{"id":1085,"date":"2023-05-11T00:10:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T00:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2024-07-24T17:14:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:14:07","slug":"episode-72-battle-passes-with-daniel-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"Episode 72 \u2013 Battle Passes (with Daniel Joseph)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">[Release Date: July 4, 2023]&nbsp;In a couple of recent episodes guests have mentioned concerns about battle passes.&nbsp; So, in this episode we decided to explore how they work, how they differ from traditional&nbsp; subscription models or microtransactions, why they\u2019re so popular today with game companies, and whether they raise any serious ethical concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/18LyIqIXXrbZOGm7T6TluV?utm_source=generator&#038;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Release Date: July 4, 2023]&nbsp;In a couple of recent episodes guests have mentioned concerns about battle passes.&nbsp; So, in this episode we decided to explore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[254,252,253,108],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-podcast","tag-apex","tag-battle-passes","tag-call-of-duty","tag-fortnite"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/72-1-1-1.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}