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How did you find out about CO? 70 votes
From some gaming venue
31%
22 votes
From some superhero venue
14%
10 votes
From some furry venue
14%
10 votes
Other
40%
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Playing CO since August 25, 2012
Lifetime sub since July 6, 2017
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"Don't call me lizard!"
HAHAHAHAHAHAH OMFG I was in this SG. We then went to play TERA for a while, but Kuko and the others didn't like but I became really hooked into it so I stood there for a couple of years before coming back to CO
- David Brin, "Those Eyes"
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Same, read an article from around 2008/2009, had seen a helmet'd armored hero in a skatin pose with energy around him and a sword-wieldin Defender and thought this seems super cool. After it became free-to-play i jump'd on around the first blood moon event and the "Celestial"s release. Lost my internet around 2010ish and came back around the "Invincible" and the first or second lockboxs i think. Been on ever since. [Eventually did find out the mysterious hero was Steel Commando usin ego blades and it was a picture in mid-swing with the arms to one direction]
Playing CO since August 25, 2012
Lifetime sub since July 6, 2017
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"Don't call me lizard!"
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saw a buff crocodile guy on furaffinity (2015)
searched the game on steam
downloaded it
played it
and then regretting playing it
This is a big journey, so far if you're reading this, wish you a good day
I saw it as STO's "poor next door neighbor" and tried it out. Loved the customization, but thought it was a mess and eventually left because I hated how messy the gameplay (and energy management in particular) felt. Turns out I just hated ATs, because a free freeform giveaway brought me back and made me start taking it a bit more seriously.
I downloaded it for an entire day on my old laptop and I enjoyed myself. Possibly too much since I now have more hours spent in this game than double his hours. It's impossible for me to say I found this due to a furry venue since I can blame my friend, and this game for me becoming a furry.
Thanks for making me a degenerate CO.
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I once saw that friend of mine that hosted a TF2 community server playing Champions Online and City of Heroes at least once every other day for a while. Seeing "Friend is now playing Champions Online" got me curious, especially since by the time I had asked him about CO, I believe City of Heroes had been recently and officially shut down.
Considering that I was drunk from the power of having the ability to outfit my TF2 loadouts with dumb cosmetics, the idea of a superhero-themed MMO with a ridiculously expansive character creator was interesting to me. I never played another superhero-themed game, which was a genre I was on and off about really, and the character creator just seemed very enticing to me.
Next thing I knew, I kinda brushed aside the fact that I always thought that I wasn't exactly the most creative individual, and that MMOs were just "bleh" to me after having tried Everquest II, and I gave it a go.
Made a generic Soldier. And then a Grimoire. And then I got frustrated with how weird the controls and key binds were and put it down for about half a year.
And then picked it back up all of a sudden and I decided to deal with the super weird control scheme and decided to go nuts. And despite how many issues the game has, I find myself satisfied at being able to create my own stories and kinda make fun of some of the quirks the Champions universe has. Even without the quirks, the game had its moments. So I stuck around.
Steam is a gaming venue I guess? or did I just mess up another poll?
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During that Period I was looking for a MMORPG with flexible character costumization to create and play with my OCs! CO was perfect
However I didn't start playing myself until a Friend who i told him the game start playing and he wanted to us to play together!
He didn't last for 1 week and quit playing... but Im still here
and THEN I became a Furry
GOTTEM 👌
THANK YO GIZMO DUCK
Look at me. Look at this game.
I was playing CoH and didn't think anything better of it, when suddenly I saw people on the forums over there whining about player poaching from Cryptic.
I perused the gorgeous next-gen Champions Online website and clicked on Rate My Champion.
HUBBA HUBBA, I was positively melting from all the wondrous shiny specimens. 😍
I later visited the official CO Coldfront IRC and won a beta key so I could be gorgeous, too, and leave my mitthanding days behind forever.
And playing by myself since Aug 2009
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You? Man, same here!
