On the other hand...
This game (not an Early Access game, tangentially speaking) also showed up in the very same Steam discovery queue as Rodina.
About this... well... just... just listen to this. Really. Truly. Listen to it, for as long as you might be able to stomach it. Given that it's almost two hours long, I wouldn't fault you at all for bowing out after only a few minutes, but I managed (somehow) to make it through the whole thing (though by the end of it, admittedly, it all just started to blur into a bunch of blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda). It was... it was... let me gather my thoughts here for a moment...
Okay...
So...
To begin with, I do not like Jim Sterling. At all. I don't watch The Jimquisition or whatever else it is that Mr. Sterling may do online, and I have no interest whatsoever in starting to do so in the future after listening to that.
With that said, this developer who Mr. Sterling interviewed there (or were they [making a travesty of an attempt at] interviewing him? I honestly couldn't tell at times.), sounds... um... okay, after listening to that, I now also have incredibly highly negative amounts of interest in ever buying any game made by this dev, I don't care how good said hypothetical game may end up being (and that particular game up there that showed up in my discovery queue doesn't look like a very good game at all, though it is, apparently, one of the supposedly marginally better games from this dev). (EDIT) I've now gone to Steam and marked every game by this developer/publisher as "Not Interested." If only there was a way to mark a developer/publisher as a whole as "Not Interested." Alas. (/EDIT) I could go on, but... yeah... just listen. It speaks for itself, I think (though I am, obviously, going to go on for another couple of paragraphs about it anyway).
Neither side comes out of that looking good at all (and, yes, I do indeed feel superior to both). That whole thing was kind of almost... magical to listen to. Among other asinine minutiae later on, at one point early on they actually, seriously, argue about the definition of the word "leech." What. The. Fuck. ಠ_ಠ Both of those guys, Jim Sterling and that other guy from Digital Homicide whose name I don't even care to bother to go back and find out assuming it was even actually mentioned at all, are amazing assholes. Both of them. I honestly cannot stress too much how... how astoundingly outrageous that so-called "interview" was, for all involved. It makes the Peter Molyneux/John Walker interview seem like Nixon/Frost or something by comparison.
Honestly, I almost assuredly would have entirely missed this because, as I've said before, I simply no longer follow video game "news" like this at all. I found this entirely by blind luck, because I happened to browse the Steam forums for that Deadly Profits game, since the game showed up in my discovery queue and had "Mostly Negative" reviews, where the devs had a post about it pinned at the top of their forums (EDIT) which is no longer there (/EDIT), apparently as though it was some great victory for them or something??? Go figure. So... thanks for that, Steam. I kind of almost wish I'd remained utterly ignorant of this whole thing... but at the same time... wow. Just wow. *munches popcorn* Oh, I could say so very much more about this, but no. I'm going to stop here, for now. I have a headache.
(EDIT) Heh, one of those guys' names is "Jim," so wouldn't it be utterly fitting if the other guy's name turned out to be "Tim" something? ¬_¬ (/EDIT)
About this... well... just... just listen to this. Really. Truly. Listen to it, for as long as you might be able to stomach it. Given that it's almost two hours long, I wouldn't fault you at all for bowing out after only a few minutes, but I managed (somehow) to make it through the whole thing (though by the end of it, admittedly, it all just started to blur into a bunch of blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda). It was... it was... let me gather my thoughts here for a moment...
Okay...
So...
To begin with, I do not like Jim Sterling. At all. I don't watch The Jimquisition or whatever else it is that Mr. Sterling may do online, and I have no interest whatsoever in starting to do so in the future after listening to that.
With that said, this developer who Mr. Sterling interviewed there (or were they [making a travesty of an attempt at] interviewing him? I honestly couldn't tell at times.), sounds... um... okay, after listening to that, I now also have incredibly highly negative amounts of interest in ever buying any game made by this dev, I don't care how good said hypothetical game may end up being (and that particular game up there that showed up in my discovery queue doesn't look like a very good game at all, though it is, apparently, one of the supposedly marginally better games from this dev). (EDIT) I've now gone to Steam and marked every game by this developer/publisher as "Not Interested." If only there was a way to mark a developer/publisher as a whole as "Not Interested." Alas. (/EDIT) I could go on, but... yeah... just listen. It speaks for itself, I think (though I am, obviously, going to go on for another couple of paragraphs about it anyway).
Neither side comes out of that looking good at all (and, yes, I do indeed feel superior to both). That whole thing was kind of almost... magical to listen to. Among other asinine minutiae later on, at one point early on they actually, seriously, argue about the definition of the word "leech." What. The. Fuck. ಠ_ಠ Both of those guys, Jim Sterling and that other guy from Digital Homicide whose name I don't even care to bother to go back and find out assuming it was even actually mentioned at all, are amazing assholes. Both of them. I honestly cannot stress too much how... how astoundingly outrageous that so-called "interview" was, for all involved. It makes the Peter Molyneux/John Walker interview seem like Nixon/Frost or something by comparison.
Honestly, I almost assuredly would have entirely missed this because, as I've said before, I simply no longer follow video game "news" like this at all. I found this entirely by blind luck, because I happened to browse the Steam forums for that Deadly Profits game, since the game showed up in my discovery queue and had "Mostly Negative" reviews, where the devs had a post about it pinned at the top of their forums (EDIT) which is no longer there (/EDIT), apparently as though it was some great victory for them or something??? Go figure. So... thanks for that, Steam. I kind of almost wish I'd remained utterly ignorant of this whole thing... but at the same time... wow. Just wow. *munches popcorn* Oh, I could say so very much more about this, but no. I'm going to stop here, for now. I have a headache.
Click to view(EDIT) Heh, one of those guys' names is "Jim," so wouldn't it be utterly fitting if the other guy's name turned out to be "Tim" something? ¬_¬ (/EDIT)