The problem with Now is PS3 games need to be streamed on it rather than downloaded because the PS3 was such a nightmare shitbox to work with and Sony are too lazy to develop proper BC for it so they can't be emulated like PS1/2 games.
Well, something like 10 years ago when lootboxes were just becoming a thing, for the most part he was aside from a few standouts like TB. Jim's perennial problem is that he doesn't seem to realise the rest of the world has moved on, the conversation has evolved, and he's refused to evolve alongside it like he so commonly critiques the AAA industry apologists these days.
And here is the crucial center of modern aesthetics and thinking: It's one of acceptance and conformity: When your culture, race, country, and moral frameworks have been shit on by every corporation, government figure, and even your own media, the weak flock to whatever they can find to provide some temporary safe-haven from the cultural browbeating.
Mother fucker wasn't even "openly queer" when he was living in Mississippi. He's trying to retroactively gain woke points for shit he did before trooning out.
Can actually imagine him slamming open the audience doors and yelling that out of the dead silence of an E3 Act.
Maybe he refused to use motorized cart in the Wallmart as some kind of statement.
This is fucking sad. It isn't remotely punk either. "Only because I found a mob I could join did I feel okay with acting like a mob piece of shit."
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the guy can't even talk about economics like a normal person anymore
The lighting and shadows and make-up and general shape and size of him combined with that fat fucking mouth and lunatic eyes really disturbs me when he dresses up like this. It might be worse than his 60 year old woman wig and steampunk get-up. It's a toss up right now.
Nobody should give this fat bastard money either. If he doesn't believe in exchanging things of value for money, people should just steal his shit. Why should anyone pay this bloated leech for repeating other people's opinions while dressed as a child molester?
This man is on a straight, smooth, perfectly open road to suicide. I'm not even jesting at this point, I think that he's literally going insane before our very eyes. Josh underestimated the symptoms by thinking that Mr. Sterling has simply grown tired of working within the gaming industry. It seems he is breaking down on all levels of his life, and is entering a self-destructive spiral.
Were lootboxes even a thing 10 years ago? I know microtransactions were, and I remember Jim ranting about them back then, but so was everyone.
It's also very cult-like: Finding broken and isolated people (either geographically or mentally speaking) and convincing them you hold the secret to their happiness as long as they submit themselves to you completely, usually cutting all ties with their old social circles and/or family in the process.
Team Fortress 2 started having crates in late 2010, so yes, they are a decade old.
Going even further back, collectible cards are basically lootboxes. Magic the Gathering put game pieces of different power into lootboxes. But those and TF2 had something in common: things you pull out of lootboxes could be exchanged, traded, just given away, etc. Modern lootbox things almost never allow any trade between players, because it's counterproductive to their profits.
The earliest example of what's recognisable as the lootbox is in Fifa 2009's Ultimate Team. It predates the mobile game boom and TF2's crates. Whether Jim was banging the drum about them specifically at the time I can't remember, but he was definitely one of the forerunners once they started encroaching on game design to a noticeable degree.
Another thing they had in common is neither have a $60 buy-in, upfront. From what little I dug up, TF2 introduced loot boxes around about the same time the game went F2P and if MTG is anything like the Pokemon cards I used to buy you could choose any starter deck and start playing, or just collect for fun.
