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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.

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Perfect Ten: Helpful tips for returning to City of Heroes in 2019

Justin Olivetti - 46
With the (community-led) rebirth of City of Heroes in 2019, a rather interesting problem has arisen for this superhero title: Namely, players who never...
Doom approaches.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 221: Classic Warcraft flavor

Justin Olivetti - 14
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic, City of Heroes, Blade and Soul, Star Trek Online, Square Enix, and Dungeon and Dragons Online, with mailbag topics on how WoW Classic fits into the MMO genre and getting back into City of Heroes.

City of Heroes: All the public servers we know of, plus Reddit’s launch and Homecoming’s name release

Bree Royce - 48
A new City of Heroes rogue server has joined the chat: Specifically, it's the Reddit-backed server, and it's called Pleiades. It went live at...

City of Heroes: Homecoming concurrency, Rebirth and Reddit’s i24 servers, and the future of basebuilding

Bree Royce - 49
I had wondered whether the slow-drip release of World of Warcraft Classic this week would dampen enthusiasm for other games' rogue servers and progression...

Fight or Kite: Features MMOs could borrow from successful esports titles

Sam Kash - 11
This week I wanted to try something a little different in our PvP-centric Fite or Kite column and take a look at a number...

Ship of Heroes is hoping to roll out its character creation beta in July

Bree Royce - 4
Ship of Heroes may be the youngest City of Heroes spiritual successor, but it's also the most likely to hit beta first: Its beta...

One Shots: Look – but don’t throw

Justin Olivetti - 17
It's pretty common to be frustrated by MMOs showing you things that you can't ever touch or play. Whether it be fantastic races that...

Lawful Neutral: What DMCA exemption victories really mean for MMO preservation

Andy McAdams - 13
You might remember back in October, we covered how the US Library of Congress granted expanded DMCA exceptions for preserving online games. The Library...

City of Titans’ primer gets you up to speed on this superhero MMO

Justin Olivetti - 3
With City of Titans picking up development steam, the team figured that this would be an opportune time to put out a primer to...

City of Heroes: Homecoming’s new home, EU players, multiboxing, SEGS, and… piglets

Bree Royce - 31
Good news for players of City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue servers: The planned server moves - from The Netherlands to new destinations in Canada...

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.
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