{"id":1043,"date":"2005-04-20T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"Jare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"SOE endorses sales of MMO properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stationexchange.station.sony.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/stationexchange.station.sony.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was bound to happen, sooner or later, but it is still shocking to see it materialized. I have never been interested in buying online properties, since I assume that acquiring them in the game is one of the main reasons for playing in the first place. Playing a MMO has to be fun in itself, but as we know already, fun is a dish with many ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>So, rather than find my own stance among all the moral, ethical, emotional, rational debates about the meaning of this, I&#8217;ll be realistic about my assumptions, and simply sit back and see what happens. It&#8217;s possible that future MMO&#8217;s will lean in this direction, in which case I&#8217;ll likely stop playing them. Or it may be that it remains a relatively minor side within these virtual worlds.<\/p>\n<p>As a quick aside, it&#8217;s fun to see <a href=\"http:\/\/dukenukem.typepad.com\/game_matters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Miller&#8217;s blog<\/a> be updated a <b>lot<\/b> less frequently since he started &quot;checking&quot; World Of Warcraft. I find it hard to refrain from bragging about how <i>slowly<\/i> my chars are leveling up in WoW, an odd reversal of the classic &quot;uber e-peen contests&quot; so typical among MMO players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/stationexchange.station.sony.com\/ It was bound to happen, sooner or later, but it is still shocking to see it materialized. I have never been interested in buying online properties, since I assume that acquiring them in the game is one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/?p=1043\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}