 This is game chat one episode 137 10 cents patriotic battle Wow chat with one welcome to the show Now here's your host born on the call with all the gaming news of this week By the way, that's me Pre-exposure welcome to episode 137 of game chat with one and we got a great show lined up for you got about Five five stories to talk about today a lot of EA news and a lot of battle royale related stuff So we're gonna be talking about that kind of stuff a little bit about Anthem and some Monster Hunter world updates Haven't talked about that in quite some time I hope you guys are enjoying the podcast if you didn't catch game chat born episode 137 last week we had a pretty good story talking about Psionics and the valve index virtual reality headset so subscribe one of that TV slides podcast and Get your podcast on also check out my other podcast name be rants We'll be publishing something soon probably about Avengers Endgame gonna be talking about movie stuff. Oh boy It's gonna be spoiler spoiler written If you haven't seen it would be definitely don't listen to that podcast got a great show lined up for you Let's do it. Hey for our first story. We're gonna talk about apex legends. Wow apex legends We haven't talked about this in quite some time This was a new darling on the battle royale front over from the folks from EA origin or as you say EA on origin and It was a it's a refreshing take on the battle royale genre had a Very fluid movement system taken from the Titanfall series and It had a lot of communication breakthroughs which allowed players to talk to each other without using microphones Which was one of the reasons why I said in one of my youtube videos, especially Why the game was so successful this article comes by way of a dextero That are dexter to man my dexlexia. I didn't know I had it Dexter to calm EA reveals plans to release apex legends on mobile Devices and I can't say I'm surprised about this announcement because battle royale on mobile despite what you may or may not think is Very very popular The article says that apex legends hit the ground running as soon as it launched as it garnered a massive player base of 50 million players in record time But that number soon to grow even further as it plans as it that number is soon to grow even further with plans to bring it to more Console so on top of mobile. They talked about bringing it to other Devices and other platforms hmm Interesting interesting in a May 7 conference call EA announced that the plans their plans to bring the popular shooter To more platforms as it looks to further grow the number of combatants to land in Kings Canyon. That's the name of them out Name of the map in a meeting the publisher confirmed that their battle royale was their fastest growing new game with with around 30% of Apex players being new to EA Not one of these are all two counts. I don't know Take that one with a green assault without in mind the company said they'll be focusing on delivering new content throughout a long-term service Which will include the new legends and the like this is kind of old news, but according to this tweet review on The conference calls the fastest growing new game 30% 30% or new they're gonna focus on delivering new content with long-term service and Plans to release new platforms and markets and that includes mobile According to this tweet says EA confirmed later that the conference call they plan to bring apex legends to China and to mobile devices Wow, okay, China is big China is going to be very Very huge and we're not gonna be China is already massive so This game is gonna if it takes off in China, there's just no end in sight Also some other things from the conference call many players are trying game series. They've never played before On origin because of apex legends I'm assuming and Use engagement seen inside a subscription service to decide which games to add to the service blah blah blah some other stuff Nothing really related to apex legends. So congratulations to EA and the folks over at respawn entertainment apex legends is huge and with the expansion to China being planned and as well as mobile devices well Yeah Their purses are gonna be rolling over in the fat money pockets and though I don't even know what I just said check it out guys over on deserto the excerpto.com They got the details EA reveals plans to release apex legends on mobile devices and for our next story We're gonna talk about Tencent and While we're on the topic of Battle Royale, we're gonna talk about Tencent and the pub g mobile This is actually on rulers calm Tencent this is their article headline. I'm gonna read exactly how they posted the Tencent pulls Blockbuster game pub g in China Launches patriotic alternative. So I saw the headline and my mouth drop. I was like That was actually the sound I made But turns out it's pub g mobile, which is still a huge deal because pub g mobile is massive warned why especially in China Tencent holdings LTD on Wednesday shut down its test version of the global blockbuster player unknowns battlegrounds in China and Shifted users to a similar more patriotic video game Which unlike pub g? Has regulatory appeal to generate revenue. I I Had to check to see if this was satire. I didn't know if this was on the onion Or something because you're gonna you're gonna trip out when you read this But anyway, they say with pub g mobile having around 70 million average daily active users in China 70 70 million daily active users in China. We expect game for peace. That's the name up to call the name of the game game for peace Could potentially generate 8 billion Yuan to 10 billion Yuan I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right 1.8 billion or 1.18 billion dollars to 1.148 billion dollars in annual revenue my goodness, so anyway, I Keep saying anyway in the posting the