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21:05Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think the fans automatically point to any other game and go, well, they're doing it. Why can't Konami with your big bucks do it? And they go, well, we'll just cancel the multiplayer mode because it's not worth doing it. Like, I think you get into this cyclical argument with the fans where the fans are not going to be satisfied no matter what you say. I think for Konami, it might just be easier to just go, yeah, we just don't have a crossplay. Because then the people that are mad will get mad. But then, like, you're talking about, I think, an internet audience. I think you are talking about a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of people that are buying Metal Gear Delta to play the single player thing.

21:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Where it's like, all right, cool. If the people that are listening to KFGD and make it story number two are mad, then, like, cool. that's 15 ,000 people on a good day. My favorite is the reality of all this as we talk about this. Here's the reality. Here's the circle of people buying Metal Gear Solid. Here's the people that are going to play that multiplayer. It's like 10%. Here's the people that actually care about it having crossplay or 2%. None of it actually matters. That 2 % is so fucking generous, Mike. The amount of people that are going to play the Fox Hunt mode that buy MGS Delta 2%. 2 % and then the amount of people mad about crossplay it's going to be like 5 ,000 people.

22:16That's the fun part. We talk about these stories and we break it down because we are the diehards. But the reality is, is my friend Steezy Steve who loves Metal Gear Solid is going to play this game and never touch Fox Hunt mode or he'll touch it twice and never think about cross play. There will never be a moment that crosses his mind of like, oh shit I didn't know I was connected with PC players. It just won't matter.

22:40Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Story number three, speaking of Metal Gear, David Hayter has done a 180 on Metal Gear Solid 5. This is land pits at GameSpot. MGS5 will be turning 10 in September, but it still stirs up conversation, especially about the fallout between Konami, Kojima, and longtime Snake voice actor David Hayter. When Hayter was replaced by actor Kiefer Sutherland for MGS5, fans were stunned, and Hayter himself took it hard. Back in 2015, he said playing the game would feel like 60 hours of humiliation. But it seems that time away from things has changed his mind. Speaking to PC Gamer, ahead of the MGS Delta release, Hader said he finally gave the game a shot.

23:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Quote, I didn't want to play the game because I figured it would hurt my feelings, he said. Then, you know, 10 years went by and I was like, to hell with my feelings. What do I care? As a veteran screenwriter, he added, quote, I get fired for a living. I'm not a child. End quote. Once he played it, Hader was surprised by how much he enjoyed it. Quote, I was like, stop being a baby and play the game. So I played it. It's amazing. He admitted, end quote, he admitted it gave him a new perspective on fans who once told him MGS5 was their favorite. Quote, I'd be like, what the hell, dude? Thanks. You want to give me a paper cut as well?

23:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Maybe pour some lemon juice on it? And then I played it and I'm like, I think this is my favorite gameplay of the series. End quote. Good for him. Good for the growth. Yes. As for Sutherland, Hater holds no grudge. Quote, I ran into Kiefer Sutherland at a bar in Dallas, and we had a bunch of drinks. He's a great guy. No ill will. With Konami now welcoming Hader back as the voice of Snake in upcoming projects like Master Collection Volume 1 and Metal Gear Solid Delta, Snake Eater, a remake of MGS3, it appears both the franchise and Hader are looking forward, not back. Time heals all wounds. Good for him for growing and saying, you know what?

24:36I'm going to put this aside and I'm going to play the game. It turns out I enjoyed the game.

24:40Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You know what else? That's great. You know what else heals all wounds? A paycheck. A lot of money. A lot of money, bless. Can you stop talking shit about this game so we can put you on the new one? My favorite is like. It's good for our PR. The fans walking up to him is like, man, I fucking love Metal Gear Solid 5. And him just having to take that, you know? I feel for David Hayter, man. You know what? Hey, man. Time heals wounds. Money heals wounds. They turned a hater into a lover. He's back, baby! We're back! They turned David Hader into a lover. I appreciated it the first time. Thank you. I got it.

25:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I got it. I don't make sure people got it. We got a lot of listeners. Some of you might have gone over their head. We're spitting bars. You got to explain it because that makes it better. That makes it a bar when you explain it. It makes it a bar when you explain it further. It's like good jokes. We're going to switch gears and talk about Capcom. But before we do, I want to talk to you about Patreon.com slash kindoffunny and YouTube.com slash kindoffunnygames where you can go and get the Kind of Funny membership, which allows you to get shows ad-free. Speaking of ads, let us tell you about our sponsors.

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27:48Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And we're back. Before we move on, I want to hop into some super chats. But my thing just refreshes. They're going to give me one second. Here we go. Aaron Lime writes in and says, it should be noted that Metal Gear Online 3 launched a month after the release of MGS5. Also, based on Rematch and Night Reign, it's likely this is a Sony thing. I think I'm missing the connective tissue of the Sony thing. Well, Sony was the big hang-up on cross-play originally. And if you remember, I remember being at IGN when this happened, where Fortnite went, oh no, oh whoopsies, we accidentally turned on the button, We hit the button that said turn crossplay on, and then they turned it off.

