Reputation Assassination

[christian]

Jim Sterling is being sued by Digital Homicide - http://www.digitalhomicide.ninja/#!laws ... tion/psyu3

Jim runs his own website and his own business. He can review, talk about, and make videos on any game he wants. With so many treasures to choose from, one might wonder why he'd spend such a colossal effort on the output of studios like Digital Homicide. Simply put, he loves to prey on them, but unlike his AAA targets, which can easily ignore his mosquito antics, Digital Homicide cannot. And so their blood's been shed by the merciless blade of the so-called critic, who claims to be wielding it for justice. But what justice is there in the frustrated warrior, who for all his efforts cannot penetrate the scales of the mighty dragon, and instead goes to the nearest town and cuts to pieces the first villager he sees with a blemished face?

[christian]

Here's an interview between Jim Sterling and Digital Homicide - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhjXfAikKaY

Here you can see a crystal-clear picture of Sterling's character. Or rather, his lack thereof.

[christian]

Jim Sterling playing Digital Homicide's latest game - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zPZIRPTeu4

Just as the evil critic needs his lambs for the slaughter, he also needs to elevate bad games (or at least randomly spare them) to complete his disguise of honest open-mindedness, so when it comes time for him to slander he's seen as a hero, instead of a criminal. And here he is, doing his best to look the part by commenting on very minor parts of the game (the only parts he seems capable of addressing) and being unable to find anything seriously wrong with it. This, despite the game looking just as bad as all the others (I still find it shocking that someone with the freedom and independence to cover any game he wants would spend 20+ minutes covering this). And so he titles the video, "Digital Homicide Does It Right?", in disbelief.

As if to say, "See how just I am?" What an utter facade.

[christian]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.ph ... tcount=560

Save your sympathy for developers who deserve it.

They really don't believe that everybody deserves justice. And what was the crime exactly? According to this guy, too many games! Yes, they have too many games on Steam. And for that, they're being sentenced to death.

[christian]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.ph ... stcount=94

Dont they know he had the right to say whatever he wants about a game?

[christian]

It would be one thing if this was just an isolated event. But if this thread has shown you anything, it's that this is the prevailing sickness affecting practically everyone involved with videogames on the Internet today. People like Jim Sterling thrive off of it, and they relish their sin, and with it all the destruction that comes with it. And as they survey the ruin of their handiwork, they laugh, and instead of being openly rebuked and challenged, they find all around them an audience that roars together with him in laughter over the bloodied corpses he leaves in his wake.

[christian]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread. ... 775&page=8

The sad part is that Digital Homicide did this to themselves.

[christian]

I wrote a followup to my Assassination Reputation article on Gamasutra. We'll see if they publish it. In it, I mentioned the casual attacks against "mainstream" games by Gamasutra community members. Wondering if they were still commonplace, I opened the first article with comments on the frontpage I could find that dealt with such a game and sure enough, here's the first comment:

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/243564/O ... ment267939

I hope [the author] was handsomely compensated for his adulatory "opinion".

Ever since a teaser that was touted as a visual stunner but I thought was a bummer (perhaps my having muted the sound to better judge the VISUALS had an influence?), I knew Witcher 3 was gonna be one hyped game!

Son, thanks for being you.

[christian]

Now a crucial element to the whole thing is that if this is how they treat games, why should it surprise us that this is also how they treat people? And the same can be said for the game rapists.

[christian]

The Blood Of Thy Neighbour - http://gamasutra.com/blogs/ChristianSel ... ghbour.php