official games Uh on a in a post on the games official account on China's Twitter like ybo platform webo Tencent said it within testing for pub g it also said it had launched an anti-terrorism theme game for peace For which a game monetization approval in April apparently. That's what you have to do in China There shares went up 2% gee. I wonder why now get this guys It's almost exactly the same according to Who is this? Sui shinyu When she was interviewed about it. It's almost exactly the same as pub g mobile the gameplay the background the graphic design and the characters They're almost the same Some webo user said on starting game for peace they found themselves at a place in The game that strongly resembled the place they left off in pub g complete with the pub g gaming history So on the surface this sounds like a complete reskin with some other changes Um people started to panic though when this first came out on Wednesday pub g is gone It was one of the most viewed topics on webo. This is their version of twitter again With over 300 million clicks in close to 90 000 posts. This is a quote from someone I was scared to death When you realize that pub g mobile had been shut down in china But I didn't expect that once I updated it to game of peace it returned me back to the same level The game changed its name and became very socialist to gain approval This quote gets me and I actually saw a gif of this I'm going to die of laughter when you shoot people. They don't bleed And the dead get up and wave goodbye I saw the gif of it. You kill someone in the game They get on their knees as if they're submitting and they wave to you goodbye No, they they get on their knees. They hand you the loot box that usually drops from dead people They like put it on the ground and they wave to you goodbye And then they disappear I have never in my life seen anything like that It's almost like a paintball type of thing, you know Like you got me. Here's my stuff. I you know, I'm not against that You know, I could I could have fun in the game like that. I'm not completely against that death mechanic But it's just funny that it goes from one extreme to the other in one patch in one update And they changed the name to game for peace Very very interesting news. This is one of the biggest if you go to youtube Some of you don't know watch twitch, right and pubg mobile Probably isn't as big on twitch as it is on other platforms if you go to Like dlive.tv even on mixer and if you go to youtube pubg mobile is massive In terms of streaming and content production This mobile version of pubg people play on pc. This is what you need to understand They play pubg mobile on a emulator A pc emulator So they use keyboard and mouse controls on the mobile game And I think the reason why people prefer and play pubg mobile is because it has a lot more cosmetics Has a lot more features than pubg And I actually think it runs better Which is kind of funny Um, this is this is an opinion from other people say it runs better. I don't know if it does. I think it runs better I am Flabbergasted at this this story how this is one of the biggest games In a website statement Tencent described game for peace as a tactical shooting game developed in-house which Quote pays tribute to the blue sky warriors that guard our country's airspace unquote In reference to the chinese air force So they've they've turned it into a patriotic game And I I can see why it got it got monetization approval. I mean that's that's that that's very china like That's very very china like Check it out guys. It's unbelievable. This is one again. This is 70 million average daily users This is not total. This is average average not not max Not listen to me. This is not maximum users. This is average daily actives 70 million seven zero 70 you can't laugh at that people want to laugh at mobile games You can't laugh at 70 million average daily users. I don't care who you are. It's it's nuts It's nuts rulers.com has a story guys Tencent pulls pubg mobile And redames it to games for peace And it changed They changed them some stuff in there It'll make you raise an eyebrow check it out guys and for our next story. We're going to continue to talk about china And this article comes by way of pcgamer.com and it states that and it's kind of hard to Just visualize this but there will soon be more pc gamers in china than the total population of the united states I'll read that again There will soon be more pc gamers in china than the total population of the united states That's that's just wild despite a year long licensing freeze according to pc gamer A new game approved a new game approvals pc gaming in china Is a 16 billion industry by 2023 There will be an estimated 354 million pc gamers playing online games in china Even more than the entire population of the united states If you're surprised by the size of china's pc gaming market You shouldn't be it's been exploding in growth since 2001 when the total market was only worth a hundred million So since 2001 it has grown from a hundred million to 16 billion You wonder why a lot of companies out there Are fixated on china getting approved in china You know getting their mark games in the market in china You know going through all these different publishers in china to get their games approved in china This is why There are more people than the entire population of the united states on pc's get this pc gamers They didn't mention consoles or handhelds or mobile We just talked about mobile 70 million active daily users on pubg mobile. This is pc gaming These numbers are staggering in spite of the approval freeze china's pc gaming industry still raked in 15 billion in 2018 With a total of 312 million pc gamers 79.79 million of which actually we're spending money on games To contextualize that figure the entire us video