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deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
August 01 2019 11:42 GMT
#361
On August 01 2019 19:35 Simberto wrote:
Because that is how you make absurd amounts of money. You can rake in shitloads of cash by making your game worse, then demanding to be paid to make it less bad. Rational thought has nothing to do with this, just pure greed. Executives see others making all the money through microtransactions and loot boxes, and they get annoyed, because just making some money with a good game is not good enough. If others are making more money than you are, you are losing. Thus, you need to do the thing that makes the other guy more money.

I highly doubt that pissing of the core audience works this way, but what do I know, there are people who were defending F64 so probably I'm the wrong here if I request quality for my monies.
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Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17255 Posts
August 01 2019 11:43 GMT
#362
It was so much better when game companies weren't publicly traded...
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
Sbrubbles
Profile Joined October 2010
Brazil5776 Posts
August 01 2019 13:05 GMT
#363
Do you guys have a youtube channel/podcast to recommend for gaming and gaming industry news? It used to be that I followed TB for this before he passed away. Afterwards, I watched Jim Sterling for a couple months, but his style and talking points became repetitive and grating to me.
Bora Pain minha porra!
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17255 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-01 16:04:17
August 01 2019 16:03 GMT
#364
On August 01 2019 22:05 Sbrubbles wrote:
Do you guys have a youtube channel/podcast to recommend for gaming and gaming industry news? It used to be that I followed TB for this before he passed away. Afterwards, I watched Jim Sterling for a couple months, but his style and talking points became repetitive and grating to me.


From more popular ones you can check out Angry Joe Show (he does industry news like once a week or so now) and YongYea.
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
Archeon
Profile Joined May 2011
3253 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-01 16:52:10
August 01 2019 16:32 GMT
#365
On August 01 2019 18:58 Simberto wrote:
Gotta always have the store working. Can't have a game where you buy the game and then have the game anymore. Constant user engagement! Recurring user spending!

Sadly, Bethesda is mostly good at making single player games which you buy once and then play. But executives hate those games. So they try to make Bethesda make "life services".

Have you seen that clip of Todd Howard talking about how people are still playing Skyrim and Fallout 4, and you can just see how mad it makes him that he has no way of getting money from those people? (Here is the clip on the Jimquisition, no idea where it is originally from)

The game industry hates it when you just buy a game. They want constant money from you. Thus, they make their games worse just to be able to get more "recurring user spending"

I gotta say that i am mostly disgusted at this shit, and that it is not going away. This basically means that i can currently only buy indie games, because all of the big studios try to get away from just having a game. And i like just having a game and playing it without someone constantly pestering me to give them more of my money.

Thought about reinstalling Skyrim anyways, seeing that piss him off so much definitely adds to the incentive. Tried ESO, but all the online features really turn me off. "Get this daily login bonus". "Legendary savior, fight your way through this tomb, which is currently cleared by 10 other players, leaving you with nothing to do but run through". Sigh.

They could just continue to support their games like 4x devs do and release content DLCs/Add-ons. But I guess that doesn't pay as well.
low gravity, yes-yes!
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21243 Posts
August 01 2019 18:45 GMT
#366
On August 01 2019 11:05 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
Nintendo Switch over 36 million units sold
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/07/nintendo_switch_has_now_sold_36_87_million_units_could_pass_snes_total_by_christmas

PS4 passes 100 million units faster than the PS2 and Wii
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/07/30/sonys-ps4-finally-outpaces-the-wii-with-100-million-sold/#14399dafc4fa

we have no data on the XBOX1.

As usual, when a product outperforms expectations we get simple direct sales data. When a product under-performs we either get no information or some bizarro convoluted metric that doesn't measure units sold.


Nintendo and Sony have given out unit sales for decades. It has nothing to do with product specific over-/under-performance.
TranslatorBaa!
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-01 18:59:15
August 01 2019 18:56 GMT
#367
Not sure if it games industry news, well it is sorta, but Microsoft just scored big in the streaming wars against Amazon/Twitch. Ninja is moving over to Mixer which is Microsoft's unique streaming service.

Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, the patron saint of Twitch, announced today that he is moving his channel over to the significantly less popular streaming platform Mixer. News of the frankly shocking transition comes the day before Blevins’ Lollapalooza stream, which will now take place here on Mixer.

“I know this may come as a shock to many of you, but as of today, I will be streaming exclusively on Mixer,” Blevins, who has 15 million Twitch followers, said in a video posted to Twitter. “I feel like this is a really good chance to get back in touch with my roots and really remember why I fell in love with streaming in the first place.”

Mixer, which is owned by Microsoft, pulls viewer numbers that pale in comparison to Twitch’s. According to recent data from StreamElements, the two-year-old platform has three percent of all livestreaming hours watched to Twitch’s 72 percent.

Twitch offered their own statement on the loss of their biggest streamer: “We’ve loved watching Ninja on Twitch over the years and are proud of all that he’s accomplished for himself and his family, and the gaming community. We wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors.” Currently, Blevins’ new Mixer chat is blowing up, moving faster than light with questions, welcome statements, “POGGERS,” and other internet-y language honed by Twitch culture. Meanwhile, Ninja’s “partnered” check mark has been removed from his channel.

In a follow-up video, Blevins explained that he’d been holding onto the news for a while now, but didn’t further clarify the reasons behind his decision. One source with knowledge of the streaming industry says Mixer has offered money for streamers to switch over, with some deals exceeding $1 million. Kotaku has reached out to Blevins and Mixer for comment on whether that was the case.

At the end of the announcement video, the camera pans to a fridge of Red Bull, one of Blevins’ sponsors, dressed in journalist garb. Ninja responds as if it asked a question: “Wow, I mean, that was one of the best questions I’ve ever been asked.”


Source
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deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
August 01 2019 20:40 GMT
#368
On August 01 2019 22:05 Sbrubbles wrote:
Do you guys have a youtube channel/podcast to recommend for gaming and gaming industry news? It used to be that I followed TB for this before he passed away. Afterwards, I watched Jim Sterling for a couple months, but his style and talking points became repetitive and grating to me.

Skill Up for reviews, Laymen Gaming for news and memes.
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JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada16699 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-02 00:14:49
August 01 2019 23:22 GMT
#369
On August 01 2019 20:43 Manit0u wrote:
It was so much better when game companies weren't publicly traded...

If it weren't for Atari getting acquired by the publicly traded Warner Communications in 1976 we wouldn't have Activision.
On August 02 2019 03:45 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 01 2019 11:05 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
Nintendo Switch over 36 million units sold
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/07/nintendo_switch_has_now_sold_36_87_million_units_could_pass_snes_total_by_christmas

PS4 passes 100 million units faster than the PS2 and Wii
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/07/30/sonys-ps4-finally-outpaces-the-wii-with-100-million-sold/#14399dafc4fa

we have no data on the XBOX1.

As usual, when a product outperforms expectations we get simple direct sales data. When a product under-performs we either get no information or some bizarro convoluted metric that doesn't measure units sold.


Nintendo and Sony have given out unit sales for decades. It has nothing to do with product specific over-/under-performance.

That is a good point about Nintendo and Sony. Its really cool that 2 japanese companies are willing to be transparent about their hardware unit sales. However, they are the exception to the rule.
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
abuse
Profile Joined April 2011
Latvia1931 Posts
August 02 2019 06:40 GMT
#370
On July 20 2019 08:36 cha0 wrote:
"We hope you enjoy the game. We're really proud of this one." Apparently that's just him in a nutshell.


You know what's really sad?
There's pretty much 0 developers(other than maybe CDPR) these days who would ever be able to say something like this.
I don't believe you.
abuse
Profile Joined April 2011
Latvia1931 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-02 07:06:51
August 02 2019 06:52 GMT
#371
On August 02 2019 05:40 deacon.frost wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 01 2019 22:05 Sbrubbles wrote:
Do you guys have a youtube channel/podcast to recommend for gaming and gaming industry news? It used to be that I followed TB for this before he passed away. Afterwards, I watched Jim Sterling for a couple months, but his style and talking points became repetitive and grating to me.

