{"id":1986,"date":"2010-02-03T01:18:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T06:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/03\/white-knight-chronicles-%e2%80%93-or-how-to-piss-off-your-fan-base\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T07:23:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T12:23:04","slug":"white-knight-chronicles-%e2%80%93-or-how-to-piss-off-your-fan-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/03\/white-knight-chronicles-%e2%80%93-or-how-to-piss-off-your-fan-base\/","title":{"rendered":"White Knight Chronicles \u2013 Or how to piss off your fan base."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still have not decided what to do with <em>White Knight Chronicles International<\/em>.  I know if I purchase it I will not have enough time to play, or get my money\u2019s worth.  Besides there is that backlog of RPGs that I mentioned yesterday, but I digress.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2010\/02\/white-knight-chronicles-ships-today\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2010\/02\/white-knight-chronicles-ships-today\/', 'article');\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> from the \u201cofficial\u201d PlayStation Blog is sure to royally tick off some folks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For those of you who are going to be investing significant time in your characters, there will be an option to remake them without having to start the game over by purchasing a special key through the PlayStation Store for only $4.99. This will allow you to redesign your avatar at any point and keep all that hard work you\u2019ve put in intact. This feature will go live this Thursday on the PlayStation Store.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch!  I am sure it is considered innovative to change your character\u2019s appearance mid-game, but charging almost $5 to make the change (and of course keep your current progression) is just a bit much.  Oh well, with the cost of modern game development, I guess Sony has to figure out how to squeeze additional revenue sources from its games.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I think it would have been better to wait on this announcement.  Instead it sort of comes off as \u201cF-you!  We know you will pay anyway!\u201d<\/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=\"https:\/\/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 still have not decided what to do with White Knight Chronicles International. I know if I purchase it I will not have enough time to play, or get my money\u2019s worth. Besides there is that backlog of RPGs that I mentioned yesterday, but I digress. This article from the \u201cofficial\u201d PlayStation Blog is sure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/03\/white-knight-chronicles-%e2%80%93-or-how-to-piss-off-your-fan-base\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">White Knight Chronicles \u2013 Or how to piss off your fan base.<\/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=\"https:\/\/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":[9,11,17],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ps3","tag-rpg","tag-wkci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}