An open (love) letter to the Devs

This is the only online game that I have ever played for more than a week. I have been here since shortly after launch, NEVER expected to be around for more than a month or two. I've tried a few other MMOs and found them lacking. This game is just for me I think. I expect the devs to keep pumping out cool stuff like they have in the past and I think I'll be here until they turn the lights out years from now.

Excellent post. I think you echo the sentiments of many players who keep logging in day after day.

Throwing my 2 cents in:

I feel exactly the same about this game. What do I do when servers are down? Mids.

Our devs are a thousand times more responsive to player wishes than any other dev team. We have an amazingly balanced game which has given me hours upon hours of fun.

So let me finish with... Thanks.

Press release. Get to it!

<3

A couple years ago while I was winding down in Guild Wars and looking for a break, I gave CoH a try on a 14 day code. I loved it. It was so refreshing and the versatility of the character creation screen ate up days of that trial account time. My Blaster made it to level 14 on the last day and I felt so accomplished as I flew around Steel Canyon. My one regret was that I had vowed to never pay-to-play.

This last Christmas I offered my son a deal. Choose an mmo. I'll pay for a year of play. He chose CoX based on 3 days of goofing on my trial account 2 years ago. I had been secretly hoping he would choose it to give me a reason to break that vow. Here we are 9 months later plugging along and I don't know which one of us loves the game more.

As we have expanded our experience from in-game to the online community as a whole we have both been impressed with the accessibility of the dev crew and their ongoing responses to the requests and demands of their playerbase. My son is a particular fan of Babs.

All-in-all. It is a very safe bet that our accounts will continue past their one year without a second thought. My son and I happily add our voices to this thread. Thank you for your hard work, your patience and dedication, your unwavering commitment to the game and the players who make it a community. Thank you for giving my son and I place to play together when we are so far apart geographically. The distance between
New Zealand and Canada is much smaller when you can meet in Croatoa to fight Red Caps together.

I'll add my voice the chorus of praise

This game just does it better. The maps may never change. The spawn-points remain the same. But I never seem to get tired of it

Devs, we owe it all to you!

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I agree, even talking with friends about the said "other" super hero game, I just think our Dev team is more talented. Looking forward to the future! Only thing I have ever complained about is when they are going to fix the Avatar bug on the boards to accept the "~" link deal.

~Iggy

That's coz your post is cool... the devs are cool... the game is cool... but some people are just morons.

Don't let 'em get you down, Sapph. The devs saw your post and appreciate it, which was the whole point.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

I think the Devs are doing a great job. I can't contemplate how hard it is to please thousands of players and work under the pressure of your jobs. You guys take a lot of !@#$ for things like AE (which btw was something you probably worked your butts off for and an example of how you continue to bring us innovation and unique content). I think you all are doing a great job and I support you all.

Thank you Saphire7 for posting something so nice for them.

And of course, Thank you Devs for doing your best job for us.

Let me add my voice to the chorus: The Devs listen and respond, and the game is fantastic.

Sooner or later nearly everybody will have a beef over some issue or another, but there is just so much great stuff to enjoy. In addition to great costumes and capes and wings and auras, there is great NPC banter courtesy of War Witch and crew, smooth animations (and new alternates) courtesy of BAB and crew... the list could go on and on.

Well said, Sapphire7. Good on you.

Love is a beautiful thing. But the devs took out an RO on me. Why is it love when Sapphire7 does it, but with me it's "stalking?" Argh!

I agree with many of the things Sapphire7 stated in her letter, so it pains me to add a little rain on the love fest.

There are many things I think the Devs listen to the player base (recently power customization), but there is one aspect that I don't think much attention is paid to in this game and it is costumes. Before anyone says that I'm complaining because of CO, this is not the case. I've been stressing the importants of this long before I knew what CO had to offer! I've posted many costume ideas in the costume request thread over the years and there still is so few costumes that we players get.

To a new player it is a lot here, but to an old player like myself it just old and tired at this point -- frankly this shouldn't be! I've made this plea over and over again and it feels as if it just falls on deaf ears. I'm tired of waiting once or twice a year for a costume addition that usually only has one or two sets and most of the time I have to pay for them. I'm tired of normal attire being given as sets to use in a superhero game. If I wanted to play a regular looking person I'd play the Sims or IMVU!

Champions may or may not be as good as CoH/V in it's playstyle, but one thing that it excels at is the costumes -- this shouldn't be! Our game has been around for over 5 years it's no way that CO should be on par or exceeding our inventory of costume items, but IMO it does!

I don't want my statements to be a slam on Sexy Jay, because he's a great designer and I do love what he's created for us. I just think that the powers that be in our game needs to give this more importance that what currently has!

Great game, great people making it and great people playing it.
What more could you want?