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.

Sparky!

Into the Super-Verse: Rediscoveries I made diving headlong into City of Heroes Homecoming

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Last week, I wrote about how my game came back. It was a big deal to me to know that City of Heroes was...
Forever and ever.

End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2024

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As I say every single year and several people ignore every single year: This is not a column about the games that are most...

Unsurprisingly, City of Heroes Homecoming saw a massive playerbase spike this past weekend

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On Friday, we asked our readers whether they planned to play City of Heroes Homecoming, newly crowned with a formal license by NCsoft. We...

The Stream Team: Team play on City of Heroes’ newly licensed Homecoming servers

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It's part podcast, part livestream, and all City of Heroes! Following the surprise announcement of the Homecoming rogue server landing an official license from...
Shields

Into the Super-Verse: Reflecting on City of Heroes, back officially at long last

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As a dedicated fan of superheroes, I have to be honest that yesterday's news feels downright poetic. City of Heroes died in November of...

City of Heroes Homecoming talks funding, the City Council, and the impending content drop

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Following yesterday's surprise announcement that NCsoft has granted City of Heroes rogue server group Homecoming a license to operate the game - something it's...
Moisturized.

The Daily Grind: Now that NCsoft has licensed City of Heroes servers, will you go back to play?

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When the City of Heroes rogue servers first went public back in 2019, a lot of MMO players were very vocal about not wanting...

Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2024

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For our first Massively Overthinking of the year, we're drawing a hard line between what we think will happen, what we mean to make...

NCsoft has officially granted a City of Heroes server license to the Homecoming crew

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City of Heroes fans are in for a treat today - or a shocking surprise they were convinced was never coming, depending on their...

End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2024 and beyond

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We've said it before, but this time we really mean it: The future of MMORPGs looks amazing. Contrary to years when we've seen only...

The 2023 One Shots Awards: The best MMO screenshots of the year

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It doesn't feel quite right to end the year without making sure that everything's in order -- and part of that definitely includes returning...

Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2023

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Welcome to a special end-of-the-year edition of Make My MMO, the MassivelyOP column where we - well, I - keep tabs on all of...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO resolutions for 2024

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Stop right there. I know you're about to object and say that you don't do resolutions, let alone MMO resolutions. That's fine. A lot...

The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2023

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This traditional roundup of the best Daily Grinds of the year is actually one of my favorites because it demonstrates just how long we've...
I'm purely decorative!

The Daily Grind: Do you ever log into an MMO for an injection of nostalgia?

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I love me a good strong dose of nostalgia. Sometimes this happens unexpectedly, such as when I smell something that triggers a long-buried memory....

Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2023 MMO predictions

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We've been offering up an MMO predictions list for Massively Overthinking for years upon years now as our writers and readers prognosticate on the...
Dive! DIVE!

Ship of Heroes buffs up its travel powers in the service of this weird thing called ‘fun’

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On this week's MOP Podcast, Justin and I derailed into talking about superhero powers and travel powers, so it's perfect timing that Heroic Games'...

Massively Overthinking: Penalties for failure in MMORPGs (beyond death)

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MMOs generally have one big obvious penalty for failure, right? You die. Oh, usually not forever, not unless it's some niche hardcore realm, and...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 447: MMO hackers, headstarts, and proliferations

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Justin and Bree discuss the hackings of Ethyrial and Fractured, Palia's beta update, City of Titan's test launch, World of Warcraft's paid expansion headstart, and Guild Wars 2's weapon proliferation beta, with adventures in Project Gorgon, LOTRO, Fallout 76, and WoW.
Seriously, though, whatever.

Vague Patch Notes: The myth of the ‘first’ MMORPG

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One of the things I like to joke about every so often is various myths about the history of MMOs, and a lot of...

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