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.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 373: Bots are bad, ‘mkay?

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Just and Bree discuss Lost Ark's bots, FFXIV's mods, Star Trek Online's Stormfall, Elder Scrolls Online's High Isle, and Wrath Classic beta, with adventures in LOTRO and City of Heroes, plus a mailbag topic on Black Desert's perceived decline.

Choose My Adventure: Some classic mission running in the City of Heroes Rebirth rogue server

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So yes, it would appear that missions are indeed the most rewarding thing to do in City of Heroes: Rebirth. That would probably be the...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most annoying sound in an MMO?

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OK, I realize I am very late to this party, but I just figured out a few weeks ago that Lord of the Rings...
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Massively Overthinking: If you could change one thing about an MMO…

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Back in April, MOP's Colin posed us an interesting challenge on the MOP Podcast: change one thing about an MMO you don't like that...

Choose My Adventure: My life as a Guardian in City of Heroes Rebirth

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Can the introduction of a completely different class change the entire makeup of an MMO’s experience? That is often the bet pushed forward by...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite healing style in an MMO?

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If I could only pick one healing style forever in an MMO, it's anything that hooks me up with a Grid-like healing tool. That...

The Stream Team: Checking out the Ship of Heroes housing beta

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As housing is one of Massively OP's MJ's favorite things in MMOs, she's always eager to find fun new housing systems to check out....

Massively Overthinking: The minimum requirements for MMO player housing

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We've got housing on the brain lately, thanks to Ship of Heroes' housing beta, Final Fantasy XIV's botched housing lottos, Warframe's new housing, and...

Ship of Heroes’ player housing beta begins today

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As promised, City of Heroes-inspired indie MMORPG Ship of Heroes is throwing open its superhero doors for a fresh round of open beta beginning...

Jack Emmert is apparently leading a new NetEase studio – and not Daybreak’s Marvel MMO

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So remember how Jack Emmert, the former Cryptic Studios boss, had moved over to Daybreak in 2016, where he was heading up Dimensional Ink,...

Choose My Adventure: Final Fantasy XI’s PlayOnline decides to not let me play online

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This was not how I was expecting to return to Final Fantasy XI. I always knew about the completely goofball account system that is...

The Daily Grind: How long do you trial a new MMO class before deciding whether it’s for you?

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I've been playing City of Alts... er, City of Heroes lately, and it's inspired today's Daily Grind. See, I like to maintain a list...

Ship of Heroes shows off player-made houses ahead of this weekend’s housing beta test

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This coming weekend will see a beta test focused on player housing in the developing superheroic MMO Ship of Heroes, and while there was...

Stream Team: MOP celebrates City of Heroes’ anniversary

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Does a game have to be live to celebrate the anniversary of its creation? No! But it is pretty great if there is still...
Never gonna get it, never gonna get it.

Perfect Ten: Things that turn me off from trying your MMO

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Hey, designers, we need to talk. So, if you haven't noticed, I like MMOs. And you're making an MMO. This should be a good...

The Daily Grind: Are you more likely to delete or bench an MMO toon?

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I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I hate deleting MMO toons, even when I'm positive I'm never going to play them ever...

Ship of Heroes is running a player housing beta test in May – here’s how to play

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Ship of Heroes brings glad tidings this fine Friday: The in-development superhero MMORPG is launching another beta period, this time focused entirely on its...

City of Heroes Rebirth rogue server introduces over 800 new costume options in Highflyers update

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Yesterday, the City of Heroes: Rebirth rogue server decided to take character creation, which was already full of enough choices at base to make...

DC Universe Online unleashes ‘suffering’ with this week’s Dark Knights patch

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"Suffering descends upon the multiverse," DC Universe Online ominously announced in association with this week's Dark Knights release. The new episode pits heroes and...

Massively Overthinking: The ideal MMO server setup

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Over the last year, we've seen multiple major MMO and expansion launches, and most of them went awry in some way or another. Final...

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