Hello friends and welcome to the Ox Venture podcast. It's a podcast in which we listen to vintage episodes of the Ox Venture Dungeons and Dragons games.

And by listening, you're along for the ride with your favourite Mary band of morally flexible adventurers.

I'm Andy Farron and I play Corazon de Bayena, the human pirate rogue.

And I'm Mike Channel and I play Egbert, the Dragonborn Paladin.

Hi Mike, welcome to the podcast. Thanks for joining me today.

That's all right. So what have you been up to this week?

What have you been doing in my channel?

What I think most of us have been doing, which is playing Deathloop, because it's really good.

Well, yeah, Deathloop, crucially, doesn't come out on the Xbox for a year.

It's been made by a Microsoft own studio. It is a PlayStation exclusive for a year, but it will come to an extent.

The worst deal in history. How did this come about? What's Phil Spencer doing?

Well, it's because he bought them after the exclusivity deal had already been signed with PlayStation.

So he should have just gotten there a bit earlier.

Probably would have been cheaper as I assume inflation is a thing, right?

He bought Bethesda before Deathloop.

It would have been cheaper, probably, than $9 billion.

And you would have had a Deathloop thrown in as part of the bargain.

It's like when you walk past a shop and you see something in the window and you go,

oh, that looks nice. I'll buy that.

But first I'll go to the supermarket, pick up a few bits and I'll get it on the way back.

And then you come back and you find out the PlayStation has bought it the thing that you want.

Yeah, exactly.

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