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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.

Perfect Ten: The best MMO debuts by year, 1997-2006

Justin Olivetti - 36
By now, many of you probably know that I'm the curator of the MMO Timeline on my personal blog. On this page, I've attempted...

One Shots: Fashion patrol coming your way!

Justin Olivetti - 21
Well that is certainly one way to fill up the comments section with tons of screenshots: asking all of you to show of your...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO’s music brings back all the feels?

Justin Olivetti - 54
One of the reasons that I love and listen to MMO music so much -- other than it rocks, obviously -- is that it...
Ship of (heroic) Fooooools

Ship of Heroes discusses the difference between Alpha and Beta

Eliot Lefebvre - 13
What makes an alpha? If your answer is "marketing jargon," you're not entirely wrong. But the team behind Ship of Heroes is going for...

E3 2018: ‘Fallout 76 is entirely online’

Justin Olivetti - 153
You've seen the teaser. You've heard the rumors. You've watched the E3 trailer. And now it's time to find out, exactly, what Fallout 76...

City of Heroes emulator SEGS announces new update with NPCs, database support, and a GUI

Bree Royce - 6
If you've been following SEGS' twitter over the last week, you know the team there has been teasing something big. And now we know...

Ship of Heroes video demonstrates how far the game’s come in a year

Bree Royce - 15
If you wanted some clear visuals on how far Ship of Heroes has come over the last year, the video Heroic Games published over...
Be here now.

City of Titans shows off more of its mastery sets

Eliot Lefebvre - 5
The mastery sets in indie superhero MMORPG City of Titans are a bit like specializations for the game's archetype. In addition to each archetype's power...

DCUO plans July Teen Titans episode, August Augment system to replace R&D mods

Bree Royce - 1
DC Universe Online has its summer all mapped out, and it's a doozy. Daybreak is leaping into the Teen Titans lore this July for...

Hyperspace Beacon: The sorry state of roleplay in Star Wars: The Old Republic

Larry Everett - 25
Since the server merges, the Star Forge server has unofficially become the roleplay server for Star Wars: The Old Republic. And roleplaying's fight to...
How near, how far.

The Daily Grind: What kind of superhero do you want to make in an MMO?

Justin Olivetti - 38
While City of Heroes is long gone, you can't keep a good cape down. With a couple of superhero MMORPGs out on the market...

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...
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