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.

Ship of Heroes’ character creator will have a randomize button to help with choice overload

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Too much of a good thing can be a good thing, but it can also be too much. The Ship of Heroes character creator...

City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers have joined the Titan Network/NCsoft negotiations

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Exactly one month ago, tangent to our interview with the Homecoming server team that's part now-flourishing City of Heroes rogue server community, we also...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 232: Girl Dwarves rock our world

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW, LOTRO, DDO, Guild Wars 2, Star Trek Online, Skyforge, City of Heroes, SWG Legends, and Marvel Heroes.

Choose My Adventure: I may have fallen out of love with City of Heroes

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I have to admit something, to everyone reading this and to myself. I’m not sure I missed City of Heroes as much as I...

Not So Massively: Why ARPGs, not MMOs, are where pet classes truly shine

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I noticed something odd when I started playing Grim Dawn aways back: I went straight for the pet builds. This is interesting because this...

One Shots: Indulging in nostalgia

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When an MMORPG recedes into the rearview mirror of life, all you are left with are memories, music... and screenshots. It's amazing how a...

Ship of Heroes will open some of Apotheosis City in its upcoming character creation beta

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Earlier this week, we reported on the upcoming August beta for the Character Creation Tool (CCT) in Ship of Heroes, alluding to the fact...
So many colors in the rainbow.

Perfect Ten: Why people create alts in MMOs

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I have alts in Final Fantasy XIV. This is absurd for two reasons. First, the statement makes it clear that I have alternate characters...

The Stream Team: Playing some Praetoria in City of Heroes

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What do you do when your bank heist dreams didn't pan out? Why not go rogue? Massively OP's team is heading back in to...

Ship of Heroes is eyeing a late August launch for its character creator beta

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Going from your mild-mannered alter ego to your superpowered persona is the most important thing you can do in any superheroic MMORPG. Ship of...

Choose My Adventure: Help, the Going Rogue story of City of Heroes has a hold of me

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The thing about being a superhero that almost nobody tells you is that there are personal stories involved. Sure, the big picture is what...
Trash pandas.

The MOP Up: H1Z1’s huge PlayStation 4 update

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Do you remember when H1Z1 used to be about surviving the zombie apocalypse? Yeah, me neither. In any case, gear up and slide behind...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG zones of all time

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I once heard it said that a popular studio - I think it was Blizzard - made it a point of asking prospective developers...

Perfect Ten: Great MMOs that will run just fine on your old computer

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The other day a friend was telling me that he used to play EverQuest Online Adventures very regularly back in the day, but fell...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 230: A tale of geeks and gamers (and the Legends of Aria interview)

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Justin and Bree are joined by Legends of Aria's Derek Brinkmann for a deep-dive into the launch patch, plus we discuss Villagers & Heroes, SWTOR, Neverwinter, DCUO, and WoW, with a mailbag topic about City of Heroes' spiritual successors.

Choose My Adventure: Breaking through the obstacles of Going Rogue in City of Heroes

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"Traveling the realms is no task for the meek. The underprepared. The easily overwhelmed. The challenges you face and the hardships you have to...

The Daily Grind: Are there any MMO zones that you absolutely hate to leave?

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Last week, in the comments of Tyler's Soapbox about Lord of the Rings MMOs, a few commenters were discussing LOTRO's version of the Shire...
Oh my.

Into the Super-verse: A possible glimpse into City of Heroes 2

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In 2010, popular video game network MTV noted that NCsoft had filed an interesting trademark for a possible City of Heroes 2. While companies...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever forgotten about an MMO character you played?

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MOP's Tyler dropped an amusing remark in our work chat a while back about forgetting stuff in MMOs - in his case, an MMO...
Guess who's back. Back again.

Perfect Ten: How Final Fantasy XI shaped my MMO preferences forever

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Your first experience with something has an outsized importance. This feels like one of those statements people really want to argue with sometimes but...

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