28:30And then I think that was the floodgates to kind of force Sony's hand of like, okay, now we have to allow crossplay. I forget where it came up of like there being significant fees for crossplay with PSN. I feel like that was a story at one point a few years ago. but yeah Chad if you're more aware of where that came from specifically but it's famously in the past been Sony's been the hangout.

29:00Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I remember that but that was I think for me I'm like well that was 2018 2017, 2018 and since then it seems like crossplay has gone well overall right and it's been the recent cases and so for me I'm like has there been something that's been PlayStation leaning in these recent cases. Because for me, I've always just assumed that it is like, oh, y 'all just didn't have the bandwidth or didn't have the... Not even bandwidth. I guess different cases for different things, right? For this Fox Hunt thing, I would assume bandwidth of like, we don't really care about this mode that much to add a crossplay thing for the effort it would take.

29:34Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And then for Night Reign and Rematch, it might be more so of like a ah, shit. Like, we're new. This is something that's new for us. We're not figuring stuff out. Yeah, from Soft. Yeah, like, that's a tough one. Ah, shit, this is new to us. This is new to us. Yeah, like, from Soft. is still trying to figure out multiplayer in general and how that works. By the doubling down, it's going to be a great time on the next one. Yeah. Nintendo Switch. But if somebody can find, and you're wrong or something, something that links to the PlayStation fees for cross-play, I would love to learn, because that to me would be fascinating, and that leads to a deeper conversation that we've got to have.

30:04Do you think why the developers aren't going out on Twitter and saying, hey, this is the issue, why we can't do cross-play, is because it is big, bad Sony, and they don't want to have any problems? Like if a Konami came out and was like, yo, it's actually Sony telling us like no cosplay.

30:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But I find it tough that if for Konami and for FromSoft right if it's a fee thing or if it's a fee yeah. Yeah that like they would. Has the crossplay revenue share agreement or some partners had to pay a royalty to Sony to offset the reduction in revenue from enabling crossplay and apparently this was from this is an email from Sony to Epic Games in 2018. In 2018. Okay. Sony's telling people pay me. Yeah, I think I just find it tough to think that like Konami or From Software wouldn't just fucking pay it. You know what I mean? Especially for From Software for Night Rain. Yeah. That doesn't make sense to me.

30:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:For Rematch, I mean, they're turning it on at some point soon. When I did the interview with the dude, he was like yeah, we're gonna turn on Crossplay soon. So like, I don't know. For me, it doesn't line up, but I'd be down to learn more. Story number four. Capcom is having a Capcom Presents panel. this is from Wario64 via Entertainment Weekly Wario tweeted out Capcom will host a Capcom Presents 90 Minute panel at New York Comic Con on October 10th at 3.45pm ET showcasing all of Capcom's recent and upcoming releases that is happening on the main stage too Are you hosting that? No. Capcom I don't think has me in their decks So what do we got?

31:39Resident Evil Pragmata Yep. Onimusha. Onimusha. A fighting game? They got a fighting game or no? No. Okay. Well, I mean, Street Fighter. Yeah. Well, I mean, we'll get something Street Fighter related. Yeah, okay. I guess if you're talking about live. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. It's like, what are the things we'll see? Street Fighter's 100 % getting something here. Yeah. 90 minutes. Street Fighter. Swimsuit edition. Another one? Another one? Another one? Round two, swimsuit edition.

32:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:They already announced the swimsuit edition. I mean, I expect this to be mostly, it's a panel, right? They say this is New York. Yeah, this is a New York Comic Con panel. So it's going to be mostly conversations, right? A little bit more in depth with the devs. More in depth with the devs. But yeah, are you rotating devs or is it just four devs for the 90 minutes? I think you're rotating devs. I think it is, listen, 90 minutes? Goddamn. Yeah. I mean, if you focus in on the three games. Resident Evil. Resident Evil, Pragmata, and Onimusha, 30 minutes for each. Not bad. 30 minutes sit down. You reveal a thing.

32:40Blessing Adeoye Jr.:All right, let's call up the Pregmata devs. 30-minute conversation. All right, now let's reveal this new trailer. All right, call up the last. I think that's how you divide it. I like that. What's up, Barry? I mean, are all of those games next year games, though? Like, do they have anything coming out this year that would feel a bit more... Appropriate? ...relevant and appropriate to do stuff that, like, do you think... I mean, this is October. Monster Hunter stuff, maybe Monster Hunter stuff. Yeah, Monster Hunter stuff is right. Because, like, I mean, they're probably talking about next year stuff.

33:05This is October 10th. We only have two months left in the year when this is going to go down.

33:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. And it's New York Comic Con. I think you have to bring big stuff to New York Comic Con if you're doing a 90-minute panel because you really don't have to do a panel. Like, if it's a Monster Hunter and Street Fighter shit, like, I think that stuff could pop up here and there. But you're not doing a 90-minute panel just to talk about updates to your old. We're here for Resident Evil. Yeah. I mean, Pragmata we're kind of here for, but we're here for that. And, yeah, we're here for Animusha. So someone in chat says Monster Hunter Stories 3 could also be a big one. Oh, is that new? That's another one that's 2026.

33:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That's a good call. Yeah. Yeah, maybe if it's those four games. Yeah. And then however that time divvies up. You don't have to give equal time to everything. No. Even though you kind of want to a little bit. You can't have Monster Hunter stories feeling less than Pregmata, even though we know. Would you go to this? You're at New York Comic Con. You spend a 90 minutes at this panel? They got to market it better. Okay. They got to say, and I think they will by the time we get there. I think once we get closer, they will say. We'll know what it is. Yeah. I think they'll say, you're going to hear about Resident Evil and Pragma...

34:07Blessing Adeoye Jr.:They're going to say at least two of the games. And if they said Resident Evil, I'd go. 90 minutes is long, though. That's a long panel. Usually panels are 60 minutes. 90 minutes sitting down, listening to y 'all talk. I say this as somebody who hosts panels. But it will have announcements. Yeah. They'll probably have trailers. They probably will. Well, do we know if they're going to have announcements? Well, I mean, announcements by, like, Resident Evil stuff, Pragmata stuff, like, those kind of announcements. They'll have trailers. Yeah. I do find it interesting, like, when you go to the Entertainment Weekly, like, all of the different panels have at least a paragraph of things.

34:46And the Capcom Presents is literally just the one sentence. A 90-minute panel showcasing all of Capcom's recent and upcoming releases. Very vague. I said recent. Yeah.

34:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Recent. So maybe another Monster Hunter update? Yeah, Monster Hunter update. Street Fighter. Yeah. Swimsuit 2. Swimsuit 2. Swimsuit Drop. Swimsuit 2. They're making a movie, right? For Street Fighter? Yeah. So we got the cast. They are. Fucking Mike cracked it. Mike cracked it. This is your time. This is what you wanted, right? You're absolutely right. That makes so much sense for New York Comic Con. For cast stuff. So then we're talking about who's on stage. I don't know. Who are you bringing out? Is it Roman Reigns? Fucking not, man. Do you bring Roman Reigns on stage? Do you bring Cody Rhodes?

35:32Blessing Adeoye Jr.:The OTC? The OTC. They're both in the movie? Oh, yeah. Mike. Get the fuck out of here. Have you not? No, I'm not keeping up with Street Fighter the movie. You should. Look up. I need you to Google right now. Street Fighter movie cast. Okay. And let's scroll through. Damn, he should have been on that episode. You totally should have been on that episode. I think he was gone. You were gone. Yeah, that probably would have helped me because I have not been keeping up with that. Yeah, now I might be going. Also, hey, Capcom, if you need a host, I'll listen. Call him up. You had to. Get in there right now.

36:00Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You got me at Street Fighter Movie, if that's going to be there. So this is the newest one. Did they say upcoming game releases specifically? They say recent and upcoming releases. Releases. They didn't specify a game. They didn't. No, exactly. Now, the question is, would it be a Capcom panel that you're doing that at? I think 50 cents there. See, oh. He lives in New York. What do you mean 50 Cent? He's in the movie. He's in the movie. Motherfucker. He's playing ball rock. I was wondering why y 'all had a thumbnail with 50 Cent out there. I was like, man, why am I getting weird with him? 50 cents.

36:32No, shit, Cody Rhodes is that guy? Yeah, Cody Rhodes is guy. What the hell?

36:36Blessing Adeoye Jr.:How did you not see any of this shit? That's so lit. What? He's going to be the green man? Yeah, Jason Momoa is playing Blanca. They got Jason Momoa. They got 50. 50? It's ball wrong. 50? Yeah. Oh, shit. So if you can pick, and the guy Andy Schultz is dancing. Okay, well, that's a little. Oh, shit, but the OTC. he's this guy with the red hair? Now if you're picking one person to show up at a Comic Con panel Oh it's Cody Rhodes and the OTC and 50 Cent I mean you can't get all And Jason Momoa We gotta get the girls gonna play Chun-Li You go 50 Cent Oh I'm bringing that off You gotta bring 50 Cent to New York City Comic Con I'm bringing out everybody That's also a bag The only reason I don't think that He's getting a bag to be in this bad movie He's gonna get a bag Yeah, you're right, actually.

