War Witch's new FAD!

I'll keep this to only a few points:

*I'm grateful for having an MMO that's not like an MMO, in that it doesn't focus around raid grind, fetch quests and PvP. I'm just happy that City of Heroes can, for the most part, be treated like an almost arcade-style beat-em-up game and be played for fun, rather than as an investment. I have yet to see another MMO which can claim that.

*I'm grateful for having a game that not only inspires, but more or less REQUIRES imagination to reach its full potential. I'm just happy that City of Heroes gives me the tools to create characters who feel like my own work and my own property (even if they may not legally be). I've made many, I love many of them and I have written so, so many stories about these characters it's hard to believe.

*I'm grateful for having a development team who gives a damn about the game and about what people want to see in it. I'm just happy that the developers will take the time to ask us what we want, explain changes and discuss the game with players. Sure, we don't always see eye-to-eye, but we don't have to. As long as I know my voice is being heard (and so far David Nakayama holds the gold medal for that by leaps and bounds), there really isn't much more I can ask for.

On the more directly relevant side:

*I'm grateful for powerset proliferation, side switching and power customization. These three together have allowed me to reroll one of my most favourite characters ever made, and remake her as what she should always have been, in the process not only improving her performance, but also improving her concept and look significantly. This alone could keep me here, as I've been working on Crash and nothing else since that reroll, and she's 37 now.

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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 grateful for the game and (almost) everything i've encountered in it as well as (almost) all the people i've come to meet and know through it.

It's Saturday Morning now, so does this make mine a SMAD?


In game:

• Giant Monsters. Seriously, nothing says "normal people can't handle this" like a fifty foot beast using a car for a hammer.
• Solo-ability. While there are plenty of great reasons to run with a team, some people don't always want to, or just can't make it work. This game has never for a second made me feel like it isn't worth staying because I play mostly on my own.
• Villains and side-switching. To be honest, I've rarely played a villain and never switched sides. But in most games that's all you get... here it's just a choice.
• Costumes. So many options! I've spent hours just playing in the costume creator. Plus, your "equipped items" have no affect whatsoever on your look; I love love love that part. I also enjoy that you can have a cyborg, an alien, a cowboy, a fairy, a swamp beast, and a ghost pirate fighting side by side and nobody bats an eye.
• Supergroup Bases. Their biggest supporters could cry at how much work they need. This very fact indicates how great an idea they are.
• Like others, I'll just say "And many more".

• I've been playing City for two years. That's four times as long as any other game I've ever played. Sure I've taken breaks, but even then I didn't let my subscription lapse, because I knew I'd be coming back at some point. So I'm glad to have a pastime worth not just staying with but also coming back to.
• Real Life decided to be less kind to me and mine lately, and I'd be out of my mind with stress if I didn't have something that took my mind off it now and then. So I'm thankful to have a pastime I enjoy so much that it makes real problems easier to deal with.
• When I first read about Real World Hero and how it started, it blew me away. To think that something so positive sprang up from an online game community... this proved to me that truly wonderful things can come from unexpected places.

I am grateful to my husband who bought the game and when he brought it home and installed it told me to try it out, even though I told him it looked stupid, WOW was I wrong, almost 45 months later and still playing the game.
I am grateful for my past sg mates who even though they are not around anymore I teamed with them a good couple years and they helped me out alot.
I am grateful for my present sg mates who help me out and put up with me and who have been known to LEVEL MEH!!! everyonce and a while :P
I am thankful for supersidekicking.
I am thankful for the flight power, I have always wanted to fly and this game let's me fly even if it's not in real life.
I am thankful for the devs that actually listen to the input that players talk about for this game.
I am thankful for my husband who for this christmas bought me the pay for 12 months get 2 months free subscription.
I am thankful for the devs, or is it marketing putting that deal into the store and letting us have that deal.
Ok Ok I could keep going but my fingers are starting to hurt. :P

Well....let's see what I'm grateful for:

