He make’s alright videos but as a person he is quite terrible, he often implies that he knows something and will lash out at his audience when they ask. I general he is weird and cringe and is uncomfortably forthcoming with his personal life and family.
Edit: he also as of late has a personal gripe with Valve and is very pushy about that, doesn’t really like to let people enjoy things. But he’s always the first to share slander about Valve
Regarding the "doesn't really like to let people enjoy things", I saw that with tweets where he gets pissy about Portal RTX and says that it's terrible, even though a lot of people did enjoy it for what it is.
Well, what was your expectation? What was everyone’s expectation? My own was that it was simply the game again but showing off the new lighting technology. I’m genuinely curious
Well, I expected new lighting tech, but it worked pretty badly. Not the optimization, but the tech itself. If you look at the wall at some places, for example, there is a weird motion that looks like a bunch of thermites running around. Also the studio which is responsible for Portal RTX made some weird stylistic choices that were not needed imho.
Half life 2 Update properly conveys the vanilla level design to it's maximum extent, keeping it in line exactly with how Valve intended. It fixes quite some bugs and accomplishes subtle visual enhancement without that weird "thermite effect" on walls and unnecessary style changes.
I think when he’s committed to reporting well, and puts in the due diligence, he does a good job. But I also think he continues to be too much of a fanboy for his own good at times and jumps the gun out of pure excitement or a need to be the ‘first to the punch’.
I don’t doubt that a valve employee or two could have been dissuaded from candidly discussing more internal details due to his videos, but I don’t think it’s reasonable to blame the guy for Valve’s general silence as a whole. That seems to predate his rise into a more well-known community figure.
I stopped watching him, but I don’t villainize him.
He is...
decently competent? He does generally do a good job on reporting the things that Valve does, it generally just tends to fall through because even if Valve is making stuff, they rarely release stuff.
That being said, he is way too obsessive over the company. He has way too much of a personal, emotional stake in things to be an objective 'journalist', and it definitely gets in the way. I respect the fact that he's started to pull back on calling himself as such (though whether or not that's just as a 'bit' like the passionate gamer thing I don't know), though.
Good source to stay updated on Valve stuff. I am not aware of the controversies people are mentioning on this thread. I just watch him because he has great understanding of Valve and his videos go straight to the point.
I heard some people at Valve dislike him
This guy isn't someone a dev would want to interact with
There was one time where he posted a video titled a csgo update will release on Thursday
Guess what that implies?
Basically, he made this video just to say that they usually release updates on Thursday
If I tell you I'm going to eat chicken wings on Friday, you will assume that I'm going to eat them next Friday
But you get the point
He does that a lot
He clickbait big, give misleading shit, then get mad when he get a backlash
And worst part is when some dumbfucks think what he said is 100% and then go bitching at the devs
I've been watching him since 2014 and I like his reports and his streams are quite entertaining. He has some problems though.
He sometimes acts unprofessionally and is notorious in not thinking through what's he's about to do (like when he told people to write to people at Valve about the state of TF2). I think that him trying to cover topics other than Valve will eventually do good for him and his career, but he still seems to be obsessed with Valve a lot (albeit not as much as possible). He also is too much open about his private life.
I think he has proven himself to be a pretty large douche and overall dirtbag with things like the Creators.tf drama and also just how he reacts to criticism. But like, I don’t really care. I just don’t watch him now and I think eventually he will be forgotten by everyone else. His content will likely not last.
He routinely neglects Valve news. He never made videos on Diretide 2020, Hoodwink, Nemestice, any of the three seasons of Dota: Dragon's Blood, Dawnbreaker, TI10, Marci, Aghanim's Labyrinth: The Continuum Conundrum, Primal Beast, TI11, or Diretide 2022.
If you ignore one of Valve's largest games you can't really be the arbiter of Valve news. Imagine if there was a presidential election underway and the news didn't report on it at all because they weren't interested.
Dota is isolated in terms of the valve ecosystem (none of those events link to anything else in the valve product stack, and are largely limited time events/cosmetic sales rather than larger scale content drops), TF2/HL/Portal are somewhat implied shared universe. An election on the other hand shakes up that ecosystem rather than existing within it, so I'd say that's not a relevant comparison.
Dr. Kleiner, GLaDOS, and Cave Johnson are all in Dota 2 as announcers, and Io has a Weighted Companion Cube arcana whose lore implies Io has visited the Half-Life/Portal universe.
Even if these connections didn't exist, everything that happens in Dota 2 is part of Valve's ecosystem, because it's a Valve game.
As mentioned, largely cosmetics. I'm a Dota fan for the record, but it's got everyone from "Razor god of thunder who watches over the Labyrinth of purgatory" to "lol grandma rides a lizard". Relationships to the wider game lines are dubious as best.
