{"id":4000,"date":"2009-07-17T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T21:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2010-05-12T08:41:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:41:44","slug":"experienced-points-activision-vs-sony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=4000","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Activision vs. Sony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/6280-Activision-vs-Sony\">This week I make a series of (very) loosely related observations on the passive-agressive threat from Activision that Sony should lower the price of the PS3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly too late to make it into the column, another story popped up today that throws a new twist on this old argument: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/forums\/read\/7.125375\">Activision is raising prices on games in the UK<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve been banging on for years about the fact that games are too expensive. The solution isn&#8217;t to charge more, it&#8217;s to spend less.  Find a spot in the tech curve where you can afford to make games, and stay there, because there&#8217;s no limit on how much you <em>can<\/em> spend on development.  There is just no sense in making games that look so good nobody can afford to buy them.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad enough raising prices when a worldwide recession is in effect, but raising prices while demanding that Sony take an <em>even bigger<\/em> loss by lowering theirs is a move that requires heroic levels of audacity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I make a series of (very) loosely related observations on the passive-agressive threat from Activision that Sony should lower the price of the PS3. Sadly too late to make it into the column, another story popped up today that throws a new twist on this old argument: Activision is raising prices on games [&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-4000","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\/4000","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=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}