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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.

I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: MMOs where you travel back in time for some reason

Eliot Lefebvre - 18
We're all time travelers! We travel to the future at the rate of one second per second. Every single machine you will ever operate...
No, I will not use metaverse pictures.

Vague Patch Notes: Chasing the metagame in MMOs isn’t the metagame at all

Eliot Lefebvre - 10
So a few weeks back, I did a column on what the metagame actually is in MMORPG, and then I discussed how noob traps...

Massively Overthinking: If you lost your account in your main MMORPG, would you start over?

Bree Royce - 30
The other day, MOP's Justin came into our work chat understandably nervous because he couldn't log into his Lord of the Rings Online account;...

Former City of Heroes developers talk design chaos, sequels, and the MMO’s enduring legacy

Bree Royce - 12
Last night, I happened to log into City of Heroes Homecoming just as the team was posting up the promised mega Q&A with former...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 471: A Gold Road to the promised Tarisland

Justin Olivetti - 9
Justin and Bree discuss Tarisland, Elder Scrolls Online's Gold Road, Corepunk's alpha, WoW Classic Cataclysm, SWTOR, and Star Trek Online, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on industry jargon, IGN's buying spree, and Embracer.

Pride Month celebrations begin in DC Universe Online, EverQuest, City of Heroes, and more MMOs

Chris Neal - 2
The month of June is Pride Month around the world, and that means that multiple MMORPGs and multiplayer games are going to be celebrating...
HNNNGH

Massively Overthinking: Is tab targeting a problem in MMORPGs?

Bree Royce - 39
This past weekend, MMO designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street lobbed another bomb rather cavalierly into the MMORPG discourse, this one about tab targeting. And maybe...

Ship of Heroes talks raid preferences, its new raid UI, and its animation system overhaul

Bree Royce - 1
If you're following Ship of Heroes' Twitter or official website for updates, you won't find the latest news there, as Heroic Games has focused...

The Game Archaeologist: Runes of Magic, an MMO that made millions disappear

Justin Olivetti - 9
In more ways than one, the year 2004 was a pivotal one for the MMORPG community. Even as games like City of Heroes, EverQuest...

Massively Overthinking: Does challenging solo content belong in MMORPGs?

Bree Royce - 42
Star Wars The Old Republic's plan to implement new solo challenge content called Ventures in its Desperate Defiance patch raised more than one eyebrow...

Perfect Ten: My top 10 favorite MMOs across two decades

Justin Olivetti - 24
Normally in these Perfect Ten lists, I'm very outward-facing. I like to create lists that are as helpful or amusing as possible for others...

Massively Overthinking: Fixing boring MMORPG dungeons

Bree Royce - 25
Earlier this month, MMO genre luminary Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street tweeted something from someone on his Ghost MMO team that's going to resonate with a...
Never gonna get it, never gonna get it.

Perfect Ten: MMORPGs as fast food joints

Eliot Lefebvre - 50
Sometimes you go out to eat because you want something that's difficult to make on your own or just involves techniques you are unfamiliar...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO for playing on a potato?

Bree Royce - 23
I saw a thread on the MMORPG subreddit a while back asking about MMOs that function well on low-end machines, and I was actually...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO companies care about game preservation?

Bree Royce - 9
With game preservation back in the news thanks to Ubisoft's The Crew criming and the Stop Killing Games initiative, I thought it would be...

One Shots: Where’s the seatbelt on this thing?

Justin Olivetti - 12
As flashy and fun as it might be to adventure in a galaxy far, far away, I don't think any of us would last...

Massively Overthinking: Why and how we mod our MMORPGs

Bree Royce - 14
Last week, the MOP team was sitting around in our virtual offices, talking about modding Elder Scrolls Online, all because some of our readers...
Also, let's just put this out there, how about more robots?

Into the Super-Verse: A toast to City of Heroes’ 20th birthday

Justin Olivetti - 13
How does you mark your first true MMO experience? Anarchy Online technically was the first MMO I ever played, although I was on dial-up,...

City of Heroes rogue server Sanctuary, which was hacked and sunsetted in 2021, is coming back

Bree Royce - 0
If you can stretch your mind back into the long, long ago of 2021, back when the open revival of City of Heroes was...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 467: The end of an ArcheAge

Justin Olivetti - 14
Justin and Bree discuss ArcheAge's sunset, the cancellation of BlizzCon 2024, Escape from Tarkov's no good very bad day, Age of Water's early access launch, and the 20th anniversary of City of Heroes, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, Fallout 4, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on defensive characters in MMOs and whether Crowfall has any kind of future.
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