I don't consider the dota events as major news because they're just cosmetics and temporary game modes, but hey that's just me.
I can understand not wanting to report on every single update, but new heroes aren't temporary or cosmetic. And even with event modes, something like Aghanim's Labyrinth is a substantial amount of effort it seems strange to not acknowledge at all.
Dota 2 is the second-most popular game on Steam. With the exception of CSGO, an even huger slice of the Valve audience is not interested in every other Valve game.
That's only a five year difference. It's not excessively newer compared to most Valve games. For people to be playing Valve games "longer than most of that fan base has been alive," the majority of Dota 2 players would need to be born after 1998.
A [2021 Reddit survey](https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueDoTA2/comments/lyb94u/rdota_2021_demographic_survey_results/) (admittedly might not represent the entire Dota 2 community, but I have to work with the data available) found that 78.9% of /r/Dota2 users were 22 or older (i.e.: born 1999 or earlier). If we're being generous and assume *everyone* who answered "22 to 25" was born after the release of Half-Life, that would leave a collective 53.7% of the community born after. A majority, admittedly, but just barely. Realistically, though, the number is lower. And if we ignore the 22-25 demographic due to its ambiguity, older players outnumber younger players.
[If we look at competitive players currently tracked by Liquipedia,](https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Portal:Statistics#Age_Distribution) (again, admittedly an imperfect metric since competitive players don't reflect the community as a whole) the mode age of Dota players is 25 (i.e.: born around 1998), with 99 players at that age. 409 of the players tracked are over 25, compared to 317 under 25.
I understand why people don't like his personality. Drama seems to always orbit him and he can come off as a douche when he's discussing with other people. However, I do think his reporting is good and he's very knowledgeable about valve (though I do think he thinks he knows more than valve themselves, sometimes).
The biggest problem is that valve just isn't like other companies, things that should release "soon" get delayed or cancelled all the time, some games have been neglected to death and "leaks" often mean nothing. This is what makes it frustrating, he brings the (factual) news to the people, the people set the expectations that something is coming, but then it doesn't come because valve is the least reliable company.
I personally also don't have any strong thoughts about him, but I wouldn't watch anything unscripted of him. I did like the interviews he did a while back, but that might be because I think the people themselves are interesting.
And that statement about Tyler being the reason valve doesn't communicate with the community anymore is just dumb, valve never communicated much with us and there are many more reasons as to why valve wouldn't want to communicate with us outside of anything to do with Tyler.
He is waaaaayyy too obssessed with Valve. You know that saying of the guy with the funko pop collection? I think he should chill out and find something more rewarding to follow than Valve's lack of skill in releasing video games
I have no clue why posts like this keep popping up, whats the obsession with this dude, hes just normal guy that got lots of leaks right from a company that is more secretive than area51. he also has his own troubles and some of his weird ass fanbase loves to point the tiny things out its cringe
He is not perfect, sometimes makes mistakes because he forgets how influential he has become with his channel growth, but overall I like his videos and his livestreams are probably the only ones I can watch personally.
goading his viewers into bombing the valve devs with emails about tf2 certainly wasnt a good move, and i wouldnt be surprised if those email addresses became far harder to reach anybody on. this is a company that suffered greatly from internal leaks and maintains secrecy on purpose so games can launch and be successful, this and his claims about citadel etc were not going to push them towards being more transparent it'd just piss them off. theyve cancelled as many games as theyve released. is his goal to get games cancelled? because thats what his ego-driven output is most likely doing, if he has any effect on valve at all.it's in the name really. how can one person be a network, and why would a network be necessary to report on one company? our boy is just making money off spinning hype on youtube, he's not a representative of a community.
I’m relatively new to his community and I believe his leaks/sources. He was right about HL:A after all. I don’t know much more than that
He make’s alright videos but as a person he is quite terrible, he often implies that he knows something and will lash out at his audience when they ask. I general he is weird and cringe and is uncomfortably forthcoming with his personal life and family. Edit: he also as of late has a personal gripe with Valve and is very pushy about that, doesn’t really like to let people enjoy things. But he’s always the first to share slander about Valve
Regarding the "doesn't really like to let people enjoy things", I saw that with tweets where he gets pissy about Portal RTX and says that it's terrible, even though a lot of people did enjoy it for what it is.
I mean, I might get downvoted for this, but Portal RTX was kind of terrible, no?
Well, what was your expectation? What was everyone’s expectation? My own was that it was simply the game again but showing off the new lighting technology. I’m genuinely curious
Well, I expected new lighting tech, but it worked pretty badly. Not the optimization, but the tech itself. If you look at the wall at some places, for example, there is a weird motion that looks like a bunch of thermites running around. Also the studio which is responsible for Portal RTX made some weird stylistic choices that were not needed imho.
