{"id":2098,"date":"2012-09-01T06:58:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T13:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2012-09-01T06:58:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T13:58:17","slug":"city-of-heroes-and-the-five-stages-of-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2012\/09\/city-of-heroes-and-the-five-stages-of-grief.html","title":{"rendered":"City of Heroes and the Five Stages of Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As formulated by Elisabeth K\u00fcbler-Ross<\/a> relating to how people react to terminal illness or to any other personally catastrophic news. \u00a0I saw all of these in the CoH community since the word came down yesterday that the game was being shuttered — including all of these comments or variants thereof (well, not much of #5 yet).<\/p>\n

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  1. Denial<\/strong> \u2014 “NOOOOOOO!” “I don’t believe it!” “I feel numb.” “This makes no sense.” “It’s a fake to increase interest in the game.” “Someone else will buy the game and keep it running.”<\/li>\n
  2. Anger<\/strong> \u2014 “It’s not fair!” “NCSoft is screwing us!” “I’ve put all this time and effort in and now they just take it away? Unacceptable!” “Why are they doing this? I demand an explanation!”<\/li>\n
  3. Bargaining<\/strong> \u2014 “Isn’t there anything we can do?” “Petition NCSoft to keep the game running!” “Petition NCSoft to make the game open source so someone else can keep it running!” “Petition Sony to buy the game!” “Can’t they just let the servers run without any extra change or growth in the game?”<\/li>\n
  4. Depression<\/strong> \u2014 “I’m never going to play a game again.” “”Nothing will ever be as good as CoH was.” The game will be over soon, so what’s the point of playing it with any of my characters?” “I’ll never be able to think of how I met my spouse in the game without being sad now.”<\/li>\n
  5. Acceptance<\/strong> \u2014 “It’s going to be okay.” “There are other games out there — what is everyone else moving to?” “It’s had a good run and I’ve enjoyed it. Time to move on.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As formulated by Elisabeth K\u00fcbler-Ross relating to how people react to terminal illness or to any other personally catastrophic news. \u00a0I saw all of these in the CoH community since the word came down yesterday that the game was being shuttered — including all of these comments or variants thereof (well, not much of #5 … Continue reading “City of Heroes and the Five Stages of Grief”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-heroes","category-true-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2101,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}