{"id":64,"date":"2008-04-06T14:08:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T22:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/?p=64"},"modified":"2008-04-06T14:10:11","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T22:10:11","slug":"this-baffles-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2008\/04\/this-baffles-me\/","title":{"rendered":"This baffles me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why does Final Fantasy VII sell for such an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/offer-listing\/B00000JRSB\/ref=dp_olp_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1207519447&#038;sr=8-1\">exorbitant<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/store.videogamecentral.com\/ps1-used-final-fantasy-7.html\">amount<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/video-games.search.ebay.com\/final-fantasy-vii_Games_W0QQfsopZ32QQsacatZ62053\">online<\/a>? Are all these people buying $70 copies of the Greatest Hits version planning to play the game, or are they speculating? Is there a strange Final Fantasy VII internet sales bubble, and if so will it eventually crash, bringing the price of the game down to a reasonable amount, or will it just continue to skyrocket?<\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racketboy.com\/retro\/nintendo\/nes\/2007\/12\/final-fantasy-20-years-history-of-landmark-series.html\">Final Fantasy: Twenty Years and a Massive Universe Later<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does Final Fantasy VII sell for such an exorbitant amount online? Are all these people buying $70 copies of the Greatest Hits version planning to play the game, or are they speculating? Is there a strange Final Fantasy VII internet sales bubble, and if so will it eventually crash, bringing the price of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlp","category-video-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}