that was my one point is that you can
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technically leave whenever so like
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especially on monthly to monthly like
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your contract is really up at the end of
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the month if they if they change like if
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you subscribe for a
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year um and they like change it and then
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Bill your card because they're like well
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we change our price that's total BS if
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you subscribe for a year and they're
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like when it renews it will be more
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expensive yep that's why it's legal yeah
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but what it isn't as
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cool yeah and that's my problem it's
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definitely not cool but I don't know
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about it being ille like oh man some
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some sometimes it could be uh do you see
0:34
the the recent Kur fuffle over Microsoft
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and their game pass changes so we talked
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about this last week how prices went up
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and everything was confusing and they're
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kind of gating access to the new car
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that that should actually because they
0:47
FC is not the impress I think that is
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good because when I I brought this up
0:54
during the show but they announced that
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it was going to be game day one game
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pass for everyone
1:00
then they pulled that back people might
1:01
have subscribed because of that so
1:03
that's a totally different thing in my
1:05
opinion yeah that's rough that's abely
1:08
bad yeah so uh I mean at this point
1:12
Activision and Microsoft are like
1:16
integrated um but the the FTC is
1:18
basically looking at it going okay you
1:20
guys said this was going to be a super
1:22
Huggy muggy nice acquisition and then
1:25
you came in and laid a bunch of people
1:28
off and now you're going back on your
1:32
promises that this is all about so very
1:35
much content for gamers and everyone's
1:38
going to get day one access to Call of
1:40
Duty the big question for me though is
1:44
who the f cares how about just don't
1:46
play Call of Duty yeah Gamers though you
1:49
guys have no discipline and look I'm not
1:52
trying to I'm not trying to just amazing
1:53
topic transition holy I'm going to
1:56
interrupt the topic transition because
1:58
it was so good that's ridiculous I even
2:00
I know where you're going and that's
2:02
nuts thank you what the heck man I'm not
2:06
bringing this up and lecturing you guys
2:07
for no reason I'm doing it because a
2:10
recent survey of 5,000 American adults
2:14
who play video games found that
2:17
82% of them said they had made an
2:20
in-game purchase in a free-to-play
2:22
game not ever in the last year 82% it's
2:29
l literally it is literally okay you
2:33
guys take your two take your two hands
2:36
okay take your two feet and you won't
2:41
need your fifth appendage
2:45
okay you wait you will yes and if you
2:48
have anything else that's pointy point
2:51
it four of the five things you're
2:54
pointing
2:55
at bought a microtransaction
3:01
in the last
3:02
year oh my goodness oh and Salos says
3:06
right here no shame but it's like we sit
3:09
here and we complain about the in
3:11
ification of gaming and
3:17
82% are directly contributing I don't
3:20
mean directly contributing like like uh
3:23
they're like passively standing by or
3:26
they're or they're pirating games that
3:30
that reject the fremium business model
3:33
instead of contributing that money to
3:35
the developers that continue to invest
3:37
in these games I am talking giving money
3:41
to the people who develop programs to
3:45
extract as much of it as possible who
3:47
literally call youing whales I mean who
3:51
would do
3:52
that okay we had an entire L event for
3:55
for for our whales we love our whales I
3:58
think it's higher higher than 82% oh
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that's the ones that admitted to it yes
4:02
any survey that's like I don't know how
4:05
many times got to be how many times do
4:07
you a day or you know whatever right
4:08
like it's always going to it's always
4:10
going to underestimate if it's something
4:12
embarrassing yeah it's it's got to be
4:14
higher than
4:16
82 some commentators have suggested I'm
4:19
back to my notes now that this kind of
4:21
data might indicate why the fremium
4:22
model has become so popular this is a
4:24
note uh okay well anyway it might
4:27
likewise indicate that at least some of
