This week Jrow and steev talk about the Ninja Batman Trailer, they discuss the Star Wars Battlefront 2 debacle, and they take a look at the “Games as a Service” model.
News
- Ninja Batman Anime Movie Trailer (Kotaku)
- Directed by Jumpei Mizusaki (JoJo Producer)
- Character Designs by Takashi Okazaki (Afro Samurai Creator)
- Written by Kazuki Nakashima (Kill la Kill Creator)
- Made in Abyss anime gets sequel (ANN)
- Rin-ne manga expected to end soon (Crunchyroll)
- My Hero Academia S3 scheduled for Spring 2018 season (Crunchyroll)
- Hunter x Hunter coming off hiatus on January 29 (ANN)
- Rurouni Kenshin manga on hiatus after mangaka charged with possession of child pornography (ANN)
- Owned DVDs with teenage girls in them
Discussion
- The Star Wars Battlefront 2 debacle
- Microtransactions + time spent had people seeing the game as very much play-to-win
- It was estimated that it’d take 40 hours of play to unlock Darth Vader
- EA’s comment on Reddit became the site’s most downvoted comment ever, “sense of pride and accomplishment…” was the birth of a new meme
- EA made changes and has (temporarily) shut down microtransactions
- EA does similar loot box stuff to UFC 3 Ultimate Fighter Mode
- Government concerns about loot boxes in games (Polygon)
- Destiny 2 exp throttling
- Games as a Service
- Should games still cost $60?
- The rising cost of development, is $60 still a fair price?
- Are loot boxes the only answer?
- Less single player games
- Something we want?
- Should games still cost $60?
Music
- BGM: Demi-chan OST
- Ending: “ASH” By LiSA (Fate/Apocrypha)