Bombin' the A.M. With Jim Sterling: 11/24/2014

Relevant Sonic Talk

Anyway, I found Patrick's idea that a streaming PC costs $500 or more quite humorous. Most of the popular youtubers play older games because you don't want to be the 1 millionth guy uploading the same game the week it comes out. For those purposes, a budget PC and OBS would be easily doable with slight upgrade to people's existing computers.

CriWare is not CryEngine.

http://www.cri-mw.com/

Man you are just sad and angry arent you.

I know every person here probably would go against me, but as a dev (who works for one of those "evil" publishers for the past 4 years of my life and it has been nothing but pleasure to be in such creative teams) it is very disturbing to see such entitlement from a "journalist" and how can lambaste on those talented teams.

and what's even sadder, is all this 40+ commentators here with all their "jim f**king Sterling son"

over $100,000 a year on crowdfunding is quite the accomplishment. And a huge raise from any job he had previously.

@shora_f: If it makes you feel a little better, I mostly agree with you. I love indie games, but there's some real hipsterish hate for anything coming from big publishers these days. Yet at the end of the day, the games they put out are the ones that everyone is mostly talking about.

@caleb1915:

No, not really.

Factually true... also of zero relevance to this topic :P

@shora_f: People love to rally behind public personalities without even thinking critically about the issues and considering both/all sides of the stories. It is much easier to blindly sympathize with the people that get to speak in front of a camera/microphone instead of something more abstract such as a company or a team of x number of people.

Not to mention that we as a culture tend to be really quick to blame a single entity/person without realizing that things are, more often than not, much more complicated.

Jim "Pho King" Sterlingson, my favorite!

I wonder if we'll ever see TotalBiscuit guest star on this again.

Which is why I think the GB policy to not discuss merit of price or never mention sales is kind of dumb. Most reviewers/critics aren't price-sensitive because you get nearly every game for free..paying for the ones they don't get for free still makes the costs of games in general trivial. The rest of us who pay for everything are way more conscious of the ratio between cost and enjoyment.

It doesn't bother me too much that the guys tend to think that way initially - it bothers me more that every time it's specifically questioned they tend to wave it away.

You could probably create a 30 minute super-cut of them being asked how much a game costs in a Quick Look (by the co-pilot ) and the driver "I don't know." It's seriously crazy how often that occurs in QLs.

If a game is kinda OK but 60 bucks... then fuck that. But if it's $5.... that's a huge difference. They are pretty clear to deliniate when a game is free... so I don't know why they are so lax to differentiate between a cheap game and full-price game or meaningful assign a relative value to the price of a game.

I feel like this should have been an interview dumptruck, I like this show, but this felt like a Jim Sterling promotion for nearly an hour.

Jim Sterling is a portly god of gaerms jernelyzms

I like Jim, but I agree with some of the other commenters. Sometimes the constant discussion about your careers gets old. Over the last few years of listening to podcasts, I think I've heard about all I can about games journalism, how you guys write, how hard it is to be one, etc etc. More games please less business/career.