{"id":30048,"date":"2012-08-31T13:25:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T19:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/my-first-pass-post-mortem-of-city-of-heroes.html"},"modified":"2012-08-31T13:25:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T19:25:59","slug":"my-first-pass-post-mortem-of-city-of-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/my-first-pass-post-mortem-of-city-of-heroes.html","title":{"rendered":"My first-pass post-mortem of City of Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling myself go through the whole &quot;stages of grief&quot; thing on this. Which seems silly, of course, for a game. But, on the other hand, given the number of years and how much time I&#39;ve spent on it, is perhaps not surprising.<\/p>\n<p>Firk ding blast!<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhill-kleerup.org%2Fblog%2Fheroes%2Fwp%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F01%2Fcohf_logo-300x147.png' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2012\/08\/the-end-of-city-of-heroes.html'>The End of City of Heroes | Blog of Heroes<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWell &#8230; dammit. This morning we announced that Paragon Studios will be taking to the skies of City of Heroes for the last time. In a realignment of company\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ENvoY7QbAYj' target='_new'>1<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ENvoY7QbAYj' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling myself go through the whole &quot;stages of grief&quot; thing on this. Which seems silly, of course, for a game. But, on the other hand, given the number of years and how much time I&#39;ve spent on it, is perhaps not surprising. Firk ding blast! Embedded Link The End of City of Heroes | Blog &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/my-first-pass-post-mortem-of-city-of-heroes.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My first-pass post-mortem of City of Heroes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"","_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}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37479,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/marvel-marvel-marvel-marvel-heroes-heroes-heroes-heroes.html","url_meta":{"origin":30048,"position":0},"title":"Marvel Marvel Marvel Marvel Heroes Heroes Heroes Heroes","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Jun-13 8:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"We betaed this on multiple occasions. \u00a0I found the crafting process goofy, but, more importantly, it suffered from just this problem.If it were a fabulous game, it could have overcome that. \u00a0It is not, and the money-making possibilities of costume alternatives makes the problem even worse.Reshared post from +Doyce TestermanAs\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30320,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/city-of-heroes-by-the-numbers.html","url_meta":{"origin":30048,"position":1},"title":"City of Heroes, by the numbers","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Sep-12 6:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"Very cool infographic on +City of Heroes Freedom\u00a0from May -- which just ads to the whole wistfulness \/ sadness of NCSoft pulling the plug. #coh \u00a0 #cityofheroes \u00a0 Embedded Link infographicboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/city-heroes.jpg Google+: View post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15937,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/06\/if-super-heroes-used-facebook.html","url_meta":{"origin":30048,"position":2},"title":"If Super-heroes Used Facebook","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Oct-09 1:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh my. 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