Sorry about your shitty ex-friend and your illness. Hope you’re feeling okay!

Absolutely beautifully said. I find anyone that doesn’t like Jim as someone who takes him at complete face value. That guy is doing what some big video game review sites only wish they had the guts to do, he takes any company of any size to task for their bullshit. Whether that is small developers like DH or large…

At least if they could build some goodwill by making an actual fucking game, I could find some sympathy with them. But how can you? They’re not your standard hard-working indie dev. They buy assets, place them in a field, and then just send them after you to shoot at. No pathfinding, no heart, no soul.

Incorrect, the first video Jim posted for copyright claimed and taken down by DH. In reaction, Jim researched the developer and found that their business practices were shady enough to shed light on. It was not “hilarious” or generated larger than average traffic until the developer themselves threw a shit fit.

That wasn’t my intention. You said that you got a bunch of stuff out the article that wasn’t there, according to your reading. “According to my read of this article, Sterling has power in the industry...” Well... that’s a bad read. A good person can get a bad read on a situation. You mentioned that you don’t have any…

I read the whole comment - I was just calling out the fact that you were suggesting any assumption. I’ve seen quite a few of your comments in this thread that make me think you’re fairly unfamiliar with this whole situation and either party involved but giving Digital Homicides the benefit of the doubt.

Jim has actually documented his process of where he got what information. It’s part of his videos and blog posts on Digital Homicide. One of Jim’s accusations that DH used stolen assets was true. It was also true that DH had paid for it. The fact was that the people DH had paid for the asset had themselves stolen it.…

If their product is consistently bad a critic has the right to say so and the company has the right to be effected by it.

If you actually watched anything of his you would find that he is a pretty good critic. Even by your own definition. He is really good at finding faults in garbage like what Digihom does. So, if the feed back on that is not positive it is probably because it was a POS, with no hope to begin with. What Jim Sterling…

You know, Sterling was harsh against Scott Cawthorn’s first game and it he managed to turn that around and make Fivr Nights at Freddy’s, a good game with actual effort. What is Digital Honicide’s excuse? They have 20 games on Steam right now and two look like the same exact game seperated only by the position of…

Assuming what they allege is true

I also like the second part of that reflection, which many people seem to leave out for some reason:

But the mere use of generic assets was only part of the criticism being leveled at the developer. IIRC the overall thrust was that Slaughtering Grounds (and other properties) were a bunch of disparate parts bolted together with out much regard for coherence and integrated with little effort/skill (essentially, there…

Agree to disagree, I guess.

This isn’t about someone whose business is unfairly targeted or slight criticisms are blown out of proportion. It’s about a company who was criticized for a bad quality product, tried to censor the criticism, then became hostile when its questionable business practices started to surface as…

Allow me to take the bait as well. I call bullshit on Jim being a “mouthy idiot” and “not a critic.” He is in my opinion a great critic, he is in fact one of the smartest and well spoken/written critics in the industry. He did not become this big by being a “mouthy idiot.” His work is witty, sharp as fuck and…

Yes. Critics risk very little except their entire career with every thing they publicly review and criticize.

No. It will not “spur a discussion” on this, because the legality of the situation is already fully settled. He’s not libeling them, he’s stating an opinion and presenting it as an opinion, and any reasonable person would understand that from context. As such, nothing he’s saying is actionable, full stop. If these…

I’m glad Sterling covered all of that company’s games, because they really do continually use pre-packaged assets with little to no work on top of, instead of actually making something their own.

It’s crazy, because sterling actually PRAISED one of the digi-hom games (that third-person fantasy multiplayer RPG-ish shooter game a couple weeks ago).