{"id":2127,"date":"2010-01-27T14:40:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T14:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2010-01-27T14:40:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T14:40:25","slug":"least-surprising-cities-xl-announcement-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/27\/least-surprising-cities-xl-announcement-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Least Surprising Cities XL Announcement Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently there were not enough subscribers to the Cities XL Planet system, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citiesxl.com\/content\/view\/3493\/134\/\">meaning that Monte Cristo has decided to drop it entirely.<\/a> They will not accept any new subscriptions to this mulitplayer system that allowed players to visit each other&#8217;s cities and interact in a trading system.<\/p>\n<p>From the announcement email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three months after the launch we have to admit that the subscription rate is lower than what we expected and therefore the Planet Offer is not sustainable. Not enough players decided to subscribe.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, it is with deep regret that we decided to put an end to the Planet Offer as of March 8th 2010. It will no longer be possible to subscribe to the game starting Monday February 1st 2010.<br \/>\nNevertheless the Cities XL adventure goes on! Cities XL will evolve into a fully single player game. As soon as march the Bus will be added for free in the solo game. At the same time we also keep on working on new content and new features to keep on improving Cities XL. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The online stuff was what separated <em>Cities XL<\/em> from the rest of the city builders out there, but one of the prices for investing in this was that the city builder itself wasn&#8217;t very interesting. It&#8217;s a shame to see an innovative idea go down in flames, but there&#8217;s probably a lesson in here somewhere about doing two things only half well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently there were not enough subscribers to the Cities XL Planet system, meaning that Monte Cristo has decided to drop it entirely. They will not accept any new subscriptions to this mulitplayer system that allowed players to visit each other&#8217;s cities and interact in a trading system. From the announcement email: Three months after the [&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":[33,78],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-yj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127"}],"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=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}