The Geekbox: Episode 520

The Geekbox

Ryan Scott

Leisure, Video Games

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Wherein we discuss the law vs. lootboxes (AKA "surprise mechanics"), Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Final Fantasy VII (and VIII), Chernobyl (and the pronunciation of "nuclear"), Good Omens, Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge's virtual queue system, and Betrayal Legacy. Starring Ryan Scott, Justin Haywald, and Ryan Higgins.

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0:37.9	for free. Hello, welcome to episode 520 of the Geek Box.
0:56.0	520 man.
0:58.0	520 plays it.
0:59.0	Your weekly podcast for, know video games and TV shows and other stuff that we talk about here on this show this is the oh and we have some surprise mechanics on this on
1:16.1	this episode. This is the podcast for the week of June 24th, 2019. I'm your host Ryan Scott. With me is Ryan Higgins.
1:27.0	Hello.
1:28.0	Surprise. Howdy, howdy. Oh boy.
1:32.0	Surprise! Now, Justin. Yes. I did not. I missed this but um. Yeah, I want you to tell me about these
1:41.0	surprise mechanics that EA is trying to...
1:44.7	Well, it's been an ongoing thing in the EU and the UK that they are being much more hard line on companies about loop boxes and how they are
1:57.7	gambling or how they're trying to say prove to us this is not gambling.
2:02.1	And so it kind of came to a head earlier this week
2:05.1	with a, what's it called, like a hearing?
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