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

[Kuritan Deplorable]

I can't pretend to get too upset about this tbh. It'd be one thing if you had to buy the fatalities to be able to do them in the game, but if retards are too inept to learn a simple button combo and want to pay money to see something they could look up on YouTube that's a them problem.

I view that as the same kind of exploitative as the insane mark-up on snacks at the cinema. Yes, it's outrageous a bag of Starburst is five or six bucks, but it's also outrageous that you're too retarded to buy snacks beforehand and take them in with you.

At a basic level I agree with you, but in most practice this is a stupid thing to do - Because once you open the door that "Idiots" are fine to be fleeced, they will keep rolling it forward until they find a way to fleece you, and then they'll roll right over any objections as "But we need this revenue to make ends meet, this is how we keep the studio afloat, if you want good games you're going to have to pay for everything in it". Its a losing proposition to let them get a foot in the door, and more importantly its terrible to encourage the industry to get dependent on fleecing anyone rather than making good games. That shits how we end up in the situation of needing six hundred overpaid children working for five years to make games that are objectively worse than their decade old predecessors. They don't need to make good games at affordable budgets with actually talented people if all they need is a visual spectacle to draw in retards to fleece.

As soon as they start trying to monetize anything that isn't the direct and immediate operations of online services (Subscriptions) or the release and sale of a fixed product or fixed, permanent content expansion for a product, we're just opening the door to be shook out for no net new benefit as players.

 

[The Scorpion]

I can't pretend to get too upset about this tbh. It'd be one thing if you had to buy the fatalities to be able to do them in the game, but if retards are too inept to learn a simple button combo and want to pay money to see something they could look up on YouTube that's a them problem.

I view that as the same kind of exploitative as the insane mark-up on snacks at the cinema. Yes, it's outrageous a bag of Starburst is five or six bucks, but it's also outrageous that you're too retarded to buy snacks beforehand and take them in with you.

You are correct, I can't argue against that. It's effectively retard bait.

I still hate that it exists, though.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Its a losing proposition to let them get a foot in the door, and more importantly its terrible to encourage the industry to get dependent on fleecing anyone rather than making good games.

You're not wrong, but we are already way past the point of corpos giving two shits about delivering quality products, and that's not unique to gaming. Personally, I don't care because when it gets worse than I'm willing to tolerate I'll just stop buying new games.

There are already more good old games than I will ever have time to play in my life, and plenty of stuff in the indie sphere coming out that continues to interest me, so I really don't give a shit if the entire AAA industry collapses under the weight of its own greed and hubris.

 

[Slur Generator]

You're not wrong, but we are already way past the point of corpos giving two shits about delivering quality products, and that's not unique to gaming. Personally, I don't care because when it gets worse than I'm willing to tolerate I'll just stop buying new games

I already reached that point years ago. Pretty much the same thing with all entertainment.

 

[Oliver Onions]

I already reached that point years ago. Pretty much the same thing with all entertainment.

It's taking me a bit longer to get there because I've always been a few years behind releases because I refuse to pay full price for new games.

 

[Shekelslovakia]

Seriously what is up with Jim Sterling and his cringy musical moments with that dude zilla. Does he not have enough filler to fill the videos quota or is he trying to do some sort of "Svengoolie" musical number that he does in a show for the 10 people watching.

 

[Gloria The Glorious]

Seriously what is up with Jim Sterling and his cringy musical moments with that dude zilla. Does he not have enough filler to fill the videos quota or is he trying to do some sort of "Svengoolie" musical number that he does in a show for the 10 people watching.

Jim's getting ready for his cover of "Days Of Girlhood (With A Penis)".

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Rather than just admit they were wrong/lied about the game and take the L, Sterling has instead doubled down and just attacked everyone that disagrees with them.

https://x.com/jimsterling/status/1772557120774254694

 

[Slur Generator]

Rather than just admit they were wrong/lied about the game and take the L, Sterling has instead doubled down and just attacked everyone that disagrees with them.
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Why the hell are you using they them?

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Why the hell are you using they them?

Because referring to someone as “they” existed long before trans pronouns did, calm down.

 

[Gloria The Glorious]

Rather than just admit they were wrong/lied about the game and take the L, Sterling has instead doubled down and just attacked everyone that disagrees with them.
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121K views... can't break 500 likes.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Rather than just admit they were wrong/lied about the game and take the L, Sterling has instead doubled down and just attacked everyone that disagrees with them.
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Having a search through the replies and I'm genuinely impressed, people are rightfully calling him out for his garbage take. I hope this has an impact on the review so there can be even more salt to mine and we get a "bitching about mean people online" video next week.

 

[LecherousGranolaBar]

lol

 

[yoursavior]

This whole thing on X has been amazing to watch playout. Sterling fans are now attacking Gene Park and accusing him of having sex while the token trans Sue Lightning is bagging on ol' Jimbo.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Sterling fans are now attacking Gene Park and accusing him of having sex

Is that an own on Twitter now???

 

[Oliver Onions]

Rather than just admit they were wrong/lied about the game and take the L, Sterling has instead doubled down and just attacked everyone that disagrees with them.
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I'll take 'What is a MMORPG player?' for $500, Jim.

ETA: I made an archive because Jim is getting bodied so hard I'm certain he's going to delete the tweet, but it didn't archive any of the replies, so I've also included a mega screenshot of a selection of those, as well as the single white knight I could find.
https://archive.is/MIYa3

I'm also now placing my bet that next week's JQ is going to be called 'Dragon's Dogpile 2'.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

Popping out with another update on sub loss. 757k as of now. 58 to go. At current speed, it's gonna be in 116 more weeks under 700k

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

Glad to see that Jimbo is still losing subscribers.

His whining about "paid" fast travel is par for the course - whenever he reviews a game which takes a significant amount of time to complete he either whines about it not having "time savers" or that any such are paywalled.

He carries on like a bloody hippo on amphetamines, just wanting to get to the end, as if gaming is some obstacle course.

IMO, having those things for sale attracts lazy people like Sterling and should therefore not exist.


On a completely different subject, I found out earlier this week that Mr. Sterling got himself appointed "Loremaster" for the game Vampire Survivors. This game is a roguelite bullet hell which literally has  no lore besides "Kill as many enemies as possible before dying. Repeat."

Proof:



When I just checked, it's even worse - this is only for one of the DLC maps.

(He's apparently abysmally bad at the game too and his advice sucks, but that's to be expected).

Here's to zero subscribers and a vacant Patreon for Jim. That will be a glorious day indeed.

 

[Oliver Onions]

His whining about "paid" fast travel is par for the course - whenever he reviews a game which takes a significant amount of time to complete he either whines about it not having "time savers" or that any such are paywalled.

It's actually worse than that. As people who've actually played the game have pointed out these things are not paywalled. You can buy some extra fast-travel items for real money if you want, but you get them in the game as a matter of course.

He clearly started from the position of wanting to whine about microtransactions then worked backwards, refusing to let pesky things like reality get in his way. The real question is did he know these items are available in-game and deliberately omit that information, or is he so lazy he didn't even play the game long enough to find that out before running off to moan on the JQ.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

The real question is did he know these items are available in-game and deliberately omit that information, or is he so lazy he didn't even play the game long enough to find that out before running off to moan on the JQ.

Knowing Jim, my money is on the latter. He probably made up his mind on the whole issue the moment he heard the first tenative details from people in his circles. Besides, people like Jim absolutely loathe the idea of any restrictions of any form on their gameplay activity, so I doubt anything short of infinite fast travel is enough for him.