This reassurance made my day, Tony. Thank you for everything you do.
I know I've said similar before, but agreed. When it comes to City of Heroes, I feel so... powerless about it, and am so thankful to those more talented, and/or tech-savvy than I, caring enough about this game to keep it alive, in both trying to revive the game itself, and in the projects in which they try to reproduce how we feel about it.
Even then, I have to realize how lucky I am that most of my SG mates and I have managed to stay together through the loss. As an 'older' group of gamers (small group of 30-40's and more+ as our makeup) we aren't inclined to just 'move on to the next thing' and I was really worried that I'd lose friends I'd spent over seven years of weeknights together over this. Hearing how so many folks lost touch with their SG's and our little group keeps 'chugging along' makes me realize how fortunate I am.
It's funny that most games that call themselves "MMO"s cater to teams of 4 or so. We've never really had trouble with too many people online for it to be an issue. Now, it's an issue fairly often. One of ours has been overseas in service and is now looking for stateside employment and between him and 3 other folks who show up fairly regular, it looks like we're going to have to do a 'two team' thing, which is a shame, as most of us log on to play with each other. On top of the fact that we keep saying "there's no place like home" to remind ourselves of our situation... it's hard.
Even then, I have to be thankful we're still together somehow, and sometimes that can be just as hard. Trying to organize our little group when we're 'overfull' on teams when in CoH we'd 'finally have a full team'... and making sure we can all participate and accomplish what we're doing any given night (prerequisites, purchased updates, etc.) continues to be harder than its seems it should most days.
When I speak of handling the loss, I can't just speak for myself. We're still working through the rough patches and while we've found other things that entertain us, we just want our city back.
This thread continues to illustrate we're not the only ones.
Beautiful artwork, Ellscry.
Lyc~