{"id":2530,"date":"2018-02-27T18:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T18:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2018-02-27T18:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T18:22:25","slug":"paid-saveslot-they-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2018\/02\/paid-saveslot-they-did-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Paid saveslot. They did it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wccftech.com\/metal-gear-survive-charging-save-slot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yoooo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>It seems Metal Gear Survive only comes with a single free save slot \u2013 if you want a second one you\u2019ll have to pony up a significant chunk of extra cash.<\/i>    <br \/><i>     <br \/><\/i><i>Metal Gear Solid requires you to create an avatar, which is tied to your single-player and online multiplayer save file\/account. If you want to start a fresh playthrough, you\u2019ve got to create a new character, which means you\u2019ll have to delete your original save or cough up 1,000 SV Coins. Konami is selling their premium in-game currency in various set amounts \u2014 550 SV Coins will set you back $5, while 1150 will cost you $10.<\/i>    <br \/><i>     <br \/><\/i><i>If you share your Steam, Xbox Live, or PSN account with family members, each additional player will have to spend that extra $10 to play with their own character.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This is out of control. Also, this is successful: Metal Gear Survive is apparently selling well.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sunk_cost\" target=\"_blank\">sunk cost fallacy<\/a> has become standard in Games as a Service. This is where the focus is in my field: how to funnel those Gen Z kids. How to tractor-beam those people that hoard digital \u201cgoods\u201d for hundreds of hours in digital worlds. How to make them feel guilty for quitting. And all that casino and slot machine psychology.<\/p>\n<p>Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoooo. It seems Metal Gear Survive only comes with a single free save slot \u2013 if you want a second one you\u2019ll have to pony up a significant chunk of extra cash. Metal Gear Solid requires you to create an avatar, which is tied to your single-player and online multiplayer save file\/account. If you want [&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\/2530"}],"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=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}