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

Suck the Cock said:
Nah, it's always been stupid. It's not like you were planning on playing every single game on Steam anyway, so why do you care if the new releases are more likely to be crap? All Steam did was make it easier for indie devs to get their half-decent experimental game to the 5 people who care about it, and everyone else didn't even notice. Unless they were perpetually miserable retards like Jim who go looking for something to complain about, that is.

Steam has always kept up with making high-quality filters so you're never forced to wade through dozens of garbage games to get what you're looking for. With reviews, discovery queue, search filters, etc. I don't think I've ever seen a single "asset flip" or anything close to it, except through Jim's videos specifically.
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The steam recommendation queue is regularly 1 traditionally popular game, maybe 1 indie game that had some work put into it but I have zero interest in, and 8 trash games made in a day like "Hitler vs Hentai", and games like that get pushed to the forefront of the store by memelords buying them for a dollar and giving them positive reviews that are just ascii art of doge and garbage like that.
 
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EmpGulcasa said:
The steam recommendation queue is regularly 1 traditionally popular game, maybe 1 indie game that had some work put into it but I have zero interest in, and 8 trash games made in a day like "Hitler vs Hentai", and games like that get pushed to the forefront of the store by memelords buying them for a dollar and giving them positive reviews that are just ascii art of doge and garbage like that.
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Yeah I dunno what to tell you, I've never had that problem. I'm moving up on a thousand games on Steam, and never had to even think about filtering out the trash. The fact that I've got like 3 people arguing this point means I must be missing something, though. Maybe I'm just lucky, or just rely more on word of mouth so I missed out on the trash era, who knows. But I just checekd my recommendation queue and got 12 actual games, all but one of which were from major companies with tens of thousands of reviews. Not that I rely on the queue to find games anyway, it's just there if I need extra.
 
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The Fatriarchy said:
I stopped even bothering to look through the Steam store for anything. If it gets announced somewhere or there's a kickstarter, that's the only way I'll ever be aware of something actually interesting. Sometimes I rarely hear of a game until either just before it comes out, or long after. Nobody wants to sift through an endless sea of trash to find one real game.
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filter it by genre and then get autistic with tags. works for me.
 
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I find all the steam store bitching fascination - Not because its explicitly wrong, any easier shopping experience is preferable to the alternatives, but that its effectively demanding a level of invasive knowledge and moderating activity bordering on the dystopian.

What people fundamentally want is all games to be able to get onto steam, by virtue of wanting to have all their things in one place. Different people like different games, and have different quality metrics and lines, so trying to delineate is an exercise in censorship that'll never succeed - thats why valve ultimately dropped all the gates, it was impossible to find a happy middle ground. Atop of this, people only ever want to be shown the things they care about, when they care about them, with absolutely minimal effort. This requires a huge amount of user classification based on library activity, plus the activities of other people on all other games, to try to suss out exactly what you play and which new games match that. The latter half is a nightmare since the system knows too little about new games, and the former is the shit that we've ostensibly been complaining about for years, with companies building invasive user profiling to try and maximize the buying impulse of their stores.

This stuff is why steam has the whole labs section, experimenting with different methods and tools to both surface things, and allow you to dig deeper outside what its usually trying to make. A few of those experiments were axed because they didn't work well. They're facing the warehouse store problem, infinite shelf space just leads to exhausted customers. The difference being they're actually trying something about it, Walmart just throws up vague signs/sections and calls it good enough.

Of course, Jim isn't capable of communicating nuance in his stuff. Imagine if he got what he wanted with steam curation, and steam refused to accept some transbinary visual novel because it crashed on half the testing machines reliably. We'd hear for months how steam hates trans people and indie developers shouldn't be held to the same standards as AAA, unless they make games he doesn't like.
 
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Just_a_Bored_Guy said:
I'm pretty sure everyone has already gotten up in arms over the new Pokemon games selling 10 mil. despite their severe lack of polish.
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How is it that someone who has been on youtube for years still has no idea how to make a thumbnail? It's a screenshot of pokemon that is barely recognizable as such, the dude from the cover art of cyberpunk 2077 and then Jim making a face. This barely communicates anything about the video, or the content within, and he's not even making a reaction face, it's just him winking.

The sheer laziness never ceases to amaze me. Then again, if Jim was the kind of person who puts effort and passion into things, he wouldn't be a lolcow.
 
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Donuteater said:
How is it that someone who has been on youtube for years still has no idea how to make a thumbnail? It's a screenshot of pokemon that is barely recognizable as such, the dude from the cover art of cyberpunk 2077 and then Jim making a face. This barely communicates anything about the video, or the content within, and he's not even making a reaction face, it's just him winking.

The sheer laziness never ceases to amaze me. Then again, if Jim was the kind of person who puts effort and passion into things, he wouldn't be a lolcow.
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One of the few things where he got the women cliché down though, soon it'll be his face making out 90% of the thumbnail (horrifying) and whatever the video is about will be unrecognizable entirely.
 
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Kuritan Deplorable said:
Of course, Jim isn't capable of communicating nuance in his stuff. Imagine if he got what he wanted with steam curation, and steam refused to accept some transbinary visual novel because it crashed on half the testing machines reliably. We'd hear for months how steam hates trans people and indie developers shouldn't be held to the same standards as AAA, unless they make games he doesn't like.
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I've been saying this for years, Jim's biggest problem (professionally) is that he's nothing but hot air. He never offers any actionable solutions to problems, except to say they should be fixed. If I call a plumber round to fix my leaking sink, I'm not paying him to tell me the sink shouldn't be leaking, I'm paying him to stop the fucking sink from leaking.

It's just one of the many things that make him such an insufferable twat; he speaks with the confidence of a man who shapes industries despite the fact he's never done anything in his career to justify it. At best he was tangentially related to something interesting (DigiHom lawsuit) or he stole someone else's actually interesting concept ('Perfect Pasta Sauce' marketing theory).

Also, just FYI: Another 1k subs gone. Have a great day, everyone.
 
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Kuritan Deplorable said:
This stuff is why steam has the whole labs section, experimenting with different methods and tools to both surface things, and allow you to dig deeper outside what its usually trying to make. A few of those experiments were axed because they didn't work well. They're facing the warehouse store problem, infinite shelf space just leads to exhausted customers. The difference being they're actually trying something about it, Walmart just throws up vague signs/sections and calls it good enough.
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It'd be real nice if Steam actually advertised that the labs stuff exists. A lot of useful discovery tools are just kinda buried in menus and such so that a lot of people won't even know they exist.
 
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Donuteater said:
How is it that someone who has been on youtube for years still has no idea how to make a thumbnail? It's a screenshot of pokemon that is barely recognizable as such, the dude from the cover art of cyberpunk 2077 and then Jim making a face. This barely communicates anything about the video, or the content within, and he's not even making a reaction face, it's just him winking.

The sheer laziness never ceases to amaze me. Then again, if Jim was the kind of person who puts effort and passion into things, he wouldn't be a lolcow.
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I'd gladly take random screenshots over all of the samey title cards clickbait YouTubers use. Though this is the worst of both words, of course.
 
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