{"id":9185,"date":"2010-08-27T16:13:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T21:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9185"},"modified":"2010-08-27T16:13:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T21:13:27","slug":"experinced-points-bargains-are-for-cheaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9185","title":{"rendered":"Experinced Points: Bargains are for Cheaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: Games industry is experiencing competition that is undercutting their prices!<\/p>\n<p>Solution: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/8040-Experienced-Points-Bargains-Are-for-Cheaters\">Erect a bureaucratic system of controlling access to game content on an itemized basis. Then tell gamers they&#8217;re cheaters for shopping elsewhere.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I admit that I am not a businessman, yet I remain convinced that there is nothing wrong with this industry that couldn&#8217;t be fixed by just one person with an MBA and average-level intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m very much aware that I&#8217;m shouting into the hurricane here and nobody is going to listen. But what the heck, right? It&#8217;s a living. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: Games industry is experiencing competition that is undercutting their prices! Solution: Erect a bureaucratic system of controlling access to game content on an itemized basis. Then tell gamers they&#8217;re cheaters for shopping elsewhere. I admit that I am not a businessman, yet I remain convinced that there is nothing wrong with this industry that [&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-9185","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\/9185","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=9185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}