I'd like to thank my friend Flea for posting this - I appreciate it, Flea.
I joined City of Heroes in.. 2006, I think? Maybe 2005? Whenever Sharkey found it and started doing his CEO of Earth articles on 1up. It was good times. I left City of Heroes about the time it went free to play. Before then, I'd been here for 20 issues - through the good times and the bad. I don't know. Something changed about the game when it went free to play, and even before then I hadn't been playing much. I think that we could sort of see the sunset in the distance for some time now, but this still comes as a moment. I'll doff my cap and bow my head, but I think we'll all still move on. What's most important about City of Heroes is not the game, but the people we met and the friendships we had while we were here. I still talk to Flea on Mumble, and Void and Ice and Kinx and all of my friends. I still chat with my friend Vicki Victrix on Google. I still talk to KelpPlankton on IRC. These are the important parts of City of Heroes. Not the game itself, the people it collected, the sort of people that wanted to wear the cape and be heroes.
Will we ever see those people collect around one place again? Sure. Somewhere. Will it be like this? Yes. How long will it take? Will we see one another again? I don't know how long it'll take, because no other game is like City of Heroes, and that's why we'll miss it so much. And as for seeing each other again... I think we will, if we make a point to do it. If we keep in touch with each other, if we stay friends and stay together, we'll take City of Heroes away with us when the doors close.
I can't say that I miss City. I haven't logged in for a year, and in a way I'll be happy to have it off my hard drive - I'm always dying for space, and this'll be a few gigs of room I can give to my other starving programs. But it should say something that I've kept it there for so long, because it was something that was important to me. I kept thinking 'well, if everything else sucks, there's always City of Heroes.' It was part of me, for many years. It'll still be part of me, for ever and ever. I will never take off my cape. I don't think any of you will, either.
I will say that I think NCSoft and Paragon Studios made a lot of really, really BAD decisions - having to ask my friend Flea to post this is reflective of those decisions. It makes me a little mad to see the end of things in this fashion, borne down under the weight of their own entropy than anything else, but I suppose after 8 years this is how it happens. Again, should City of Heroes fade, we will still be here, and we shall stay together. Make a point to stay together, even when this world ends, because when the next begins, we'll be together.
~Pratz Strike, Puce The Succubus/Lady Mouse, Lana Mizuki, Alix Warstar, Princess Maker, Fury Lou, IIIIII I IIII IIIII, Markus Parodian, Koumi Nekomiya, Carmina Fratelli, Unleashed Furry, Vasteel Strike, and a host of others. From me to you - we'll see you next time!
Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!
I'd like to thank my friend Flea for posting this - I appreciate it, Flea.
I joined City of Heroes in.. 2006, I think? Maybe 2005? Whenever Sharkey found it and started doing his CEO of Earth articles on 1up. It was good times. I left City of Heroes about the time it went free to play. Before then, I'd been here for 20 issues - through the good times and the bad. I don't know. Something changed about the game when it went free to play, and even before then I hadn't been playing much. I think that we could sort of see the sunset in the distance for some time now, but this still comes as a moment. I'll doff my cap and bow my head, but I think we'll all still move on. What's most important about City of Heroes is not the game, but the people we met and the friendships we had while we were here. I still talk to Flea on Mumble, and Void and Ice and Kinx and all of my friends. I still chat with my friend Vicki Victrix on Google. I still talk to KelpPlankton on IRC. These are the important parts of City of Heroes. Not the game itself, the people it collected, the sort of people that wanted to wear the cape and be heroes.
Will we ever see those people collect around one place again? Sure. Somewhere. Will it be like this? Yes. How long will it take? Will we see one another again? I don't know how long it'll take, because no other game is like City of Heroes, and that's why we'll miss it so much. And as for seeing each other again... I think we will, if we make a point to do it. If we keep in touch with each other, if we stay friends and stay together, we'll take City of Heroes away with us when the doors close.
I can't say that I miss City. I haven't logged in for a year, and in a way I'll be happy to have it off my hard drive - I'm always dying for space, and this'll be a few gigs of room I can give to my other starving programs. But it should say something that I've kept it there for so long, because it was something that was important to me. I kept thinking 'well, if everything else sucks, there's always City of Heroes.' It was part of me, for many years. It'll still be part of me, for ever and ever. I will never take off my cape. I don't think any of you will, either.
I will say that I think NCSoft and Paragon Studios made a lot of really, really BAD decisions - having to ask my friend Flea to post this is reflective of those decisions. It makes me a little mad to see the end of things in this fashion, borne down under the weight of their own entropy than anything else, but I suppose after 8 years this is how it happens. Again, should City of Heroes fade, we will still be here, and we shall stay together. Make a point to stay together, even when this world ends, because when the next begins, we'll be together.
~Pratz Strike, Puce The Succubus/Lady Mouse, Lana Mizuki, Alix Warstar, Princess Maker, Fury Lou, IIIIII I IIII IIIII, Markus Parodian, Koumi Nekomiya, Carmina Fratelli, Unleashed Furry, Vasteel Strike, and a host of others. From me to you - we'll see you next time!
Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!