just found your review after getting the game suggested. Great playthrough, we will play this one for sure. And I have to say I'm very impressed by your sound quality. I think it's so important to have decent microphones and yet so many "big" channels don't put the effort in. Thanks a lot for this video!
Yeah- that's a strange rule that we generally don't follow, to make it a little more fun. Functionally, any bid lower than the original bid will lose anyway.
I had played QE a few weeks ago in a round of 5 players, where only one knew the game before. It started similar to your round here, but the inflation got totally crazy quickly, as it ended up in the trillions. After the round I thought a lot about what has happened and I actually thought it is more an experience than a game and if you want to win, you need to roll with the inflation. I realize there is an interesting twist in your round, when you suddenly break the chain and went back to low bets (at least as a starting bet) and you can maybe trap a player who picks every company in the beginning for high bets (relatively low though compared to the end). But it's harder in a round of five than a round of four and in the end, you still want to win and not finish second. There are some interesting and possible strategies in here, which actually makes QE a game and I am looking forward to play it more often soon. And even if it is 100% a game, it is still an amazing experience. :) Thank you for this video and your review.
We still haven't figured out the way to prevent the inflation problem- as you say, the person who can bid high enough to win the early rounds (say, the first lap around the table), will generally not be punished for those bids because by the last lap, the prices have risen astronomically. It's absolutely a delicious problem to tackle, though, and the actual gameplay is always fun.
A game allows the player choice and agency. An experience has the appearance of such, but ultimately is deterministic. The classic example is CandyLand, where it's completely determined who is going to win after the cards are shuffled. You're just finding out slowly. The argument of QE being an experience (Which I don't agree with) is that you don't *really* have any choices. You're blind guessing the whole game. You can't respond to any information in a meaningful way until the next round, when things have completely changed, and there isn't really any influence from one round to another. It just seems like there is, because of the gambler's fallacy.
I'm clueless. What's the difference? When I play games, I experience them. So every game is an experience, and every game is a game, so they are all always both a game and an experience.
I've heard good things about this game in other reviews, but seeing it in action is really something. Thanks for doing this.
Thank YOU for watching, Billy! It's a *great* game- might even make our Top 10 of the year...
just found your review after getting the game suggested. Great playthrough, we will play this one for sure. And I have to say I'm very impressed by your sound quality. I think it's so important to have decent microphones and yet so many "big" channels don't put the effort in. Thanks a lot for this video!
Thanks for stopping by, Sebo! Hope you'll consider coming back when you need another recommendation. :)
@@GLHFBoardGames I definitely will!
While the game is easy to learn, it was easier to learn thanks to the video. Good production!
Thanks so much, Ben!
I had zero interest in this game before watching this. Now I have a lot of interest in it. Well done!
You can bid zero anytime you want, you just can only score for it once per round
All non-zero bids must be higher than the original bid. That rule was violated several times but I guess it didn't impact anything.
Yeah- that's a strange rule that we generally don't follow, to make it a little more fun. Functionally, any bid lower than the original bid will lose anyway.
I had played QE a few weeks ago in a round of 5 players, where only one knew the game before. It started similar to your round here, but the inflation got totally crazy quickly, as it ended up in the trillions. After the round I thought a lot about what has happened and I actually thought it is more an experience than a game and if you want to win, you need to roll with the inflation.
I realize there is an interesting twist in your round, when you suddenly break the chain and went back to low bets (at least as a starting bet) and you can maybe trap a player who picks every company in the beginning for high bets (relatively low though compared to the end). But it's harder in a round of five than a round of four and in the end, you still want to win and not finish second.
There are some interesting and possible strategies in here, which actually makes QE a game and I am looking forward to play it more often soon.
And even if it is 100% a game, it is still an amazing experience. :)
Thank you for this video and your review.
We still haven't figured out the way to prevent the inflation problem- as you say, the person who can bid high enough to win the early rounds (say, the first lap around the table), will generally not be punished for those bids because by the last lap, the prices have risen astronomically.
It's absolutely a delicious problem to tackle, though, and the actual gameplay is always fun.
Maybe that exactly is the experience of QE: Try to stop the inflation and still win. Maybe we first need to stop thinking like a capitalist...
Dumb question: What is your definition of the difference between game and experience?
A game allows the player choice and agency. An experience has the appearance of such, but ultimately is deterministic. The classic example is CandyLand, where it's completely determined who is going to win after the cards are shuffled. You're just finding out slowly. The argument of QE being an experience (Which I don't agree with) is that you don't *really* have any choices. You're blind guessing the whole game. You can't respond to any information in a meaningful way until the next round, when things have completely changed, and there isn't really any influence from one round to another. It just seems like there is, because of the gambler's fallacy.
Guy in the beginning sounds like a news anchor
But like... in a good way? :)
am dumbfounded anyone would not call this a game rather than an experience.
I'm clueless. What's the difference? When I play games, I experience them. So every game is an experience, and every game is a game, so they are all always both a game and an experience.