CoH to be shut down

[koro]

Doubtful there will be much else, as apparently the last few remaining folks have packed up and left aside from one or two techs to keep the servers on until the 30th.

[raydeen]

Well, I was there for the first Rikti invasion and I'll be there for the final one as well.

[Threash]

Why the hell am i sad that a game i never played is shutting down?

[Strazos]

Wow, I loved this game when it came out, as buggy as it was. The travel powers, solid roles for people...it was awesome. The group combat was the absolute best, especially the higher you got (though low was fun too). I remember some crazy fight in the Grecoroman expansion...everyone else dropped like like a sack of bricks, except for my nearly-invincible DM/SR scrapper, who would just methodically work through the mobs, calmly cycling through the full gamut of powers...hardly getting hit, lifetapping when needed, with great stamina regen, and then attack strength-tapping hordes at a time to just smash through stuff.

I'll really miss this one.

[Fordel]

Why the hell am i sad that a game i never played is shutting down?

Probably because it has been around FOREVER.

[UnSub]

NCsoft responds to calls to keep CoH/V alive with, "Yep, no, still closing the game".

[Zetor]

Just a PSA - the game shuts off for good on the midnight of Nov 30. There are no major events planned as far as I know, though the rikti invasion meta-event will be going on at the time. I'll probably be around during the last 2 hours on Virtue - flying around Paragon one last time, playing through some MA story arcs for nostalgia, killing Frostfire for the n-th time, and whatnot.

/sadface

[Kageru]

Do you know if they put active accounts to premium so I could actually do that with my locked off characters?

Will keep some fond memories of this game.

[Merusk]

They did not.  I was only able to unlock a few of my characters yesterday.

I thought I was a little melancholy about this, then I logged in, tried to fight the terrible movement interface for 10 mins and logged out a lot less sad.

[Mattemeo]

Terrible movement interface? 

Logged in for the last couple of nights; now I'm not sad - I'm angry. This game does not deserve to die. NCSoft are insane.

I want to reach in and pull out all my characters to save them, somehow. They're living things to me.

[Zetor]

this is as far as you'll get, unfortunately (along with saving the costumes and whatnot). Well, that and /demorecord.

Speaking of which, I'll probably do a runthrough of my MA arcs (or at leats the one that got DC) with /demorecord, since it seems it may be possible to play it back even if the servers are down. Works with bases too, if you can still get in (nobody in my guild/SG had a VIP account when they turned off the store, so there's no way for us to pay off the rent and access our base. Oh well.)

[Trippy]

I took the day off work to play

[ezrast]

I can't log in. It would just make it hurt more.

[Xanthippe]

I can't log in. It would just make it hurt more.

Yes, that's how I feel about it too. I want to be left alone with my bittersweet memories.

[Trippy]

We crashed The Hive on Virtue

Edit: Virtue meltdown in progress

[Mattemeo]

And I am done. I leave, on my own terms, shaking my ass doing the monkey dance in Pocket D next to Nevermore, forever. 

[Zetor]

I made the mistake of switching to Atlas Park 1 in Virtue. Got mapserved about 10 seconds later and now am sitting in an endless queue. Do VIPs get priority queues? That may just mean I'll be sitting in this queue until the end of the world!

Gallows humor quote of the day so far:
[Admin] NCsoft_Hit_Streak: Engineers say that the server problems should be resolved soon. ETA: 4 hours. Thanks for your patience.

[Trippy]

Can't get back on Virtue now

You will be missed City of Heroes (and stinky Villains).

Edit: back on after Virtue reboot, hopefully I can stay on till they turn off the lights

Edit2: Drat got MS'd again can't get back on

[Trippy]

Das ist alles.

[Zetor]

So it goes. :(

[raydeen]

Stayed to the bitter end. We rocked the shit out of AP3 on Freedom. For all it's faults, there just hasn't been, nor probably ever will be an MMO that's as fun.

Fuck.

[ezrast]

 

[raydeen]

I brought the Silent Film Zombie Apocalypse to the party. :)

Not pictured is Buster Keaton. He was the Ghost summon that would come from resurrecting one of the fallen minions.

[Lantyssa]

Zeppo always gets left out.

Good-bye Jersey Girl, Dark Matter, Latency, and all the rest.

[raydeen]

It all kinda ended in a rather cool way though. The devs sent out some final kind words and consolations and I decided to take one final spin around AP. I guess the clock had already hit midnight December 1st on the server because it started to snow. Gave me a kinda 'Aww...that's cool' feeling.

And I guess the little demon pet could be Zeppo. :)

[Nebu]

I was a skeptic when this game released, but quickly became a believer.  CoH made me optimistic that an MMO can be fun again... even in 3D.

I'll miss you CoH.  A lot! 

[Jimbo]

Was subscribed all the way from the beginning to the end, was a great time gonna miss it.

[Redgiant]

Spent all day 11/30 playing some of my characters on Virtue, Pinnacle and Justice.

Mapserved down 4 times on Virtue in the evening hours, the last time at 11:53pm so I restarted on Pinnacle knowing I wouldn't make it back in to Virtue.

As for movement, I don't know what you are smoking if you think CoH's flight, superjump, superspeed, hover mechanics and animatinos aren't the best ever. I mouselook unless on the ground, and usually arrow key around in missions (mainly due to the insane speeds of stacked AM and such).


I was there at launch, stopped subbing after a few years, returned off and on to sub (then just log on free with Freedom in effect). But it is defintely one of thoe games that sticks with you as part of your lifelong roster of notables.

[Kageru]

Super-jump and teleport were just amazing fun. I always dreamed of getting a character to 50, guess that's not happening.

Also still blame the now cryptic people for starving it of attention when it was younger, possibly not fair, but oh well.

[raydeen]

I think my favorite thing to do was 'skate fight' during the winter events. All the lakes and such would freeze over and if you could draw some enemies to you, you could skate around with them trading blows and powers. It was just unbelievably fun and cool to watch.

[pohsyb]

Paragon City is finally crime free.  The presence of players is what cause the server to spawn critters.  No heroes, no more crime.  : (

[Trippy]

Thanks for helping create all the memories pohsyb.

[Evildrider]

Indeed.  I had fun during my time in CoH. 

[Stormwaltz]

Reposted from my Facebook page. Nothing that hasn't already been said.

[Strazos]

I'm sad to see this one go, and I wasn't in a position to re-download the client to look up some characters. The travel powers and custom titles were some of the coolest bits in the game. I didn't play it much in recent years so I cannot comment on the more-recent additions, but what I saw...I liked.

I'll miss my main DM/SR scrapper, who became nigh-invincible once I got into the 30s and had near-infinite stamina, was hard to hit, and could regen health while also debuffing surrounding mobs. I even gave him 3 costumes - his basic costume, a "casual/street" costume, and an up-armored version...you know, for when times got tough.