{"id":561,"date":"2006-05-05T12:10:47","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T18:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2006\/05\/we-have-issues\/"},"modified":"2006-05-05T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T18:10:47","slug":"we-have-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/05\/we-have-issues.html","title":{"rendered":"We have Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/city_of_heroes\/1747121.html\" target=\"_blank\">nicely crafted history of CoH<\/a>, issue by issue &#8212; what went right, and what didn&#8217;t.<br \/>\nPart of what seems clear is that the intro of PvP had significantly negative consequences &#8212; that were inevitable, because PvP (be it the Arena duds or the power nerfs) was critical to City of Villains being launched.   Indeed, if you see Issues 4 and 5 (and ED) as laying the groundwork for supporting CoV PvP (EIEIO), it all begins to make sense.<br \/>\nThe question then becomes &#8212; how do Cryptic\/NCSoft manage to move forward?  The answer, from what we&#8217;ve heard tell for I8, is more content and some added power sets (and EPPs), even if some of that is pay-for-it rather than free.  That&#8217;s the right answer, I supsect.  The question will be how soon they can bring it on.  I7 will keep people in CoV, and provide some bones for the CoH players, but it may be a long wait until it all pays off.  And, in the meantime, there are plenty of other games out there &#8230;<br \/>\n(Though not for <em>me<\/em>, he said confidently.)<br \/>\n<small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/random.average-bear.com\/archive\/005522.html\" target=\"_blank\">Doyce<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nicely crafted history of CoH, issue by issue &#8212; what went right, and what didn&#8217;t. Part of what seems clear is that the intro of PvP had significantly negative consequences &#8212; that were inevitable, because PvP (be it the Arena duds or the power nerfs) was critical to City of Villains being launched. Indeed, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/05\/we-have-issues.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We have Issues&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","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\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}