city of heroes

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.

And all sold as one, oddly.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 257: Daybreakup

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Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak's split up, Tencent's Funcom bid, Torchlight Frontiers becoming a non-MMO, Temtem's early access, Rend's sunset, and DDO's new expansion, plus adventures in Neverwinter, STO, SWG, CoH, and Trove, and a mailbag discussion on changing MMO goals.

City of Titans makes a small but significant change to the Avatar Builder UI

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What difference can a slider bar possibly make? A pretty good one in the case of City of Titans, which showed off a tweak...

Ship of Heroes starts the year with a better engine and cat masks

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When it comes to a superhero MMO, "fast" performance isn't good enough. At least, it's not good enough for the Ship of Heroes team,...
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Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020

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This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...

Valiance Online, still gunning for launch this year, drops a brand-new flythrough video

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Let's not sugarcoat this: Valiance Online has almost been crowded out of players' vision when it comes to the City of Heroes spiritual successors....

Make My MMO: Crowfall investment, Demi’s Kickstarter, and Albion’s Queen

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We're back to our regular roundup after the holidays, which means we've got quite a bit to talk about - and not all of...
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Massively Overthinking: The best MMOs of the decade

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A few years back, we did a cheeky Massively Overthinking about our five favorite MMORPGs of all time. It was quite a potent list...

Perfect Ten: Upcoming MMOs to watch in 2020

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There is a great feeling of flipping a calendar over to a fresh year, isn't there? All that promise and potential spread out in...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 254: New year mysteries

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Justin and Bree discuss Ashes of Creation, Camelot Unchained, Guild Wars, the Bless franchise, City of Heroes, LOTRO, SWG Legends, and The Witcher, with mailbag topics on CoH on console, PlanetSide's mismanagement, and a celebratory haiku that prompts some follow-up site discussion!
This one hurts.

Jukebox Heroes: The best of Otherland’s soundtrack

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Despite being an adaption of Tad Williams' enormously popular sci-fi novels, the MMO Otherland was a flop in both of its incarnations. Mismanaged, underdeveloped,...

Into the Super-verse: What superhero MMOs offer that other games don’t

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When I was in high school, the Console Wars were heating up between SEGA and Nintendo. I'm afraid to report that many of my...
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NCsoft follows up City of Heroes code copyright filing with fresh trademark application

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Do you folks remember last summer when we learned that NCsoft had filed copyright documentation for the City of Heroes game code? The June...

See City of Titans’ Alexandria beginner zone in action

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After stumbling a couple of years ago when it had hoped to hit alpha testing, City of Titans and its team are projecting confidence...

The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2019

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I feel like a broken record saying this, but the success of a blog is not just about page views or ad impressions or...

The best Massively OP community polls of 2019

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Time for another annual tradition here on Massively OP: the counting of the polls! Yes, we run a bunch of polls in our irregular...

Leaderboard: What’s the best classic MMORPG still running at the end of 2019?

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We've noted before that while our awards are pretty good at identifying the big modern MMORPGs and the indie gems, it's much harder to...

Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2019

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Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's weekly and sometimes biweekly recap of the big news in crowdfunded MMOs. Hey, you...

The best Massively OP streams of 2019

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Massively OP's Stream Team - with MJ and her sidekicks Larry and Chris at the helm - changed up its streaming tactics this year,...

Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2019

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When I was handed the reins of Choose My Adventure by the incomparably awesome Eliot, I had bare little idea what sort of things...

The Daily Grind: What was the best MMO emulator or rogue server in 2019?

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So 2019 turned out to be a pretty damn interesting year for fans of old MMORPGs. Not only did WoW Classic launch and bring...

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