I sit here bewildered and conflicted in a way that I never expected to be. I've played regularly, for the most part, shortly after i3 or i4. Reading the news today, knowing that soon I'll never again be able to log in as any of my meticulously crafted characters to meet up with my supergroup and bash the ever-living daylights out of the 5th column is honestly and truly staggering. When CoH went F2P I thought it would be around forever.
What a sad reality this day has brought.
I've had the same group of regulars since i8, if not earlier. I feel as though I may actually cry. How silly. A grown man crying over a video game. But I feel like some part of me has been removed and that I'll never get it back.
My friend @Speedbump and I met in this game, forming a friendship that has crossed over into the real world. Soon, I wont be able to make my tired old joke about our team needing a tank (when he is, infact, a very reliable tank on our team).
I wont be able to join up with @Hopper or @Turbospeed or any of the other regulars on Infinity and partake of the iTrials. I wont be able to listen in as @FIare or @MegaBRex crack jokes on skype about how some other player did something so ridiculous. And yes @FIare, Twilight Sparkle will always be best Pony, no matter what you say; but Rainbow Dash is pretty ok too. I guess. Our friend @BlueSigma who always enjoyed setting up mother ship raids, passed away some years ago. Our supergroup, PUAD, kept regular raids going on Sunday nights in his memory. Kanji, we miss you buddy.
Infinity was home for my characters. Even when I had a short trip to other servers, just to see what was there, I always came back to infinity. And now that home is going away.
Right now I'm flooded with memories of TFs and holiday events, invasions, costume contests radio shows on friday nights, winter lords, hamidon raids, inventions, pvp, base raids, GOD how I loved the base raids.
We always hoped they would bring them back. Our SG MOTD was "Can't wait for lvl 51 base raids" ever since they launched the Incarnate System. I guess we'll never get to see how that would have gone.
I will never forget that first time I hit lvl 14 and sprinted to the trainer as fast as I could so I could learn Flight. It was just perfect. The sound, the movement, the freedom of it all. It was what I had always wanted to be able to do in real life. Take off from the ground and watch as the surroundings raced away from me.
This is what City of Heroes was and shall always be for me. Tears in my eyes as I type out what may end up being my last post ever here.
It just doesn't seem fair to me. It honestly hurts.
I always thought Paragon City would be there.
Tears now literally rolling down my face I say good bye to you all. Thank you for the memories. I wish it wasn't over.
-Phill
(on Steam I am [AiF] Five Iron, feel free to add me.)
I sit here bewildered and conflicted in a way that I never expected to be. I've played regularly, for the most part, shortly after i3 or i4. Reading the news today, knowing that soon I'll never again be able to log in as any of my meticulously crafted characters to meet up with my supergroup and bash the ever-living daylights out of the 5th column is honestly and truly staggering. When CoH went F2P I thought it would be around forever.
What a sad reality this day has brought.
I've had the same group of regulars since i8, if not earlier. I feel as though I may actually cry. How silly. A grown man crying over a video game. But I feel like some part of me has been removed and that I'll never get it back.
My friend @Speedbump and I met in this game, forming a friendship that has crossed over into the real world. Soon, I wont be able to make my tired old joke about our team needing a tank (when he is, infact, a very reliable tank on our team).
I wont be able to join up with @Hopper or @Turbospeed or any of the other regulars on Infinity and partake of the iTrials. I wont be able to listen in as @FIare or @MegaBRex crack jokes on skype about how some other player did something so ridiculous. And yes @FIare, Twilight Sparkle will always be best Pony, no matter what you say; but Rainbow Dash is pretty ok too. I guess. Our friend @BlueSigma who always enjoyed setting up mother ship raids, passed away some years ago. Our supergroup, PUAD, kept regular raids going on Sunday nights in his memory. Kanji, we miss you buddy.
Infinity was home for my characters. Even when I had a short trip to other servers, just to see what was there, I always came back to infinity. And now that home is going away.
Right now I'm flooded with memories of TFs and holiday events, invasions, costume contests radio shows on friday nights, winter lords, hamidon raids, inventions, pvp, base raids, GOD how I loved the base raids.
We always hoped they would bring them back. Our SG MOTD was "Can't wait for lvl 51 base raids" ever since they launched the Incarnate System. I guess we'll never get to see how that would have gone.
I will never forget that first time I hit lvl 14 and sprinted to the trainer as fast as I could so I could learn Flight. It was just perfect. The sound, the movement, the freedom of it all. It was what I had always wanted to be able to do in real life. Take off from the ground and watch as the surroundings raced away from me.
This is what City of Heroes was and shall always be for me. Tears in my eyes as I type out what may end up being my last post ever here.
It just doesn't seem fair to me. It honestly hurts.
I always thought Paragon City would be there.
Tears now literally rolling down my face I say good bye to you all. Thank you for the memories. I wish it wasn't over.
-Phill
(on Steam I am [AiF] Five Iron, feel free to add me.)
@Phillon
Twitter @FiveIronBrony