{"id":74,"date":"2007-03-20T09:54:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T09:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2007-03-20T09:54:43","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T09:54:43","slug":"take-two-is-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/take-two-is-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Two is For Sale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Say it aint so!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am saddened to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/news\/6167588.html?tag=nl.e513\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href); return false\">read the news at Gamespot this morning<\/a> as Take Two Interactive has apparently decided to cut it&#8217;s losses and sell the company. Apparently the pressure from shareholders was just too much.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s sad&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I really, really would like to think they&#8217;re trying to manipulate their fan base into a revolt against extremist anti-gamer organizations. I really, really would like to believe that each of us would do everything in our power to see to it that Joeseph Leibermann and his cronies don&#8217;t get what they want.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if that will happen, however. I believe all of the fight is gone from Take-Two&#8217;s company. Their bottom line is being affected too much and now they have to cut and run. What did they do? They tried to defend their first amendment rights. Sure they produced a product that may be considered vile by some. Those people should simply take responsibility &#8211; not take action against others who are doing no wrong.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me sick&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Say it aint so!&#8221; I am saddened to read the news at Gamespot this morning as Take Two Interactive has apparently decided to cut it&#8217;s losses and sell the company. Apparently the pressure from shareholders was just too much. That&#8217;s sad&#8230; I really, really would like to think they&#8217;re trying to manipulate their fan base [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}