37:26Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's probably in his obligation. This is called an obligation. You're right. This is probably in his obligations. Listen, Capcom, if you don't have a host, if the plan is to get 50 there, if you need to see my resume, I did the secret level panel at this exact event last year. I did Disney D23 showcase. I did a cyberpunk. I did cyberpunk at PAX. Hit me up. Let me do. Hey, Chicago. Class it up with Crocs. You know back to school is coming in fast. So why wait to find your new fave footwear? Step into a local croc store and step into your new look. Try it. Style it. Make it yours. Because the right pair doesn't just show up.

38:10It shows off. First day fits handled. Walk out ready for whatever's next. Visit your nearest croc store today. Call them. Lay them up right now. When is this in October? Okay. So here's the other thing. Is that when the wedding is? No, there's not. Upcoming event schedule, October 11th, is the crown jewel. I don't know who's actually at that in terms of talent, but that's in Perth, Australia. Crown jewel.

38:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I mean, that's going to – yeah, it's going to be Cody in Roman. Because Cody is the champion, so he will be at crown jewel. So this guy, Noah Centineo. Yeah. Has dark hair. Yeah. But he's going to play Ken, who has blonde hair. Here's the thing. They have the technology. We can figure this out. I don't think that's the biggest deal. I don't know about that one. That's where you draw the line. A man can't dye his hair. Dark hair, blonde hair, I don't know right now. Jason Momoa, we can figure out how to make him green. I don't know how to make this Noah. Jason Momoa green? He's playing a green man.

39:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But Noah said Nail can't fucking dye his hair. I don't like it. We're moving the fuck on. Let's move on to story number five. Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation U.S. boss says. This is Chris Skolian at Video Games Chronicle. Barrett doesn't like it. Former PlayStation U.S. boss Sean Layden says the price of video games should have been rising every new generation to cover the increase in development costs. Layden, who was chairman of the company's Worldwide Studios group when he left Sony in 2019, shared his thoughts on video game pricing in a new feature by GamesIndustry.biz.

39:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:On the topic of game prices increasing to$80, Layden noted that the cost of premium games had stayed the same for the past 20 years, despite the combination of increased development costs and inflation. Quote, I think it's because everyone's afraid, he suggested. No one wants to be the first one to raise the price because you're afraid to lose traffic. So what you do is you just end up eating into your own, into your operation income, your profit margin. End quote. Layden said that by charging the same price for games while increasing game budgets at the same time, it's inevitable that companies make less net profit as a result.

40:32Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Quote, there are more sports cars in the parking lot in the PS1 era than there were in the PS4 era. Because if you're... No, we're coming back to that. Bear's laughing. We're coming back to that. How about Highlighted? Fuck you, dude. Highlighted that. Highlighted that. I have to say fuck off, Sean Layden. Highlighted it. That's an insane thing to say. There was a lot of cool cars back then. Oh, my God. We had so many good cars. Everybody was driving Maseratis back then. Because everybody was getting a piece of the pie, baby. I'm going to read that quote again. Quote, there were more sports cars in the parking lot in the PS1 era than there were in the PS4 era.

41:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Because if you're selling 20 million units at$60 for something that only costs you$10 million to make, that's different than selling 20 million units at$60 for something that costs$160 to make. You know what? That's math. That is math. Yeah, he'd be mathed. He'd be mathed, Barrett. We're at the end of this article. I was agreeing with him until that one part. Okay, well, maybe you overstepped the line saying Maserati. Yeah, he was like, we have so many more sports cars. He was like, all right, Sean Layton, you lost me here with the sports cars. According to the article, Layton then said that games should have increased in price with every new generation, but that instead the industry's mantra has been, quote, as long as we grow, even though we're not making money, somehow we can't die, end quote.

41:45Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Layton said this way of thinking has now reached a crisis point because companies have now reached the stage where they have to sell many millions of copies to make back development costs. He also noted that, quote, they've already been kind of moving the medium price point up anyway, even if the base price hasn't been rising thanks to the use of microtransactions and deluxe editions of games, the latter of which adds extra in-game content that has almost a zero cost to make, which I want to get back to that as well. I like that. I highlighted that one. We've got to get back to that as well. Yep.

42:16Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Quote, they said, okay, if we maintain the price, then we nickel and dime you with the DLC, microtransactions, battle pass, season pass, whatever you want to call it, and try to make up the excess there, he explained. A lot to sort of jump into this. A lot to digest and talk about, so let's take it from the top. Let's roll it back here for a second. Sean Layden going on the mic saying, yo, prices should have been increased in every generation. Yeah. We're just now getting to that point. Maybe we fucked up. I mean, fucked up, I don't know about fucked up, but I think, I don't think he's wrong. I think he's factually right that development costs have increased generation over generation because games are getting bigger in scope, games are getting more detailed, games are getting more complex.

