It's Christmas...again. Still no City of Heroes.
How I miss that game. Especially in December. This is the lowest point of the year for me. If I could I would go straight from Halloween to New Years
I've posted here many times about how I just want to play this game again before i die. But I think now it won't happen.
I'm not sick or anything as far as I know...I just don't think it will happen. There will be good reasons and rationalizations about why it can't happen. But the end result will be that I will never get to fly over Paragon City on my way to a mission to teach the council some manners or fight Luska or resist Emperor Cole or any of the other things that made this time of year bearable to me.
It sounds maudlin, but this game...this game helped me make it through my mother's death, losing my wife and so much more. It let me feel like i had control even when I knew it was an illusion. When they closed the servers, my world got a lot more gray and a lot smaller. Every year it is worse.
I had hoped by now that I would have an alternative to City of Heroes or that the loss would have faded, but now I realize that this going to be one of those things that I won't ever actually be able to let go.
I know that no one wants to read things this so please forgive me. I sincerely hope that everyone is having a great holiday season and that you are all happy and looking forward to the new year. I hope one day I can feel like that again.
I know, I understand. We do have several spiritual successors in the pipeline, though, of which Ship of Heroes is the furthest along and seems to have a similar feel and look to it (especially for a sci-fi, ship-based MMORPG, haha). I'm trying it when it arrives!
You've got to give yourself permission to use that former CoX time to do other relaxing things with, or to play other games with. They won't fill the void the way CoX did, but 60% joy or 75% joy is a lot better than 0% joy, you know?
I mean, we're a lot luckier than most other displaced MMOers (except for FFXIV's, which has had 3 rezzes now, and A.P.B. Reloaded's which has had 2, haha). How many other shuttered MMORPGs not only have sequels in the works, but also have Paragon-Chat-type programs so that the original, fav MMO can still be revisited?
Cheer up, mate. SEGS is coming back to life again, too.
https://segs.nemerle.eu/forumz/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8016&start=60 Things looked worse in December of 2012 than they look nowadays! Things are looking up!