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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: Classic alt challenges for MMOs

Eliot Lefebvre - 8
When you start up your first character in a new MMO, it's all fresh and novel. But if you're the sort of tedious weirdo...

Global Chat: Being scared of devs ‘improving’ MMOs

Justin Olivetti - 15
Do you ever live in fear that the development team behind your favorite MMORPG might screw things up in the name of progress and...

Working As Intended: Decorating MMORPG houses in SWG Legends and beyond

Bree Royce - 26
I've been mulling over how to do a piece about MMO housing for a while now, spurred on by colleagues and readers who've said...

Perfect Ten: More time traveling adventures in MMOs

Justin Olivetti - 7
Writers and geeks alike can't seem to get enough of time travel -- and neither can I! Back in 2017, I wrote a list of...
Llook out, Llary! It's the llandlllord!

The Daily Grind: Do you have a favorite MMO PvP moment?

Bree Royce - 14
There was a fun thread on the Guild Wars 2 subreddit a while back that really made me miss solid MMORPG PvP. A player...
Masterful.

NCsoft MOBA Master x Master should’ve turned three years old in the west this month

Bree Royce - 4
Way back in 2014 on Old Massively, our team began covering Master x Master, a new MOBA by NCsoft, then in beta in South...

Neverwinter’s Avernus, Star Trek Online’s House Divided launch as Cryptic offers 20th anny rewards

Bree Royce - 1
It's a big day for Cryptic Studios as the company is celebrating two decades in the industry, releasing Avernus for Neverwinter, and dropping House...
So here's the deal.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO are you most nostalgic for?

Justin Olivetti - 61
I'll admit it, I'm an absolute fool for nostalgia. Things that I loved in the past can still bring a warm glow to my...

The Daily Grind: When was the last time you played a ‘dead’ MMO

Bree Royce - 27
Earlier this week, I trolled myself by picking up the charity Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. I say I trolled myself because...

Massively Overthinking: Do you keep MMOs installed for the login freebies?

Bree Royce - 28
MOP reader Styopa proposed this fun topic for Massively Overthinking this week, prompted, he said, by Standing Stone Games' recent promotions for Lord of...

Perfect Ten: The most fun pre-launch MMO runs

Justin Olivetti - 6
You know what's really fun? The build-up to an MMO's release, especially when you're really invested in that particular game. Some of my fondest...

Massively Overthinking: Deleting pieces of MMOs to save them

Bree Royce - 11
Two ideas floated across my virtual desk in recent weeks, neither directly relating to MMORPGs, but they put the nugget of an idea in...
This isn't how it had to be.

Perfect Ten: An entirely accurate and unassailable history of pet classes in MMORPGs

Eliot Lefebvre - 21
Pet classes! They're a very important part of MMORPGs, the opportunity to not just go into combat alone but to march in alongside a...

Ship of Heroes preps June test run with new animations and better performance

Bree Royce - 0
It's June, folks, and you know what that means: Ship of Heroes' promised next test. "Today is June 1st and we said we are targeting...

Perfect Ten: Unconventional MMORPG magic classes

Justin Olivetti - 24
Earth. Fire. Air. Water. These elements are all well and good if you want to summon Captain Planet for some reason, but they make...

Make My MMO: Elite’s beta blowout, Crowfall’s latest alpha

Bree Royce - 0
It's been a big couple of weeks in MMO crowdfunding, at least if you're watching the development of crowdfunded games: Star Citizen is running...

Ship of Heroes is enthusiastic about Unreal Engine 5 – but practical implementation is a long way off

Bree Royce - 4
Last week, Epic dropped a bunch of news and a headline-grabbing video showcasing Unreal 5. While a lot of the ensuing discussion centered on...

Working as Intended: The big list of City of Heroes rogue servers, 2020 edition

Bree Royce - 10
It's been a weird and wonderful year for City of Heroes fans. In April of 2019, the expose of a secret City of Heroes...

Ship of Heroes demos the Twin Swords powerset and considers the pace of combat

Chris Neal - 2
How fast is too fast when it comes to MMO combat? That's the question that's currently being pondered by the Ship of Heroes devs,...

The MOP Up: War Thunder helps the US Army train in quarantine

Justin Olivetti - 0
How is the US Army training during this era of COVID-19? By playing video games, of course! War Thunder said in a press release, "We...
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