I started CoH about a month after it launched; a friend of mine was playing and kept bugging me, so I finally joined. It took about a month after that for him to get bored and bail out, but by that time, I'd made some other friends...friends that I played with every day until the game shut down.
My wife started playing. Pushing our first 50 ended with the two of us running 24 hours operations. I'd go to work, she'd log in. I'd come home and take over, she'd sleep. I'd sleep, she'd take back over.
Weird looking back on that, tbh.
Our son was born. Several of our COH friends sent care packages. His first three Halloween costumes were superheroes all given by his online uncle Attitank.
When he got older, we let him run around, fly, fight...just enjoy the map and "playing with mom and dad" By that time, we had multiple accounts and were running with the three of us and 1-3 more of our online friends.
When the game was killed, it was a huge loss. We would try other games, but CoH/V was ALWAYS home. We'd be fully back within a week or so.
None of the other games came close to creating the legacy of this game, and we've missed it.
So Devs..from my family to yours...thank you for bringing us home.
-Dracotn, Kadra, and son
