Is anyone here that didn't play the game during Live service (2004-2012)?

[FFFF]

I realize that the folks that lurk here probably skew older than even the current player base. I'm assuming that I'll get different answers on Discord or on /r/cityofheroes. According to this thread, we skew to around 50 years old and are mostly males.

 

I'm curious if the NCSoft licensing agreement and/or the updates in Issue 7 lured in any new players, players who are experiencing City of Heroes for the first time in 2024 (or late 2023).  If you're new, I'd love to know what drew you in.

[Monty Haull]

40 minutes ago, FFFF said:

, we skew to around 50 years old and are mostly males.

 

Stop it!  Next you'll say balding and overweight.

[Ananke]

Myself a number of people I know never played COH before 2019. We're relatively oldheads now I guess, since we started before the licensing agreement, but we're still not former live players.

[Jack Power]

My two boys (20 and 12) didn't play in any meaningful way before Homecoming. 

 

//Jack 

[FupDup]

On live I only played a bit during free trial periods and it was very early in the game's development (like before VEATs and a short time after). I've played way more HC on my first toon than on any of my live trial toons combined, and it felt like a whole new world with all of the shiny new stuff that got added after I stopped playing. 

[Luminara]

I are new.  Gibs me munnys.

[Vic Raiden]

I'm around as old as the game itself, and never really heard of it until long after sunset. I've only joined it during Issue 27 Page 6 at recommendation from a friend.

[Major_Decoy]

Would you believe that I owned a copy but never made it out of the character creator in the first eight years?

[KITANYA]

Own Physical copy of CoH and CoV!

 

Got it in 2005 🙂

 

Then had a long break and returned recently!

Edited March 3, 2024 by KITANYA

[Enchantica]

7 hours ago, Monty Haull said:

Stop it!  Next you'll say balding and overweight.

OMG that was funny!

[DoctorDitko]

4 hours ago, Major_Decoy said:

Would you believe that I owned a copy but never made it out of the character creator in the first eight years?

I have a friend who probably takes an hour in the creator every time he makes a character.

I'll be sure to tell him you hold the record!

[sbloyd]

My daughter wasn't alive then, so...

[FFFF]

32 minutes ago, sbloyd said:

My daughter wasn't alive then, so...

That’s actually a great follow-up: how many of you have kids that play or even play with you? 

Edited March 3, 2024 by FFFF

[Six-Six]

I only played when HC went public (2019???). 

Also old only in body, not balding, not overweight, and all (not mostly) male.

[sbloyd]

11 hours ago, FFFF said:

That’s actually a great follow-up: how many of you have kids that play or even play with you? 

 

My daughter does, but she mostly creates characters, and we play Hide-and-Seek in Atlas Park.

[Crysis]

This should have been a poll.

 

Played since Beta on Live, although ducked out a few months here and there when RL intervened.  Then been back on pretty consistently since Homecoming.

 

Would be interested to see a poll of those who played on SCORE during the "secret wars" years.

[ENSHOKU]

I didn't! Just started last week and enjoying it so far, though the battle system is a bit rough. It's making me nostalgic for 2005 MMOs in a good way. I'm trying to drag my group of friends in who never played either, got 3 including me so far, might expand to another 3. We're all majorly late 20s~early 30s but got a few in their early 20s. Two of us wanted to play the game when it was live but missed out for one reason or another. Really cool to hear that a lot of y'all are older.

[PeregrineFalcon]

On 3/2/2024 at 6:59 PM, FFFF said:

That’s actually a great follow-up: how many of you have kids that play or even play with you? 

My boys are too young to have played on the retail servers, beyond occasionally taking one of my characters and flying around.

 

Both of them do have Homecoming accounts. We even play CoH together occasionally.

[StarkWhite]

My daughter just turned twelve; she plays with me or her mom occasionally.

[Jack Power]

On 3/2/2024 at 8:08 PM, Jack Power said:

My two boys (20 and 12) didn't play in any meaningful way before Homecoming. 

 

//Jack 

To follow up. They play now! 🙂

 

//Jack