Holiday Pod: #4 Gaming's Most Controversial Trend in 2017: Loot Boxes

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Leisure, Video Game Development, Television, Rewatch, Replay, Tv & Film, Video Games, Games, Movies, Video Game Culture

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🗓️ 28 December 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Everyone knows video games have to make money somehow, but the question over how games make money became one of the central arguments in 2017, as various big name publishers brought one of the most popular ways to monetize mobile and free-to-play games—loot boxes—into the mainstream. Now, governments around the world are looking into whether loot boxes should stick around. Austin, Rob, and Patrick got together to break down the past, present, and future of loot boxes.

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0:00.0	Happy Holidays and what is good internet it is me Austin Walker on another day of our holiday podcasts
0:25.8	Joining me today is a slightly cut down group. It's just me. It's just Patrick. It's just wrong.
0:31.0	Austin was saying also we're saying Merry Christmas now
0:34.3	No, no, I'm saying happy holidays. I was saying Merry Christmas now Connick is over but Merry Christmas is back Christmas is back
0:41.1	It went away, but now is back
0:43.3	Where it go
0:45.3	Who got rid of it?
0:50.8	It's with the Allies oh
0:52.8	It's with the alien allos. Do you think by the time this podcast comes out? We'll know what's up with those alien allies?
0:58.1	You watch that video. You watch the video. I
1:01.3	Watch the video. It's really weird. It's really weird. I fucking love that article so much
1:05.9	I know we already talked about it on a different podcast on a different day. I don't know where I don't know
1:10.1	The date is in Europe India. I don't even know
1:13.8	Alien alloys. I swear to give out the Zaline allies
1:17.0	What I wanted to sort about instead though is the future Patrick
1:22.5	That's easy. That's easy. That's easy. It sure is. It sure is so today on the site you wrote a piece about
1:30.9	loot boxes one of this year's major themes one of the major trends in gaming in 2017
1:39.7	You know what what do you think about loot boxes? Well, it was interesting because as part of
1:45.1	sort of trying to think about loot boxes a little more like holistically
1:48.4	I thought it'd be interesting to go back and read how people were talking about sort of like the advent of
1:54.6	Microtransactions which I think like the most contemporary
1:58.2	Example like like sort of when it entered the mainstream
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