I haven't been a regular part of the CoH community in a while. I've been absent the last couple updates, and missed the last community event for the first time in years. This was due in large part to a bad break up I went through with my ex, shortly after the community event in November last year.
I started CoH back in 2005, I remember the afternoon, sitting in a new apartment, early october the rain coming down, checking out the game that I downloaded from Direct2Drive because I was curious and wanted to see what it was like before I invested in buying CoV which was due out later that month.
I met My ex girlfriend the following summer in 2006 and was with her until last november. I've been playing CoH going on 7 years and was with her for 5 and a half years of that. I got her into the game after a time and we played together quite a bit. she came to events with me, met many of you, met the Devs and she wasn't a huge gamer but she really got into the game.
so after we broke up it's been really hard for me to return to the game. I've followed the updates and looked at the features and it seems like the game was still doing well from the development standpoint. I popped in for a bit to checkout the DA revamp and I've sort of kept checking the news on occasion. I only recently started playing again this last week, trying to get back into this wonderful game that I fell in love with in the first 5 minutes of playing.
I'm unbelievably sad to hear this news. though it fits that I'm looking out the office window on a cloudy day when I hear it. If I had known, I'd have been playing the last several months non stop.
To the Devs: You guys have all been amazing. Every interaction I've had with all of you on the Boards and in Person has been very positive. You've all kept this game going a long time and kept it fresh and exciting to the point that 24 issues in I was still jonesing for the next update.
I remember my first Hero con, The first official Hero con, and meeting some of the Devs for the first time over a game of D&D with positron, with others there. I remember costume contests, in person and in game, my first 50 and so many other good memories of video gaming and meeting people in this wonderful community and it is all because of the hard work of the Devs and the Community relations team. I was so excited being at Paragon studios just last summer, Seeing "Freedom" announced and having my feedback heard, being able to talk to the Devs. It's all been amazing, this is an amazing group of people and I just can't express how sad I am to see it go like this, so suddenly. I honestly hope that NCsoft has the sense to keep this franchise alive in other forms, and to keep the Devs who have done so much for it, Particular Clayton, Miller and Bianco, on board to work on other games, but it CoH2 or other forms of CoH as I think this game, this franchise has a lot of space to grow and could make wonderful sandbox or other types of action games.
To the community: I've made some friends over the years here. Seen old friends vanish and new ones come. I've had a few wonderful people help me build my super group and villain group. I've had fun talking with you at events and honestly, to this day one of my favorite memories of City of heroes was when I first figured out how chat worked. Some where in my second game session as I began to really get a feel for the game, my first MMO (the only one to keep my attention for more than 10 minutes.) When I started asking questions in Broadcast... no one called me dumb, no one called me a Newb. I got helpful messages in broadcast and in tells from people just trying to help a new player out. I got pointed to the boards, and other sites that at the time held CoH information in droves, some of which no longer exist. This community welcomed me, made me feel at home, and while I may not have gotten along with everyone, I never felt like people shut me down, or shut me out for not knowing something. If I ever see some one walking the streets in CoH gear, I'll shake your hand because you've all been amazing, especially on my home server of Virtue.
I can't thank you all enough. I'm sad to see this go, I'm sad my little home on Virtue won't be there anymore. I really thought this game might go one a few more years with Freedom, and I am hoping that something changes, and this game might continue on. If it does, I'll be happy, if It doesn't, life will go on and I'll always have good memories of this game and these people.
I'll be carving more time out of my schedule to play until the server shuts down.. I'll miss the christmas event this year, it was one of the things I enjoyed with extra time off around the holidays. hopefully things will run through the halloween event...
And once more, I can't thank the Devs enough for all of their hard work and wonderful experiences I've had with them. Really time and again they proved they were here for us, listened to us and worked with us to make the game better, if every dev team operated this way, a lot of games would be much better. Other games should learn from this dev team.
See you in Virtue!
