Until we meet again!

I did not always agree with everything you did but no RPG campaign is complete without someone complaining about the DM's decisions.

But your efforts and passion for the game were appreciated and will always be remembered.

Dear Matt "Positron" Miller,
Thank you for an excellent even peak gaming experience! I didn't expect a MMORPG to compare to the fun of in-person tabletop or LARP gaming but thanks both to the outstanding quality of work of produced by the Paragon Studios team(s) and the quality of the community of players who were drawn to and continued with City of Heroes, some for nearly nine years, City of Heroes far exceeded my expecations. As in other forms of gaming, game friendships here became real friendships. Hats off to you and all the wonderful staff at Paragon Studios. Very much looking forward to your next project(s), even as we players fight to somehow keep CoH alive. Thank you for all you've given to us.

What only just occurred to me: I went to San Diego Comic Con for the first time this year and I was really hoping to meet you guys. You had been there before, after all. Say hi, shake hands, finally meet you, David and others in person... So many people I've only known through forums, chat or mails, but for so long. Heck, I remember when I went to California in Summer 2002 and had a half-invitation to drop by Cryptic Studios to say hi. Sadly, that didn't happen.
Anyway, you guys weren't in Diego this year. No problem, I thought, I'll go again next year and they will surely be there... I guess that won't happen now either.

So here's to the game that has long been a part of me, the team I wish I could have been a part of and to you, Matt, and all of you. Thank you. I look forward to what you have in mind for us next.

Posi!
I am so sorry this happened to you (and us) as it appears you were just as surprised as we were.
I have not always agreed with you but, obviously, I haven't been so bothered as to quit in the 8 years I have played.
I am angry and cry whenever I think this game might go away. I have loved all the stories although I favor some more than others. I would've loved to have seen something more done to the Shadow Shard and was looking forward to years worth of new stuff.
I still cannot believe the f***tards (will I get banned now? lol) that dropped the bomb on all of us.
I love you, this game and most everyone I have met ingame!

Matt. Melissa, and all the people of Paragon Studios,

Thank you. Thank you for 8+ years of fun and friendship. I had never played, nor wanted to play, an MMO until a friend of mine showed me the costume creator. The g.a.y. in me went crazy! I ran out that night and bought the game.. only to find my video card wasn't up to snuff... with 15 minutes left before Best Buy closed, I had a new video card. My life had changed forever.

As a proud member of the g.a.y. community, I can't thank you enough for creating a welcome environment for everyone to play.. no matter race, religion, orientation, what ever. Hate was never tolerated. All of the people working on CoH treated everyone with respect and made all their players feel important. I NEVER felt like I was just another account paying my monthly fee.

I will never forget the one Hero-Con I was able to attend. Playing board games with Synapse. I brought a cake to the party and he told me that I had to make sure Positron got a piece.. and I brought you one. Or meeting Melissa at the 'CoH Lore' contest and realizing that I didn't know HALF of what I thought I knew about the game. JLove in cowboy hat... But the one thing that sticks out the most is how all of the members of Paragon Studios loved what they were doing and really pushed to make the users happy.

When it comes to video games, console or PC, I have the attention span of a goldfish. 8+ years with one game is a testament to the game and the creators. I never left CoH, even though I tried others... they never lasted a month. Nothing could compare to this game and I don't think anything in the future will. You have spoiled me.

At 47 years old, I never thought I would be THIS upset over the closing of a video game. You, and the user community, were family to me for 3 cross- country moves when I had no family or friends. CoH was a home for me when I was alone. Over 8 years, CoH was life support for me when my father, grandmother, and pets died.

In closing, I thank you again for being a major part of my life. You will all be sorely missed.


Chuck Salerno

Victory from start to finish
(and some of my favorites)
- Capt Colorblind
- Justen Sane
- Poisoned Puffer
- Happy Fun Ball
- Finding Emo
- Sugar Fix
- Kellie

Dearest Posi, Devs and fellow gamers

Thank you for the seven plus years of this fantastic game. I remember entering Paragon city and in ahh over the winter event. I was luck to get a jingle jet and remember flying all around Atlas collecting presents. I remember not know what the Winter Lord was and running up to him thinking "Yea I can kick his snowy butt" but a poor level five had no luck. I meet great people on Liberty, many I still talk to today, When the announcement hit Friday, I was shocked and crushed. A Friend and I on here were talking about saving up for the next Hero-con and meeting up for the first time. Only one thing in this game I would of loved to of seen and it was Bar Stools for the base. You can not have a SG Called Drunk Canadians, have a two story bar in base with out bar stools. Sadly, we will never see it.

Just know one thing please.

If you build it, we will come

Ty for the great memories

Posi...Seriously. Thank you. Thank you so much for being such a big part of this machine that has absorbed us all and kept us entertained and enthralled for so many years.