43:02Blessing Adeoye Jr.:There are way higher production. Guess what? Which causes them to have longer development cycles. Yes, which means you've got to pay people longer to make games over the course of six years as opposed to busting out a fucking N64 game, right? So now I need more money. Yes. And we've been basing it off of a$60 model that we were doing back in 2002 to 2010. And now we're here in 2025, and it's like, ah, shit. Maybe it wasn't making me enough money at the end of the day. Now we have to raise prices to make up for the development costs, being one part of it. Because the other part of it is... We're just breaking it down.

43:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We're breaking it down. Yeah, that's one part of it. Because the other part is also, we've got to make up for these race cars. That we had. Sports card. So, like, in his mind when he's saying that, you know, I think we all jumped to, like, clearly the CEO was taking the big old pot of that right there, right? He's being like, hey, more people were getting a bigger chunk of this, right? There was a larger chunk to take from and everybody was buying nice cars. Now that chunk is smaller because we're not making as much. Yes. Yeah. Maybe you could have phrased it better. Oh, he could have phrased it way better.

44:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:but also it's it's i mean i think i don't know man this whole thing is a is a can of worms right because i i'm of the mind that it's a multi-faceted issue as many things are in life right but like i think he's right about the development costs i also think that hey guess what ceos be taking a lot of money a lot of money ceos be taking a lot of money a lot of money and also shareholders like um uh there's been a dip as far as like the amount of money that are coming that's coming into the industry. Money's still coming into the industry, just not as much compared to the 2010s and the early pandemic because things have shifted in the market.

44:46Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Shareholders are not as confident investing in video games, at least at the level that they were before. And so you're seeing that tighten up a little bit more. It's a number of factors that's leading into the place right now. Ballooning teams because there's this obsession because it's also a tech industry of making everything bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. Which is also conflating into development time cycles and ballooning that cost as well. Where I think in retrospect with how everything went in terms of that, yeah, sure. But I think also if you're trying to have that mindset of keeping things at 60, maybe things shouldn't have ballooned in the way that they did.

45:33Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's a very interesting conversation because you're hearing directly from a guy who was at the tippity top, right? Like, this is a person who was there making those calls. And I found something interesting of, like, that quote of as long as we grow, even though we're not making the money, somehow we can't die, right? And we've always heard Xbox say that there's, like, six billion players out there. We just got to reach them because over here we've kind of reached them now, but we got to reach even more. And I think we're seeing in 2020, it's like that reach is out there.

46:03Every person on Earth kind of knows about video games by this point. It's not a hidden gem that someone has just unearthed. So, like, the reach is now all the way around, and maybe we can't do this any longer of, like, oh, we can continue to grow. It's like, well, the growth has happened, right? Like, everybody knows. So it's like there's not much growth to be had anymore.

46:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And because of that, the business is changing. To the Xbox example, right? That's why they are looking at the billions of people, you know, the billions of people out there that know about video games that are quote-unquote gamers, and they're like, how do we reach mobile phones? How do we reach them in a way where we've hit max capacity of the people who are going to buy consoles, but everybody has a phone. How do we get in front of them? How do we do all this stuff so that we can continue to see that growth continue? There's a lot to break down. Well, then let's break down the next part. We've kept that, but the median price point has moved up anyway, right?

46:59And so now we start talking about deluxe editions, add-ons, DLC bonuses, right? Games being$70 now. Games now being$70. I go to my favorite, NBA 2K, right? NBA 2K, the Leave No Doubt edition, is$150. And that is a lot of virtual things that we're making up to give you so you will give us more money. Yes. At no cost, really, to them. It's just fake currency to buy more in-game cosmetics and toys inside the world that aren't even real. They're just getting away with that. There's a lot of those now moving on. And I think those were the techniques that they had to do of like, hey, if the$60 price tag isn't going to make us X amount of money that we thought or what we need, how do we make this happen?

47:47And we see it with so many of these microtransactions, pre-order bonuses, deluxe editions that are also virtual as well. right we've moved statues are pretty rare nowadays yeah we're not getting statues that often now we're not even getting discs and boxes half the time now

48:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I mean that's where he comes back around to mention yeah which adds extra in-game content that has almost zero cost to make guess what that statue costs to make that statue has a cost to it if we can sell you a skin if we can sell you a stripe pattern or a polka dot pattern like compared to what we were doing in the past That's like, oh, man, yeah, we're selling you a digital item that now you're paying on a subscription basis for. It's a really interesting conversation because it is coming from a guy at the very top. And for me, coming from the ski resort industry, right, when I started in 2008, the price of a daily lift ticket was$89.

48:44And back then, that was even like, wow, that's a lot of money, almost$100. Today, if you were to show up at a Vail Resorts-owned ski resort in probably the middle of winter, it's like$270 for a daily ticket. So we watched that from 2008 to now, where it went from$89. Oh, wow, it crossed$100. Wow, they're charging$150 for a day ticket. Now it's$200 to ski for one day? And that's just the price of admission to get there on top of travel, rental skis, ski instructions, lunches, right? And so all of these different parts of the world, no matter what industry you're in, you're seeing this price go up, right?

