Hey guys, new here!
Just want to tell my story and passion for the game before I make any other kind of posts on this forum. I grew up playing this game, started around 2005 when it came out in Europe. I was 11 years back then. The game made a huge impact on my life for several reasons:
- This was my huge next leap into gaming. I was a console gamer before CoH came around, and I played on very old consoles such as SNES and PS1. I didn't know what MMO was back then, so CoH was my first. When my cousin showed this game to me for the first time, my jaw literally dropped. The simple fact that I could make my own hero however I chose him to be like blew my mind. The fact that I could run/jump around the city and fight crime and save citizens or fly across the city or skies was my biggest dream, or actually any childs dream I believe.
- I learned english very fast thanks to this game, which made it so much easier for me to watch movies, write/talk to people in english and of course get a much better grade at school.
- I made some really good friends in the game. The game had such a wonderful and passionate community. and still has it. Everyone was friendly, everyone was helpful and, last but not least, everyone had FUN! Everyone had fun playing this game together. This game truly felt like a paradise for me, especially when I was sick and stayed home :').
I played this game non-stop until 2009/2010 where I kind of slowed down a bit mostly due to real life small issues. I still played the game from time to time until 2012, a couple of months before they announced the shutdown. The summer had kicked in, life was good and I had nothing to do but sit down and play my favorite game of all time. I invited cousins and friends to play the game with me and man did we have super fun playing it. 2 months in and we still play it. Then in a mission a guy from our team told us that the game was going to shutdown. For a moment there I got a little scaret but then thought he was trolling. ''Why would NCSoft shutdown the game, it's not that the game is doing badly, it's just that the game is not as popular as before which still isn't a reason to shutdown a game, right?'' I thought. I then asked him for proof, and the guy in our team told me to check out CoH official site and I did it...
That was one of the worst moments I've had in my life. I was angry and saddeneded at the same time and felt like someone dear to me had just died. They literally announced the death date of City of Heroes. I was in shock and instantly stopped playing the game and told the Company(NCSoft) to literally go and *Bleep!* themselves. NCSoft actually failed to understand that City of Heroes isn't just a goddamn game to the fans, it was our home, our childhood, our memories..
I wish I played the last months the game had left of its life. But what can I say, emotions were heatin' up those days. So now I'm here wanting the game back more than ever. I'd give anything to play that game again with literally everyone(Titan Icon doesn't count). I hope that it will make it easier for me wait for the rerelease of the game if I talk to some other CoH fans.
Thanks for reading and sorry if you saw any flaw in my grammar(english is not my mother language, I'm european:P). And also sorry for the long post, needed to speak out.
