{"id":45,"date":"2005-03-09T17:44:53","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T01:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=45"},"modified":"2024-11-14T14:56:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T22:56:15","slug":"xbox-2-virtual-markets-and-micro-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Xbox 2 : Virtual Markets and Micro-transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesnews.com\/\">Blue&#8217;s News<\/a> has posted a portion of the features listed in the &#8220;Guide&#8221; to Microsoft&#8217;s upcoming gaming platform: the eagerly anticipated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/\">Xbox 2<\/a>. Among the features of note are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  * <strong>Marketplace<\/strong>. Browseable by game, by genre, and in a number of other ways, the Marketplace will provide a one-stop shop for consumers to acquire episodic content, new game levels, maps, weapons, vehicles, skins and new community-created content.<br \/>\n    * <strong>Micro-transactions<\/strong>. Breaking down barriers of small-ticket online commerce, micro-transactions will allow developers and the gaming community to charge as little as they like for content they create and publish on Marketplace. Imagine players slapping down $.99 to buy a one-of-a-kind, fully tricked-out racing car to be the envy of their buddies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of you out there understand why I initially chose &#8220;reBang&#8221; as my company name: it referred to the creation of real world product additionally leveraged as virtual content. This makes sense since the modern development of tangible goods almost always now involves the creation of a virtual 3D representation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting for the chance to straddle two worlds for some time, and the implementation of Marketplace and Micro-transactions features in MS&#8217;s console signals that this may now soon be possible (the first issue, high-rez content, has been resolved with the latest technology as demonstrated in Half-Life 2, Doom3, and the forthcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unrealtechnology.com\/html\/technology\/ue30.shtml\">Unreal 3 game engine<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Looks like I need to get myself in gear and position myself appropriately now that the time is fast approaching for this to happen. And that may mean less &#8220;shotgun&#8221; blogging and more focus. It was coming anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue&#8217;s News has posted a portion of the features listed in the &#8220;Guide&#8221; to Microsoft&#8217;s upcoming gaming platform: the eagerly anticipated Xbox 2. Among the features of note are: * Marketplace. Browseable by game, by genre, and in a number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=45\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[32,138,31,104],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-industrial-design","tag-microtransactions","tag-transreality","tag-virtualgoods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}