The Jimquisition: On Publishers Controlling Game Reviews
Added 2016-10-26 01:26:31 +0000 UTCAs Bethesda proudly announces it will no longer provide review copies until the day before a game launches, The Jimquisition decides to deliver some hefty side-eyeing.
This news came just as your very own Jim Sterling found out EA considers him a "wild card" who isn't to be trusted with high profile games like Battlefield 1.
Game publishers have been steadily manipulating the review process for years, and when you consider how shitty the "AAA" game world's become... is it any bloody wonder?
Comments
Every time you post something with an anti-corporate rant, I become more and more surprised you haven't seen Leverage. Is it a matter of finding the time, not being sure if you'd dig the subject matter, what? I mean, I'd think you'd be vaguely interested for "Sterling never loses" alone: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/search?q=</a>"sterling+never+loses" Nevermind the whole, "People like that…corporations like that, they have all the money, they have all the power, and they use it to make people like you go away. " (I hope this doesn't come across as nagging, it's just a genuine surprise to me.)
Kass Fireborn
2016-10-27 01:26:03 +0000 UTCI literally did a spit-take when the WILD CARD poster popped up
James Jackson
2016-10-26 15:51:56 +0000 UTCWhenever people talk about preordering games I sit them down in front of a screen and have this man give them a talking to !!!!
2016-10-26 08:14:53 +0000 UTCDo you ever tire of being such a puckish rogue?
2016-10-26 05:30:43 +0000 UTCThe video is now fixed and ready. So sorry about that.
Jim Sterling
2016-10-26 03:25:54 +0000 UTCWe'd expect nothing less from you.
2016-10-26 02:25:45 +0000 UTCDammit, Jim. Stop being such a Wild Card that you pull your own videos. On a related note, an extra Jimquisition? On a TUESDAY? My, I must have been a good boy this week.
Steiner3050
2016-10-26 02:02:11 +0000 UTCPeople must finally learn to stop preorder AAA games. Simple? Simple.
2016-10-26 01:51:06 +0000 UTCLooks like it was pulled.
Mithos56
2016-10-26 01:48:27 +0000 UTCI was two minutes into the video. That's the last straw, Jim Fucking Sterling, Son! As soon as I find the time to cancel my Patreon account, I'm going to... not cancel it. Or will I? I don't know. I haven't taken my medication today so this could go either way. I mean, who's to say you don't have a perfectly valid reason to remove the video? Maybe it was the wrong edit. Or perhaps meant to be Monday's video. Or maybe it's due to another perfectly valid reason. On the other hand, have you considered that my only reason for living is viewing your product? If that were the case you could have just RUINED MY FUCKING LIFE! If while watching the news tomorrow you happen to see that some guy jumped feet-first into a wood chipper set to "slow grind," well, let's just say that you'll deserve all the shame you set upon yourself. Or will you? Also, what happened to the Pog fucking?
2016-10-26 01:44:54 +0000 UTCSorry, video temporarily down because as usual I managed to fuck something up on an impressive scale. Fixing now.
Jim Sterling
2016-10-26 01:44:39 +0000 UTCNow he's a wild card? Guess they haven't been tuning in.
Jason Livingston
2016-10-26 01:40:31 +0000 UTCIt's the cabal, Jims onto them and subsequently been silenced!... or he pulled it to fix to glaring error.
Mark Patten
2016-10-26 01:34:05 +0000 UTC
