I just want to say how sorry I am that you and NC have parted company.

There is loads I would like to say about how I think they must eventually realize how big a mistake they are making, things never being the same, how much you guys will be missed (especially for the player meet event purposes)
All of this however would take me all night to type, so I’ll keep things simple by saying :-

Sorry to see you go, and my most sincere hope that you get a better job out of all of this.

Would love to have been able to have joined you on your leaving night out, but distance, work and kids would not allow. Will have to let Gangrel represent League of Heroes and League of Villains SG’s for the weekend, although he can drink for most of us anyway

Hope you have a good night out and all the best for the future.

Don’t really get on Heroes much these days, but if ever you are on villains and find yourself without a team we’d love to have you join us.

My wisdom on the subject for what it is worth. People that have worked for a company for a long period, are generally to some extent institutionalised. The normal result of this is dented self worth, unrealistic attachment to what they have achieved and an over inflated belief in the importance of the company they work for.

Realistically no company no matter how big is important, whatever you did there is only a means to getting you another (better) job and your talents are probably a lot more marketable than you might think.

The feelings don’t get any better until you have a new direction. For some that is just another job, for others using the opportunity to set a new horizon.

Being a manager the experience is a lot worse, been there and you have my sympathy. That sense of responsibility can be crippling, but people generally bounce a lot better than you might fear.

Roleplay: Text based MUDs, MUAs or MUGs, they were the pinnacle of roleplaying for me. I would agree with Zortel that a level of anonymity adds to the immersion, but I believe graphics of any kind actually limit the imagination in ways text doesn’t.

General: I’m well and will check your blogs out.

Different strokes!

@Gangrel: Chin goes up and down at the moment; been mostly up in the last day or so, but just when I think I’m fine, I go down again. Spending a lot of time with people in the same situation, and that does help, strangely.

Hope that everything is going well, and i shall talk to at some point (i am sure if you poke me with an email address or something like that i will get in touch with you)

And Rockjaw, chin up and all that…..

Stephen: It’d certainly be interesteing seeing your progression through the classes. Oh, and Union CoH seems good. If we ever get round to it, just ask if you want teaming In Character or not.

Was a very interesting beer, you were kind enough to give me your view on Cryptic and Marvel getting in to bed (not that it turned out as they expected) and War Witch, who joined a bit later, valiantly fielded a series of questions from people who had been drinking far too long at that point.

Actually thinking about it, it had to be management, that or they kept you caged somewhere to be unleashed on an unsuspecting forum when Bridger was on holiday. )

*waves to Zortel and hopes she is well*

I actually didn’t move to development – Bridger did – I sort of moved on to upper management. (Maybe I should summarise my career at NCsoft at some point. I guess it’s on LinkedIn, but eh.) Just couldn’t separate me from COH, I guess.

Extremus: Sure thing on an Arena fight. You just know I’ll lose and want bragging rights though, yeah?

CoH had (and still has I assume) a great community and I think a lot of that was down to some great community reps, in my time that was Bridger, yourself and the French and German guys who could have been twins (names escape me).

I always enjoyed your straight talking, on the forums or over a beer.

CoH turned out not to be my MMO tastes, but some people leave an impression, you are one of those guys. When I heard you had moved in to development I did a silent thumbs up, with this news I felt compelled to more vocally wish you and your comrades all the best for the future, and hope that is just the beginning of new and better things.