{"id":314,"date":"2004-10-17T22:01:58","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T05:01:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-10-21T21:27:58","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T04:27:58","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/314\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a fun exchange on Corpnews boards:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b>Kitsune<\/b>:<br \/>\nI&#8217;d be willing to give EQ2 a fair shot, but I won&#8217;t put down $50 sight-unseen with no refunds. If they want my hard-earned money, they&#8217;re going to have to show me that it&#8217;s going to be well spent. Or, more precisely in this case, that it&#8217;s going to be better spent there than on WoW. Were EQ2 coming out in a vacuum, I&#8217;d be an easy sell. Give me ample quests to do and stuff to explore, and I&#8217;ll buy your game. And from all accounts, EQ2 has quests and exploration, so that would be enough.<\/p>\n<p>If they were stand-up guys, they&#8217;d have a public beta so everyone could poke it and see how it wiggles. As it stands, though, looks like I&#8217;ll just have to sit and hope that they decide to randomly select me into the beta.<\/p>\n<p><b>Argh Im A Pirate<\/b>:<br \/>\nWhen did the public beta become the unoffical demo?<\/p>\n<p><b>Kitsune<\/b>:<br \/>\nWhen games started going gold in a beta state.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a fun exchange on Corpnews boards: Kitsune: I&#8217;d be willing to give EQ2 a fair shot, but I won&#8217;t put down $50 sight-unseen with no refunds. If they want my hard-earned money, they&#8217;re going to have to show me that it&#8217;s going to be well spent. Or, more precisely in this case, that it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}