{"id":904,"date":"2013-07-01T13:13:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T13:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.warlight.net\/?p=904"},"modified":"2013-07-01T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T13:13:06","slug":"warlight-2-0-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/warlight-2-0-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"WarLight 2.0 is coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a major update to WarLight coming! And it&#8217;s going to be awesome!<\/p>\n<p>WarLight will soon be upgraded to 2.0, which will be the biggest update to the game since 1.0 released over two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A big part of 2.0 will be the official release of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.warlight.net\/index.php\/Mobile_Client\">mobile client<\/a>, which will allow playing from iOS and Android devices.  However, the mobile client is not the only thing coming in 2.0 &#8212; there will also be changes and improvements to the website.<\/p>\n<p>One of these changes is that the site will start showing advertisements to non-members.  I&#8217;ve never been a huge fan of advertisements, but this change is unfortunately necessary.  WarLight has, so far, never been able to be profitable under the membership revenue model, and at some point that needs to change.  The site costs over $1,000 every month just to keep the servers running, and less than 5% of players purchase a membership.  <\/p>\n<p>By showing ads to non-members it provides two paths that players can take: You can either purchase the game (i.e. a membership), or play for free and see ads.  I intend for the ads to be as unobtrusive as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Along with this change, there will be ways for non-paying players to gain access to many of the features that are restricted to members today.  More details on this will be announced later.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I believe that most non-members will be happy with the new WarLight, as they&#8217;re going to be getting a lot more from the game than they are now.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the blog for more information about what else is coming in 2.0!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a major update to WarLight coming! And it&#8217;s going to be awesome! WarLight will soon be upgraded to 2.0, which will be the biggest update to the game since 1.0 released over two years ago. A big part of 2.0 will be the official release of the mobile client, which will allow playing from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/warlight-2-0-is-coming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WarLight 2.0 is coming!&#8221;<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}