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I let my City of Heroes account expire several years ago -- quite a while before I moved from Kenosha to Bristol, actually. Of course I'm still on the email list to get notices of updates and special offers and the like. Sometimes you get notices like the current one where they're having a "Play During the Free Reactivation Weekend" offer ... which means for a few days I can play for free, return to the game, see the changes, etc. Heck, it's free so it's not a bad deal even if I only play for a few hours, right?

Of course there's the little matter of reactivating my account. First of all, what was the name of the account again? I made a guess at it and tried the 'reset password' option, but kept getting an error. Eventually I started an email conversation with tech support where I had to provide everything but a blood sample to verify my identity. There were quite a few items of information that I no longer have access to due to changes in my life or the fact that I don't have archives of five year old email. Honestly, I've had less trouble convincing my bank of my identity and right to access an account! In the end it turns out that one of the key pieces of identity -- my date of birth -- was wrong in their system. Really, I promise you that I've only got the one date of birth and it hasn't changed in the last five years. How many other bits of identity do you need? Luckily I convinced the support dude that I really am the original owner of the account and he issued a password reset so I was able to login and update the information.

Friday I get to see if I can actually access the game itself. I remember the last time I tried it out I couldn't remember half of how the powers worked, so I think I'll just start a new character to play around a bit. I seriously doubt that I'll reactivate my account (can't really afford it right now, for one thing), but this is particularly good timing since [livejournal.com profile] bookwurm and I are planning this as a 'recovery' weekend. Yay for mindless comic violence!

Date: 2009-10-07 10:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grabstein-69.livejournal.com
What server do/will you play on?

Date: 2009-10-09 01:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] awfulhorrid.livejournal.com
I don't remember. (It's been that long and I can't find my notes on the characters ... of course if I could find my notes, I'd likely have been able to access the account!) I'll post back to you when I find out tomorrow.

Date: 2009-10-08 03:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merseine.livejournal.com
Let us know when you're on and we can come play too.

Date: 2009-10-09 01:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] awfulhorrid.livejournal.com
Yay! You know I'm likely to just be running a low level character or two so I can get the feel of things again, right? I'm getting a little income right now, but I still can't justify spending that much on a game even if I do find it's 'restored' for me.

Date: 2009-10-08 03:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] isolde-deely.livejournal.com
snuggles. I am on a mmo now. DDO.com
dungeons and dragons online. argonessen server. free. :)

Date: 2009-10-09 01:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] awfulhorrid.livejournal.com
I also just reinstalled / updated Neverwinter Nights Platinum. I remember first playing this after hours at a client site ... I think it was after 2001, but I can't swear to that. I bought it on sale and I'm still haven't finished the game years later! (There's nothing wrong with playing old games -- it feels more like I'm getting a good value to me.)

passwords and hero games

Date: 2009-10-08 04:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erisianagnostic.livejournal.com
I've had that problem with a couple of accounts. I've got a 15 year old yahoo account, that forces me to add 2003 to my yahoo name, becuase i can't access the orignal. Theres a few other things i get on, and discover i've got an old account there, that blocks my name.

Meanwhile, I played city of heroes for about 10 days awhile back, and just found it boring. I've started playing Champions online though, and i love it. It is what i expected a superhero game to be. Diverse characters, rich heroic storylines, and fairly configurable characters. And very few characters look alike, the costume/character field is really really good.

Re: passwords and hero games

Date: 2009-10-09 02:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] awfulhorrid.livejournal.com
I'm actually surprised at some of the accounts I've managed to resurrect, but I guess I just never recorded this one.

I liked COH when I tried it many years ago, but like most of the MMOs, I eventually got bored with it. (Mostly because I tend to not like random pickup groups and at some point it became impossible to advance while soloing.) I'd like to try Champions Online, but I just can't justify the added expense right now.

Date: 2009-10-08 05:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sciffy-circo.livejournal.com
Oh, YES, I know the feeling!

I gave up on Puzzle Pirates, and Adventure Quest, and even Free Realms, and everything on Gameforge. But I keep getting emails, and wondering, should I go back? It sounds pretty cool? Sound I make a new character? Well, on some, if I've been gone more than 30 days, I'd have to anyway! Others... the character is still there, with a "last login, December 2006" or something like that.

Same goes for e-mail. I keep getting birthday alerts for people who have passed away, some more than 10 years ago. It's weird...

And other people... I have no idea why I friended them in the first place. We never talk anymore. Who are these people? What did we ever have in common? There's one guy I talk to now, neither of us has any idea why we first friended each other. We're guessing a game, but we have no idea which one. He just said "I just updated my MSN IM and trying to figure out who people are", and I know what he meant. We never did figure out how we met, but we like chatting now about daily life stuff.

More than half the people on my email and IM lists, I met through games. I usually ignore the people when I quit the game, but some friends are just too good to ignore.

Date: 2009-10-09 02:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] awfulhorrid.livejournal.com
Yep, I still get stuff for World of Warcraft. I'm also getting offers from several games that I don't really remember playing. (Likely things I tried the demos and turned them down, I suspect.)

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