With James back from work we've got lots to talk about! James and Packy talk more about Against the Storm and how they're doing a survey in game to gather community feedback about what new race to introduce to the game. This sparks a longer conversation about how in-game feedback mechanisms are (at least in our opinion) for getting an accurate representation of the entire player-base, and not just die-hard fans who go out of their way to take long surveys on other platforms.

Beyond that, we mention how ChatGPT has been blowing up in the news (set records for fastest growing user-base) and how it doesn't seem to unlikely that we'd see ChatGPT generated text appear in games in the nearish future. We've talked more about this in our previous episode #7 - AI Generated Gaming Traditions.

Lastly, I brought up the CMA's (UK Regulator) provisional findings on the pending acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft, including their objections, and potential remedies.