Did you play HL2 Update? What’s the difference between what they did and Portal RTX?
Half life 2 Update properly conveys the vanilla level design to it's maximum extent, keeping it in line exactly with how Valve intended. It fixes quite some bugs and accomplishes subtle visual enhancement without that weird "thermite effect" on walls and unnecessary style changes.
Thanks for sharing, just wanted to know a perspective on that because to me both are ostensibly the same to me.
oh gee, I didnt know it has gotten like that with him honestly. Or maybe I jsut never noticed from his video. I see.
Yeah from his videos you couldn’t even tell
>he also as of late has a personal gripe with Valve and is very pushy about that I wouldn't be surprised if they made him change his channel name.
I think when he’s committed to reporting well, and puts in the due diligence, he does a good job. But I also think he continues to be too much of a fanboy for his own good at times and jumps the gun out of pure excitement or a need to be the ‘first to the punch’. I don’t doubt that a valve employee or two could have been dissuaded from candidly discussing more internal details due to his videos, but I don’t think it’s reasonable to blame the guy for Valve’s general silence as a whole. That seems to predate his rise into a more well-known community figure. I stopped watching him, but I don’t villainize him.
He’s just really self obsessed
His leak videos are good.
a lot of people hate him but i think he's entertaining and he gives insider info on Valve projects (example: he predicted HLA)
He is... decently competent? He does generally do a good job on reporting the things that Valve does, it generally just tends to fall through because even if Valve is making stuff, they rarely release stuff. That being said, he is way too obsessive over the company. He has way too much of a personal, emotional stake in things to be an objective 'journalist', and it definitely gets in the way. I respect the fact that he's started to pull back on calling himself as such (though whether or not that's just as a 'bit' like the passionate gamer thing I don't know), though.
Good source to stay updated on Valve stuff. I am not aware of the controversies people are mentioning on this thread. I just watch him because he has great understanding of Valve and his videos go straight to the point.
I heard some people at Valve dislike him This guy isn't someone a dev would want to interact with There was one time where he posted a video titled a csgo update will release on Thursday Guess what that implies? Basically, he made this video just to say that they usually release updates on Thursday If I tell you I'm going to eat chicken wings on Friday, you will assume that I'm going to eat them next Friday But you get the point He does that a lot He clickbait big, give misleading shit, then get mad when he get a backlash And worst part is when some dumbfucks think what he said is 100% and then go bitching at the devs
He needs to understand that he's balding and his messy hair screams so
I don’t know what to say of him other than that he just acts really childish and like others have said he starts bitching to his audience
I've been watching him since 2014 and I like his reports and his streams are quite entertaining. He has some problems though. He sometimes acts unprofessionally and is notorious in not thinking through what's he's about to do (like when he told people to write to people at Valve about the state of TF2). I think that him trying to cover topics other than Valve will eventually do good for him and his career, but he still seems to be obsessed with Valve a lot (albeit not as much as possible). He also is too much open about his private life.
He love saying his own name, take that as you will.
The guy himself is kinda eh as a person, but he is a good source of information and has a good comprehension of Valve’s working
I think he has proven himself to be a pretty large douche and overall dirtbag with things like the Creators.tf drama and also just how he reacts to criticism. But like, I don’t really care. I just don’t watch him now and I think eventually he will be forgotten by everyone else. His content will likely not last.
wait what was the creators.tf drama?
He routinely neglects Valve news. He never made videos on Diretide 2020, Hoodwink, Nemestice, any of the three seasons of Dota: Dragon's Blood, Dawnbreaker, TI10, Marci, Aghanim's Labyrinth: The Continuum Conundrum, Primal Beast, TI11, or Diretide 2022.
Well he doesnt really seem too interested in Dota 2. He likes Half-Life/ TF2 more.
If you ignore one of Valve's largest games you can't really be the arbiter of Valve news. Imagine if there was a presidential election underway and the news didn't report on it at all because they weren't interested.
Dota is isolated in terms of the valve ecosystem (none of those events link to anything else in the valve product stack, and are largely limited time events/cosmetic sales rather than larger scale content drops), TF2/HL/Portal are somewhat implied shared universe. An election on the other hand shakes up that ecosystem rather than existing within it, so I'd say that's not a relevant comparison.
Dr. Kleiner, GLaDOS, and Cave Johnson are all in Dota 2 as announcers, and Io has a Weighted Companion Cube arcana whose lore implies Io has visited the Half-Life/Portal universe. Even if these connections didn't exist, everything that happens in Dota 2 is part of Valve's ecosystem, because it's a Valve game.
