Quote from: Silverlion;581486Yeah, until one of them does blow past or equal to wow, like WOW did to Everquest.

I always have hopes we'd get more competition in design rather than repetition.

The problem is that when new designs do come out, people don't support them.  Look at The Secret World, for example, which is pulling in extremely low numbers.

I would love there to be more competition in MMOs, but I also suspect that unless there's a title that pulls in some new blood, MMOs will continue to cannibalize from each others' numbers.  From that perspective, F2P makes more sense because a gamer can subscribe to one title (WoW is the default these days) while playing several.

Today is your last day. Servers go dark tomorrow December 1st at 3:00am.

I feel like I should drink a beer. This is kinda depressing, considering how many hours I had logged into that game.

Quote from: danbuter;604005I feel like I should drink a beer. This is kinda depressing, considering how many hours I had logged into that game.

Me too.

I remember getting all excited that a superhero mmorpg was being made back when I played dark age of camelot.

I was there in city of heroes on day one, and have played it ever since.

Too sad to play it this last month as it closes though.

It's like losing a close friend.

I kept meaning to log in to do screen caps of my beloved characters, but I've not been able to bring myself to do so. Somehow it makes it worse. Perhaps a clean break is best.

I'm going to miss this game. It's unlike any other MMO out there. It's actually fun, for starters, and manages to make it fun while keeping the "collect 5 rat tail" thing to a minimum (and virtually non-existent in most of the game instead of the norm) while offering dozens of options for things to do. Character creation is almost a mini-game unto itself, and you can come up with some seriously impressive designs with the tools available. And the pacing is fun and fast and the animations are fun and exciting. It's so unlike any other MMO on the market, and frankly, it's spoiled me for almost all of them.

Where else can you be a Supervillain and build a Hidden Lair from which you Travel Through Time to commit crimes?

So I'm totally bummed about this.

"You have been forcibly disconected from the server. Servers are shuting down".

Time of death called at aprox. 3.05 am US EST.

R.I.P.

Dear Santa,

Please bring back City of Heroes.
And Twinkies.

City of Twinkies.

JG

City of Twinkies for the win.

I don't think CoH/CoV isn't coming back, and that's a pity; but I'd love to see Santa bring an authorized, freeware version of their avatar builder. Fuck Hero Machine, that is the real deal.

I think I spent more time in my CoH/CoV trial account, creating new characters than actually playing the damn characters I created: Lieutenant Stone (real name Peter Laroche, smart-talkin' hard-hittin' 8-foot-tall cop made of rock) for CoH, and the Atomic Commie (Russian physicist mutated by nuclear energy accident, confined to a clunky 1950s-ish radiation-proof suit and gone mad from the loss of human contact).

Another interesting thing that didn't happen was the Eden Studios City of Heroes tabletop RPG. With Beyond Human coming out, maybe we could see a CoH/CoV sourcebook in  the future? The setting wasn't particularly innovative but it looked like a great milieu for a superhero (or supervillain) sandbox game.

Anyway, I'm sad to see it go. It was a smart and innovative MMO which made the "grind" tons of fun. I only played the trial (I couldn't find the time to play MMOs regularly until recently, and then only one at a time), but I'm sad about it all the same.

One of my favorites was the descendant of German nobility, who invented a powered armor flight suit and was named "Fred Zeppelin."

JG

My main was an Egyptian Tank called...Tankh

he had alternate costumes.

I can't play any of the modern MMO's because i don't have a capable PC or anything close. Otherwise I'd love to give something like Secret World or even Star Wars a try. I wonder how many others feel the same.

Electro Chick was like a female, stompier, purple-and-cyan version of Iron Man, based around energy melee.

I'll kinda miss her, City of Heroes was a fun game that actually felt different to most MMO's, and I think it was mainly down to the incredible customization. Your hero felt unique, not just another refugee from PCville, and it let you feel powerful from the start. Even if you actually weren't.

Damn shame.

I also had a Mastermind with Zombies modeled after Alice Cooper and called "The Hopeless Necromantic."

JG

ah yes City of Villains, which was an interesting concept.

I had a Mastermind called Mr Saturday who was a zombie voodoo Joker lookalike.

And a Dominator called Baron 3vil who was a robot with a monacle.

Maybe we could have a thread in whch everyone stats up their CoH/CoV characters for whatever supers RPG they prefer. Pics optional.

What do you think?