Hey, is it okay if I create this thread... will you all come and huddle up close and be there for me and everyone else.
I'm okay and I'm going to handle this thing fine, but... Yeah, here's an understatement... I'm really not looking forward to this shutdown.
I've not given up hope for a return... I'm still just not looking forward to this. ;)
So... anyone and everyone else in that same boat... huddle up. We can do it. ;)
I do feel a bit like I'm waiting for a bus in Paragon City.
(https://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k248/ygmypay/EKBusStop01AX800-1.jpg)
I'll be in Gemini Park, waiting for the grand reopening.
I'm going to climb to the highest point in Grandville on the Beta server. And at the moment the servers are slated to shut down, I'm going to hurl every last vehement, violent, virulent invective I can formulate.
My goals of conquering the world might be foiled, but they'll have to drag me away screaming in a straitjacket to get me to leave.
I'm parking ness at AP33 with her torch.
I don't think I'll be there, my heart can't stand it.
Just hug it out.
I'm perched next to Lord Recluse, trying to make small talk. I'd imagine by now he's wishing the Battalion would get here already and shut me up...
Parked Jay in city hall where he applied for his hero license. I think Lily is still parked in the hive after her first/last time tanking Hami, which is where I want her.
I have two versions of Edmund, so one of them will be doin his job in the Midnighter Club library while the other stands in AP33 with a torch.
This is so sad. Every character I had sufficently developed is logged somewhere that is important to them. Refracted is in Moth cemetary in DA, Victoria is at the rally point in DA helping refugees, Solancia is on Talos where she escaped Cole's tyranny, Fuyusaki is amongst the webbing in Grandville glaring defiantly at the sky...
But Danielle, that's me, is here. Nafaustu as I will be playing after work, but right now i thank you very much for this post, because I totally need the hug. Right back at y'all.
I will be in the middle of some huge mob of some sort with Spike the Guppy slashing everything in sight until someone poleaxes me and the system wide failure of medical transporters occurs.
Quote from: Electric-Knight on November 30, 2012, 07:14:29 AM
...I've not given up hope for a return... I'm still just not looking forward to this. ;)
So... anyone and everyone else in that same boat... huddle up. We can do it. ;)
I'm with you on every point. I've not given up totally either if every possibility is taken into consideration, regardless of what NCSoft would prefer or not, :P but this still is going to hurt tonight.
But my daughter and I will be there, with bells on, healin', wheelin' and dealin' and or tankin' and spankin' Riktis just the same, until the final gun goes off!
See y'all there!
You held all my true companions
You were all that mattered
You were all my friends and family
Then our world was shattered
Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here
Wishing I could hear your song again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you must help us to do
All that we dreamed we could
Caped heroes and scheming villains
Strong and superhuman, seemed for us the best companions
We had learned to fly.
Too many years fighting back fears
Why can't NCSoft just try?
Wishing you were somehow here again
Knowing we must say, "Goodbye"
Heroes remained, taught us to live
Gave us the strength to try
So many memories, so many silent tears
We never called them wasted years
Help me say, "Goodbye"
Help me say, "Goodbye"
*hugs for everyone
I have NOT given up on saving CoH!
This song is not entirely appropriate, I wrote it about very different things, and I do feel like there's plenty to celebrate and all...
But, I have to be honest and say that it is repeating within me over and over right now.
Maybe some others will find it somewhat comforting to have something to relate to?
http://soundcloud.com/paul-damon-thomas/shroud-only-pain
On Guardian we are going to be having one last RWZ Saucer raid. Starting at 11:30 pst so we can be in the bowl fighting the Rikti when the lights go dark.
Go not quiet into that good night, Rage Rage against the fading of the light and all that good stuff.
Then after I cry and sleep I start on my letters to Disney.
I'm getting ready to leave for work when I realized, totally out of the blue, that my favorite character *EVER*, Buttercupocalypse, had been left redside on Freedom. At the time (shortly after GR came out) it was just to get the other side's power pools. But then my friends and I made new characters on Virtue and that became my primary server. I made a grown-up version of Buttercupocalypse using her 'real' name, Beyn Winters, and have been playing that character there. But damn if I was going to leave ol' B-Cup sittin' in Red.
