{"id":7866,"date":"2013-06-03T21:28:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T21:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=7866"},"modified":"2013-06-03T21:28:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T21:28:26","slug":"the-hidden-cost-of-the-free-plants-vs-zombies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/06\/the-hidden-cost-of-the-free-plants-vs-zombies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The hidden cost of the free Plants vs Zombies 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me get this right. <em>Plants vs Zombies<\/em>, total cost of ownership&#8230; 69p. The upcoming <em>Plants vs Zombies 2<\/em>, initial cost of ownership, free&#8230; but with various in-app purchases, power-ups, boosts, and credits, I suspect the final cost will be much higher.<\/p>\n<p>Well played, EA, let&#8217;s hope nobody notices&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me get this right. Plants vs Zombies, total cost of ownership&#8230; 69p. The upcoming Plants vs Zombies 2, initial cost of ownership, free&#8230; but with various in-app purchases, power-ups, boosts, and credits, I suspect the final cost will be much higher. Well played, EA, let&#8217;s hope nobody notices&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2235,606,23,25,4],"tags":[160,3779,4566],"class_list":["post-7866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-apple-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-gaming","category-link-log","category-pocket-computers-and-phones","tag-ea","tag-iap","tag-plants-vs-zombies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-22S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}