So… what was the actual reason?
Never heard of him or the games until now. Kinda wish I still didn’t.
1st one was fun, but not really the pinacle of quality enough where I’d recommend it.
It is utterly riddled with DLC. Some of the characters actually straight up reuse the voices from other DLC.
People have very bad nostalgia goggles for it though. Tripwire didn’t change, people just weren’t so blind to the slop in KF2, and now KF3.
This is what happens if you don’t hire Sweet Baby Inc. It’s no idle threat - the woke left cabal destroys your company by making people not like your new game.
What a absolute snowflake.
What a loser
They didn’t even create Killing Floor. It was a UT2k4 mod that they bought, tweaked, and started selling.
But pull the linchpin and the machine collapses. Like kicking Steve Jobs out of Apple.
Is this man aware that Steve Jobs has been dead for over a decade and Apple is still the richest company in the world?
Apple is the richest company in the world?
According to Forbes It’s #11 in size.
Falls a bit behind Google in Market Cap. I suspect AI bubble pop is going to fix that. Apple’s played a much smarter game in that arena.
Jebus tho $120 billion in profit. That’s soooo much money.
No it’s not that, they still think normal people look up to Steve Jobs whatsoever.
Dude was an antivaxxer in regard to science and got exactly what he wanted. I wish the rest of them would follow in his footsteps like that more often, the world would thrive.
I’m with you, Steve Jobs was such a legendary douchebag* it pains me to correct anyone.
I think the Tripwire co-founder is referring to when Steve Jobs was fired by Apple’s board of directors in 1985.
Jobs went on to co-create NeXT and Pixar, and Apple absolutely tanked. John Gibson has not been wowing anyone, and few have cared about Tripwire.
When Steve Jobs came back to Apple in the 90s, it was literally Apple’s next big wave and they became a powerhouse.
It’s actually kind of nice that everyone has forgotten this part of Jobs’ narrative, and it’s comical that the founder that left a shitty little game studio in 2021 is comparing himself to Steve Jobs. Uhh… sure, in some ways.
* If I remember correctly… Steve Jobs literally stank because he didn’t think he needed to wash. He never had license plates on his car, because apparently at the time you could drive a new car without plates so he just bought a new car when the time expired. He ignored his first child for most of his life. He thought he could out-vegetable cancer and then tried to jump the organ donor line because he was rich?
he could out-vegetable cancer
Fruit. He was a fruitarian. Ashton Kutcher tried to go method and adopt a fruit-only diet when playing Jobs in a biopic and ended up in the hospital.
But yeah, NeXT was kinda revolutionary and introduced features which became common in home computing. The world wide web was kinda invented on one.
You forgot he stole actual inventors ideas. He didn’t do shit, he just had the money to fund it and the charisma to make other people listen to what introverts couldn’t articulate.
I had a work project to collect all his “patents” when he died. They were mostly .ttf typefaces and co-signed design patents with actual inventors. Design patents are just appearance of a product. Which typically meant he gave feedback but didn’t do the heavy lifting.
He was not the genius people paint him as. He was a good marketer. The sad part is people don’t recognize the actual geniuses behind the curtains.
This is a problem I personally hate. Same reason Musk gets all this credit for being the man behind this or that technology. Motherfucker just throws money and his name at things. He’s a modern Steve Jobs in that sense.
This is what confuses actual talent with “I have the money to fund things”.
Even during the zenith of the Apple hype, back in the iPhone days, the joke in Android circles was that Apple would just take whatever Samsung was doing, rebrand it with Apple terms, and launch a media blitz about the new feature they “created”. And frustratingly it worked every time.
iPhones didn’t even have copy-paste or screenshot capabilities early on
They weren’t first with capacitive touch screens, touch to move/zoom (there were demonstrations of this from the 80’s!), swipe to unlock, or pretty much anything they sued Samsung over. The whole lawsuit was a sham, because even the parts Samsung did copy wasn’t Apple’s to begin with
He thought he could out fruit pancreatic cancer, actually.
