Cobalt Azurean

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What was the total count?

Bump. Because I can.

Cobalt_Azurean, I believe, on Steam. Find meh. I'm in the Unofficial CoH Group there.

I'll kick some money in this direction.

So, there I was; getting off work early to enjoy the long weekend. And I was walking into CVS to buy toilet paper before heading home when my phone blew up from someone posting to my wall on Facebook. It was the Farewell announcement, and I just started laughing out-loud to myself. I didn't know what else to do, just trying to process the fact that seven years plus of my life would be ending very abruptly.

I suppose that's the worst part, aside from the fact that CoH is ending for all of us. It's that usually leading up to a game shutting its doors, the servers are merged and all that doom-crying nonsense. Nope. Not here. Just wham, bam, thank you ma'am.

I've been talking to people since I got home and immediately logged on. Naturally it was the talk of the town. I logged in my namesake since it seemed like the thing to do. I had him stashed in AP to pay the SG rent. Broadcast was a-buzz with it, Global channels were going crazy, tells were being sent, so on and so forth. Petitions have gone up, threads have been posted in, Facebook Groups are created. You think of it, it probably happened via some form of social media.

People have posted before me, and I've read what they've had to say. Now as I sit here, wondering what to type, it's hard to take it all in. How does one, in a single post on some forum somewhere in the digital ether that is the internet, encapsulate seven plus years of experience? Of course, I was tempted to simply tip my hat, raise a metaphorical glass in salute, and leave it at that. I still might, who knows at this point.

Favorite memories? Too many to post, and I've probably forgotten more than I could recite at the moment. Mostly firsts, you know. First character, first tutorial, first time hitting level two, first time hearing the Atlas Park music, first team invite, first death, first gfriend, first global channel, first Hami Raid, first in-game drama, first forum post, etc. You get the idea. Yes, even drama is a favorite memory. Sure, it sucks, but it just goes to show that people are passionate about this game.

What, its just a video game, you say? The hell it is. This is the medium that we've all connected to other people through. That's what we're really losing here, that's why it sucks so hard. I could name off dozens of other video games out there, and they've got their players, but we've got a Community. I don't just mean Champion, which is the best of course, but all the servers and their players as a whole. When all is said and done, we'll dissipate and go our mostly separate ways, and the places we end up will be better for it as we take the experiences that we've had here and share them with others, but those places will never be what we had here.

What we had here... I think most people only appreciate what they had after its already gone, as the saying goes. Not in this case. In this instance, we know exactly what we're losing; family, friends, Community.

Too many friends and family to list off, but they know who they are and that's what matters in this case.

To Champion as a whole; I was quoted once in a song by @Decision saying that I don't play anywhere and I never will. This much is true. While we may have had our disagreements along the way, I never strayed.

Yes, our game is ending. Our Community is ending. Our way of living our digital lives is ending. But its not over yet. Let's do the most and best we can with the time we have left. After all, We Are The Champions.

As I said to someone in-game; Wherever your travels find you, may they find you well.

@Cobalt Azurean

/bookmarked

Last one was in RWZ. No level limit either.