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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.

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Perfect Ten: The 10 types of tanks in MMORPGs

Eliot Lefebvre - 8
I've been thinking a fair bit about player archetypes lately, and that also means that I've been thinking about the variants within roles. While...

The Daily Grind: How much in-game money are you willing to spend on an MMORPG house?

Bree Royce - 23
A few weeks back, we did a piece rounding up some of the cool stuff Guild Wars 2 players have been building in Janthir...

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs could still use a classic plus mode?

Bree Royce - 6
I don't even remember which MMO it was now, but the other day Chris turned in a post that mentioned some MMO and its...
my head hurts

Design Mockument: Alternate trinities in MMORPGs and the challenge of other roles

Eliot Lefebvre - 9
The trinity has been a truism of MMO design now for about as long as it wasn't. I came up during the small times...
Probably as close as we'll get.

Design Mockument: How might we build a Stormlight Archive MMORPG?

Eliot Lefebvre - 9
So when I was talking with MOP editor Bree a while back, I mentioned how one of my early ideas for the most recent...

City of Heroes’ Halloween 2024 is fun – but the community-run Witch’s House event steals the show

Bree Royce - 2
While technically the City of Heroes Homecoming Halloween event for 2024 went live earlier this month, it was barely a footnote compared to the...
I have a thought.

Vague Patch Notes: MMOs rely on other people – but what does that really mean?

Eliot Lefebvre - 12
Now that we're done with Leveling Month in Vague Patch Notes, is there another topic I can turn into a month-and-change of column topics?...
Keep your cat in a box.

Massively Overthinking: How do you stop MMOs from feeling like (or becoming) a part-time job?

Bree Royce - 19
In last week's Choose My Adventure, MOP's Chris penned a perfect paragraph summing up the paradox of MMORPGs - it doesn't even matter what...
There were some decent tabletop Star Trek games, but no.

Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that let you bring a whole squad of pets and minions

Eliot Lefebvre - 9
Pet classes are not really my jam. I don't want my companion to be doing the tanking or damage or healing or whatever, and...

City of Heroes Homecoming is about to release 1.6M character names – here’s how to save yours

Bree Royce - 11
The legally licensed City of Heroes Homecoming team has released an update today, though it's not entirely the content kind. The most important part...

City of Titans’ primary city designer has passed away from cancer

Bree Royce - 2
We've heard some sad news out of Kickstarted superhero MMORPG City of Titans: Its chief city designer has passed away. Missing Worlds Media posted...

Ship of Heroes says it’s focusing on polish and better VFX for an ‘eventual launch’

Justin Olivetti - 0
Let's get the bad-but-obvious news out of the way first: Despite Ship of Heroes saying at the top of the year that it was...
Gosh, that was a mistake.

The Daily Grind: What’s your preferred MMO combat playstyle (as opposed to class or role)?

Justin Olivetti - 24
MMO classes don't merely have to be divided into the traditional tank/DPS/healer categories. There are plenty of other ways to separate classes and even...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO memories we never want to repeat

Bree Royce - 8
A random quote I saw buried in the comments on the MMORPG subreddit a while ago really hit hard. Extra_Midnight wrote, "Some of my most...
The stuff that you have, does someone have a claim on it?

Vague Patch Notes: When slow leveling is a problem in MMORPGs

Eliot Lefebvre - 14
Last week in Vague Patch Notes, I talked about leveling. At the very end of the column, I mentioned that slow leveling or fast...

City of Heroes Homecoming’s community is holding a player base real estate auction this weekend

Chris Neal - 0
Would you like to own a player base in City of Heroes: Homecoming but can't be bothered to do all of that pesky furniture...
So this is my life.

Into the Super-Verse: Looking back on Champions Online, 15 years later

Eliot Lefebvre - 14
I hadn't even really thought about the fact that Champions Online has been out for 15 years now until I saw the anniversary post...
It burns, burns, burns.

Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on Final Fantasy XIV’s Beastmaster

Eliot Lefebvre - 7
We currently know very little about Final Fantasy XIV's Beastmaster. We know that it's going to be coming at some point during the Dawntrail...

Massively Overthinking: Frames of reference in MMORPGs

Bree Royce - 11
Last week on the MMORPG subreddit, there was a heated discussion about terminology in MMORPGs (terminology we'll probably talk about in a separate thread...
fine

Vague Patch Notes: The problem with numbers in MMORPGs

Eliot Lefebvre - 10
I recently saw a post on the official World of Warcraft forums noting that if not for the game's almost infamous level squish, players...
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