To all of you...

Thank you, Zwill. Thank you for everything you have done.

Godspeed to you.

May you never run out of hats, and they all keep you snug and warm and never blow off your head in high winds.

I will still be running the UK Player Meet this year. Hopefully we'll manage to all do a song and dance routine before we go. (If you've not seen it from the first Player Meet I did... it's HERE )

Zwill, I mostly lurk on threads rather than posting, but you and all the team have been awesome and patient beyond expectation. I've really appreciated most all my Dev interactions, and the stuff the team has put together. The excitement and the love for the genre, and the willingness to engage with the playerbase. Wherever you all end up, I wish you luck and joy and fortune. I'm sure it won't be half so good as you deserve.

This game has been a second family for 7 years and an opportunity to just let go and kick evil in the nuts when daily life gets to be too much. I've found a home here on Triumph, and on Victory, and all the other servers I've got lowbies on. Everywhere I have gone on this game has made me feel at home. It's been quiet diversion when my husband was in grad school and a way of spending time with friends across the state.

I love this game. Friends have gotten bored and moved on, and I still love this game. I've tried a few of the other MMOs, and none of them have come close. This is where I have loved being--where I could be the superhero I choose to be, or the villain that was so much fun (well, except for Sharkhead, but Sharkhead is just depressing). This has been my stress relief, my diversion, and my giggling fun, my family with jokes and love (and punching, don't forget punching).

I'm not sure what direction NCSoft thinks they're going in, but if it doesn't involve the most beautiful, flexible, and super MMO out there, they're going in the wrong one. I can only hope they wake up and take notice.

In case they don't, Thanks, Zwill. Thanks to you, and everyone else at Paragon Studios. And thanks to the great playerbase that made me not ever afraid to join random teams, recruit random people for monster fighting, or take time to help someone out.

Thank you.

I cried several times today Zwill. I pmed you on FB too.

(sigh) What can I say that hasn't already been said. Not much. Still mucho thanks for producing a great game (and on a mac/PC no less) that I'm more than happy to subscribe for. And good luck to you and the dev team future endeavors.

Still this sucks bigtime

(sorry, had to add that)

One final coffee talk?

Thanks for everything and all of your hard work Paragon, I have truly enjoyed my time over the last 8 years in the City... but I have had an absolute blast this last year with the new content and things you were giving us. I am in shock over this announcement. It is akin to a death in the family.

Zwillinger, you have been an outstanding community manager. Thanks to you and your team for all you've done to put up with us. This community can be hard to live with at times, but it's all for the love of this great game, on our part and yours.

Kudos to the devs and a big THANK YOU for giving us a home away from home, where the sky was always the limit. I am greatful to you all.

Smooth sailing Paragon, you will be missed.

Thanks for all your work Zwill. Go on to bigger and better things.

Very, very disappointing.

The most heartfelt thanks to Zwill and all past and, um, I guess recently past people who made this game possible. Some really lucky companies will be gaining great assests shortly. You gave us a much needed and overwhelmingly great escape from the barrage of (mostly crappy) sword and sorcery MMOs. Again, THANK YOU!

And thank you to all the players over these many, many years. I can't even fathom how many people I got to "beat up the bad guys" with. This has been one of the most mature, helpful, and fun groups of online gamers I ever had the privilage to share a virtual world with. And I've seen many.

And nothing but ill will to NC Soft. All NC Soft games will be cancelled at the end of this month when this great game ends. No point putting money into anything that may randomly disappear tomorrow. It takes a Super Powered Idiot to cancel something that basically cornered a market and should only have been making money. If you have a few moments, please look over the list of profanity that would be blocked on these forums, and apply it to yourselves.

-- Lightbender, 8+ year veteran

Thank you Z,

Thank you for caring that much as this game and the community meant a lot to a whole lot of us. I still feel collectively that we all deserved better than this. I know for a fact that the team of developers and Community Management there deserved better than this.

I hope you all land softly on your new paths and that we run into you soon. I'm gonna miss this particular team past and present very much. Godspeed.

I'm really sorry that this is happening to you and the rest of the dev team Zwil. The fact is you don't deserve to be shafted by NCSoft. The thing is we all don't. You might not hold any ill will towards them, but you'll forgive me if I don't feel the same way. The fact is, they're complete idiots if they are going to give up on a proven franchise that has worked for over seven years and didn't show signs of ever stopping.
Really if I were in your shoes, I would be downright pissed.

Thank you for interacting with the community and truly making CoH a joy to play.

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

So there you go. Fine. Be that way. In this crazy, sometimes neurotic family, you were the unflappably nice one. But now you're gone, like all the rest. With that stupid, unbelievably awesome hat.

I always thought you did a great job representing the company professionally while still showing your enthusiasm for the game. To me, CoH was, up until today, in a golden age, and you represented it well. Thanks.

This development team and community deserved better than this from NC Soft period.

Best wishes to not only my favorite devs, but all of them that ever worked on the game. This is a great game that was alive and well not only in spirit but apparently financially since Freedom was not a failure.

Gotta wonder what the world has come to when succeeding and not being a failure is not enough and you still get fired because of some other failures that had nothing to do with you. INSANE.

I managed to remain relatively in control of myself with all this news but upon reading this, I teared up. Thank you for being awesome, Zwillinger. You, along with everyone at Paragon Studios, will be horribly missed.

I will miss this game.. and the many many hours of fun I had in it. When I heard the news I was in the mids of rebuilding not one, but two bases.. both I wanted to show off ...

But... I know that the reason I came back was the community. Any other game I tried... ANY other game... had a bunch of asocial persons running around. Here I found friends, and many good conversation. That was partly because of its fantastic Devs.

May your hats fit well forever !!! And good luck in any job after this...

Thank you.

I find it amazing that the devs twitters, FB posts and the posts made here have been filled with the grace and calm that they have been.

You guys produced an amazing game, doesn't matter if you've been working there a month or 10 years, everyone's done a terrific job.

I guess I'll never get my snipe the sniper badge in the game now, though. :/ I was so happy to hear someone would even bring that up. I was so happy to get a kirbydots code.

If you guys hadn't made such a great game we wouldn't be so sad to see it go.

/e holdtorch

I'm going to miss CoH very much, 5years here changed me for the better. I hope every one at Paragon can find a good job after this.

Signing off for now.

Nogard D. Airwing aka OmniNogard aka @Omni-Nogard

I'm sad and something broke up by reading this bad news, but than all the epic moments came up to my mind, which made smile and showed me how much fun i had playing the best mmo ever, made by the Team and Players...so i will go with mixed feelings.

So Thanks everyone and i wish u the best.

Farewell, Zwillinger.

We love you Zwill. Take care, keep in touch, k?

I Want to thank you, Zwill and all of the paragon studios devs for 7 years of enjoyment and mind blowing inspiration. I hope the whole dev team finds greenier pastures. You've given this community aspirations and epic bonds, which will take more than Ncsoft to break.

Thank you for everything.

Hugs back to you.

Cannot believe that NCSoft if scrubbing this game. Very sad day indeed. To you and all the other Devs. I wish you all the best in your future. You are a talented bunch.