Kindred spirits

Oh, that was just precious. One one particular post in the thread generated this rep comment:

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what a horrible post

And I'm actually not complaining about it (for a change), because it just made me laugh. Shame on me for going to an H site, indeed! Or is it shame on me for talking about it? Either way, that's the sort of thing I don't mind getting negative rep over. At least that person sort of had a point

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I'm SCAdian, located in Columbus, OH.

I had the pleasant surprise a couple of years ago to see a SG (I think I ran across a character from that SG) called "Dragons of the MidRealm"! WOOT! I'm a MidRealmer - so we chatted in-game about upcoming events, where we had been recently, etc., then hooked up a couple of times at SCA events to say "hi!"

I have a couple of SCA friends (literally - husband & wife gamers) that I am much more likely to see on-line in Paragon City than at an SCA event.

I have also run across fellow players at the FLGS (Friendly Local Gaming Store) once or twice.

And I guess running across fellow City players at science fiction and/or gaming conventions is really kinda cheating in the context of this thread, LOL.

Yet to run across anyone who plays, here in Nova Scotia (that's Canada, eh?). I do know someone who is interested in playing, but hasn't bought the game yet.

a few RL friends got me into MMO gaming with WoW, when they left I couldn't stand playing it anymore, and after a few months of paying the subscription for nothing, I gave in and cancelled it. Had seen ads for CoH in comics, and a bit of looking online made it seem like my kind of thing.
Found the community far more welcoming and teaming far more fun (and solo far more manageable, not to mention the lack of having to be an accountant to have a decent character...well, except I just did mention it) and still playing nearly 2 years later. There are other MMOs that look good, but in the end it'll come down to how the other players are.
I've got one of my RL friends to take up the free trial, but he only played a few hours and then went back to WoW. Silly, silly man.

A guy I work with used to play CoV, I think back when it first came out. I know a couple of current players, but they're people I knew out of game first.

Less than a year after I started playing (sometime spring '08, I think), the devs changed something in the guts of the login process, and suddenly I couldn't log in anymore - it would just hang after I entered my PW, and eventually the connection would time out. So, I went to the college's IT people to see what was going on, and eventually we figured out why the network wasn't liking the new login system and fixed it.

At one point, I was in the guy's office and we were talking about the problem, and he went into the logs to see what IP address my login command was attempting to reach - and we noted that I was the only one who had ever tried to connect to that address, in the 2 or 3 years that the college had been using that system.

My college isn't very large, only 2000-3000 students, but that's still 2-3000 people of prime video game playing age. I had never run into anyone who played, but that's hardly the same as finding out for *sure* that I was the only one on the entire campus. It felt pretty weird.

(In the meantime, there are so many WoW players that they have a dedicated slice of bandwidth reserved in the college's bandwidth allocation scheme just so that they don't bog down the entire network. )

My husband plays with me and actually got me interested in the game to begin with. It's so nice having someone to talk to about powerset combos and the like...

My hubby manages a Gamestop and has met a few people around who play, but not on our server. As for friends, we've gotten two of ours to try it out, and they both liked it, but had to stop for different personal reasons.

I ran into someone once at a professional networking event who had played a little, but she and her husband primarily played WoW. In fact, that was the day WoW released its last expansion, and her husband had taken the day off to play it. At least she understood what I meant when I said that I'd considered writing a law review article about online game communities.

I live in Rhode Island (home of Paragon City) but have yet to bump into another player. A few years ago i discovered out of the blue a friend of mine played as well- the day he moved to Alaska. He's since quit for work/kids.

There must be a dozen guys at work that play WoW. When I mention I play CoH, the response is always the same- "that game is still around?"

The only time it really bugs me is when I have some cool story/game experience to talk about. My wife is REALLY sick of hearing about those.

When I moved to Cow-Town (Calgary Alberta), I joined a D&D group, and two guys in it played CoH/CoV.

I've gotten at least five of my friends to try it out, and are still playing! Bwa ha ha!

I should run demos.

Met my wife in-game. Moved 700 miles away from home to be with her. A good friend from back home plays....he's the only person other than my parents I'm in regular contact with. And since I know almost no one here, CoH pretty much IS my social life now.

My wife's ex-husband and a couple o his friends used to play, and so did her computer tech, but they all quit. I actually owe her ex, if not for him playing, she never would have, and we never would have met.

Haven't met anyone else in the area, which is odd, you'd think Omaha would have more than just us playing.

I met my wife in this game, I was playing and we teamed and it was all cool and we deceided to met irl we met and she turned out to be a super model and she sasid I was super hot (I was) and we did rigt there and got married.

Isn't the Internet a strange place? I make an off-hand comment about something I've seen, and eventually a kind forum poster I'm only going to name if he/she wishes to be named steps up and outright vies me the link to the exact thing I was talking about. Sweet! Thanks!

Once again, City of Heroes delivers in completely unexpected ways.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I do have one RL friend who plays, but she's back in Wales and I live in Poland lol. I know of one other person who plays that does live in Poland, but I've forgotten who it is exactly. I did message them with a 'yay! i'm not alone!' forum PM when i found out, hoping that maybe we could meet up if we were close, but the response was a rather curt 'I've got plenty of RL friends already, thanks', so that was that!

Just goes to show that just cos someone lives in the same country as you and plays the same game, doesn't mean they're not strange.

Eco.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

Got one RL friend that plays...although his subs lapsed and is currently trying out Aion. My neighbour had a go for a bit. Didn't re-sub but had a good laugh at the way the citizens of Paragon ran away from danger

I have the great joy of having my wife play alongside me.

Outside of that, one of my companies former sales guys (he moved on companies a couple fo years ago) was fairly active, but eventually he defected to WOW.

(Hmm theres a good chance I'll see him in a couple of weeks, I'll have to make sure he is aware of the recent changes, and knows GR is coming down the pipeline)

I have come accross a few folks travelling round to customers.

Had one guy come up to me at an airport, after he spotted the forums.

So we are out there.

I am originally from Alabama, so I can totally empathize with the OP.

However, moving to the "big city" (Atlanta) hasn't helped much! I've never met a player in person. This despite living within a few miles of Catwhoorg, and knowing one of my SG mates lives in the metro area!