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I doubt even one baby-boomer-aged woman his dad dates knows what Valve News Network is.
Careercow Tyler McVicker / ValveNewsNetwork (VNN) / Tyler Jon McVicker - Autist with stalker tendencies larping as the Jason Schreier of Valve news
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He's honestly permanently killed any hopes he ever had of working for any real company in the gaming industry, not just Valve. Regardless of his passion, being a leak and datamine oriented content creator is an adversarial position towards the company and content your mining. Hiring someone who has a history of significant content leaks and baseless public speculation is a PR disaster waiting to happen. I'd genuinely not touch him with a 10 foot pole, because he seems like the kind of PR guy who'll go off and do his own thing against instructions and leave your organization in a mess of misleading claims and attempted social engineering of interest tweets, leaving you on the backfoot to try and reveal something now to damage control a blue balled, angry audience.
Combine that with his recent history of bad public relations in general in non-commercial projects, and the idea of pulling him onto something in a community manager or PR role is laughable. His best hope is that self claimed goal to start an LMG scale group, but saying "Well I'll just start a successful company" is laughable at best, and relies on skills he's shown to be horribly lacking in. I feel like this rebranding adventure is just going to be a slowly sinking ship of irregular streaming and careless stream of consciousness content that peters off into the void. He has no real plan for this content change other than "dig into other leaks" but he's doing it on the back of a channel thats mostly build around a very specific audience and company. I actually watched VNN for the trickles of Valve News, and couldn't care less about the other crap, and I imagine many are in much the same boat.
My guess is when his metrics and audience engagement starts to tank as the Youtube algorithm punishes him for deviation, he'll panic and snap back hard at the community, indirectly, and try and revert any damages that have occurred up to that point.
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He's already tried to pivot and rebrand before with his "Bethesda News Network" and "Nintendo News Network" ventures, and both of those failed miserably. Didn't help that he was stretching himself incredibly thin with the shift, going from managing one channel and putting out mostly a video or two fortnightly, to attempting to use that same level of output over 3 different channels. His views have already been tanking over time, and he's now pulling in tens of thousands of views on a lot of his videos, awful numbers for a channel with 350k subscribers. He's already on a "sinking ship", as you put it so succinctly, and this will only leave him worse off. I cannot see his audience of Valve fans reacting positively to his shift to publishing content covering, among a myriad of non-Valve related topics, Coldplay.
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So much arrogance in these messages as usual. I did have three quotes here to respond to but I've decided to cut it down to this one since the others were just woe is me trash or obvious.
Because of Tyler's own favoritism. To tie this into the TF2 mod community, the only big news posted all year by VNN was the release of TF2C after four years of controversial development all because they gave him DRM clearance three years ago. His favoritism is seen again in the Portal mod community, with VNN covering the Portal mod giving him early access nine months before anyone else would play it. He ignored the advancements of the TF2 mod community and ignored the advancements of the Portal mod community, opting to cover only one mod for each despite the communities having much, much more in them in the past year. Unless you were a part of the TF2 mod community, you wouldn't have known that this year there were two new TF2 mods being created along with two smaller mods getting reworks but most importantly two of the biggest TF2 mods completed a huge amount of progress towards a legitimate reverse engineered copy of TF2. VNN doesn't cover the communities, he only covers what will give him preferential treatment and ignores everything else in the process.Tyler McVicker said:
The reason the TF2 mod community turned on him specifically wasn't his coverage only showing TF2C, it was for the OF situation which is almost certainly based on the TF2C/TDC bias. In the process of knocking out OF with an ultimatum once they stopped being useful to him he angered the rest of the mod community and fled from every channel as a result. Tyler's biggest enemy in dealing with groups is himself, because his actions are motivated by greed to get the newest scoop no matter the reliability of the information or the consequences of his actions.
