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Beyond!
"fortnite" Discussed on Beyond!
"There's a massive swath of people who just play on mobile. And it's a bummer that anybody who is really into that doesn't have that to look forward to anymore. Knockout city. Another one, which is honestly, I feel like very similar to rumble verse. That was the sort of dodgeball focused one, which was, which was cool again, like I sort of dabbled. The recurring theme here is you talk to people and they're like, you know, I played with that for a few weeks, and then it's all right. I didn't stick with it. And that's exactly the problem. You know, I think it's especially if it's a free to play thing that gets sort of revealed as one of those like, it's available now, and people go mess with it for a weekend. And unless it has really really good at syncing its hooks into you or like a really consistent cadence of content drops and also an active community, it's kind of hard to maintain that momentum. And I think I played rumble verse or not rumble, sorry. Knockout city two or three times, one or two of them was with Jada. And we were like, since I played it. Yeah, and we were like, man, this is actually really fun. I like this game a lot. And then never played it again. I had given a 9 out of ten. It's good. It's such a great really good. Yeah, it's really fun. And then why weren't you guys playing it? It's your fault. So for me, the only reason the only time I played it, so I played it twice with Mark and I played it once on my own. And I didn't enjoy it on my own. The only time I enjoyed playing it was when I was playing with people I knew or acquaintances of people that I knew. And that was for me, there just wasn't enough people on my friends list and people that I knew personally that were playing it, to get me to play this. So yeah, I mean, I'm kind of experiencing that right now with my daylight, right? I recently jumped into it and with some friends who have been playing it a lot. And I was like, wow, this is actually really fun. I'm super late to this. And then we haven't played it. And so I tried playing it by myself, and it was the same deal. I was like, oh, this is not, it's so tough. We've said it before on this podcast. Just earlier, which was just, you know, video games, the time is your biggest commodity. And when you get a live service game, you really need to understand what you're signing up for. I recently started playing ESO, Elder Scrolls online. And I played it for a night. And I was like, no, this is fine. I like this, but there's no way I'm going to sink my time into this. Like, you're not getting that from me. And they don't need people to just sink their time. They also need people to sink their money in as well. Still subscription based or is that just free to play entirely? I can't even keep track of what it's free to, it's free to play. But they still came past. So I think if you want to play on PlayStation, you have to pay for it. And then of course I have all of its expansions. Yeah. Which have to pay for those. But there's no monthly service. I think it's one of those you can subscribe and you get extra stuff per month. Yes. Yeah, they give you like a bunch of currency and other stuff like that. I mean, to see this happen with games as a service, like we already saw this happen left and right with like MMORPGs, we saw this happen with sort of tacked on multiplayer shooter components. And yeah, now I guess we saw that with a lot of free to play stuff. And now it's sort of games to service, which is kind of a blanket term for a lot of these things, but it feels a lot of things that were sort of chasing that success of Fortnite and being like, they're not, you know, it's not a planet like this is the thing we're going to have at launch. It's ready to go. It's got to have this you're building a highway, not a store. Now, there's also a really interested for last of us factions and stuff like that. Sony has these very grand plans of launching a bunch of live service games and landscapes. Genshin Impact is Genshin Impact and Fortnite, like those are the games that are thriving right now, but if you're not those. Yeah, so they have to get in there. Ten live service games that aim to launch by 2026. So buckle market out there. Yeah. I think if you're not going to have a game like genshin or Fortnite where you can really have something to sink your teeth into, I don't know if these large games can really work as a game as a service. I think people are maybe aiming to hide. Again, I keep thinking and going back to mobile games and why do those stick around why are they so successful? And I think maybe they're just low investment time. Think about marvel snap even, right? It's so just pick up and play. You don't have to play for a long time. And that's just enough to get you hooked, right? But when we're talking about knockout city or rumble verse, it's these very Fortnite esque battle Royale games, right? Where you have to sit down, wait to join a game and then you're there for a bit and I don't know, it seems like, in order for this model to work, you have to have the lowest barrier to entry as possible. And I don't know if these games that we've mentioned pick that up yet. I wonder if Sony is going to have something like that. But for now, I don't see anything like
WTOP
"fortnite" Discussed on WTOP
"The maker of the popular Fortnite video game will pay more than a half $1 billion to settle complaints revolving around children's privacy and payment methods that tricked players into making unintended purchases. The FTC reached the settlements to resolve two cases against Epic Games, which is parlayed Fortnite's success in the past 5 years to become a video game powerhouse, even before the settlement was announced, epic said in a statement, it's already rolled out a series of changes to make sure it meets the expectations of players and regulators. A park in northeast D.C. is about to get a major environmental cleanup. Kennel worth park north was built over a landfill, then a National Park Service study shows unacceptable health risks for visitors who use the site frequently for high intensity sports. Well, to eliminate those risks, the park service says a one foot thick clean soil layer will be put over certain areas of the park. It will then be inspected every 5 years to ensure that layer stays in place. Got all your holiday shopping done, if not, and you're trying to come up with something meaningful, a humanitarian agency has a unique idea for you. Not many of us have the ability to buy or even tend to our own farm animals, but any of us can give one as a gift to someone who can. You can buy a goat for a family and eat in the developing world. They give up to 16 cups of nutritious milk a day. You can drink the milk, you can make cheese, even the droppings from the goat can be used to fertilize the family garden. Brian dust is a humanitarian aid worker with world vision, which has all kinds of animals for sale. Yes, a world vision works in a hundred countries around the world including the United States. There are things in the catalog to help people right here at home. And these gifts are sustainable long-term for the recipient and tax deductible for the giver. Every year getting wolf from a Llama or alpaca so year after year, families have resources. John dome in WTO P news. Soccer superstar Lionel Messi now has a new record to brag about. He's a Guinness World Record holder for the most liked Instagram post ever. A picture he posted to his account after Argentina's World Cup victory on Sunday of him and his teammates got 61 million likes. The previous record holder and account called at world record egg for a photograph of a single egg that is racked up 57 million likes since 2019. Company
The Business of Esports
"fortnite" Discussed on The Business of Esports
"And we don't know if it pays off. I'm not sure they are. I think again, like even prior to the purposes of a week, there's a lot of information, especially on time. Like, in general, I always find the E sport. To the most hardcore, both on the social side, similar to how important I did as well. There's probably E sports and much closer to what the diagram is by isolating. I don't think I've ever followed in sport. That's going to be kind of a word that I play in the game. I follow as I play a game. And so followed it. It's always like, how do you leverage to monetize oh, this is a new sport. I think it's the stats are not necessarily bringing attention over to the cause. I never watched one. And why Fortnite has backed off, I started making a big two sport for work on a big surprise. I do like this question, though, because I don't think the eSports are ways that companies market their games. I don't know if you're interested to dissect women that actually happens. What's interesting I think from that definitely is the case if you think about it. But it doesn't necessarily pay off in players that we know, again, without knowing any of the numbers. We don't know if he's off employers, but anecdotes brings me back to the thought earlier. Interesting. Okay, well, if we think of the purposes of league formation, like in general, I always find the aspects of the most like for maybe it does kind of widen the base a little bit more in people. There's probably much closer if you look at the Venn diagram. Yeah, I think it's difficult because Overwatch is obviously that's going to be much tighter than Overwatch league fans and all of us back in 2017. This is happening. So I was like, how do you leverage finally arrived? This is the flashiest thing in the challenge. Not necessarily bringing mainstream attention to the game. I always think that if they do not work on why Fortnite style, I think from doing big question for everybody and things like that because I don't think that drives that many people to their own minds. I don't know if you. But again, back to the same factors as before. Are they going to be better off on multiple platforms better than YouTube exclusive? I think all those things can play into that. Great question. Ten audience. Christian says, well, I do like the 500 brings me back to the bottom of the structure of herding. Ten plus years. That's always going to be hard. You know, those are champagne. I feel it moving towards a model like that. Maybe it does come out in a widened basis. But it is, I've heard already complaints about the MMR goes up, but yeah, I think it's difficult. One of the Overwatch players want to see what you guys saw in the space. Remember who it was, all of us back in 2017. We didn't even necessarily think of the eSports has finally arrived. This is the splashiest. But I think he loses the other fastball at some point. It works too as a sequel forced onto a team that takes to make a sequel to the tried to make PVE work. We still don't have after four years, but that coming. Factories. Does anyone think the piece are they going to be better? And I put my tinfoil hat on for a second. Do you think they delayed the PVE purposely to try and sustain player base for longer, right? Because we're talking about 6 months from now, if it dies down a little bit, people are a little bit less excited. They stop paying some big streamers.
