To my favorite community within a community...

The screenshot and fanart section,

I know I haven't been around much at all in the past year but I was always watching. With the announcement of the game closing I can't help but remember all the fun we have had in this section of the forums. The amazing art from all of you, the creative costumes and screenshots, the awesome videos you made.

I am going to miss the hell out of this game but I will miss you all mostly. We still have deviantART but it was never the same.

Much love to you guys.

I'm in shock. I suspected this was coming when they announced the switch to F2P, but I was really hoping I was wrong...

Thanks to the mistakes of Aion, NCSoft lost $6 Million, and we have to pay the price.

I've lost any respect I had for NCSoft.

I'll miss you guys. Thanks for all the everything. It was awesome.

If you have a Facebook account, Armeros has started a Save City Of Heroes FB Group. No idea what will come of it, but maybe we can use the power of the internet for good.

If you want to keep in touch with me, I'm Savannah Smith on Facebook, @Kheldarn on Twitter, you can e-mail me at , and if you have a device running iOS, you can use the messages system to contact me on my iPod (same e-mail address as above).

I love you guys!

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Biggest Troll on the forums? I'll give you a hint:

....I guess i'll be here till the lights go out , I used to think that was a mythical far away time much like a child thinks that school will never end or that they will never get as old as their granparents .

but

it seems i've blinked my eyes and someone else's hands on the lightswitch and is about to plunge the house and street i've lived and loved on , fought and fumed on , made both friends and enemies on into darkness .

and it feels so unfair

im not sure what else to say other than

i'll miss you all

I kind of knew this was going to happen, I just didn't think it was going to be this soon. I have so many fond memories of this game and the people. Without it I probably would have never gotten into art, let alone pursue a degree in it. This game helped me get through middle school and high school. I'll always treasure the memories of this place, even when the lights go out for the final time.

I know it's not the same but if you all ever want to get into contact with me you can reach me on my DA, even though I don't update it as much as I should I check it hourly.

This is terrible news.

I am very glad to have met you all, even if only virtually.

Fly high, heroes.




(I should sig that.)

This makes me so sad...

I'm gonna miss this forum and this game and definatly all you wonderful people.


If anyone wanna keep in touch, i'm Sapphic Neko on steam. and if soemone want my MSN, send me a pm.

It's been one hell of a ride. There's a rumor going round that the Forums may be shut down as early as next Tuesday. I seriously hope that isn't the case.

Anyway, if you want to stay in touch facebook.com/comradehero

Foo no longer plays but asked me to relay his well wishes in his own foo like way

Agent-Foo said the following:

Can you do me a solid and post a farewell to the art board on the CoH forums? http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=295663

Something like, "You guys were the best. You made me force myself to be better so I could become the greatest FArt Champion of ALL TIME."

Sigh...I have not been here in ages but I guess I want to stop by to visit one of my favorite games of all time. Sad to see it go away (mmo games have to go sometime). Missy K was my only toon that I cherish through the years. Even though she has not appeared in a long time, she left a lot of great memories. sigh....farewell coh!

Samuraiko asked Zwill about the forums being closed via Twitter, and he said he'd look into it. He did, and came back with the answer of not being able to find any information stating such a thing.

So, as far as we know, the forums will still be here Tuesday and beyond.

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Biggest Troll on the forums? I'll give you a hint:

I too have been pretty quiet around here the past couple of years, but like TA, I've been watching and playing when I had the time. CoH, the game, was great. It didn't attempt to do everything, but what it did, it did better than most (if not all). But as everyone here knows, it wasn't just the game that made CoH great. It was the community. I've taken part in my fair share of MMOs and without a doubt, the CoH crowd was by far the best.

I can definitely say that if it wasn't for you guys (this forum section specifically) I wouldn't have gotten back into illustration, which for me would be a big loss, since I use it now to destress and just create.

I really can't describe what that's worth to me but I wanted to say "Thanks" (which in incredibly big 'fail' of a word for describing the feeling).

So you all take care. I'll still be on Deviant art, and I'm on Facebook quite a bit a tcowden or Twitter @toddworld and there's always www.toddworld.com, so finding me is not all that hard.

It's been a pleasure folks. Whatever you do, be heroic.

Todd
a.k.a. 8 Baller

I still blame you for getting me into the whole art collecting thing, TA!!

I lurked here mostly. I was lured in by TA. Got to know him on a different forum.
For those of you who don't know TA is a good sport, and has a great sense of humor.

I will miss this site too.

To all you wonderful fellow heroes,

City of Heroes has been a wonderful distraction for me for so many years. I am reminded however to spend more time on the real world, things that I can win by myself, and do not depend on the whims of collective fundraising and corporate margins. Of course, if collective heroics do ultimately find a way to save this community then I will be doing my bit, including the write-ins and such.

