Haai!
CoX was a game I started playing pretty late, not a lot or very deep. Didn't really play with anyone either despite having made super groups. But I was completely in love with the character creator and the charm of the simple (accessible I should say?) graphics. Had good fun creating at least one character per archetype and my low level gameplay experience felt like an extension of my messing around in the creator.
Then at some point game went F2P, most of my characters got locked. And I don't remember exactly when but sometime after that the game died. I don't remember if I was even actively playing at the time, but that hurt. So as a casual (I'd still call myself a) newbie of that time who missed CoX, I can only imagine how veterans felt.
Looking on the net every now and then years ago for any half-decent resurrection left me disappointed. Some projects that were getting crowdfunded but didn't look much like the CoX I had a game-crush on and stuff that didn't sound like they would become a reality anytime soon.
So when a streamer I follow on Twitch was in the CoH category maybe a week or so ago I went to ask how they were playing the game because I thought it'd just be this open character creator thing where you run around the city but there's no gameplay. And she told me about Homecoming. Finding out this game was alive and well (albeit in a modestly sized and unofficial capacity) was one of the best surprises of the year. Honestly, I haven't even set foot into the game yet. I've been busy with other stuff for the past few months and I'm currently spending some time making a little list of characters I may want to create soon. But I'm excited.
I didn't get the details but something was said about Homecoming being acknowledged as a legitimate version of the game and won't face a possible shutdown? If that is true that's even better news.
Long story short, I look forward to making a ton of characters and having fun with them in Homecoming. I don't know if I'll play it intensely/seriously but even if I can just enjoy the power sets for a while that'll be enough for me.
Thanks so much for making this a reality!