His wet footprints, fresh out of the nearest toilet… What a visionary.
Steve was a terrible person but he was amazing at getting the company to fix things when they went so anti customer that it was impossible to use.
Apple really needs someone to fucking yell at them for how shitty their software is lately — just yesterday and the day before Notification Center crashed on two different machines I was using and required hard reboots. I have windows get forgotten by expose and stop responding to the window server properly, iOS keyboard is unusable. iWork is dead and gives me subscribe pop ups on every open, settings has ads, apps like Image Capture haven’t been updated for like three OS major versions and show the wrong chrome, mdstore and spotlight is constantly using 300% CPU every day, spotlight can’t find files anymore, Siri on iOS can’t cancel a request that you meant to make a web search but now you’re stuck waiting on AI bullshit, new Siri is approximately 100% wrong, the settings app is impossible to use, keychain is full of dead APIs, APIs have no actual documentation anymore you get like one or two examples instead, copy and paste images is dead, Time Machine is constantly wasting invisible space, launchctrl daemons are broken by permission dialogs, Automator has been replaced by Shortcuts which is supposed to only be used by AI… I could keep going… but it’s utter crap.
Steve said users were holding their phones wrong instead of admitting to an obvious design flaw.
Yes. He was an asshole. I couldn’t find the right word for customer because of that and flash and a million other things that were blatantly self interested. Maybe the best way to put it is he cared more about Apple than anything, and that meant he cared more about customers than engineers (Apple > Customer > Staff?)
But at least most things made sense and didn’t suck with him around.
Am I so out of touch? No, it’s the woke leftists that got me fired.
Surely its not releasing the same game for the third time with cosmetics out the wazoo
I would have been fine with them releasing the same game, but they released an inferior game for the third time.
I’m a woke lefty I guess and I, too, would kick anyone out who writes
conservative activist against abortion and social terrorism
about himself in public.
Also, the Twitter simps are as always incapable of forming an argument without using the word agenda.
Whaaaaattt???
You mean the game where I can play as a nazi has some problematic devs?
Meh I think that’s just the myth of the clean Wehrmacht at work. “He was only a soldier, finally dellusioned by the war!” Enough Germans still fall for it, and I don’t expect an US video game studio to get it either, honestly.
It’s certainly a take to suppose there are good Nazis, it’s another to claim he was a “German soldier”
Too scared to say the N word, Tripwire?
(Not that one, the other one)
That is the myth. Many people believe that a Wehrmacht soldier wasn’t necessarily in on NS ideology.
What the hell even is “social terrorism”? Sounds like something I’d be against as well, but I’m sure this bigot uses a very different meaning for “terrorism”.
it’s calling out bigots, so they feel “terrorised” when they can’t spout their bullshit in peace.
Woke leftists forced him to put gambling and microtransactions after saying he wouldn’t. Then adding christian extremist music. Then making whatever the fuck kf3 was trying to be after mediocre vr games.
Wait so he left out the part where they made other shit games under his leadership before kf3? lmao
Looked them up and honestly, at least on metacritic, they aren’t rated that bad, even kf3.
- KF2: 75%
- Rising storm 2: 81%
- Maneater: 70%
- KFVR: 68%
- KF3: 68%
I really enjoyed their games, especially Red Orchestra 2 snd Killing Floor 1, sucks to find out I gave money to a shithead like that though.
…are the woke leftists in the room with us right now?
Bye, Felicia.
Glad I didn’t buy KF3 after seeing the train wreck that became KF2.
Exactly. I got 100% achievements in KF1, great game. 2 was ok for a console port, but it just kept getting whackier and whackier. When 3 rolled around and was expensive and really only offered slightly better graphics, I just wasn’t interested. Now I feel extra validated that this doofus is blaming others for his failure and bad decisions.
I get John here is digressively victimizing himself out the foodbanks, but what kind of leftist doesn’t seize the means of game production? “Firing” people is rightwing praxis, crony.
