{"id":73,"date":"2008-10-14T10:43:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T17:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benie.beniesbuilds.com\/personal\/?p=73"},"modified":"2008-10-14T10:43:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T17:43:52","slug":"to-get-the-stalker-series-or-not-to-get-the-stalker-series-that-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2008\/10\/14\/to-get-the-stalker-series-or-not-to-get-the-stalker-series-that-is-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"The S.T.A.L.K.E.R series; Steam VS Retail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long time thinking of I should get these games or not, I&#8217;ve decided to go to Amazon and get them, and now my brain is saying I made a horrible mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Let me explain why&#8230;<br \/>\nRetail;<br \/>\nGet it in 1 week, but no need to download<br \/>\nGet a box and a CD. That CD could become damaged\/lost and then your fucked<br \/>\nNot restricted to the latest patch. I&#8217;ve hear mods work better?<br \/>\nSave a TINY bit more than what it will cost with Steam<\/p>\n<p>Steam;<br \/>\nGet it NOW, just have to download. No need to suffer waiting(except the download)<br \/>\nNo box or CD&#8217;s that can get damaged\/lost<br \/>\nRestricted to the latest patch. But I hear that mods work for the Steam version too.<br \/>\nCost is a bit more than I&#8217;m paying for Retail<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve asked the sellers to delay the shipping of both games &#8217;till the 16th to give myself some more time to think of an idea.<br \/>\nAnd I finally got one! \ud83d\ude00 I&#8217;ve decided to go on and get the first game from Steam, and told the shippers to go on and continue the orders. Then when the retail versions come, I will be able to compare without uncertainty.<br \/>\nThat way, I can go on and play the first game now. See if I like it. If not, I can just sell the copies at eBay or a flea market or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long time thinking of I should get these games or not, I&#8217;ve decided to go to Amazon and get them, and now my brain is saying I made a horrible mistake. Let me explain why&#8230; Retail; Get it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2008\/10\/14\/to-get-the-stalker-series-or-not-to-get-the-stalker-series-that-is-the-question\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-games-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}