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.

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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Who says you have to have launched to have holiday events? Not Ship of Heroes. The City of Heroes-inspired indie superhero MMORPG has a...

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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One of the things that I promised way back when I started writing this series about Secret World Legends was to mention the way...
YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!

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

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One of the everlasting points of contention between me and the MMO industry is that no game gets everything right. Gah! Can't you mold...
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City of Titans shares details on creating its mission lines

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There's already a lot of lore floating around for City of Heroes-inspired indie MMORPG City of Titans, but all of the lore in the world...
Yep.

Ship of Heroes readies combat alpha, shows off a massive raid test

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It's a hundred identical superheroes in hot pants facing off against a giant robot, and that robot does not stand a chance. The following video...

Ship of Heroes delves into space magic

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Magic in space? Ship of Heroes is determined to make it work. The superhero MMORPG announced today that it will be including a magical subset...

Australia turns up the heat on lockboxes

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The controversy over lockboxes and their legal status continues to draw more attention from governments, with Australia now weighing in on the issue. Not...

Ship of Heroes resurrects the crowd controller playstyle

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Do you miss playing your Controller in City of Heroes? One of that game's spiritual successors wants to resurrect the concept of a mez-happy...
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City of Titans vows ‘no lockboxes’ for its business model

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You might have missed the riots in the streets over lockboxes these past few months, but we assure you, the controversy is very real....

The Daily Grind: Which MMO would you recommend to Marvel Heroes refugees?

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So Marvel Heroes has about six weeks to live thanks to the impending shutdown of the game following Disney's decision to drop Gazillion as...

NCsoft is already sunsetting MOBA Master X Master

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NCsoft announced this evening that it will sunset its relatively new MOBA Master X Master, explaining that the game just "wasn’t enough to take...
Wow, positive.

Perfect Ten: A list of all the MMORPGs I supposedly hate

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Did you know about all the MMOs I hate? I sure as heck didn't! I mean, I knew there were a few games I...

Ship of Heroes reveals its Dark Magic Blast powerset just in time for Halloween

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If you're missing the Halloween flair of City of Heroes today as I am, maybe point your eyeballs at Ship of Heroes instead. This...
Community organization is painful.

Halloween events across the MMORPG verse, 2017 edition

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Hey, you. Yeah, you, dude leeching candy from the bucket you bought "for the neighborhood kids." And you, lady still trying to decide between...

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