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Official Site: City of Heroes
Studio: Paragon Studios/NCsoft
Launch Date: April 27, 2004
Sunset Date: November 30, 2012
Homecoming License Date: January 4, 2024
Genre: Superhero Hybrid Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, Mac

Our more specific coverage of the City of Heroes revival is also binned here; you can find the tighter chronology of community rogue server posts right here; regular coverage following the official licensing of the Homecoming servers resumes under the regular City of Heroes tag.

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Massively Overthinking: How could MMOs combat endgame rushing?

Bree Royce - 57
Rushers, content locusts, world-firsters: Whatever you want to call them, these folks are both a boon and a bane for MMORPGs. They buy the...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 261: PAX yay, GDC nay

Justin Olivetti - 0
Justin and Bree discuss PAX East, GDC, the coronavirus' impact on gaming, Magic Legends, Population Zero, Marvel Future Revolution, LOTRO and DDO, Funcom and Dune, and City of Heroes, plus adventures in AQ3D, CoH, and SWG Legends, with mailbag topics on everything MMOs and the doom of WildStar.
Cool times.

City of Heroes Homecoming players have racked up over 47 million hours

Justin Olivetti - 7
You know the old adage that superheroes and statistics go together like... well, nothing? That is, unless you're a stat-themed crusader. Actuarial Man or...

Global Chat: Neverwinter is ‘damn good fun’

Justin Olivetti - 19
You know what's an interesting trend among MMO bloggers lately? It seems that many of them are heading back to Neverwinter -- and enjoying...

The Daily Grind: Is there an MMORPG you’ve never played and probably never will?

Bree Royce - 69
A while back, a few MassivelyOP staff were chit-chatting about alting in MMOs, specifically in Star Trek Online. During the discussion, it occurred to...
When the lights go down in the city.

City of Heroes Homecoming tests new Shock Therapy powerset and Experimentation power pool

Chris Neal - 12
Care to see what's next for the rogue server of City of Heroes? Then get thee hence to the game's test server for a...

The MOP Up: Coronavirus concerns are impacting PAX East 2020

Bree Royce - 8
Sony became the biggest game company to pull out of Boston-based PAX East 2020, citing concerns about the coronavirus not-quite-an-epidemic. "Sony Interactive Entertainment made...

One Shots: Imitation and flattery

Justin Olivetti - 24
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then MMO players are the biggest flatterers in the world. When we're not making avatars to...

Ship of Heroes grants a look a new Martial Arts melee powerset in a video

Chris Neal - 3
It takes a special kind of superhero to go into a fight against the forces superheroes face with nothing but your fists and feet,...

Into the Super-verse: How City of Heroes welcomed me into MMOs

Justin Olivetti - 10
As we approach the first anniversary of City of Heroes' revival on the rogue server circuit, I wanted to take this opportunity to share...

The Daily Grind: What options do you like in your MMO’s user interface?

Justin Olivetti - 23
I would very much like any and all MMO developers who are reading this to hear me: Please, please make your user interface as...

The Soapbox: Why does it feel like I don’t have time for an MMO when I really do?

Guest Author - 43
This guest Soapbox was commissioned through MassivelyOP's Patreon program and is authored by Steve "Sray" Blouin, a name our longtime commenters will surely recognize...
We got it back, after all.

Perfect Ten: Dead MMOs resurrected via rogue servers

Justin Olivetti - 35
Last December, the Massively OP 2019 Awards gave its "Best Trend" nod to the rise of rogue servers in the MMO genre. Preservation of...

Jack Emmert isn’t sure Daybreak will publish his next MMO, says DCUO is as big as it was four years ago

Bree Royce - 17
In January, Daybreak finally announced the fruits of its "realignment" that we'd been covering since last summer: It was splitting off new substudios for...

Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG do you wish got a glow-up?

Bree Royce - 39
No matter how much we love mechanics, even our most cerebral writers and readers still admit to being graphics snobs. It's human: We like...

Valentine’s Day 2020 across the MMO universe

Bree Royce - 2
Per tradition, we've been covering the launch of Valentine's Day events in MMOs and MMORPGs over the last couple of weeks, but tomorrow is...
Wow, positive.

Perfect Ten: MMOs I’m optimistic about in 2020

Eliot Lefebvre - 38
I didn't actually plan to make this an annual feature or anything; I thought of it last year as a fun list, and then...

Make My MMO: Saga of Lucimia’s challenge, Camelot Unchained’s siege demo

Bree Royce - 1
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Saga of Lucimia, which spent most of last year with its head down working and popped up last month...

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs deserve fresh spiritual successors?

Justin Olivetti - 50
A lot of time whenever the subject of MMORPG sequels arise, the thought is for the same studio to make a proper successor with...
R'bots

City of Heroes’ Homecoming buffs tanks and Masterminds, begins the Spring Fling

Chris Neal - 4
I hate pet classes. Always have, always will. I'm barely able to stand them save for the Railmaster's pet train in Torchlight Fro--, er,...
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