Playing Nice with Jason Schreier and Luis Paez-Pumar
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Jason Schreier, Bloomberg journalist and author of the new book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment, joins Roth to talk about what’s been going on with the company that makes Warcraft and Overwatch. Along with Defector comrade Luis Paez-Pumar, they discuss what the story of Blizzard means for the story of gaming as a whole and the similarities between media companies and games companies, especially when comparing Blizzard and G/O Media. Don’t worry, they balance it out by naming so many guys who were on the Jets and Nets in the 2000s and diving into the Funbag.
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- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
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The Distraction is Defector's flagship podcast about sports (and movies, and art, and sandwiches, and certain coastal states) from longtime writers Drew Magary and David Roth. Every week, Drew and Roth tackle subjects, both serious and impossibly stupid, with a parade of guests from around the world of sports and media joining in the fun! Roth and Drew also field Funbag questions from Defector readers, answer listener voicemails, and get upset about the number of people who use speakerphone while in a public bathroom stall. This is a show where everything matters, because everyone could use a Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info.
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| 0:00.0 | We're back. It's the distraction. I'm David Roth. Drew is not here. |
| 0:05.3 | Drew's at home doing family stuff. So this is kind of a difficult situation for me. |
| 0:11.2 | I have a blue chip guest and we had to make the |
| 0:14.8 | podcast and I don't know anything about video games and our guest is Jason |
| 0:20.4 | Schreier America's foremost gaming journalist. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello? |
| 0:24.0 | Of an upcoming book. |
| 0:25.0 | Jason telling the name of the book. |
| 0:27.0 | It's called Play Nice The Rise Fallen Future of Blizzard Entertainment, which is Ross, just you know, it's a video game company. |
| 0:35.0 | I was going to say, what's your book amount? |
| 0:37.0 | Luckily, we do have a staffer out of Defector with a true gamer's heart and a podcasting Mike |
| 0:44.2 | Louis Pius Pumar hello how are you? I'm good I'm excited to talk about probably the |
| 0:50.0 | video game company whose games I've played the most in my life. So I do know that it is a |
| 0:55.0 | video game company. No, I mean I knew it was a video game company. I got sent not to |
| 0:59.0 | brag an advanced copy of the book that I read some of and then when I realized that I wasn't going to be able to read all of it I listened to a couple of |
| 1:06.7 | podcasts that Jason has done so I know a little bit about what's going on or at least about |
| 1:11.0 | Jason's feelings on it. |
| 1:12.7 | So let's get right to it. |
| 1:14.5 | Name 20 video games. |
| 1:16.0 | All right, so you got Carnov, Kid Icarus, |
| 1:20.6 | obviously, Metrod. |
| 1:22.2 | I just want to get, let's get to it though. First things first. |
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