{"id":42395,"date":"2017-03-21T15:50:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T22:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=42395"},"modified":"2017-03-21T15:50:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T22:50:42","slug":"city-heroes-statesman-back-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2017\/03\/21\/city-heroes-statesman-back-not-really\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Heroes&#8217; Statesman is back! Not really."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too cruel NCSoft. Too cruel by half. That&#8217;s the Statesman, one of the iconic superpowered characters from City of Heroes, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ra7O7LqNh5w\">repurposed<\/a> for NCSoft&#8217;s upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playmxm.com\/en\/\">Master X Master<\/a>. It&#8217;s a MOBA, and NCSoft figured they could attract fans of their superhero MMO, (shuttered in 2012) to their latest venture by dredging up the corpse of one of the beloved main characters from Paragon City. 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