{"id":1056,"date":"2008-09-12T11:11:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T15:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/12\/dear-gamestop\/"},"modified":"2008-09-12T11:12:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T15:12:04","slug":"dear-gamestop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/12\/dear-gamestop\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Gamestop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a political season full of the usual misinformation, misunderstandings and outright lies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge-online.com\/features\/gamestop-not-afraid-compete-with-publishers\">it&#8217;s not surprising that Gamestop&#8217;s Bob McKenzie would say:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;re not saying we won&#8217;t be impacted at all by digital distribution, but the average customer isn&#8217;t going to have the patience for a 72-hour download for a game on their system<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I download a review copy of Spore earlier this week. It took less than three hours. So either Mr. McKenzie is still on dial-up or he knows nothing about digital distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a political season full of the usual misinformation, misunderstandings and outright lies, it&#8217;s not surprising that Gamestop&#8217;s Bob McKenzie would say: We&#8217;re not saying we won&#8217;t be impacted at all by digital distribution, but the average customer isn&#8217;t going to have the patience for a 72-hour download for a game on their system I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-h2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}