{"id":419,"date":"2006-09-05T14:27:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T18:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/05\/open-letter-to-maxis\/"},"modified":"2007-04-06T00:21:37","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T04:21:37","slug":"open-letter-to-maxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/05\/open-letter-to-maxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Open letter to Maxis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Maxis:<\/p>\n<p>I love The Sims. I love The Sims 2. I like many of the expansions.<\/p>\n<p>But would you stop making so many of them? Trying to install Sims 2 + expansions on a virgin machine is a forty minute job. Swap this disc, swap that disc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Put them all on one or two big DVDs that I get in exchange for my CD license keys and 5 bucks. Or something like that. Because this is crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Maxis: I love The Sims. I love The Sims 2. I like many of the expansions. But would you stop making so many of them? Trying to install Sims 2 + expansions on a virgin machine is a forty minute job. Swap this disc, swap that disc&#8230; Put them all on one or two [&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":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-6L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"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=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}