The Business of Esports
"fortnite" Discussed on The Business of Esports
"From the keyboard to the boardroom, this is Paul the profit that will be I'm here with CNBC Arabia and the business of eSports live at the next world forum. And I've got an incredible guest with me. Loughlin power, CEO of power org, right? And a famous Fortnite content creator himself. Loughlin, welcome. Thank you for having me. It's great to be here at the next world form. Glad to chat some eSports and content creation, like let's start with the easy question. You're the CEO of an org and you're focused on Fortnite and rocket league mostly. Talk to me a little bit about the choices as an org owner you've made. The games you chose. And two, what makes you guys different? 'cause there's lots of orgs out there. Yeah. No, great question. So it was very natural for me when I first started power as a team to focus on the eSports side of Fortnite. I have a very sound footing in Fortnite content creation been doing it since Fortnite was incepted back in 2017, built up a very big fan base there. I just wanted to have a team of competitive players because I played competitive Fortnite, but I wasn't very good at it. So I wanted to get the best in Australia to represent a brand. And so it actually started out as a clothing line and then turned into the eSports and what it is. But yeah, that was the easy solution for Fortnite. And then I just love Epic Games so much that I was like, what's the next competitive game? And so rocket league was it. I also played a lot of rocket league back in the day. So it was very natural for me. And I think it's just like one of those eSports that is so easy to understand. Ball goes in goal, good bulgars and year old bad. Anybody can pick it up at face value for what it is. Yeah, it just felt very easy to diversify those. So currently right now we have one of the best OC rocket league teams. And we do focus a lot on OCE specifically Australian eSports. I know we don't have the greatest reputation when it comes to the world level, but that's kind of going to your question of what makes us different. It's really focusing on being Australia's eSport team and taking at least what we have now and focusing a lot on the story and the content and taking those teams internationally. You know, that's interesting. There's two things I took away from that. One, you guys are sort of backwards in that you're doing things the opposite way of every other eSports team. Every other eSports org started with eSports and then they all want to sell hoodies after the fact it sounds like you started with the merch and the media and it evolved into that. First thought, and the second thought, owning a geography, like I'm curious, how are you tackling that? Is there ambition to be global with power or is it more important to you to really own Australia and to own that region? For me, I have a very big North American viewer base from Fortnite and everything I've done on YouTube for the last ten years. So I really want to have us compete on that global level against North America. Obviously the challenges, there is a lot. Competing against North America and Europe where an island, and we have incredible paying towards any other region. So for us to play against the world, we either have to spend a lot of money on flights, which is only getting more expensive or play maybe sometimes in Southeast Asia with 60 to 80 ping. Those are the only two ways to play at a competitive level with the rest of the world. Yeah, I think it's just about trying to not so much work on the eSports. I mean, obviously there's the local regional eSports of Australia. I'm not really too focused on that. Obviously we're going to build that, but it's more just getting to the world stage. And actually doing well. That's what it is to me. That challenge there is the biggest challenge. And that's what we're going to try and fix. How much of the orc success though is predicated on your own fame? Because you are the elephant in the room. You are famous, Loughlin. You are your millions and millions of followers around the world. How much of the business success? Because it's rare to see someone who starts as a gamer and content creator, build a very successful business around themselves, right? How much of this success is predicated on your personal fame? And how much are you thinking about making the org sort of Loughlin proof? In other words, if Loughlin gets hit by a bus tomorrow, not that we want that. How much are you thinking about the org beyond your own fame? I need it to succeed without me. And we had content on our channels that have done well without me being there. And I see positive signs in ways that we're working. But that's definitely the end goal. And there's a few challenges around that. But I think it would be naive to say that I'm not included in that recipe for success. You know, definitely makes it easier to have big names behind us. We also have loserfruit, another Fortnite icon in the game. And that's where we really draw that Fortnite angle. It's four things that we do at power. It's obviously the content we make on our YouTube channels and Twitter and all that stuff. Then it's the eSports. Then it's the apparel. Our biggest one is probably our creative experiences we make within Fortnite with our team that build experiences within Fortnite, the game. And so that's where we use our content and our eSports to help promote those experiences, just recently did a collaboration with bungie for their destiny launch in Fortnite. So we actually recreated javelin four and were featured in game to help promote the destiny skins coming to Fortnite. And we've done various ones with Coca-Cola for their new bike flavor, more that I can not think of at the top of my head. More exciting ones coming as well. But this is unique, right? I've heard we've interviewed on the show CEOs of just about every major eSports org on the planet. You hear always the media play. You hear the lifestyle brand. You hear selling the merchandise. It sounds like you guys have found a different business model. And I'm curious how big of the revenue pie does this represent for power, right? Like how much of your business do you think two years from now, 5 years from now will be this sort of unique? I don't know even know what to call it. It's almost game dev, right? Yeah, it's like game dev and honestly with Fortnite pushing to Unreal Engine Fortnite, which is their interpretation of being able to create experiences in the Fortnite using Unreal Engine instead of placing little Legos across the map. So that looks very exciting and very promising. I can see it being a big part of our revenue share down the line. It definitely is at the moment, I'd say over 50%. That is just one piece of the pie. And we want to try and take the whole pie. One of the more interesting things we had OT K on the show, we had tips from OTT on the show. And one of the things that was interesting from that interview was he was saying OTT has ambition to be actually in the game development business. They want to make games because they realize their influence can push players to their own games. Are you thinking about that for your own org and your own influence? Yeah, 'cause you even see that with a hundred thieves, snake shot, they announced their game as well. It definitely feels part of what can we, as a community as an organization, create to drive the most traffic towards. And that a game makes a lot of sense for a lot of cases. I think a game is a bit ambitious for us at the moment, but I could see something down the line. I think just where we are positioned within Fortnite, we have a very good reputation and quality and just driven experiences that people want to play. So we're going to stick to that for now. But who knows in the future? Lachlan, give me sort of final thoughts on power as an org and sort of the next two to 5 years for you. And I'd love if you could touch on, you know, we're at next reform here in Riyadh. How you're thinking about this part of the world in that 5 year plan. We're definitely going to look into more eSports outside of just Fortnite and rocket league. I think there's a few up in the air of where we might go. Definitely an Australian team, like I said, we're trying to own the region. But would definitely love to come out here and compete. Obviously gamers 8 was a massively success. A few OC teams, I believe, that played in that for the rocket league. But yeah, just to see what's going on over here, it's incredible. It sounds like a lot of investment is coming out from the government. And honestly, I wish Australian government would do the same. If I could say, but yeah, I'm excited to have our team out here and compete for sure. Loughlin, thank you so much. I love what you guys are doing, wish you all the success. Thank you so much for being on the show. Thanks for listening to the business of eSports podcasts. Check us out at the business of eSports dot com and on Twitter at biz eSports.
What's Good Games
"fortnite" Discussed on What's Good Games
"It was the vibe of the hospital. I just didn't think it was like that fun to build a hospital. Would you say that campus is a little more whimsical, a little bit more fun? It's very whimsical. The one thing I didn't mention yet is that I absolutely adore is the writing. It is so funny. Something as the narrative seemed really popped off. Something is simple as somebody's name was Ricard from. And I'm like, Ricard from us. It's a good name. Good job, you got me. And then there's a dictionary. And then there's also really fun little moments where you're going to, let's say, the first campus where you focused on science, right? And they say, oh, everybody loves doing experiments, especially in college, or something like that. And it's just really cute, right? It's very cute. It's pretty adult. I will say, if you know what the jokes mean, I guess in like a Shrek sort of way. Lots of innuendo, it's lots of very punny. There's like the head person who introduced you to the second campus. Their name is DJ sous chef and it's a cooking campus. It's like cooking school. It's just really cute. It put a smile on my face almost every time I play it. Ah. You know, I loved theme park back in the day. I love those sorts of games. And there are times. You're tempting me, ree. I got 16 hours on already. I'm going back for more today. In between games of Fortnite, which I gotta get that downloaded. So much stuff to play. Oh, like the last of us part one. Oh yeah. Yes, we can officially confirm that we have copies of the last of us part one remake. Thank you to PlayStation. For providing us with those, the impressions will go live at 8 a.m. Pacific time on August nailed it. Nailed it. Yes. The Sony lawyers aren't coming for me today. But yeah, so we can't talk about that or anything about that. But what I can talk about is a game that launched last week. So this game has been in development for a little while. It came into, I guess, alpha testing, and then they did some beta testing, and now it's fully available on Xbox PlayStation in the epic game stores full, cross platform play. And as I mentioned, I got to speak with the co CEO of iron galaxy, the development studio behind it. And we will show that interview in just a second, but I wanted to quickly just talk a little bit about my time playing rumble verse. So for people who are like, what the heck is rumble for us? I've been seeing people tweeting about it and whatnot. It's a battle Royale. But it's not a shooter. It is a brawler. And it's a 3D rustling game essentially that has fighting game mechanics. But without any of the super intricate hit box frame counting that comes with traditional fighting game that makes it a little bit intimidating for people. What I've really loved about my time in grapple city. Oh my God. Of this world is hilarious. Is that it feels so fun in a way that I don't mind so much when I get beat because I see how I got beat. I think sometimes in battle royales that involve shooting, you get sniped or something from across the map and you have no idea how you got eliminated and to be like watch the playback. Here you know exactly who took you out and how it happened. Because there's just no other way because it's essentially a fighting game. And I really like how they incorporated a lot of fighting game mechanics into it, but made it a lot more accessible. Use combos as an example. So in the game, the way that it essentially works is you're going to drop in like you would a battle Royale instead of getting dropped out of a ship you get launched out of a cannon into the circle. So only part of grapple city is available to you in any given match, not the entire map, like a lot of other battle royales do. And I think of that smart because you're mostly on foot. There's no vehicles in the game to help you cross large distances in short amount of time. And when the circle closes and you're outside the circle, you don't lose health for the first ten seconds. They give you a ten count. So they essentially give you this buffer time, like as if you were pinned in a rustling match. Where they give you a one, two, three in their counting up and you have to get back inside the circle. And it's a really interesting mechanic in that sense because it really can change the game because some of the moves where you can throw, you can literally pick people up and throw them outside the circle if you're on the edge can be really strategic at certain points of the game and you'll drop into the map, you'll smash crates, you can pick up these what looks like giant textbooks that essentially contain different specialty moves. You'll be able to map two specialty moves one to the each of the bumpers if you're playing on console. And it while you're playing, you can then swap them out with others that you find, and they're based on a traditional rarity system like your green, blue, purple,
What's Good Games
"fortnite" Discussed on What's Good Games
"Sonic teams up with his own sidekick tails and together they embark on a globe trotting journey to find the emerald before it falls into the wrong hands. I feel like I should be reading this in like a movie. I feel like you should. From the filmmakers behind the fast and the furious and Deadpool, this next level sequel, stars, James Marsden. Ben Schwartz, as the voice of sonic, tikka Sumter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam pally, and Jim Carrey returning alongside new additions Shemar Moore, with Idris Elba as the voice of knuckles in Colleen or shaughnessy as the voice of tales. Is that good enough that's pretty good, right? The movie is super fun, you guys. And if you haven't seen it yet, it is a great time. Sonic the Hedgehog two, of course, is now available on Blu-ray in digital, which is why we're talking about it today. So invite some friends over for a movie night and grill up sonic's favorite chili cheese dogs. And watch this next level sequel today. Check it out at Sonic the Hedgehog movie dot com that's Sonic the Hedgehog movie dot com. Brittany, you have been playing a game that I found super intriguing when they first announced it. And I'm gonna be honest, I forgot that this game was coming up. Oh man, I was so excited when I got the email in my inbox. Thank you for the review code. And I was like, oh my God, yes, I need this. It actually came in when I was in Hawaii, and I was just looking for something to kind of play poolside and it was absolutely perfect. So we are talking about RPG time the legend of right and right is spelled WRI GHT. This game's actually been out on Xbox since March, but now it is available. I believe it just came to switch and PlayStation. I played on switch. So this is developed by desk works, and this game ladies has been in development for ten years. So it has, there's a lot. It has been cooking for a minute. Anyway, yeah, like if you're watching on YouTube dot com slash what's good games. I think it's very apparent why this game would catch anyone's eye, but for those of you listening, it's this hand drawn notebook.