In addition to having journalism the reliability of a supermarket tabloid, from what I've seen of his work he has the "Idea Guy" developer personality which is a turnoff even for a mod team. These are the people who will contribute nothing but run their mouths off telling everything and everyone what to do including making high level decisions at times. Think of it as someone the skill of an intern, the arrogance of middle management, but running things like a lead. A very dangerous type of developer if left unchecked so you have to deal with them before they cause an internal or external disaster of some sort.
I would say the combination of both these traits means that if he would get his hands on an actual secret he would be a fool and leak it, but that's already been demonstrated with the Half Life: Alyx leak and the 2017 TF2 codebase. I would be surprised if Valve hasn't given him a purposely fake lead to leak since I've seen companies do it to mess with game dataminers who get too comfortable.
Even without being an actual employee Valve doesn't want to touch him with a ten foot pole, and neither will any serious studio once they find out who he is and his background. From a media standpoint he's doomed if he tries to diversify since his non-Valve categories failed previously, and his only success is being stuck doing more Valve rumors and stories despite burning the majority of his bridges with various Valve communities. His reputation will be stuck as the tabloid writing Adoring Fan of Valve because that's what he's made it through years of bad choices.
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I guess we all expected too much of Tyler to stay off Twitter and Discord, since he's been continuously tweeting every single day of his "break" so far, along with liking and replying to other tweets. I guess the dopamine was too much to give up! Too bad people are rightfully calling him out on it.
He was also posting on a Half-Life related discord server yesterday, messages are around 2 hours apart, it's not that interesting apart from demonstrating he is completely unable to hold a promise.
He was also posting on a Half-Life related discord server yesterday, messages are around 2 hours apart, it's not that interesting apart from demonstrating he is completely unable to hold a promise.
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He ditched the Valve name and rebranded his channel to include his other channels content. He thinks he can be bigger without Valve now. He was already branching out into Nintendo and Bethesda on side channels but I presume he'll bring them onto the main channel now. I can't imagine how fucked over he's going to be when he does something stupid with a Nintendo leak on par with this
He had a stream yesterday where he explained the rebranding and mentioned being blacklisted by just about everyone at Valve. That leaked HLA incident must have planted the idea that he'll fade away as Valve goes back into a coma and he loses sources. The latter half of the stream is him going on about some Fallout mod, but the beginning he expresses extreme butthurt for TF2 fans. He also talked about being doxed, not caring about views, and having money stolen off his bank account.
I can't archive this stream at the moment due to limited disk space
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Lmao, there's always a financial angle. Always get a chuckle out of this ape getting his grift going when he's got this hyper-consumerist backdrop going on. He needs help making rent, please donate!
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I cringed when he called himself working class, he is anything but that. He's a self employed games journalist, the world wouldn't be any different if his channel didn't exist. It's extremely ironic that he's saying all of this while in that room. If he didn't spend so much on gaming decorations maybe he wouldn't be paying for a surgery from 3 years ago
I've heard a few things about him being a "news vulture" and hoarding any information he can get his hands on first, seems to be true. Saw him make a fool of himself for a second in his Discord, must happen often.
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Imagine being so bitter about some Valve fanboy, that you'd rather deal with slow player on KF that give him one (!!!) view, that will definitely save him. Yeah, right.
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You really don't need to have ten different channels to just cover different companies, honestly makes sense to do so and all in all is probably a good move...
Well at least until he fucks up with some Nintendo leak.
With Valve having release jack shit for the past millennium it honestly makes it kind of hard to prove or disprove leaks. which obviously helps him out quite a bit as it makes it less likely for something to severely damage his credibility. Also he does (or at least did, maybe some of the recent shit's fucked some of them) genuine connections with people related to Valve. So while he's probably reported on some false shit, I mean this guy was briefly tricked by Desinc & Internet Historian shitposting for fuckin sake, I'm sure a autist genuinely trying to fool him could do so. But fact is having actual connections with Valve employees and people like Gray Newell are gonna make a lot of people take you at least somewhat seriously.
