How are you handling the loss?

[Taceus Jiwede]

Today when I woke up on Sunday it is usually the worst.  The last couple years between school and work Sunday was the only day I had off.  I would wake up late and play CoH all day.  Starting with the virtue Red Side Hami raid.  Every Sunday is a bit of a sting when I wake up now, can't spend all day on CoH anymore:(

[Brightfires]

On Liberty, Sunday was our MSR and iTrial day... I really miss MSRs and Underground runs.

[Segev]

I felt this way when I heard we were losing our game...I still feel the loss.

One of the most heart-breaking lines in one of the most heart-breaking scenes in the series.

[Adelante]

The other day a friend asked me what I wanted to play... and it hit me all over again.  I miss City of Heroes so much, it has been such an epic game and it's hard to believe it's gone.

[Twisted Toon]

The other day a friend asked me what I wanted to play... and it hit me all over again.  I miss City of Heroes so much, it has been such an epic game and it's hard to believe it's gone.

Did you tell your friend that you wanted to play City of Heroes?

[antarcticaa]

I felt this way when I heard we were losing our game...I still feel the loss.

As heartbreaking as that scene was (and it still reverberates in my heart), at least the Doctor can regenerate.  Here's hoping our beloved City will regenerate soon- as a purchased corporate package, a private server or a new game of CoH2. 

I feel so geeky replying to this as I sit wearing my "The Angels Have the Phone Box" sweatshirt.  Alonz-y!

[Kaos Arcanna]

For the most part, I think I'm doing fairly okay.

There are some people I lost contact with ... and people I rarely talk to now because of COH being gone.

I have enjoyed DC Online a lot-- the "Shout Chatter" reminds me of some of the conversations  I had in COH-- but two things struck me over the last couple of days.

1) Metropolis (and Gotham) don't feel like home to me (at least not yet). In COH I pretty much knew where everything was and  I rarely had to consult my online map to find it.

2) I miss having separate costume slots. I miss having three or four trays of available powers ....

[Quanta]

Not super.  Not super at all    Life and work are being really, really stressful and I really, really want CoH back nowwwww!!!

[healix]

I wish I didn't miss it so much....but I do. Nothing has been able to fill the special hole it left.

[Brightfires]

I'm going to run out of screen shots to sort through soon... I just have Night Ward, the Shard Zones, Dark Astoria and some mission maps left.
'Not sure what I'm going to do after than. 

[LadyImmolatasia]

Ah, I'm not doing too good. :/ Kinda hit me all over again, listening to the Nova Praetoria theme, looking up the interview with Matt Miller, thinking about the opportunities I missed to read awesome stories and try to create my own.

I miss the game. Terribly. I hope we can bring it back someday, or something like it again.

[Risha]

Still bad.

[Quanta]

I'm still super optimistic that we will get our game back but the reality that it very well may be another year before I can logon to CoH has really been sinking in    It super sucks but I'll wait and keep checking the forums every day.  I'm in it for the long haul.

[Kemphler]

As optimistic that I am that we'll get the game back eventually...I think that our best bet will lay with the Plan Zs that are being worked on. But either way...I am seriously missing CoH. After playing it for 8+ years...hell, I grew up with it, having had started playing it when I was 12. And the shut down announcement having come just a few days after my birthday was a rather unfriendly birthday present...

[Thunder Glove]

I still keep making characters in my head.  I was watching a stupid Pepsiman video linked by Cracked, and found myself trying to decide what powersets he'd have.  I don't think I'll ever be able to completely let it go until and unless CoH comes back (or until there's a real replacement).

[detour]

I've been thinking about how I want to word this, and I think the best word I can come up with is 'longing'.  I long for this game.  I didn't always, when it was around, but it was around when I did want to play and catch up with people.  Now that I CAN'T have it, I just yearn for it sometimes.  There's nothing else like it.  Champions Online is like watching The Avengers:  City of Heroes was like BEING The Avengers.

[Illusionss]

Here is an interesting article about the strong attachments people can form for nonhuman objects:

http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/thats-not-a-droid-thats-my-girlfriend/560/

This certainly rings true for me, since I feel about losing my characters much as I would feel about losing my RL best friend.  I feel naked without them. Something that I cherished is gone from my life.

ps I want Geminoid F 

[JaguarX]

Here is an interesting article about the strong attachments people can form for nonhuman objects:

http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/thats-not-a-droid-thats-my-girlfriend/560/

This certainly rings true for me, since I feel about losing my characters much as I would feel about losing my RL best friend.  I feel naked without them. Something that I cherished is gone from my life.

ps I want Geminoid F 

Interesting. Very Interesting.

[Twisted Toon]

This certainly rings true for me, since I feel about losing my characters much as I would feel about losing my RL best friend.  I feel naked without them. Something that I cherished is gone from my life.

In a way, those characters you created are facets of you. Somewhere in your psyche lurks those personalities that you created. Which, is why I say that I have way too many voices in my head. Not only do I have dozens of Heroes that I had created in CoH/V/P, I have dozens of characters that I've created for other RPGs both PnP and MMO. I would say that I have, literally, hundreds of characters floating somewhere in my head. NCSoft took away the platform in which I could interact with a good portion of those characters. So, it's like they locked away a part of me. That, is probably what a lot of people are feeling now days. And, that's why a lot of people are a little irritated with NCSoft. (understatement of the century  )

[JWBullfrog]

In a way, those characters you created are facets of you. Somewhere in your psyche lurks those personalities that you created. Which, is why I say that I have way too many voices in my head. Not only do I have dozens of Heroes that I had created in CoH/V/P, I have dozens of characters that I've created for other RPGs both PnP and MMO. I would say that I have, literally, hundreds of characters floating somewhere in my head. NCSoft took away the platform in which I could interact with a good portion of those characters...

Very similar idea for me. Fortunately, my head has enough empty space inside of it for my characters to roam freely for a while until we get this whole thing sorted out. I have been able to translate some of them into to other games (for example: one has become a highly successful starfleet admiral and another is joyfully slaughtering the creatures of darkness for the Templars) and some of them still feature in my own writings, but they don't quite fit there and no matter how well it seems to be going, they are not quite home.
Will we get our city back? I believe we will but I've already accepted the idea that we may not. In any case I owe those characters, those 'facets of psyche' a chance to get out of my head.
 
It gets noisy in there, and I don't want to think about what's happening to the rugs.