ColdSun

After our first night of play I came back to the forums and saw this thread has grown. I apologize to all of you for any problem it may have started and it certainly wasn't meant to do so. I wanted everyone to know that I did not take Westley's response as serious to begin with. I'm no spring chicken when it comes to these games and message boards. At the same time I was very thankful to the folks who responded with the facts and we did start our first group on Freedom.

We are playing brand new heroes on Freedom and will be starting villains on Virtue. I still have characters on my account as well. Our first night back we had a lot of fun! I'm not sure my son likes Martial Arts though. He might start something else. I liked seeing costume contests still going on in the city. There were supergroup invites, there were group invites and tells. All in all, I was happy to see the game is striving and I didn't waste our money. Looks like we will be playing for a while.

Thank you everyone. Its ok that the first responder in the thread posted that way. I understand how he feels. It isn't just about finding groups for me, but having a community to talk to and have fun with. I wouldn't care if the game was 1 week old or 5 years old, I know it sounds crazy but I prefer higher population servers.

To the first responder - we went to Freedom. At least you have three new players paying for the game who want to be part of things. We are excited by some of the new features that weren't here years ago. Maybe we will make characters on less populated servers after we get back into the swing of things.

That was very helpful. Thank you.

Hello,

Me and my two sons are coming back to the game. We would like to start over on the most populated server. Can anyone tell me what that is? Much appreciated!

Show me that then.

Reading this thread is sort of sad. As small as this community is, it is sad to see you folks fight and hurl insults. All that aside, I would like to contribute to this thread.

When this game was first released I couldn't stop playing it. My friends from other games joined me and we played for a while together. Back then the only thing to do in the end-game was fight a big transparent blob thingie and herd wolf NPCs in missions to power-level our low level characters. I regret that the most. The whole fun of this game IS the leveling up and the experiences you get while doing it. Friends starting dropping off here and there for various reasons, although the scariest one was some of the changes didn't sit well with them (some nerfs I guess). Maybe some of them thought it would be another DAOC or EQ. Others left to play that monster we know as World of War-crack (errr craft). I continued to play until I wasn't having fun anymore.

I went to other games, mainly WoW, because that is where my friends were. I hated that cartoonish POS since the moment I played it, but I could NOT convince my friends to play anything else. These were people I played with for years and years, since the days of Ultima Online. I've given up on even trying to convince them. Warhammer came out, I tried it. They didn't. Age of Conan - same story. Champions Online - same.

Where am I now? I didn't have many choices to be honest. No other game has been as fun as CoH was for me when I played it. No one I knew was playing it anymore so I was hesitant to play it again. To be honest, I hate to play alone. So I'm back. I brought my son with me too. We will play until we get bored again or something else grabs our attention.

The thing is, many MMO players are just not going to make the switch from The Evil Empire (aka WoW). They are so sucked into the lemming pit it is, and what they can "get" next, that they won't even think of abandoning their hard work (I thought games were supposed to be fun) for something else, especially an old game like CoH.

Your best chance to get new players is from people who are "new" players. This Facebook idea is a good one. I know some of you don't agree and might even be prissy about the types of players it may attract, but I think this game has a LOT to offer fans of super-hero games or even movie fans looking for a new experience after watching a good super-hero movie. It seems that the people running this game have somewhat of an idea of where to get these customers. They certainly won't get them advertising on Fileplanet or other gaming web sites. People there are either disenchanted with all MMOs or are hooked on World of Suckfest, or they are like us, willing to play their favorite MMO even with less people playing it.

It is sad that some of you don't care to see the population grow and like it how it is. In order for new content to be released or anything new, they have to make some profit on the game. The status-quo isn't going to do it. They will only do this until they have something else for these developers to work on. Suits don't care about customers - they care about the bottom line, and if you think they do you are greatly mistaken - especially in a country where they are willing to send all our jobs overseas just to make the mighty dollar line their greedy little pockets.

So anyhow, you have two "sort of" new folks coming back to play this game. I'll do my best to drag others back! I don't expect much though. Haven't you seen the advertisements of the new WoW expansion? They have an army of developers to throw at another grind-fest for their customers and by the sound of my old friends who play that nightmare, their eyes are already lit up and their money is already waiting to be spent.