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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.

City of Heroes’ Homecoming announces Issue 26 Page 3, Halloween content, and collab with other rogue servers

Bree Royce - 11
City of Heroes' Homecoming servers, rogue or not, are pushing forward into legitimacy. As we've been covering, the servers, which have been publicly outed...
We got it back, after all.

City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers are now blocking copyright-infringing characters

Eliot Lefebvre - 18
Players on the City of Heroes Homecoming servers enjoyed a privilege they were never afforded during the game's pre-shutdown run time: While NCsoft was draconian...

Ship of Heroes previews its Military Weapons powerset ahead of the CCT beta

Bree Royce - 0
Still waiting for Ship of Heroes character creation tool beta? We are too! That's still coming, according to the game's latest post, and the...

Make My MMO: Survival sandbox Day of Dragons soars past $325,000 Kickstarter funding

Bree Royce - 3
This week in MMO crowdfunding, MOP reader Winterskorn alerted us to the Kickstarter for Day of Dragons. It's not a pure MMO, but it's...

The Game Archaeologist: The day Dungeons and Dragons Online dropped the free-to-play bomb

Justin Olivetti - 6
By 2009, the MMORPG genre had firmly established a norm for its business model. For over a decade, a monthly subscription -- usually $15...

City of Heroes Homecoming is now banning accounts for… real-money trading

Bree Royce - 19
If you thought you could get away with a bit of gold-selling or gold-buying on the side while participating in City of Heroes' rogue...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 238: Ten years of free-to-play

Justin Olivetti - 2
Justin and Bree discuss DDO, Bless, Book of Travels, Star Trek Online, City of Heroes, WoW Classic & Retail, Guild Wars 2, and LOTRO, with mailbag topics on static endgames and genre labels.
SWEET GUITAR RIFF

The Daily Grind: Are you a fan of dodge and joust mechanics in MMOs?

Bree Royce - 36
Deep in the bowels of a Reddit thread about WildStar vs. WoW Classic a while back, several people mentioned WildStar's combat as being one...

City of Titans offers a look at the landmarks of Alexandria from inside the game’s world

Chris Neal - 1
While we've gotten a look at landmark locations a couple of times in City of Titans before, the latest preview post would be the...
Oh, look over there! It's MELT DISNEYWORLD.

DC Universe Online is going live with its most Metal update today

Eliot Lefebvre - 0
Yes, today is the day when DC Universe Online truly goes metal. Not because the update brings with it new headbanging mechanics and a surfeit...

TonyV leaves City of Heroes NCsoft negotiations, resigns from Titan Network

Bree Royce - 36
Over the course of the last few months, following the revelation of working City of Heroes server code out in the wild and the...
Becky.

City of Heroes: Homecoming plays with Rage crashes, PvP stuns, and Tanker powers on the test server

Chris Neal - 2
The PTS for the City of Heroes Homecoming servers is looking to tweak the knobs of the rogue MMO a bit. Yesterday's patch offered...
Oh, please be all right.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 237: Fallen Earth’s final glorious sunset

Justin Olivetti - 7
Justin and Bree tackle Fallen Earth's sunset, WoW Classic, going back to Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Astellia Online's monetization, CCP's new MMO, City of Heroes, and a mailbag question on swatting.

City of Heroes Homecoming asks players what they want from a licensed server

Chris Neal - 17
Now this is an interesting development, and very possibly a hint at things to come, though there's no official confirmation of legitimacy one way...

Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s alpha 3.6.2 is live, but some features have been postponed

Bree Royce - 35
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen finally pushed out alpha 3.6.2 after a bit of delay - and that's not all that's being...
Rebuild. Rise.

City of Titans has slimmed down its costuming program, bringing it closer to a test state

Eliot Lefebvre - 4
Costumes in a superhero game are a big deal, something the City of Titans team is well aware of. But system resources are also a big deal,...

Massively Overthinking: Do you ever feel guilty about ‘freeloading’ in a free-to-play MMO?

Bree Royce - 42
A few weeks back, Massively OP's Ben Griggs made an observation that I bet some readers can relate to. He mentioned that in his...

City of Heroes Homecoming players have rolled almost a million toons to date

Bree Royce - 20
I've always said that if I could do one thing in video games - you know, besides what I already love and do -...
faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace

Ship of Heroes pushes character creator beta to later in 2019, says its toons are more advanced than City of Heroes’

Bree Royce - 22
With summer drawing to a close, Heroic Games is barreling ahead on Ship of Heroes' character creation tool beta, which was originally aimed at...
Sink.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 236: Guild Wars 2’s dragons and Vikings

Justin Olivetti - 6
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, WoW Classic, ArcheAge Unchained, PlanetSide Arena, Peria Chronicles, SWTOR, Conan Chop Chop, Last Oasis, Caravan Stories, and Champions Online, with a mailbag question on improving boring MMO tasks.
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