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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.

Into the Super-verse: Getting to know City of Heroes all over again

Justin Olivetti - 46
It has been well over a decade since I played City of Heroes with any regularity, and yet when I saw that familiar loading...

City of Heroes rogue server teams activate i24 PTS, prep for tomorrow’s Homecoming server moves

Bree Royce - 27
Earlier this week, we covered one of the true-neutral City of Heroes rogue server groups, Ouroboros, and its efforts in restoring the game to...

City of Heroes community forms Round Table as Homecoming rogue servers count over 56,000 players

Bree Royce - 74
Multiple City of Heroes groups now say they're working under yet another initiative to bring the rogue server community together. "The Round Table has been...

One Shots: What am I looking at here, exactly?

Justin Olivetti - 24
I guess I was asking for pure nightmare fuel when I issued a challenge last week to create the most disturbing and deformed avatars...

City of Heroes Homecoming delays move, plans EU server, offers XP boots, and battles toxicity

Bree Royce - 42
Remember how we were all preparing for an outage for the City of Heroes rogue servers run by the Homecoming team this weekend? It's...

Massively Overthinking: Do you play MMO characters you like – or characters that are objectively good?

Bree Royce - 32
Earlier this week, some Massively OP writers were hanging out in team chat talking about favorite City of Heroes powersets from back in the...

City of Heroes’ Homecoming servers port to Canada this weekend, server status page is live

Bree Royce - 32
The City of Heroes Homecoming servers are packing up their bags and moving to new hosting this weekend, so you should probably expect some...

City of Titans slips on some spandex while Valiance Online gets combative

Justin Olivetti - 13
While the Valiance Online team continues to be quiet on its website, behind the scenes work is progressing on the superhero MMORPG. At the...

Leaderboard: Would you donate for a City of Heroes rogue server?

Bree Royce - 31
Last night's public announcement that the City of Heroes Homecoming team was changing its stance on donations and felt "comfortable" accepting them now after...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 219: The 64-bit generation

Justin Olivetti - 5
Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard financials, City of Heroes, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, WoW Classic, EVE Online, LOTRO, and Guild Wars, with mailbag topics on Blizzard, everythingboxes, genderlocking, and dad jokes.

City of Heroes: New servers, Discord drama, and Homecoming gets $6900 in donations in 20 minutes

Bree Royce - 90
Just in case you didn't think City of Heroes had enough community rogue servers, here comes another one. The Homecoming team - that's the team...

The Daily Grind: Do you actually feel as if you’re part of your fave MMO’s community?

Bree Royce - 45
Last month, when news of the City of Heroes mess hit, the Massively OP writers and readers had multiple discussions about community - you...

City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers will offer character transfers after all

Bree Royce - 31
The business of saving City of Heroes has now stretched on three weeks since our first article, but it hasn't slowed down a bit. Over...

City of Heroes now has a fifth rogue server live as Homecoming buffs up and work on i24 continues

Bree Royce - 61
The 4chan-backed group /coxg/ now has an alternative City of Heroes rogue server up for those who don't want to play on the existing...

Massively Overthinking: Super wrong snap judgments of MMORPGs

Bree Royce - 18
The year was 2004, and the month was May. My guild was growing increasingly frustrated with Star Wars Galaxies' slow development pace, so we...

City of Heroes’ rogue servers nerf AE farms, boost XP, but can’t do character transfers

Bree Royce - 68
If you were planning to abuse the Architect Entertainment system on City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue servers, we hope you already got your...
Heroic?

Valiance Online’s latest alpha patch touches on characters, animations, and interior procedural generation

Bree Royce - 6
We're having a superhero MMO moment here, folks. Last week, Valiance Online teased something big happening, and now we know what it is: an...

Two weeks in, City of Heroes has four rogue servers and heartwarmingly massive queues

Bree Royce - 78
Two weeks after we first broke the story confirming the City of Heroes secret private server leak, the game has turned 15 years old...

Ship of Heroes’ signature hero Sword Blossom takes the spotlight in the latest newsletter

Matt Daniel - 11
This past weekend marked the 15th anniversary of the venerable City of Heroes, and amidst all the hullabaloo about rogue servers (the most recent...
No galaxy brain here.

The Daily Grind: How do you explain MMORPGs to non-gamers?

Bree Royce - 44
Last week, I did an interview trying to explain exactly what was going on with the whole City of Heroes drama. Almost immediately, the...
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