I've been with CoX off and on since '07. It's been a love/hate relationship for the last couple years, I'll admit it, but I never wanted it to end. CoX has always been my contingency, my home away from home. Reading the forums, I know I wasn't alone. Others have between CoX and other MMOs just as I have. In our own way, we loved CoX VERY VERY much. It has been hard on us.
And then there was those who stayed. Those who were faithful. This is their home. If it is painful for us, I can't even imagine their anguish.
It was never about the game. CoX isn't state-of-the-art. "Greater" MMOs have come and gone, and still CoX endured when the others fell. When it came down to it, CoX was about community, it was about sharing, it was about hope. Together, we built a home in this "City of Heroes." It is here we fought evil, fell in love, and endured unbearable sacrifice, both inside the game and out. We watched friends come and go, we helped great causes rise, we kept our world safe, in more ways than one.
War, disease, a crumbling economy and an uncertain future have plagued the last decade. Paragon City sheltered us, kept us safe from the coming storm. It is upon us now, and each of us must find the hero inside, and meet the future with the same certainty we tackled all of our other "Missions."
This was never just a game, it was our home, an idea. An idea that a City, no, a world could be full of heroes. That WE could be heroes.
I entered this world as a seventeen year old boy. I knew very little of the way of things. I leave this world a man, I've never thought I could learn so much, yet still know so little. I will take my lessons with me as I leave. I will keep this "City of Heroes" and all of you, in my heart forever.
I can never forgive NCSoft for what they took from us, what this place meant to me and others is more powerful than any words could ever hope to express.
Thank you.
Goodbye.
You pay to play. Having fun is ok. Kill Skuls or kill Crey. Hunt at night or in the day. Black or white or shades of grey. Play it your way. We have no say.
I've been with CoX off and on since '07. It's been a love/hate relationship for the last couple years, I'll admit it, but I never wanted it to end. CoX has always been my contingency, my home away from home. Reading the forums, I know I wasn't alone. Others have between CoX and other MMOs just as I have. In our own way, we loved CoX VERY VERY much. It has been hard on us.
And then there was those who stayed. Those who were faithful. This is their home. If it is painful for us, I can't even imagine their anguish.
It was never about the game. CoX isn't state-of-the-art. "Greater" MMOs have come and gone, and still CoX endured when the others fell. When it came down to it, CoX was about community, it was about sharing, it was about hope. Together, we built a home in this "City of Heroes." It is here we fought evil, fell in love, and endured unbearable sacrifice, both inside the game and out. We watched friends come and go, we helped great causes rise, we kept our world safe, in more ways than one.
War, disease, a crumbling economy and an uncertain future have plagued the last decade. Paragon City sheltered us, kept us safe from the coming storm. It is upon us now, and each of us must find the hero inside, and meet the future with the same certainty we tackled all of our other "Missions."
This was never just a game, it was our home, an idea. An idea that a City, no, a world could be full of heroes. That WE could be heroes.
I entered this world as a seventeen year old boy. I knew very little of the way of things. I leave this world a man, I've never thought I could learn so much, yet still know so little. I will take my lessons with me as I leave. I will keep this "City of Heroes" and all of you, in my heart forever.
I can never forgive NCSoft for what they took from us, what this place meant to me and others is more powerful than any words could ever hope to express.
Thank you.
Goodbye.
You pay to play. Having fun is ok. Kill Skuls or kill Crey. Hunt at night or in the day. Black or white or shades of grey. Play it your way. We have no say.
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