I *just* finished archiving the final post in my Farewell to CoH thread on the main forums. That comes after finishing up using Sentinel to save *all* of my and my wife's characters. Seriously, I didn't actually think I'd save all of them - just the ones that were 'important' (spent a lot of time on, etc.) But nope. For some reason I was compelled to save every single stinking one.
All of my MA arc files are saved. I have demos of all my bases, and of my major character's costumes. Even a few demos of my favorite characters playing favorite missions.
I got my widow up to 50. I got my "last character" up to 38 (so he had his choice of all powers in his primary and secondary). I got my main back villain side - he is alone among my characters as having the souvenirs for *all* of the hero and villain side story arcs (*except* for the EAT arcs, of course). Even had one last incarnately hurrah with him.
At the start of this week, I was a little down when I thought of all of my 'last 90 days' goals I didn't meet (after all, my water blaster is still 29, and I really *didn't* get Lithos Fear up to 50). But after a moment of reflection, I realized just how MUCH I squeezed out of these last 90 days. And I don't regret any of it. I am SO very glad I kept logging in and kept playing the game.
And here's the real reason for this post. Is anyone else who 'kept at it', using as much of their leisure time to play CoH before it was gone, kinda *sick* of the game?
I know it sounds weird - and don't get me wrong: I love this game and when I've been away from it a few days, I'm *sure* I'll be missing it something fierce once it sinks in that I *can't* come back. But I have spent *so much* of my free time playing it these last 90 days - playing whenever I could - that I'm actually kind of tired of it, and eager to do something different for a bit: start working on all of those 'non CoH' projects on my to-do list.*
It's just such an odd feeling to have right here at the end...
(In the end, I think it's good though - I'd much rather have overplayed to the point I'm kind of tired of playing than be facing down tomorrow with the feeling that I wish I'd put more time into the last days of the game.)
Anyway, thought I'd share, and see if anyone else was having a sort of 'strange' last day or two...
*Just for the record, that to-do list does include writing letters to support SaveCoH, so no worries there.