Square Pegs In GAAS-Holes: Lessons From Square Enix and The Avengers (VL573)

Earth's Mightiest Heroes have fallen on some hard times of late, but that doesn't necessarily mean that Square Enix is ready to throw Crystal Dynamics under the bus over their Avengers project...does it?

It's always the GAAS-Holes that are the problem...in Virtual Legality.

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#Avengers #SquareEnix #CrystalDynamics

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
03:56 Pay to Win
09:45 The Square Peg of Crystal Dynamics
11:11 Apology Mistakes
16:41 Reflection and Square Enix's Annual Report
24:55 Conclusion

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Discussed in this episode:

"Square Enix claims Crystal Dynamics was the wrong fit for ‘disappointing’ Marvel’s Avengers"
VGC - November 3, 2021
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-enix-claims-crystal-dynamics-was-the-wrong-fit-for-disappointing-marvels-avengers/

"Upcoming Cosmetic and XP Rework"
Square Enix Blog - March 3, 2021
https://avengers.square-enix-games.com/en-us/news/cosmetic-xp-rework/

"Crystal Dynamics: The Avengers is the biggest thing we've ever done"
GamesIndustryBiz - June 21, 2019
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-06-21-crystal-dynamics-marvel-are-part-of-our-avengers-dev-team

"Marvel’s Avengers: Everything You Need to Know about Gear & Cosmetics"
Square Enix Blog - August 27, 2020
https://avengers.square-enix-games.com/en-us/news/gearandcosmetics/

"Marvel’s Avengers War Table Weekly Blog Week #58"
Square Enix Blog - October 6, 2021
https://avengers.square-enix-games.com/en-us/news/wtw-week-58/

"We have decided that by the end of today we will remove Hero’s Catalysts..."
Tweet - November 2, 2021 - Marvel's Avengers
https://twitter.com/PlayAvengers/status/1455580861718405124

"One of the devs popped into the discord last night and had this to say about paid boosters"
Reddit Thread - November 5, 2021
https://www.reddit.com/r/PlayAvengers/comments/qnc842/one_of_the_devs_popped_into_the_discord_last/

"List of Crystal Dynamics video games"
Wikipedia Entry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Crystal_Dynamics_video_games

2021 Annual Report
Square Enix
https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ir/library/pdf/ar_2021en.pdf

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