{"id":110,"date":"2007-11-20T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2007-11-20T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T00:21:00","slug":"hellgate-a-few-weeks-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Hellgate: A Few Weeks Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes the game has problems. Some of these problems are big, most are medium to small; depending on who you ask.  But it does have problems.<\/p>\n<p>That fact has not stopped me from playing. A lot.  Really the basic mechanics of killing baddies, getting stuff, leveling up and killing more stuff is fun. They got right the part that , for me , is most important and it kept me playing. <\/p>\n<p>I still do not see reason for a subscription, nor do I feel they should stick to their &#8220;content for subs&#8221; plan.  They should patch the bugs, add in UI \/ game play features that are missing, but save all their content.  Get enough of it done to justify $20, then release an expansion.  Done.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt they listen to me, but at least the first patch shows they are listening to mob.  In what I feel is a shocking move, the patch today unlocks 24 character slots for non-subs.  Sure it also addressed some bugs; who cares about that when they give away for &#8220;free&#8221; what I feel is currently was the biggest reason to subscribe.  I am not sure what they have planned, but hats off to FSS.<\/p>\n<p>If not for the fact that I am still on my first play through of Mass Effect, I would probably be back in London tonight helping fight off the demon scourge.  For now it will have to wait at least a few more days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes the game has problems. Some of these problems are big, most are medium to small; depending on who you ask. But it does have problems. That fact has not stopped me from playing. A lot. Really the basic mechanics of killing baddies, getting stuff, leveling up and killing more stuff is fun. They got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}