{"id":106,"date":"2006-08-11T13:14:31","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T19:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/11\/w00t-radio-chat-with-city-of-heroes-developer\/"},"modified":"2006-08-11T13:14:31","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T19:14:31","slug":"w00t-radio-chat-with-city-of-heroes-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/w00t-radio-chat-with-city-of-heroes-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"W00t! Radio chat with City of Heroes developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at my blog stats, I see that I get a LOT of hits from people searching for information on <a href=\"http:\/\/cityofheroes.com\"><i>City of Heroes<\/i><\/a> upcoming issue 8. So, let&#8217;s appease the masses. Matt Miller, aka &#8220;Positron&#8221;, a designer for <i>City of Heroes<\/i> and <i>City of Villains<\/i>, was interviewed the other day by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w00tradio.net\">W00t! Radio<\/a>. In the discussion they talked about a lot of the things that might or might not make it into issue 8. The results are unfortunate. There&#8217;s a rough play-by-play of the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;Number=6182863&amp;an=0&amp;page=0#Post6182863\">over here on the official CoH forums<\/a>, and the interview itself is available for download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w00tradio.net\/index.php?option=com_wrapper&amp;Itemid=98\">over here<\/a>.  Here&#8217;s a few hightlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wings are coming as a costume option<\/li>\n<li>Jetbacks on their way as another costume option<\/li>\n<li>Invention\/skill system was <i>planned<\/i> for i8, but has been pushed back. Again<\/li>\n<li>5th Column not returning this year. Boo<\/li>\n<li>Power customization is too hard<\/li>\n<li>Not touching minion customization <i>(also too hard)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Nictus is a level 50 villain epic archetype. It&#8217;s basically a warshade. Incarnates not coming yet for heroes<\/li>\n<li>War walls are coming down<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I look at this and come away a bit disappointed. I cancelled my CoH subscription back in February, and I haven&#8217;t seen anything in i7 or the upcoming i8 that is making me want to sign back up. Even the double xp weekend wasn&#8217;t enough to get me back into the game. At this point, they need to stop tweaking the CoH\/CoV balance issues <i>(because I care absolutely ZERO about PvP)<\/i>, and concentrate on making new cool things for CoH. That&#8217;s the only way I&#8217;m coming back. Until they remember what made them famous in the first place <i>(Co<b>H<\/b>!)<\/i>, they&#8217;ve lost a lot of former users that they will have to work hard to get to sign back up for the game Cryptic left behind.<\/p>\n<p>My two cents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at my blog stats, I see that I get a LOT of hits from people searching for information on City of Heroes upcoming issue 8. So, let&#8217;s appease the masses. Matt Miller, aka &#8220;Positron&#8221;, a designer for City of Heroes and City of Villains, was interviewed the other day by W00t! Radio. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[276,277,278],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-city-of-heroes","tag-mmo","tag-mmorpg","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}