To all of you...

*hugs
Thanks for years of awesome fun.
To you Zwillinger and the whole team for your great work. No one of us would`ve imagined that this would happen for the next years. We saw the game growing and really enjoyed to be a part of the evolution over the years.
There is not really a comparsion for CoX and we will miss it hardly.
Many of us might keep up hoping that the game will survive somehow, in this case it would be great to know you and your team to be a part of it in the future.
We all love the game, the work you all have done and how you all gave us the feeling to be a part of a big family.
This community, the Paragon Team are by far the best you can find in any game.
I really met awesome people here, friends.
I am happy to have been a part of this for a long time and honestly will miss you all.
Thanks again, best wishes and good luck to all for your future.
Remembering Union server will always feel like lost a home and a familiy....
@Nocturnal ONE

This sucks Zwill, it really does. And now I don't have any reason for having purchased this G600 Mouse now Why did you convince me to buy this wondrous thing for our awesome game?!

Thanks, Zwill. You were an awesome community manager. <3

Everybody at Paragon Studios pretty much rocked, actually. Best of luck to all of them.

*Wipes the tears of Heroic Masculinity from his eyes*

Thank you Zwill! For everything you've done, for everything paragon studios team has done to make this game and this community great! I'll always remember you and beastyle chilling out in mercy at the launch of GR, and doing BAFS and Lambs (with your amazingly l33t 50+8 with no badges to show for it!!!) when they were new, up to recent events like the memorial on justice, these things make the team very unique and i know that spirit will live on!

*Manly hugs all around!*

~Monkerlotus~ (because i forgot the password to my first forums account years ago!)

Dear Zwill and the Paragon Team,

This game was the only MMO to ever bring me back after a break of over a year. That is how good this game is, and how lovely the community you helped facilitate is.

I don't understand why NCSoft torpedoed the studio or this game, but I bet it will come back to haunt them.

All the very best for the future, from myself to all the members of the Paragon Studio.

Yours sincerely,

Sophia Llriandri

It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday

How do I say goodbye to what we had?
The good times that made us laugh
Outweigh the bad.

I thought we'd get to see forever
But forever's gone away
It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.

I don't know where this road
Is going to lead
All I know is where we've been
And what we've been through.

If we get to see tomorrow
I hope it's worth all the wait
It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.

And I'll take with me the memories
To be my sunshine after the rain
It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.

And I'll take with me the memories
To be my sunshine after the rain
It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.


Zwill, Devs, Mods, Community: Thanks for the memories. Some have been good, some bad, but I will cherish the time I played City. Best wishes to all at Paragon.

Thank you Zwillinger for everything you done for this game and community. I hope that everything works out for you.

Also since a few rednames have done it, want to reveal what your personal account name is? j/k

Z,

You gave this job your all, and from the bottom of my heart...THANK YOU.

I cannot begin to say how impressed I've been with all you've done with this community...a community that I will say to my dying day is the BEST online gaming community EVER.

I only pray you are able to find a new job with all good haste. You're in my prayers.

Like you, I can't stop crying. Me. A retired Navy Submariner. Never shed a tear for 20 years, and now I can't stop. Dammit, this is tough.

Be proud of what you've done here, Z. If anyone could be classified as a person with heroic intent in making this game better than any other MMORPG, you would get the Medal of Honor for your work here.

/salute

I will miss you Z.

Goodluck and Godspeed on a quick and timely and profitable job hunt.

Thank you Zwill . . . and the rest of Paragon. You will be missed.

Thanks, Zwill. I'll miss all of you, and I'll miss City of Heroes. And yeah, I thought Freedom wasn't a failure. Glad to know you guys were successful, even if I guess that wasn't enough in a corporate culture. Just know that we appreciate it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

give my best to the rest of the team Zwill, and i hope they land on there feet.

*hugs bro*

Thanks for a wonderful game. I was shocked to read the announcement. This has been my main MMO home for almost 6 years, subscribed the whole time. Dang it, NCSoft.

Thank you, Zwil/Andy. Gonna miss you and your hats.

Zwill, you should totally drop Trion a line. Their community reps consider you awesome, and I think you'd be a good fit for their team.

Andy,

You are great at your job, of that there's no doubt. I've enjoyed reading your comments on the backstage parts of being a community manager, because it was so completely apparent how dedicated are to making this crazy business work. But that's not what set you apart.

It's your heart, sir - your enormous, magnificent heart. Paragon was lucky to have you on staff, and we were lucky to have known you.

I hope our paths cross again some day.

== Marc

Thank you Zwill, for all that you and the rest o the community team did for us!

--Rad

Thank you, Andy. You were the best community manager this game ever had.

No, thank you and you other Paragon guys, you all did the best with what you had, you were constantly pushing this game to be better, right up to the end. COH is unique and will be unique for a very long time. This is especially sad as i really felt it was finding its feet again. You guys desserved better than this!

Now who will I harass with old-fashioned swimwear?

Take care Zwill.

Thank you Zwill. Your enthusiasm and effort as community manager kept me interested in a game I likely otherwise would have walked away from. Thanks to everyone else on the team as well. Paragon Studios was a special group that impacted a lot of people. City of Heroes was a great ride and one I won't soon forget.

Zwillinger,

Last winter I spent 6.5 years of accumulated in-game inf at a PERC bidding event to get to claim 2 hours of your playtime. Just to run some casual BAF iTrials and, more importantly, show you how much I valued you as a community manager.

Always remember how amazing you are, Zwillinger. You are one of the best community reps EVER!

*HUGS!* Thank you, thank you, thank you.

~Llydia

Thank you Z and all the rest of the Devs. You have made this game something I called home since 04. Godspeed in whatever lays ahead of you. You will be missed, and after the closing of CoH's servers, this virtual reality of heroes and villains will be missed, a place I will always remember as a second home.

Thank you for all the hard work and putting up with our stuff, good and bad, to make this game the best MMORPG out there.