What's Good Games
"fortnite" Discussed on What's Good Games
"Who could say this is the kamehameha, right? Yeah, that's it. It's great. Oh my love it. Is it hard to aim it? No, it's just like any blast. It actually took me a little bit back to my destiny days where as my warlock, I would tickle fingers and then that was my oh, yes. That was my ultimate of choice. It's very similar. Any sort of like laser beam move that you've been familiar with in any other game, it feels just like that. I would say the stark difference is it looks like they cast the kamehameha wave and a few seconds when it takes about 5 minutes in an episode of Dragon Ball Z it's like several episodes. Yeah, right next episode of Dragon Ball Z next episode. I love it. No, I love this and you know I like how they have master roshi, but they call him call me sitting in here. His little pick at all of the nimbus cloud relay he was saying, the space pod slider, I can't get over all of the clips that are making their way of Vegeta and Goku doing dances. Yes. It's like porn. It's so good. Watching these men move their hips in such tantalizing ways, got me all hot and bothered. It's just wonderful. This just sounds so much fun. I'm happy this exists, and they're going all in. Like, this is just a little like, here's a few skins. It's like, oh no. I do wish they would have loved boneless fat ass in here though. But instead we got skinny bone. About that. So this has been a complaint with several of the IP crossovers that Fortnite has done. And a little bit of like developer inside on why that is. So the character model, the rigging and the animation in the world of Fortnite in order for it to work inside the open world and not break all of the items around it in the collision mechanics that are built. They have to keep the character in a specific set of polygons across like the wire frame that the character models are on. So when you get characters that have particularly large costumes, hair, body parts, et cetera, they have to kind of shrink them down to make them fit inside the rigging of the world of Fortnite because otherwise it would just break the game. I would say Goku's big old titties make the cut. And this game. Well, I didn't pull this nice butt make the butt in this game. That sounds like a brand director question. They're out. And they're big. Also shirtless. God, I know this is wonderful. This is absolutely wonderful. I'm so happy this exists. I would say it's a smart choice of characters, Vegeta Goku bulma, and beer is beer is his fun. I feel like he's relatively new to the series. You know, he hasn't been around since like the old school stuff, but he is a fun character, and he has a really fun personality. Ree how much of the character's personalities are in this, or is it just like skits? It's literally just skin. Just kids. Anything that you would get in character's personalities will probably be some of those later items that you can unlock by doing these Dragon Ball quests, which will be like emotes. So there's no vocalization in any of the Fortnite emotes. It's probably all going to be just gestures or moves. You do have the you know what that means. You do have the pay the voice actors. Gotta do the more royalties. Can you see, can you see me doing the thing? You have this emote. Hold on. Hold on. Let me go full screen. Here we go. So the fusion fusion boat. Yeah, you can get in there. But that's all we have, really, that evokes that personality. I love this. It's so much. Okay, cool. I'm happy this exists. I feel like Andrea, I love you, but you should have just put us in a two frame with re and I and we could have been. I'm sorry. That's okay. You're doing great with the B roll, though. You are doing very good at that. Cool. You know, I'm doing what I can. And I did see some people online and we're going to move on because we have other stuff to talk about, but I didn't see some people online like poo pooing this, being like, I don't like this. This is not a natural integration. Oh, get the money with guns is the words. Fortnite left that behind a long time ago and have fully embraced their position as a metaverse of saying anybody and everybody is welcome. We don't care what I pee, what franchise you come from, we will find a way to put it inside of Fortnite. And I think they've almost all worked. I would probably have a tough time coming up with one of their crossovers that felt like it wasn't successful. And don't forget, the people who own these IP had a sign off on this, so it's not like they're taking these assets and suddenly giving them guns and Dragon Ball company or whatever has no idea that this is happening. It's okay. Right. Just have fun. There's a reason why Mario and Luigi aren't in Fortnite. Thank you. Because they said no. I'm sure it was asked. The reason why Mickey Mouse isn't in it either, right? But master chief is. Exactly. Some characters are good for it and some just, you know, maybe not a good fit. Moving on to our next story, private division has partnered with weta workshop to publish a new Lord of the Rings game. So this write up comes from game informer. Private division, a publishing arm under take two, in case you guys forgot that they are under that umbrella, has signed a publishing agreement with what a workshop to publish a new game. Of course, if you don't remember what a workshop is the graphic studio behind The Lord of the Rings trilogy, directed by Peter Jackson, and it founded a video game division that team is now developing a quote new game set in the middle earth universe of J.R.R. Tolkien. So basically the highest of high level of detail on what this game could possibly be about. There are some PR fluff here about how they're very excited to work together,
The Business of Esports
"fortnite" Discussed on The Business of Esports
"All right guys, the way this works. We've got a handful of shorter stories. I'm going to present the news, Lindsay and Jeff are going to give their very quick take. They have 30 seconds. I don't have my bell. Unfortunately. So I'm going to just make a noise when the 30 seconds is. And interrupt very rudely. But we want your take as well. So if you have a thought on the story, try and get it in, I will use my 30 seconds to mention your take also. So 30 seconds, we keep it short and sweet in the lightning round. The first story here, guys. It's epic in the news. Epic returns to in person Fortnite competition with the November event. The FN's DS invitational 2022 takes place in November 12th and 13th, it will have a $1 million price pool. It's going to be at the rally convention center in North Carolina. So this is Fortnite coming back to in person eSports. Lindsay too little too late, what's your take? So I live in a household where not a lot of Fortnite is played, but every single Fortnite World Cup and other thing is watched religiously. So I am all for this. There is some audience out there who loves it and that's for that audience. Jeff? I mean, first thing to note is the prize pool coming going down from 30 million to 1 million. So that's notable. Paul, I think you've famously said Fortnite eSports is dead. I generally agree with you, but I will say they do well with these one off type events. So I think this will Garner some interest, then I'm glad that they're doing it for the space. Adam says, love it, even though I do not play Fortnite. I'd love to know what you love about it because I don't really get it, right? You can watch a bunch of Fortnite streamers if you want to get to get the entertainment that way. I don't understand why epic would be doing this. They know Fortnite eSports are not going to come back in a big way. The price pool is too small, interest has gone away. This feels like I'm not sure. This feels like lip service a little bit. I don't know why they're doing it. But Adam, I'm curious why you love it. That would be interesting to me. I bet just to quickly before you. I bet they get some sort of, you know, they probably had some data when they run these events. They get some spike in microtransactions and engagement in the game. And based on what we just said around the billions and billions of live service revenue. It's not that hard to conceive that they can get an extra $1 million or so of incremental revenue. Very easily. Very possible. That is an interesting theory. Guys, gamer G this is the next story. Game energy. India's eSports platform launches in the Middle East. One of India's leading eSports platforms now available in the UAE and Saudi Arabia to plans to expand into more Mina territories over the next three months. They have 3 million users in India. They conduct 300 tournaments daily, and they're looking towards the Middle East to grow the platform, enable cross border tournaments. They think they're going to have around 250,000 people playing and paying users in the region. They host four games, pubg mobile, FIFA 22, Call of Duty mobile and clash Royale. And look, I brought this story because I thought an Indian moving into the Middle East with a big tournament platform and number 250,000 their expectation I thought was interesting. Guys, what do you make of this? Jeff? Yeah, I mean, clearly very bullish on the region. I mean, 250,000 seams, I guess, reasonable, particularly definitely if you're talking about over India and the Middle East, you know, paying users to over time, I think, is a very achievable goal. I'm interested that it's an Indian company company moving over. Usually we see these platforms struggle and they try to move across regions like even