{"id":33,"date":"2005-04-26T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2005-04-26T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T13:50:00","slug":"retail-vs-esd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/retail-vs-esd\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail vs ESD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found a interesting reading from a link posted in indiegamer forum. They say<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Five years ago, those same people were making millions telling<br \/>\neveryone how their new dot com alone was going to have a 30% market share.<br \/>\nDigitally distributed games today account for one on-hundredth of that one<br \/>\npercent. Is it growing, sure. Will it be much bigger in five years? You bet.<br \/>\nBut the reality is that customers will be downloading Madden 2010 from a<br \/>\nretailer&#8217;s website, not the developers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I partly disagree. If you take Madden for sure, but because is developed by big software house. But in future I see more chances for independent developers. Fun how anyone seems to have forgot what happened with Doom first and Quake then&#8230; those games were first ESD and then came to retail&#8230;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found a interesting reading from a link posted in indiegamer forum. They say Five years ago, those same people were making millions telling everyone how their new dot com alone was going to have a 30% market share. Digitally distributed games today account for one on-hundredth of that one percent. Is it growing, sure. Will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}