To Positron and the devs (even Jack!)

I have no idea what to say. I started in CoH beta. I always said I'd be here till they shut the servers down and kicked me off. I just didn't think it would be now.

Thank you DEVs. I have given feed back both positive and negative. But I've always loved the game.

I wish all of the Paragon Studios team and their families the very best. I hope you all find a place that makes you happy.

Oh... and thanks for all the fish.

On a side note, I had no idea that the Coming Storm would either be in this form or kick our ***** so easily. =(

omg, I couldn't believe it when I saw the thread title. I also found out this week my job ends at the end of the year. This is not good.

But I have to say I have loved this game. I feel terrible that it is going away but I do want to shout out to all of the devs how great it has been.

This game has done much to inspire my love of writing and my love of world building. I have learned so much about design both good and bad. I absolutely love the mythology of this game, and its long history.

I was never very vocal on the forums or in game for that matter, even as a VIP, but there one thing that I'd like to leave as a record:

1) Pinnacle Server was my home, and will remain my home. The community there was top notch, willing to help out other players both in and outside of the game. I met some very good friends there, and made some enemies as well, but above all else, I had *fun.*

I am not, and have never been, a social being, but I have very rarely felt so welcomed as I did in CoX. It is because of my interactions on CoX that I have fully realized my own creative potential, something that I had thought lost forever.

Thank you, all.

Yes, this occasion justifies my breaking my promise to myself and returning to these boards, after many years.

I will miss City of Heroes, for all its flaws. The game survived even when the juggernaut WoW opened a few months after. It remains the only MMO I have ever played, with the exception of the other two superhero games, which only served to send me back here.

Most of all, I will miss the community, of course.

To the developers, best luck in your future endeavors. Thank you for your hard work.

"Sister Colette Valiant"
Virtue Server

Whoa! BaBs was Tic-Toc all along!?

Can someone post an appropriate gif for this situation?

Thank you Devs for giving me a game to fill lists and lists with quirky observations and ideas. Thank you for providing me with an obsession that has literally taken up THOUSANDS of hours of my personal time.

Thank you for having a sense of humor that showed not only here on the Forums but in the game as well.

So long and thanks for all the Spreadsheets...

I would like to sincerely thank Cryptic and Paragon studios for having provided me with so many wonderful hours of game, for a great community full of wonderful friends, for a place for The Cape Radio to exist, and for having made my life more fun during the time I played this game. Best of wishes to the developers, the community team and everyone else at Paragon.


And now I haz a sad.

Thanks to the team and community! I will try to take over the world until the lights go out. That's how great of a game and community this is.

So sad right now... Issue 24 had me extremely excited...

I haven't been around much lately, but it was a highly enjoyable 7 years while it lasted.

Thanks to all of you who have ever worked on City of Heroes. You did a bang-up job.

Thanks to the devs, you've been great, the amount of contact and interaction with the devs has, honestly, been better than anything I've ever seen.

Hope you guys find new (and preferably better paid and more secure) jobs.

I have been a part of this game since a couple weeks after it went live for the first time. I have never closed down my account, and have played on it at least once every other day. Even when I had lost a bit of drive to play I still logged in once a week to look at characters and catch up with a few friends.

To say this has been a major part of my life that has gotten me through some tough times would be an understatement. To hear the sudden and unexpected announcement of the closure has floored me like nothing has before. I feel like I am losing a relative, or dear friend.

I am not sure how I am going to say goodbye as I just don't want to. I have so many characters and so many stories that have come out of this game. A number of friends I would have otherwise never known.

I keep hoping to hear some surprise announcement of a new company taking over the game, or maybe an announcement of a City of Heroes 2 that is coiming... SOON!(tm).

I wish very much for all the best to the developers. They have been the best developer group I have ever had a chance to listen to, talk to, be with at times. I had hopes of one day getting to work with you guys professionally.

I am very sad, and I guess I need to figure out how I am going to end one of the longest running games I have ever had.

x Jeremy M.

I just realized what touches me most. Seeing the names of posters in this thread (and others) and realizing how long I've known them for. Just like me, they're still here. I may never have been close to you guys, but in as far as the internet allows I knew and trusted you guys.

I know the faceless corporate Moloch doesn't care. But this is the kind of stuff you can't buy. Community. A good community can elevate the old and tired, and a toxic community can make the best thing not worth it.

This community didn't suck. Maybe it's the niche subject of the game. Maybe it's the fact that -more likely than anything due to the bumbling naivete of the game's original designers- it did not fall into the MMO blueprint. I don't know. I just know what cesspits the communities of other MMOs are.


This is not to discredit the Paragon team. I never warmed up to the new guard all that much but CoH has seen some of the most involved and dedicated staffers I've encountered in my time. Though I'm still mad at Castle for the Hurricane nerf. But I guess that doesn't matter anymore.

Nor is it to discredit the posters who left CoH in my time and who were just as awesome credits to their community as the ones I'm thinking of. To the point where I'm sad I never got their contact details away from the game.

But the people who are still here and have always been here that's what hit me. I'm probably raving at this point but I don't care. Thank you guys too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl8Y4IRGIJs

I just can't say how much I hope the devs land on their feet and quickly. Good luck, I'm really sorry this happened to you.

I shall chip in here because I know you'll read it, and while I think you can see the mahoosive support for you, I still want to tell you myself what you guys has meant for me.


First time I heard about City of Heroes I was a gaming noob who made other people play through the bosses in zelda while I covered my eyes and went "EEEEEEEEEEEEEH" in a very un-manly fashion (although, that should not be surprising because I am in fact not a man).

I had a really epically old laptop, and it couldn't play it. But I was so convinced that I would like the game, that I went and bought it. Then I went out and bought a new computer.

Yes it's true. I bought a new computer -solely- to be able to play city of heroes. (okay yes, it's kinda sad). So I could roleplay on the union server. Hooked from the get-go.
I played through the tutorial, and I didn't know how to change my chat-channels, I didn't know binds. Christ, I didn't even know that the space-bar allowed me to jump! I ran through the entire tutorial without jumping once!

And I met my ex here. And I went over to England from Sweden just to meet him. ....kinda dangerous, but that is my middle name. And while that ended, by then I had made so many good friends. And we've had fights over the years, some left, and some joined. But god-damned in we are a good community.
We organised a player-meet at Alton Towers in England in 2009 for our supergroup, and it's one of the best days ever - and I will cherish that forever.
The community has helped me through up and downs in my life, and I hope so much we will keep this strong even after the game is long gone.

I want everyone at Paragon Studios to know that my thoughts and my hopes are with you. Having just gone through a similar situation, I know it's tough life. I whole-heartedly agree with earlier comments. Keep us updated where you go next, we'll come join you. You are by far the best developer team I've known of. Always keen on listening to your player-base and being supportive of our community efforts.

Keep us updated!

With lots of hugs and love,

-@.Q (or Perplexite)

I want to echo EG's post. I remember when EvilGeko was our evil overlord So many good times on Justice and in this game. I have meet so many people i genuinely love here.