Rumors of an upcoming PS4 “4.5” expansion lead today’s headlines, which also include a 5000 page petition advocating for a Vanilla WoW server being passed onto Blizzard’s president, and a Gears of War dev bemoaning the fact that players don’t understand the meaning of the word “beta”. Somewhere in there Ben also accuses Alex of being an Amazon Prime Hater, though she insists that he’s simply a Prime Fanboy.

The rest of this week’s episode is centered on the topic of game piracy, particularly as it relates to popular independent games. In The Top Three List of the Week each host relates their “top three experiences with pirated games or software”. Next up during The Worst Thing That Happened To Us This Week Ben tries to cut through the excuses and figure out what users’ actual reasons are for pirating games. Also, why have certain indie devs actually started embracing the culture of piracy in the gaming world?

Episode 33: #NotAllBrazillians

Here are the relevant links from today’s podcast:

• PS 4.5 Rumors @ ign.com
• Amazon blocks non-Prime members from buying certain video games @ videogamer.com
• Mark Kern’s promise to deliver Legacy WoW petition to Blizzard @ twitlonger.com
• Have MMOs Become Too Easy? (quoted during the show) @ mmorpg.com
• Gears of War 4 dev: Consumers think beta means highly-polished demo @ mcvuk.com
• The Witness is getting pirated big time @ venturebeat.com
• Punch Club Celebrates Being Pirated Over 1.6 Million Times @ cogconnected.com
• Why People Pirate Video Games @ kotaku.com
• Some Indies Don’t Fight Piracy, They Embrace It @ indiegames.com