{"id":2456,"date":"2017-11-04T16:04:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T16:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2017-11-04T16:04:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T16:04:21","slug":"simulations-are-doing-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2017\/11\/simulations-are-doing-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Simulations are doing fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Engagement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/haroldito\/24244847508\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Engagement\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4443\/24244847508_dc26862b58_c.jpg\" width=\"623\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>   <\/p>\n<p>Green line: Wolfenstein II, a big single-player game that just came out.<\/p>\n<p>Blue line: Stardew Valley, a small single-player game that came out last year.<\/p>\n<p>Orange line: Euro Truck Simulator 2, a medium single-player game that came out years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Wolfenstein, which probably cost more than Euro Truck and Stardew combined times two or three and which just came out \u2013that is, when peak interest is at its highest- is already engaging players less than games that came out many months ago.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a rough business. But there are opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>There is a wide, very wide spectrum of games that people like to play. Stardew Valley is a one-man made farming simulator averaging almost 10K players at any time, that\u2019s tremendous.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a band touring and having 30,000 people every night to see them. That\u2019s Euro Truck Simulator 2 and you\u2019ve never heard of that game. We really can\u2019t say people don\u2019t play or are a fleeting crowd that buys games for cheap and never play them. People like to play games, no doubt! <\/p>\n<p>We just under or overestimate a whole lot of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green line: Wolfenstein II, a big single-player game that just came out. Blue line: Stardew Valley, a small single-player game that came out last year. Orange line: Euro Truck Simulator 2, a medium single-player game that came out years ago. Wolfenstein, which probably cost more than Euro Truck and Stardew combined times two or three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}