I am not one for acquisition talk but @Jez mentioned last year that Microsoft was in talks with a small indie studio. Just thought it might be an interesting question for you guys to ask him about? @Sikamikanico @Shpeshal_Nick @Doncabesa
Might help to deflect from any questions about who the next publisher acquisition will be! 
Greetings and salutations gentlemen. Theres been a little bit of sega news about the last couple days.
Hypothetically if Microsoft bought sega what is one game that each of you would like to see bought back, remade, remastered etc.
For me a big budget Panzeer Dragoon Saga remake would be epic!
Would you prefer Fable or Gears coming back as a trilogy collection?
Fable because I’d actually play it, lol. I don’t think I’m going back to re-play Gears. Do think Gears makes more sense cuz of the MP though.
Probably Fable, mainly because I’ve played the Gears games so may times. If they do a Gears collection, I hope 2 and 3 get the same treatment that the first game did with the Ultimate Edition.
Fable because the Gears games still look and feel good to play.
Community questions is really ruining the flow of the show 
Concentrate on a set number of topics and scrap all the questions
Perhaps let the community questions be the setup device to drive topics for the show and not be asked directly. Or turn them into written answers posted online like an article to go along with it. * shrug *
Appreciate the feedback - I think there is a point we’re reaching soon where we have to rethink how we do it a bit. <3
You could tell Rand was disillusioned with all the questions as there was no topics being discussed to keep him involved.
Actually he went afk for a while and was talking plenty when he came back. I do agree though, community questions will have to be lowered significantly when guests are on and potentially removed if we have a very strict time limit. We were lucky that @Jez & @RandalThor19 were so generous with their time.
Just require the questions to be short and to the point? Removing them would be boring, some are really interesting to hear the answers to. It’s also a great perk for patrons.
It is not so much about the length of the podcast. I could easily listen to you guys for hours on end when you are discussing news and topics. The community questions though sucks all energy and enthusiasm out of show and you really notice it start to go down hill. It is just a conveyor belt of tiresome questions about food or ranking something in order.
I would rather you guys spent that time talking about what has recently come to Game Pass and what is leaving soon. Shredders gets a release date of March 17th, Two Point Campus releases in May, Rainbow Six Extraction reaches 3 million players, For Honor and Valkyria Chronicles 4 free to play up until Monday, Sea of Thieves closing down Arena, Hyper Scape to close servers, Kao the Kangaroo returning after 16 years, Elden Ring to take 30 hours to beat, Hellblade 2 concept art, Evil Dead delayed to May, Hogwarts Legacy & Gotham Knights on track for this year, Call of Duty to ditch Xbox One in 2023, and maybe even the lineup of Games with Gold.
It would have been interesting to hear you guys discussing the above rather than spending the majority of the time answering a conveyor belt of community questions. 
short and to the point is a good idea, maybe even just pick the best or most interesting 5 or so questions that week.
I don’t disagree, and I do think a separate monthly questions only show could be good. Really pick and choose ones we have answers for so it’s interesting.
Definitely with guests on it’ll be more selective as we move forward. If someone has a strict time-limit all the moreso
Well, there’s community questions, and then there’s super chats. Super chats break up the flow of discussion with the need to address questions and chats that people have paid for. I’ve noticed that not just with the podcast but with many other live podcasts that the number of super chats have increased tremendously. As a result they’ve also become pretty valuable as well.
Another option then is to do away with the live portion of the podcast, and make it recorded only? I’m not saying I have the answers, but let’s get suggestions from as many people as possible. Otherwise we’re going to get podcasts the length of the Iron Lords (six hours?!?!?)
GOC
“Contributor of some of the sillier questions.”
Agree with super chats, if it is relevant to the conversation sure you could bring it up some how. Should save superchats for the end of the show or you cut that part out of the audio version. Community questions are fine but you’ll have to be better about picking and choosing what ones to read. Live shows can be just a questions and super chat show, doesn’t have to be structured like a normal podcast.
Personal preference but I think the show excels with the silly questions and tangets that go places.
Dedicated prerecorded Q&A videos would definitely be cool imo.
I like the DF podcast model. Start with the topics of the week and then followed up by a few community questions.
Fable is more important to me than Gears and just like you I’ve played Gears enough in the past years. I haven’t played a Fable in a long time and those games are stuck in the 360 days tech wise.