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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.

‘Secret’ City of Heroes emulator operators address SCORE leak drama, rebut personal info database rumor

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If you've been around the post-sunset City of Heroes community long enough, you've probably heard the rumors that there's a secret City of Heroes...

Battle Bards Episode 142: Sunrise, sunset

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In MMORPGs across the world, days are beginning and days are ending — and with them come the catharsis of the sunrise and sunset....

Into the Super-verse: Trying DC Universe Online for the first time

Justin Olivetti - 12
While this column will no doubt be looking at the superhero MMO releases that are currently in development, it's also here, as we said,...

City of Titans wraps up its landmark previews with some new buildings and a zone map

Chris Neal - 3
The City of Titans folks have been spending some time showing off several landmark locations in their developing superhero MMO, and today marks the...

The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on difficulty modes in MMOs?

Bree Royce - 56
There's a meta discussion happening across games Twitter and elsewhere over the last week or so thanks to Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. In a...
Tinkering.

Perfect Ten: MMO celebrations that didn’t rip off real-world holidays

Justin Olivetti - 10
Does it ever slightly bother you that in these alternate fantasy and science fiction worlds that we explore there just so happens to have...

Choose My Adventure: What Legends of Aria taught me about sandbox MMORPGs

Chris Neal - 10
As much as I enjoy the new guard of MMORPGs, with their quick-hit content and action combat models, I'm also not completely ignorant to...

Ship of Heroes has been busy upgrading its main city – take a peek

Bree Royce - 10
Given that today is what it is, you're probably going to watch this whole Ship of Heroes video the way I did: waiting for...
Vorp?

The Daily Grind: How do you feel about ideas like the cottage rule and class fantasy in MMO design?

Bree Royce - 36
Who among our readers played City of Heroes and remembers the cottage rule? The idea was that developers were reluctant to change the fundamentals...

Massively Overthinking: Thoughts on the holy trinity in MMOs

Bree Royce - 56
One of MOP's bright new columnists, Tyler Edwards, blogs over at Superior Realities, and he recently brought to my attention his pieces on the...

Into the Super-verse: Five reasons to be excited for City of Titans

Justin Olivetti - 16
When NCsoft closed City of Heroes' doors in 2012, it was anything but a normal MMO closure due to a lack of interest and...

Perfect Ten: MMOs that set themselves up as spiritual successors

Justin Olivetti - 24
As with the larger video game market, sequels aren't unknown in the MMO space. We've seen studios take a stab at following up successful...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Fear not this night – there is hope for Guild Wars 2’s future

Colin Henry - 40
The last two weeks of February were devastating to the Guild Wars 2 community. Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet announced the layoffs of nearly...

The MOP Up: Aion’s cherry blossoms signal the arrival of spring

Justin Olivetti - 1
The Cherry Blossom Festival is in full bloom over at Aion Europe, with this spring festival offering a hero trial, a "topsy-turvy" laboratory, a...
Wow, positive.

Perfect Ten: MMOs that let you feel superheroic

Eliot Lefebvre - 24
So, hey, Captain Marvel is out now! And I'm writing this before having actually seen it, so I can't say word one about whether...

One Shots: Rack ’em up!

Justin Olivetti - 28
I have to say that I would be much more likely to take up the crimefighting life if there was a really hip rec...

Massively Overthinking: The paradox MMO

Bree Royce - 45
Back in February, the MMORPG subreddit offered up yet another fun thread: User Friendly_Fire told the MMO community that what it really wants is...

Perfect Ten: Totally rad ’80s cartoons that would make bodacious MMORPGs

Justin Olivetti - 87
In another reality where our passion for MMORPGs is matched only by the power of nostalgia for the greatest era of cartoons, we would...

One Shots: Event horizon ahoy!

Justin Olivetti - 16
Just a word of neighborly advice, but if you ever find yourself this near to a black hole, you might as well take screenshots...

Into the Super-verse: Taking a closer look at City of Heroes’ Paragon Chat

Justin Olivetti - 12
Welcome to Massively OP's brand-new column covering superhero MMORPGs -- past, present, and future! One might even say it's a continuation of our past...
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