{"id":8295,"date":"2010-06-11T16:49:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T21:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8295"},"modified":"2010-06-11T16:49:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T21:49:15","slug":"experienced-points-the-ea-games-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8295","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: The EA Games Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The videogame business began as a service. You&#8217;d go to the bar or the arcade and put in your quarter and the machine would give you a few minutes of amusement. When it was over you didn&#8217;t have anything to show for your quarter except whatever memories you&#8217;d accrued while the machine was in your employ.<\/p>\n<p>But then came home gaming consoles and games went from being a service to being a product&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/7691-Experienced-Points-The-EA-Games-Service\">Read the rest of the article at the Escapist, sport.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The videogame business began as a service. You&#8217;d go to the bar or the arcade and put in your quarter and the machine would give you a few minutes of amusement. When it was over you didn&#8217;t have anything to show for your quarter except whatever memories you&#8217;d accrued while the machine was in your [&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-8295","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\/8295","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=8295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}