{"id":19022,"date":"2013-03-12T08:24:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=19022"},"modified":"2013-03-12T08:24:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:24:04","slug":"experienced-points-not-greedy-just-clueless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=19022","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Not Greedy, Just Clueless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;m guilty of bouts of hyperbole. Activision, EA, and Ubisoft are capable of some truly infuriating behaviors, and it&#8217;s really tempting to just throw around words like &#8220;evil&#8221; and &#8220;greedy&#8221;. EA is a huge, dysfunctional organization that takes in billions of dollars and employs thousands of people. But I think it&#8217;s worth noting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/10226-Not-Greedy-Just-Clueless?utm_source=latest&#038;utm_medium=index_carousel&#038;utm_campaign=all\" title=\"Not Greedy, Just Clueless\">their desire to make money isn&#8217;t what makes them a bad company<\/a>. Their problem isn&#8217;t greed, but shocking ineptitude. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;m guilty of bouts of hyperbole. Activision, EA, and Ubisoft are capable of some truly infuriating behaviors, and it&#8217;s really tempting to just throw around words like &#8220;evil&#8221; and &#8220;greedy&#8221;. EA is a huge, dysfunctional organization that takes in billions of dollars and employs thousands of people. But I think it&#8217;s worth noting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19022","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=19022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}