Last night, we covered the emerging scandal in the City of Heroes community and broke the confirmation that yes, there is in fact a long-running but secret City of Heroes emulator, with your old characters, and no, you probably weren’t invited, as the showrunners were making a concerted effort to keep it under NDA to avoid NCsoft’s infamous wrath. There’s obviously a lot more to it than that, so I urge you to read the entirety of our article from last night, including direct quotes from the leader of the SCORE team working on the project.
But when I got up this morning, I saw our comments, inboxes, and Reddit pages were absolutely filled with hurt and betrayal, way more potent than was displayed on Facebook before I went to bed. You guys, there are people emailing me their bona fides hoping I’ll pass them along to SCORE. People are begging to get onto this server. “What do I tell my dad?” one Redditor asked. Folks are appealing to game preservation too. The sheer anger over it all is palpable as people lash out at and doxx each other (and even upbraid us for publishing an account of what’s going on).
Shining through it all is this is this sense that… it’s out now, so let us in. Release the code! If this community is so great, to paraphrase one poster, why are some people still eating steak while everyone else goes hungry? Especially when they say they were going to open it up eventually anyway?
Where do you stand on the “secret” City of Heroes emulator? What should be done?
To be clear, we are not encouraging illegal activity and advise everyone involved to consider their actions carefully.
Where do you stand on the 'secret' City of Heroes emulator? What should be done?
- Just let everyone in. It's time. (24%, 1,000 Votes)
- Release the code, as they say. Let someone else have a crack at it. (40%, 1,688 Votes)
- Just host in a country where NCsoft can't touch it like other emus do. (17%, 692 Votes)
- Switch efforts to SEGS, which is now operating in the open. (4%, 163 Votes)
- Switch efforts to Paragon Chat. (1%, 23 Votes)
- Switch efforts to one of the spiritual successors. (1%, 60 Votes)
- Shut it all down. Nobody should get to play. (2%, 64 Votes)
- Go back into hiding and continue gradual invites. (4%, 165 Votes)
- Everyone already playing it should quit. (1%, 27 Votes)
- Even if they let us in, we shouldn't play on principle. (1%, 38 Votes)
- Move on to another game entirely. (2%, 63 Votes)
- Something else - tell us in the comments. (1%, 29 Votes)
- No opinion / view tally / catgirl butts (4%, 165 Votes)
Total Voters: 2,704
Loading ...Complete rundown on the entire City of Heroes SCORE mess so far:
City of Heroes’ Homecoming just outlawed video of their rogue servers
City of Heroes Homecoming players have racked up over 47 million hours
NCsoft follows up City of Heroes code copyright filing with fresh trademark application
Massively OP’s 2019 Awards: Biggest MMO Surprise
City of Heroes: Homecoming kicks off the winter season in its latest patch
City of Heroes: Homecoming patches in the third part of Issue 26 with new stories and powers
City of Heroes’ Homecoming announces Issue 26 Page 3, Halloween content, and collab with other rogue servers
City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers are now blocking copyright-infringing characters
City of Heroes Homecoming is now banning accounts for… real-money trading
TonyV leaves City of Heroes NCsoft negotiations, resigns from Titan Network
City of Heroes: Homecoming plays with Rage crashes, PvP stuns, and Tanker powers on the test server
City of Heroes Homecoming asks players what they want from a licensed server
City of Heroes Homecoming players have rolled almost a million toons to date
City of Heroes Homecoming adjusts snipes and Dominator powers with the latest patch
Today’s City of Heroes’ Homecoming patch future-proofs the rogue servers for Mac players
City of Heroes’ Homecoming Team finally posted a new beta patch after months of public quiet
City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers have joined the Titan Network/NCsoft negotiations
Catching up with City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers as NCsoft negotiations continue
One of City of Heroes’ rogue servers, Reborn/Pleiades, was just shut down by its operator
City of Heroes: Homecoming hit 100K players as another donation round funds
Perfect Ten: 10 things I’d love to see added to City of Heroes in the rogue server era
City of Heroes: Homecoming adds numerical power cooldowns, nerfs Death from Below, adds User Agreement
City of Heroes: Community harassment ramps up as Homecoming counts 91,000 players
Perfect Ten: Helpful tips for returning to City of Heroes in 2019
City of Heroes: All the public servers we know of, plus Reddit’s launch and Homecoming’s name release
City of Heroes: Homecoming concurrency, Rebirth and Reddit’s i24 servers, and the future of basebuilding
City of Heroes: Homecoming’s new home, EU players, multiboxing, SEGS, and… piglets
City of Heroes rogue server teams activate i24 PTS, prep for tomorrow’s Homecoming server moves
City of Heroes community forms Round Table as Homecoming rogue servers count over 56,000 players
City of Heroes’ Homecoming servers port to Canada this weekend, server status page is live
Leaderboard: Would you donate for a City of Heroes rogue server?
City of Heroes: New servers, Discord drama, and Homecoming gets $6900 in donations in 20 minutes
City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers will offer character transfers after all
City of Heroes now has a fifth rogue server live as Homecoming buffs up and work on i24 continues
City of Heroes’ rogue servers nerf AE farms, boost XP, but can’t do character transfers
Two weeks in, City of Heroes has four rogue servers and heartwarmingly massive queues
Nearly 30K people have rolled City of Heroes rogue server accounts as the game turns 15 years old
Aaaaand now there’s a new temporary City of Heroes rogue server up
The Titan Network is negotiating to open a legal community-run City of Heroes server
City of Heroes’ first new rogue server shut down over a fake legal threat, but admins say it’s coming back
Leaderboard: Do you plan to play on a City of Heroes rogue server?
City of Heroes’ rogue servers may abandon character restoration as 14000 gamers register to play
Lawful Neutral: Is it safe to play on City of Heroes’ inevitable rogue servers?
The City of Heroes private server team has released its code [Update: The test server is live]
What’s going on with City of Heroes now: ‘This game is a unicorn’
Massively OP Podcast Episode 217: City of Heroes after dark
Into the Super-Verse: The death of the City of Heroes community
Leaderboard: Where do you stand on the ‘secret’ City of Heroes emulator?
‘Secret’ City of Heroes emulator operators address SCORE leak drama, rebut personal info database rumor
