Going Out On My Own Terms

I'm thinking about just deleting all my 50's and calling it a day. Instead of waiting for the apocalypse, I figure I'd just commit suicide. Anyone else share my feelings?

I, personally, hope not. A sudden drop in activity just justifies their action. As things stand, I've got 91 days of joy to suck up and I hope to suck up every little bit of joyful memory out of the game I can in those 91 days.

im trying not to do that, im hoping all of the activism being generated will pull through to keep the game alive

I'd do share the feeling that an increase in activity will keep the game a float, but my gut feeling tells me that it's all in vein. I hope not.

I want to delete all my toons but my first one and stand on the Atlas statue and wait for oblivion...however I want to wait and see what events might happen leading up to the end.

Nope. I'mma let them ride the servers to the end, staring into the setting sun as their final log off.

Every. One. Of. Them.

Saluting.

Mike

My first 50 and namesake will be on on Nov 30. I hope beyond hope he'll be able to come back on Dec 1 - but he'll be on on the 30th of Nov for sure

Dude, if this game's going down, I'm going out mid-Hamidon raid.

It matters not if the cause is lost, and we cannot stop the tide. We will fight to the end, and then fight again, it will be a good way to die.

No way am I deleting. I too plan on playing just like usual, right up until the end comes, hoping against hope that an eleventh hour save of some sort comes along.

And not only do I truly hope I am able to be out of work and online for the final swansong of Virtue, if that is the way it really does pan out, but I hope the devs are there too. I'd like to give them one final salute.

God, I feel like crying right now. When will this feeling go away?

Damn and blast, NCSoft. I hate you.

I know I want to be playing the game as it all goes dark. Even if I have to burn vacation days before, during, and after, in order to do it.

Probably with the very first character I ever made... still exists even if I rarely ever play her, or perhaps my first 50, who I do play... or one of my favorite duos with my wife... or, if not that, then go out with the Iron Eagles II SG (Die=Retire) over on Justice.

What if some miracle occur and CoH keeps going?
Let me dream about it...
I wont delete any of my characters.

Well, i have been away on vacation the last week, walked into my hotel room Friday night after a glorious day at the US Open and opened the forums up for the first time in 5 days and had that horrifying moment we all had on Friday. . . My wife, just stared at me asking what happened (thinking I had an email from work or worse from our vets that something happened to our dogs). . . In the end, when I told her what had happened she asked me the best question. . . "well, what are you going to do."

My initial reaction was to delete everyone but my 2 or 3 mains. . . Even though I havent really had a main in years. I went through the list in my head of my 50+ characters and 20+ 50's and realized I couldnt delete them all.

I will be here on November 30th, may not play again until that day just because I am that upset by this move. By Darke be Damned will pull on his Cloak of Darkness, push his Quills to the limits, and be killing off Carnies until the servers go black. . . Unless, of course the devs are allowed to give us an epic sendoff and he is in Atlas 26 fighting hordes on Nems, Rularuu, and Preatorians in his final moments. ..

As any true warrior would say be the final battle, "It is a good day to die."

While I will eventually be unable to visit City of Heroes again, I do not take that to mean it ends. It will live on, in my imagination, as will my characters. They have come too far, done too much, for me to imagine the end of my time with them as the end of their existence. I want to be able imagine their further adventures and exploits. I just won't be "driving" in the same way.

So there will be no deleting for sure. There won't even be any "final" defeat. There will simply be a curtain call, perhaps a bow, and the screen will go dark. Like a movie you might have enjoyed that never got a sequel, it's up to each of us to dream up the further adventures, the way we'd have liked to see them. You don't have to be a writer or artist - just imagining it will do.

City of Heroes let us make our dreams come something close to real, and it definitely shaped them, but it didn't create our dreams. They're ours. We get to take those with us when we go.

great idea: Nov 30 1st 50's day stay logged on till the lights go out kickin it in pocket D !!!

My burn tank will be in the back of boomtown herding up lost and frying them up. Like he just dinged 18 again.

Although I am sorely tempted to just fly around atlas, remembering the awe I felt when I first logged on in April 2004 and saw what felt like hundreds of heroes running, jumping and flying about on their way to becoming legends.

LOL, I actually did that yesterday with my end of the world project character - The Perez Park loop.

If I had a sick friend who was slowly dying and had 90 days to live - I would not kill myself to spare the wait.

I would spend a lot of time with them and not wallowing in pity - we would enjoy as well as we could what time was left.

It's called sucking it up, princess.

I still have hope that a Miracle will happen and this game gets saved, not giving up deleting my toons at all. If you Delete your Toons, you already give up and they won.

I want to be eating dinner at the Atlas City Diner with Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" playing in the background. After I pop an onion ring into my mouth, someone opens the diner's front door and I look up to see who it is...

Fade to Black.