Brute
Member
You’re right it was incredibly immature of me, and insensitive.
I just dislike JS - he’s not a nice person from the information I have about him.
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Jason Schreier's new book
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I just dislike JS - he’s not a nice person from the information I have about him.
DryvBy
Member
He's the Miss Cleo of game journalism.
DownLikeBCPowder
Member
I remember her all the time, I think during ad breaks for Cleopatra 2525.
"In the year.. 2525.."
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Swagballs717
Member
Fucking hell. Quick GAF, assemble
Is it gonna include a chapter where he goes into how he knew about the abuses going on inside Blizzard but didn't do anything to speak out about it?
ZoukGalaxy
Member
Nonehxc
Member
Imagine anybody cares about your book except your closed circle
The QRTs are on fire
So you like paying taxes for missiles and pennies for your clearly empty conscience, huh?
You can put your royalties together with your leathery foreskin where Jehova doesn't shine, Jason.
UnravelKatharsis
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Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Wouldn’t even wipe my arse on it if I ran out of bogroll.
shaddam
Member
He could be a great politician. Financing both sides
FingerBang
Member
Fully agree. I dislike him as a person and for his political leanings, BUT we all know his reports are legit, and his books offer great insight into the gaming industry.
Many people on gaf have the same mentality as those on REEEEE, but reversed. But you get to express your opinion here, even if it doesn't align with the leaders, making it much better.
SJRB
Gold Member
Something about this feels sinister. He knows and has known about (sexual) misconduct over at Blizzard for many years now, and he knew while things were happening.
The idea of writing a book about it and selling it feels uncomfortable and of questionable morality. The Russia bit it just the icing on the cake.
What a strange guy he is.
The idea of writing a book about it and selling it feels uncomfortable and of questionable morality. The Russia bit it just the icing on the cake.
What a strange guy he is.
TastyPastry
Member
buy this instead if you want a video game book, it's pretty awesome if you like the snes
Majormaxxx
Member
He writes petty, ill-intentioned pieces. He also blocks people who disagree with him on Twitter. That's probably it.
nush
Member
He's an odious toad with no integrity that writes ambulance chasing articles for the Ree crowd.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
There was a book written about Jason Schreier.
It was called "The Worm That Walks"
It was called "The Worm That Walks"
Mokus
Member
For starters he hates gamers who don't share his stupid opinions.
Dick Jones
Gold Member
I can't wait to read the book about how ole Jason knew about the allegations in Blizzard and did fuck all leading to continued abuse and the death of staff, then boasted that he knew. Great job Jason, you fucking fuck. Rot in fucking hell for not doing anything or trying to claim after the fact that you knew.
hemo memo
You can't die before your death
Good by what metric? Sit with your grandfather or grandmother for an hour and you’ll probably get a more informed opinion that this dude fiction books.
Valedix
Member
I called him out on Twitter when the Queen died and how he was making fun of her death because he also has an Era account so I wasn't at all surprised by his comments, he then blocked me straight away dude doesn't take criticism at all.
hemo memo
You can't die before your death
Yes people called him out on that tasteless joke about the titanic submarine and he banned them all. Funny how someone who sees himself as a ”journalist” doesn't like opinions.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
I found them entertaining and an interesting read. YMMV of course.
hemo memo
You can't die before your death
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Not today Satan
shaddam
Member
So I was thinking about this and.... how can he release his book in Russia when he is supporting the "enemy" with his revenue? Will the goverment be happy about it? Would be really funny if both russia and ukraine supporters would tell him to f off.
cormack12
Gold Member
He is right though, Russians with their rich heritage of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Pushkin would go apeshit if they were deprived of this seminal work of literature.
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
How many game journalists actually investigate what is happening at companies behind the scenes rather than just going through PR channels?Fo fuck sake
If that’s real journalism then middle schoolers do a far better job.
Like honestly, it's rare. Most game journalists are not trained journalists and have no idea how to do that sort of thing. I appreciate it when someone does.
I recognize that a lot of people would prefer to consume PR hype than to hear negativity about corporate culture at game studios but you gotta respect the effort.
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hemo memo
You can't die before your death
Texting disgruntled employees who were just let go to catch them at their weakest point to talk is investigative journalism? His books are he said she said gossip. It’s like the dude knows nothing about office politics or never worked an office job in his life. The things he write about would never be published if it is not for this stupid industry operating like the defense industry and game hobbyist obsession with so called “insiders”.
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Faust
Perpetually Tired
He doesn’t. He lies, manupulates, and pushes false narratives that garner him more clicks and attention.
