{"id":1754,"date":"2008-07-11T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2008-07-14T00:00:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T05:00:21","slug":"gaming-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1754","title":{"rendered":"Gaming Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is wrong with videogame publishing in Australia? They get their games <em>months<\/em> after it hits the shelves in the Yankeeland, the games cost $20 to $40 more, even when the currencies are even, and <a href=\"http:\/\/corsairsanchorage.com\/corsair\/2008\/07\/10\/apocalyptic-censorship-fallout-3\/\">their ratings system is a hash and is keeping games off the shelves<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never heard an explanation for why videogame imports are so messed up down there.  If I was a publisher I&#8217;d want <em>all<\/em> of my English-language releases to happen at the same time, because doing otherwise just encourages impatient users to head for the torrents. <\/p>\n<p>The extra $20 or $40 has never made any sense either.  As far as I can tell it&#8217;s not an import tax or tariff or anything else that might be blamed on the government.  Certainly <em>other<\/em> products seem to make it there without having an arbitrary amount tacked onto the price.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Why?\n<\/li>\n<li>How do we fix it?\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>EDIT:<\/strong> Apparently in the linked post there is a slight dig at my writing.  Some people took offense at that, and then <em>other<\/em> people misunderstood those comments as digs at me, leading to a humors clog of confusion.  The author of the original post emailed me to let me know that his comments on my writing were intended as irony.  <\/p>\n<p>In any case, no feelings hurt.  No reason to be upset here.  Just wanted to clear all that up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is wrong with videogame publishing in Australia? They get their games months after it hits the shelves in the Yankeeland, the games cost $20 to $40 more, even when the currencies are even, and their ratings system is a hash and is keeping games off the shelves. I&#8217;ve never heard an explanation for why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}