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Episode 40: Activision Blizzard

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Overwatch Blizzard's Hybrid Business Model

Overwatch for our listeners out there is very intentionally designed to be like a love child of amoeba but from a first person shooter perspective yep. Blizzard decides to actually go back to their roots and charge money for the game so if you want to play Overwatch you got to pay either forty dollars or sixty dollars depending on the version you want to buy the game. They also have sort of Diablo inspired they have loot boxes that you can buy that contain items that you can essentially sort of also magic the gathering as sort of like you know booster packsYou can buy for your for your characters and so they make money on that too  and yeah totally it's super interesting I would love

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