{"id":206,"date":"2005-08-25T23:02:58","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T21:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=206"},"modified":"2005-08-25T23:02:58","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T21:02:58","slug":"no-more-wow-for-you-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2005\/08\/25\/no-more-wow-for-you-today\/","title":{"rendered":"No More WOW for you Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word is that the Chinese government is working on regulating MMOGs so anybody playing more than three hours in a row will be punished in-game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/4183340.stm\">BBC story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The server administrators will be happy (less server load).<\/p>\n<p>The scary thing is that because MMOGs are managed at central servers, they are also the ideal cultural form for any totalitarian state: The committee has decided that you will only play three hours per day, young one.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if the authorities could set time limits on your reading, listening to music, or anything else &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word is that the Chinese government is working on regulating MMOGs so anybody playing more than three hours in a row will be punished in-game. BBC story. The server administrators will be happy (less server load). The scary thing is that because MMOGs are managed at central servers, they are also the ideal cultural form &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2005\/08\/25\/no-more-wow-for-you-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No More WOW for you Today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}