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haxxiy on 15 March 2017
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Nem said:

I see alot of accusations of click baiting. As no one probably says it directly, i will. If you say that, you are part of the problem. 

The jimquisition is highly sucessful. Jim does not need extra clicks when his shows get 400k weekly views. Lots of people, be it Zelda fans, No man's sky fans or shitty indie developers who don't want criticism seem to be unable to leave him be. It's just one review. Get over it. He does not give scores because of him hating on Nintendo or someone else. This is a person who was just in a law suit because some dipshit developer couldn't take criticism and he showed him lenience when he could have outright destroyed his life. 

You don't know Jim and these click bait accusations just go to prove that. He doesn't need them. He has douchebad indies always making a show for him. His review is totally honest. Sorry if you can't take the criticism, but what he says is totally legitimate.

400,000 views a week is not a lot. Some media vehicles do up to a hundred times better than that and are very much concerned on how much money they are going to win with advertising.  In the past, the media earned a lot more from subscription rather than advertising, so quality was actually their main concern. When you earn it all with advertising, only one thing matters - clicks, and nothing attracts clicks better than misguided headlines and deliberately stocking a strong reaction from your target audience. I'm not saying it is good or bad, right or wrong - only that is how most of the media works today,  placing notoriety above quality.

I'm not sure, and I'm unable to properly estimate, the proper standard deviation for the scores of the Zelda game in question - but it is very likely that, on a normal distribution curve, reviews on the 60-70 range for a game rated 98 shouldn't really appear until it gets hundreds of different reviews. It's a thumb rule of proper statistics. Now, I don't know what goes on on Jim Sterling's head (and neither do you) but it is reasonable to suggest his review was entirely fair and concerned with quality alone, for there is evidence that it is so.

And it's not by making a strawman of other people's arguments that you will be able to effectively defend his choice, mind you.