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Please welcome Last Stand Media's Legal Analyst, Rick Hoeg, back to Sacred+! I (Colin) am thrilled to have him back, as always, particularly to celebrate his 100K subscriber milestone on YouTube! However, we have a trio of issues to touch on, as well, since we like to keep up on all things litigious in our ever-interesting industry. We start by diving into Raven QA's successful unionization push, becoming North America's first AAA union. It's a huge deal and it's almost certainly going to have major ramifications both within and outside of Activision. Then, we migrate over to recent word that mega-publisher Electronic Arts is looking for a buyer, and Comcast was almost it. What potential (and hopefully American) acquirer would suit EA best? We finish our chat by revisiting a case gender discrimination case against Sony, one that was initially thrown out, but has since been refiled with a narrowed focus and a much better chance at succeeding. And so, let's catch you up on these legal matters before we send you on your way, shall we?

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Gavin Newland

Just in time for the drive home, love listening to Rick and his knowledge.

Yiorgos

I'll say this much about Raven, they have one badass logo.

Doug Hogancamp

A episode with the S.S. boys. Z128 and Rick talking about the Quarry... sign me up sounds like must listen.

Kenneth Oms

Great episode. In regards to the sims, the sims 4 is considered to be the worst sims game. EA was forcing them to make a sims mmo and midway through development they scrapped it. So the game at launch was in a broken state and had less features then the sims 3 which had a great open world element to it which was removed in the sims 4 due to its mmo nature. They’ve done a lot of updates to the sims 4 to bring it to a good level but unfortunately some of the basic features that should have been there at launch were paywalled

NeO JD

It is weird seeing everybody wanting a piece of this subscription/transaction pie when I don’t think it’s sustainable at all. I think the only thing EA has at this point is Respawn, and their library of IPs. Would love to see those get sold off.

LastStandMedia

I don't think it's sustainable either. Strauss Zelnick had some thoughts about it recently that I concurred with.

The Lizard King

I watched Hoeg on The Legal Bytes channel cover the Depp trail and he was great.

Greg Hommel

I will never understand the dynamic that the employee gets to set the terms of their employment with the employer. The employer risks everything to execute their idea. This should be just as foreign as the consumer setting the price of a good or service. The market conditions should control both. These are no longer the days of the “mill” that employs every person in the town. Thanks for you views gentlemen. A fascinating conversation to be sure.

LastStandMedia

It's definitely a weird and dangerous situation. No one is manhandling my companies like that.