{"id":3065,"date":"2010-08-03T20:40:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T01:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3065"},"modified":"2010-08-03T20:40:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T01:40:40","slug":"digital-content-summer-sales-and-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/08\/03\/digital-content-summer-sales-and-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Content, Summer Sales, and Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was a brilliant article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesixthaxis.com\/2010\/08\/01\/my-psn-spending\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.thesixthaxis.com\/2010\/08\/01\/my-psn-spending\/', 'TheSixthAxis');\" target=\"_blank\">TheSixthAxis<\/a> on spending money on PSN digital content.  Brilliant as in the article is a good jumping off point that would provide some conversational value.  Seriously?  This guy has spent a boat load of money on digital content.  I am nowhere near \u00a3700 (~ $1150) in total purchases; good grief that is a lot of content!<\/p>\n<p>I love the concept of this article:  Sony via PSN makes it too damn easy to purchase digital content.  For the longest time I was a hold out (kind of like that earlier Facebook post), rallying against digital content, monthly subscriptions, micro-transactions, and the like.  Sure I did purchase the occasional title such as Super Startdust HD, 1943, and Flow, but for the most part I steered clear of digital content cooties.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, over the last few months I have really capitulated, including purchasing the Plus service.  I guess you could say that I have become what I fought against so long.  On that note, I am actually planning on throwing a more dollars Sony\u2019s way during their <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2010\/08\/02\/playstation-network-summer-sale-fat-princess-pixeljunk-chinatown-wars-and-more\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2010\/08\/02\/playstation-network-summer-sale-fat-princess-pixeljunk-chinatown-wars-and-more\/', 'PSN Summer Sale');\" target=\"_blank\">PSN Summer Sale<\/a> deals.<\/p>\n<p>I will probably pick up Fat Princess ($7.49 sale; $14.99 reg.) and PixelJunk Shooter ($4.99 sale; $9.99 reg.) two games that I have been watching, but did not really want to pony up for full price.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure about the PSP games or even if I want to \u201cinvest\u201d any more digital dollars into my PSP.  I may pick up echoshift ($7.49 sale; $14.99 reg.), and will think about Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars ($14.99 sale; $29.99 reg.) after doing some general research, checking out some reviews, and blog articles.  I have not finished Vice City, so I doubt I will throw $14.99 to chase after another GTA title.  Lunar Silver Star Harmony ($14.99 sale; $29.99 reg.) is also tempting, but right now I really do not need another RPG; too far behind on the ones I already own!<\/p>\n<p>I am really not that interested in the minis.  I would probably pick up Tetris ($4.99 sale; $9.99 reg.) if it were $1.99 just because Tetris is a good way to pass the time, but there are so many other puzzlers available for the PSP that are far superior.  Lumines, I chose you!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Plus, I think the verdict is still out.  I am going to write more about Plus, Wipeout HD and Critter Crunch later.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was a brilliant article from TheSixthAxis on spending money on PSN digital content. Brilliant as in the article is a good jumping off point that would provide some conversational value. Seriously? This guy has spent a boat load of money on digital content. I am nowhere near \u00a3700 (~ $1150) in total &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/08\/03\/digital-content-summer-sales-and-plus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Digital Content, Summer Sales, and Plus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,9,26],"class_list":["post-3065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-dlc","tag-ps3","tag-psn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3066,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}