Twitch has struggled in areas like China and Southeast Asia, and you see a lot of these regional kind of behemoths come up. So I'm curious if there's kind of a specific platform that's tailored more to the Middle East that maybe will compete with this with this company, but yeah, I'm positive on it. Lindsey? There's three things I think of. One, the Indian government is really stringent with outside companies, particularly ones that come from China, so I'm not surprised that this started off as a homegrown business and given that it's the second most populous country in the world. It is one where there's plenty of people to actually use the service. The second is that it makes sense to expand into the Middle East since the offerings there are slim and it's kind of, I mean geographically, it's close by. And there tends to be some different ties and whatnot there that, again, the government will be more friendly towards a product from there, which I think it makes sense. And third, I think there are balancing both of those things well in terms of users and investment. They're going after an area that has high amount of users. And then they're moving into an area that has a high amount of potential for investment. So I think the strategy makes sense. I agree, I agree, hardly. Lindsay, yeah, look, the 250,000 number is what they think they're going to get in UAE and Saudi Arabia, which I think is a big number, right? To break in and have all those people playing and paying, not just sign up and play a free tournament, but playing and paying, I think that's a very impressive number if they can get there. And I hope what will come out of this is gamer G will show and I suspect why they want to make this move is the average spend per user that they're going to get in a place like UAE or Saudi Arabia is going to be way higher than the average spend of a user in it. So even though they have 3 million users in India, my guess is spend is relatively low for what they're modeling out in UAE. So that'll be an interesting thing to watch, but I'm massively bullish on the reason region obviously and I think this will be big for them. Hardware use this checkout super gaming NPC in a game they're working on in this. Many Indian companies are moving to economic zones in the UAE for lesser tax and easy doing business, not just gaming. This is true hardware with you. But not just Indian companies. A lot of companies in general, but especially in gaming. Gaming, metaverse, web free crypto, a lot of crypto companies opening opening offices in the UAE. I just want to touch and hardware also said I had never heard of this India before. All 3 million users. I mean, it's a big number. I want to touch on the last story quickly because there were a couple of comments. When she says it's the drama of a championship, it's like a marquee marketing expense to do a big Fortnite event, though. Lots of eyeballs, big price pool, equity, anyone can win, we'll get a kid. I mean, I agree completely with that, but this wasn't a marquee event, right? It's like a $1 million thing that almost no one has talked about. There's been a few articles, but I don't think it's going to get the kind of press of a $30 million Fortnite World Cup at where was it in New York where they play the tennis there with that call? I can't remember, but the big stadium in Arthur Ashe. Arthur Ashe stadium, right? That was a big marquee marketing expense when she and that, I could have understood. But this not really I don't fully get what this is going to accomplish. Adam says I'm all for events in the eSports space honestly as a spectator, not sure it makes business sense. But to just point, there has to be community building involved or some type of revenue in game after events. I think that's, look, can't I fully agree on we want events as spectators just to enjoy and I'm sure they've done the math and there must be some reason they're doing it, whether it's marketing spend or some time to revenue and game. But they have so much so many resources to do something so much bigger if they really, I feel like if they really had religion behind it. All right guys, let's we've got one last story in two quick stories in our lightning round here. And the headline here is Shaq thinks eSports pros should be considered real athletes. So this is in a new interview Shaq to just eSports pros should be commended and.
The Mason Minute
The Avatars Are Coming (MM #3887)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. When we talk about avatars, first thing, of course, comes to mind for most people or the movie series called Avatar. Or maybe if you're a gamer, Fortnite, well, the avatars are coming, but not just a game is not just a movie screens, they're coming to your smartphone to your computer screen to your television to the wall of your house. All thanks to artificial intelligence, all thanks to the cloud. The avatars are coming and are going to change your life. Because what we found over the course of the last 18 months, a lot is going to have to change. When you walk into McDonald's, you have a hard time sometimes getting somebody to wait on you. They're too busy looking at their phone, looking away not paying attention. What if you walked into McDonald's and started talking to a kiosk that recognized you by name? What about talking to a banker in the middle of the night, or looking at real estate property of two in the afternoon? When somebody's too busy to talk to you in person, thanks to artificial intelligence powered avatars, the world is going to change, thanks to COVID, the world is going to change much faster than we thought it would. People have been talking about AI based avatars for years, but now the talk is action, and the avatars are coming.
The Mason Minute
The Avatars Are Coming (MM #3887)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. When we talk about avatars, first thing, of course, comes to mind for most people or the movie series called Avatar. Or maybe if you're a gamer, Fortnite, well, the avatars are coming, but not just a game is not just a movie screens, they're coming to your smartphone to your computer screen to your television to the wall of your house. All thanks to artificial intelligence, all thanks to the cloud. The avatars are coming and are going to change your life. Because what we found over the course of the last 18 months, a lot is going to have to change. When you walk into McDonald's, you have a hard time sometimes getting somebody to wait on you. They're too busy looking at their phone, looking away not paying attention. What if you walked into McDonald's and started talking to a kiosk that recognized you by name? What about talking to a banker in the middle of the night, or looking at real estate property of two in the afternoon? When somebody's too busy to talk to you in person, thanks to artificial intelligence powered avatars, the world is going to change, thanks to COVID, the world is going to change much faster than we thought it would. People have been talking about AI based avatars for years, but now the talk is action, and the avatars are coming.
Talking Tech
"fortnite" Discussed on Talking Tech
"More rumblings in the battle between games an apple over fortnight and the app store the ceo and founder of epic games said recently on twitter that fortnight will continue to be blacklisted. From apple's app store a tim sweeney. Who is the founder and ceo of the company Shared some of this information through his twitter account. According to him for night will continue to be barred from the app store until the conclusion of the appeals process in the company's lawsuit against apple according to emails that sweeney released through twitter apple has said that epic games committed a breach-of-contract and trust when it implemented an option for app related purchases outside of apple system if you recall A lot of this started because fortnight epa games rather the creators. A fortnight added a system within the game so that folks could buy v box. Which is the in game currency and they could do it within the game without having to use the app store. Obviously that upset apple apple ban them from the app store ended up removing them completely. Epic followed up with a lawsuit and this is where we are According to an email that sweeney released from who what appears to be an apple representative it says quote apple as exercises discretion not to reinstate epochs developer program account at this time and quote representatives from apple declined to comment now earlier. This month. we had a big Moment in the case where federal judge said apple must let developers use payment options that funnel consumers out of the tech giant's app store which would then bypass apples thirty percent commission on a lot of transactions. Epic has appealed the ruling though because the district judge in the case rejected the company's allegations that apple random monopoly. So what is this gonna eventually mean for. Users will no more obviously wants. This appeals process shakes out as far how apt transactions. At purchases will go. We could see a lot of things like a link within an app. That takes you to maybe a safari page or some of the browser. And then you can pay there as well. That doesn't mean that apps are users couldn't still use the option to go through the app store to make their purchases but it might change a little bit How that process works. It could also mean to as an incentive for people to click that link they may be paying
Talking Tech
Why is Fortnite banned from Apple?
