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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.

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025

Bree Royce - 15
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...

Vague Patch Notes: MMORPG accelerationism is a stupid sucker’s game

Eliot Lefebvre - 19
The most recent Warframe update starts with a solid chunk of story, and the story that it tells is that of a time loop....
hands across whatever this fantasy world is called

Massively OP Podcast Episode 498: Pantheon’s power play

Justin Olivetti - 8
Justin, Bree, and Chris discuss Pantheon's early access, Ship of Heroes' launch window, Warframe 1999's release, World of Warcraft's Siren Isle, Elder Scrolls Online's outage and union, and Old School RuneScape's sailing, with adventures in WoW Classic, SWTOR, LOTRO, Palworld, Dauntless, Guild Wars 2, and Farm Together 2, plus mailbag topics on midcore MMO players and abilities we wish were in every MMORPG.

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best event of 2024?

Bree Royce - 5
I'm well aware that this is going to be a hard Daily Grind to answer because it used to be an award, and it...

Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2024

Bree Royce - 5
You know, this traditional end-of-the-year roundtable shouldn't be a thing. We've been doing this such a long time and getting so much coverage on...

Eight-year-old indie superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes sets a Q2 2025 launch window

Bree Royce - 11
Just a few weeks ago, we noted that it appeared Ship of Heroes' release plans had continued shifting around (at one point, it was...

End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO surprises of 2024

Eliot Lefebvre - 5
I have not had a good 2024. I have, in fact, had the absolute opposite of that. I feel like I exist now through...
Sparky!

Design Mockument: In defense of visual ability customization in MMORPGs

Eliot Lefebvre - 2
I will never know who it was working behind the scenes at City of Heroes who first had the idea to let players customize...

Massively Overthinking: The top three MMOs we played in 2024

Bree Royce - 13
I know from experience that when I list out the MMOs I want to play in a given year, it is an aspirational list....
Seriously.

Vague Patch Notes: Nostalgia isn’t the problem with pining for your MMO past

Eliot Lefebvre - 3
So it hasn't been long since World of Warcraft launched a new set of WoW Classic servers, except this time it's WoW Classic Classic,...

The Daily Grind: Have you let go of any old MMORPG obsessions?

Bree Royce - 14
Earlier this year, when City of Heroes Homecoming first scored a license to operate from NCsoft, my kid fell hard into econ PvP over...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MOP stories of 2024

Bree Royce - 3
As you're reading this, it's Thanksgiving night, and the end-of-the-year insanity is about to begin. You're going to be treated to a whole ton...

Ship of Heroes spent its fall working on everything from difficulty sliders to an auction hall

Bree Royce - 2
Crowdfunded superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes is still trucking along in development, I'm happy to report today, and the latest bits are recapped in...
Pay to lose.

Perfect Ten: Lessons from unsuccessful MMORPGs that I wish designers would learn

Eliot Lefebvre - 16
I have been writing about this genre for far too long now and seen far too many games with genuinely good elements completely fail...
Hello Paul. Hello Art.

Vague Patch Notes: Living like a rock in MMORPGs

Eliot Lefebvre - 6
So if you are anything close to my age, you probably do not think of Simon & Garfunkel's music as being anything remotely "raw."...

Massively Overthinking: How long should it take to level to endgame in MMORPGs?

Bree Royce - 22
Right after New World's Aeternum launched, we did a piece looking into how the game was faring - and one complaint I saw over...
Poke

Design Mockument: Exploring alternatives to the typical MMO trinity

Eliot Lefebvre - 17
Here's a fun thing for you: I swear that way, way back before the game launched, there were documents from the Guild Wars 2...

Massively Overthinking: Have you ever been booted from an MMORPG group because your class wasn’t the meta?

Bree Royce - 40
Earlier this month, when some World of Warcraft players were protesting massive nerfs to specific classes, MOP reader Sloth explained the problem superbly: The...
moo

Vague Patch Notes: Solipsism and what it means for playing MMORPGs

Eliot Lefebvre - 4
We've been talking for the past couple of Vague Patch Notes columns about the fact that MMOs are, as a genre, defined by having...

City of Heroes rogue server Rebirth delays its next patch to 2025 – but it features full-color costume customization

Bree Royce - 4
The teeny City of Heroes rogue server Rebirth updated players on its Issue 7 patch yesterday - and it's good news and bad news....
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