NFTs hur hur" and while its an easy joke to make (and one that is getting less and less absurd) its still a joke. Its this on-going greater issue with comedy where people act if you personally don't like a joke no one should be able to say it.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

The bold part is certainly true: they will live and die doing as they please. But as for no idea what adults want... what do adults want, dare I ask? Because it's not kids who constantly complain about microtransactions in games they constantly buy despite knowing it'll be laced with extra purchases.

Oh to be clear - Its not that they don't make things that appeal to adults, its that whenever they do try to create something more intentionally mature, they struggle. Luckily for Nintendo, and as I aluded to in my manchild jab, Adults in general do still enjoy many of the things they enjoyed as kids, as they tend to be easily accessible, easily ingested, and not requiring an excess of complex thought - perfect for a brain off entertainment medium, which is desperately needed in the modern politicized spaces in gaming. I just like poking at the idea of nintendo addict soyboys.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Does anyone else find it amusing we've managed to discuss video game piracy with broader points of view and more nuance in 2 pages than Jim has managed in at least an hours-worth of rambling Jimquisitions?

Remind me again how this fat cunt is qualified to run his mouth about any aspect of the gaming industry.

 

[Gloria From Pokemon Sword]

Does anyone else find it amusing we've managed to discuss video game piracy with broader points of view and more nuance in 2 pages than Jim has managed in at least an hours-worth of rambling Jimquisitions?

Remind me again how this fat cunt is qualified to run his mouth about any aspect of the gaming industry.

Jim doesn't talk to people who are different than he and his worldview already are, so he's too bigoted and exclusionary to have the representation Kiwifarms has to offer.

 

[AutoGuyNoFile]

That said, community reviews do get read and passed onto us for designing future releases so we do like to see them. Journalists are 50% hacks and 50% insightful cunts with obnoxious politics. So community reviews are more valuable for direction than ever. You know once we stop being defensive man babies over mean words. Reviews on places like Steam are seen before elsewhere, so those tend to be best, but a good review still helps. I'll forgive your piracy in return for a review.

I just wanna say this information makes me VERY happy.

The whole reason Game Journalists "mattered" was because of the post-mortem process. They were supposed to be the people with knowledge and experience with videogames and thus the best way to find out what is and is not working with your game is to read their reviews. Certainly it's easier than trying to make sense of screaming forum posts. Just let the professionals handle it. So when journos decided to start pushing their politics over everything else while being complete morons in their field, that could cause problems for game development. Hearing that Steam Reviews are seen and may even be more important than professional reviews makes me very happy. It also makes me wanna write a bunch of reviews!

 

[Neko GF]

THE UK IS LITERALLY TORTURING TRANS PEOPLE-

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Allowing alternatives to getting sterilized and getting hormones that your body will constantly reject= torture,

 

[Gloria From Pokemon Sword]

THE UK IS LITERALLY TORTURING TRANS PEOPLE-
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Allowing alternatives to getting sterilized and getting hormones that your body will constantly reject= torture,

Shame Jim isn't trans. He really should stop speaking on behalf of groups he's not a part of tbh.

 

[Hyro]

Shame Jim isn't trans. He really should stop speaking on behalf of groups he's not a part of tbh.

He's officially twitter bio trans, and also takes estrogen pills in his videos.

Apparently he somehow didn't realise he was a nonbinary blob until his mid 30's after years of acting like a fat man