He sat on the rape allegations for years. Got pissy when others finally revealed the info because he couldn’t be first to monetize it.
He had hundreds of rockstar employees telling him how they loved the work culture, but he didn’t publish their views and instead focused on only the negatives. Many of which weren’t even good employees or game devs at all. A number of them were janitorial staff.
Similar things happened with all his “reveals”.
He is a hypocritical weasel who just wants attention and money. He doesn’t give a rats ass about anyone in the industry and would sell anyone under the bridge if he could make a quick buck.
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SirKicksalot
Member
This has some interesting insights into their corporate culture and personalities. It's actually kind of sad to track these people and studios across the years and see how they get old and left behind. I haven't finished it (just got to the Warcraft 4 debacle) but I enjoy it.
Other thoughts:
- I like the Masters of Doom style early days of fun and hazing. It would be cool to write about contemporary game developers that are being run like that, surely they exist, though maybe in not in the western world.
- Bobby Kotick is a goddamn wizard. He was 15 years ahead of the industry with his endless milking, he just didn't have the infrastructure to pull off battle passes and aggressive live service updates in 2008. He's clearly different from the shampoo and diaper industry suits at the company (the Overwatch greenlight story is the perfect example)
- Schreier occasionally goes on a feminist tangent, which rubbed me the wrong way... But the section about romantic relationships in the company is low-key terrifying. I can't imagine working in an environment where people fuck, marry and cheat like that, the tension must be off the charts.
- Jay Wilson's story is really sad. I haven't heard anything about him after he left the Diablo team, so to learn about the distress and substance abuse was shocking. On a related note, the Diablo sections are some of the most engaging; it's interesting how development of every entry is a clusterfuck but the final products break records. I still don't understand what the fuck they were thinking with the 3rd person roguelike Diablo 4...
Other thoughts:
- I like the Masters of Doom style early days of fun and hazing. It would be cool to write about contemporary game developers that are being run like that, surely they exist, though maybe in not in the western world.
- Bobby Kotick is a goddamn wizard. He was 15 years ahead of the industry with his endless milking, he just didn't have the infrastructure to pull off battle passes and aggressive live service updates in 2008. He's clearly different from the shampoo and diaper industry suits at the company (the Overwatch greenlight story is the perfect example)
- Schreier occasionally goes on a feminist tangent, which rubbed me the wrong way... But the section about romantic relationships in the company is low-key terrifying. I can't imagine working in an environment where people fuck, marry and cheat like that, the tension must be off the charts.
- Jay Wilson's story is really sad. I haven't heard anything about him after he left the Diablo team, so to learn about the distress and substance abuse was shocking. On a related note, the Diablo sections are some of the most engaging; it's interesting how development of every entry is a clusterfuck but the final products break records. I still don't understand what the fuck they were thinking with the 3rd person roguelike Diablo 4...
RedHotFlip
Neo Member
Lots of big companies seem to have some of that but for whatever reason game devs take it to the next level.
nikos
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RetroGamingUK
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nnytk
Member
This actually sounds like an incredible spin-off game/idea.
A big studio third-person roguelike, Hades x Diablo 3 x Souls by Blizzard. Sounds like a dream game to me if executed with great (art) direction.
TexMex
Member
Wouldn’t ever give this little dildo one red cent.
Welcome to every single corporate setting, ever.
Welcome to every single corporate setting, ever.
SirKicksalot
Member
They had swinger parties lol. Really strange environment with no separation between private life and office life.
The Cosby Suite chapter is incredible. It describes how it's all a big misunderstanding due to bad Kotaku reporting. People lost jobs and continue to have issues getting hired! Schreier reached out to Kotaku's writer who stands by his shitty reporting.
The Overwatch 2 story is annoying. Some work that needed a dozen people only had one person assigned because of "muh culture" and shit. Jesus Christ. Imagine Bobby's restraint - any other billionaire would have hired a hitman to deal with these idiots. An army of Chinese devs makes a fuckton of high quality content for COD Mobile while Kaplan acts like he's painting the Sistine Chapel with five guys and a pizza.
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
I don’t even care about blizzards games let alone their history.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Because he's a piece of shit with no ethics who makes up stories about non-existing crunches or manipulative trash like his tweets against Game Science (Wukong). The only stuff he gets right is obvious things that any armchair aficionado could also tell.
I am more of an astronaut than he's a journo.
TexMex
Member
Well that's a bit different. I was more responding to people marry, fuck and cheat in a corporate setting. I've never had a job post college where there wasn't a lot of that. I include myself in that pool btw, so no judgment. I've been with my current significant other for years and that's exactly how it started. Along with nearly every other person I've dated as an adult.
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