• The safety of my friends and pretty much a lot of people I know after the floods here in Brisbane and Queensland.
• The utter generosity of those both affected and unaffected by said floods in giving their time, heart and charity to those most in need.
• My SGmates over the last few days in giving me tons of support whilst I was at my most anxious and concerned, and getting me to play and be involved to help distract me from what I couldn't do to help.
• This game. This game for being the refuge that it can be for so many and providing an atmosphere of welcoming anyone and everyone into the community and having that reflected on these boards. Sometimes people will just post here and talk about their problems, and there is inevitably someone who will respond and offer help. And that is so rare in the MMO community.
• War Witch for bringing about this particular thread! Yes, I still owe you a custom action figure! Real Life got in the road, but it is done and just needs finishing touches.
• This community, for being who you are. We're all opinionated, all passionate but damned if you're not some of the most generous and giving and caring people I've had the pleasure to read about.

I just want to mention all the people who put their time and energy into creating and maintaining the fan resources for CoX: Paragonwiki, Mids, Titan Sentinel, Vidiot maps, Herostats, the badge tracking sites, etc. They all enrich my game experience enormously. Thanks, everyone!

the specifics would make an unweildy list, but for the big punch, i'm grateful that there is a game where i can play a winged blue dragon that uses martial arts. that is just a weird collision of personal quirks that works for me, the costume creator is my addiction, 6 years in and i'm still burning tokens looking for just the right collection of shape texture and color shade. i still open it and get the "my god, its full of stars" reaction.

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Without getting too personal, when my breakdown took solid hold and I was close to my wits end and suicidal, I finally picked up City of Heroes with little expectation. For a number of reasons my life was turning to poop in a big way and I felt like I'd totally lost control. I've never experienced such dreadful feelings as I had then but I plugged in this game and suddenly I was in a place where I could escape to the comicbook world I'd fallen in love with as a young boy.

CoH has been with me through the darkest point in my life and given me a safe and friendly retreat, where I can mentally regroup, gather my wits about me and get enough energy together to face whatever Real Life happens to decide to throw at me today.

It's always been there and it's grown and improved immesurably over time. I've played (almost) daily except for two short breaks and I cannot stay away. The server community I play on are excellent, and I've made some great friends on DE and in game.

Sure, I've griped and ******* - and I mostly stand by my words no matter what the black dog said - but it's very rarely about the Devs or the direction they take the game. My rants have been mostly about the way the game is "managed" - the marketing and getting the game out there, because I genuinely believe this game isn't (even after seven years) living up to its potential in terms of market share.

However, I am genuinely very grateful that the the EU community seems to be slowly getting the recognition it deserves and I feel and believe we are no longer the leper relation of the NA community but an appreciated cousin. We've a way to go and there have not been too many words, but the actions seem to be speaking loudly, if not swiftly. (Caveat: I will be vociferous if we've been led down a blind alley and we've had no communication.)

I'm also grateful that Paragon has ownership of this game: There was a dramatic sea-change when they took the IP over. Whilst I don't agree with everything that has come about since, I consider the Cryptic alternative and I genuinely believe that had the culture at Cryptic prevailed I would not be a subscriber. I've tried their other Superhero MMO and it ain't much prettier and the game play blows chunks.

I'm grateful for Going Rogue. It breathed new life into the franchise without rewriting the existing lore and made the game fresh and new for many - with new challenges and a sense of achievement.

Bottom line is I'm genuinely thankful for this game. It kept me alive and now as I get back on track I'm looking forward to the future, my own and that of CoH.

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

CoH isn't my first MMO, but it's by far my favorite. I'm grateful that no matter what I'm doing in this game, I can always be sure I'm having fun. It's not like other games where you have to suffer through a lot of work just to get to where the game really begins. No, in this game, you have fun in the character creator before you even start playing. I think that, more than anything, is what keeps me here. Even the rare occasion that I get a little burnt out, I always come back because there's always something fun to experience.

Wild Streak - Lv. 50(+3) Beast Mastery/Sonic Resonance Mastermind, Amnesty - Lv. 50 Staff Fighting/Dark Armor Stalker

Game related: Thankful for basically 2 constant SG/VG mates that have helped me ding all my level 50s..we have had some awesome battles together and still do so.

Also thankful for ragdoll, it still makes me laugh and makes the game feel so real at times!.

~Iggy

Being physically disabled I have alot of time to spend gaming and like to feel what I do in game matters. So For me It would be....

