10 Years of CoH

This game is the only reason I ever bought a computer. In Jun 2004, I came back from Iraq, and was walking through Best Buy with a friend of mine. We were getting something to help his kid. I saw City of Heroes, picked up the box and started reading. A super hero video game? Hell yeah!

I took the box over to the guy at the computers, told him I wanted to play this game, show me a computer that could do it. 2 hours later I was calling another friend to borrow there truck, because Best Buy either wouldn't deliver the computer, chair, and desk that I had just purchased, or they couldn't do it that day.

Once I got home, I set up the desk (took an hour) set up my computer, and started it up. I was amazed at the loading screens, you know, the ones with the AT descriptions.

Once it was all finished installing, I tried to sign in.
Oh boy, a super hero game!
The hell do you mean I need internet to play this?

Time Warner Cable, I need internet.
No, it can't wait till next week.
Well how much extra to get somebody out here today?
I don't care if the techs are supposed to get off in an hour, I need internet, ASAP.

Yes, I'll pay the extra 40 dollars.

Two hours later, I had blazing fast high speed internet.

I logged in, picked my powers Claws/regen, duh. I'm a Wolvie fan boy)

Got to the costume creator, and couldnt see anything except the silhouette of my toon. I just picked some random costume pieces and loaded in. The scenery was beautiful. All the costumes I saw were great. I even got a few compliments on mine. When I explained I couldn't see anything, I was told I needed a new video card. by this time it was already pretty late, so I just played.

The next day, new video card, plus 100 dollars to get it installed right then.

I loved it, and have been here ever since. I even managed to play while I was deployed. At the time, I hadn't even met my future wife. Now I have my account, my wife has hers, and my almost 6 year old girl has her own account to.

I joined CoH on Feb 10, 2005 so I'm a noob compared to some of you I've played on and off sinse then, and I've always loved playing the game and chatting to other players. CoH has an excellent community.

Contact me in-game: @CheeseSlicer

i remember hearing about a superhero MMO being in development around.... i don't know, 2001 i guess. At that point the website only had a few (very different from those in launch) enemy group descriptions and some info about different origins and how it would affect powers. Probably well before archetypes were in the works.

My only experience with MMOs in 2001 was friends who played Everquest/Evercrack, which had the usual MMO conventions on movement and interaction so i was dubious about how a superhero MMO would work. Also MUDs, MUCKs, and MUSHes, but those weren't exactly modern MMOs.

i used to look at the website every so often, but by 2002 or so i'd pretty much stopped paying attention to the site. When i heard about being released in 2004 i was surprised and somewhat excited. Some friends were playing it and i picked up a copy in early June 2004 to try it out. Hooked ever since.

I didn't hear about COH until it was already in Beta, not long before the headstart, too late for me to join in. But on launch day, I called in sick to work, drove 30 miles to the nearest computer game store and bought it, came back and started playing.

In the last 7 years, I have been unsubscribed twice, both times because the credit card expired and I forgot to up date the information on my game account. So less than 24 hours total. I have not always played the game, due to computer issues and occasional feelings of being burned out, but it has always been on my computer, ready and waiting for me. And I always come back.

And I am still on the same computer. Added ram and upgraded the video card, but the rest has not changed. And I really want to change that to see the new stuff. Maybe next year.

I got here two months after launch... been here ever since.

Hmmm.

Early MMO attitude = "PAY for a game after I've bought it? And keep paying? That's stupid." So I didn't bother looking at any. Wife (at the time) seemed to want to play EQ, but after giving it a quick look, decided against it. (Think I still have that disk around, somewhere.)

Got into playing Silver Age Sentinels in a rotation of a few other RPGs with some friends (All Flesh Must Be Eaten, D&D, Shadowrun, etc.) The SAS game was put on hiatus... I believe when one of our group ran off to join the army. Probably a good thing - if that character (Tristat system) had kept getting developed, I'd probably have to roll a few hundred dice at a time to do much of anything.

After a bit, I wanted something "related to" that to keep playing that character in some form. Tried Freedom Force... which didn't quite do it for me, not for what I was looking for.

Ran across the COH Collectors DVD in Wal-mart. Still thought a monthly fee was a dumb idea, but hey, it had a free month, I can screw around with it.

Tried recreating my SAS character as best I could (which didn't quite get there until Tanks got Dark armor.) That would be Issue 3, Feb. 2005... Haven't left. Tried other games, found I hate losing a look because gear needs upgrading, or grinding to *buy* skills, or having "Fighting two enemies is suicidal" as a given, or *having* to have the "holy trinity" around to get anything done... ugh. Much nicer here.

