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WPR 473- It's Got the Wort Wort Worts

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4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

We kick off this weekend with a lengthy discussion of remote vs in office work. COVID has changed how many companies deal with remote work, but some companies are trying to return to the world before. Riot Games is one of those companies, and as Patrick has reported, has taken some poor measures with regards to their employees safety. After the break, Ren, Patrick, and Cado have all been checking out NORCO, the sci-fi? magical realist? point and click adventure that is causing waves and garnering quick Disco Elysium comparisons. Then we check back in with Rob, who's taken his exploration of the Halo franchise to a new level with Halo Wars. Does it have good Halo-feel? Should he be playing with a controller? Was there enough lore? We might answer a few of these questions so tune in!


Discussed: Riot Games return to office policies 0:32, Max Payne 32:12, NORCO 46:57, Weird West 1:10:29, Halo Wars 1:19:05, Acti-blizzard announcement 1:44:52, Outro and Announcements 1:47:47



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0:00.0

What's good internet? It's March 8th, 2022, and you'll think to waypoint radio episode 473. I'm your host Rob Zachney, and I'm joined by Patrick Leopic. Hello? We're not a prize.

0:28.2

Howdy gamers. Our producer, Ricardo Contreras. Yo.

0:33.2

So we are all cozy working at home today, which is increasingly a privilege in an era where companies are

0:44.8

issuing return to office mandates, and there's more and more pressure to

0:49.9

get back to what constitutes as normal, even if normal, is a long gone memory. Patrick, this week you've

0:56.8

been covering some controversy internal at Riot around their attempts to make their staff return

1:04.3

to their Santa Monica office. Isn't it Santa Monica? Yeah, I guess there's not this specifically.

1:09.6

It's listed as Los Angeles, but I guess you would know better. You were you were out there. Yeah,

1:14.7

I mean, I drove by like yeah, yeah, I drove by a lot. Okay.

1:18.8

So yeah, so this, so I have a piece up now called, Ryan Kames, tells workers to return to office

1:26.4

without vaccine or mask requirements in which the gist of this piece is after speaking to a number

1:32.9

of employees and reviewing some like Slack and email messages sent from Riot to their LA offices.

1:41.6

They have offices all over the world. This is like very specifically speaking to their LA

1:47.2

office, which I think has something like 3000 employees. The company is like even doubled in the

1:53.0

last couple of years since they had their last flare up due to the catacopies that examine their

2:00.3

culture. And the gist of it is that Riot Games like a lot of other companies, this is not unique to

2:09.1

video games. This is this is a societal shift that is happening really aggressively in early 2022,

2:16.9

is that as federal and state mandates, relax and responds to kind of being out of the

2:24.7

I was ever the flow of the Omicron, I forget which is the low. I guess that's the flow. That's the

2:31.4

ab of Omicron, at least this this error of the of the pandemic two years in that a lot of places are

2:40.3

as a result dropping mask requirements, vaccine requirements, testing requirements,

2:47.1

and that is something that's happening this week as Riot in their LA office does sort of a rolling

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