He has neither of those benefits, I doubt he knows anyone who would know any real serious info at these other companies. Maybe a few voice actors, but they aren't gonna say a ton due to NDA's, also a lot of the time they don't really know a ton on the game they recorded for anyways. Also with companies like Nintendo, you know, actually releasing things, it's gonna much more common for fake info to be weeded out easily as you'll have actual info to be comparing. With both of these factors in mind I kind of thing that it's a matter of time before he fucks up and gets into some shit with other communities.
Well at least until he fucks up with some Nintendo leak.
With Valve having release jack shit for the past millennium it honestly makes it kind of hard to prove or disprove leaks. which obviously helps him out quite a bit as it makes it less likely for something to severely damage his credibility. Also he does (or at least did, maybe some of the recent shit's fucked some of them) genuine connections with people related to Valve. So while he's probably reported on some false shit, I mean this guy was briefly tricked by Desinc & Internet Historian shitposting for fuckin sake, I'm sure a autist genuinely trying to fool him could do so. But fact is having actual connections with Valve employees and people like Gray Newell are gonna make a lot of people take you at least somewhat seriously.
He has neither of those benefits, I doubt he knows anyone who would know any real serious info at these other companies. Maybe a few voice actors, but they aren't gonna say a ton due to NDA's, also a lot of the time they don't really know a ton on the game they recorded for anyways. Also with companies like Nintendo, you know, actually releasing things, it's gonna much more common for fake info to be weeded out easily as you'll have actual info to be comparing. With both of these factors in mind I kind of thing that it's a matter of time before he fucks up and gets into some shit with other communities.
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He definitely had some legitimate connections, the name carried him a long way as he dominated the Valve news niche. He was the first person in my memory to talk about HLVR being a prequel from Alyx's POV, but he's taking credit as the source for everything about HLVR when in reality majority of the leaks and references were found by various people. He already admitted to being blacklisted/blocked by a majority of Valve employees, but he did a couple streams with some guy who, iirc, worked on Portal 2 and was fired. He did a few interviews covered ITT where he tried to get voice actors to trash talk Valve. I've heard rumors that after the interview with Grey Newell the two kept in contact only for Tyler to drop the ball by insulting Grey.
Tyler won't last too long in the Nintendo community. He can't bullshit his way around things and expect the already established leakers to put up with him, although it already seems like he does
On a side note, someone on /v/ mentioned that during his live playthrough of Alyx, he would complain about his father every few minutes. Would be interesting if it's true
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It's true. I was there for that stream, he kept making stupid "Hi dad," and "You're not my dad" type jokes. The worst part was when someone in chat (he could read chat even in vr via a steamvr addon) called him out for his absolutely dogshit jokes and overall sense of humor, and he essentially told them to fuck off. My only regret is that I didn't archive his first playthrough of alyx afterwards...
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>calls out "tf2 assholes" and how the community needs to shape up
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I would laugh that he can't get the @TylerMcVicker handle but account squatting/inactivity is a pain and Twitter should really fucking do something about it.
I think he's telling the truth because I remember a video from 2015 of him plugging his Patreon and he included a recorded clip of his Dad essentially calling him a waster, essentially to say "my parents disapprove of/are disappointed by what I'm doing". It's long gone now, because I'm assuming he immediately realised that non-consentually recording your father to shill your Patreon is about as low of an act as if sounds.
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Tyler tweeted yesterday about expecting a sequel to New Vegas "in the latter half of this decade", plus some speculation on other games. This is following his rebranding announcement video where he talked about doing videos on New Vegas 2, GTA VI, etc.
Now every game website has written clickbait articles about "New Vegas 2 CONFIRMED??!!" because infamous Valve leaker Tyler McVicker said so on Twitter, and he's not happy with it.
This isn't him acting like lolcow tbf, it's the retarded games journalists looking for clicks. It's still kind of funny.
Now every game website has written clickbait articles about "New Vegas 2 CONFIRMED??!!" because infamous Valve leaker Tyler McVicker said so on Twitter, and he's not happy with it.
This isn't him acting like lolcow tbf, it's the retarded games journalists looking for clicks. It's still kind of funny.