"More rumblings in the battle between games an apple over fortnight and the app store the ceo and founder of epic games said recently on twitter that fortnight will continue to be blacklisted. From apple's app store a tim sweeney. Who is the founder and ceo of the company Shared some of this information through his twitter account. According to him for night will continue to be barred from the app store until the conclusion of the appeals process in the company's lawsuit against apple according to emails that sweeney released through twitter apple has said that epic games committed a breach-of-contract and trust when it implemented an option for app related purchases outside of apple system if you recall A lot of this started because fortnight epa games rather the creators. A fortnight added a system within the game so that folks could buy v box. Which is the in game currency and they could do it within the game without having to use the app store. Obviously that upset apple apple ban them from the app store ended up removing them completely. Epic followed up with a lawsuit and this is where we are According to an email that sweeney released from who what appears to be an apple representative it says quote apple as exercises discretion not to reinstate epochs developer program account at this time and quote representatives from apple declined to comment now earlier. This month. we had a big Moment in the case where federal judge said apple must let developers use payment options that funnel consumers out of the tech giant's app store which would then bypass apples thirty percent commission on a lot of transactions. Epic has appealed the ruling though because the district judge in the case rejected the company's allegations that apple random monopoly. So what is this gonna eventually mean for. Users will no more obviously wants. This appeals process shakes out as far how apt transactions. At purchases will go. We could see a lot of things like a link within an app. That takes you to maybe a safari page or some of the browser. And then you can pay there as well. That doesn't mean that apps are users couldn't still use the option to go through the app store to make their purchases but it might change a little bit How that process works. It could also mean to as an incentive for people to click that link they may be paying
Geek News Central
"fortnite" Discussed on Geek News Central
"Be asked to travel for delivery. Oh so this is a bill that was the result of a was organized by lost delivered. His unites a group of organising deliver workers as part of the worker justice product so These gig workers are starting to get more protections that's awesome x apple designers ultra-premium auto hardware startup seeing raises. Forty eight point seven five million dollars. Now i'm dating myself. When i was very very young. There was eight am radio then. There was stereo radio and yes. The difference between am fm stereo. Or mono so kind of intermixing. Thanks here but when stereo finally came out and you could hear stereo sound. It was quite remarkable. Well brown that time. There's all kinds of people that were creating all kinds of devices. Saying you're going to hear this much more beautiful quality sound by having this special box and it was just a gimmick. The boxes were very expensive. They really didn't make audio sound any better. It was just someone. there was playing upon people's nature to want to hear more clear music. So this company chris stringer was john john. Johnny ivy's i hire apple worked at the company for twenty one years in any of you. Steer referred to the first time he heard stereo audio was the most impressive product demo ever and his company is looking to build on that wonder by building the tri phonic audio hardware that can transform the home listening experience with spatial audio. A he just got forty seven. Point eight million dollars for tri phonic audio. Any make asking and i talked about this years ago. I wish i could remember the name of the device that everyone was selling. It was hooked your speakers and meeker make your make yourself make the sound better. It's about transforming the stage from the stage audience static experiences essentially just image on the wall to actually make the stage the square footage of your home. Oh man someone is listening to show is going to remember those little boxes that were sold. I think my parents bought one china. Think what it was called. Oh my god. There was big money at the time. Three or four hundred dollars. Something like that to make your stereo audio sound quadraphonic or something Was just a big scam in the world. tri phonic. I saw this today and it. Just it triggered me. Google's android automotive is coming to hannah. Cars in twenty to hate google lead stri goo. Tv apps expand up. My device responded. Google tv abc explain to fourteen countries officially launches in app android tv remote. So what are the countries they're expanding to visit say. Is there a list australia. Austria belgium canada france germany india ireland italy japan mexico spain switzerland. Uk and by the way any listeners. Down in australia. I had someone in melbourne. Tell me oh. We're free to do everything we can go anywhere we want yet. I'm seeing stuff about riots in melbourne but people protesting you being locked down is true these hearing conflicting stuff as you can go from state to state you gotta do quarantines and stuff like that is. Let's let's see here some ground truth here but anyway that's expansion of google tv. Would you believe. I'm only halfway through the stack. I'm not going to get through it all tonight. Google brings more pixel exclusive feature stall android phones. The company just pushed out a new dozen new android features including some we thought would be limited to android twelve so I'm not going to go through the list. But if you're a pixel fan you'll definitely want to check this article out twitter's announcing the user send and receive bitcoin tips the companies also working on an nfl t- authentication service. So you can send point. Zero zero zero zero zero zero one to bitcoin. Does somebody via the your tip jar on twitter so if anyone wants to send me. Bitcoin via the jar. Happy did send me some out. Take any bitcoin Donations at all. Losing low is at spatial audio or spiritual audio. Well i think it's i think i just pronounced the second wrong spiritual this article round. The register says facebook overpaid aetna. Listen to this. Facebook overpaid ftc. Fine of poor point. Nine billion dollars to protect zuckerberg lawsuit alleges so. Facebook is silent over two explosive lawsuits unsealed this week which contains allegations that board members authorize overpayment of ftc. Fine after four point. Nine billion order to protect mark zuckerberg. The five billion penalty was dissociate. I worked by the ftc back in two thousand nineteen for deceiving users about their control over their private data in the cam bridge. Analytic scandal other allegations tail. Companies complaints includes claims affirmed delivery. Stir swerved implementing privacy controls and service of an illegal business model and that board members and board members and clean. Mark anderson peletier boss. Peter theo sheryl sandberg might screw. Oh my gosh michael. Scroll far who resigned as facebook. See to a monday and zuckerberg himself explained the company's non public information or insider trading. Ooh second suit specific ledges exempt. Divest themselves of more facebook shares between june of of two thousand thirteen in july two thousand nineteen and that they would because of the of the fine. It just goes on this system. Pretty serious stuff. This you know the bigger these companies are they just buy their way out of trouble my opinion so this is a this is a big. We're going to hear more about that. As it goes on boston dynamics spot robot embarks on its latest thrilling adventure insurance. It's going to be walking around and taking pictures help building help do building inspection inspections post-disaster assessments as well yup. Instead of have a claim agent spots gonna walk around and take pictures and any issue you a check on the spot and you know you can tell spot go away. you're not taking a checker in or spot. The robot giving you your insurance claim money. Yeah see it now for science sites based site. Violent explosion rips open a giant happening space and births new stars and debris were blasted outward by explosion forming his. Shell were baby. Stars are born over five hundred light year wide spiritual void lurking in outer space. We'll how did they find this. You say well they used ours A are and.
Geek News Central
Airbnb says it has doubled the number of Afghan refugees it plans to temporarily house
"Airbnb is doubling. Its pledge to house. Afghan refugees accompany says capacity sporting additional twenty thousand refugees and They're going to go beyond their initial commitment with help. From host and donors across the united states is prepared houses. Many forty thousand refugees temporarily as aaron be itself notes. It doesn't sesame amac's outback capacity if demand for housing lines supplying communities refugees resettling. These resources could help provide housing for an initial twenty thousand. You know there's no. Housing is very very tight right now.
Geek News Central
"fortnite" Discussed on Geek News Central
"This is why for me having it. My content all of it recited eaten central dot com in addition to you too in addition to twitch in addition to twitter in addition to apple podcast. Google podcasts overcast spotify iheart pandora. They're all in those locations. But in the end you'll all know where moon based alpha.
Mac OS Ken
Apple Won’t Let Fortnite Back on iOS Until the Epic v. Apple Verdict Is Final
"News around the app store and fortnight epic asked to get fortnight back into the app store and apple said no that is basically the news going ahead deeper cult amac's as epic asked to get fortnight back into the app store and apple said hell no quoting the cult. Tim sweeney founder. And ceo of epic games revealed apple's decision on twitter. He included an email from mark a perry a lawyer representing apple with the specific reasons. Hey remember that time epoch. Straight up broke apples rules and launched an all out. pr blitz against apple and the app store. Yes seems that rubbed apple the wrong way quoting the report again. Perry points out. That epic committed an intentional breach of contract and breach of trust like concealing code from apple and making related misrepresentations and omissions. He's referring to epic secretly adding a direct payment system for in that purchases deport night. Which at new was against apple's rules. This caused apple to kick the developer out of the app store. In twenty twenty calling such actions duplicitous peres response to epoch said apple has exercised its discretion not to reinstate epochs developer program account at this time. Furthermore apple will not consider any further request for reinstatement until the district. Court's judgement becomes final and non-appealable
Daily Tech Headlines
Judge in Fortnite Case Loosens Apple’s Control Over App Store
"U s district court judge yvonne gonzalez rogers issued her decision in epic versus apple. The court found in favor of apple on all counts except with respect to a violation of california's unfair competition law. The court noted epoch breached his contract with apple by implementing an alternative payment system and is ordered to pay apple thirty percent of everything collected through the alternative system estimated to be around three point. Five million dollars. The judge also issued an order to apple that they are permanently restrained and enjoying from prohibiting developers from including in their apps and their metadata buttons external links or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms. The order does not take effect until december ninth and epic announced. It will appeal.
The Vergecast
Apple Mostly Wins in Fortnite Trial, but Must Ease Payment Rules
"News. The epic versus apple trial on at eight covered. A bunch of it. We covered it very in depth. It had twists and turns. It had a lengthy digression into what the definition of a game is. We knew this was coming very soon. It's funny because there's an apple event on tuesday but friday morning the ruling doesn't hit first injunction against apple hits i the injunction says apple can't prohibit developers from linking to other kinds of payment systems and other stuff. We'll get into it but that's that's big news on its face. Then there's a ruling i would say. The ruling is for epic lost a bunch at explain the shape of the ruling to people. So at the very highest level the ruling is ruling both on epochs claims against apple which are antitrust related and then counterclaims. That apple made against epic which were mostly breach-of-contract related. So the really big thing that epochs been arguing is that iowa's ecosystem itself is an unlawful monopoly. Just sort of by existing in the state at does and that claim failed. There was the idea that ios locking down app distribution not allowing third party. Stores are not allowing side loading was a thing that apple was doing to lockout competition and was violating anti trust laws that also failed then related. There's an argument that apple had been doing been of self preferencing. It's own apps and creating a bunch of sort of pretexts to kick apps out of the app store also not illegal or not convincingly breaking antitrust law. There is apple. The idea that apple is illegally tying in-app purchases. Which were the thing like the box. The sort of central issue in the case To the rest of the app store and that they should have let people used in cell in-app purchases a sort of completely separate product That also failed
AP News Radio
Judge loosens Apple's grip on app store in Epic decision
"A judge in California is loosening apple's grip on its app store federal judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled apple has been engaging in unfair competition and ordered the company to allow developers to insert links to other payment options besides its own within iPhone apps it would make it easier for app developers to avoid paying commissions to apple epic games the maker of fortnight call the fees price gouging but the judge didn't brand apple as a monopolist or require it to allow competing stores to offer apps for iPhones iPads and iPods she left the fee structure intact Fortnite was ousted from the app store after adding a non apple payment system to its app epic was ordered to pay apple nearly three point seven million dollars I'm at Donahue
Kinda Funny Games Daily
PC Gamer Uncharted 4 and the Lost Legacy Coming to PC Early 2022
"Came out sock uncharted. Four loss legacy coming remastered playstation five in. Pc it's going to be called uncharted legacy of thieves collection. It's going to be available in early. Twenty twenty two. Ps five the version is in development by our partners at iron galaxy. It will release shortly after the playstation. Five version
NPR Politics Podcast
Martin Luther King, Jr. Fortnite New Game: I Have a Dream Speech
"Epic games the company the developers behind fortnight have done something kind of interesting it also kind of ties into what i cover for npr. So i thought it was really interesting. It is as we pointed out in the last segment. It's the anniversary of the march on washington. And dr king's i have a dream speech and they've worked with time studios in time magazine to create this experience called march through time. Players can be teleported to what they're calling. Dc sixty three which is like this kind of a reimagined alternate universe. Washington dc built by users. And you can actually take your character and traveled to the lincoln memorial and the national mall. And here recordings of dr king. Giving the i have a dream speech. There are also like many games that you can do. Yes are you doing the usual fortnight stuff while you're there like my question. This is my question to an eye full disclosure. I have not gotten a check out this experience myself yet but a really smart gaming journalist. I follow erin ashley. Simon actually did you can find on twitter. She put up a four minute. Video of what people are doing. And yeah there's some of the emotes as they call them of people dancing and things like that but you can also hold up signs at the rally. There are collaborative experiences. That are sort of educational. There were puzzles. So yes some of the traditional fortnight stick. But there's also kind of a learning angle here too. I see people describing it as like an interactive online museum.
