{"id":1842,"date":"2014-06-17T15:40:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T21:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.68.163\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2014-06-17T16:59:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T22:59:28","slug":"ouya-web-store-games-without-demos-more-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"Ouya Web Store + Games Without Demos = More Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OUYA is actually pretty neat. But their recent decision to allow apps with no demo-able content of any kind really makes shopping for games a chore. The whole system is built around the idea that if a game seems remotely intriguing, you immediately download it and try out the demo content, to see if you want to buy it. But with the addition of &#8220;no-demo&#8221; games, this is gone.<\/p>\n<p>It is frustrating to browse for games on the ouya.tv web page. First off, their web store simply has no way to trigger a &#8220;purchase.&#8221; But why would you purchase from there, anyway? With no text-based reviews, and no prices listed, and no demos, you have no clue if the game is good. And, there is no way to know how much a game costs without going to your OUYA and searching for it. The &#8220;Push to my OUYA&#8221; button doesn&#8217;t seem to work.<\/p>\n<p>So you have to browse games at the OUHA, while simultaneously using a different computer to search for internet reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Oh sure, every game can have a short video trailer and some screen caps. But that&#8217;s rubbish: it&#8217;s a lot like buying a game in the store based on the box artwork&#8211;usually a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; once again a decision is made by the OUYA team that can only hurt their success further. Great idea; terrible marketing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OUYA is actually pretty neat. But their recent decision to allow apps with no demo-able content of any kind really makes shopping for games a chore. The whole system is built around the idea that if a game seems remotely intriguing, you immediately download it and try out the demo content, to see if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","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-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}