I do think there are a few valid points made...albeit poorly.
1) If 'gamers' understood how much time and effort was put into making games, then maybe people might understand how hard it is to make games, especially if you're an indie game developer.
2) There is a big difference between making a YouTube video and making a game.
3) There is a big difference between insulting an entire company and a team consisting of three or so people.
4) There isn't anything wrong with using Unity assets especially if you're a starting indie developer.
5) jim should follow up with some of his claims or research a bit more into the topic more. Jim has made some pretty bad videos.
I think Robs harassment point is legitimate but he is directing it at the wrong person. When Jim Sterling makes his videos, they are critiques but not attacks. It's the fans (gamers) who love the hate and will harass the hell out of someone regardless of how the developer feels. I think it's interesting to hear how much harassment has effected him and his users on forums.
I don't think they're that valid a point being made here, or at least the arguments themselves has holes in them.
1) Appreciating the effort into a game being made means fuck all if the end product is something the consumer feels like they've wasted their money on, this is why consumers turn to reviews and lets plays to make a pre-determined judgement on a game before handing out their cash, this is why "leeches" are good.
2) This is where I think Digital Homocide's argument on this matter backfires spectacularly when he tries to ultimately say at its base that what Jim does and what he does are the exact same, Youtube video's come in three flavours,
1. You have what Jim does in setting a stage to debate about stuff and essentially talking over videos from other sources, 2. Animators creating their own content from scratch, 3. A mishmash between the two like what Angry Joe does.... a game developer should be either doing numbers 2 or 3, if you're doing exactly what Jim does, your fucking up somewhere and you
will be on Jimquisition for it ironically.
3) Yes and no, granted because a dev is smaller you are going to be in contact with the creator more easily, both sizes of business are approached in the same manner from the media but the difference between the two boils down to one has media muscle and PR bodyguards and the other does not, small devs need to be smarter with how they handle social media to promote their stuff, Digital Homicide is an example of straight up suicide in this regard. Also Jim's only insulted the game and used DH as an example of how not to PR, the personal attacks have only come from DH's side which gave birth to Jim Fucking Sterling Son.
4)
Jim already covered Unity being a force for good
5) For the most part he's spot on with his videos, only criticism I've had was when he didn't let the Shenmue video cook in the oven a little bit longer, even though I got the overall message he was trying to convey.
Also yeah, there's always dicks online, the sad thing is, it probably didn't just come from Jim's fanbase either, I remember Totalbiscuit and Angry Joe also covered the incident in their top ten worst games referencing Jims videos so there isn't one source you could pinpoint where the harassment can come from.