Social Media CoH Homecoming Blitz

[Fire Chief]

does Amazon.com count as social media?

[Ironblade]

3 hours ago, Ukase said:

I'm 55. I deal with C-suite executives pretty much every day as an executive recruiter. I've no idea how such a thing would play out for me in the long run, but I seriously doubt it would instill any of my clients with confidence. 

As far as my real life friends, I don't think I could tell them I spend too much time playing a computer game. I would be truly embarrassed.

There's your problem.  I associate with geeks and nerds so I'm fine with telling them I play video games.  In fact, I met my girlfriend in CoH and my friends and family know it.

Edited June 20, 2022 by Ironblade

[Saikochoro]

5 hours ago, Ukase said:

I'm 55. I deal with C-suite executives pretty much every day as an executive recruiter. I've no idea how such a thing would play out for me in the long run, but I seriously doubt it would instill any of my clients with confidence. 

As far as my real life friends, I don't think I could tell them I spend too much time playing a computer game. I would be truly embarrassed. I wouldn't tell them about Madden NFL, nor this. They might know I play chess online, but they know I travel to chess tournaments when I'm not quarantined. 

So, no. Not going to do it. 

This sums it up for me as well. Though I’ll go a bit further and say that I just don’t like social media in general. Though I won’t go on my soap box about that. 

[golstat2003]

Yeah no. I use twitter because I have to and have pretty much stopped using Facebook over the idiocy it has caused over the last 5 years. So no I won't be promoting anything on it. Discord I use only because it's a channel the devs here for betas use. 

[Techwright]

4 hours ago, Ironblade said:

There's your problem.  I associate with geeks and nerds so I'm fine with telling them I play video games.  In fact, I met my girlfriend in CoH and my friends and family know it.

Curiously, the current batch of geeks and nerds I work with are forever talking about games, including some older MMOs like WoW, but when I bring up CoH, they're a bunch of snobs.  I know one of them still holds a grudge based on how a previous company holding CoH treated him. 

 

As to family, I'm the only geek.  The rest are action-oriented (My brother and sis-in-law are Iron Man triathletes and my nephew-in-law does competition fishing for examples) and don't really "get" me or my game and tech interests.  They do like me a lot though, when their computers break. 😄

[Clave Dark 5]

15 hours ago, Techwright said:

"Grassroots" eh?  It's old school, but it worked quite well before, to the point of being iconic in the eastern states:

I don't know if we should be advertising in Croatoa though, we don't want a wave of monster tourists.

[Clave Dark 5]

(deleted for that darn double-post bug)

Edited June 21, 2022 by Clave Dark 5

[Golden Azrael]

On 7/28/2021 at 1:53 PM, Snarky said:

Each week we see a couple of posters here on the boards flabbergasted by the discovery of the continuing existence of the best Super game of all time.

 

Just throwing this idea out there.  If each of us put out one small post on each of the social media outlets we use the odds of Homecoming's existence becoming known will go way up.  A good grassroots push can be like rocket fuel to a project.

 

So... I respectfully request that each of us post once on each social network we use once in the coming week about CoH Homecoming.  Lets fill those DFB ranks! There are people out there that would kill to be able to run a Synapse again, and have no idea you still can!

 

Probably a lot of people out there don't know it's back.

 

And gave up hope of it ever coming bk.

 

Azrael.

[Techwright]

7 hours ago, Clave Dark 5 said:

I don't know if we should be advertising in Croatoa though, we don't want a wave of monster tourists.

Their INF is as good as any other tourist's.

[Partsman66]

Someone mentioned it in my World of Warships Legends FB group, and my heart skipped a beat. I'd played this game from day 1 in 2004 until they shut off the servers Nov 2013. It feels like I've come back home now. Thank you, Homecoming!

[DoctorDitko]

Welcome Home!

 

[J_3MBG]

Literally wrote a thread a week ago on twitter about all the things in COH that ruined me for other MMO's, and almost all the comments were "HOW ARE YOU PLAYING CITY OF HEROES". 

 

It was a laugh. 

 

Lots of folks who used to play and still like the game wanted back on. 

[GM Kal]

4 hours ago, J_3MBG said:

Literally wrote a thread a week ago on twitter about all the things in COH that ruined me for other MMO's, and almost all the comments were "HOW ARE YOU PLAYING CITY OF HEROES". 

 

It was a laugh. 

 

Lots of folks who used to play and still like the game wanted back on. 

Nice.

Hope you get 'em in here!

[J_3MBG]

Just now, GM Kal said:

Nice.

Hope you get 'em in here!

 

I dropped links. But i'm a notoriously solo player. More so now that i am looking after a baby and only get to play for 30 mins while shes napping now and then. So i haven't checked up on them

[Gulbasaur]

On 6/20/2022 at 10:39 PM, Techwright said:

I know one of them still holds a grudge based on how a previous company holding CoH treated him. 

I had a couple of friends who were doing an incredibly competitive apprenticeship for the NCSoft UK offices in Brighton and they were both let go on the same day, as well as around 70 other employees. I know one now still works in the same field of game development, but it was a bit of a bump in his career development. NCSoft, back in the late noughties, were brutal.

Edited June 27, 2022 by Gulbasaur

[Snarky]

Last night at Cosmic Council social gathering (over a billion handed out in trivia prizes and mult winter/super packs as door gifts!) we had three new people say they had just recently found out about CoH

 

I know most of us think everyone knows CoH is available. It is not well known

Edited June 27, 2022 by Snarky

[TalynDerre]

I evangelize the game every chance I get, but I am shocked at how little interest my (otherwise extremely geeky) circle of friends exhibits about it.  This was the game for me, and I was so heartbroken when it was canceled, but I guess it didn't scratch everyone's itch the way it did mine.  Even my friends who played it back in the day were basically, like, 'meh, that's interesting but I'd rather play Elden Ring.'

 

I was kind of bummed out to be honest.

[Without_Pause]

On 6/26/2022 at 11:33 PM, J_3MBG said:

Literally wrote a thread a week ago on twitter about all the things in COH that ruined me for other MMO's, and almost all the comments were "HOW ARE YOU PLAYING CITY OF HEROES". 

 

It was a laugh. 

 

Lots of folks who used to play and still like the game wanted back on. 

The funny part about seeing this bumped is knowing this user via board gaming content versus playing here. His Youtube is https://www.youtube.com/@3MBG

[blackhand]

Posted to Reddit. Only social media I usually use. 

[Scarlet Shocker]

I don't use much social media - and Xitter seems to be anti-social media these days

 

but the idea is solid in principle

[J_3MBG]

On 10/13/2023 at 1:20 AM, Without_Pause said:

The funny part about seeing this bumped is knowing this user via board gaming content versus playing here. His Youtube is https://www.youtube.com/@3MBG

 

Yep, that's me. I was playing COX way before i did the you tube. I also wrote for the newsletter on the forums under the name Crime of Fashion.