Jimquisition: Accountability

[Faux Furry]

Account consolidation (or simply not requiring one to sign up for additional accounts in the first place) would not only make for less complications when signing in to play games (saving the password ideas for those with jobs involving national security or secret recipes), it would give hackers fewer ways to acquire one's personal information.(Right now, it's a veritable schmorgasbord!)

That'll free people up to join the Jimquisition+ program! Those fridge magnets better be worth it!

 

[toapat]

Wow... Honestly, thank you Jim. You could not be any more right in this one specific instance.

/kudos

that he is, normally hes just a raging and overpaid professional asshole

 

[CardinalPiggles]

"I'll be back whether you fucking like it or not"

Ha that made me laugh, Jim, you got balls.

Good episode, and I guess it's nice to see some people finally coming around and not just slagging you off.

EDIT: I just realised, people liked this episode because he was basically slagging off the publishing giants, which is considered cool on this website...

 

[Kenji_03]

Wow... Honestly, thank you Jim. You could not be any more right in this one specific instance.

/kudos

Agreed. Jim seems to be getting a handle on how Escapist's audience is different than Destructiod's.

Also, he upped the sarcasm high enough that it's now clear he's entirely sarcastic.

 

[Konatacalypse]

I fucking love the jimquisition.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Hmm,I'm very surprised.

This episode has managed to entertain me to a point where I thought impossible.

Good job sir!

 

[-Samurai-]

The only thing that I didn't really agree with is the bitching about day one DLC.

It makes me sad that gamers don't understand that there's a huge amount of time between when a game is finished, and when it gets to the stores for you to buy. The developers have to do something in that time, and it may as well be something that you can use.

 

[camazotz]

Right-O Jim.

I recently had my cable go out for three days. In those three days, I noticed that I had trouble playing several games offline, and many of them were EA titles. Dead Space 2 and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit both suddenly demanded that I provide a key code to play--hard to do since I'm offline and can't access the Comrade utility I have to sign in to to for NFS:HP and Steam for Dead space 2.

Some games were more forgiving and let me play (such as Blur) but bitched incessantly at me that I wasn't online.

Any game that required Game for Windows Live, including Fallout 3, would let me play, but would not let me access my save files for my level 30 character since I wasn't signed in and online with GFWL. Bioshock 2 did the same thing to me.

I couldn't even play against practice round bots in CoD Black Ops; BOTS! The game wouldn't let me play what should have been an offline single-player feature without being online.

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.

Anyway, it was a sobering realization that probably half my game collection either was not accessible or acted very weird for the three days I had to wait for Comcast to fix my cable. That's going to influence what I buy in the future: EA Games is something I just might not bother with in the future (well, except for ME3 damn their blackened souls).

 

[camazotz]

The only thing that I didn't really agree with is the bitching about day one DLC.

It makes me sad that gamers don't understand that there's a huge amount of time between when a game is finished, and when it gets to the stores for you to buy. The developers have to do something in that time, and it may as well be something that you can use.

I thought the issue with Day One DLC was more that it was inevitably already on the disc youjust bought; its information that was done, loaded, and all it needs is a paid unlock. Most people feel that that's an example of a developer finishing a game, then the publisher comes in ands cherry-picks features that were Already There and has the developer roll them back to make extra money.

My solution for a while now has been, whever possible, to wait until a game is released in a definitive "GoTY" edition which usually is cheaper and includes most or all the DLC anyway....DLC inevitably drives me to wait on titles that have it built-in, just to avoid unnecessary price gouging.

 

[deadpool.forever]

I thank god for Jim every day at church, in the Vatican, with the Pope.

 

[Joshimodo]

A Jimquisition that is pretty mature and actually good?

Bravo...


Also, I don't have a fridge big enough for a Jim Sterling magnet.

 

[NaramSuen]

I never thought I would live to see the day when a Brit pronounced vitamins properly. If you could work yogurt, aluminium and renaissance into future episodes, then I can die a happy man. Thanks!

 

[SovietX]

At least Jimquisition+ is better than those fucking Konami accounts.

Konami is the worst haha.
Took me like an hour to set up an account for Metal Gear Online and then it took me 7 hours to patch the damn thing.

 

[Doom-Slayer]

Arrogant as hell bt actually fairly informative, and I actually wacthed all the way through this time. Might give the others a look if feel daring. Though I still say he needs to go to a format like ZP..all the way through. Its actually easier to focus in those bits in his videos, but he comes off as arrogant when you see him

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Great episode with some well thought out points. The sound was alot better aswell between the voice over and the..non voice over.

I had to download Origin this evening and I feel grotty as a result but at least I don't have to deal with that tool of the devil 'EADM' anymore. The mistrust of gamers is clearly getting alot worse and all of the developers are quick to jump on the bandwagon when someone discovers a method to stop pirates.

Question; if game trading is considered piracy why don't developers shut businesses like Gamestop down? (as much as I will miss the odour of unwashed male emanating from the place >_> it would be a shame) It's always puzzled me. Perhaps the line hasn't been drawn, legally, on that particular issue.

I appreciate him reaching out to girl gamers at the end there with some dildo ads (lol) Maybe he'll get a snog if he brushes his hair, I always have the overwhelming urge to give him a fauxhawk...

I never thought I would live to see the day when a Brit pronounced vitamins properly. If you could work yogurt, aluminium and renaissance into future episodes, then I can die a happy man. Thanks!

No offence but it's our language...you guys have the accent .

 

[TheAngryMonkey]

Great, episode.
Keep it up.

 

[Stammer]

Definitely a more insightful episode than most of the others.

I've definitely found myself thinking about how games are going backwards nowadays. With the last generation you just threw in your disc and boom you're ready to go. Now you have to throw the disc in, download an update to your platform, download an update to the game, install the game onto your hard drive, restart your computer, load up the game, watch 5 minutes of logos flashing on the screen, watch an unnecessary menu animation, and then maybe the game will finally let you play.

Seriously. I can go into my closet, pull out my N64, rewire the console in the back, and STILL load the game up faster than on my PS3.

And what the F_CK happened to memory cards?! Why in the holy land of shit does my friend have to lug around his PS3 back and forth from his house to mine each time we hang out just to show me cutscenes in games he's beaten?! Even if he transfers his save data to his PSP and loads it onto my PS3 it just says "This data was saved on another PS3. I'm sorry Stamm, I'm afraid I can't do that".

 

[DirgeNovak]

Very interesting this week. I couldn't agree more with you on this.

HOWEVER, fix your fucking sound problems, Jim. The constant volume change between the filmed parts and the voiceovers is really annoying. I am not jimpressed.

 

[Nalesnik]

Right after the video, the Escapist's ad prods you to subscribe to their Publisher's Club to get some random crap. Ah, delicious irony.