49:23And so, yeah, here it is with this. And who benefits off of that is not necessarily primarily the workers. Yes. Like, don't get to see, like, wages go up because of that. It's usually, you know, managers in C-suites who, you know, love to buy really expensive cars, right? And so I think I could understand the argument of, yes, these things need to be more costly over time to actually sufficiently pay our people and pay them living wages and pay them to be in a certain city to work for us. Right. But I feel like time and time again, we hear that. I think we don't see that. And it's more so putting more money into the pockets of C-suite executives who want to give themselves bonuses after they just laid off like half of their workforce.

50:16Right. And so that's where the frustration really comes. Yeah.

50:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think you're putting too much sauce on it, even as far as like the implication that they're paying for. Or like, hey, we want our workers to be able to thrive and live in these expensive places that we're forced to be at so we can have them work in an office. Those are words that will never come out of their mouth because they don't give a shit about that. I'm saying that's what it should be. And I would be more on board with this idea of game prices getting more expensive if that was the reality, which we don't live in. All I'm saying is socialize the work. I do think there's a third – like there's the third factor of just rising development costs.

50:51Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And I do think that is a realistic thing of like, okay, well, shit just costs more to make. Not that we're paying our employees more, but we're keeping the bond longer. We are also paying our employees more, right? Oh, sure. That has gone up. I started at$8.75 in 2008. They're now paying those employees$20. The cost of living and minimum wage has gone up. But the C-suite is still getting way too much money. Compared to what you were making 15 years ago and now, the percentage between what they were making 15 years ago and now is very different. Of course. But these budgets also have to reflect that and change, right?

51:23That's the price of the daily lift ticket or the price of a game has to be adjusted with that budget of, well, now I'm paying blessing$100 plus thousand times$100. I got to make sure we're doing that. The C-suite, we're always going to talk about is making way too much. We know that, right? Yes. But we also are paying the employees a lot more than before.

51:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think to work the way back to the$80 price point, right? The point I wanted to get to, and I think we've kind of swerved back around to get here, is I think for me, when we see the$80 price point on video games and we recoil, I think the feeling that we have should be directed in the right place. Because for me, there's a whole conversation we had that we kind of just had about where that$80 comes from, where these rising prices for video games come from. But I think you also hit the nail on the head as far as what you're talking about for that ticket price and how that's raised over the years, over the decades, and how much things have ballooned.

52:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think the$80 and our feeling around that is more so about how much money we're being paid. Of course. Wasted bandwidth puts it very well. Like our prices are going up or like our wages and stuff are going up with inflation, not so much because we're actually getting more of a cut in percentage of, you know, the whole pie. Yes. And that's the point that I want to make. Right. Is that like. Well, that's why we're having this feeling of like it is tougher for our generations, kids below us, kids above everyone in the world suffer to do anything nowadays. Oh, yeah. It's hard enough to go to McDonald's and buy a four dollar hamburger that used to be a dollar.

53:02Right. Like, everything is more expensive now. So, like, yeah, the$80 price tag, we gawk at, right? But as he says, someone has to be the first one to make the first step. Yes. Nintendo, this generation, has the first one to be making that step, right? Yes. And there was somebody before that in the Xbox One generation who was like, hey, it's not$60 anymore. It's$70, right? And so, like, we've had those people make those steps. Will it get any further, Bless? Yes. We've talked about GTA to death, about they could charge anything they wanted and we'd all buy it still, right? But will there be another person to take a further step to$100,$110 as these generations go on?

53:42Or does it just stop?

53:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I don't think it ever just stops, but I think it just takes a longer time. Video games will eventually get to$100, they'll eventually get to$110. Shit is just going to keep rising in price over time, right? And then we'll see where the future takes us as far as where the economy goes. but I do think that even though I can't predict whether or not video games are going to go to a 90 or a 100 in the next two years guess what, micro transactions and battle passes and all this shit exists GTA Online is going to exist and I think a lot of those prices are going to be what informs how they look at their margins and how they go, okay we can charge$80 for this because we're making so much money off of online because we're charging you an arm and a leg for some of this shit but we'll see when we get there I believe in the idea that like oh yeah, video games costing more over the generations makes sense.

54:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I do think it makes sense. But also I think it's tough because we also should be making more dollars and cents. I think that's really what it is. I think it's a two-pronged thing. You hear it and you're like, yeah, I totally understand that. Prices could have gone up every generation to cost all of that. But at the same time, the people buying those games aren't getting paid anymore. They're struggling to make it. So that's a tough dance here. Also, fuck your sports cards. That was a wild one That's a wild one We're always gonna remember There were sports cars In our parking lot 20 years ago God we Shut up Mike We talked a lot of Big news today We had a lot of Big conversation But if I wanted Something smaller Say the tiniest news I need to know about Where did I go Listen I take you To our last news story The We News channel Where we cover all The small news items You need to know about Big Dump Story number Six and seven Is We News Originally I said We have seven stories today Story number six Is now being demoted Into a We News mainly because it's not the biggest thing, right?

