About this episode

The episode discusses how the affordability crisis is affecting gaming and explores various ways people are paying for games today.

Kirk, Jason, and Maddy talk about how the affordability crisis is impacting gaming, reading some listener emails to talk about how people pay for games these days. Plus: we've got Steam Machines and have some thoughts. Those two topics are very related!

People in this episode

Hosts: Kirk, Jason, Maddy

Topics covered

• affordability crisis
• gaming
• listener emails
• Steam Machines
• video game payment methods

Keywords

• affordability
• gaming
• Steam Machines
• listener emails
• video games

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Steam Machines

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