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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.

Into the Super-verse: How City of Heroes welcomed me into MMOs

Justin Olivetti - 10
As we approach the first anniversary of City of Heroes' revival on the rogue server circuit, I wanted to take this opportunity to share...

The Daily Grind: What options do you like in your MMO’s user interface?

Justin Olivetti - 23
I would very much like any and all MMO developers who are reading this to hear me: Please, please make your user interface as...

The Soapbox: Why does it feel like I don’t have time for an MMO when I really do?

Guest Author - 43
This guest Soapbox was commissioned through MassivelyOP's Patreon program and is authored by Steve "Sray" Blouin, a name our longtime commenters will surely recognize...
We got it back, after all.

Perfect Ten: Dead MMOs resurrected via rogue servers

Justin Olivetti - 35
Last December, the Massively OP 2019 Awards gave its "Best Trend" nod to the rise of rogue servers in the MMO genre. Preservation of...

Jack Emmert isn’t sure Daybreak will publish his next MMO, says DCUO is as big as it was four years ago

Bree Royce - 17
In January, Daybreak finally announced the fruits of its "realignment" that we'd been covering since last summer: It was splitting off new substudios for...

Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG do you wish got a glow-up?

Bree Royce - 39
No matter how much we love mechanics, even our most cerebral writers and readers still admit to being graphics snobs. It's human: We like...

Valentine’s Day 2020 across the MMO universe

Bree Royce - 2
Per tradition, we've been covering the launch of Valentine's Day events in MMOs and MMORPGs over the last couple of weeks, but tomorrow is...
Wow, positive.

Perfect Ten: MMOs I’m optimistic about in 2020

Eliot Lefebvre - 38
I didn't actually plan to make this an annual feature or anything; I thought of it last year as a fun list, and then...

Make My MMO: Saga of Lucimia’s challenge, Camelot Unchained’s siege demo

Bree Royce - 1
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Saga of Lucimia, which spent most of last year with its head down working and popped up last month...

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs deserve fresh spiritual successors?

Justin Olivetti - 50
A lot of time whenever the subject of MMORPG sequels arise, the thought is for the same studio to make a proper successor with...
R'bots

City of Heroes’ Homecoming buffs tanks and Masterminds, begins the Spring Fling

Chris Neal - 4
I hate pet classes. Always have, always will. I'm barely able to stand them save for the Railmaster's pet train in Torchlight Fro--, er,...

Massively Overthinking: The undeath of the MMORPG genre

Bree Royce - 39
Last week, there was a provocative thread on the MMORPG subreddit that subverted the tired idea that the genre is "dead." It's not, u/Selphea...
And all sold as one, oddly.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 257: Daybreakup

Justin Olivetti - 14
Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak's split up, Tencent's Funcom bid, Torchlight Frontiers becoming a non-MMO, Temtem's early access, Rend's sunset, and DDO's new expansion, plus adventures in Neverwinter, STO, SWG, CoH, and Trove, and a mailbag discussion on changing MMO goals.

City of Titans makes a small but significant change to the Avatar Builder UI

Chris Neal - 1
What difference can a slider bar possibly make? A pretty good one in the case of City of Titans, which showed off a tweak...

Ship of Heroes starts the year with a better engine and cat masks

Justin Olivetti - 1
When it comes to a superhero MMO, "fast" performance isn't good enough. At least, it's not good enough for the Ship of Heroes team,...
movies

Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020

Eliot Lefebvre - 65
This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...

Valiance Online, still gunning for launch this year, drops a brand-new flythrough video

Bree Royce - 11
Let's not sugarcoat this: Valiance Online has almost been crowded out of players' vision when it comes to the City of Heroes spiritual successors....

Make My MMO: Crowfall investment, Demi’s Kickstarter, and Albion’s Queen

Bree Royce - 0
We're back to our regular roundup after the holidays, which means we've got quite a bit to talk about - and not all of...
Paws for impact.

Massively Overthinking: The best MMOs of the decade

Bree Royce - 70
A few years back, we did a cheeky Massively Overthinking about our five favorite MMORPGs of all time. It was quite a potent list...

Perfect Ten: Upcoming MMOs to watch in 2020

Justin Olivetti - 25
There is a great feeling of flipping a calendar over to a fresh year, isn't there? All that promise and potential spread out in...
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