149: The Big Microtransaction Question

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🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Kirk and Jason briefly gush about the new Wonder Woman emulator Assassin's Creed Odyssey before bringing on Stephen Totilo for a lengthy chat about microtransactions (21:43). The three talk about how Assassin's Creed Odyssey's microtransactions work, whether they affect the game, whether their sheer existence plants a seed of skepticism inside the player's head, the "poisoning the well" argument, how video games have always been after your money, whether games should still cost $60, and much, much more. Finally, Kirk and Jason briefly chat about some off-topic stuff (1:19:55) like Better Call Saul and the new season of American Vandal. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:04.0	You can just play it at 1.5 speed in your podcast. It's October 11th, 2018, and while there was a lot of gaming news this week, we've really only got one thing to talk about, and that's Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
1:14.3	We'll make that two things.
1:15.4	We talk about the game itself, and we also talk about the game's microtransactions, and
1:18.8	the subject of microtransactions in general.
1:21.1	After Jason and I talk about how much we like Ubisoft's fabulous new Odyssey, which really is fabulous. We're joined by Kataku Editor-in-Chief Stephen Totillo for a lengthy and far-reaching
1:29.5	conversation about in-game purchases, game design, manipulation, and commerce.
1:33.9	It was a really interesting chat, so we hope you stick around.
1:36.1	Let's go.
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1:50.6	As always, we're very glad that you're here with us and hope your October is going well.
1:51.8	My name is Kirk Hamilton.
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