Jimquisition: Accountability

[spikeyjoey]

HAH.. i see what you mean with the brother love..
I like how jim notices all the twats like you who just ***** and moan about him and flips it on its head.. the joys of the internet as a medium i guess


And for the record jim- you look a lot better without that red tie

 

[Still Life]

When I signed on to the 360, I loaded up Mass Effect 2 only to get a message telling me all my DLC downloads were suddenly corrupted and needed to be re-downloaded. Why? Because even though I legitimately own Mass Effect 2 and paid for that DLC, apparently I still need to be online and connected to by Cerberus and Xbox Live to use them. That really pissed me off.

That's strange.

I had to be connected to CN to activate the DLC after downloading, yet I can play subsequent games without having to be online. I play on PC, so maybe it's different?

 

[Leviathan_]

Hate to say it, but you're starting to grow on me, Jim.

 

[Magnesium360]

I demand no one else enter the Jim + contest, that deep Jimpressable kiss is totally mine.

Jimpressive*

Yeah, I changed it.

Don't let it go to far. You don't want to become Jimpregnated.

OT: Good vid, back next week? Strongly in favour of.

 

[JPRanger]

DON'T KILL HIM RUSS!! WE LIKE HIM NOW!! that all I was thinking towards the middle of this one haha very nice episode, didn't much enjoy the previous ones, hense why I was half expecting Mr. Editor-in-Chief over there to have tossed this bad baby off a cliff spartan style. However I do believe Mr. Sterling has weasled his way into his on niche on the escapist, and if future episodes are like this one, well, *in Jim's voice* THANK GOD FOR THAT. =P

 

[LuckyClover95]

I like it, thanks.
Yays!
Good video.

 

[Croesus_Hubris]

This series is growing on me.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

...woah...Jim actually had a good point this week. I need to lie down.

Free bonus equipment seems to be the one that has that has crept up on me with EA and ubisoft wanting you to register.

 

[Poisoned Al]

Heh, I agree with Jim. IT MUST BE THE END OF DAYS!

 

[DeaDRabbiT]

While I managed to actually chuckle this week (but only at the First Templar part) I still wanted to punch myself in the face, then the monitor at the end when he decided to rub it in that as much as I'd love to never have the opportunity to begrudgingly click on his video links, that it's just not going to happen for the time being.

/Switchblade

 

[Little Duck]

Would prefer infinitely if you dimmed the light you stuck up your arse by say 20-30%.

I don't think the escapist has much of a leg to stand on when criticising subscriptions when there's a publishers club we need to pay for just to watch Jim on our iPhones.

 

[Jyggalag]

This is exactly why I never purchase games from EA. Different email address means I'm stuck with my old email and password every time I want to get a new game. So long Bioware, it's totally not worth it.

 

[siddif]

I have to say as someone who hated the first ep (still do) and gradually warmed to him over time this is the best Jimquisition so far and i hope to see more in the future

Also on topic, the reason I have yet to buy Assassins Creed series on PC is due to Ubisoft wanting a constant connection to your computer while you play, while the others services arent as bad i would still like my Steam games to work via steam and not require additional logins to separate distributers...

Personally i have Steam, PSN, Games for Windows Live, Xbox Live, Origin, Game Centre, Crystal (another iPhone one) as well as Minecraft and WoW which is way too many people having my details just for one hobby especially when no book companies need my info nor do i subscribe to any commercial film services (such as netflix but excluding youtube).

 

[GamemasterAnthony]

Yeah...all these password requirements are really getting out of hand. It's not like jumping through hoops just to play a game...it's like jumping through hoops covered in spikes and that have been set on fire that lead right into the gaping jaws of a Tarrasque.

CAPTCHA: away hagent

Away is right. Go away, Captcha. I'm still mad at you for trying to use musical notes that one time.

 

[Hitchmeister]

Game companies are just following the trend of society at large. Having to sign up for a new online service every time you get a game (whether the game itself has online content or not) is no different from carrying around a wallet full of "loyalty" cards for every grocery store, drug store, gas station, and, I guess, any other retail establishment for the sole purpose of avoiding their disloyalty(?) tax.

 

[s0p0g]

i can haz fridge magnet plz?? ^^

also: /sign video

 

[Sylocat]

"I'm going to pretend to take myself seriously and make a huge deal out of the fact that I'm pretending to deflect criticism... isn't that funny? It's funny, right? Seriously, LOOK HOW FUNNY AND OVER-THE-TOP AND WACKY I AM!!1!!!!"

Can you blame him? Yahtzee got famous -- or as famous as the niche audience allows -- doing essentially the same thing. You can accuse Jim of being unoriginal but you can't say he doesn't know what works.

The key difference is, Yahtzee doesn't drag out his jokes interminably long. He doesn't take up half the video with his clown act.

 

[geizr]

"...is that none of it, none of it, is necessary"

I find myself very much in agreement with Jim's points, and the above is the critical key statement. Game publishers as of late have been on a complete bender to pump out crappy games, send gamers through a myriad authentication hoops to store information that just gets stolen(putting us gamers at risk), and then handicap the entire game experience with poorly implemented DRM. And we pay good money for this.

Wow, come to think of it, why are we gamers still putting up with this crap? We should just start finding something else to do with our time and money, things that are far more rewarding and less of a fuck-over than video games.

 

[Sentox6]

The key difference is, Yahtzee doesn't drag out his jokes interminably long. He doesn't take up half the video with his clown act.

No, just the whole video instead.

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

God be praised!
Anyhow, good episode - my thoughts exactly. On PC I'm already tolerating Steam, if game features GFWL or any such crap I just buy it for PS3.