{"id":311,"date":"2007-02-05T14:24:02","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T13:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/05\/virtual-world-has-billions-of-residents\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T14:24:02","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T13:24:02","slug":"virtual-world-has-billions-of-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/05\/virtual-world-has-billions-of-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual World Has Billions of Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through <a href=\"http:\/\/terranova.blogs.com\/terra_nova\/\">Terra Nova<\/a>, a funny article at GameSpot about a new MMO : <span class=\"gstext15\"><\/span><span class=\"gsheader\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/gamespot\/features\/all\/gamespotting\/071103minusworld\/1.html\">Real Life<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"gstext15\"> Real life isn&#8217;t above reproach. In one of the stranger design decisions in the game, for some reason you have no choice in determining your character&#8217;s initial starting location, appearance, or gender, which are chosen for you seemingly at random. (&#8230;) <\/span><span class=\"gstext15\">Real life features a great system whereby newbie players will automatically be guided along through the early levels by one or more &#8220;parent&#8221; characters who elect to take newbie characters under their wing. (&#8230;)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gstext15\"> Player death is a serious issue in real life, and cause for continued debate among players, who often direct unanswerable questions on the subject to the game&#8217;s developers, who are apparently (and understandably) so busy that they generally keep silent. In short, players who die&#8211;at the hands of other players, by the occasional environmental hazard, or when their account expires&#8211;are essentially removed from the gameworld and apparently cannot return at all. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through Terra Nova, a funny article at GameSpot about a new MMO : Real Life. Real life isn&#8217;t above reproach. In one of the stranger design decisions in the game, for some reason you have no choice in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}