Are Games Too Expensive, The Collapse of Games Media

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

The rent is too damn high!Hey, it's rough out there. But as development costs climb, retail prices skyrocket, and the institutional knowledge of decades of journalism slips out from under us due to corporate greed, Kat, Nadia, and Eric are at least here to explain what this means for the future of RPGs!Tune in to live recordings of the show every Saturday morning at https://www.twitch.tv/bloodgodpod, subscribe for bonus episodes and discord access at https://www.patreon.com/bloodgodpod and celebrate our 10th Anniversary with new merch at https://shop.bloodgodpod.com Also in this episode: Gameification of Disney World Chrono Trigger remake - PSYCH! Fandom is the worst website in the world Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 impressions update! Final Fantasy Magic: The Gathering hype Timestamps: 05:50 - Main Topic - What to do about expensive video games 52:08 - Random Encounters 55:24 - Polygon and Giant Bomb's collapse 1:10:28 - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 update 1:30:16 - Nadia's Nostalgia Nook Music Used in this Episode: Do Your Best - [Breath of Fire III] A Curious Tale - [Secret of Mana] Enjoyment Theme - [Sakura Wars 2] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God and Independent RPG podcast.
0:17.0	I'm your host, Kat Bailey.
0:19.0	Joining me, as always, my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.
0:22.9	Hello, Kat. Hello, Eric. Welcome to the only podcast that will give you the clap, apparently,
0:27.4	as I have understood from the sequence we went through before we, when we lined up our
0:32.3	audacity. Not that clap. We'll give you all the claps if you listen to us.
0:38.4	Fifty new kinds of claps.
0:40.3	Subscribe.
0:40.7	Round of applause for Nadia.
0:42.6	Smash that bell.
0:47.7	Also joining us is my equally lovely co-host, Eric Van Allen.
0:52.1	Everyone at home, please check your cables.
0:54.3	Make sure they're plugged in.
0:55.6	Please, please acknowledge the cable's presence.
0:58.3	Please thank the cable for all it does.
1:01.7	We're having a morning here and plug out, y'all.
1:04.3	Please clap for the cable.
1:05.4	It's working really hard.
1:07.8	Please clap.
1:08.6	Our cables have the clap.
1:11.2	Yeah, we're really loopy on this week's episode.
1:14.4	But once again, there's plenty to cover.
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