Skill Up for reviews, Laymen Gaming for news and memes.


I also recommend Bellular news.
It's been growing a lot recently, and it's legit great, with the guy being an actual game developer with industry knowledge, and they do their own research instead of making the same conclusions that pretty much every other games news channel does.
Prime example being the UK Gambling/lootbox legislation, where every other channel focused on "UK SAYS LOOTBOXES NOT GAMBLNB!!", yet Bellular actually read the entire transcript and pointed out that what was actually said was that while it is not gambling as per their current definition of the law, it's pretty open to change the legal definition after more research is done. They're just not willing to constitute it as such right now because it would affect a lot of industries, and it's dangerous to make the move with so little research.
I don't believe you.
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
August 02 2019 07:21 GMT
#372
On August 02 2019 15:52 abuse wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2019 05:40 deacon.frost wrote:
On August 01 2019 22:05 Sbrubbles wrote:
Do you guys have a youtube channel/podcast to recommend for gaming and gaming industry news? It used to be that I followed TB for this before he passed away. Afterwards, I watched Jim Sterling for a couple months, but his style and talking points became repetitive and grating to me.

Skill Up for reviews, Laymen Gaming for news and memes.


I also recommend Bellular news.
It's been growing a lot recently, and it's legit great, with the guy being an actual game developer with industry knowledge, and they do their own research instead of making the same conclusions that pretty much every other games news channel does.
Prime example being the UK Gambling/lootbox legislation, where every other channel focused on "UK SAYS LOOTBOXES NOT GAMBLNB!!", yet Bellular actually read the entire transcript and pointed out that what was actually said was that while it is not gambling as per their current definition of the law, it's pretty open to change the legal definition after more research is done. They're just not willing to constitute it as such right now because it would affect a lot of industries, and it's dangerous to make the move with so little research.

TO the gambling side of things, both Jim Sterling(probably the biggest anti-microtransaction YT channel) and Laymen pointed this out. Jim could have mentioned properly that the law needs to be updated. But both these channels ride on emotions, so some of the creativity side of things has to be accepted. Similarily AJS gets angry, like - duh?
I imagine France should be able to take this unless Lilbow is busy practicing for Starcraft III. | KadaverBB is my fairy ban mother.
abuse
Profile Joined April 2011
Latvia1931 Posts
August 02 2019 07:45 GMT
#373
On August 02 2019 16:21 deacon.frost wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2019 15:52 abuse wrote:
On August 02 2019 05:40 deacon.frost wrote:
On August 01 2019 22:05 Sbrubbles wrote:
Do you guys have a youtube channel/podcast to recommend for gaming and gaming industry news? It used to be that I followed TB for this before he passed away. Afterwards, I watched Jim Sterling for a couple months, but his style and talking points became repetitive and grating to me.

Skill Up for reviews, Laymen Gaming for news and memes.


I also recommend Bellular news.
It's been growing a lot recently, and it's legit great, with the guy being an actual game developer with industry knowledge, and they do their own research instead of making the same conclusions that pretty much every other games news channel does.
Prime example being the UK Gambling/lootbox legislation, where every other channel focused on "UK SAYS LOOTBOXES NOT GAMBLNB!!", yet Bellular actually read the entire transcript and pointed out that what was actually said was that while it is not gambling as per their current definition of the law, it's pretty open to change the legal definition after more research is done. They're just not willing to constitute it as such right now because it would affect a lot of industries, and it's dangerous to make the move with so little research.

TO the gambling side of things, both Jim Sterling(probably the biggest anti-microtransaction YT channel) and Laymen pointed this out. Jim could have mentioned properly that the law needs to be updated. But both these channels ride on emotions, so some of the creativity side of things has to be accepted. Similarily AJS gets angry, like - duh?


