Gah curse this game!

This game has tainted me for life.. I just cannot keep myself from playing it!

No matter how many times I try to quit, I keep coming back. I'll play other games and just keep thinking "Man CoH was so much cooler than this.."

So then I kick around the idea of coming back for a few days, finally break down, and do it..


Darn this game for being too good and addictive!


Anyone else have similar issues?

I have a forum problem. I'll play an MMO and start reading FAQs and guides and then start reading other stuff like suggestions and RPs. Next thing I know, I'm reading forums on my cell phone or posting with my laptop

I'll play the game when I get home, of course, but that's after I check up on the forum. CoH's boards, you have to subscribe to the game to use which is cool because I'm not 'bound' to the game like FFXI. Taking a break for a month or two or not logging on every day doesn't 'break' me in-game so that leaves me more time with the forums and then log into the game and pick up where I left off.

It's the casual-ness of this game that keeps drawing me in to play (and back to its forums)!

Yes I am going to have to agree with you on all counts!

I totally love the forums here, even if I don't post that often. The forums alone are almost worth paying the monthly fee for!

And, like you said, I don't have to live on CoH to feel like I'm accomplishing anything. I never feel like I'm falling behind etc..

It's just shear fun and the amount of possible character builds is simply staggering.. I think all that combined is what keeps bringing me back!

Not to mention the community is top notch, and our devs are awesome.

Agreed. Cox is awesome for that, whether I have 45 min in the day to do a quick couple of paper missions, or a 3 hour window for some TF or whatever, it's there to accomodate. The forums, oh boy the forums, I'd be so bored at work if it wasn't for all of you and this screen we type on lol.

Once I'm home, it's all about the game rather that the forums, since normally I've spent my 12-hour shift at work on them and everyone gets sick of me :P

Me, I go through cycles. I'm playing for one to three months, then I get bored and have my subscription run out for one to three months.

This game is just extremely easy to pick up again compared to other MMOs that just seem to expect you to make a lifetime commitment. There's no content that requires you to be part of an active guild attend every weekend or you'll be kicked out and have no chance of doing that juicy end-game content everyone loves. Instead, you just say "hey guys, I'm doing a Task Force, and everyone's invited!" and you get going.

That's what makes it so difficult to get completely burned out off City of Heroes. I just play when I feel like it and I get to have fun with no strings attached.

Yes. I've been playing it pretty much nonstop for the past few weeks, neglecting things I NEED to do, like look for a college and stuff.

City of Heroes, Villains, Rogues > Other games, Space, Eternity


Just keepin it Real.

quit....quit??? hmmm QUIT...wt* i havent tried to quit lol breaks yes, but unless this game goes topsie terpie..i cant see myself leaving as of yet...

I usually only pay a month at a time, and both of my accounts(s) are due to expire tonight. I'd planned on letting them go dormant for a week or two while I spend some time on other games.

But... my DM/WP Brute has Lt. Blechley lined up for her next mission, and I really want to see how she handles him...

And my Warshade is about to step into Oranbega for the first time...

And I had this idea for a new MM while I was reading the newspaper at lunchtime...

And...well, etc...

I feel the same way. Just unlocked VEATS, gonna be around for awhile

I've just got my 33 month award, or rather will when the powers that be get it sorted, 4 days late and counting. No other game has held me for so long

I know one thing that keeps me here it's the players, so many nice helpful people, unlike another MMO I played for a while and I gave up teaming because so much hassle if anything went wrong.

Sometimes a full 30 mins were spent sorting out who's fault it was

So people take a bow

I can say with absolute certainty that I've played this game far longer than any other. Approaching 6 years here, closest competitors are Diablo 2 (2.5 years) and Oblivion (about 3), and I think I logged more actual in-game hours on my two mains alone than either of those games.

As far as MMOs go, Co* blows everything away, there's simply no competition at all right now, and until 2011 I see no change, maybe not even then.

I break every now and then, don't log in at all, and at times in the past I've dropped my account for financial reasons, but I always come crawling back. Rather than making it easier to not log in, like most games, absence just fuels the desire.

Best game ever? All the signs I care about point to yes. GR will just make it better.

I pay for my game during the "buy 12, get 2 free" holiday fare, so I have over a year of play time without having to worry about whether I want to pay for the fee. Besides, it's so ridiculously much less money in the long run... what was it, $139.99 or 149.99 for 14 months? Even at the higher number, that's less than $11/mo, which saves me more than $4/mo, or over $56. That's my groceries for a week!

There are times when I don't log into the game for a week or more. Once I went a whole month. However, amusingly, I post on the forums many times per week (occasionally, many times per day) and fiddle around in the Wikis every day.

Suffice to say, I take breaks, but I never leave.

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