{"id":105562,"date":"2019-12-11T15:09:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/jack-black-wgt-golf\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T15:09:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:09:45","slug":"this-is-the-moment-jack-black-discovered-hed-become-a-free-to-play-mobile-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/11\/this-is-the-moment-jack-black-discovered-hed-become-a-free-to-play-mobile-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the moment Jack Black discovered he\u2019d become a free-to-play mobile whale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Joe Robinson<\/span> 11 Dec 2019<\/span> <\/p>\n

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There\u2019s something oddly fascinating and morbid about watching famous and\/or rich people falter. Whatever deep-seated emotional trigger exists, it\u2019s powered they current voyeuristic trend in popular culture, and we\u2019re not totally immune to it here at Pocket Tactics.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, a co-worker shared an episode of the Conan O\u2019Brien Needs a Friend<\/em><\/a> podcast. Episode 49<\/a> featuring Jack Black, released on December 9th to be precise. It\u2019s a fairly typical celebrity interview for the most part. Conan asks questions, Jack Black is funny\u2026 it\u2019s good listening if you like that kind of thing. Then comes the moment, at around the 37th minute, where Jack Black explains how he\u2019s accidentally become a whale:<\/p>\n

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O\u2019Brien:<\/strong> You\u2019re quite the gamer, aren’t you?<\/p>\n

Jack Black:<\/strong> I do enjoy gaming but I have to say, as of late, I\u2019ve been all about my iPhone games which has ruined my console gaming. I used to be all about my Xbox and Playstation, and I still haven\u2019t even conquered Red Dead Redemption Part 2, which I was anticipating for years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jack Black, a mobile gamer! The conversation shifts slightly to talk about Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em> and how much of a time-commitment it is, which is what drove Black to mobile games in the first place. O\u2019Brien then asks him what he\u2019s playing:<\/p>\n

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Jack Black:<\/strong> Right now it\u2019s all about WGT Golf. It\u2019s really embarrassing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I had to look this up – WGT Golf seems to have been around since 2013, and is available on iOS<\/a> and Android<\/a>. As you can imagine, it\u2019s a Gold game, and it\u2019s Free-to-Play, as Black explains:<\/p>\n

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Jack Black: <\/strong>It\u2019s a Golf game. It\u2019s extremely satisfying and truth me told\u2026 expensive.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s horrifying – they figured me out, they know my brain and I have a bit of OCD. There\u2019s a bunch of choices of clothing. And the clothing doesn\u2019t just look rad – because I want my Avatar to look super sharp\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026 but each piece of clothing has a value that helps your game. This one is going to help your short game, this one improves your accuracy, this one gives you more strength on your drive. To buy these little pieces of digital clothing, you either have to put in tons of hours of work, or you could just buy it and get it done.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to tell you how much money I\u2019ve spent on these clothes\u2026 because I don\u2019t even know! It\u2019s been so much money! It\u2019s horrible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After initially laughing, O\u2019Brien then goes on to explain how he\u2019d gone through a similar journey with Clash of Clans<\/em> many years ago:<\/p>\n

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Conan O’Brien: <\/strong>I did this with Clash of Clans. My son was into Clash of Clans four years ago, and his friends were really into it too. And he got me into. I wanted to partake with my son, and be a part of his world. And yeah, you can spend all this time, slowley, making this tiny little catapult\u2026 or you can just buy the catapult.<\/p>\n

And so I started doing that\u2026 and you don\u2019t think that much about it because each [transaction] is so small. And then I started\u2026 I remember showing my son and his friends \u201cCheck out my Fortress.\u201d and so he and his friends were like \u201cWow! Your dad has the cannon that shoots lava, and the special massive dinosaur birds!\u201d<\/p>\n

And then my son was like \u201cYou\u2019re BUYING this stuff, aren’t you?\u201d And Iwas like \u201cyeah\u2026\u201d and then I think I checked a bill and I was like\u2026 oh my god!<\/p>\n

It was bad. That was when I had to go cold turkey.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There you have it – even the rich & famous can succumb to the tricks of free-to-play gaming. At least they have the kind of money that can be wasted on such endeavours – many others who fall prey do not.<\/p>\n

I do find it interesting what games pop-culture icons end up gravitating towards though – for all the talk of Fortnite<\/em>, Merge Dragons<\/em> or even Pokemon GO<\/em>, who would have thought it\u2019d be a random Golf game from 2013 that would grab Jack Black\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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