I don’t think Schreier is your guy on this point. He’s typically a good journalist, but he’s taken a confoundingly insider-ish perspective on the outrage surrounding lootboxes and more contemporary methods of post-retail revenue generation. You’re trying to reason with someone who believes the right answer lies at…

My point is you’re responding to someone saying “they are a complex organism” with “no, they’re just shitty.”

I think the backlash towards guys like Jim Sterling is at the very least based a little bit in jealousy at the level of freedom and independence he has in working for himself.

Be it Jim Sterling, Yong Yea or this Cleanprincegaming, all of them just want to monetize on their videos because thats what they do for a living.

Oh, that YouTube pundits line was *absolutely* a jab at Jim Sterling - who, for all his theatrics, is at least consistently pro-consumer and has the quotes and facts lined up when he needs them. If he takes a shot at Anthem and sales drop as a result? Anthem will have probably deserved that shot.

Far too many Youtubers have been too scared to speak out against games because they would lose access to publishers (much like Kotaku did w/ Bethesda back in the day). All this is, is PR by the publishers to get out ahead and gain sympathy because of just how badly Battlefront 2 and others have hurt them.

Not to sound cold-hearted, but: come on, Jason. We can empathize with EA employees on the ground floor without sweeping the company’s wrongdoings under the rug.

A YouTube video with nearly 900,000 views titled “Why Anthem Should Scare You | Has EA Destroyed Bioware?” just miiiight be the type of thing that the second-to-last paragraph of this article is talking about.

I think this time around the thing that gets me is how... deliberate it feels? That’s not quite the right word for this, but hear me out.

I would like to remind everyone that this is not censorship and that Playtonic as a private business has the right to express itself as they see fit. If they do not wish to include voice work by a controversial figure in their video game that is well within their right. Jon’s free speech was not violated in any way…