Jim's video came quite a bit after Bellular's though, and Laymen didn't really focus on it much.
Anyway, I watch both Jim and Laymen alongside Bellular, but Bellular gives pretty objective insight into A LOT of news.
Jim and Laymen have their own personalities and their own biases, which is fine. But for straight up news, I go to Bellular.
He covers A LOT more stuff about overall gaming overall and game industry news in a very unbiased and knowledgeable fashion.
I don't believe you.
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
August 02 2019 11:03 GMT
#374
On August 02 2019 16:45 abuse wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2019 16:21 deacon.frost wrote:
On August 02 2019 15:52 abuse wrote:
On August 02 2019 05:40 deacon.frost wrote:
On August 01 2019 22:05 Sbrubbles wrote:
Do you guys have a youtube channel/podcast to recommend for gaming and gaming industry news? It used to be that I followed TB for this before he passed away. Afterwards, I watched Jim Sterling for a couple months, but his style and talking points became repetitive and grating to me.

Skill Up for reviews, Laymen Gaming for news and memes.


I also recommend Bellular news.
It's been growing a lot recently, and it's legit great, with the guy being an actual game developer with industry knowledge, and they do their own research instead of making the same conclusions that pretty much every other games news channel does.
Prime example being the UK Gambling/lootbox legislation, where every other channel focused on "UK SAYS LOOTBOXES NOT GAMBLNB!!", yet Bellular actually read the entire transcript and pointed out that what was actually said was that while it is not gambling as per their current definition of the law, it's pretty open to change the legal definition after more research is done. They're just not willing to constitute it as such right now because it would affect a lot of industries, and it's dangerous to make the move with so little research.

TO the gambling side of things, both Jim Sterling(probably the biggest anti-microtransaction YT channel) and Laymen pointed this out. Jim could have mentioned properly that the law needs to be updated. But both these channels ride on emotions, so some of the creativity side of things has to be accepted. Similarily AJS gets angry, like - duh?


Jim's video came quite a bit after Bellular's though, and Laymen didn't really focus on it much.
Anyway, I watch both Jim and Laymen alongside Bellular, but Bellular gives pretty objective insight into A LOT of news.
Jim and Laymen have their own personalities and their own biases, which is fine. But for straight up news, I go to Bellular.
He covers A LOT more stuff about overall gaming overall and game industry news in a very unbiased and knowledgeable fashion.

Jim and Laymen don't pretend they're doing journalism. They're making show first, everything else later. That's why Jim is in his suit and is doing crazy stuff(Mr. Surprise mechanics ) and that's why Laymen have so many memes in their videos. They even don't pretend But at the same time they do more than "just" a show

But if you want a more serious/neutral channel than you have to look elsewehre, that's right.
I imagine France should be able to take this unless Lilbow is busy practicing for Starcraft III. | KadaverBB is my fairy ban mother.
Acrofales
Profile Joined August 2010
Spain17983 Posts
August 02 2019 11:20 GMT
#375
On August 02 2019 16:45 abuse wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2019 16:21 deacon.frost wrote:
On August 02 2019 15:52 abuse wrote:
On August 02 2019 05:40 deacon.frost wrote:
On August 01 2019 22:05 Sbrubbles wrote:
Do you guys have a youtube channel/podcast to recommend for gaming and gaming industry news? It used to be that I followed TB for this before he passed away. Afterwards, I watched Jim Sterling for a couple months, but his style and talking points became repetitive and grating to me.

Skill Up for reviews, Laymen Gaming for news and memes.


I also recommend Bellular news.
It's been growing a lot recently, and it's legit great, with the guy being an actual game developer with industry knowledge, and they do their own research instead of making the same conclusions that pretty much every other games news channel does.
Prime example being the UK Gambling/lootbox legislation, where every other channel focused on "UK SAYS LOOTBOXES NOT GAMBLNB!!", yet Bellular actually read the entire transcript and pointed out that what was actually said was that while it is not gambling as per their current definition of the law, it's pretty open to change the legal definition after more research is done. They're just not willing to constitute it as such right now because it would affect a lot of industries, and it's dangerous to make the move with so little research.