55:27Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's more so of a comment from a Gamescom executive talking about what their relationship with E3 has been now that E3 is gone, saying that it is now their responsibility to step up. The article is from Chris Skolian at Video Games Chronicle. If you want to go check it out and read it for yourself, I recommend it. It's a good read. It's based off of an interview from the game business. If you really want the full thing, full thing, actually go to the game business so you can read the full article. Just about in here. I want to see them prove me wrong. I'm the biggest shit talker of Gamescom. Baird is the only person in this office who always checks me every year.

56:03But opening night live. And says, my fucking chill. Yeah. That's different from Gamescom. No. It is. No, no, no. It's the same thing, Glenn. It's the same thing. Yeah, it's the same thing.

56:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Because this has nothing to do with opening night live. This is just Gamescom the trade show. Yeah. Because opening night live, I'm with you. Biomutant, remember that? Yeah, but that was opening night live. Yeah, exactly. But that's opening night live at Gamescom. but like games games com itself is the biggest trade show in video games yeah i never went on the show floor it was great we're gonna send you next year i'm gonna send you somebody somebody send me i would like to go to games com we're gonna let him go just because i want to go to you you two and roger should go i don't want to go on the show floor the the best thing was ign had the war room and that's all we ever had to go into to like record interviews gotta go on and And then we'd go into town and get drunk for like eight hours.

56:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And that's what I want. Let me tell you, the trip is worth it for that. That's what I want. I want to go to Gamescom just so I can go to Cologne. We'll drink Kulsh's for hours. And you won't feel it until you stand up and you're like, oh, I'm drunk. Listen, Capcom, are you at Gamescom? Capcom, are you at Gamescom? You still got time to send me, all right? Send me and 50 Cent to Gamescom in Germany. We'll hang out. I'll talk to him about Street Fighter. 50 would tear the roof off that place if you went with him. Oh, he definitely would. They would go crazy. They would go super crazy for 50 Cent.

57:21Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh, man. The GOAT. More Wii news for you. From VGC, Patapon's delayed spiritual successor, Ratatown, gets a new early access release date. The studio has announced that the early access version will arrive on Steam on Friday, September 19th. More from VGC. A brand new Amiga game is coming out this year, and it's a sequel that some players have been waiting 30 years for. The Settlers 2 Gold Edition will be released on Amiga on October 18th. finally bringing the city builder strategy game to the computer where the series began. From IGN, you can now pre-order a new batch of Super Mario action figures from S.H.

57:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Figuarts at Amazon, and they're out next year. Then lastly, Rue Valley, a narrative RPG heavily inspired by Disco Elysium, has been confirmed for Switch in addition to PS5, Xbox, and PC. And that is it for Wii News. Before we get out of here, let me hop into Super Chats real quick, see what y 'all been saying. Chris Burns writes in and says, big fan, normally don't get to watch live, glad I'm here today. Excited for Fallout Season 2, love everything you guys do, keep up the good work. Thank you so much Chris Burns. Aaron Lime says, it should be noted that, oh actually no, I read this one already.

58:33Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Nandor writes in and says, wouldn't it be good to have Crossplay and Metal Gear Solid to set a precedent and have more multiplayer games have it? I mean, I think the precedent was set when Fortnite added it. Hey Chicago, class it up with Crocs. You know back to school is coming in fast. So why wait to find your new fave footwear? Step into a local Crocs store and step into your new look. Try it, style it, make it yours. Because the right pair doesn't just show up, it shows off. First day fits, handled. Walk out ready for whatever's next. Visit your nearest Crocs store today. More multiplayer have it than they don't have it.

59:17It is the outliers that don't have it that we kind of go, whoa, that's an odd one. And I don't know if, like, even if it did have it, I don't know if that is like, oh, man, Metal Gear Solid, Delta has cross-play. Now the precedent is set, you know? Like, now everybody's got to do it from here on out. Like, I don't think anybody's looking at that game to be that, you know?

59:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, exactly. Then YangFam writes in and says, what if games were increased by five slowly instead of ten? Would that lessen the disapproval slash hate from gamers? No. No, because wages are not going up. Well, it would have been interesting if we started at N64 and you truly every generation started to go up, if you would feel differently now, right? Because we didn't do that every single time. I guess if there was a standard set. If it was already just like routine and rolling for you, would we be doing that 7 generations level? But where are we basing that off of? Because N64 games ranged hugely.

