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.

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...
Noice.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 229: Adventures in Albion Online

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Justin, Samon, and Bree discuss Daybreak, the new LOTR MMO Amazon is co-developing, EVE Online's comms blackout, Caravan Stories, and City of Heroes, with a sponsored segment on Albion Online's Percival update.

Choose My Adventure: The ‘hard mode’ of City of Heroes in Going Rogue

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Disaster! Our plucky Praetorian has plunged into a pit of perilous despair! The challenges of this bold new world are mounting, and the pint-sized...

No, Ship of Heroes is not officially launching on July 4, 2020

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Our inbox lit up this morning over a redname post on the Ship of Heroes forum that appeared to tell a player that Heroic...

Make My MMO: Albion Online’s Percival, Dual Universe’s alpha 2, and Elite’s next big thing

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It was an oddly quiet week for crowdfunded MMOs, probably owing to the short holiday week prior, but the news we did get was...

The Stream Team: We’re gonna rob a bank in City of Heroes Homecoming

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You asked for it, and so now you have to live with it! Massively OP's crew are getting together for more City of Heroes:...

Choose My Adventure: Behold! The MOP Hunter-Killer arrives to the City of Heroes

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A new automaton of outrageous and awesome ability has arrived! This pint-sized power plant bears skills never seen by human eyes! A far-flung futuristic...

Catching up with City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers as NCsoft negotiations continue

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It's been a while since we checked in on the flourishing City of Heroes rogue server community, but it's been busy indeed, with multiple...

One Shots: Pointy things in space

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Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of a multi-trillion credit starship that's in absolute mint condition! As you drive it off the lot,...

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