Part_Troll waves goodbye.

Way back in 2004, I tried to communicate to the COH masses about -stuff-. That didn't go down too well. Eventually, the editorial policy on this forum drove me away; it became a read-only place. Way too many clowns with short choppy sentences as their tool of choice, and so very few people who were salient.

I paid for each and every upgrade to CoH. It has been my most valued game. It wrecked my shoulder (well, the stupid way I played, wrecked my shoulder), and I had to take 5 months off in 2005, but I was back in 2006, and played pretty constantly.

I saw much which I considered 'wrong', mostly along the lines of stratification; if you weren't in a clique, you were out of the running for lots of stuff, it just seemed wrong to me, I wailed about it, and was shouted down. <shrug>, the 'community' spoke, and they liked things as they were just fine, and the NCSOFT hounds moderating the forums were always ready to trim threads with any kind of ruckus; commenting more just made it worse, it was easier to stop.

Am I sad that CoH has been canned? Yes. Absolutely. CoH did so many things -right-.

The direct result of this abysmal situation, is me signing off from NCSOFT -forever-. I have a long memory, and this company has shafted a lot of friends with their business decision to shut down the game. It also hurt that I spent $$$'s in various Slots (maxed out Salvage, Recipe and other storage means), and that was just money thrown away in the end.

Anyhow, it's over and done with. I don't regret much from my many happy years of playing this game. The forum -- overmoderated tripe.

Oh, the one thing that really got my goat was Surprise Maintenance bouts, and the non-negotiable timeframe, right in the middle of Aussie Prime Time, grrr.

This too shall pass.

Vale COH.

Part Troll.
Excession

I've always found your posts about your idiot team mates entertaining. It's a unfortunate that you got so much flak for your outspokenness.

I also enjoyed your posts - I always read them for their frustrated exasperation expressed so eloquently.

Take care!