Intrinsic

I thought we had already established that other parties had expressed interest in buying CoH, and that NCSoft is unwilling to sell it. What exactly do you expect Disney to do that the other groups haven't already done? This idea sounds really half-baked to me.

I think a lot of players who haven't been active will still log in for the final day. I'll log in for sure. They're planning one last raid night on Freedom, and I definitely want to take part in that.

I really enjoyed the combat mechanics and aesthetics, at least for some of the power sets. Fun combat is a major consideration for me when choosing an MMO, and it's the main reason I kept coming back to CoH. It's also the main reason I did not like CO and DCUO.

Having said that, I like the direction towards more action-oriented combat seen in recent games. After playing games like Vindictus and Tera, it's hard to go back to the old-style, tab-targeting combat. I just wish that newer MMOs would realize that there are more than three possible group roles.

I regret that I did not get more 'Master of...' badges. I gave up on them early on because doing master runs with pugs was such a PITA. I did spend a fair amount of time over the last month or so that I played participating in leagues that were trying for some of the harder itrial badges, and had a lot of fun doing so. Makes me wish that I'd spent more time doing that type of challenging content, though I also wish that the rewards for some of those difficult badges had been more tangible.

I also kinda regret that I didn't decorate my base better. Every time I opened that editor, I suddenly got the urge to go do anything else.

I'm a longtime member on a couple of general gaming forums, and an old EQ forum that also discusses other MMOs. If anything noteworthy happens, at least one of them should pick up on it. I won't visit the Titan Network forums, but if I think about it I may occasionally check the main page on Paragonwiki since it seems to be the closest thing they have to a news page.

MMOs will be much harder to preserve than other types of games. EC already mentioned the lack of other players. They mentioned connectivity too, but with MMOs a substantial portion of critical game code lies on the game companies' servers. If the companies don't release that code to the public, would-be players will have to find or create server emulators. At that point preservation is probably compromised, because the results of emulation are unlikely to be 100% accurate.

Even if the code is preserved and can be run on future hardware, I think the time commitment that typical MMOs require will discourage people from checking them out most of them. I've read multiple accounts of MMO developers who haven't played many of the games that are out right now. Maybe WoW will have enough historical importance to encourage future devs to examine it, but other contemporary MMOs will likely just fall by the wayside.

1. Looking back, considering everything, which was your favorite archetype in the game?

I'd say scrapper. That's not a slam-dunk answer, because I never really gravitated towards a particular AT. Still, I have two scrappers on my short list of still-fun-at-50 characters.


2. In possible contrast, when it comes to your favorite character, what kind was it? List AT and the two main sets.

You might as well ask me to pick a favorite son or daughter. My archery/energy blaster was the oldest of my active characters, and probably the one with the most time logged. It was my favorite character to run Katie TF with before reward merits were introduced; I loved dropping RoA on Mary and company right as they spawned. This was my first character with an IO'ed build, and it's definitely the one whose build has changed the most over the years. More recently the blaster kinda took a back seat to other characters, but I was interested in trying out the changes in I24.

3. What AT did you evolve to enjoy over the years that you disliked initially?

Dominator. Not so much disliked as completely ignored, because I had already tried out control sets using controllers. I didn't roll my fire^3 dom until after the GR expansion, but I had a ball with that character once I did.

Just so my contribution to this thread isn't all snark, I gave up hope when NCSoft made their followup announcement that they exhausted all options, thanks for the support of the game, blah blah blah. Up until that point, I wasn't sure. I didn't expect anything to come of the petitions and server vigils and such, but when I read that former Paragon management was trying to buy the game I thought they might have had a chance.

As for moving on, I did that back in July. I ran out of interesting things to do, so I let my sub lapse while I played other games. I would have eventually resubbed when the devs added enough new content to draw me back in. Oh well, c'est la vie.

I'm amused that any longtime CoH player would complain about the size of breasts in other MMOs.

That settles it then, I'm voting for Romney. Bring on the zombie apocalypse! Yay!