Podcast #312 - Questions Wanted!
Added 2025-02-24 10:30:02 +0000 UTCHello Friends!
We're all set to record another podcast but would love some more questions from you lovely lot. This is for the TripleJump Podcast! Remember, as our esteemed financial supporters, we'll be exclusively coming to you for weekly discussion topics, so please read the following guidelines before submitting:
- No controversial or naughty questions please
- This is a video game podcast about video games so please keep the questions video-game-related
- Going forwards, we'd love it if you can base your questions on any video game news that drops in the week. It doesn't just have to be big serious stories though, so ask us about anything you find on the web. While we will still answer non-news questions from time to time, we're hoping that with a different focus we can avoid repetition.
- If there's a particular event or happening in the industry that you'd like us to discuss in detail, feel free! We like to address one 'big question' per week to headline each show, and pepper in smaller questions throughout
- Try to avoid topics we've covered before
- "Questions on a postcard" (don't make your question too long!)
- We typically record on Thursday morning, so try to get your questions in by Wednesday afternoon!
Thanks all! We look forward to reading through your offerings, and we can't overstate how much we appreciate your support on Patreon and elsewhere!
love ya <3
- BAP
Comments
Mellow greetings, BAP A legend of the industry, Monolith studios, has been shut down before even releasing the game they've been working on for 8 years. Growing up, Monolith was my favorite studio of all, giving me such gems as TRON 2.0 and the F.E.A.R. franchise. I know you have covered closures and layoffs to death, but I am curious about something: in other creative industries such as films and TV, studios and directors are able to make a movie that doesn't quite meet the mark, or is even a massive flop, and they will still get second and third chances. To me, it seems that these companies do not have the same respect for gaming franchises and studios that have put out good work as they would for, say, a legendary director or film studio. It seems to be treated as more dispensable. What do you think makes the gaming industry so much different that this is not afforded to the studios? Yours in puzzlement, Ferris Wheeler
Ferris Wheeler
2025-02-27 13:00:58 +0000 UTCHeyo bappers, so Dragon Age the veilguard is a ps+ monthly game for march 2025, only a few months after release. It’s a huge get for PS+. Exciting though this is (well for me at least - I hadn’t bought a copy at full price), does it indicate an even greater lack of confidence on EA’s part for this franchise? And do you think people who paid full price so recently have the right to be a little crossums? Thank you, david
David Lever
2025-02-26 17:47:33 +0000 UTCHi BAP! The PS+ monthly games for March have just been revealed, and the headline is Dragon Age: The Veilguard. There's been a consistent complaint that PS+ Essential isn't getting the big games anymore, but a AAA single-player RPG dropping for "free" [let's not start that argument] just 4 months after launch would be a massive win for the service if not for the indication of just how little faith EA have in this game. I'm aware you talked about this only a few weeks ago, but does this news make the future for BioWare even bleaker? If EA see BioWare as the developer that lost them so much money that they chose to effectively abandon selling their game to the largest console audience, they can't have much faith in Mass Effect or anything else they might want to do, rightly or wrongly. Do you think that, whenever the next Mass Effect does come out, people will choose not to buy it because of the precedent this has set - one for Ben and Ashton in particular, as people who bought and liked Veilguard. (Peter's opinion still valid of course but just curious whether the money spent makes it more annoying)
Chris McVeigh
2025-02-26 17:32:23 +0000 UTCHi BAP, Rumours from some outlets suggest the PS6 is slated for a December 2027 launch. Is this the right time for the next console? Or do we need more time to truly see the potential of the PS5 before looking ahead that far? After all, Red Dead Redemption 2 is arguably still the most graphically impressive console game of all time, and that’s a last-gen game… May the airhorns ring loud and true forevermore, Big Money Bobby Vegas 📢 📢 📢
Big Money Bobby Vegas
2025-02-26 15:31:36 +0000 UTChttps://www.polygon.com/news/529310/warner-bros-games-monolith-productions-multiversus-studio-closure
Blake Thomas
2025-02-25 22:57:54 +0000 UTCHey BAP. Another week, another company laying off many employees. This time around it’s WB Games (article in comments) Large publishers keep shrinking and indie titles are making bigger splashes. Do you think the model of the “Triple A” studio is going to drastically change in the near future? PS: RIP Nemesis System (TM) We hardly knew ye
Blake Thomas
2025-02-25 22:57:12 +0000 UTCHi BAP, (or BA, PB, AP should cover all combinations if someone has plops, unless you invite James to fill in lol), With the news that Activision have now been caught out using Generative AI to create in game assets in Call of Duty, how widespread do you think this could be, how long until it becomes more widespread and is it inevitable it will be used more to reduce costs? Is there anything we can do to show displeasure and influence this not to be used more? Keep up the good work.
Last Choice
2025-02-25 20:51:26 +0000 UTCSo what do you beautiful bois and gurl think about whatever the heck was revealed during the pokemon presents this week?
Jens Herrmann
2025-02-25 18:33:30 +0000 UTCBonjour BAP and Associates (i.e. Jenkins et al)! I'm currently playing 'Detroit:Become Human' and I'm thinking of all the times AI and technology is portrayed as evil in games, particularly when it is mis-used or in the hands of (sic) "wrong 'uns". Do you think that games generated by AI would contain similar storylines or can we expect a raft of games showing technology as the good guys/girls/folks in the upcoming and terrifying future? Take care, stay safe - Michael
Michael McCarrick
2025-02-25 12:18:39 +0000 UTCHi BAP! God I hate this guy! Articles circulated last month seemingly confirming Elon Musk cheats to level by "account boosting" (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/22/elon-musk-admits-cheating-at-video-games-chat-transcript-appears-to-showl). Normally this kind of practice wouldn't bug me but I can't get past bad people knowingly doing bad things and no one calling them on it. What would be a step to far for fairness in video games for you all and how would you respond? Love, John Ireland - The Jolly Green Giant
John Ireland
2025-02-24 23:44:15 +0000 UTCHey Bap! After "Failing to Meet Expectations" at Launch, FF7 Rebirth recently shot up to No.3 in U.S charts after launching on PC. Do you think this marks the end of Square Enix's timed console exclusivity, and could we see Part 3 launch day and date on PC and Consoles? Much love from New Zealand 🙂
Jeremy Miller
2025-02-24 10:39:32 +0000 UTC