game industry including pc mobile and console only brought 30 billion in revenues in 2018 china's pc gaming alone brought 15 billion and In the u.s. Yeah In the u.s. This is according to new zoo in the us consoles tend to bring more money than pc And we only made 30 billion in 2018 and they made 15 billion on pc gaming wow wow wow nico partners report also includes estimated revenues for steam Which is becoming an increasingly important part of pc gaming in china for the last few years Steam has somehow managed to stay available to chinese gamers while other servers like twitch have been blocked Through steam chinese players can play games that will probably not be approved for sale like gta 5 grand theft dollar 5 Over 24 percent of steam users have set their language to simplify chinese And china is the biggest source of download traffic from steam Now if you played a lot of games on steam Namely i'm thinking h1z one pub g. You know there's a lot of chinese people on there And i don't think they're doing it Legally i think they're like they say only 24 percent of steam users Have their language set to simplify chinese So i think they're they're they're going around about ways to get on steam so that they can access games that are not approved by china Earlier this year player unknowns battlegrounds said that asia Contributed to 53 percent of his 920 million dollar revenue. That's believable Oh, but only 24 of people On steam have their language set to simplify chinese. Yeah, there's something wrong with that Here's some other interesting facts from this report from the niku partner niku partners report foreign games account for 60 of china's pc gaming revenue in 2018 60 foreign games. These are games made outside of china China has 138 thousand internet cafes eSports is the strongest driver of growth in china's pc games market eSports revenues was 6.3 billion in 2018 Accounting for 41.4 percent of pc games revenue It's projected to reach 9.5 billion in 2023 It's it's it's it's staggering It's staggering on so many levels. I mean that the headline is staggering in itself More pc gamers in china than the entire us population Number one, I mean we already knew china had like incredibly massive Incredibly massive pc gaming market, but to say This is the thing that gets me is piece is pc gamers. It's not all gamers It's not consoles not mobile and I include those in this report And I believe this report. I actually do believe this report. This is one of the few reports that I actually Can't believe Because I honestly believe that a lot of what we know about china's gaming market and what what what we think we know About china's gaming market. I think we're underestimating it grossly I really believe there's like 10 to 20 probably 10 to 20 error and a lot of what we know It's probably 10 to 20 percent more than what we're thinking what we think it is It's massive Because information doesn't flow that freely in and out of china So we speculate a lot and reports like this is like things that we clamor to for facts But I really believe that it's being underestimated Um, there's rumors that the chinese government is recognizing this that that they don't like tenset Because they think that they're getting people addicted to games when they should be doing other stuff Which is why there's probably this year-long gaming freeze that's going on For game new game approvals so they can keep this under control That's why pubg mobile got changed into a patriotic game over there in china 70 million daily actives That's nuts So check this story out guys Check this story out over on pcgamer.com. They got the details There will soon be more pc gamers in china than the total population of the united states Incredible and for our next story we're going to talk about anthem anthem From ea by our Anthem fails to meet ea's expectations, but company is committed to improving it ea has gone on record on their on their call as of yesterday They stated that anthem did not meet their expectations despite having Really good sales in the u.s. Their worldwide numbers didn't meet their expectations Blake jorgensen said that the publisher expected the game to sell between five to six million units by the end of march But they didn't meet that he didn't say what they actually sold though He said even more money was expected to come in the form of of micro transactions But they didn't meet that apparently says the team is now very focused on continued improvements to the game And will then bring more content updates and in-game events that will enhance and expand The anthem experience he said we believe in the team at by aware And we also believe that they set out to achieve What we also believe in what they set out to achieve with this game building a new ip And melding genres to reach a new audience well I gotta say man anthem Anthem disappointed me in a lot of ways It impressed me in some but disappointed me in a lot. I was like a I was like a disappointed father It's like son. I am disappoint Um, there's there was so many things that they could have done different And uh, I was having this discussion in another stream today about anthem and we all agreed It was like the gameplay was so great It was just everything else was broken And that was so true everything else Besides the gameplay in terms of the combat that's what I mean combat the mission Mechanics of of going out and shooting and Using your abilities and working with others the synergies of powers all that it felt so good But everything else was just just flawed in so many ways I mean we can go we can have an entire podcast talking about that game and how How many things they did wrong and So many people are rooting for it. We want it to succeed. We want things to be better Because of that combat. It's so addictive. It's so good. It's so I don't