So, what were you doing?

When you heard the news? (Yes, it's one of those threads, I didn't see one, so here we go)

I just finished my dinner in-between a pause from doing back-to-back iTrials, getting ready to do another, when someone posted the link.

Safe to say, I didn't join the next trial going.

This was on Union, character name Arch Bishop.

How about the rest of you?

I was browsing the forums and saying in my head that I should log in to my dominator and play this extended weekend.

nope.avi

Just came in from the pub and walked upstairs ready to slot up a brand new toon as I was sitting on a few B.

Then it hit me, so I gave random inf out in atlas then spent like 4b on prestige.

I was at work and a friend of mine sent me a message on Facebook.

Needless to say, I was distracted for the rest of the day.

I sent out a few text messages letting others know.

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I was playing GW2 and someone in map chat told us. A lot of us were upset - I flat-out called that person a liar and a troll because that was IMPOSSIBLE, my husband was JUST talking about buying BioArmor and re-rolling one of his oldest characters.

Then there was a huge general mourning and protesting storm in map chat when we all windowed out and found it was true

I was browsing the forum - I hadn't been playing for a few days because I was a bit blown out from the previous week. I eventually noticed that there was a new thread saying "Farewell, from all of us at..." so I clicked on it expecting it to be an announcement about someone leaving for new pastures. I had to read the post several times just for it all to sink in - it still hasn't really. I don't think it will until the lights go off and my babies lose their lives. I then logged in to Defiant to mourn with everyone and make plans for the future.

I was just checking twitter as I was about to go to bed. After I made checked and rechecked sleep was hard to claim me. Trust me when I say that news like this can seriously twist your dreams.

I had JUST finished a major job interview and had called my husband and roommate to see if we had lunch plans... and John told me. I almost walked into a door and nearly dropped my phone, and was standing with such an aghast and horrified look on my face that one of my interviewers immediately rushed over to see if I was all right.

My very first thought was "You MUST be joking... this can't be real."

My second thought was, "But I still have 50 videos to make..."

When I got down to my car, I just sat there for five minutes, barely able to think straight.

And when I got home, I cried. On and off. All night long.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

I was just wasting time on Facebook and saw the status update post. Hit me like a punch in the gut...

I didn't cry. I felt numb, but I wanted to cry. I guess all my tears were spent on the news that my aunty has an autoimmune disease (primary biliary cirrhosis) that's killing her faster than it normally does and she's too sick for a transplant.

When I need some escapism it's snatched away.

I was eating baked beans on toast, with a cup of tea, talking with my friends on IRC. I was going to watch some Castle later on with my mum, and had been planning character builds when Gideon/Clockworkseer, my honorary brother, came on the channel and swore that something must be a joke.

I checked Facebook. And my heart felt so very heavy. In an instant, my plans for issue 24, the fiction, the new characters, the new costumes, the possibilities, the hope for new character slots... they broke.

Later on, a group of us went to the Echo of Galaxy City, where many of us began roleplaying on Union back in 2005. I swapped my mains outfit for the one she first had when I started playing City of Heroes.

I stayed up late yesterday, till 4.30 AM, checking the forum. I tried to sleep.

I barely managed 3 hours.

I fluctuate between hope that it can be saved, despair that it will be gone, and anger that NCSoft are killing it. I ran about Kings Row today on Ravenward, my level 29 Staff/WP Scrapper, hopping from building to building and hitting enemies with the staff.

And all I could think of was 'How? This game still looks good, it's still got stuff to give, it had so much to come. How can this happen?'

At least it didn't happen a few years ago. I'd have been a wreck. Or last year, when I was caring for my dying father. Maybe I'm stronger now. Or maybe I've been dulled to emotions. But I haven't cried yet.

I had just returned from seeing The Bourne Legacy (excellent flick, btw) and logged on to Facebook and saw the post.

I was like, "Wait... what?"

I was playing my latest 50 through an UG trial. We were doing that series of tunnels leading up to the back-to-back regen AVs when one member of our league announced the game was shutting down.

Since I was running an Emp Def who had the task of babysitting Des, I alt-tabbed over to the forum site and read the news.

I finished the rest of the UG in a state of shock.

The irony of the situation is the UG gifted me with the last very rare salvage I needed to get all my incarnate powers to tier 4.

Ummm.... ....I had just got done checking out the new shiny stuff on CO, jumped on Facebook and saw the post.

I had clicked on a topic asking for Private Servers, and was about to respond with "CoH is fine, no need for a private server". Then I thought that something was amiss, looked at the other topics, then at announcements...

"Well... ****."

And to think, I was gonna get a better laptop in a few weeks so I could play Trials.

I had just arrived home from a day at a local water park when I was told to call my oldest. He gave me the news. I looked up the details on the forums, and then kicked my youngest off the computer so I could log in. I had more globals online at that time than I had seen in awhile. Rotten end to a great day.

I was just getting home and started my daily pull up Facebook for a few minutes. CoH's post was at the very top. Read the headline and the heart skipped a beat, clicked the link and read it....and just couldn't figure out how to react besides texting my brother who plays at times also.

I logged into the forums like I always do, and saw the marketeer post. Something to the effective of "How can we come out ahead even after the end?" I rolled my eyes, thought to myself "Some other stupid doomsayer, CoH isn't ending anytime soon." But it left an uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach. So I searched the forums just a little more...and there was Zwillingers announcement. I was to stunned to do anything other then stare at it in horror.

After a long and exhausting week of work, and Friday being my day off, and the wife at work and the baby taking her nap, it was as usual for me:COH/V time!!

Now I always read the forums before I jump into the game for the "hopefully" 2 hours I can play until the kid wakes up.

Glad I did too, as I saw mulitple codes for dark matter and Rulu-shin and other codes being given away.

Was soooo glad to finally have a rulu-shin, now my level 49 DB toon can get to incarante levels and I can take my Rulu-shin on a lore quest to get my Ruluaruu pets.

Then the doom came. Saw the posting of the game being shutdown and figured some jerkoff hacked the sight..

Then I say Zwill's post and my heart dropped. The rest..Well I'm just a glutton for punishment as I've read almost every thread about this shutdown.

I had just finished running a character through a heroic morality mission and was checking the boards before leaving like usual when I spotted the "NCSoft Closing Paragon Studios" topic at the top of the page. By all rights it should have been easy to dismiss a title like that as a long-term rumor, but without even opening the thread, the code giveaways the day before suddenly made a sickening amount of sense...