{"id":96,"date":"2008-01-04T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/04\/even-gameloft-can-fail-apparently-disconnects-connect\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T02:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T02:04:00","slug":"even-gameloft-can-fail-apparently-disconnects-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/04\/even-gameloft-can-fail-apparently-disconnects-connect\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Gameloft can fail, apparently: disconnects Connect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R32V9mT2_mI\/AAAAAAAABfU\/9hFDQbHd95c\/s1600-h\/gameloft+logo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:pointer;width:196px;height:44px;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R32V9mT2_mI\/AAAAAAAABfU\/9hFDQbHd95c\/s320\/gameloft+logo.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Mobile games giant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameloft.com\/\">Gameloft<\/a>, the one company in the space that seemed immune to failure, apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/mobilegames.blogs.com\/mobile_games_blog\/2007\/12\/gameloft-connec.html\">shuts down<\/a> its Gameloft Connect D2C service. Gameloft had started this as a iTunes-style application with all the bells and whistles: it was a downloadable PC application that allowed users to browse Gameloft&#8217;s catalogue online and bypass bandwidth restrictions (and billing charges) of mobile networks by utilising the computer&#8217;s bandwidth. Games could be loaded via a PC-handset connection and activated by SMS.<\/p>\n<p>However, now it seems to only signify that direct-to-consumer propositions for mobile games are a tough business. They may have wanted too much: mobile games are a very real business but they seem to be too niche still to justify a full-blown integrated product like this, in particular when it is not a one-stop shop but only provides access to one publisher&#8217;s catalogue (even if such a good one such as Gameloft&#8217;s). A real pity that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile games giant Gameloft, the one company in the space that seemed immune to failure, apparently shuts down its Gameloft Connect D2C service. Gameloft had started this as a iTunes-style application with all the bells and whistles: it was a downloadable PC application that allowed users to browse Gameloft&#8217;s catalogue online and bypass bandwidth restrictions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[152,235,236,398,404],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-d2c","tag-gameloft","tag-gameloft-connect","tag-mobile-content","tag-mobile-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-1y","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}