The GaryVee Audio Experience
"fortnite" Discussed on The GaryVee Audio Experience
"Casey underrated hip hop is important to society. As it gets which means forever it will always be and jay. Z is one of the five to ten to fifteen most important humans. To ever be involved in it is an entrepreneurial business icon. He's somebody who's in the fifties right now. That is as cool as anybody in society if you walks in a room in his fifties that's cool. I think that's underrated jaycees as we end today's podcast i want to give a huge shout out to the people you know. It's so funny. People that leave reviews and written reviews of this podcast on apple spotify and all the other platforms just in the world to me. You've taken an extra thirteen to ninety five seconds to show love and also give context the people of why this is a worthwhile podcast. So i appreciate that so much and even more fun because i think we all love a little cosigner shoutout or little awareness. I'm going to have the team. Give a couple of shoutouts daily on our favorite reviews so take it away which we're favorites this week. Thanks so much gary. Today's amazing five star review reads as someone who had no idea what an nfc was back in february and only found out about them by the way of top shot. This episode was so great to listen to too great dudes spitting knowledge in the way. Gary delivers his message is like no other. I feel like. I learned something. Every time i listen in gained so much knowledge and motivation after listening everyday. He's giving me the strength to believe that. Even though i'm forty years old it's never too late to chase your dreams and aspirations. Thank you for everything. Gary thank you so much for that kind review into anybody else listening out there. If you leave us a review you might just get shouted out in the next episode..
Esports Minute
FaZe Clan on Sports Illustrated Cover
"Moment for Esports says, for the first time in its publication history, Sports Illustrated has an e sports team on their cover. FaZe Clan Has graced, the sports magazines front page as they highlighted the organization's home. It's Unique stream, team branding and of course that says lifestyle, it's a cover featured nickmercs temper and rug as well. As the addition of Arizona Cardinals quarterback, Kyler Murray as phase K1 off Ron James, his own son bronny. Has phase brawny. Check out the whole story on the East sportsnetwork.com is Justin a mean, has a full ride up on that story.
Kinda Funny Games Daily
Superman & Rick and Morty Come to Fortnite
"Fortnight's newest season is here and it's bringing some serious star power to its new battle pass for shopping season. Seven for nine players will get their own customizable in keeping with the theme of the season as well superman in rick sanchez. from rick. And morty fortunately the season seven battle pass only has only. Has the rick half of the adult. Swim shows. Dynamic in dysfunctional duo. So we'll have to wait and see if he makes his way to four nine at some point during the season on the other side. The dc universe is that many characters venture to the fortnight island before including a whole batman spin off comic. But this is the man of steel's first appearance now. I'm sad that greg here. Because i know greg miller is pooping his pants right now. He's he's on the plane he no. I don't know when this news came out. He might have already been in the air on. Its way to la by this news of so sorry to that plane because he had the senses and boom. It all happened there but kevin as somebody who loves for. How does this strike you. Get you d like this. I am so excited like this. Looks like they're doing a bunch of crazy things. We're gonna get some weird weapons. I'm i'm buying rick. I'm buying superman like without a doubt. I am so excited for this. I'm not a big fan of the superman design but it right like math. You know what i mean like. Get my money. they did it. Look at the way he's dropping in on on. I love the me impose. Oh my god. I hate to be flying that way
WSJ What's News
Apple and Fortnite Conclude Antitrust Trial, Ruling Expected in Couple of Months
"A ruling in the antitrust case between the maker of the video game fortnight and apple is expected in a couple of months. Both sides made their final pitch to a judge in a california courtroom monday. Epic games is accusing apple of fairly restricting competition in its app store enforcing developers to use an apple payment system which gives apple a thirty percent cut of sales wall street journal tech reporter. Sara newman says the judges eventual verdict might not fully signed with either company. She may for example require apple to lower its commissions but might not force apple to open up the iphone to third party app distributors. another issue. that's cop during the trial is concluded steering. And that's where right now. Apple doesn't allow developers to tell consumers that they might be able to get better deal on a digital purchase by going outside of the app store and so the judges indicated that she might be open to allowing making so that developers could put in some language or link. That says. hey you could potentially get a better deal by going to your pc to sign up for our service. So she could do something. That's a little bit mixed
AP News Radio
Apple CEO Tim Cook Takes Stand in Epic Fight Over App Store
"Apple CEO Tim cook took the witness stand to defend the company's iPhone apps store against charges that has grown into an illegal monopoly guided by softball questions from apple lawyer in Oakland California courtroom cook's testimony sounded like a commercial for the iPhone cook defended apple's control over its mobile apps store as a way to keep things simple for customers and protect them against privacy and security threats he appeared an anti trust case brought by epic games the makers of the popular video game Fortnite epic is trying to prove that the apps store has morphed into a price gouging vehicle that blocks apps from offering other payment options Applebee's his appearance as an opportunity to tell its story while the app stores under scrutiny by regulators in the US and Europe I'm Jennifer king
The Business of Esports
Esports Certification Institute Pulls $400 Certificate After Viral Backlash
"The story here is from yahoo sports. The headline is e sports exacts launch certification exam to drive industry hires so in short. It's a it's a company that they've launched a there's not a non profit for profit corporation and and basically they're charging four hundred dollars. You study for this test. They give you this test if you pass the test you get e sports certified and their idea here or at least the premise was. This would be a way to know that people have some base of knowledge. I guess and are therefore more high rable about a word but you know more employable as a consequence in the industry. I will say the conversation around. This has been very much polarized people either like are very much for this and backing them up or are really very much against and i would say probably. The large majority are against it this time. Where do you fall on this spectrum. Willing how do you feel about this. Well let me start by saying like in general certifications or a good thing right like and many industries need certifications for example. I think you would be scared. If you went to your dentist and discovered that there was no certification required to be a dentist. You would say oh dear like that your like something that maybe someone should be setting some minimum standards and checking up on know like that would make me feel a lot better so we should be worried if there are no no papers on the wall is what you're saying exactly so certifications are like important. They're important to many many many industries. I will say. They tend to be more important in professions. Like the one. I cited like dentistry right or like medical professions or things like that. Where there's you know really a baseline level of knowledge you have to have you have to keep those baseline level of knowledge current and achieving that baseline level of knowledge. There's usually consequences that are potentially more severe than say making the wrong business decision right but in principle like certifications or something that seem great to me and you know like i think you should always look at them with an open.
