Jimquisition: The Unholy Trinity Of Blind Greedy Bastards

MonkeyPunch

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Trying my very best to get Jim another shoe.

Good episode and nice new shiny (oh no, poor choice of words - you know what I mean) background.
 

Atmos Duality

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Much as I'd like to indulge in confirmation bias, I'm not taking your anecdotal evidence here, Jim. Sorry.

I've seen some really daft marketing decisions over the decades, but nothing so daft as to suggest that the entire AAA game industry only sees three games to make/beat. One or two large departments, sure. But not everyone. Not with the Sword of Damocles hanging over their heads ever more each year.

Also: I must have missed the point behind the strawman mockery of Early Access. I don't know what imbecile suggested that criticism is null and void when something is in beta, but they could not get any further from the truth. Criticism is supposed to be encouraged during beta testing so the product gets better.
 

Raioken18

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Oh god... The Beta lashback...

As someone who has participated in plenty of Beta tests... so much as bring up an issue on an official forum and you get ripped into. Finding bugs or glitches is a criticism of the game and spitting in the face of fans and not at all trying to help clear them up before official release.

I'd actually been finding Beta Moderators getting worse and joining that same crowd of people who will rage at you if you so much as question a glitch or error. It's gotten to the point where Beta access just means you are meant to provide that free advertising or shut up about anything that doesn't work right because it's "still in beta". It'd be fine... if those errors were actually getting fixed.
 

Techno Squidgy

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Mastemat said:
Your new backdrop.....
um...
How should I say this...
um...
It's very.....
National Socialist....
>_>
<_<
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You might want to adjust... something... so that the boxy symbol can be more displayed... but then.... I wonder if raising it slightly will induce the same effect that the National Socialist Party's flag and symbol was meant to project onto Hitler... ie: a halo.
But then the irony in that might be worth doing...
And also the irony that I'm pretty sure 99% of anyone who reads my post won't realize that NAZI is a shortening of National Socialist until I mention Hitler.

Anyways... just thought you might want to adjust it abit... (the boxy symbol doesn't help being obstructed... cause in pieces it's close enough to a swastika that it illustrates my NAZI comparison even moreso...)
I think you'll find that's the point. The whole megalomaniac "living-god" dictator thing is exactly the kind of persona he's trying to project. The old intro used to be the space-nazis from... uhm... that Playstation exclusive.. Killzone, I think?

Also, 99%? Come on, you don't think that badly of us, do you? I mean, we're all gamers here, most of us will have at least some interest in WWII thanks to Medal of Honour, Call of Duty, World of Tanks, Day of Defeat, yadda yadda yadda.

On Topic:
GARME INDUHSTREE, Y U SO DUM?

Come on dudes, why don't you just promote someone who actually understands games and gamers. Then you wouldn't have to deal with all of us hating you every time you do.. well just about anything, because you make stupid decisions because you don't know what your fucking in charge of.
 

Kameburger

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Clash of Candy Ghost! coming this summer from EA (cause they need to get in on this!) Sponsored by Mountain Dew! MOUNTAIN DEW!!! NOTHINGS EVER GONNA BE GOOD!
 

z121231211

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"They'd rather make all the money or no money, nothing inbetween."

That really is the biggest and most obvious problem with the gaming industry because there's a metric fuckton inbetween. And if marketers know how to market then there's no reason you couldn't make a sizable profit from it. And as far as I understand economics, all profit as good.
 

JCAll

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I've seen commercials for Clash of Clans, but never actually checked it out. I had no idea it was actually popular.
 

DragonWright

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So apparently the only games that exist are a game I know of but don't care about, a game I don't care to know about, and a game I've never heard of. Lovely.
 

Adventurer2626

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I also have no idea wtf Clash of Clans is. I only know of King Candy Crush from Jimquisition. So the only game that apparently is confirmed to exist is CoD. Big shocker there. All this time I thought I was playing video games, oh well. I'll have fun doing whatever it is that's not what I think it is. Who needs labels anyways.

So yea /Webby'ed. Hail Hydra for Jim.
 

JET1971

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canadamus_prime said:
I want to know how this happened. How is it that people who know nothing about video games ended up running video game companies?
Two words "Share holders".

@Jim Sterling,
I don't think all studios that are infected with these idiots running the show have the same three games to base everything off of. but the idea of seeing only three games that exist is a sound one. Different studios may have a different set of 3 games. But at the end of the day it is still a bad way to run a game studio.

If shareholders of the publishers were to actually go and play games and visit game conventions, game stores, use steam for a month and try out many different games they may be able to get a clue and hire a CEO that has some first hand knowledge of the industry. If that were to happen then maybe just maybe they will get their shit together and make us want to give them all our money.
 

