Bombin' the A.M. With Scoops and the Wolf: 04/18/2014

Actually, I believe that Hearthstone can be pretty casual. I usually don't have that much time to play and I kind do one or two quest during the week and complete them in the weekend.

Hearthstone is Free-to-play through and through. It's a leach. A very well designed time sink that offers you "the ability to not waste your time by just buying cards instead".

If you don't spend money on it, which is possible (if you're insane or unemployed), you're going to be spending 100s of hours to accomplish what you can for $10 (not actual math). That is, after its very lenient early game sinks its claws in you.

It's well put together but I think it's utter garbage honestly. It's a trick of a game.

It sounds like "fuh-i-unno" to me, just running a bunch of words together. @patrickklepick could confirm the exact spelling, perhaps?

That CoD talk at the end makes me realize how badly I want a Gilbert Gottfried voiceover pack for the game.

That talk about Steam not releasing data and the games industry not having to release NPD numbers was fascinating.

It's amazing how much metadata is collected and how little it's talked about. Being able to create a narrative is seriously dangerous when the internet is a thing. That's how talking heads can tell people that used games are destroying and that

@patrickklepek I'd listen to that PAX panel. Hell, make a 10 hour documentary series or something easy like that.

I think Alex said 'Ostensibly' and then Patrick said that it was his word and finally said he probably stole it from Ryan.