Video Game Executives Are A Bunch Of Silly Gooses | Loot Boxes, Risk Aversion, and NFTs

A compilation of three small essays about video game executives saying silly things. Support us on Patreon! patreon.com/thegamingdiscourse
Credit to the Washington Post for finding that clip of Kotick (and their excellent story):
-How Kotick Outlasts Opponents
www.washingtonpost.com/video-...
-Kotick On PBS
gailpellettproductions.com/so...
0:00-Intro & Disclaimers
2:20-Chris Bruzzo & Loot Boxes
10:10-Strauss Zelnick & Cowboys
17:40-Yosuke Matsuda & The 'Chain
25:03-Outro
Pics:
-Blake Jorgensen www.wsj.com/articles/paypal-n...
-Frank Gibeau
www.zynga.com/leadership/fran...
-Serge Hascoet www.gamesindustry.biz/three-m...
-Steampunk
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St...
-Matthew Dion
/ matthew-dion
LINKS:
-Don Mattrick Interview
• E3 2013 - Microsoft's ...
-Chris Bruzzo On Loot Boxes
www.eurogamer.net/the-big-Int...
-Strauss And Cowboys
www.protocol.com/take-two-str...
-Square Enix 2022 Annual Report
www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ir...
-HITMAN’s release
www.polygon.com/2016/1/14/107...
-Square Enix-Embracer deal
www.gamesindustry.biz/embrace...
-The Future of IO Interactive
www.ioi.dk/the-future-of-ioi/
-EA’s Reddit Comment
www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBatt...
-EA $1.62B Off Ultimate Team
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-EA Made $1.62B Off Ultimate Team in 2021
www.eurogamer.net/ea-made-usd...
-Kotick Drafted Letter
kotaku.com/bobby-kotick-actua...
-Jedi Fallen Order No MTX
www.cbr.com/swcc-star-wars-je...
-Frank Gibeau On Single player games
kotaku.com/ea-says-they-re-no...
-Blake Jorgensen on Linear Games
www.dualshockers.com/visceral...
-Serge Hascoet Cancels King Arthur Game
www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-ex-...
-Serge Hascoet Didn’t Want Female Protagonist
www.eurogamer.net/fresh-repor...
-Jim Cramer, Strauss Zelnick Interview
• Take-Two Interactive S...
-How To Get Started In Blockchain Gaming
naavik.co/deep-dives/getting-...
-An Introduction to Blockchain Gaming Infrastructure and How You Can Use It Today
naavik.co/deep-dives/forte-bl...
-UK university reports loot boxes cause "financial and emotional harm" to children
www.eurogamer.net/uk-universi...
-Link between loot boxes and problem gambling "robustly verified" www.eurogamer.net/link-betwee...
-Rob Fahey: Square Enix is Reinventing Itself www.gamesindustry.biz/beyond-...
-New Years Letter From Yosuke Matsuda
www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ne...
-Guardians Undershot Expectations www.pcgamer.com/square-enix-c...
-Embracer-Square Enix Deal
www.gamesindustry.biz/embrace...
-Debate Rages Over NFTs In Games
www.axios.com/2022/03/31/nft-...
-Take-Two has officially acquired Zynga
www.theverge.com/2022/5/23/23...
Footage:
Madden 23
FIFA 23
The Show 22
Unforgiven
The Office
Deathloop
Elden Ring
Death Stranding
Mad Money
Red Dead Redemption
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Trailers For: Call of Duty:
Modern Warfare 2
NBA 2k 22
GTA Online
Red Dead Redemption 2
Rainbow Six: Siege
The Evil Within
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[@rafadrath7481]

Amazing stuff, keep up the good work and your efforts. All the best

[@kaelinmosh6433]

This was a really interesting video. I can’t say I am on top of all the happenings and going ons of the video game world but this was easy to listen to and definitely made me think. Great video and I hope to see more!

[@htf2387]

Very interesting vid!

[@TheGamingDiscourse]

NOTES: -Should it be silly geese? I don’t know. -I apologize for the audio issues in the vid. This was the first time I’ve used our lavs to record and not everything worked as I thought. I also had to re-record a few lines, which you’ll likely notice. I plan on using this format again and I know what I did wrong this time, so next time should be better. -I probably pronounced a few names wrong. I tried to find interviews with examples but in most cases I either found none or multiple pronunciations. -When I discuss Cyberpunk 2077’s impact on the popularity of the genre, I don’t mean to imply that every cyberpunk game that came after it was directly inspired by it. That’s not true. But I do think it helped make the genre much more popular. -As I said in the video, Square Enix's Symbiogenesis is some kind of NFT project thing, but I doubt it's the end of SE's plans with blockchain tech (although, if it did end there, that would be great). www.eurogamer.net/square-enix-announces-nft-project-symbiogenesis

[@Aliamus_]

I think the best solution to this would be to take gaming ceos and gaming journalists and do an e-sports event. Losers have to be devs for a month.

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