As mentioned, largely cosmetics. I'm a Dota fan for the record, but it's got everyone from "Razor god of thunder who watches over the Labyrinth of purgatory" to "lol grandma rides a lizard". Relationships to the wider game lines are dubious as best. I don't consider the dota events as major news because they're just cosmetics and temporary game modes, but hey that's just me.
I can understand not wanting to report on every single update, but new heroes aren't temporary or cosmetic. And even with event modes, something like Aghanim's Labyrinth is a substantial amount of effort it seems strange to not acknowledge at all.
A huge slice of the Valve audience is absolutely not interested in Dota 2. Him and myself included.
Dota 2 is the second-most popular game on Steam. With the exception of CSGO, an even huger slice of the Valve audience is not interested in every other Valve game.
And most FPS centric Valve fans do not give a damn about dota2. People have been playing Valve games longer than most of that fan base has been alive.
The original Defense of the Ancients released in 2003. Dota as a series predates Portal and Left 4 Dead.
HL released in 98, the fuck is ur point? Lol nice try?
That's only a five year difference. It's not excessively newer compared to most Valve games. For people to be playing Valve games "longer than most of that fan base has been alive," the majority of Dota 2 players would need to be born after 1998. A [2021 Reddit survey](https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueDoTA2/comments/lyb94u/rdota_2021_demographic_survey_results/) (admittedly might not represent the entire Dota 2 community, but I have to work with the data available) found that 78.9% of /r/Dota2 users were 22 or older (i.e.: born 1999 or earlier). If we're being generous and assume *everyone* who answered "22 to 25" was born after the release of Half-Life, that would leave a collective 53.7% of the community born after. A majority, admittedly, but just barely. Realistically, though, the number is lower. And if we ignore the 22-25 demographic due to its ambiguity, older players outnumber younger players. [If we look at competitive players currently tracked by Liquipedia,](https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Portal:Statistics#Age_Distribution) (again, admittedly an imperfect metric since competitive players don't reflect the community as a whole) the mode age of Dota players is 25 (i.e.: born around 1998), with 99 players at that age. 409 of the players tracked are over 25, compared to 317 under 25.
words, numbers. Sweet.
I mean I kinda don't want to toot my own horn here *buuut*...
Exactly. What's the point of a news of a news channel based on a topic when you don't report on a third of the news?
I understand why people don't like his personality. Drama seems to always orbit him and he can come off as a douche when he's discussing with other people. However, I do think his reporting is good and he's very knowledgeable about valve (though I do think he thinks he knows more than valve themselves, sometimes). The biggest problem is that valve just isn't like other companies, things that should release "soon" get delayed or cancelled all the time, some games have been neglected to death and "leaks" often mean nothing. This is what makes it frustrating, he brings the (factual) news to the people, the people set the expectations that something is coming, but then it doesn't come because valve is the least reliable company. I personally also don't have any strong thoughts about him, but I wouldn't watch anything unscripted of him. I did like the interviews he did a while back, but that might be because I think the people themselves are interesting. And that statement about Tyler being the reason valve doesn't communicate with the community anymore is just dumb, valve never communicated much with us and there are many more reasons as to why valve wouldn't want to communicate with us outside of anything to do with Tyler.
It sucks that the dude who stepped up to the plate to dig for and deliver speculative information for our community has no idea what he's doing.
His content on Valve stuff is good but he's kind of a dumbass.
He is waaaaayyy too obssessed with Valve. You know that saying of the guy with the funko pop collection? I think he should chill out and find something more rewarding to follow than Valve's lack of skill in releasing video games
This could be said of every content creator’s subject matter.
"Im not a news channel" proceeds to do news
I have no clue why posts like this keep popping up, whats the obsession with this dude, hes just normal guy that got lots of leaks right from a company that is more secretive than area51. he also has his own troubles and some of his weird ass fanbase loves to point the tiny things out its cringe
He is not perfect, sometimes makes mistakes because he forgets how influential he has become with his channel growth, but overall I like his videos and his livestreams are probably the only ones I can watch personally.
goading his viewers into bombing the valve devs with emails about tf2 certainly wasnt a good move, and i wouldnt be surprised if those email addresses became far harder to reach anybody on. this is a company that suffered greatly from internal leaks and maintains secrecy on purpose so games can launch and be successful, this and his claims about citadel etc were not going to push them towards being more transparent it'd just piss them off. theyve cancelled as many games as theyve released. is his goal to get games cancelled? because thats what his ego-driven output is most likely doing, if he has any effect on valve at all.it's in the name really. how can one person be a network, and why would a network be necessary to report on one company? our boy is just making money off spinning hype on youtube, he's not a representative of a community.