{"id":62,"date":"2005-03-18T00:21:22","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T05:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=62"},"modified":"2024-11-14T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T22:50:17","slug":"economic-unrealities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Economic Unrealities: XBox 2 Market Likely a Walled Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetquake.com\/polycount\/\">Polycount<\/a> pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/gamesindustry.biz\/content_page.php?aid=7458\">this article<\/a> over on GamesIndustry.biz that puts a damper on my enthusiasm regarding Xbox&#8217;s proposed Marketplace and Micro-payment features. While admittedly speculative, the possibility exists that Xbox 2 will harbor a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;oi=defmore&#038;q=define:Closed+economy\">closed economy<\/a> for &#8220;modders&#8221;. That&#8217;s not to say it can&#8217;t and won&#8217;t be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/games\/0,2101,66074,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4\">circumvented<\/a>, but I&#8217;d personally hoped MS would embrace the possibilities of a more open virtual [game] world in a manner not too different from how Valve has handled Half-Life conversions and now supports new community efforts via <a href=\"http:\/\/collective.valve-erc.com\/index.php?faq=source_mod_faq&#038;section=106159034320816100&#038;question=106159121170135600\">Steam<\/a>.  Given some other pieces to the Gates Empire puzzle that I&#8217;ve collected over the years, and the assumption people in Redmond aren&#8217;t entirely unaware of how the Soviet Union&#8217;s stifling economic policies effectively lost them the Cold War, there&#8217;s still a possibility something more ambitious will be announced. So until we hear specifics, let&#8217;s leave it at that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polycount pointed me to this article over on GamesIndustry.biz that puts a damper on my enthusiasm regarding Xbox&#8217;s proposed Marketplace and Micro-payment features. While admittedly speculative, the possibility exists that Xbox 2 will harbor a closed economy for &#8220;modders&#8221;. That&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=62\">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":[138,121,104],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-microtransactions","tag-videogames","tag-virtualgoods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","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=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}