Dan Soder

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700 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 14 Jul

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · The "Pay-to-Play" Scheme That (Almost) Ruined Video Games, with Dan Soder · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

So there's just a thing in the game you can't access unless you want to play, which is also the MVP bundle, I believe, is a subscription.

So then people were going, well, if the subscription's up, am I going to be able to access it?

And this is where we're running into a f***ing massive problem.

Yeah.

Basically, what a microtransaction does is if you have a player or something in the game, a character, and you want to make it better, you want to make it somehow better, they do this thing where they go...

you know, for 1099 V-Bucks or whatever they want to call it.

It's money.

A virtual currency.

A virtual currency, which is just an in-between.

Because I'll tell you what, when you say yes, they sure as hell take you right to that screen where your credit card's on there.

That's American money that I'm spending when it is.

But you buy, like, XP, and then you progress faster.

It's pay-to-play.

So, NCAA or college football, you grind it out.

You play a game, you get XP for touchdown scores, how many good things you do.

You earn it.

And then the next week after you go, they give you these points that you go spend to make your coach better, which makes your team better.

And so basically what EA Sports is doing now is going, hey—

you wanna just give me money and we'll just like progress you?

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