{"id":874,"date":"2007-05-02T08:01:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T12:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/05\/02\/big-mistake\/"},"modified":"2007-05-02T08:07:18","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T12:07:18","slug":"big-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/05\/02\/big-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then I make a huge error when it comes to game purchases.  This usually happens when I have zero time for additional gaming and I decide to \u201cjust take a look\u201d at some new release.  Yesterday I made this classic mistake when I headed off to Best Buy to purchase the Lord of the Rings Online.  My logic (or lack thereof) was that I could play the game during Blizzard\u2019s Tuesday maintenance to pass the time.<\/p>\n<p>Fool.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll post more about LoTR when I\u2019ve played a bit more, but let\u2019s just say I\u2019m having fun playing with my dwarf minstrel (healer).  I won\u2019t give up World of Warcraft.  However, I am squeezing in even more gaming time these days.  Oh yea, the BM 2008 analysis is officially on hold this month\u2026<\/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>Every now and then I make a huge error when it comes to game purchases. This usually happens when I have zero time for additional gaming and I decide to \u201cjust take a look\u201d at some new release. Yesterday I made this classic mistake when I headed off to Best Buy to purchase the Lord &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/05\/02\/big-mistake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Mistake<\/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":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}