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Hello, everybody.

Welcome to episode 938 of the Video Game Outsiders podcast.

It's going to be a big show, and I'm one of your hosts, Michelle Madison.

It is.

And I, of course, I am your John Jacobson. And joining us once again, C.C. Games, Kevin, CEO, the game store guy. Now, this guy, he owns a game store. That's the real deal. Right, Kevin? Yep, that's my only claim to fame. I own a game store. That's it. That's all I brings a unique perspective, I think, to some of the stuff we're going to bring up tonight. Because I want to know if your average customer is kind of up on what's going on with Highguard. Because there's been some weird stuff. Now, hang on. What? Okay. I'm just saying the internet has been a flutter. Can I use that term, John? with shit about High Guard, like games journalists, Polygon, all sorts of people,

the usual suspects saying it, has been a flutter. Can I use that term, John? With shit about High Guard, like games journalists,

Polygon, all sorts of people, the usual suspect saying it's so great and why are we

shitting on it? Okay. So I'm seeing and listen, I've thought this myself, okay, there is a bit of a

trend to hate on shit. I think it's happening. Sometimes it's justified. Yes. A little bit. I think that there are, you know, these mobs that will take a game down on Steam just for stupid shit, okay?

Like, and then once you look into, you're like, oh, it's got some anti-cheat thing or something nobody likes, you know, or whatever.

Or there's just something premeditated like what Jeff Keely basically set this game up for right right like he now that you remember that

quote I shared with you that supposedly he said that he was emotionally and is a

I think that quotes bullshit by the way Michelle I've been trying to find the IGN

source of that okay so they quoted all over the place He said he hasn't been this emotional. Yes. You also noticed John, I think I did too, that they removed the former Titanfall Apex Latin Dev description about High Guard. Oh, I didn't see that. Yeah. So, okay. So when this game was launched, I started looking into it too because I was wondering like,

oh, the Apex people made this, this is going to be good, right?

Well, they took that off because originally it said from the creators of APEC Legends and

Titanfall comes High Guard. Okay, that was like before the game was released.

I saw it, you saw it, we all saw it. I even looked into it. And it was like former team members,

maybe not higher ups or, you know, whatever. And now it just says, high guard is a PVP rate shooter.

You know why? Because everyone's been coming out saying, be nice to them. Don't rip them apart.

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