TO the gambling side of things, both Jim Sterling(probably the biggest anti-microtransaction YT channel) and Laymen pointed this out. Jim could have mentioned properly that the law needs to be updated. But both these channels ride on emotions, so some of the creativity side of things has to be accepted. Similarily AJS gets angry, like - duh?


Jim's video came quite a bit after Bellular's though, and Laymen didn't really focus on it much.
Anyway, I watch both Jim and Laymen alongside Bellular, but Bellular gives pretty objective insight into A LOT of news.
Jim and Laymen have their own personalities and their own biases, which is fine. But for straight up news, I go to Bellular.
He covers A LOT more stuff about overall gaming overall and game industry news in a very unbiased and knowledgeable fashion.


Isn't news exactly what Kotaku is about? I go to YouTube for opinions and entertainment.
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
August 02 2019 12:03 GMT
#376
On August 02 2019 20:20 Acrofales wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2019 16:45 abuse wrote:
On August 02 2019 16:21 deacon.frost wrote:
On August 02 2019 15:52 abuse wrote:
On August 02 2019 05:40 deacon.frost wrote:
On August 01 2019 22:05 Sbrubbles wrote:
Do you guys have a youtube channel/podcast to recommend for gaming and gaming industry news? It used to be that I followed TB for this before he passed away. Afterwards, I watched Jim Sterling for a couple months, but his style and talking points became repetitive and grating to me.

Skill Up for reviews, Laymen Gaming for news and memes.


I also recommend Bellular news.
It's been growing a lot recently, and it's legit great, with the guy being an actual game developer with industry knowledge, and they do their own research instead of making the same conclusions that pretty much every other games news channel does.
Prime example being the UK Gambling/lootbox legislation, where every other channel focused on "UK SAYS LOOTBOXES NOT GAMBLNB!!", yet Bellular actually read the entire transcript and pointed out that what was actually said was that while it is not gambling as per their current definition of the law, it's pretty open to change the legal definition after more research is done. They're just not willing to constitute it as such right now because it would affect a lot of industries, and it's dangerous to make the move with so little research.

TO the gambling side of things, both Jim Sterling(probably the biggest anti-microtransaction YT channel) and Laymen pointed this out. Jim could have mentioned properly that the law needs to be updated. But both these channels ride on emotions, so some of the creativity side of things has to be accepted. Similarily AJS gets angry, like - duh?


Jim's video came quite a bit after Bellular's though, and Laymen didn't really focus on it much.
Anyway, I watch both Jim and Laymen alongside Bellular, but Bellular gives pretty objective insight into A LOT of news.
Jim and Laymen have their own personalities and their own biases, which is fine. But for straight up news, I go to Bellular.
He covers A LOT more stuff about overall gaming overall and game industry news in a very unbiased and knowledgeable fashion.


Isn't news exactly what Kotaku is about? I go to YouTube for opinions and entertainment.

They're not exactly unbiased from what I remember(and IMO they're heavily biased on some things and that's something I don't want in journalism, I just want facts, not THEIR opinions). Except for Jason Schreier, who's the best gaming journalist out there(IMO)
I imagine France should be able to take this unless Lilbow is busy practicing for Starcraft III. | KadaverBB is my fairy ban mother.
abuse
Profile Joined April 2011
Latvia1931 Posts
August 02 2019 13:00 GMT
#377
On August 02 2019 20:20 Acrofales wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2019 16:45 abuse wrote:
On August 02 2019 16:21 deacon.frost wrote:
On August 02 2019 15:52 abuse wrote:
On August 02 2019 05:40 deacon.frost wrote:
On August 01 2019 22:05 Sbrubbles wrote:
Do you guys have a youtube channel/podcast to recommend for gaming and gaming industry news? It used to be that I followed TB for this before he passed away. Afterwards, I watched Jim Sterling for a couple months, but his style and talking points became repetitive and grating to me.

Skill Up for reviews, Laymen Gaming for news and memes.