Miss Information: A Trivia Podcast
Fortnite for beginners
"Fortnight is a massive multiplayer online video. Game developed by epic games released in two thousand seventeen is available in three distinct game mode versions so they otherwise share the same general game. Play in game engine But these three distinct versions are fortnight. Colon save the world. Okay fortnight no colon battle royale fortnite battle royale and fortnight creative. Oh there's three of them. So the objectives vary depending on which mode you're playing but the broad goal of fortnight is to survive against a prolonged force antagonist who will attempt to eliminate you okay so for night begin from an internal game jamat epoch game so there in american video game and software developer and publisher based out of north carolina So they did this internal game jam around twenty eleven after they published the game gears of war so a game jam which i only recently learned at work a game. Jam is a contest where participants try to a video game from scratch with a specific deadline. So it's usually like twenty four hours or you know maybe maybe seventy two hours to work to come up with this so it's kind of like a like a creativity burst. I'll shut the the bowl of that is to work with other people and create a game from scratch so depending on the format again your participants might be in teams maybe you are working independently. Who knows but epic games is also the developer of the unreal engine which is an open source in advanced real time. Three d creation tool. And you'll hear a lot of Video games and special effects and even like some film stuff runs off of this unreal engine. So the unreal engine. Original purpose was as a state of the art game engine. But it's now used across industries so it's for cutting edge content interactive experiences in immersive virtual worlds Unreal engine is a real time engine. An editor that features photo realistic rendering dynamic physics and effects robust data translation and also lifelike animation. So it's kind of a big thing whenever somebody is using the unreal engine. You know you're going to get really could effects from it so that that's all out of epic games which which founded in the savage that engine so for me was not initially one of the games that was actually developed during that game jim but the concept of merging the construction game genre so games like sim city or minecraft with shooter games came together and it led to the foundation affording. So you probably know. It sim city is if you're our age but a refresher on minecraft so in minecraft which was first released in two thousand nine actually players. Explorer blackie procedurally generated three d world with infinite terrain and they may discover an extract raw materials craft tools and items and build structures or works so game modes in minecraft include a survival mode in which players must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health and creative mode where players have unlimited resources. So players can modify or maud game to create new gameplay mechanics items and assets and minecraft has a very distinctive like visual s. That like you can recognize if somebody showing you a screenshot of minecraft. So what epic did is they prepared to release fortnight as a paid early access title in july twenty seventeen and they had plans to release it as free to play some time in twenty nine thousand nine after gaining feedback from players to improve the game so originally titled fortnight and lear renamed to fortnight colon. Save the world. This original base module is a player versus environment cooperative game. So you have four players collaborating toward a common objective on various missions. The game is set after a fluke. Storm appears across earth causing about ninety eight percent of the population to disappear and the survivors are attacked by zombie. Like husks so the player takes the role of commanders of home. Shelters collecting resources saving survivors and defending equipment. That helps to either collect date on the storm or push back the storm. In from missions players are awarded a number of in game items including hero characters. Weapons trap schematics and survivors all of which can be leveled up through gained experience to improve their attributes. Also you're working together with people against this common enemy player versus environment cooperative game. In around the same time the epic released fortnight into early access pub g had become a worldwide phenomenon selling millions of copies and drawing strong interest in the battle royale genre so a battle royale game is an online multiplayer video game that blends the survival exploration and scavenging elements of a survival game with kind of the last man standing game. Play so the name. The genre is taken from two thousand japanese film titled battle royale which was based on a novel of the same name and presents a similar theme of a last man standing competition in a shrinking play zone. So you've heard people. My brother plays this one. You've heard people's mentioned before what the heck is pub- g it's an abbreviation for player unknowns battlegrounds so that's an online multiplayer battle royale game and in this game one hundred players parachute onto an island and scavenge for weapons and equipment to kill others while avoiding getting killed themselves So there's an available safe area. The games map which decreases in size over time and it ends directing surviving players into tighter areas to force encounters with other players. And the last player or team standing wins the round The game's concept and design was led by brendan green. Who's better known by his online handle player known and he'd previously created mods for other battle rail type games pudgy was the top selling premium game of two thousand seventeen selling thirty million copies worldwide and grossing. About nine hundred million dollars. I have can. I tell you never heard of this game in my whole life. You know you are. You aren't really doing a lot of player games. How it's absolutely right. You know what i. It's funny i feel like there's been a couple of questions and learn a league in maybe the last five seasons or so that like the answer will be some video game or something that we that when we see the answer. We've never heard of this popular selling thing in all of the world and it sold got julian copies and everybody except you plays it. What's the so this is why we're absolutely. Yeah so you know. Epochs saw what pudgy had been doing and they were like maybe we could also do a battery. Yeah so what. Epic did was rapidly develop their own version atop their original fortnight in about two months so by september two thousand seventeen at was about to release this as a second mode from save the world in the paid for earlier access but then later decided to release this as a free game that would be supported with microtransactions. Microtransactions are the business model where users can purchase virtual goods with micro payments and make your transactions are often used in free to play games to provide a revenue source for the developers and there are a staple of the mobile app market so in game currency in fort night is called v books to them. You might see this icon happens sometimes. The you see llamas pop up and fortnight okay. So llamas also known as lama pinatas are the main loop boxes in fortnight and they are also fortnight's primary mascot so the vendor tech store is where players can purchase lama pinatas to break open for rewards in llamas can be produced using view bucks or event specific currency and they contain various helpful. Items like heroes schematics. Weapons and there are also different types of llamas in the game including basic llamas daily llamas and event llamas so For an has a very distinctive aesthetic. It's very cartoony. there's a very distinct color palette. I mean it's it's actually pretty visually pleasing see this distinctive looking lama. You know that that is for
Esports Minute
Epic Games Acquires the Developer of Fall Guys
"Sports package from E Sports Network epic games has an art style and by God, they're doing everything they can to lock every single game with that art style down fall guys feels fortnite e and many ways both games have the colorful graphics and the cube, but often really complex game play and that complexity led to both games eventual downfall now fortnite has a completely fallen off in the way that fall guys has but both games kind of reached a skill cap. Where wasn't fun for the Casual Gamer that much for it. I was always going to come down to earth a little bit from the highs it reached and the 2017-2018 even 2019 range but fall guys has fallen off completely after was released. The game was one of the top 5 most played games on Steam for a few weeks it dominated twitch with a dog. Streamers playing it and it's high as the game reached a peak of 107 two thousand people playing all at the same time in the last 24 hours the peak players the game. Was it just over nine thousand consider a game reaches Peak just weeks after launch Focus has basically been on a steady downward trajectory the games entire life span. Now, of course, they couldn't really go up at all because they started off the top but the continued decline even as the player base has shrunk to 1:15 of its highest size is definitely a big cause for concern. So in steps epic games one big issue for fog was there was only available on PlayStation and PC capping the potential audience the developer is still continuing his plans to become available on switch and Xbox with Epix resources that may come even sooner fall guys will also be made on Steam for the time being but it will also become available on the epic game store after epic games acquired psionics the developers of Rocket League rumor started swelling to the game would go free-to-play and while it took a lot longer than expected dog. Probably did drop that entry price this past summer according to the release Fall. Guys isn't immediately going free-to-play and will continue to cost nineteen ninety nine. If I had to guess that will change as well after a some time to collect Revenue off the new platforms when it's released for Xbox and the switch full
Budget Arcade: Free to play gaming
"fortnite" Discussed on Budget Arcade: Free to play gaming
"Not only game but market and They have continued to evolve their their game based on. What other games are doing We talked about earlier. How they've they've incorporated other things that other battle royale doing And simply because because it continues to redefine itself in evolve itself and all that. It's it's a fun game. It's it's fun to explore. I mean these. These type of games aren't for me but this games fun this game. This game has a lot to do. And i think if whether or not you're a multiplayer gamer. Or you like just to explore a map or you're interested in just the skins for the game. this game brings it all and It's yeah it gets my. I hate third person shooters. Don't like him. The bill building aspect is another thing. That escapes me. I can't wrap my head around it to even play the game that being said. It's a phenomenal game. I highly recommend it for anybody who likes the sorta game likes third person. Shooter likes the building aspect. I mean even minecraft. I'm not really a big player of played a little bit but it's never really hooked me like it does jeff but yeah i'm going to give it my seal just because of how well they've done everything how fluidly they've done it and how often they update everything. So yes it's gives my seal. How about you jeff May surprise lincoln or i never really hated fortnight. I played it in its prime. I played it with the same people i play warzone with. You know and though a reason i moved on is because i really preferred the more realistic side of game like blackout from call of duty but now warzone and that was fun that was just what i preferred I didn't like the building i could like. Scott never really wrap my hands around the building that being said they've done a lot to kind of answer those concerns and frankly if we point at anything in as many times as i pointed this game talk to compare other games reviewed on this podcast. Say they need to do it like fortnight. I can't not give this game my seal because the game play is extremely polished if you like the building part of it. It's apparently you can be skilled feeling on. It is really high The the monetization is perfect. It is the gold standard of how to monetize a free to play game so and the way they keep the player base involved is great So it definitely gets. I can't really complain about much of anything and what i would complain about. Would just be because it's not for me. I'm glad you mentioned lincoln. Because he did give us a voice message for this episode. I'm i'll be out again after the section here. So ford night is a loved rated game I would say that a lot of people he did just be cool but there are a lot of valid reasons to hate it. First of all a ton of people play it even though there are better games to play which make people hate it because It like kind of brings people away from the games that are actually better because the too stubborn to try anything else The community kind of sucks. It's just a bunch annoying seven year old and There's not really any good reason to download it because there are way better games tons of them. I understand why it's so popular. It started the battle royal craze except for public. But i would say this one really perpetuated it. It kind of started the free to play game craze. I would say to. But but i'm it's not the best anymore kind of had invaded because it was kind of a one of a kind but it's not good anymore. Don't play it. there are better game. We should know that. His name is in the discord..
Budget Arcade: Free to play gaming
"fortnite" Discussed on Budget Arcade: Free to play gaming
"It's really simple and there's only one type of healing mechanism you need to carry. Which is your plates. There is the option to do like a stem to region faster. But and it's really not worth getting so as i've bounced back to games like apex in fortnight. I realize how much. I don't like it where i have two different health bars to region. I have a was. You've got bandages you've got. Hp you've sorry the What do you call them. The med kits. You got spoil. Potions you've got big potions you've got chug jugs and now you've got these sodas that you have to manage the inventory and you'll have five inventory slots so i. I don't personally like that but at the time it didn't bother me. But i think that the. I'm so used to how warzone. Does it that anything. That's counter to that. I don't like as much. And i really don't like it in apex because you have even more options and you have to fumble through inventory and i'm sure there's people who played all the time and don't have a problem with it but compared to war zone it's annoying are they really called chug jugs yes fully. He'll you in fully regenerate your shield as mark. Did you even play you know. I wasn't video. Bright mart right. I took a page out of the old playbook no there was a painter digital what these kids are called. But you like what were you doing during the obviously. It's a single player you're the outside looking in. Yes what did you think of fortnight. When when it was at its hottest. You know it's it. It was a unique a unique offering. It's and it's and it still is a unique offering but The the aspect that i noticed from me playing when the game originally came out and i'll be honest completely honest. I haven't touched this game until this past week from when it first came out. Is that There are there is so much more to do in game now destroyed now. Compared to win this game i came out and that is that is a completely cool aspect to the gameplay is because no longer do you have to go seek out somebody to kill you. You can completely explore a region in. You're getting a notification that. Hey you're a top twenty five player because you've survived everybody else in your life. I haven't seen anybody else And on that. No i'm going to have martavis ability because of this replay ability okay. Mark replay.