1:00:15So if we based it off of Shadows of the Empire we would be starting at$85 back in the N64 days. I just mean if every time it came out if the base price let's say was$50 at N64 back in the 90s next year when they came out with GameCube they were like hey it's$55 or$60. And we did that 7 times. Would you still be having that conversation? um oh this is just the normal it would be the normal but I think

1:00:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:these are getting really expensive we can't afford yeah I think it was still laying in the same place of like oh damn this shit's still expensive but I don't think it would be the shock of jumping from 60 last generation to now in 2025 we're talking about$80 video games so you're right about that yeah um that is it for Super Chats uh before we hop into your wrong I wanted to shout this out at the beginning of the show but I forgot uh I want to give a shout out to patch magazine yeah they're a magazine that i learned about from the wholesome games direct um and they hit me up recently to do an interview uh in their mag i don't think that issue is out yet um but they sent me a bunch of magazines and i was reading through them basically patch magazine the magazines specifically about indie games oh um and i was reading through one uh because yeah they sent me a a batch uh this morning once i got in and like they're fucking great.

1:01:33Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Like, this one is the latest one. This is issue 45. This is about the Wholesome Games Direct. That happened about a month or so ago. And, like, they have Hello Riders. They have, like, a really cute art style. Here they have a checklist of what happened during the Direct. And, like, you can mark each of these games as I watched the trailer, I wishlisted it, I played the demo, or I played the full game. And, like, I don't know. I just like this fucking cute-ass design. I feel like I would have been really, It would have been cool if these were one of the magazines we had accessible to us at the school library.

1:02:07Yeah. We would have been obsessed with this type of thing. It's like the Highlights magazine. Yeah, exactly. They would have gone great in there. Hell yeah.

1:02:14Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, and so shout out Patch Magazine. It's not a sponsor or anything. I just got this at my desk today. Started reading through them, and I was like, oh, these are really cool. Let me write an article for you. Dude, I've been asking people. I'm like, let me write an article. Yeah, get it in there. I like writing. I mean, I did do the interview, which involved a lot of writing for me. Oh, you guys write a bunch. Nice. Yes, so you'll see that in a future issue. But shout out, Patch Magazine. Appreciate that. Let's hop into kindoffunny.com slash you're wrong. Rewrite in. Let us know what we got wrong.

1:02:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:As we got it wrong, so we can correct it for those watching later on YouTube and listening later on podcast services around the globe. Kebab says, the Assassin's Creed Shadows Collector's Edition came with a 16-inch statue of Yasuke and Naoi. Also, don't forget Spider-Man 2's 19-inch Venom statue. I don't think that's that you're wrong. No, they just want to let you know that they're still doing statutes. Kebabs, you're a wrong veteran. You know what you're wrongs for. Tell us when we're factually wrong about this. Kebabs was mad after you attacked them last time. Oh, maybe. Yeah, remember when you shut down, you're wrong.

1:03:17That was crazy.

1:03:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And I'd do it again.

1:03:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think that's it, because I think these ones are from... Oh, wait, no, I asked people about the Sony thing, right? So Charles Jacobson writes in and says, Epic shared document regarding cross-play fees. I think this is what we referenced earlier in the show. The TLDR, Sony demanded a royalty payment whenever a significant number of PlayStation users contributed to a title's earnings. This is in order to offset the reduction in revenue caused by cross-platform functionality, which is hilarious. That's fucking crazy. And that is it. I think this other one is kind of the same thing. Mike, that brings us.

1:03:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:to the end of this episode of KFGD. Barrett, great job getting us back on and live. To the audience out there, thanks for your patience. Today, we're back with a full day of live content. I want you to know, bless, that I created all of Kind of Funny inside of Madden, and the Wild Aces will return to the gridiron today with Coach Mike at the helm. I put you at strong safety, because you're going to bring the boom! I'm going to bring the boom. What about me, Mike? You? Defensive end. Okay. Hear that about Barrett? Kebabs. You have a defensive end. Kebabs in chat says, you don't have to read them, Bless.

1:04:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Listen, Kebabs. You don't have to write them. First of all, you don't have to write them. But then also, this is on you, because I read Kebabs. You don't have to write them. It's crazy. I read Kebabs' name, and immediately I'm lulled into a sense of, like, trust. Because I know Kebabs so well. That is true. Abusing your trust. Yeah, because I know Kebabs well enough to be like, alright, kebabs should know what they're doing I'm gonna read this blind. Yeah, but how many times have you been burned by that? But usually it's like, if it's a name I've never seen before then I will read ahead a little bit.

1:05:09Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. That's where you see me stumble a little bit because I'm like let me make sure they're not saying bad words in here or just trying to be a troll because I've learned over the years that people will just troll. But I read kebabs and I'm like, kebabs is one of the good ones. But turns out, I've been wrong. One of the good ones. I've been wrong. Kebabs. That's a joke. Alright, we love you here. But be better. Mike, thank you so much for hosting this episode with me. Yeah, bless. I always love teaming up with you. You know that. Of course, each and every weekday, we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch, and on podcast services around the globe.

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