The Splitscreen Quest for Epic Loot, With Diablo Creators Erich Schaefer and David Brevik
Kotaku Splitscreen
Kotaku
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week we're talking loot boxes. First, we kick things off with a conversation with Diablo game designers Erich Schaefer and David Brevik who discuss how their loot boxes came to be. Then, the gang discusses their hot takes about loot boxes, and finally, Fahey makes us a very special loot box.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Kotaku's split screen, the show where we talk about video games one extremely specific topic at a time. |
| 0:17.1 | My name is Ash, no time to explain Parrish, and I am joined by my co-host, Mike Thunder Fury, Bless Blade of the Windseeker, Behe, and Nathan, the Ace of Spades, Grayson. |
| 0:27.9 | Wow. |
| 0:28.5 | And as you may have guessed from my little introduction today, we're going to be talking about loot. |
| 0:33.7 | And to help with that, we have two very special guests for whom I have prepared their own little monikers. |
| 0:39.4 | We have Eric Spire of Lazarus Schaefer and David Dark Clan Crusher Breivick. |
| 0:45.3 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:46.7 | Hello. |
| 0:47.5 | Very nice. |
| 0:48.1 | Hello. |
| 0:50.5 | Damn, that was a surprise for all of us. |
| 0:52.3 | I was expecting that. |
| 0:53.1 | It was great. |
| 0:53.6 | Yeah, that was beautiful. I'm touched. Yeah. Well, for all of us i was expecting that was great yeah that was beautiful i'm |
| 0:55.1 | touched yeah well with all of that said i think uh do we want to get into our first segment |
| 1:01.3 | which involves these fine gentlemen yeah we're gonna be talking about loot we are gonna ask |
| 1:05.7 | some questions about loot um yeah i thought we were gonna skip over the do this one last and have |
| 1:10.2 | them just quietly sitting and listening to us for two seconds. |
| 1:13.8 | Just, you know, bring on two people who made one of the most, like, |
| 1:16.3 | seminal video games of all time and then just torture them for a while. |
| 1:19.6 | A really neat thing to do to people. |
| 1:22.1 | There's happened before. |
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