BETA TESTING

"Getting into my first Beta with City of Villians" I've been lucky enough to beta test every expansion & update since.. This even goes back to the Cryptic Days of Cityof Heroes. The City Community being what it has always been. I talked to Devs both Cryptic and Paragon Studios. Which lead to Beta Testing Champions... which Lead to Beta Testing other Games.. I honestly believe after earlier this month I can offically say I have beta tested EVERY game with Tights & Capes todate.(OK so I'm hoping to add Lightsabers to that list)"

LOYAL SG

"While My SG Is not the biggest or most active With pretty much only 3 active members. We have Managed to not only keep it going but have amassed a fully functional Base. Dispite my medical condition or RL events keeping me away for nearly a month at a time simetimes..I return and Rents been paid, New Teleporters or something new in the Base Map.(Seriously Theres like always a new room or Memorial for some of out Earliest Members that helped me the most in getting the SG started.We forever write their names on the Base Walls)

I get to be: A Superhero!

Thankful that I can be a powerful and god like being that has no problems lending my strength to others.

This game already has a fast, almost arcade-style feel to it, without the interface or twitch annoyances inherent in such. A good team can faceroll just about anything without having to worry about reaction time or attention spans.

This also makes it the most relaxing game I know, a good way to unwind.

As others have mentioned: it's not a conventional MMO with an emphasis on raiding for loot or PvPing for loot. There is grind, but you can grind level 20 content on your level 50 if you feel like. And your level 20 can team with the 50s if you want to.

You don't need a tank. You don't need a healer. You don't need buffs or debuffs, mostly.

We can make our characters look the way we want them to.

We can fill every server full of alts if we feel moved to do so.

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"At what point do we say, 'You're mucking with our myths'?" - Harlan Ellison

So much Thankfullness I feel like I should go buy a turkey again, lol.

What I'm thankful for in COH is the fun I had in AE and it allowing me to write again. Use to write lots and haven't in many years. Was fun dusting off my old authors hat and re-experience some old feelings.

Sounds really suck up, but I am thankful there's a Warwitch out there. She is like a modern day Susan B. Anthony being in such a male dominated industry. If you can't give a hats off to that- well then you need to buy a hat!

Two years ago now, my computer crashed. It was old, weazy, and had a hell of a time running CoH, so I saw this as an opportunity to upgrade.

BIG Thanks to Father Xmas on the tech help forum; his 2008 $600 rig served as a jumping off point for me to assemble a computer for the first time, and the PC I built plays games extremely well to this day.

I'm also really appreciative of the always-welcoming communit ingame and on the forums; due to my job, I have to leave CoH for months at a time. Always look forward to logging in again, and I intend to play until y'all shut down the servers.

I'm thankful for the game in general - it's kinda hard to pick out one bit of it that's worth more thankfulness than another - the whole thing is just so much fun

well gg, i know something for you to be thankful for in coh. it is so alt friendly

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I'm thankful for the awesomeness of this game in general; it's served as a retreat when times have been bad and I've met some terrific people in the game and on the forums.

As for specific stuff I appreciate about this game, I started a thread about that last month.

Ok, it's well past my bed-time, but I was reading every single one of these. Some of them made me smile, some of them made my heart ache for you guys (but glad that you persevere!), and some of them cracked me up.

I'll be adding my next installment on, well, you guessed it, Friday.

Thanks, everyone, for not letting this go the way of leg warmers, krimping irons, and Lip Smackers lip gloss (which I refuse to stop using because not only is it cool, it tastes yummy when you wear it)!

You guys are awesome.

WW

Okay, so it's Monday, but I am thankful for...

1) All of the friends I've made within our diverse community
2) Knowing that even after all these years playing CoH, I still have things left to do in-game
3) Base editing. No, seriously! I'd be even more thankful with new items and functionality for them, but I do enjoy it immensely

And last, but the thing I'm most thankful for...

4) That team in Boomtown street-sweeping for XP where I met my husband for the first time. We recently celebrated our 5th anniversary, and it's thanks to CoH that I have that to... Well... Be thankful for.

I misread for a second and thought ww called us perverts.

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