{"id":7403,"date":"2010-03-05T17:01:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T22:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7403"},"modified":"2010-05-12T09:09:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T14:09:32","slug":"experienced-points-mmog-crowd-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7403","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: MMOG Crowd Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/7255-Experienced-Points-MMOG-Crowd-Control\">A bit about MMOG&#8217;s as they age.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/shamusyoung\">my Twitter<\/a> you probably saw my comment last night that I hated the column I&#8217;d written and was scrapping it. A few people expressed interest.  In order to prevent you from being eaten alive by speculation and curiosity, it was a bit on the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/98517-Doom-Creator-John-Carmack-Gets-GDC-Lifetime-Achievement\">the Game Developers Choice Awards would be giving id Software co-founder and technical director John Carmack a lifetime achievement award<\/a>.  I&#8217;d intended to do a sort of tribute to the guy.  Sort of, &#8220;For you young people, here is who this guy is and why you should care.&#8221;  But it ended up coming across as kind of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2000\/07\/05\/\">creepy and fanboyish<\/a> instead of informative.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit about MMOG&#8217;s as they age. If you follow my Twitter you probably saw my comment last night that I hated the column I&#8217;d written and was scrapping it. A few people expressed interest. In order to prevent you from being eaten alive by speculation and curiosity, it was a bit on the fact [&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-7403","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\/7403","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=7403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}