{"id":18023,"date":"2019-04-30T22:06:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T03:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=18023"},"modified":"2019-07-25T22:07:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T03:07:59","slug":"respawn-delays-titanfall-3-mk11-greed-accusations-and-game-developer-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/30\/respawn-delays-titanfall-3-mk11-greed-accusations-and-game-developer-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Respawn Delays Titanfall 3, MK11 Greed Accusations, and Game Developer Crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6bRimbBh_rI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s Line of Sight we celebrate 10 glorious episodes! Also, in the news this week we have Respawn Entertainment delaying Titanfall 3 in favor of Apex Legends, the recent false accusations that Mortal Kombat 11 contained over $6,000 worth of microtransactions, and we also take a look at both Respawn Interactive and Epic Games with respect to recent information being released about severe crunch employed by those companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s Line of Sight we celebrate 10 glorious episodes! 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