want to say it's unique. It's just good It's the best way to describe it Just last week anthem developers said they remain 100 committed to anthem Following the delay of numerous anticipated features. There's a bunch of delays by the way One part of buyer wars commitment to improving anthem is through the launch of a new player feedback environment server or test server For anthems pc version, which can only you know, that's that's a good thing. It's expensive on their part, but If players participate and provide feedback that can be a good thing But on their own it's called he said that anthem is the most digital game we have ever launched That's the quote most digital game we have ever launched In regards to sale and they said overall 49 percent of ea's full game sales across ps4 and xbox were digital Now part of me wants to think that ea just has Just uh They set their expectations too high. I think in a lot of ways I think their their targets and their numbers are way too high Because the fact that this thing sold so much in the u.s. I forget what the exact numbers were But I was impressed I was like anthem sold that much But I guess you talk about spend and marketing You know how much they spent in r&d, you know to recoup those funds. I guess they have to set their their targets that high It's such a weird thing. It's such a weird thing and I don't know I honestly don't know what they're going to do at this point. I think a majority of anthem needs to be redone like scrapped But I don't think they can afford to do a final fantasy 14, you know That's a very expensive proposition. They paid off for final fantasy. It re it revitalized the game But to scrap the game completely and start afresh That's a very expensive proposition especially with buy aware buy aware is not the exactly a speedy developer Now things are going to take a long time. They're going to have to do a lot more changes than that So to the folks out there who say oh just start over it's It's not that easy Not that easy check it out guys over on game spot.com. They got the details The sad state of anthem man. It fails to meet their expectations But the a hasn't given up on it yet And for our final story, we're gonna talk about monster hunter world monster hunter world is now capcom's best selling game ever Of all times it's amazing Monster hunter continues to be a big seller says game spot Dot com is cap com's best selling game of all time the publisher has revealed As part of the company's financial year of 2018 2019 results It was confirmed that ps4 xbox one and pc rpg has shipped over 12 million units Wow monster hunter world continued to report strong sales with total shipments breaking 12 million units Marking a record high for any single title in the company's history Wow, congratulations to capcom Resident Evil ship 4 million units devil may cry ship 2 million No, the ship only refers to units delivered to retailers not through to consumers. That's very important not sold but shipped Still a big feat Still a big feat considering what's going on These sales have helped the company record record record These sales have helped the company record pre-tax profits of 18 billion yen An increase of 13% Over the last year. Now if you've never played monster hunter world, it's a very very grindy game, but it's a good grind That seems to be the theme for a lot of addictive games these days Uh, it's it's it's a lot of repetitive fights You have a handful of monsters that you have to fight over and over and over again In hopes that they drop the appropriate materials to build your next armor piece your next sword your next shield what have you And has a very very successful formula monster hunter world has been around for years mostly on mobile platforms like the nintendo ds and and other mobile platforms, but it's It's It's a weird thing because I I got addicted to it. I played a lot of it. If you follow my youtube channel, you know I had like 200 maybe 300 episodes of my my playthrough a lot There's a lot of play play through But he got to the point to where I was like man, is it worth it? Because the rng in that game is so brutal Is it worth it to to kill a thousand monsters to get one or two drops? Even though the fights are amazing For the first 100 200 300 500 times, but then after a while you question like man, I could be spending my time doing something else That's where I'm at with monster on the world. I love the game But I feel like the rng is a little bit too unforgiving for my time right now But congratulations nonetheless To capcom the games is knocking it out of the part. It's a fun game. If you've never played it You'll get your money's worth And you know, hopefully you'll be like me and realize so many hundreds of hours and that hey, maybe I need to stop now Check the story out guys. It's an addiction. It's an addiction through and through monster hunter world is now capcom's best-selling game ever And that concludes episode 137 of game chat boon. I want to thank you all for listening Please please subscribe to my podcast this one tech talk with boona and b-rance over at boona.tv slash podcast All these are available for your perusal over there tech talk of one is recorded every sunday We talk about technology and science topics whereas game chat one is focused on gaming news And we also have b-rance which are rents a mobile form podcast where I just rent about any and everything that's on my mind Uh, I think you might enjoy it. Follow me on twitter twitter.com slash boona instagram.com Slash one on my youtube channel. Go check it out. We're gonna be doing some videos there. We are We do youtube.com slash boona and finally go to boona.live Yeah, that'll redirect you to my twitch page, but I have a new domain now boona.live Go check it out. 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