Just in case, you will still be able to find me at my neglected blog, www.milandare.com and at deviant art, milandare.deviantart.com. The art/multimedia section of this forum has been a home for me, a hive of positivity almost all of the time. So a quick picture – the number works out to about 2.5 hours per day every day for 5 years! That’s not quite true. For the longest time I played on a primitive computer, and I’d stop playing when it crashed too many times. So for most of that game time I was link-dead Admittedly I still played a lot...



For a while yet, seeya in game!

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Oh wow, I totally didn't see this coming. Although I've rarely played in the past year, I am so sad to hear they are shutting it down. So many memories from the 7 years that I played it almost daily. And to think CoH had a direct influence on my artistic development...I did not even know how to draw when I started playing CoH. I still remember how much I was blown away when I saw this on TA's gallery and it got me hooked on digital painting, along with the Mmoart stuff and speedpainting artists. Lol, it doesn't look as amazing as it did back then, but it will still always be my all time favorite TA fanart. When I look at the stuff I've done, the vast majority of things I whipped out of my head for fun are CoH related. And the major artistic growth spurts I've had were when I was toiling for hours for days or even weeks on some of the fanart battle entries...

I regret I was too undisciplined to ever reach the commissionable artist status, but after pulling 12+ hour days for a year learning 3d, I've come to realize that I can do the same with 2d now, and I am seriously considering switching my focus to concept art. I've been painting like crazy for over a week now, and if I decide this is what I want to do, I might take some commissions down the road if anyone would be interested in immortalizing their CoH characters then.

Here's my facebook, web site, and deviantart.

I will miss this community and wish all the best to everyone.

This was not a good happy birthday present. CoH got me through high school. And the art forum got me though college. I fear to think where or what I would have been had it not been for all of you.

I've wandered, I've strayed but COH was always home, my base. I will miss it all very deeply. I hope they keep the forums up afterward. So that we might make connections in new worlds. I will probably cast off and sail the sea searching forever for a community like this.

I for sure will pick up GW2 and make a stay there, perhaps for a long time. I am GrimFox on steam and elsewhere on the internet.

Sadly and forever,
Roxy

I've always been quiet, posting wise, but this is the only forum on the boards I've kept up with regularly.

This whole mess is a real kick in the gut, and I've been having a hard time keeping my eyes dry. I haven't regretted playing this game or posting on the boards. I hope the forums remain online for the duration of the game.

I'm pretty easy to find. I'll see y'all around dA.

I have not been on the boards for a while. Not posting anyway. But I just wanted to agree with TA that this community within the community has been very special all along.

Thanks all for being artists and art lovers who share.

I haven't been around much the past year or so, but I always planned to return once Real Life settled down, and I could get back to commissioning art. I have had so much fun being part of this community--I met some new friends, saw some great art, and just enjoyed the heck out of it all.

Thank you all for being such a great bunch of people.

Even if CoH is saved, it's not going to be the same.

Let me introduce myself. Originally, I called myself DemonCaller on the forums, because I was running a toon called DemonCaller Oryo. She was supposed to be my main, this brash, wild, hard working and hard partying heroine.

Then several things happened. An argument with another player, several others insisting I play someone else and play with THEM instead of with the cool group I was forever trying to get into. I kinda gave up when 1) I realized I had no money to really collect art with- to this day, I am still saving up DA points and relying on Kirbans. and 2) my husband started an SG. and 3) I got tired of defending myself and my actions to some people- and trying to patch things up with someone who had apparently decided I was the sort of person that tortured kittens and boiled baby bunnies (Not true and yes, I saw that movie). This after he had me defriend him, and his closest friend. (Yes, I should not have mentioned it. For years, I lived in fear of this person- I was given to believe he had legal means to make life hell for me.)

But a few of the Art people continued to be my friends; Caemgen, for some odd reason has stuck with me- I never gave him or Vexxxa any reason to, but they did anyway.

And I left the art group in the end because...I had too much to deal with with the SG AND with RL. This past year alone, my husband has become sick, sick enough to stay in the hospital. And before that, I had to deal with my own self- I discovered that my bouncing mood- and my out of whack hormones contributed to that- was due to bipolar disorder. I am now on medication to control that...and I think with a clearer head before I rp in the D now. We also had to move due to the building we lived in being sold- and evicted because the new landlord wanted to jack up the prices, apparently.

To you guys, I apologize for staying away. I do think of you often, and try to touch base on DA as much as I can. I'll always be grateful to you for accepting me, bouncing moods and all. Hopefully, we will meet again, someday. Some place. I just wish I could make it right with that one person who defriended me, but I have a feeling even if I have the chance, he will NEVER, EVER allow me to do it.

Amerikat, if you are still reading this, may I have your permission to use you in a commission? It will be lighthearted- as two characters- mine and someone else's wrap up their storyline to ride into the sunset, and for that, I want Amerikat- and anyone else who wants to be included in it

Until we meet again,
Lydia Silver
@Mellissandria
@DemonCaller Oryo