Where was the first City of Heroes Meet & Greet?
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Posted on: 2010-02-19 11:31 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I know it was NOT in the MidWest.
Austin.
Which is where the community liason folks were initially based out of.
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Originally Posted by Catwhoorg
Austin.
Which is where the community liason folks were initially based out of. |
I went to one pre-Con meet up, but I live in California...
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Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Trying to remember the order of things, and I'm having trouble remembering where the City of Heroes Meet & Greet was. You know, the one that happened before the official Hero Cons?
Anyone that knows would be beloved. Thanks! |
Ahhhh, good times, good times.
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Dave and Busters in Milpitas CA.|
Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Huh...
I went to one pre-Con meet up, but I live in California... |
It was in oct. 2006 or 2007. I remember you being there.
Thanks, Slim!
Now I'm trying to figure out how I got there and back... and where I slept that night. It was all a huge blank. Did I just magically teleport there?
Yup, D & B in Milpitas. I was there as well.
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I don't remember, but it is easily findable - I was searching through old news posts on the main page (for something unrelated) and read the announcement just a couple of days ago. (I just don't remember what it said.) You can find it too by scrolling back a good ways, if you need a primary source.
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Thanks, Slim!
Now I'm trying to figure out how I got there and back... and where I slept that night. It was all a huge blank. Did I just magically teleport there? |
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Yeah, D&B at the Great Mall in Milpitas. I also remember you there. I have no idea where you slept and how you got there and home though, but I do remember they had an after party at one of the hotels nearby. I have no details on that though since I didn't go to that.
Okay, I was remembering Austin, too (not that I was there), so I found it real quickly:
February 23, 2006 at Cyberjocks in Austin.
At least, that's what TPTB describe as the first ever.
Catwhoorg gets the prize, at least for naming the first one.
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Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Trying to remember the order of things, and I'm having trouble remembering where the City of Heroes Meet & Greet was. You know, the one that happened before the official Hero Cons?
Anyone that knows would be beloved. Thanks! |
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First thing to go is your memory......
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We, uh... we were talking about acid, right?
There was an internet gaming cafe outside of Los Angeles that was the site of a Lineage II/CoH Meet & Greet before the Dave and Busters one.
I remember it because that was where I had my first Monster energy drink, although for the life of me I can't remember the name of the place.
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I remember it because that was where I had my first Monster energy drink, although for the life of me I can't remember the name of the place.
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That's because you had a Monster energy drink. It also explains why you don't remember the previous 24 hours before waking up in a dress with a sheep.
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Originally Posted by Positron
I remember it because that was where I had my first Monster energy drink, although for the life of me I can't remember the name of the place.
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Originally Posted by Positron
There was an internet gaming cafe outside of Los Angeles that was the site of a Lineage II/CoH Meet & Greet before the Dave and Busters one.
I remember it because that was where I had my first Monster energy drink, although for the life of me I can't remember the name of the place. |
It was Howie's Game Shack on Saturday May 13, 2006. I only still remember because I was there, and spent about half of my time trying to get inside information out of the devs about upcoming stuff for the game. And then when I got back home, I posted everything I had learned on my SG message board. The post is still there, so I was able to look it up.
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Hahaha....good times..wait wha....?
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Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Second thing to go is your pants.
We, uh... we were talking about acid, right? |
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I had thought that the Cyberjocks event was before the D&B event here in Austin, but it can't have been.|
Originally Posted by Johnny_Velocity
Okay, I was remembering Austin, too (not that I was there), so I found it real quickly:
February 23, 2006 at Cyberjocks in Austin. At least, that's what TPTB describe as the first ever. Catwhoorg gets the prize, at least for naming the first one. |
The event at Cyberjocks was more about promoting Auto Assault, which was about to launch. They had a little room with a few systems running it. I won an Auto Assault hat there.
The D&B event in Austin was more CoH, but there was a good bit of Tabula Rasa stuff thrown in. Garriott attended in a uniform he had made. For me, this was where I met my live-event friends from Justice.
A bit later was the first specifically CoH event at the D&B in Milpitas. Then a year after that was the first Hero-Con, then, of course, the second in October.
Good times. If not for that D&B event in Austin, I probably wouldn't have ended up going to the Milpitas event nor to Hero-Con. Now, it's something I look forward to each year.
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Ah, yes. My son and I attended that one, too. We were still fairly new to the game and had little clue to what was going on. But it was free and it was fun.
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Originally Posted by Terminotaur
It was Howie's Game Shack on Saturday May 13, 2006. I only still remember because I was there, and spent about half of my time trying to get inside information out of the devs about upcoming stuff for the game. And then when I got back home, I posted everything I had learned on my SG message board. The post is still there, so I was able to look it up.
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Ah. Posi's TRUE power source emerges! Like we were going to believe some weak explanation about antimatter...
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Originally Posted by Catwhoorg
Austin.
Which is where the community liason folks were initially based out of. |
Went to every NCSoft event in Austin. I can't go to any other locations...
Also, they didn't give out in-game costumes until AFTER they stopped having Austin events.
Hm...tho now that I remember, the last one I went to I ended up having to stop in Waco to sleep for a bit.... It was rather late going home.
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I went to that one. Not much going on there from what I remember. I did win something for knowing Positron's real name though! LOL |
Originally Posted by Positron
There was an internet gaming cafe outside of Los Angeles that was the site of a Lineage II/CoH Meet & Greet before the Dave and Busters one.
I remember it because that was where I had my first Monster energy drink, although for the life of me I can't remember the name of the place. |
I must say I much preferred the first HeroCon though.
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Trying to remember the order of things, and I'm having trouble remembering where the City of Heroes Meet & Greet was. You know, the one that happened before the official Hero Cons?
Anyone that knows would be beloved. Thanks!