Sorry I’m so late posting this but I spent all week editing a new YouTube video. Anyway, in this episode (the title of which I’m immature enough to be super proud of!) we discuss the evils of DLC in all its most insidious forms from microtransactions to loot boxes.
42:15 – IGN buys Humble Bundle. Conflict of interest?
54:15 – The EVILS of DLC!!!
1:39:05 – The ESRB says loot boxes aren’t gambling
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Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by E. Zachary Knight and Andrew Eisen. The show is edited by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.
Chat Transcript:
12:58 PMUnfortunately it will be 5am over here when it starts so cannot join you guys once again.
1:05 PMSorry to hear that. Hope you enjoy the replay!
1:14 PMI would make a 70 joke but what’s funny about 70, I feel like there’s a number surrounding 70 that’s funny but for the life of me can’t remember, well I’ve been gone for a week what’d I miss
1:21 PMWe talked about what games might be one a hypothetical N64 Classic Edition. Nothing you’d find interesting.
1:31 PMAlways! Thanks
6:45 PMHello Everyone.
7:04 PMHello
7:07 PMtwitter/BlackRiddles/status/918816246782709762 never heard of the game, but the revealed crossplay pc, xb1, and switch. good on them for that. hope more do it
7:08 PMit gets flag if I leave it as a long
7:08 PMsup
7:09 PMthe news, atleast to me isd it includes switch
7:09 PMit was fortnight
7:11 PMAre pants the enemy?
7:11 PMread your twitter feed, yes play nier automata its my current goty.
7:13 PMit has, but it takes time/money to do it
7:18 PMoh no are we talking cult, sorry im late having a rough day
7:20 PMChucky on the Mooooooooooooon!!
7:21 PMi wanna see a prequal about how charles lee ray got into voodoo, and a non canon spin off about the original screenplay “batteries not included”
7:21 PMthe nightmare on elm street stuff has always been weird to me, why not leave the town. seems like he is trapped their
7:23 PMYea Cult of Chucky was good
7:24 PMAutomaton
7:24 PM3 times. though 3 3rd time of playing it, its 100% different game
7:24 PMthe enamies for the most part are 1950s scifi
7:24 PMenemies
7:27 PMits the first area of the game
7:27 PMthe demo is
7:29 PMup 2b is a android
7:29 PMyup
7:29 PMhumans are irritating, i forgot about the stream, just needed to get out but ive seen all the movies ive wanted to see so i watched my little pony the movie, and they say the godfather is legendary
7:30 PMSwitch update please. BTW there are more demos in e-shop.
7:31 PMyes its square
7:31 PMits a yoko taro game, its very hard to market
7:32 PMTell us about what your doing in Stardew Valley right now.
7:43 PMits fine if its not for you
7:48 PMI do not have high hopes for this sadly. buy outs almost never end well
7:52 PMps this isnt ign’s first go at this. direct2drive was ign owned, and it failed, so
7:53 PMfox used to own ign
7:53 PMnewscorp to be exact
7:56 PMI hope, they wont, stick with the name
7:57 PMtbey qweeted a pic of bravely defalt w. octo p t
7:57 PMI ment I hope they do, I am saying they wont
7:58 PMplaying splatoon and on phone
8:00 PMmost aceptable fore me is cosmetics, than cosmetic loot boxs for mp only
8:00 PMacceptable
8:00 PMfor
8:01 PMleast acceptable p2w dlc in mp
8:03 PM[message retracted]
8:04 PMnot if you listen to the esrb lol
8:04 PMThe Witcher III is an example of good dlc,that was like getting a whole new game.
8:04 PMYeah, we’ll talk about that in a bit.
8:05 PMmartio kart 8 wiiu was pretty good
8:08 PMEvery game now has three different versions you can buy now,$60,$100 and $120 steel book editions.
8:10 PMmmmmm. The good old days of horse armor. XD
8:10 PMBuying potions sounds like buying cheatcodes.
8:16 PMThe Champions Ballad
8:17 PMtotally bought it.
8:20 PMSo does Shadow of War,the GameStop guy was really trying hard to get me to buy it.
8:23 PMBaseball cards. The original loot box.
8:25 PMI am ok wit cosmetic loot boxs
8:25 PMAnd if you didn’t like the cards you can sell them, since they’re actual things that you own.
8:25 PMwith
8:26 PMoverwatch style
8:26 PMyup ow is 100% looks
8:27 PMbetter than selling maps/heroes and breaking apart your playerbase
8:27 PMfor overwatch
8:35 PMdid you see the skullgirls dlc kickstarter from a few years back. adding 1 fighter costs way more than you think
8:37 PMit isnt just making 1 figher, its rebalance all other fights around it
8:38 PMyour forgeting less than 20% buy dlc. if 100% bought dlc you would be right andrew
8:41 PMI want ur voice to rock me to sleep
8:42 PMthats thing, fr the most part it isnt price. the vas majority doesnt care about buying dlc at all regardless of price
8:47 PMall games with them should just be taged as having lootboxs
8:48 PM“games contains random lootboxs”
8:48 PMfor a good tag idea
8:52 PMfeel good news story of the week, cuphead has sold over 1 million coppies
8:53 PMyup its gun star heroes. its also on steam
8:53 PMand runs on a toaster
8:53 PMits 3 hits and your dead
8:55 PMthe soundtrack of cuphead it amazing by the way
8:55 PMfor real go listen to it
8:55 PMI’ve only beat Contra III
8:57 PMSo I’ve looked into Skullgirls DLC and the new characters come at 2 bucks apiece. The kickstarter was about them coming out at all and not the eventual price that customers have pay.
8:57 PMkonami code? i dont need no konami code. . . . i got game genie!
8:58 PMAnd according to wikipedia the characters were free for three months when they came out.
8:58 PMInteresting. I’ll have to read up on that later.
8:59 PMLove the art in that game!
9:00 PMsame here.
9:01 PMI wanna try Nioh
9:04 PMWhat’s the first Switch game your going to buy?
9:08 PMgg