"Where does he get those wonderful toys?" - The Joker
I haven't been a regular part of the CoH community in a while. I've been absent the last couple updates, and missed the last community event for the first time in years. This was due in large part to a bad break up I went through with my ex, shortly after the community event in November last year.
I started CoH back in 2005, I remember the afternoon, sitting in a new apartment, early october the rain coming down, checking out the game that I downloaded from Direct2Drive because I was curious and wanted to see what it was like before I invested in buying CoV which was due out later that month.
I met My ex girlfriend the following summer in 2006 and was with her until last november. I've been playing CoH going on 7 years and was with her for 5 and a half years of that. I got her into the game after a time and we played together quite a bit. she came to events with me, met many of you, met the Devs and she wasn't a huge gamer but she really got into the game.
so after we broke up it's been really hard for me to return to the game. I've followed the updates and looked at the features and it seems like the game was still doing well from the development standpoint. I popped in for a bit to checkout the DA revamp and I've sort of kept checking the news on occasion. I only recently started playing again this last week, trying to get back into this wonderful game that I fell in love with in the first 5 minutes of playing.
I'm unbelievably sad to hear this news. though it fits that I'm looking out the office window on a cloudy day when I hear it. If I had known, I'd have been playing the last several months non stop.
To the Devs: You guys have all been amazing. Every interaction I've had with all of you on the Boards and in Person has been very positive. You've all kept this game going a long time and kept it fresh and exciting to the point that 24 issues in I was still jonesing for the next update.
I remember my first Hero con, The first official Hero con, and meeting some of the Devs for the first time over a game of D&D with positron, with others there. I remember costume contests, in person and in game, my first 50 and so many other good memories of video gaming and meeting people in this wonderful community and it is all because of the hard work of the Devs and the Community relations team. I was so excited being at Paragon studios just last summer, Seeing "Freedom" announced and having my feedback heard, being able to talk to the Devs. It's all been amazing, this is an amazing group of people and I just can't express how sad I am to see it go like this, so suddenly. I honestly hope that NCsoft has the sense to keep this franchise alive in other forms, and to keep the Devs who have done so much for it, Particular Clayton, Miller and Bianco, on board to work on other games, but it CoH2 or other forms of CoH as I think this game, this franchise has a lot of space to grow and could make wonderful sandbox or other types of action games.
To the community: I've made some friends over the years here. Seen old friends vanish and new ones come. I've had a few wonderful people help me build my super group and villain group. I've had fun talking with you at events and honestly, to this day one of my favorite memories of City of heroes was when I first figured out how chat worked. Some where in my second game session as I began to really get a feel for the game, my first MMO (the only one to keep my attention for more than 10 minutes.) When I started asking questions in Broadcast... no one called me dumb, no one called me a Newb. I got helpful messages in broadcast and in tells from people just trying to help a new player out. I got pointed to the boards, and other sites that at the time held CoH information in droves, some of which no longer exist. This community welcomed me, made me feel at home, and while I may not have gotten along with everyone, I never felt like people shut me down, or shut me out for not knowing something. If I ever see some one walking the streets in CoH gear, I'll shake your hand because you've all been amazing, especially on my home server of Virtue.
I can't thank you all enough. I'm sad to see this go, I'm sad my little home on Virtue won't be there anymore. I really thought this game might go one a few more years with Freedom, and I am hoping that something changes, and this game might continue on. If it does, I'll be happy, if It doesn't, life will go on and I'll always have good memories of this game and these people.
I'll be carving more time out of my schedule to play until the server shuts down.. I'll miss the christmas event this year, it was one of the things I enjoyed with extra time off around the holidays. hopefully things will run through the halloween event...
And once more, I can't thank the Devs enough for all of their hard work and wonderful experiences I've had with them. Really time and again they proved they were here for us, listened to us and worked with us to make the game better, if every dev team operated this way, a lot of games would be much better. Other games should learn from this dev team.
See you in Virtue!
"Where does he get those wonderful toys?" - The Joker