{"id":387,"date":"2005-09-16T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2005-09-16T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T15:38:00","slug":"downloading-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/16\/downloading-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Downloading Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on a number of forums, so I thought it only right that I should post it here, too.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>After the heated debate on Adventure Gamers in the &#8220;New Business Model&#8221; thread (<a href=\"http:\/\/forums.adventuregamers.com\/showthread.php?t=10363\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/forums.adventuregamers.com\/s&#8230;ead.php?t=10363<\/a>) and some of the reactions to the cost versus playing time in the &#8220;Bone&#8221; thread (<a href=\"http:\/\/forums.adventuregamers.com\/showthread.php?t=10390\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/forums.adventuregamers.com\/s&#8230;ead.php?t=10390<\/a>) I&#8217;d like to pose some questions if I may.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not comfortable with the idea of asking gaming fans to part with cash in advance of any development, so I&#8217;m trying to work out some way that will enable me to bring my game ideas to fruition. I would appreciate as many serious answers to the following as possible.<\/p>\n<p>1. A number of people feel that the price of $20 for four hours of gameplay (Bone) is a little too much. What would you feel is an acceptable amount of gameplay for $20?<\/p>\n<p>2. Now that online payment and downloadable content is here to stay, how happy are you to buy your games this way in future?<\/p>\n<p>3. If an alternative format (CD, say) was offered for an additional charge, would you prefer this?<\/p>\n<p>4. If you downloaded a game to play, how big would the download be before it put you off downloading it?<\/p>\n<p>5. Does the size of the download depend on the style of the game in any way?  A cartoon game over a &#8220;serious&#8221; game, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>6. Have any of you downloaded and paid for games in other genres?<\/p>\n<p>7. Have any of you downloaded any &#8220;casual&#8221; games?<\/p>\n<p>8. Have you any other thoughts on downloading games?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on a number of forums, so I thought it only right that I should post it here, too. \ud83d\ude42 After the heated debate on Adventure Gamers in the &#8220;New Business Model&#8221; thread (http:\/\/forums.adventuregamers.com\/s&#8230;ead.php?t=10363) and some of the reactions to the cost versus playing time in the &#8220;Bone&#8221; thread (http:\/\/forums.adventuregamers.com\/s&#8230;ead.php?t=10390) I&#8217;d like to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/16\/downloading-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Downloading Games&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}