{"id":241,"date":"2006-03-10T12:58:49","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T17:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=241"},"modified":"2006-03-10T19:00:51","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T00:00:51","slug":"collectors-addition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Collectors Addition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galciv2.com\/\">Galactic Civilizations II<\/a> today. I ordered it on Monday.  That&#8217;s a really good turnaround time for orders. Nice going.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/gc_box.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The printed manual is quality, and they also included a poster showing the entire tech tree for the game, which is quite large. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy with the game so far, but now I see there is a lot more in here in addition to the game.  There is a special serial number for downloading &#8220;additional content&#8221;.  I&#8217;ll have to see what that is as well. <\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of the old days of computer gaming.  Before clumsy copy protection.  Before printed manuals were converted to on-disk PDF files. Before we started getting paper sleeves instead of jewel cases for our disks.  I feel like I&#8217;ve just done business with someone who wants me to be happy with the transaction.  <\/p>\n<p>Note to those people: I am.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: According to <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.galciv2.com\/index.aspx?AID=106477\">this post<\/a>, <strong>they have sold more copies in the first 10 days than the total retail sales of the first GalCiv in its entire history<\/strong>.  They are now on their third run of CD&#8217;s, and are having trouble meeting demand. <\/p>\n<p>Wow.  I&#8217;m glad I got my copy.  If I&#8217;d waited a bit longer I might have missed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my copy of Galactic Civilizations II today. I ordered it on Monday. That&#8217;s a really good turnaround time for orders. Nice going. The printed manual is quality, and they also included a poster showing the entire tech tree for the game, which is quite large. I&#8217;m happy with the game so far, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","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=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}