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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.

Perfect Ten: My 10 favorite MMO pet classes of all time

Justin Olivetti - 15
I've had to face the fact that among the MOP team, I'm in somewhat of a minority who actually likes -- nay, passionately loves...

The Daily Grind: If your MMO had difficulty modes, what mode would you play on?

Bree Royce - 30
A few weeks back, survival sandbox Enshrouded added a new update with multiple difficulty modes, including two hardcore ones, a normal one, a relaxed...

RuneScape is getting its own comic book miniseries this fall

Justin Olivetti - 0
Sure, your MMO is cool, but does it have its own comic book? Oh pipe down, City of Heroes players. We hear you. Anyway,...

Massively Overthinking: How much research do you do before playing a new MMORPG?

Bree Royce - 23
On this week's MOP Podcast, Justin and I discussed our experiences in No Man's Sky (again), and both of us came to the conclusion...
F'dla

Vague Patch Notes: Everything in an MMORPG is time-limited

Eliot Lefebvre - 9
Today, I want to talk to you about an event that you can no longer participate in within Final Fantasy XIV. It's an event...

Perfect Ten: 10 times MMOs appeared in TV and movies

Justin Olivetti - 14
It's always surreal when real MMOs cross the divide between niche and mainstream to be referenced in television and films. Depending on how you...

City of Heroes Homecoming’s i28p1 is live with the Marine Affinity powerset and new raid

Bree Royce - 4
If you were keeping an eyeball on City of Heroes' Homecoming not-rogue servers over the last month, you already knew that the player-led volunteer...
Pnuk

Massively OP Podcast Episode 476: Corepunk and Pantheon race to early access

Justin Olivetti - 20
Justin and Bree discuss Corepunk, Pantheon, Zenith, World of Warcraft, and Once Human, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and City of Heroes, plus a mailbag topic on evolving FFXIV Dawntrail's storytelling.

‘The era of the big raid has returned,’ superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes declares

Bree Royce - 16
If you're tuning into Ship of Heroes for the raiding scene, Heroic Games aims to support your playstyle, as it's made abundantly clear in...

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are best at letting you bring the player, not the class?

Bree Royce - 17
It was MOP's Eliot who put the ol' canard about bringing the player not the class in my head again recently, thanks to his...
Why shouldn't we all be here?

City of Heroes Homecoming begins public testing of new raid and Marine-themed support set

Bree Royce - 6
The totally legal and licensed City of Heroes Homecoming (isn't that fun to say?!) has rolled out Issue 28: Page 1, dubbed Legacy, to...
Have you heard?!

The Daily Grind: Would you rather have disposable minions or true pets with an MMO pet class?

Bree Royce - 19
A few weeks back, MOP's Chris and I were talking about Path of Exile 2's forthcoming Witch character and griping about the way a...
It's a fooler.

Perfect Ten: The MMORPG terms we use but never define, from murderhobo to sandpark

Eliot Lefebvre - 27
Over in Vague Patch Notes, I have an ongoing series of columns that I describe as being primarily about having useful notes for us...

Ship of Heroes has revamped all of its NPC voices and added new ones

Bree Royce - 12
Heroic Games is continuing its efforts to bring modern features to indie superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes, as its latest dev blog explains -...

Crowdfunded superhero MMORPG City of Titans improves its Mac OS version

Justin Olivetti - 2
Here's some uplifting news for City of Titans fans and Kickstarter backers who've been using Mac OS: The dev team improved that version of...
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Vague Patch Notes: Housing is really back in MMORPGs

Eliot Lefebvre - 13
I haven't really had anything to say about Guild Wars 2's upcoming Janthir Wilds expansion thus far because... well, I'm not our GW2 columnist,...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: MMOs where you travel back in time for some reason

Eliot Lefebvre - 18
We're all time travelers! We travel to the future at the rate of one second per second. Every single machine you will ever operate...
No, I will not use metaverse pictures.

Vague Patch Notes: Chasing the metagame in MMOs isn’t the metagame at all

Eliot Lefebvre - 10
So a few weeks back, I did a column on what the metagame actually is in MMORPG, and then I discussed how noob traps...

Massively Overthinking: If you lost your account in your main MMORPG, would you start over?

Bree Royce - 30
The other day, MOP's Justin came into our work chat understandably nervous because he couldn't log into his Lord of the Rings Online account;...

Former City of Heroes developers talk design chaos, sequels, and the MMO’s enduring legacy

Bree Royce - 12
Last night, I happened to log into City of Heroes Homecoming just as the team was posting up the promised mega Q&A with former...
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