{"id":51,"date":"2010-01-23T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2010-01-23T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T17:17:00","slug":"the-rts-that-would-not-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/23\/the-rts-that-would-not-die\/","title":{"rendered":"The RTS That Would Not Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/starcraft-01.jpg\" alt=\"starcraft at christmas\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/starcraft-01.jpg\" alt=\"starcraft at christmas\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the Christmas holidays I and my friends like to play some kind of cooperative computer game.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Real-time_strategy\">realtime strategy game<\/a> (RTS) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Starcraft\">Starcraft<\/a> is our current favorite, though <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Left_for_dead_2\">Left For Dead 2<\/a> is nipping fast at its heels.  This Christmas, I went into a Best Buy, and idly checked to see if it was still for sale.  As I expected, it was.  But still, this shocked me:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/starcraft-02.jpg\" alt=\"starcraft is still 19.99\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/starcraft-02.jpg\" alt=\"starcraft is still 19.99\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case you don&#8217;t get the point, it&#8217;s an <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">eleven year old computer game<\/span> &#8211; and it still sells for<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">19.99<\/span>.  Even, as of this blogging, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/StarCraft-Battle-Chest-Pc\/dp\/B00001IVRD\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=videogames&amp;qid=1264296121&amp;sr=8-2\">Amazon<\/a>.  That&#8217;s eleven million copies &#8211; a million a year &#8211; at $20 bucks or more a pop, for a total of two hundred and twenty million dollars.  I&#8217;m sure that copies sold for more or less, but counting all the related media, you&#8217;re talking a quarter billion dollar franchise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/starcraft-03.jpg\" alt=\"starcraft ten year anniversary game\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/starcraft-03.jpg\" alt=\"starcraft ten year anniversary game\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever played it seriously, you know why.  <\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the Christmas holidays I and my friends like to play some kind of cooperative computer game. The realtime strategy game (RTS) Starcraft is our current favorite, though Left For&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-maze-of-twisty-little-passages","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}