Budget Arcade: Free to play gaming
"fortnite" Discussed on Budget Arcade: Free to play gaming
"A war zone or Helped me out apex It's definitely a family friendly game. They also be because of the severe popularity of it have been able to get lots of really cool. Licensing deals such as you can get your favorite football team as a skin. You can get various star wars characters. You can get I just saw. They had like batman and the joker on there and yeah Like most recently. It's boba fat or not boba fett. I guess of the The mandalorian the mandalorian. Yeah and then with baby yoda. I don't think it has baby. Yoda autumn leaves like as a backpack item. The startup intimate animation had baby. Yoda on it so okay. i am. Pay attention that much to that skin. But that's all paywall stuff Yeah now this is a third person shooter. Game so that really actually becomes kind of important when we talk about the various microtransactions and stuff But you start off on the battle bus now on console. If you press down you thank the bus driver. Do you guys make sure to think the bus driver when you play fortnite. No no didn't know. That was the thing wins. Dance flies that bus for me all right. I've never gotten a fortnight win. I don't think oh even team even on a team. Like when i played with you guys back in the day i still never got to win really okay. Well we've got a few. And i have one solo win in my pocket that i've gotten but that's out it. What's the point of thanking the buster. Oh well no real reason that i know of but we always like when we played in squads. If someone didn't think the bus driver we all be pissed. Adam because we would say like. There's no way we're going to win now. You know. I don't get the point but it's there so in the games that i played for this review everybody thinks the buzzer. I'm like why the hell you thinking this guy. I didn't understand it. i didn't understand it. I never did it. We look i didn't drinks you drink. You say thank you right. Mark i do. Typically your parents taught you that. i'm sure. yeah sure yeah marcos. No good job doing your job. Yeah i mean that waiter is their view if you got a taxi or an uber after. You've well uber..
Budget Arcade: Free to play gaming
"fortnite" Discussed on Budget Arcade: Free to play gaming
"And i'm back. Did you miss me. Well and your name is and i'm mark. Yes because every go ahead no out you've had you've had two two episodes with elliott Where he did not challenge you on anything. He does win with the flow. Did his thing played your pc game. And y'all wrapped okay. You didn't listen the episode because he clearly did. We had a disagreement about what was inspired by overwatch. Or see us go. But you know. I'll let other people listen to that and scott. Can you please start the episode. And welcome to episode number. Eighty one just to recap. We play a free to play game every other week. We rate n review it mark. What was this week's game. Hey this week we we played fortnight developed by epic games who you may remember from other titles such as rocky league yeah We played that one jeff Barack league robo recall and battle rakers. It is a battle royale and came out in twenty seventeen on the xbox one the playstation four then switch and is available on your mobile device as well as the Mac or pc rocket leaf kinda pushing it because they didn't make rocket league. they only purchase it after. You've been out for a while if you go to. Their website is listed as three game. All right well. That's because they bought it but they also purdue made gears a war gears a war. Didn't they reach an epic in clip cliff. That was his baby and he worked for epic at the time. I mean it could not familiar with a lot of the developers names. Okay well we should mention. Were doing this because this my friends is our second anniversary. We've done two solid years of this podcast. We haven't really. I would say we have a missed an episode but there was that one episode where only mark recorded for jolla remember that oh yeah arrow house like my second. Yeah that was possibly the best episode we've ever done we're back at it. I didn't wanna do fortnight but it was also my idea because we wanted to do something. Special game play so fortnight. If you don't know is a this is just going to be a lot of stuff. You already know okay for the next forty minutes or however long we record but fortnight isn't battle royale and if you don't know what that is you've never listen to this podcast before but hundred people jump on a map. There's a circle that shrinks one by one. You kill each other or teams to three or four and you battle it out and the last team slash person standing wins while you drop in your course picking up loot the loot randomized every time you jump in the game Now the difference here. Is that epic and fortnight have a much more colorful family friendly.
Budget Arcade: Free to play gaming
"fortnite" Discussed on Budget Arcade: Free to play gaming
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Why Gaming Is A Creative Brands Paradise With Gravity Road Founder Mark Boyd
"Weeks ago to announce a new marketing practice and I enjoyed the conversation so much that I had to have them on the show dead. So Mark, I think the first question when it comes to the new practice, why was now the perfect time getting food poisoning the perfect time I think are always about time is I think we were feeling there was just such a momentum coming from clients is is is is one off a bit. So I think we could see the kind of client-side demand. I think you know 2020 was uh, I think a particular with a kind of extraordinary conditions in that year and people being at home just saw our kind of a sort of Tipping Point in a game that Assumption of of of gaming we might have play time that people were kind of evolved in so I thought I think that was kind of important but I think fundamentals Like we just saw a shift from gaming becoming being a subculture into culture itself more generally. I'm fascinated by the amount of whether it's kind of cross over into the aesthetic of gaming coming into fashion and similarly into sports. You might have talent pool areas investing in the gaming space. It really kind of crossed over and I think particularly young adult culture but culture more generally is so confused by informed by Gaming at that moment. It was the right thing for a kind of culture energetic creative business to to to be in and and you know final trigger points, where were some wins on home in the in the gaming space particularly develop a Brands. We just wanted to wanted to get involved. I also think as you can see that kind of tip report and the market maturing wage I'll point of view always with marketing is is is it's not an overly complex proposition. It's the clues off the talk to us but markets and that's about understanding people and although gaming is new and exciting and we're bringing we brought in at some really interesting people and team work on that, etc. Etc. The the fundamentals are still the same and what we were getting pushed on by both clients outside gaming wanted to get approved in in that kind of space. Some of this is bigger us Brands and international Brands but also by businesses and the gaming space is they wanted to see some of that kind of best practice and the kind of disciplines of marketing and communication brought to to gaming and that it's not a it's not a kind of dark heart wage. And you know feedback we were getting was there was a bit of there's a bit of smoke and mirrors around this and you know, uh, some of the fundamentals marketing, you know are just as relevant there so long, you know, all of those things coming together, you know, just you know made it's made us very excited about it. Absolutely. You mentioned the convergence of cultures with gaming and it's truly remarkable. When you think about what really are the pillars of culture and entertainment you have the music world. You have the film and T world you have passion you have sport you have all these different things and their Myriad of examples for every single one of those and what they've done in gaming over the last year Travis Scott in fortnite marshmallow in fortnite Avengers in fortnite from the film and T World Terminator. I believed. Yeah, it's all Epic Games in fortnite. But then you also have Louis Vuitton in League of Legend who have take your pictures. For sports athletes playing video games. I just saw NFL player trying to figure out who the best war zone player is and War Zone people lining up to play with him and the amount of money it all seems to run through gaming and it feels like that only started happening, maybe three or four or five years ago, you know soundtracks were always a huge part of video game. So that was the thing and there were some brand jeans here and their surrounding the gaming world, but it feels like a light switch went off. Is that your feeling about it to what was a a moment where you started to see? Okay, the floodgates opening and Brands and everybody else is figuring out a gaming strategy. Yeah. It's interesting. You you you mentioned some of those consumer Brands and and you know musicians and and the fortnite work is on Sabine sort of predicted chemical and and as good everybody excited better. I I think it's particularly interesting when you see dead. Brands like Louis Vuitton and lvmh getting involved. You'll seeing financial services and change Banks and and and and and the automobile category when they're moving there at scale. It's clear some things going going on. But this crossover has been happening while you know, you look at you know senior Netflix execs joining riots and things that it's not just these are not this convergence is is is is more than skin-deep. This is a significant shift and I think it was kind of important to realize his it's not just about people commenting coming to gaming I think my boss the aesthetic of gaming the visual look and feel and sounds and and the user interface all that kind of the ux all that kind of stuff comes to is coming to The Forum off. Culture more generally and I think that's what's that's what's kind of interesting. So, is there a Tipping Point? I mean, I think we'll kind of reflect the conditions of twenty twenty years with everything else just drove a kind of digital acceleration and I think it I think you know twenty or Twenty will be a kind of significance just move in terms of the muck need Services Industries appreciation of gaming and maybe somebody joke to me the other day that it was actually quite often people in marketing Services back in at home and seen their young or too seen that teenage a children playing gaming but I think actually I think with that that actually those statements actually frustrating cuz the lies of sorts of prejudice about gaming and that is just teenagers that do it and I think that's also the marketing industry's kind of wake up and realization you dead. You have a streamer is is is is 34 just now, you know, lots of people have got into gaming when their teenage teenagers but but