Is it sad for the reality that City of being gone to just hit you months after the end? It hit me when I watched a video of the end, where meteors were hitting the city and villains and heroes just walked away and gathered in Atlas Park. When I saw heroes flying it hit like a brick that I miss flying. I miss saving the world. I miss being a hero. I am not an emotional type guy, but that moved me to tears that I will never fly again.
I refuse to be someones lackey or butler to known heroes and do missions they do not want and refuse to live in a universe that even a company refuses to put money into. I want my city. I want criminals to fear me once again, I want villains with questionable morals ask themselves is it worth helping heroes or make things worse. I need the skies, I need to escape and do something worthwhile and feel like I am accomplishing something, no MMO currently is giving me that feel. I am a fish out of water in other games and feel like I do not belong there. I never realized the girl whom I was bored with, was the best thing that could have happened to me. And I want her back.
Dear LegionAlpha,
I admit that video got me a bit misty-eyed as well. However, it is still possible to Save the World and perhaps cities as well. It is entirely possible to be a Hero and even for villains especially those with questionable morals to be brought to justice. What I am about to propose is not escapism but doing something worthwhile. Part of how I am dealing with losing CoH is by becoming once more involved in local and grassroots politics. Here in the U.S. I taking a small role in the White House Initiative "Organizing for Action" as presented by First Lady Michele Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMq_7v56rsc I don't know if that will be your "cup of tea" but I think this is an unprecedented opportunity in U.S. history for citizen involvement - and we still have far too many hapless citizens. I don't know whether you live in the U.S. or not, but if not, perhaps there is something similar you can do in your community, even small things often have great value. Often colleges, high schools, temples and churches, etc. provide many opportunities for volunteers. Perhaps more than ever Heroism will be needed in the world of Tomorrow. You've earned your wings; you're CoH trained in heroism. Yeah, I know it's not quite as glamorous and often doesn't require a cape, but hey, neither NCSoft nor anyone can take your heroism away from you! (Political disclaimer: yeah, I'm a Green Party Socialist but I have friends from all across the political spectrum, some quite conservative both in CoH and RL, but while we had very different ideas about how best to get there, what we discovered was that on many levels our fundamental values agreed nearly 100%.)
As to Flying again, for myself there is my Imagination and dreams. Here's a piece of music that takes me soaring in my mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsxavPANO8s (REM lyrics version "It's the End of the World" Peace and /em holdtorch It may take years but we'll get Paragon City back!