See my Guides and Tutorials

I've been here since the prebeta forums as well. I used the name Druid back in those days, but changed to Montaugh during beta. I was playing jumpgate at the time and someone meantioned that CoH was being made. I joined the boards in the begining of october back in 2001 and have been here since then.

and for those that want to see what it was like back in the day.. Wayback machine go

That is just around launch of the website.. and man were we ravenous for information to be given to us in those days. Definately take a look under gameplay.. fame is interesting... and the download for the gameplay video works O.O grab it from ausgamer files haha omg..

I first bought the game around the end of May in 2004. I think this was not long before I1 hit, because I remember seeing the screenshots of heroes battling the Kronos Titan and seeing "Warriors battling the Tsoo" on the paper map that came with the game, but I read it as "Warriors battling the T500" and assumed that was the name of the robot. Needless to say I've learned a lot since then.

Started playing 3 days before issue 4 went live. Been here ever since!

Went to wally world to pick up UO at a friends request. Saw Statesman in the corner of my eye and picked up the box. The picture inside with the Hero flying high above a city... SOLD!

I remember reading about CoH before it came out, and being new to MMOs, was like, "Teams of heroes? In a city? How in the flying fudge will that work?" I didn't really get it at all.

But I like superheroes, and so my friend and I ran down to the game store and bought COH the day it came out. (I had to leave the box in my car so I didn't spend all afternoon pouring over the materials in the office.) I didn't even learn about the forums until later, as evidenced by my join date.

Then the magic happened. The AT descriptions while the game loaded! The charts in the manual! (Yeah, remember that?) The heroes in Atlas Park standing around Ms Liberty! It was amazing.

Seven and a half years later, I'm still here. I'm afraid to add up all that I've spent on this game, but in consideration, I've gotten more for my entertainment dollar here than anywhere else in my life. I even cancelled my cable because I'd rather play than watch TV.

Love this game.

--NT

I bought this game at a Wal-Mart some weeks or months before September 10, 2004. ( I didn't register for the forums until a year later.)

I had always been a fan of super-hero stuff and I had heard that Freedom Force was a pretty fun super-hero game. When I saw that City of Heroes box I thought it was a sequel to that game.

When I came home and read the materials more closely, I was upset that it did not have a single player portion. I didn't mind if it had online play but I wasn't interested in it too much. I was used to playing Civilization and Age of Empires that had both a single-player local game and a multi-player online game. I let it sit on my shelf for a few weeks.

When I finally got around to installing it, I saw that it required a monthly subscription of $15.00! What the hell?!?! I just paid 40 or 50 bucks and I have to keep on paying? Ridiculous! I almost returned the game right then and there. But I saw that it came with a free month so I figured I'd try it out and cancel before they charged my credit card at the end of the month. That was seven years ago. I never did cancel the account.

I'll be 40 next year and the first 10 years of CoX just flew by. I remember reading about it "Coming In A Few Years" in a gaming magazine many many moons ago and I followed it ever since. I may not post much, but I have been around a long time.

To put it in another perspective, Sister Flame has been truly playing this game for half her life. Not counting her moving a toon around at the age of 4, SF started "really" playing Cox at 5 1/2 years old and she will be 11 on a few months. I do find it cute when I tell her she got to grow up with CoX.

Heres to another 10.

Started day 1 launch. Took a break because of ED and the GDN. That one guy who stayed with that other company royally p***** me off.

January/February of 2004 for me. I only heard the buzz then. Still regret not getting involved in the community sooner.

Been playing since May 2004, and still having fun.

I was on the the old boards when they first opened. I mean the old pre-beta boards. I however started paramedic school soon after. I was working at a media store when the game was released, and bought it two weeks later when I got paid. I did not reg for the new boards till the first of the Regen nerfs hit. I wanted to protest.

Since, I have only let my sub drop for a total of 3 months. I now plan to renew for a year as soon as I have the lump of cash.

I lurked on the old pre-beta boards (went by black n blue), and per-ordered the game through Amazon. When I realized it wouldn't ship until the same day I could go buy it in a store, I went to the local Wal-Mart and purchased a copy. I only got 2 days of the 3 day head start because of that!

I've taken breaks here and there, but because I pay annually my subscription has never lapsed. Since then I've celebrated my 15 year wedding anniversary, and the birth of both of my daugthers (now 6 and 1).