4:29
the people critical of this monetization
4:31
strategy are themselves paying into it
4:35
further around 45% of respondents
4:39
claimed that they didn't mind watching
4:41
ads that offered in-game
4:45
rewards this is how conditioned we are
4:48
Luke I don't the interesting thing to me
4:51
is like we'll just take it I've we've
4:53
all been playing bend over simulator and
4:55
we didn't even know it i' I've never
4:58
actually disagreed with all of it um
5:01
like I've usually used League of Legends
5:04
as a model of like uh I I haven't played
5:06
in forever so I don't know what it's
5:08
like anymore but when League of Legends
5:10
first came out it a free game it was
5:12
really good and there was some skins and
5:15
they weren't so expensive I've heard
5:17
there's some real expensive ones now
5:19
yeah wasn't there that like $300 one a
5:21
little while ago like that I don't know
5:22
but they were like a few bucks or
5:24
something and you know you support the
5:27
company and the way that I viewed it was
5:29
like okay look at how much I play this
5:30
game look at how much I would spend on
5:33
games I'll buy a few skins to support
5:35
the company cuz I actually really like
5:36
this game and then I'll like I'll keep
5:37
it at a very reasonable level that's
5:39
technically a microtransaction I'm
5:41
wondering
5:42
like you know if you ask who has made a
5:46
microtransaction at all or who has made
5:49
like egregious microtransactions like I
5:51
wonder if this is different I don't know
5:54
I don't know like even rocket League
5:56
that is a game that I purchased but I
5:58
played the crap out of it and I
6:00
purchased it for like $4 or something
6:02
cuz it was on a crazy sale so I bought a
6:04
couple seasons passes cuz I felt like
6:05
they deserved it and then they are
6:07
bought out by epic and I was like
6:08
whatever mad mad Economist says nuclear
6:11
hot take I love free-to-play games with
6:14
microtransactions they allow me to
6:16
sponge off of people who spend much more
6:18
money on them sponge off of yeah like I
6:22
mean that's I I like Halo infinite I
6:25
have never given Microsoft a dollar for
6:27
it a lot of games somebody else paid for
6:29
it and I'm going play it so this this is
6:31
where it gets kind of funny to me enjoy
6:33
your weird spiky Mohawk cringe makes it
6:36
easier to see your head cosmetic
6:39
so I I agree with that fully I
6:42
think though for for every game like
6:44
Halo infinite there's there's and and
6:46
League um there's probably like four
6:50
Diablo whatever the heck that is mobile
6:52
game imortal Diablo Immortal where in in
6:56
a game like that uh the like I'm a
7:00
sponge for the people that spend money
7:02
you're content for the paying members of
7:05
this game because they're just going to
7:06
farm you because you are weaker than
7:08
them that's like that's where I start to
7:10
have an issue with these types of things
7:12
well I don't mind the games where it
7:14
there isn't a huge um com
7:17
competitiveness disparity like in Halo
7:19
infinite I don't feel like I'm a
7:21
difference I don't feel like I'm at a
7:22
disadvantage and like we've worked with
7:24
mobile games before in the past uh
7:27
before we tightened up our policies
7:28
around them where where they are too pay
7:32
to win um and so we we we don't anymore
7:37
um
7:39
yeah pay to win is a tough metric in
7:42
some games yeah but pay for Advantage
7:44
pay to win whatever you want to call it
7:46
like that that being better than other
7:48
players because you spent money on the
7:50
game yeah I think for me it's less it's
7:54
less about can you be better by spending
7:56
more and it's more about are you worse
7:59
for not spending so if I could also
8:03
grind and be just as good I'm fine with
8:06
that but if I just can't do anything
8:09
about it or if the grind is unreasonable
8:12
yeah cuz what what what was it uh who
8:14
was it that was Under Fire for having
8:16
that um oh I forget what it was there
8:19
was like a Ser Shadow of Mordor no it
8:22
wasn't that there was a series of
8:23
challenges or something as part of their
8:25
season or battle pass or like I I don't
8:27
even remember but someone did the math
8:30
and there weren't there wasn't enough
8:31
hours like if they did absolutely
8:34
nothing but eat sleep and play the game
8:36
there wasn't enough hours to like earn
8:38
the best item um apparently it was
8:41
Battlefront 2 thanks
8:43
Elijah and that was like it was like it
8:45
was like oh no no I don't even think it
8:47
was Battlefront 2 cuz Battlefront 2 it
8:48
was like you could never earn Darth
8:50
Vader or it would take like it was an
8:52
absurd amount of time like an absurd
8:53
amount no it was I think it was
8:55
something I think it was something else
8:56
it was some kind of was it World of
8:58
Warships I I don't know it might have
9:00
been World of Warships cuz I I seem to
9:02
recall it being a ship the pride and
9:04
accomplishment quote was was uh
9:06
Battlefront 2 I think sense of Pride and
9:10
accomplishment yeah you do
9:13
know that that pitch worked um back when
9:17
all you got was that the princess was in
9:20
this castle like you don't it doesn't
9:22
have to be a multi you know hundreds of
9:24
thou hundreds of hours grind
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um anyway

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