{"id":837,"date":"2006-04-04T15:08:24","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T20:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=837"},"modified":"2006-04-06T23:02:51","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T04:02:51","slug":"cinegame-virtualmarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"Cinegame. Virtualmarket."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MIT Technology Review website has a nice article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/read_article.aspx?id=16479\" target=\"blank\">&#8220;Cinegames&#8221; (Link)<\/a>, discussing the ever-increasing realism in videogames. That&#8217;s really no surprise to me considering I watch those developments like a hawk. Even so, it&#8217;s a good article worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, now former-Sony Online Entertainment videogame guru, Raph Koster, has posted an entry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raphkoster.com\/2006\/04\/03\/company-sanctioned-rmt-hits-single-player-games\/\" target=\"blank\">&#8220;Company-sanctioned RMT hits single-player games&#8221; (Link)<\/a>, discussing RMT (Real Money Trade) coming to a videogame on an XBox 360 near you. What&#8217;s most interesting to me are the comments. For some reason plenty of people seem to think consumers won&#8217;t spend a couple bucks for a virtual product. I think they&#8217;re wrong. I think the ones making those comments are mostly old-time gamers used to getting free mods. I also think that they&#8217;ve not been watching the mod community wither under the weight of increasingly realistic games. I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=557\" target=\"blank\">discussed that issue before<\/a>, so I won&#8217;t go into it again now. Let&#8217;s just wait and see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MIT Technology Review website has a nice article, &#8220;Cinegames&#8221; (Link), discussing the ever-increasing realism in videogames. That&#8217;s really no surprise to me considering I watch those developments like a hawk. Even so, it&#8217;s a good article worth reading. Meanwhile, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=837\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}