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.

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The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO to roleplay in as of 2018?

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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO hopes and wishes for 2018

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One of the frustrating bits about our end-of-the-year content rollouts is that sometimes predictions and story roundups can come across as negative. It’s way too easy...

Superhero indie MMOs City of Titans, Valiance Online, and Ship of Heroes say they’re not in a race

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Whenever we write about the current crop of City of Heroes-inspired indie superhero MMORPGs, some of our commenters nearly always ponder whether it would...
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Valiance Online previews its maps as it hunts down bugs

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Hunting down bugs in a video game is not the same as hunting down enemies. That's true even if the bug is a severe...

The best Massively OP MMO reader polls of 2017

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Polls are a quantitative sort of magic that we don't often get from our other articles - at least when they aren't being brigaded...

The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2017

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The most popular Massively OP MMO articles of 2017

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One of my favorite things to do every year is drill down the top articles on the site for our readers. I don't mean...

MMO Year in Review: Ship of Heroes abandons Kickstarter (April 2017)

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Move it move it.

The best Massively OP streams of 2017

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As captain of our Stream Team, Massively OP's MJ Guthrie and Larry Everett were joined by Andrew Ross this year to play zillions of...
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MMO Year in Review: City of Heroes necromancy in Master X Master (March 2017)

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Massively OP’s 2017 Blooper Awards: Defunct MMORPG with the most coverage

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Massively OP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards begin today with our blooper award for Defunct MMORPG with the most coverage. And the winner is... City of Heroes You thought I...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2018

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With 2017 drawing to a close and 2018 rushing up to meet us, the Massively OP team has regrouped for another round of bold...
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Massively OP’s Winter Holiday 2017 guide!

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It's that time of year again where the airwaves of certain radio stations are clogged with the same songs from the 1950s, television broadcasts...
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Paragon Chat invites City of Heroes refugees for a holiday soirée

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Paragon Chat has put out the batsignal to City of Heroes fans still missing their favorite MMO -- saying that they don't have to...

Perfect Ten: 20 upcoming MMOs to watch in 2018

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It has become a long-standing tradition as Massively OP and our former site that we like to end the year by creating a list...

Ship of Heroes recaps 2017, teases Christmas event, and looks ahead to 2018’s beta

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One Shots: Boy band cover art

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It's one thing to strike a pose and get a good-looking selfie in there, it's another to coordinate a whole group of twitchy gamers...
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Choose My Adventure: Wrapping things up in Secret World Legends

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The Daily Grind: What feature from another game would you import into your favorite MMO?

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