Jim Sterling (The Jimquisition)

Coz his last name is the name of his family and maybe he doesn't wanna give that connection up in his personal life? Coz having both names serves a useful separation since public records aren't all under his stage name?

I remember during the digihom lawsuit shit he mentioned somewhere he has reasons (I think he may have specified "legal reasons" but my memory is shaky) he can't change his name yet. But also that he holds no love for his family name.

Jim has disowned his family. He considers Sterling his real name, and will very likely get rid of his dead name as soon as he can.

Hot damn, disowned? Did he ever say why?

Abusive Parents.

I do remember getting kind of uncomfortable a while back when an article on another website (Kotaku, IIRC) referred to Jim by his old name. While it may be "public knowledge" so to speak, it came off as a sort of thing that bordered on doxing because it's pretty clear by Jim's public persona that people aren't really meant to refer to him by his "real name."

I think he's mentioned that he doesn't particularly care either way. Haters tried to call him that as a way to insult him or seem like they have some sort of hidden knowledge and his response was just that it's all public knowledge anyway and they don't actually have any kind of leverage on him by using it. It's something he's left behind all the same.

Well, by etiquette standards, calling him by any name other than what he wants to be called is just plain rude and can very easily slip over into nasty.

It's also not like calling people by their stage names is that odd in the entertainment industry, I mean until last year Micheal Caine's legal name was Maurice Micklewhite, but no one referred to him as such. Heck, Martin and Charlie Sheen's names are still Ramon and Carlos Estivez.

Yeah, calling someone by their given name instead of their preferred name is completely rude and is usually meant as a tactic to get under their skin. The best comparison I can think of was that time when Trump tried to discredit Jon Stewart' and kept calling him "Jon Liebowitz", even going out of his way to tell people that's Stewart's real name.

Stewart responded by revealing that Trump's little known real name is "F*ckface von Clownstick".

Don't be a Clownstick.

edited 20th Nov '17 7:22:47 AM by TobiasDrake

tl;dr, Jim admits to being wrong about the Switch not having good games and prefers to have a steady stream of great games instead of a clusterfuck of a console launch with several games out of the gate. Loves Nintendo for not only making good games, but for not succumbing to the lootbox bullshit.

Still rates Breath of the Wild a 7/10

edited 20th Nov '17 7:37:14 AM by Steven

I am so proud of Nintendo for not giving into the loot box craze. Seriously, you know how easy it would be? Microtransactions in Pokemon, for instance, would make a f*cking mint.

WHOOPS! You ran out of Poke Balls trying to capture that hard-to-find Pokemon or super-low catch rate Legendary. BUT for only $0.99, we can restock you five Poke Balls right now! Higher prices for stronger balls and, if you're really desperate, just $9.99 will get you a Master Ball.

Well, there is Pokemon Go and Magikarp Jump, but those are Free to Play to begin with and I don't think they do the loot box nonsense either.

But yeah, it's still good that Nintendo continues to compete on the quality of their software rather than cheap nickel and diming.

Glad to see Sterdust is back.

When I think of Nintendo and microtransactions, my go-to example is Pokemon Picross. It's a free-to-play Picross game where you complete Picross puzzles of Pokemon to unlock those Pokemon and then you can use special abilities from them to help with other puzzles.

It has the free-to-wait "Energy" mechanic as well as requiring in-game currency to unlock new worlds full of Pokemon, which can be obtained the slow way by completing puzzles or purchased through microtransactions. You can also spend the in-game currency to increase your "Energy" meter, with the final level going infinite and removing the timer entirely.

Also, at around the $30.00 mark of buying the in-game currency, you unlock free infinite in-game currency forever and the game won't let you spend money anymore.

So it's a free-to-play game that you can pay real-world currency to remove the free-to-play elements from.

So this is only tangentially related but the crackdown on the lootbox shit is starting.

Belgium's Minister of Justice essentially considers them gambling and wants to ban them, not only in Belgium, but all across Europe.

A State Rep from Hawaii also stated they're investigating the issue to enact legislation. Other states are apparently considering the same thing.

edited 21st Nov '17 6:47:23 PM by Karxrida

Oh wow, I knew the Battlefront 2 shit was big but I had no idea it was actually big enough to make politicians in the US consider enacting legislation.

EA might have really gone way too far this time to the point it will have lasting consequences.

Kinda fitting that EA would be the bastards kicking this off. Add another to the JIM WAS RIGHT bin.

Pandora's Box is now open. No going back on this train ride!

Your Boy gave a rather concise summary of his thoughts on the matter on Twitter, and from the seems of things we'll have a video on this tomorrow.

You did something good for once EA. You are possibly ending up BS lootboxes.

More like Pandora's Lootbox.

I bet that's the title of the Jimquisition too.

Speaking of thoughts on EA. It's like pottery, it rhymes.

I don't know if I should laugh or slap you for that pun