{"id":1921,"date":"2008-10-05T10:53:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T15:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2008-10-05T15:15:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T20:15:42","slug":"now-playing-city-of-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1921","title":{"rendered":"Now Playing: City of Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know this game is much anticipated by many readers. I don&#8217;t know what the actual subscription numbers are like, but I&#8217;ve come to think of it as the &#8220;other&#8221; World of Warcraft.  It seems to have the same ratio of fans (many) to detractors (very few) and the same level of long-timers that have been playing for ages. As with WoW, I have invites to just about every server out there from various friends and readers. So once again I just blindly rolled the dice and picked a server at random.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on Liberty.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a few days into it now, but I&#8217;m still several days from writing about it.  Still, I thought I&#8217;d give a heads up. <\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Based on advice in the comments below, I&#8217;ll probably be playing on Freedom, too.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Wow.  Freedom is indeed much different.  Just hit level 6 and the crowds make for a very different experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this game is much anticipated by many readers. I don&#8217;t know what the actual subscription numbers are like, but I&#8217;ve come to think of it as the &#8220;other&#8221; World of Warcraft. It seems to have the same ratio of fans (many) to detractors (very few) and the same level of long-timers that have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices","tag-coh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}