BlueBattler

And the final broadcast has been posted. Thanks Hitstreak!

Can the final Twitch TV Broadcast be posted ASAP then?

One of the first Christmas Events involved a Longbow character sending you on a mission through a helicopter. I remember because that particular mission was a way to gain an Oportal once Ourboros was created.

My plan after shutdown is to move at least some of my stories here to Fanfiction.net. They do have a game section, including City of Heroes.

Wanted to toss that out as an option to those of you who may not have given the matter much thought as yet.

Thank you for all your hard work videos. If nothing else remains, I am sure that your videos will be there to remind us of City's greatness for years to come.

Eight years.

Eight years. More than one hundred characters. . Approximately 70 50s. More than half a dozen stories ... one or two of novella length.

And I'm not ready for the game to go.

Eight years ago, I was coming off the most self destructive relationship I had ever been in. To say that I was depressed is to say that Nemesis has a plot or two.

I badly needed a distraction.

A friend had told me about this game, but I hadn't really planned on trying it. (Pay a MONTHLY fee to play a game? Were they KIDDING?) But I had told some friends of mine I was in a Role Play by Email Game with and they said they wanted to try it.

And I did.

In May of 2004 Blue Battler made his first appearance in Paragon City, and he never left.

Through relationship woes, health scares, family issues, and job stress, I always had a home in Paragon City. A few hours of Going, Finding, Killing (er, ARRESTING) Skullz, and I was often able to turn a lousy day into at least a bearable one.

I met awesome people here and got to know other people I already knew better. And when I had thought that I would never write again, a certain King of broken brass and scattered thoughts whispered to me that he had a story to tell ...

The day we found out that City was going, I was as stunned and saddened as everyone else. I couldn't concentrate on my job. All I could do was read the countless posts, trying to understand why ...

I am not ready for the game to go.

There will never be another City of Heroes. Never another game that just feels so right to me.

But ... I will play other games. I have found much to enjoy in Champions Online. I have taken a fresh look at DC Online, and even WOW. And there may yet be something that comes out in the next year or two that proves to be a blast as well.

And I will try to take what made City of Heroes special to me with me. We have all read comments from so many people on how special our community is, how helpful it is. Those of us who are moving onto other games have a responsibility to carry on the best part of what made City great to the other games that we play.

Be a helpful player. Be fair. Be kind. Be the kind of player that makes other communities say, "Man, that game must have been something ..."

Eight years.

Eight years, and I'm still not ready.

Really enjoyed it.

If it's a choice between no game at all or starting fresh, I'd be perfectly willing to start all over and I'd like to think a fair number of other people would be as well.

So anything get said on the last chat of interest?

I'd love to see someone do a Science Fiction MMO that worked more like Classic Star Trek than Star Trek Online did when I last played it.

Have a ship for transportation from world to world, but the actual story takes place on the ground. That could be awesome.

I think Matt may not be saying a lot about his MMO design theories or preferences right now because he's trying to land a job and doesn't want to poison the well.

I doubt that even the Plan Z folks expect to make a game that's going to attract the same size audience that COX had ... or that they'll have a game with the same level of complexity or lore that COH had right off the bat.

On the other hand, what do they have to lose? The worst that happens is they fail ... what's worse? Trying and failing-- or doing nothing?

It is good to know that so many have landed on their feet.

As others have said, there really is no way that COH can be restored at this point. If someone DOES buy it, they'd have to assemble a new team of Devs, they'd have their own vision for the game, and there's no guarantee that enough people would come back to make it a profitable game.

That being said, I do hold out hope that the best part of COH will live on after the game is gone. I've made friends in this game and had some awesome times. Devs have worked on this game and learned a lot from it.

Perhaps even now there's a gaming company out there-- perhaps one of those who tried to buy COH-- going, "Okay. There's a dedicated fan base out there for a game like COX-- let's see if we can make a product that they'll love."

The more I play Champions the more I enjoy it.

However, I have to say that the AT versions that FTP gets are much less fun than the freeforms a sub gets or at least have been so far.

And their market is VERY expensive.

That being said, I am enjoying the powers, the costume options, the various travel powers, and the instanced missions. The instanced missions are fairly short which is nice as I find it easier to do that "one more mission" before bedtime thing there. (Though my highest toon there is just 19 and they missions may take longer once you level up.)

No, it's not COH. If you play it expecting it to BE COH, you are going to be disappointed.

But in of itself, it's a fun little game.

I enjoy DC Online too-- their super speed travel is awesome-- you can run on water or up the sides of buildings. The world is visually stunning and the voice acting is great. (No surprise as they used professional actors.)

The downside to DC Online is that the controls work best with a joystick and their attack sets as a rule don't feel very super heroic to me.

At this point, what we do know is that there were several interested buyers in the game besides the Ex Paragon Studio Devs. I can certainly see the Devs be so attached to the game they'd try to buy it even if it didn't make long term financial sense, but the fact that several other bidders were out there-- and Valve was one of them-- suggests that at least someone in the industry thought there was still money to be made.

The amount of positive-- and free!-- PR that NCSoft could have made from selling the game would have been considerable.

That they didn't sell the game suggests to me they are expecting a CONSIDERABLE tax write off from selling the game.

Well, that or they are now so emotionally invested in their original decision that they will stubbornly cut off their nose to spite their face even if it cost them buckets of money.

I gotta say that being a real or virtual parental figure to Carl is starting to look like a guarantee that he'll be the one to put you down.

Maybe that'll be how the show ends: Carl putting down Zombie Rick.