{"id":6145,"date":"2009-11-23T13:09:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T17:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6145"},"modified":"2009-11-23T13:09:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T17:09:56","slug":"wow-its-your-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6145","title":{"rendered":"Wow, it&#8217;s your Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/96263-Take-The-Escapists-World-of-Warcraft-Anniversary-Quiz-zes\">Happy birthday to World of Warcraft<\/a>.  Five years old already?  *Sniff* They grow up <em>so fast<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m having a hard time imagining when WoW might ever end.  Even ten-year-old Everquest is still rolling and still receiving fresh content.  If EQ is still going strong at ten, then how long can the juggernaut WoW survive? Fifteen? Twenty years? Given the lengths they&#8217;re going to in order to keep the game from looking dated or getting stale, it&#8217;s hard to imagine a point where it would make economic sense to shut it down. <\/p>\n<p>Someday a game will nudge WoW from its perch.  I wonder what game that will be.  Many have tried and so far I don&#8217;t think anything has really come close in terms of raw user count.  <\/p>\n<p>Oops.  I sort of spent the WoW birthday post musing about how it might be killed or when it might perish on its own.  Really bad form.  Note that I was just asking, I&#8217;m not actually looking <em>forward<\/em> to its end.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, happy birthday WoW.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy birthday to World of Warcraft. Five years old already? *Sniff* They grow up so fast. I&#8217;m having a hard time imagining when WoW might ever end. Even ten-year-old Everquest is still rolling and still receiving fresh content. If EQ is still going strong at ten, then how long can the juggernaut WoW survive? Fifteen? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145","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=6145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}