{"id":772,"date":"2014-01-17T12:55:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T17:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/?p=772"},"modified":"2014-01-17T12:55:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T17:55:52","slug":"tlf-free-is-never-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2014\/01\/17\/tlf-free-is-never-free\/","title":{"rendered":"TLF: Free is Never Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I know the title makes it sound like I&#8217;m about to start spouting platitudes about freedom and serving one&#8217;s country, <a href=\"http:\/\/thelearnedfangirl.com\/2014\/01\/17\/free-is-never-free-the-economic-politics-of-free-to-play-games-and-why-i-hate-them\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post over at TLF is actually about free-to-play games and why I find them so infuriating and problematic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am curious, though, about those of you who not only play free-to-play (as I do, too), but who pay for the upgrades. At what point do you &#8220;cave in&#8221; and give them money? What&#8217;s worth paying for and what isn&#8217;t? I&#8217;m also horribly nosy and want to know how much you&#8217;ve ended up paying for them, but I know that&#8217;s probably more personal than most people want to share on some random person&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I know the title makes it sound like I&#8217;m about to start spouting platitudes about freedom and serving one&#8217;s country, this post over at TLF is actually about free-to-play games and why I find them so infuriating and problematic. &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2014\/01\/17\/tlf-free-is-never-free\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9147,9136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tlf","category-videogames"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6XN03-cs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}