Aardvaarkman

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MarsAtlas said:
This is just very cursory, basic delving into the amount of the franchise's popularity. I thought of trying to make a poll for this site, but the sample size would obviously be tainted due to the fact that this is a forum primary for videogame afficianados, which means a mostly younger userbase, and if you hadn't heard of Pokemon before being here, you would've very, very quickly.
But you claimed it to be the third-most recognizable fictional franchise of all time.

Yes, it is quite popular among young people. But that doesn't prove the point. More recognizable to people than James Bond, Sherlock Holmes, Moby Dick, Robin Hood, or the Bible? What about The Simpsons or Family Guy? How about Law & Order? Game of Thrones?

Hell, I don't even know how you even manage to put Star Wars at the very top of recognizable works of fiction of all time.
 

Redd the Sock

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I hate to be that guy, but most employees think their bosses have their heads up their asses, especially in creative fields where they get to find out they aren't going to be given a blank check to create what they want, but rather stringent demands and restraints.

That doesn't stop a lot of that from being true. A great Canadian comedian once said most men would rather earn big bucks doing something they hate than a comfortable living doing something they love, and it shows just about everywhere. Capitalism is a game to be won, not a lifestyle about maximizing utility (enjoyment) from our actions.
 

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Jimothy Sterling said:
I generally hate them too, especially when used in news stories. However, I've seen enough frustrated devs to feel I needed to give them catharsis, even if I can't name names. All I can say of the person I quoted is that they're an acquaintance of many years and I most certainly trust their word on any industry goings-on.

I went back and forth on whether or not to make an episode based on anonymous sources. In some ways, though, the fact I never CAN quote many of the agreements I get from developers is further damnation of the environment games can get made in.
And this is why I'm personally getting sick and tired of the pathetic excuse of the AAA industry and why I have no problems in waiting for a sale or just not buying EA's games, Activision's games etc, because they have no idea what their doing. I think I'll just give up, focus on the smaller publishers like Paradox and 2K (relatively speaking) and leave the monoliths of Activision/Blizzard, EA and Ubisoft in the $10 bin if their lucky. Although credit to Ubisoft they have atleast had some variety of games, unlike EA and Activision/Blizzard.
Adam Jensen said:
Jeez. This explains so much. It's worse than I thought, though.
I figured it was 2 or 3 games, just not the 2 or 3 I had in mind. I figured it was CoD (dur), WoW and some f2p game, which I guess I kinda of got correct.
 

Blood Brain Barrier

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Mastemat said:
Your new backdrop.....
um...
How should I say this...
um...
It's very.....
National Socialist....
>_>
<_<
...
You might want to adjust... something... so that the boxy symbol can be more displayed... but then.... I wonder if raising it slightly will induce the same effect that the National Socialist Party's flag and symbol was meant to project onto Hitler... ie: a halo.
But then the irony in that might be worth doing...
And also the irony that I'm pretty sure 99% of anyone who reads my post won't realize that NAZI is a shortening of National Socialist until I mention Hitler.

Anyways... just thought you might want to adjust it abit... (the boxy symbol doesn't help being obstructed... cause in pieces it's close enough to a swastika that it illustrates my NAZI comparison even moreso...)
Did you even watch the video? It's fervently anti-capitalist. I'm surprised Jim hasn't been accused of being a socialist by now, which, judging by the video, he is. It's only because he didn't say the "C" word once during the video that no one noticed the real target of his rant. So instead of accusing him of being an anti-American commie, everyone agrees with him. He's a clever guy. Socialists would be a lot more successful if they learned to do the same thing.
 

conmag9

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The new (excellent) background makes me perceive you as some sort of pro-consumer super villain, taking control of the airwaves to deliver his demands to an unsuspecting world. Why can't we have more of those?

"And now Mr. Bond, I expect you to listen to my analysis of the sorry state of the video game industry!"
"You fiend!"

I would have liked a bit more discussion on the specifics of why those particular three are the only ones percieved. Or rather, why Clash of Clans is on there. I mean, I get CoD and Candy Crush, but I don't know anything about the industry's image of Clash of Clans.
 

Thanatos2k

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JCAll said:
I've seen commercials for Clash of Clans, but never actually checked it out. I had no idea it was actually popular.
If you see commercials for a game, it's either disproportionately popular or has a massive marketing budget behind. Since few mobiles games have the latter....

See the reason so many people here claim they've never heard of Clash of Clans is because none of us care at all about mobile games.

However, there are certain mobile games we hear about because of something awful they've done. All of us know about the disgrace that was Dungeon Keeper Mobile because it shat all over a real gaming franchise we care about. All of us know about Candy Crush because their loathsome developer sued people who made a real game we care about, and threatened others. All of us know about Angry Birds because the brand has gotten pathetically invasive in other media.

Clash of Clans hasn't done anything objectionable though. They didn't ruin an existing franchise. They didn't sue anyone. They're not trying to make a movie, or sell toys. They're just quieting bilking dumb people out of their money with an uber popular free-to-wait mobile game.