Jimquisition: Accountability

Recommended Videos

DeaDRabbiT

New member
Sep 25, 2010
139
0
0
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

Diving Space Muffin
Oct 22, 2009
860
0
0
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

New member
Jan 21, 2011
160
0
0
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

Senior Member
Aug 11, 2009
187
0
21
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

New member
Dec 5, 2010
1,009
0
0
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

New member
Nov 24, 2009
453
0
0
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.
 

Sylocat

Sci-Fi & Shakespeare
Nov 13, 2007
2,122
0
0
Johnny Impact said:
Sylocat said:
"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

New member
Oct 9, 2008
850
0
0
"...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

New member
Jun 30, 2008
686
0
0
Sylocat said:
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

New member
Apr 10, 2009
744
0
0
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.
 

Thespian

New member
Sep 11, 2010
1,407
0
0
Well, that was the last time I was gonna give this show a try. Abysmal week after week, with the improvements... Just not improving enough.
Thanks for bringing up the Escapist Hack to get a few laughs, which you didn't.

Yawn.
 

DeaDRabbiT

New member
Sep 25, 2010
139
0
0
Sentox6 said:
Sylocat said:
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.
FYI I like clowns that fall down, and squirt eachother in the faces with liquid spewing flowers (Yahtzee) I don't however like clowns that wrench my mouth open only to insert copious amount of shit, then tells me to laugh, or swallow. (Jim) I frakking hate that guy...
 

camazotz

New member
Jul 23, 2009
480
0
0
Still Life said:
camazotz said:
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?
Yep. My wife plays ME2 on PC and she had no problems accessing the content through her Steam edition. My Xbox edition, however, got quite freaky on me. It was very annoying.....
 

Bluecho

New member
Dec 30, 2010
171
0
0
Now, as a capitalist I'm generally supportive of businesses being able to do business. But, and this is the second most important but next to Jim Sterling's, I also think that just because a business can do something doesn't mean it should.

In this case, the consumer is taken advantage of, and even demonized through DRM. Seriously, not cool developers/publishers. If you insult, short-change, and punish your customers, you shouldn't be surprised if they decide not to buy your products.

Which is why I urge gamers to boycott games that use DRM to punish players. Now, I don't have a current gen console because I'm cheap, so maybe this turns out to be all games nowadays. And if so, then so be it. We need to send a message to developers that this behavior cannot be tolerated. That gamers won't simply lay down and take it like prison bitches.

So says the Butterfly.
 

Tygerml

New member
Nov 16, 2008
46
0
0
First off Jim, love the series, keep covering the topics that need to be discussed.

This one was near and dear to me because I *loathe* Steam. If humanly possible, I will not buy anything through them or GFWL. I totally understand the need for accounts for online multiplayer games that involve persistent unlocks and achievements, but why do I need to be logged into GFWL to play Fallout 3? You literally have two sets of saves, one for when GFWL is working, and one for when it's not.

Steam is the same.. I had it go sideways on me one day, had to completely reinstall it. Then, despite the fact that all the games are still on my hard drive, it wants me to redownload everything. I haven't found a way to have it realize the files are still there and this point I just don't care.

The flip side of this is, of course, the 'one password to rule them all' push from sites like facebook. Is this better? No, no it's not.
 

NKnight

New member
Jul 31, 2010
90
0
0
It was not bad. I'm surprised he didn't mention the word pirate. I guess it's easier to rant about something (in this case the greed mean game industry) while happening to forget to talk about their side of the story. It won't be a problem as long as you keep on your audience side tough...

Nobody ever misses Hitler's side of the story in a discussion about WW2 (or at least usually not), but if Jim adopts this style in a 'Microsoft Vs Apple' kind of discussion, he'll have some problems.