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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.

One Shots: Diet lightsabers

Justin Olivetti - 36
I think it's about high time we got a Star Wars game in which lightsabers functioned properly as instruments that could melt or slice...
Cool times.

Paragon Chat hosts a winter formal in City of Heroes on February 9

Eliot Lefebvre - 4
Hang out with your fellow heroes, dress up, and enjoy a celebration of winter in Paragon Chat this Saturday with the winter formal! Yes, the City...
GO LEFT YOU IDIOT

The Daily Grind: Are you looking forward or backward with your MMO picks?

Justin Olivetti - 74
We do find ourselves in a very strange time to be MMO players. While there are plenty of titles in development and early access,...

The Daily Grind: How bad are delays for MMOs, and how much does communication help?

Bree Royce - 26
Last week, a newly minted Ship of Heroes fan posted a comment on the game's official forums saying he'd studied in-development MMOs and settled...

The Game Archaeologist: Dungeon Runners

Justin Olivetti - 4
Where do you rest on the spectrum of humor? If you find yourself giggling and snorting at dumb jokes, groan-worthy puns, and satire so...
Look better.

Ship of Heroes upgrades to Unreal Engine 4.21 for a plethora of features

Eliot Lefebvre - 13
Upgrading versions of game engines is never terribly interesting. The one advantage for Ship of Heroes in this regard is that the nature of the...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever been to a concert in an MMO?

Bree Royce - 49
Slightly embarrassing story time: One of my favorite things to do in classic Star Wars Galaxies was sing. Yes, musicians and dancers were technically...

Massively Overthinking: The boring MMO development between bookends of hype

Bree Royce - 23
If you watch MMOs being developed for long enough, one truth becomes evident: It's kinda boring. I started thinking a bit about this last week...
punchsmash

City of Titans says it’s completed the rebuild of its alpha test server

Bree Royce - 4
City of Titans had a rough 2018. The Kickstarted City of Heroes spiritual successor was meant to release its "issue 0" alpha by the...

Ship of Heroes works on super speed, missions, and leveling, plus hunts for ancient City of Heroes videos

Bree Royce - 5
Last week, Ship of Heroes boss Casey McGeever gave a quick status update on the forums. Heroic Games has been focused on super speed,...
They're not attractive spaceships.

Massively Overthinking: Why aren’t you playing the MMO most like your favorite sunsetted game?

Bree Royce - 51
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from reader Smuggler-in-a-YT. "Star Wars Galaxies had its problems, but the sense of community, purpose, and story (through...
Which one of you is the Juno Reactor and which one is the Don Davis?

The Daily Grind: What dead MMO needs more coverage?

Bree Royce - 38
One of the humorous awards we've given out in the past - but didn't in 2018 - was our award for the dead game...
It's never quite gone.

Paragon Chat is already planning an event for the City of Heroes anniversary on April 28

Eliot Lefebvre - 9
This year would have been a big one for City of Heroes as the game's 15th anniversary. Of course, the fans aren't about to let...

Superhero MMO Ship of Heroes shows off group combat and shopping

Bree Royce - 6
Ship of Heroes just keeps on churning out the content videos! This week's entry in Heroic Games' long list of previews (26 videos and...

MapleStory 2 interview: The Soul Binder, PvP, music, the western front, and battling pay-to-win

Bree Royce - 2
MapleStory 2 charmed our previewer, our podcasters, even our writers when it came time for picking out the underdog MMO of 2018, thanks in...

Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2018

Bree Royce - 11
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's regular recap of what's going on in crowdfunded MMOs, which we do specifically...
Be here now.

City of Titans shows off its landmarks and moguls

Eliot Lefebvre - 8
In the City of Titans environment system, the buildings are divided between two separate yet equally important groups: The landmarks that serve as designer-created places...

Ship of Heroes looks ahead to improved character editor and leveling tests in 2019

Justin Olivetti - 10
It's only natural to want to cheer on a group of superheroes, especially if they're making an MMORPG to fill the gap of one...

The best Massively OP streams of 2018

Bree Royce - 9
Massively OP's long-running Stream Team, unquestionably captained by MJ and her sidekicks Larry and Andrew, got a welcome surprise this year: Our newest writer, Chris...
This was once controversial!

The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v2.0

Justin Olivetti - 10
While The Game Archaeologist columns take up the most time of any project I do here at Massively OP, I absolutely love doing them...
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