{"id":5006,"date":"2012-09-28T18:52:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T18:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2012-09-28T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T18:52:11","slug":"wows-success-defies-conventional-wisdom-which","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5006","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>WoW&#8217;s success defies conventional wisdom, which means, in the most honest and direct terms, that the conventional wisdom is wrong and must be re-evaluated &#8211; but it&#8217;s far easier to shrug, brand the game an outlier, pay lip-service to Blizzard&#8217;s &#8220;unique&#8221; talent and be done with it. In a sense, I think that does a great disservice to Blizzard; it pretends that their success is down to some kind of magic dust sprinkled all over Azeroth, attributing the success of the game entirely to the spark of genius in its creators&#8217; minds. Nobody is denying that spark of genius; but the 1% Inspiration, 99% Perspiration rule still applies, and to deny the 99% of Blizzard&#8217;s efforts which are down to bloody hard work and an extraordinary process of learning and refinement seems deeply misguided.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2012-09-28-blizzards-success-isnt-magic-just-hard-work-and-open-minds?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=european-daily\">Blizzard&#8217;s success isn&#8217;t magic; just hard work and open minds | GamesIndustry International<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WoW&#8217;s success defies conventional wisdom, which means, in the most honest and direct terms, that the conventional wisdom is wrong and must be re-evaluated &#8211; but it&#8217;s far easier to shrug, brand the game an outlier, pay lip-service to Blizzard&#8217;s &#8220;unique&#8221; talent and be done with it. In a sense, I think that does a <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5006\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}