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I love you Andy, I hope you can move on to bigger and better things. That goes for you and all of the devs there. You are the best development studio I've ever seen, and this? This is a shame beyond all shames.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Thank you.
Thank you for making the job of my team a joy. A Community Manager couldn't ask for a better group of players to be given the opportunity to care for. The devotion and dedication you all have to the game and your fellow players has had a really positive impact on my approach to Community Management. Today has been emotionally challenging for us all. I'm not a man prone to tears, but I couldn't help but crying as I read the messaging that we would be posting to you during our final Studio Meeting. Even though I was only here for awhile, Paragon was home. In my short tenure, I was blessed to see a new era for the game with Freedom, to watch artists pass the torch to each other as they shifted to new projects, to watch developers have a dialog with the Community rather and work together to make the game better and to work directly with you guys to make some amazing content like the Retro Sci Fi set. Freedom brought a new life to City of Heroes. The game was, and still is, alive and vibrant with more new players joining the fight every day. It's important to know that Freedom wasn't a failure. This really is a refocusing of direction from NCsoft and unfortunately, Paragon didn't fit into that vision. Collectively, we hold no ill will towards NCsoft and thank them for many years of support. I know that many of you have questions that need answered. I don't have a lot of answers right now, but please be assured that whomever remains behind to sunset CoH, whether it be myself or someone else, will provide updates as much as possible. I just can't say this enough; it's been an honor and a privilege to play some small part in the history of this amazing game and it's Community. Remember all of the friendships, bonds and connections you've all made with each other. Cherish them and carry with you into the next adventure. You guys, the people, are what MMOs are all about. Damnit...now I'm tearing up again. |
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Here's to hoping that all of you can find a new job with an awesome MMO company that doesn't make stupid moves when their other games fail. CoX doesn't deserve this fate! GW2 DOES! (Heh. Almost typed GW2 DIES, but that's appropriate too, right?)
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TO THE END!Villains are those who dedicate their lives to causing mayhem. Villians are people from the planet Villia!
Take care.
Here's to soft landings for everyone at Paragon Studios.
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Goodbye to you all. And thanks you all SO SO much, you were the best group of developwers possible and created a product that I never ONCE stopped purchasing for 8+ years. Not when I was unemployed, and not when my gaming rig died. You had me from day 1, and all of your great current work kept me here until the end (whenever that may be in November).
Best of luck to each and every one of you on your future endeavors. As someone who has been between jobs for quite sometime now, my heart truly goes out to all of you. Thanks again, and please land on your feet all of you.
Zwillinger,
All I can say is Thank You to the City of Heroes community and dev teams both past and present for the awesome fun, memories, and just being a part of my life. good fortune and good victory to your future endeavors, and hopefully our paths will cross again.
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Zwill, you were incredible. The coffee talks have been the best form of interaction I've ever seen any development team maintain with their players, outside an indie, two-man team. Wherever you go, the people there will be richer for having you.
One last thought Zwill...
I hope your next job is spectacular and easily found...
... but ...
... no matter where you end up... they won't appreciate you the same way WE do..
My mind wanders so often you've probably seen its picture on milk cartons. - Me... the first person version of the third person Steelclaw
You all will be greatly missed and I really enjoyed listening to your shows. This is the first game I have ever played and loved. The players the game everything so sad. 
" Hugs "
You the developers will be missed just as much as i will miss to be able to soar the skies of Paragon !!
CoX for life !!
I'm wishing good luck to you and everyone else at Paragon Studios, Zwill. Thanks for all the memories.
Thanks for eight fun years, Paragon.
Thank you Zwill.
Best of luck wherever you land.
*hugs*
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I watched all of your coffee talks Zwill. Thanks for everything and being a PARAGON of community reps.
Thank you Zwill. I know this cant be easy for any of you guys either, I'm sure it was as much of a surprise to you as it was to us. Thank you so much for all your hard work and dedication. /brohug
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Zwil, feel free to not hold any ill-will to NCSoft.
I will be holding enough for ten people.
You were -- and are -- a great community manager, Zwill. Cheers to you and everyone at Paragon for your dedication to the game and its players.
Good luck to you and everyone. You deserve it. 
Thank Z,
I hope you, the rest of the people laid off (80?, more?) and everyone impacted by this land on their feet. Trying times I know.
Thank you and everyone who worked on the game for giving me a canvas for my characters. I have 2 wishes 1) I had made thousands more characters 2) I had concentrated on one character and they had done everything. Thats how much I enjoyed this game. GL.
I'm bawling here...
I love CoH, it's been my favorite game ever. Even tho i've had my periods where i've not played i've always always gone back to it. And i've only let my sub lapse when my CC expired and i forgot to update it.
I will miss the heck out of CoH and the community
Thanks for all you've done to help this game and it's community.
I really want to be more eloquent and specific about how great you are, how wonderful the devs are, and everything... but I really have to investigate this mysterious salt water that keeps showing up on my face. Really distracting when I try to type.
Best regards, and well wishes for the future, good sir, and the same to the whole Paragon team.
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Though you don't know me, I'm going to miss you a lot Z., and the fabulous employees of Paragon too.
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I will miss this game. It's something that my boyfriend and I could truly love doing together. I have met many awesome people in this community as well as gotten to know many of the devs who have worked on this fantastic game over the years.
I will truly miss everything about this game (except for the 8 million different kinds of Merit and currency
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You guys were the best damn Community Reps in any game I've played to date. Bar none. I wish you all the best, and thank you for making our now-too-short-time awesome.
...It's not fair. It's not fugging fair. It shouldn't be like this...
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GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Zwillinger,
I never thought I would get into another community rep, except for Cuppajo, but after seeing you on Ustream and Twitch.tv, I had something to look forward to each week. It was a delight to see your many hats, listen to your good and bad jokes(the bad jokes sometimes even being funnier), watch your excitement for new content and hear the passion in your voice you had for the game and community.
I will truly miss those weekly ventures. And please convey a similar opinion to Arbiter Hawk. The two of you together couldn't provide a more entertaining community talk.
I wish you the best and hope you all land an excellent job. Your next company will quickly realize what an excellent decision they made in hiring you.
Thank yuo Zwill to you and all developers since Issue #1 and before. Never hit the big 10 years eh?
I'll cherish the memories of this world that followed me from picking it up as a student to waving it goodbye sadly as an office worker! Grew up with it man.
And I will ALWAYS be a Scrapper in any game I play.... 
Frankie says it best.
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A Community Manager couldn't ask for a better group of players to be given the opportunity to care for.
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Thanks for being so calm in the face of RARGH BLARGH BLARGH WHY ISN'T X WORKING INSTANTEOUSLY and FREE STUFF IS A SLAP IN THE FACE. Really. I'd have probably started going to people's houses and clotheslining them.
WTF! I am totally outraged! You guys where the best. Somebody better explain this to me in a quick hurry or I'm on my way to Korea to have words.
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