Jimquisition: Fun Pay Wall

[Rtoip]

Jim sounds surprisingly good. A great song.

 

[Psychobabble]

Fucking excellent! Jim in all seriousness you need to do more shit like this as it's fucking brilliant. While I find your serious discussions on these subjects to be quite good, nothing gets under your intended targets skin like this kind of lampooning. Plus since it's short, witty, entertaining AND makes an excellent point I feel it has a better chance of reaching a wider audience as people will share it with friends who would have otherwise not been interested in listening to a gaming discussion.

"It's brassy, sassy, it's a musical humdinger!"

 

[lassiie]

OMFG....this fucking killed me....Very well done Jim, an unexpected mid-week surprise

 

[Charli]

Jim how did you go from 'that new annoying douchebag-persona guy ranting about shit' trying to make it here to the Escapist's greatest treasure?

Brings a little tear to my eye.

 

[Adeptus Aspartem]

Any company charging that much for all of their DLC is doing it wrong.

Id argue any consumer paying for it is consumering wrong.

EDIT:im in no way sticking up for the companies, its a disgrace how much they take the piss. But I vote with my wallet.

Agreed. So let's just split the difference and say they're both doing it wrong and get back to playing games that don't rip us off.

Actually, if i knew my costumerbase was so stupid to be ripped off so easy & hard, that i could swim in gold plated diamonds, i'd do it too.

Why work if you can feed them the same shit in portions - always for the full price?

It's the people's fault for buying into that sorta crap. I can't blame any company for takin' the free money that's been thrown at them.

 

[Jimothy Sterling]

Jim how did you go from 'that new annoying douchebag-persona guy ranting about shit' trying to make it here to the Escapist's greatest treasure?

Brings a little tear to my eye.

I am perpetually grateful for the way things turned out.

 

[Benedict]

The music started up and I was like "oh, man, it's going to be some so-bad-it's-good Rhymedown type thing, prep ears for impact" but then it turned out to be like, legitimately good singing and clever lyrics and I want to buy it now? My expectations keep getting violated every which way by this man.

(feel like i should. express. gratitude, to some sort of powerful being or another, on account of his existence. but maybe that's old hat?)

 

[el_kabong]

Most excellent. I want to see a new series like Rhymedown, but team up Jim and Gavin. It may not live up to being a Rhymedown Spectacular, but maybe it will be kara-OK.

 

[Drummodino]

*Applause*

Thank God for you Jim.

This fucking DLC, season pass, micro-transactions bullshit just needs to stop! I'm willing to buy DlC, I'm willing to buy expansion packs (hello XCOM: Enemy Within).

But if I pay between $60-$90 for a game (Australia ftw), I damn well should not have to deal with it pestering me for more of my hard earned money! Jesus fucking Christ.

Before anyone says "but it's optional, just don't buy it and it won't affect you" - you are WRONG. Recent videos from TotalBiscuit and Boogie2988 explained this very well.

If a game like Forza has microtransactions, developers WILL extend the length of the progression. So it will take a ridiculous amount of time to unlock the best cars, the best tracks, unless you pay real money. Which is complete utter wank and should be culled viciously from the gaming industry.

Vote with your wallets people, do not buy full priced AAA games with micro-transactions. Let's send a message to the publishers and developers that we will not tolerate this shit. We got Microsoft to back down over the Xbox One's anti-consumer policies, let's do it again!

 

[Soak]

If i would by any means like "Wonderwall", i would love this song so much...
You kinda sung yourself into my heart.
Ah whatever - Jim, you're so awesome, i want your babiiiiies! Uuuuuuhhhuuuuuuu *squeal*!!

I suggest we make this into a chorus to sing in the church of Jimquisition, do some more and we make a song book out of it.

 

[Shaitan051]

Argh I want to hate it, I SHOULD hate it, but Wonderwall is an awesome song.

 

[Reyold]

That was brilliant and magnificent, Mr. Sterling. Can we look forward to more of such videos in the future?

 

[wulf3n]

Brilliant! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBh895KdXAU]

I hereby request that all review and/or opinion show footage on the escapist be read amongst a backdrop of classic music.

 

[Elf Defiler Korgan]

That was great.

But I just don't give a shit anymore. As long as I have Steam sales I'm the winner. Sell your games big publishers. Sell them for $60 and $60 worth of DLC on top of that. I'll wait a year and get it all for $15. I have a life to live. And I have other sources of entertainment. I don't have to buy your games as soon as they're released.

Yes, the patient gamer.

My friends call me so cheap for not getting every game when it comes out. Steam deals 4 life.

 

[Something Amyss]

Id argue any consumer paying for it is consumering wrong.

EDIT:im in no way sticking up for the companies, its a disgrace how much they take the piss. But I vote with my wallet.

While I am heavily into the notion that consumers should shop smarter, there's a tough issue with entertainment as a whole. It gets worse with video games. There's standards in novels (though they shift), records, movies, and so on. Games? There's not even standards between genres. When you have, per the example of COD, a large body of people who willingly pay 60 bucks for ONLY the MP, does 50 dollars not make sense? Isn't tripling your content worth it?

For that matter, if you get a lot of enjoyment out of it, is it wrong to pay 60 dollars for the original or 50 for all the DLC? I mean, should things like length dictate content? Or should it be enjoyment? And is it unreasonable for them to be charging what they do in the face of that?

That being said....

That was great.

But I just don't give a shit anymore. As long as I have Steam sales I'm the winner. Sell your games big publishers. Sell them for $60 and $60 worth of DLC on top of that. I'll wait a year and get it all for $15. I have a life to live. And I have other sources of entertainment. I don't have to buy your games as soon as they're released.

It really is fucked up to consider how this stuff is priced with regard to sales. Especially Steam sales. I just looked at Sleeping Dogs today, and you can get all the DLC for just above fifteen bucks. It's a year old and has a fuckton of DLC, most of which was costume packs and the like. and while it's great to be able to buy everything for a game at a sawbuck or two, it really does sort of make prices seem a little arbitrary.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to see prices drop, but....

Anyway, I'm more and more likely to wait for a sale, for a GOTY edition, and then what? When the consumer becomes trained for that, I wonder what their next step is. Or has Borderlands 2 shown it to us with their multiple season passes?

 

[OManoghue]

This is brilliant, at first I was like "hey bonus episode"

But it was all so much better

 

[jackpipsam]

If this is meant to be a reaction to the rampant microtransactions on xbox games, those also include singleplayer and are not in fact dlc but microtransactions to unlock stuff.

I think the song was about DLC in general across all aspects of gaming culture these days.

 

[FancyNick]

Thank you for that Jim, it was beyond wonderful. This dlc trend we've had for awhile now is only getting worse and it honestly has me worried for what the industry is becoming.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

That was wonderful, thanks Jim for brighten up my day!