Thank You Matt and all the rest of the wonderful folks at Paragon.
I didn't post on the forums much, didn't get to go to Meet and Greets or Cons and see you guys.
What I did do was play this game. A lot. I had been a PnP roleplayer for years but life had interfered and I was missing it. The best I could do was video games I could play at night when my kids were asleep. My brother (who lives300 miles away) showed me an MMO (EQ) and it looked boring and I declined. Then, October 2004 at a family gathering he brought his laptop and showed me COH. And I was hooked.
I bought the game as well as a computer to play it on and I played and played. More importantly, my children played. My oldest son, Super Surge, made his first toon at 6 years old in 2004 and became an amazingly good player. My 2 year old daughter would imitate the tanker taunts when she heard them.
As they got older we got second, third and fourth accounts for my 3 kids. Our family would have a tiny office filled with desk tops and laptops as the four of us would play and simultaneously skype and play with my brother who got us hooked.
Super Surge told me last night that he wouldn't have gotten to know his uncle as well if he hadn't spent night after night on Skype (and speaker phone before that) playing City of Heroes with his Uncle.
Thats what you brought us. You brought our family together with something we all enjoyed. You gave my 14 and 12 year old sons reason to say, "Hey Dad, do you want to do an iTrial or TF with us?" You gave us numerous friends that we have made in this game who we wouldn't have met without you.
I couldn't understand why I spent this entire weekend so emotional about a "video game" ending. But it was so much more than that to our family.
On behalf of Super Surge, Avenging Elf, Rapinkel and myself, I thank you all. And wish you all well in the future.
@Saturn Green