I bought the alignment change token with my leftover points and promptly found myself in Atlas Park again. I recounted the short little story in broadcast. One person asked who I was talking to, and I got a private message to "Fuck off".
Some things in this game never change, eh? I guess that's comforting in a way. I'd post this in the Rude Tells thread, but I doubt anyone'd see it (and it isn't really funny in any sort of way) before the forums go out.
/em hug
This is going to be hard.
There are plenty of people to share it with, today. AP 1 & 33 are full, ATM.
I'll be returning to Nova Praetoria, since that's where I entered this world. I'll most likely be alone, to gaze over everything before I rip open a dimensional portal to hop into, to avoid annihilation. I truly did love this world, and all the beings that brought joy, anger, amusement, bewildering moments, and great memories.
*taps thoughtfully on the shoulders of the hug and nods*
I'm a villain. This is what I do.
*throws himself into the impact*
COME and GET ME !
Quote from: rae on November 30, 2012, 08:52:38 AM
I don't think I'll be there, my heart can't stand it.
I'm glad to hear someone else say this. I honestly don't know if I'll have the strength to stay on until the end. I'm thinking that I would rather log off, normally, at a moment of my own choosing.
Sithrose, that's a wonderful song, speaking as a Poto fan. How poignant.
Quote from: Gothica on November 30, 2012, 11:44:11 PM
I'm glad to hear someone else say this. I honestly don't know if I'll have the strength to stay on until the end. I'm thinking that I would rather log off, normally, at a moment of my own choosing.
Yep, I've been wondering this myself. I'm just going to play it by ear, I suppose.
I have been thinking that I'd rather go out on my terms for the evening.
We'll see... *hugs*
sigh. hugs.
Hugs to all!
Starting to look at the clock... losing the ability to enjoy it.
Hugs all around.
Except for the Rikti, that is.
Did a number of missions, made screenshots of all my characters, did the ITF, DFB, and LGTF. It's been a good night of CoH gaming. I am going to miss this game so much, but I just want to say to everyone that has had anything to do with me in this game: Thanks for the memories. And for those two young women, thanks for the mammaries. You know who you are.
*HUG* whether you like it or not.
/em salute
Quote from: Gothica on November 30, 2012, 11:44:11 PM
I'm glad to hear someone else say this. I honestly don't know if I'll have the strength to stay on until the end. I'm thinking that I would rather log off, normally, at a moment of my own choosing.
Sithrose, that's a wonderful song, speaking as a Poto fan. How poignant.
It seemed...appropriate for the moment.
Especially now.
Well... that was kinda brutal.
I'm sure things will get brighter again though.
Great game, great people, great times... shitty ending.
I have to get that song of mine out of my head...
Ladies and gentlemen, as of 12:18 AM PST, Beta is down.
Hearing the Devs calling out the servers going down one by one felt like a series of physical blows. I somehow didn't think it would really happen even though I knew it would.
Will not touch another NCSOFT game with a barge pole - that much is certain. :(
Now I am just hoping for Plan Z to work out!
Zos
Same reaction here. Each red line of text was like an electric shock. Amazing how a game, some lights and sounds, can move you, to tears even.
Obviously, life goes on. All my beloved characters, like my pen-and-paper characters of campaign's past, continue to live on in my memory, on my hard drive (Thank You, Titan Networks!), and in my heart. All of us with characters standing on the steps in Atlas Park, facing outward, defiant to the end, will be a warm recollection for a long time to come. I know all this. Tomorrow is another day.
But tonight, it hurts like hell.
(hugs) to all my fellow CoH exiles. Tonight we mourn... tomorrow the battle continues.
Exactly. Well said. :)
*Hugs* :'(
*hugs* :'(
Guess we all have to deal in our own way.
I went out to a dive bar, drank more than I should have, turned down more than I needed to. Didnt want or need the company. Just give me another Adios MF'r
Ill probably be here, waiting. Sometimes, you just have to roll with the punches, bub. Getting on with life in the mean time. I got things to do.
Im not happy about this, not one bit. But sometimes, you just have to collect what you have, and bite back later.
Sorry I couldn't do more.
gods know, we all tried.