From the begining, I, along with several others, have tried diligently to keep hopes up, pointing to threads both here and on the CoH forums, posting links, repeating anything good that I've heard. During the last week or so the lack of any news to repeat, among many other things stacking up started to give me some very not happy thoughts about the fight for the game.
I never stopped linking or trying to keep spirits up on the channels I talk on, but I think my low spirits showed through no matter how I tried not letting it. Then Tim released his video. After getting ambushed by those onion slicing ninjas I thought to myself, 'Self, this fight is far from over. Pop a Breakfree, Blue, Green, and for the fun of it a red and get back to the fight!' That was one of the best videos I've seen so far and did just the trick (the fact that I saw Heat in it may or may not have been part of it) but I know I wasn't the only one affected by it. Then TA's blog about the dev dinner. If I wasn't already back, that would have finished it. This hero is back at full strength and have my MoG on auto.
I've been involved with nightly TF's on Pinn, mostly ITF's, and keeping the weekly PvP events going. Besides any news coming our way, and those inspirational videos, I think one of the easiest but maybe crucial things we can do is to keep active on the game as well as saving the game. Just simple teaming has raised spirits that I've seen with my own eyes. We are heroes, we didn't become that way cause we never got knocked down. We became them for refusing to stay down when it happened. Stand up again, fight, talk with fellow players, don't let the feelings of despair and sorrow keep you down. Come over to Pinn if you want more people to talk to, we're usually too drunk to know we just met you!
