I am crying.

Anyone else?

....yeah >.>

If you are, I do not blame you one bit. You have every reason to.

Almost, thinking of going and having a drink.

Lil bit, yeah. <_ _> I mean on the one hand, it is 'just' a game... and there's bigger things in the world than a game...

But on the other hand it was "my" game - there are just so many memories, people, characters, and the lore, the COH universe lore! all of that... gone. As I said in another thread: this is a sad day for the MMOspace.

I hear ya.

Unbelievably I think it's freaking beer thirty...who's with me?

Shocked! Just shocked. Hasn't even sunk in yet.

It sucks I am not happy, but all I can really think about is how Arbiter Hawk, Synapse, Dink and the rest must feel. They got up this morning to go do what they love only to be drawn and quartered in the public square by the suits.

What about them and their families. My friend in tech was out of a job for 18 months after the suits did this in his company. That is what I was thinking about.

I seriously need a hug. I'll even take one from Reppu.

I am not crying. But given the huge number of memories I have about this game... I got to admit... my eyes are a bit watery.

Carajo... I remember buying this game in an Electronic Boutique in Vega Alta, PR. I was hardcore FFXI player at the time. Horrible game but hey, had that Final Fantasy feel so I loved it. This game got me out of it for good... been ... 8 years? I forget now...

I know the insides of this game better than I known any job I been at. This game has seen me through 3 jobs, 6 moves... 3 of them from one state to another, plus a wedding. Darn... I'm going to miss this cra p.

Trying not to here - I'm at work and a colleague is around. But I'm damn close.

Yep. I'm at work too. A big, bearded fuzzy man crying like a small child at work. I'm trying so hard not to but son of a *****, I am.

I'm not crying, but this is definitely sudden. I don't blame anyone who is though.

not crying, angry, very angry.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

I am, and I had to explain why to my housemate.

We have a tabletop game for superheroes going, and we'd just made the decision to leave the one city and take our 'team' to Paragon.

My other housemate's still at work, and probably doesn't know about this yet - he's the GM, and I just got him to re-sub.

So yeah I'm wiping tears from my face for the last half hour or so, and I expect I'll continue to do so all day. :/

At the very least, we all know around here that the jibe "it's only a game" is meaningless.

This isn't "just" a game. This is our home. A beautifully rendered, painstakingly detailed city. A living city, with people getting mugged on nearly every corner, with a thriving economy, with expansion and change, a dynamic place.

It was my home for so long that I dream about it. I had plans for it. I based much of my character development on it in even other unrelated realms.

I just can't comprehend not having it there, even on my desktop.

Still in shock.

I am. A lot.

CoH was who made me what I am today. It inspired me. Motivated me. It made me happy in dark times. I loved my characters and I am going to spend time with them until the end.

Reptile lives on, in me now.

I will once I get over being angry...

I get very, very strongly attached to the characters that I like the most, and the idea of losing Palrah and Kestrel and Nemissary makes me sadder than I can really explain, even though I knew all along that sooner or later the servers WOULD go dark and they WOULD be taken away from me. It was inevitable, and honestly I guess there is some rational part of my mind that accepted that gracefully.

That part isn't the bit that's running the show at the moment.

The bit that's in charge right now is furious. And disappointed. And utterly confounded at the timing.

Once it gets past all that, it's only going to be left with sad. And, when things are finally shut down, with a couple of holes where my sweet, goof-ball boy-scout of a tank, my ferocious, devoted stalker and my dreamer of a Death Mage ought to be.

I suspect it'll be the act of taking all of my birds back home to the Chantry that'll do it. I want to leave them where they belong... But it really is going to break a little piece of my heart saying goodbye.

Understandable. I would give you a hug if possible so here is the best I can give.

/e hug

Still in shock.

I heard it first in a text message from a very close CoH friend.

We are more in real life friends than anything now.


Tried to re-up to VIP status so I could say stuff on Virtue server thread. Guess I can't do that.