I think the 8th is over, so, we may as well hijack this post.
I didn't like it much. it had a pretty poor early game experience so I went back to CO and didnt look back. At that time CO still looked like it might be salvageable, and the early player experience was far better.
Ah. You didn't try CoH when it first came out.
This is something I had in my favor. That, and I was a comic book collector as a kid. Put those two things together and CoH was a dream come true.
My wife wasn't nearly as impressed with it. We'd been playing EQ and she thought CoH was just too easy.
Me, I had the above in my favor + I got ..... a thrill out of taking on whole parking lots full of mobs. After playing a game where a single mob could chase you through several zones if it was tough enough and wanted to... I liked the change. I liked being SUPER.
and then we of course got nerfed a bunch of times.
And Retcons were added! Right off, real early. This made up for a lot of nerfing. Having no retcons was just too .... final.
Anyway, that's how I remember CoH. My comics finally came to life and I could kick the crap out of entire parking lots after being used to being chased across landscapes while wearing a fancy bathrobe. For me it was a big Win.