DumpleBerry

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

I tend to feel the same way, stiff upper lip and all that.

Originally Posted by YouKnowWho

Moggie!

Originally Posted by Roughtrade

those of us unlucky enough to be caught by surprise.

Originally Posted by TopDoc

And most importantly, how can we as Marketeers profit? How can we come out ahead after the game has been shut down?

Originally Posted by SolarSentai

It's been a fun ride. I remember when I first started playing how reluctant I was to even install the game. In fact, it wasn't even my account I was playing on. My brother and his friend were sharing the account but they hardly ever played. After finding out that a few friends were playing, I asked him if I could futz around and check it out.

Fast forward seven years and here we are.

Things that resulted from playing CoH:

>My first time an airplane traveling to California (from NY) for an extended weekend to meet SGmates/friends I made in game (Did this for 3 years running before the economy went to hell and we couldn't afford it anymore)
>Bought new computers -twice- to improve gameplay
>Made friends whom I cherish dearly and still keep in contact with even after they've stopped playing

When I first started playing, most, if not all of my characters, had a sentai motif. My first Global was @SolarSentai. Most folks new me as Solaranger<InsertColorHere>. During the first(?) Halloween event I created a character as somewhat of a joke - and the intent was to level from 1 - 50 only doing the Halloween event. His name was Zombie Fryer. He was the second character created on my second account, @LunarSentai. In all honesty, I never thought I would play him as much as I have over the years (4506 hours on patrol as of last night). The concept was that he was a Werewolf who loved to fry (cook) and eat zombies. When I started becoming more social and joining channels, people always assumed based on my name that I was in fact a zombie who does the frying.

Either way, a character that started in jest turned out to become my namesake and that was the beauty of CoH. There were so many options for character development, for how your character looked and how you could play the game. You weren't bound to the vanilla formula of bash-bash-xp-bash-bash-xp. We had mini-games within the main game (the market, badges, etc). We had an amazing community of players.

As such, I want to give a big thank you to everyone who made this game awesome - to all the players who invested their time to lead raids, trials, run events - to teach others the ins and outs of the game. And to the player base in general. You all made logging worthwhile.

And on a completely unrelated note:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1ujzRidmU <-- This guy. You know, the dad who shot up his daughter's laptop. He played CoH. For many years. And I was friends with him. I met him and his wife in person on one of my California trips and he's a really a fun guy. Also, he generally played Assault Rifle blasters. ... yea.

Sigh.

I keep hoping this is just a bad dream. And I won't truly believe it until the servers are shut down for good.

So with that, I'll be around until the end. Zombie Fryer will be dancing in the bowl in the Hive as the power goes out on the servers.

/em dance2

Originally Posted by Smersh

I'm starting work on a project, an epilogue of sorts for my characters, those of my wife, and KGB Special Section 8 as a whole. Wrapping up the loose ends.

If you ever had a character with a strong association with any of these, drop me a PM and I will do my best to include them if you would like.

Yes, it means I'll be writing a story - and I may be trying to turn it into a comic.