{"id":390,"date":"2005-09-06T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2005-09-06T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-06T18:48:00","slug":"long-live-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/06\/long-live-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Live Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is probably linking to Greg Costikyan&#8217;s two part article <em>Death to the Games Industry: Long Live Games<\/em>, but in case anyone has missed it, you can find it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/issue\/8\/3\">Part One<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/issue\/9\/4\">Part Two<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the first part concentrated on the state of the industry and the stifling of creativity, it was the second part which was far more interesting to me.  The idea of an online retail and marketing company is excellent.  Although not offering games for download, Her Interactive started selling their Nancy Drew games through Amazon and grew to the point where they were able to self-publish.  However, if the online route is the best way to go, Her Interactive could come full circle.<\/p>\n<p>Something that Greg didn&#8217;t cover was that some gamers actually like to own the product in a box, but even this could be accommodated by offering a disc version at a greater price and an additional cost for shipping.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the time has come for me to rethink my strategy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is probably linking to Greg Costikyan&#8217;s two part article Death to the Games Industry: Long Live Games, but in case anyone has missed it, you can find it here: Part One, Part Two. While the first part concentrated on the state of the industry and the stifling of creativity, it was the second part &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/06\/long-live-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Long Live 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-390","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\/390","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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}