Thanks to you and the Paragon Studios team for making such a quality mmo and environment. I started playing about a year after the launch and have stayed a subscriber ...even doing the 12+2 renewal back in July.

I will always have fond memories of this place, and for lack of better words, I'll let Mr. Vic Fontaine of DS9 fame express some of my thoughts about this game and community.
http://youtu.be/q0fI6SR6Qow

Thanks you Matt. Thank you for helping myself and so many others like me live out our childhood dreams to fly through the clouds.

You did good posi.

Always remember that.

See you in another life my friend.

Xanatos

Posi I want to thank you for all the joy that you brought all of us. I tried other MMOs the all were missing something and that was this community. After reading your post I know why this game just seemed to hit home for me, and a lot of others. If I hear of you landing another MMO gig I will be there in a heartbeat because of all the hard work that you all put into CoH.

In the meantime I wish only the best for all of you and that you land quickly back on your feet.

Thank you, sir, for this wonderful, unprecedented, super game.

You took someone who didn't play MMOs (because they were all generic fantasy garbage, like the MUDs I played in college but with eye candy), someone who would never pay a monthly subscription, and you made them a believer.

I've been subscribed for 8 years straight. I wandered, but I always came back. And I'll be here right until the end.

Thank you so much.

This is more sad than when Lost ended only possibly more unanswered questions. Thanks for the great game! I'll cherish this game's memories like the Nintendo games I played as a kid up until the day it wouldn't play anymore.

Matt, thanks to all you and the entire team (devs, community team, Marketing, management, Cryptic, even NCSoft) have done over the past decade on our behalf. Future MMO experiences have so much to live up to that it may be more than another entire decade before one even begins to come close.

Take care and best of luck to you all.

Thanks for this, Positron, and for everything else.

It's funny you should mention the late, lamented Roger Zelazny, because ever since this whole sudden... thing... happened, I have often remembered him.

I still recall very vividly the day he died, back in 1995, reading about it online while I was working in the residential life office at ASU. It came so suddenly, so without warning, at a time when he had just recently begun releasing new Amber-verse material. I remember feeling a profound sense of loss, that I would never read any more stories* about Corwin, Merlin, et al, and how sad I was that I could never know how their universe would turn out, how the last scenarios in which he had cast them would unfold.

And then, as selfishly sad as I was for myself for this, I thought about how much of a tragedy, a loss it was to the world and to Roger's loved ones, that he was not going to be around for them any longer.

That's pretty much how I felt on Friday, reading about all of this. Any time I start to feel bad for the stories I will not be able to live and relive, all the content present and future that I haven't/willanonhaven't played, how much worse it must be for you and everyone at Paragon Studios to have the rug pulled out from under you, without warning, so suddenly, and at such an inopportune time.

So my heart goes out to all the COH fandom, and to you and the Paragon Studios staff more than anyone, and I thank you for all that you were able to give us in the time you had given to you to do so.

Goodbye, and hello, as always.

Thank you Posi.

The only regret I have from city is that I couldn't experience the game all graphically pretty, and I am continually floored by how low end a system can play the game. Thank you for not updating the requirements (even though I suggested you should :P).

This game is and will be one of my all time favorite games and experiences for the rest of my life.

((p.s. I do have one confession... I broke the initial NDA by allowing my then 5 year old nephew to watch the game as I played.. and might have even let him play.. as long as he ate all his veggies that is. I have never seen a kid eat their veggies so fast. At 14 he still eats his veggies and looks forward to coming over to play City of Heroes when he is down this way. He will miss the game greatly as its always been here for as long as he can remember."

Posi... man. What can I say?

This was something that floored me. Like a kick to the gut.

So sorry for you and the rest of the devs. You guys have been so amazing over the years. I can't see somewhere picking you up. The vision, the talent, the skill... COH to me is what a MMO was supposed to be. I have yet to find any other MMO which creates the special chemistry between players that you guys created with this.

It's an amazing achievement.

The game will be missed. But it is my most fereverent hope that you - and the devs will not. That you will continue on to other games and places we can enjoy your works from.

Thank you very much, happy gaming

Never in my life would I have thought I would pay a monthly fee for a game, never in my life would I have thought I would play a game for nearly 8 years, never in my life would I have thought I could come so close to my dreams about being a superhero as I did when I read comics and never in my life was I so excited to Fly for the first time. (the last line was a metaphor for my entire experience in the game).

Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much for making all of this and more possible!!! I've had 8 years to experience other MMOs, so as far as I'm concerned you ARE and forever will be the BEST MMO that ever existed.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

If i ever find you in real life, i will hug you, and i will not stop.


Worth the restraining order.

Thank you, Matt.

And welcome to the illustrious list of 16 people I follow on Twitter. I look forward to hearing where you land, and to playing in your next campaign.