RESET Roundtable: Esports Economy + Making the Game

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🗓️ 27 February 2021

⏱️ 149 minutes

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“RESET: The Unauthorized Guide to Video Games” is a new show on VICE TV that aims at taking a deep look at the culture and community around video games. Each episode, host Dexter Thomas is joined by a selection of Waypoint Radio hosts, Motherboard writers, and industry professionals for the RESET Roundtable, a panel discussion on that specific episode’s topics. This podcast is the full recording session from the two first episodes, “Esports Economy” and “Making the Game.”

Discussed: Esports 2:43, Making the Game 1:10:05

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0:00.0	What's good internet it is Friday February 26 and you are listening to another special episode
0:24.7	of Waypoint Radio. We are continuing with our pen ultimate episode of the reset round tables.
0:31.4	Thanks again to everyone on the reset crew for making this possible. These are pretty good
0:35.3	conversations. I'm happy to share them. First up this week we have a conversation between Dexter,
0:39.7	Rob Zackney, obviously our Rob Zackney. And Phil Nolan, you might remember from a past reset round
0:45.4	table on the fighting game community this week, their conversation is on esports that episode is
0:50.3	all about the sort of esports bubble, the kind of huge optimistic eyes that went into esports and
0:56.8	the ways in which parts of that community have, or maybe not the community, but the economy
1:01.2	around esports has not lived up to that hype. And then the ways that communities get left behind.
1:06.0	You know there's an interview with someone who is deep in the heroes of the storm community
1:11.7	and kind of saw that community get left out high and dry by Blizzard. So conversations about that
1:17.5	stuff. And the second half of the episode today is a conversation between Dexter, myself,
1:21.0	and no clips, Daniel Dwyer. But we talk about what it means to make a video game where successes and
1:27.4	failures come from. That episode is also really interesting and has and has some great folks in it.
1:32.8	Conversation with people, you know, ranging from the among us team to some folks who worked on Hades,
1:40.5	to Warren Specter, to some folks up at the video game history museum in God, it's the
1:51.8	strong museum of play. I remembered it, who close one. And so yeah, there is some good conversation
2:01.9	there about what it means to make a game, what makes a success versus a failure, all the ways in
2:07.4	which those terms and that binary don't make a lot of sense. I hope it's an enjoyable conversation.
2:12.5	Thanks to Danny for coming through. And I'll use this opportunity to say thanks to Danny also,
2:17.2	because he let us use some no clip footage in the actual episode, which is very, you know,
2:22.0	generous of him to do that. So shout out to Danny, as always, like having him on, love to have him
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