{"id":9274,"date":"2010-09-01T19:09:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T00:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9274"},"modified":"2010-09-02T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T12:58:35","slug":"champions-online-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9274","title":{"rendered":"Happy Aniversary Champions Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week you can play Champions Online for free<\/a>. Old account. New account. Everyone plays for free. <\/p>\n

co_anniversary.jpg<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

I signed in. Star on Chest was just where I left him. The robot cowboy amusement park was right where I remember it being. In fact, I couldn’t find a single thing that had changed. No new content. In a year. (That I could spot.) I flipped through the character creator and after ten minutes I only managed to find one new costume piece. This game really needs more content. <\/p>\n

Although, if you’ve never played before they will have enough content to keep you busy for a week. Just don’t read the quest text.<\/p>\n

They have a celebratory cake in the super’s decadent city center, where you can gather and emote with other players in a crowded mess of spooling chat text and lag. It’s more fun than I make it sound.<\/p>\n

co_cake.jpg<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

And yes, when you arrive at this location the game makes a “cake is a lie” joke. Sigh. Everyone knows that only the saddest, most desperate sort of hacks<\/a> are still making cake jokes. <\/p>\n

EDIT: Ah. They have added new content, but it’s in the higher level areas, which is why I didn’t see it during my tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week you can play Champions Online for free. Old account. New account. Everyone plays for free. I signed in. Star on Chest was just where I left him. The robot cowboy amusement park was right where I remember it being. In fact, I couldn’t find a single thing that had changed. No new content. […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-9274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9274","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=9274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}