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.

City of Titans shares several music tracks for the MMO’s different areas

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It's pretty clear from a recent Massively Overthinking post that there's a lot of opinion and emotion linked to music in MMOs, which means...

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO prisons where you can do the time of your life

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Chillin' in the clink. Spending time in stony lonesome. Thrown into the slammer. Checking in to the big house. Doing (perfect) 10 to life...

The Daily Grind: Do you roll MMO alts that you never actually level?

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Roger at Contains Moderate Peril penned a fun piece a while back about the lost alts - the alts that get left behind, the...
I need to start taking my own shots here.

The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs you’ve dramatically changed your mind about?

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I will never forget that when I first started playing City of Heroes back in 2004, my guild an I didn't last but a...

Superhero MMO City of Titans teases player housing and team base decorating

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If you'd forgotten that City of Titans was planning to offer housing at some point, well, so had I, but we can be forgiven...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 322: New World, old problems

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Justin and Bree discuss New World, FFXIV Endwalker, WoW Classic's backtrack, and City of Heroes streaming, with adventures in WoW, New World, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on guild housing and MMO economies.

City of Titans shares travel power mechanics and video previews

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You will believe a man can fly. At super high speeds. Holy crap, watch out for those trees, my dude. That's some of the...

City of Heroes Homecoming is finally allowing videos and streaming again

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In March of 2020, City of Heroes rogue server Homecoming, the largest of the server groups, put a moratorium on videos and streams created...

Four Winds: Final thoughts on Elyon’s first closed beta test

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Elyon's closed beta test came and went, and boy am I happy with what I played. It was unfortunate that the test fell on...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 320: Guild Wars 2 shakes and stirs

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, EG7 and Daybreak, Soulworker's sunset, and the patch parade of PlanetSide 2, Wizard101, Fallout 76, SWTOR, and Dungeons and Dragons Online, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, City of Heroes, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on perpetual content in MMOs and toxic positivity in the genre.

City of Titans’ devs offer a brief look behind the scenes of how the team tests combat

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When it comes to superhero MMOs like City of Titans, combat is just going to happen. Unless you manage to create Captain Reasonable Discussion,...

City of Heroes’ Rebirth server adds new Guardian archetype and powersets with first Issue

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Rebirth might be one of the smaller rogue servers in the City of Heroes community, particularly compared to the largest batch; according to its...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 319: A sadness prison for addicts

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Justin and Bree discuss Destiny 2's tmog, Elite Dangerous Odyssey, PSO2's New Genesis, RuneScape and Albion on mobile, and Jeff Kaplan's farewell, with adventures in Guild Wars, City of Heroes, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag discussion on Blizzard's downfall and future.

Massively Overthinking: How much are you spending on MMOs every month right now?

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A while back, MOP's Justin joked that his wife, who loves econ PvP in MMOs, was funding a year of his play on Classic...

City of Heroes’ Homecoming buffs travel powers and adds tour guide missions in today’s i27p2 update

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Back in March, we covered a new patch that had just gone in testing for the test server for City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue...

City of Titans recaps efforts on music, powers, multiplayer, and more

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MMO superhero fans have been watching a slew of Kickstarted and fan-funded MMO ventures ever since City of Heroes was sunsetted - City of...

Massively Overthinking: The 2021 MMORPG outlook is good, actually

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Early this week, I saw a mainstream gaming headline in my feeds about how we should all just give up on 2021 since it's...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO public transport system?

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We talk about mounts an awful lot in this space, but what about the other ways that MMOs help us get around? Most all...

The Daily Grind: How often do you change your MMO characters’ outfits?

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One of the nice things City of Heroes' rogue servers did for the community was open up all the costume slots for everyone. Obviously,...
You know what Aymeric and Raubahn look like. Fill them in mentally.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 316: Talkin’ trash with MMO Fallout

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Justin, Bree, and MMO Fallout's Connor discuss April fools' day around the MMOverse, FFXIV's patch and PS5 beta, WoW's 9.1, Trove's Switch port, and Elyon's closed beta, with adventures in RuneScape, Wild Terra 2, Magic Legends, WoW Classic, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on starting fresh in WoW Classic and irritating season passes.

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