The Epic Brutality Of Unchecked Capitalism (The Jimquisition)

Jim, FYI in Finland, ur vids have ads on them

Part of the reason I'm concerned about Tencent is that Steam is currently operating in a "gray area" within China, neither officially sanctioned nor officially banned. A company that had ties to the Chinese government could hypothetically get Steam kicked out of the "Great Firewall" almost immediately. As gamers, we have the capability to change the legal but unethical behavior of companies that we dislike. We are still their business, not their investors, try as they might to sideline us and cut off avenues of communication. But first, we'd need to show enough of an attention span to hold them accountable for longer than it takes for some new DLC or petty controversy or gaffe to steal our attention.

Kraken

I'm of the opinion it's about time we built some guillotines. Figuratively.

Trevor Bond

...Jim is that a fuckin' Lift Off image at the 6:00 mark?

Michael Towns (gamebuoygames)

I like the fact that Epic is trying to starve Valve out. For one thing, they've had it coming for a while now. Steam sucks. And if they, having most of the market, can't defend their position, it's their own damn fault. As to Steam's competition - I make it a point to buy games on GOG whenever I can. Not because CD Projekt are "good" in any way, but because I actively want to support the competition to Steam. Also, they didn't have ridiculous pricing for my region, so I actually paid less for games than I would've on Steam. Plus, they had a good business model starting - selling old games for reasonable prices that were otherwise abandonware. And there's a dash of patriotism in there, CD Projekt being a Polish company (as shitty as some of their practices are). Sadly, GOG never took off the ground big-time, but they seem to enjoy a decent level of success. So I don't really care about the Steam vs Epic fight. I welcome any result, because if they are two sharks in a pond full of gold fish? No matter which shark wins, I want the sharks to bite the shit out of each other. Any goldfish out there will benefit from them weakening one another.

Michał Sporzyński

Jim more or less mentioned that in the video on how indie devs who give a damn about making good games do not want to compete with the voluminous shovelware that Steam has. It is the same reason why some indie devs release their games on the Nintendo Switch for it does not have that problem.

noxamillion

I think one thing that a lot of people don't seem to talk about is although the Epic Stores marketplace isn't organized very well, at least it's not filled with shovel-ware like steam's is. I really think all of these asset flip games have really hurt Steam's reputation since that's been the only news Valve and Steam have had recently

You can literally insert any giant corporation into this video and it would all apply the same. That's the real sad thing about this.

Joshua Chap

I seriously can see a worker at these abusive employment conditions, going postal. Shitike this happened to post workers in like the 90s because of similar abuses, and suddenly a worker snapped and shot up their work place. Someone's going to swan dive off a game dev's roof in front of everyone, or attack ppl with a weapon. The only thing that solved the "going postal" situation was better working conditions

Addressing the outro: Valve has created an exclusives in the past mainly for improving the attractiveness of steam. That game was Dota 2. It has been at the top of the steam charts for most of its lifetime and has been a crucial factor in Steams adoption in Southeast Asian and Chinese markets. Hopefully they use this approach for competing with Epic games in western markets as well.

Welcome to Rapture.

Matthew Speidel

And I used to love Epic for games like Infinity Blade 1 and 2. What happened...

Matt Ahn

They've come a long way since Jazz Jackrabbit.

Brendan K McBride