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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.

Ship of Heroes discusses milestones and communication, plus we’ve got new day/night screenies

Bree Royce - 3
The transparency that comes with crowdfunded and indie MMORPGs is awesome - when everything is going to plan. But what about when it isn't?...

Perfect Ten: How MMOs can become more accessible

Justin Olivetti - 33
Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I was remarkably reluctant to enter into the field of MMORPGs despite being a perfect candidate...
You made it sing, all right.

The Daily Grind: What made City of Heroes work so well?

Justin Olivetti - 76
Although City of Heroes is not coming back (I think we all need to come to terms with that), many successors are waiting in...

The MOP Up: Diablo levels up in Heroes of the Storm (May 13, 2018)

Justin Olivetti - 3
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

One Shots: First MMO loves

Justin Olivetti - 25
What was your first? Not necessarily the first MMORPG you ever played, but the first that made you fall in love with that game...

Ship of Heroes hints at ‘significant’ login test to come

Justin Olivetti - 8
Hope your brightly colored spandex is back from the dry cleaners, because you're going to need them sooner rather than later. The team at...

Massively Overthinking: The state of modern MMORPG raiding

Bree Royce - 79
Massively OP reader Sorrior recently sent in a question about raiding, a topic we haven't discussed in a while. "I have noticed raiding tends to...

Missing 14-year-old City of Heroes? The SEGS emulator is looking for coders

Bree Royce - 14
Are you missing City of Heroes this week, what with the 14th anniversary of its launch and all? We are too. Earlier this month,...

Global Chat: Shroud of the Avatar confounds

Justin Olivetti - 11
What to make of Shroud of the Avatar? The few MMO bloggers who have looked into this recently released but already long-running title have...

The Stream Team: Partying in Paragon Chat to celebrate City of Heroes’ anniversary

MJ Guthrie - 3
Celebration might not be quite the right word to use when referring to the City of Heroes anniversary, but that doesn't mean fans don't...

Here’s how to Celebrate City of Heroes’ 14th anniversary in Paragon Chat today

Bree Royce - 1
If you're feeling the burning desire to reminisce in City of Heroes and hang out with other people who understand why it was so...
There were some decent tabletop Star Trek games, but no.

Perfect Ten: What your MMO quantity says about you

Eliot Lefebvre - 12
It occurs to me that it is very difficult to find MMOs that I have literally never played before in some capacity. There are...

Ship of Heroes shows off new screenshots, says it’s working on maps, costumes, and the healing powerset

Bree Royce - 6
It's spring cleaning month for Ship of Heroes, Heroic Games' Casey McGeever has told forumgoers on the official site. "What we mean by this is...
Please.

City of Titans restructures its development approach thanks to Unreal’s plugins

Justin Olivetti - 3
Due to the scattered locations of City of Titans' team members, the devs have long since attempted a modular approach to building the superhero...
TERA

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the dumbest armor?

Bree Royce - 84
Back in February, PC Gamer put out a piece on the absolute dumbest character armor in gaming history. There's more than one MMORPG in...

The MOP Up: Seal Online embraces a cartoony spirit (April 15, 2018)

Justin Olivetti - 0
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Massively Overthinking: The best of PAX East and GDC in 2018

Bree Royce - 4
The past couple of weeks has been wild as we dispatched writers to GDC in San Francisco and PAX East in Boston to gather...

Ship of Heroes posts a timeline for the first half of 2018

Justin Olivetti - 4
With a combat alpha under its belt, the superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes turns its attention to the challenges that lay ahead. The team...
What you are chasing and will not get.

Perfect Ten: Why trend-chasing doesn’t work at all for online games

Eliot Lefebvre - 23
Video games have always been a remarkably insular field; that's the nature of development. Someone produces Super Mario Bros, and a few years later...

PAX East 2018: Talking superhero MMOs with Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever

Eliot Lefebvre - 8
At this year's PAX East, I discovered that my mental picture of Casey McGeever did not match the actual man in person, but that...
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