{"id":4016,"date":"2011-12-23T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T18:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2012-01-03T23:23:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T06:23:44","slug":"gun-like-items-for-your-avatar-will-be-disappearing-from-the-xblm-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/2011\/12\/23\/gun-like-items-for-your-avatar-will-be-disappearing-from-the-xblm-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gun-like&#8221; items for your Avatar will be disappearing from the XBLM in January."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on the <a title=\"Epic Games forums\" href=\"Heads%20up!%20Starting%20on%20Jan.%201,%202012,%20the%20Lancer%20and%20Hammerburst%20avatar%20items%20will%20no%20longer%20be%20available%20on%20Xbox%20LIVE%20Marketplace.%20If%20you\u2019ve%20purchased%20the%20items%20prior%20to%20Jan.%201,%20you%20will%20be%20able%20to%20keep%20them.%20A%20new%20policy%20goes%20into%20effect%20for%20all%20gun-like%20avatar%20items%20on%20the%20Marketplace,%20so%20get%20them%20while%20they\u2019re%20hot.\">Epic Games forums<\/a>, the community manager &#8220;raczilla&#8221; had the following to say:<\/p>\n<p><em>Heads up! Starting on Jan. 1, 2012, the Lancer and Hammerburst avatar items will no longer be available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. If you\u2019ve purchased the items prior to Jan. 1, you will be able to keep them. A new policy goes into effect for all gun-like avatar items on the Marketplace, so get them while they\u2019re hot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/em>This isn&#8217;t only being applied to Epic Games, mind you, it&#8217;s something that Microsoft will be enforcing all companies to comply with as an effort to keep things a bit safer and more family friendly. \u00a0No provocative poses for your Avatars, drug references, weapons, etc. \u00a0If you do have guns equipped now, however&#8230;like said above, you&#8217;ll be ok to keep them.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on the Epic Games forums, the community manager &#8220;raczilla&#8221; had the following to say: Heads up! Starting on Jan. 1, 2012, the Lancer and Hammerburst avatar items will no longer be available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. If you\u2019ve purchased the items prior to Jan. 1, you will be able to keep them. A new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4071,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}