According to my account profile, I started playing CoH on June 9, 2004. I actually know I started about a week or two earlier when I hung out with a buddy who had just purchased the game. It was love at first sight.
I have been a comic book freak for more than three decades. This game allowed fantasies which had long lingered in my mind to actually come to life. Magic.
In the subsequent years, I became a member of the Repeat Offenders network...a membership I never let go of. It was a pleasure to meet several of my sg/coalition mates in RL. I helped organize a regional meet and greet for Portland-area players. That was also just a freaking blast!
My life pretty much collapsed about five years ago. Divorce. New career. Learning how to be a dad only 50% of the time. It was just a wrenching experience. I was lucky to rebuid, get remarried, and enjoy a shift to the best career I could ever hope for.
But during those dark moments of my life, I always had CoH. I was never a hard-core gamer. But I'd play in fits and bursts that sometimes were rather substantial. Other times I'd go weeks without logging in. But it was so very comforting to know that I COULD...at any time...become someone, well, super.
Now I find it is more disconcerting than I would ever have guessed to know that this option will soon no longer be available to me. A constant in my personal, little universe...all gone. That's life, I suppose. And we all move on.
But I had to toss out a thank you to the people who worked on the game, the just wonderful people I met playing the game, and to all you forumites who entertained the unholy crap out of me. I will miss it all. I hope to see you folks in another super world someday...somehow. This truly was a city of heroes.
According to my account profile, I started playing CoH on June 9, 2004. I actually know I started about a week or two earlier when I hung out with a buddy who had just purchased the game. It was love at first sight.
I have been a comic book freak for more than three decades. This game allowed fantasies which had long lingered in my mind to actually come to life. Magic.
In the subsequent years, I became a member of the Repeat Offenders network...a membership I never let go of. It was a pleasure to meet several of my sg/coalition mates in RL. I helped organize a regional meet and greet for Portland-area players. That was also just a freaking blast!
My life pretty much collapsed about five years ago. Divorce. New career. Learning how to be a dad only 50% of the time. It was just a wrenching experience. I was lucky to rebuid, get remarried, and enjoy a shift to the best career I could ever hope for.
But during those dark moments of my life, I always had CoH. I was never a hard-core gamer. But I'd play in fits and bursts that sometimes were rather substantial. Other times I'd go weeks without logging in. But it was so very comforting to know that I COULD...at any time...become someone, well, super.
Now I find it is more disconcerting than I would ever have guessed to know that this option will soon no longer be available to me. A constant in my personal, little universe...all gone. That's life, I suppose. And we all move on.
But I had to toss out a thank you to the people who worked on the game, the just wonderful people I met playing the game, and to all you forumites who entertained the unholy crap out of me. I will miss it all. I hope to see you folks in another super world someday...somehow. This truly was a city of heroes.
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@Portland Underground