{"id":28203,"date":"2015-08-18T12:58:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T17:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28203"},"modified":"2015-08-18T18:40:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T23:40:13","slug":"experiened-points-square-enix-and-the-hitman-ripoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28203","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Square Enix and the Hitman Ripoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My column is about how Square Enix is selling the next Hitman game as &#8220;Not episodic, but still released in many pieces&#8221; and why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/14455-The-New-Hitman-Ripoff\">this is a ripoff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it&#8217;s worth comparing Square Enix with CD Projekt RED and Paradox. Square asks for full price up front, and in return they offer part of a game and a pinky promise that they will finish the rest of it later. CD Projekt asks for full price, and in return they offer a massive game, a complete experience. And then they release free updates and content for months afterward. And if that&#8217;s not enough content for you, they also release DLC. Paradox does the same thing. <\/p>\n<p>This is on top of the fact that a Hitman game probably offers far fewer hours of content than either Witcher or (say) Cities Skylines. (Although I&#8217;m sure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCm4JnxTxtvItQecKUc4zRhQ\">Campster<\/a> would chastise me for boiling a game down to its playtime, and I concede it&#8217;s a terrible metric for measuring value.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My column is about how Square Enix is selling the next Hitman game as &#8220;Not episodic, but still released in many pieces&#8221; and why this is a ripoff. Also, it&#8217;s worth comparing Square Enix with CD Projekt RED and Paradox. Square asks for full price up front, and in return they offer part of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[477],"class_list":["post-28203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-hitman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28203","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=28203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}