The Crowned Heathens Podcast

**Episode Contains Spoilers for Dragon Age: Origins** Microtransaction and service games have changed the gaming industry – and not necessarily for the better. In this week's episode, we discuss the impact these have had on the gaming community, specifically in reference to the latest news from BioWare that Dragon Age 4 will be a single-player RPG.

Show Notes

**Episode Contains Spoilers for Dragon Age: Origins**

Microtransaction and service games have changed the gaming industry – and not necessarily for the better. In this week's episode, we discuss the impact these have had on the gaming community, specifically in reference to the latest news from BioWare that Dragon Age 4 will be a single-player RPG.

Here, Marissa deep dives into EA's original plan to turn Dragon Age 4 into a multiplayer service game and how that would have impacted the dragon age community. This leads to a discussion on when microtransactions and service games can be beneficial and the various ways to make this model work without destroying the entire franchise.

Matt, Marissa, and Sacco bring up good and bad examples of how microtransactions have been implemented in well-known (and often successful) gaming franchises. This takes a look at sports games and battle passes – and Matt's addiction to Fortnite.

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In this podcast episode, we discuss: 
  • Shadow of War
  • Dragon Age: Inquisition
  • Dragon Age: Origins
  • Star Wars: Battlefront
  • Call of Duty: Zombies
  • NHL 20
  • Fortnite
  • Call of Duty (Multiple)
  • Stars Wars: The Fallen Order
  • The Last of Us
  • We Happy Few
  • Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
  • And a few others.

What is The Crowned Heathens Podcast?

No stupid questions here. Join Marissa, Matthew, and Sacco each week for video game discussions. From our favourite all-time video games to games we couldn't finish, we'll be discussing a variety of video games, including Playstation, Xbox, mobile, and PC games. Weekly discussions also include games we're currently playing from all genres – with several tangents for your enjoyment. After all, when there are no stupid questions, every topic is on the table.

Genres you can expect we'll talk about include, but are certainly not limited to: role-playing games (RPGs & JRPGs), run-and-guns, first-person and third-person shooters, platformers, top-down games, open-world games, puzzles, strategy games, survival games, fighting games, racing games, stealth games, rhythm games, text adventures, and choice-based games.

*Spoilers are noted at the top of each episode.