{"id":3542,"date":"2009-02-19T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"left-4-dead-sales-skyrocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/3542-left-4-dead-sales-skyrocket","title":{"rendered":"Left 4 Dead sales skyrocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, Left 4 Dead for PC was available through STEAM, an online download store run by Valve, for half its usual price. The title was available for $25 (R250) over the weekend while the usual price is $50 (R500).<\/p>\n<p>It puts things into perspective somewhat, considering that the game&rsquo;s regular price in SA is around R320, just R70 more than STEAM&rsquo;s &ldquo;special&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>For once SA gamers have something to celebrate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the past weekend\u2019s 50% off STEAM sale, the title outsold its launch weekend, attaining a 3000% increase in sales over previous weekends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}