CoH made a WhatCulture Gaming List!

[mistagoat]

Always nice to see the old fella get a little shine!

 

Start at 12:04 for the CoH part if the timestamp thing didn't work.

[Techwright]

While glad for the recognition, I find her statement curious.  Were one a first-time learner of the game's extended history, they might think there was nothing of CoH between 2019 and 2024.   Instead, the game was flourishing under Homecoming, and still had a presence on other fan-run servers.

[mistagoat]

2 hours ago, Techwright said:

While glad for the recognition, I find her statement curious.  Were one a first-time learner of the game's extended history, they might think there was nothing of CoH between 2019 and 2024.   Instead, the game was flourishing under Homecoming, and still had a presence on other fan-run servers.

Very true, they didn't nail all the details unfortunately. I'll forgive it in exchange for the exposure. WC Gaming has 1.7 million subs so hopefully a handful of folks just learned that CoH is still going strong and are downloading the Launcher as we speak!

[Scarlet Shocker]

3 hours ago, Techwright said:

While glad for the recognition, I find her statement curious.  Were one a first-time learner of the game's extended history, they might think there was nothing of CoH between 2019 and 2024.   Instead, the game was flourishing under Homecoming, and still had a presence on other fan-run servers.

 

Editorial Decisions were clearly made

[Vanden]

Sounds like they're conflating events. In 2019, the secret server was revealed, a free server ran for like 3 days, and got shut down by a legal threat. I don't know who was running it, but apparently the legal threat was a hoax that thoroughly spooked them so they shut it down. Homecoming started up like 5 days later. Seems like WhatCulture confused HC getting the official license with them starting up.

Edited August 31 by Vanden

[Mopery]

If I remember correctly, HC started up 4/24/2019 with the Torchbearer Server(I have several characters with that start date).

 

It was SO busy it crashed a lot, so many players logging in and out to grab names, then by like the 3rd day they shut down to sort everything else, and came back up with the other servers a day or more later(?). I think Reunion was a week or two after that. I was REALLY lucky to have been searching for CoH stuff that week, and read about the secret server, got really mad at first because I wasn't in on it those 7 years, then realized the true gift that it was when they announced code release.