So, I actually attended a tabletop RPG game convention in Houston in early 2008, and Steve Long was a featured guest that year, and he ran Champions. I played in that game, (as Ironclad) and was then voted best role-player at the table, because I role-played Ironclads extreme overconfidence disadvantage, I taunted Ripper and he knocked me out from full stun with one perfectly timed Haymaker.
After the game, I hung out and talked with Steve a while, he was great to get to know and happy enough to entertain a raving old Champions fan, but when I asked about upcoming news, he hinted that big plans were in the works, but he couldn't tell me what they were legally until the deals were finalized.
He did give me a hint, and that hint got my watching Cryptics website closely, and thus I was one of the first two hundered people to see and sign up for the new (at the time) Forums for the Champions Online game on the day it was announced.
I now know the news he couldn't share overtly was the deal being worked on when Cryptic purchased the Champions I.P and licensed it back to D.O.J. in perpetuity for publishing rites of the hero system version of the setting. At the time, the deals also included Microsoft since Champions Online was supposed to launch on the original X-Box. One thing is for sure, at the time, in early 2008, Steve was pretty convinced this was going to revitalize Champions, but alas, this did not come to be.
Later in that same year, around September of 2008, I was invited into the Friends and Family Alpha, and I have been playing ever since. for a full year before it launched, all through the Alpha and the closed and open Betas.
And yeah, in F&F Alpha the Desert and Canada were all we had for a good while. I remember the first time we saw Monster Island, then Lemuria, which was a huge hit, the first time we got to MC which was a much bigger hit, and so on and so forth. I was the alp[ha tester who suggested "pre-mini-zones" so we could do some content that had the illusion of time passing and our heroes actually making an impact on events, which became the Crisis Zones. and so much more. So much more.
So, I played w/just one character for years.
what can you do? i was on an mmo hunt at the time.
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A guy made a post about this game, and some friends and i decided to try. But we didn't stayed for long, most of us left after a couple days. Honestly, i had liked the game, but my PC was a real potato back in the day, and i couldn't stand the lag.
Some years latter, with a better PC, i was looking for some game with a good customization system, and CO came to mind. And, well, i've been here since then ^^
A few years ago I was in a bad place and needed something to lose myself in for a few months. A friend told me about a game that might let me create the very characters I'd been writing about... and it's lifetime sub was currently on sale... so I logged in and ran some characters... then made the purchase... I've basically been here since, minus a few months here or there where I took a break.
My super cool CC build and how to use it.
that is all
DOOOOOODE most of us learned of CO while playing COH why was that not an option? I mean it is defacto COH2 :P
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
technically that would fit into the gaming venue... though as used I feel that venue isn't the proper word.
Because CoH was bad u3u
My super cool CC build and how to use it.
... yeah. Whatever.
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Didn’t know whether to vote gaming or superhero since CoH is both. Who cares
Unfortunately my favourite creative aspects of CoH never got a parallel in champions. No mission maker, no base builder, power customization is a bit better and worse in different ways. Champions has a great foundation mechanically but despite my playing it for a long time it always felt like it missed its potential as a creative game that could generate its own content and longevity. I played both games pretty equally for a while since I found they satisfied me in different ways, one being more serious and one much more cartoony . Coh finally shot down and, being NCSoft, had no way to come back. Then for a few years I played Champions exclusively, I had bought an LTS a very long time ago during a sale, so I would just pop in and play for a while then get bored, then come back. The lack of meaningful content additions eventually burned me out, I love my alts but I can only do the same arcs on them so many times.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
lol, that's some irony right there.
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After running one hell of a well designed campaign I got into creating a slew of earlier characters honing my know how and understanding of player groups, SG's , and Area farms.
Didn't take long to dispatch my main tank as my flagship character to unlock, fund , and equip other concepts I have for the system.
Despite all the mishaps, glitches, critical changes, and even the collapsing of entire guilds four times over with the loss of friends in the great moderator/player dispute of 2004 I still enjoy this game. On many occasions I now see your faces out in the field of Cosmics as well as local area grindings or RP zoning.
It wasn't 2004. I've just been informed it was 2012. Well its been a long time. I'm not perfect.
Then a while later when it came to Steam, I tried it again and it's never left my computer since, lol.