I also recommend Bellular news.
It's been growing a lot recently, and it's legit great, with the guy being an actual game developer with industry knowledge, and they do their own research instead of making the same conclusions that pretty much every other games news channel does.
Prime example being the UK Gambling/lootbox legislation, where every other channel focused on "UK SAYS LOOTBOXES NOT GAMBLNB!!", yet Bellular actually read the entire transcript and pointed out that what was actually said was that while it is not gambling as per their current definition of the law, it's pretty open to change the legal definition after more research is done. They're just not willing to constitute it as such right now because it would affect a lot of industries, and it's dangerous to make the move with so little research.

TO the gambling side of things, both Jim Sterling(probably the biggest anti-microtransaction YT channel) and Laymen pointed this out. Jim could have mentioned properly that the law needs to be updated. But both these channels ride on emotions, so some of the creativity side of things has to be accepted. Similarily AJS gets angry, like - duh?


Jim's video came quite a bit after Bellular's though, and Laymen didn't really focus on it much.
Anyway, I watch both Jim and Laymen alongside Bellular, but Bellular gives pretty objective insight into A LOT of news.
Jim and Laymen have their own personalities and their own biases, which is fine. But for straight up news, I go to Bellular.
He covers A LOT more stuff about overall gaming overall and game industry news in a very unbiased and knowledgeable fashion.


Isn't news exactly what Kotaku is about? I go to YouTube for opinions and entertainment.


I wouldn't know.
I have never tried reading kotaku, but from what youtubers tell me, all games news organisations including kotaku ar shills and full of shit. Jason Schreier being the only person who actually does work that's commendable, though I personally disagree with his overall view of the industry.
I don't believe you.
JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada16699 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-02 13:19:01
August 02 2019 13:16 GMT
#378
On August 02 2019 21:03 deacon.frost wrote:
Except for Jason Schreier, who's the best gaming journalist out there(IMO)

In order to get the front line staff and low level managers to leak info he constantly talks about how amazing and incredible they are. That's his built in bias. The BS he pulled with Yongyea was nasty ugly.

These misdeeds aside, he is great at getting confidential info leaked.
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
abuse
Profile Joined April 2011
Latvia1931 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-02 13:26:20
August 02 2019 13:25 GMT
#379
On August 02 2019 22:16 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2019 21:03 deacon.frost wrote:
Except for Jason Schreier, who's the best gaming journalist out there(IMO)

In order to get the front line staff and low level managers to leak info he constantly talks about how amazing and incredible they are. That's his built in bias. The BS he pulled with Yongyea was nasty ugly.

These misdeeds aside, he is great at getting confidential info leaked.


is that something you just made up or has Jason said that anywhere?
I see no point in sucking up to devs to talk to them. Reveal pieces he's done are more than enough reason for devs to want to talk to him to shine a light on the shitty proceedings in their company.
I don't believe you.
JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada16699 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-02 17:49:54
August 02 2019 17:47 GMT
#380
On August 02 2019 22:25 abuse wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2019 22:16 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
On August 02 2019 21:03 deacon.frost wrote:
Except for Jason Schreier, who's the best gaming journalist out there(IMO)

In order to get the front line staff and low level managers to leak info he constantly talks about how amazing and incredible they are. That's his built in bias. The BS he pulled with Yongyea was nasty ugly.

These misdeeds aside, he is great at getting confidential info leaked.


is that something you just made up or has Jason said that anywhere?
I see no point in sucking up to devs to talk to them. Reveal pieces he's done are more than enough reason for devs to want to talk to him to shine a light on the shitty proceedings in their company.

He has written a tonne of stuff. Do you have an example of him criticizing front line staff? I've never seen it. If you have something though.. post it.

OTOH, he does an 80 minute interview with Yongyea and goes on and on about how great all these front line and low level staff members are. Everything wrong with the industry is someone else's fault.. from consumers to corporations. The most 1-sided example of this occurred when he defended that Guild Wars 2 writer who went off on a polite tweet that slightly disagreed with something.

The front line and low level management are like any other group of people. Some good.. some average .. some bad. However, I've never seen Schreier critical of that group. He does not want to bite the hand that feeds him.

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