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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.

Australia turns up the heat on lockboxes

Justin Olivetti - 44
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

Justin Olivetti - 13
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...
punchsmash

City of Titans vows ‘no lockboxes’ for its business model

Justin Olivetti - 24
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?

Bree Royce - 56
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

Bree Royce - 96
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

Eliot Lefebvre - 26
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

Bree Royce - 4
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

Bree Royce - 36
Hey, you. Yeah, you, dude leeching candy from the bucket you bought "for the neighborhood kids." And you, lady still trying to decide between...
It looks much better now.

City of Titans shows off animation blending in action

Eliot Lefebvre - 11
We can't really show you animation blending in the header because we tend not to use animated pictures in our headers due to resource...

Paragon Chat to host City of Heroes shutdown vigil on November 30

Bree Royce - 4
Almost five years ago, the City of Heroes servers shut down for the last time, as thousands of online superheroes (and supervillains!) were unmoored...

Ship of Heroes reveals its Lightning Blast powerset with a new video

Bree Royce - 6
It's sacrilege to say it, I'm sure, but I never loved lightning powers in City of Heroes - lightning wasn't much of a damage...
punchsmash

City of Titans outlines power set design for the game

Eliot Lefebvre - 10
As a spiritual successor to City of Heroes, there's an obvious line through City of Titans when it comes to powers. That does not,...

City of Heroes’ Paragon Chat is getting its own player-run Halloween contests, missions, and music

Eliot Lefebvre - 6
Just because City of Heroes is gone doesn't mean that you can't have Halloween events for the game. It sort of does remove most...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: Why no one should recommend World of Warcraft ever

Eliot Lefebvre - 111
Last week, MOP's Justin (friend to man and beast alike) posted his list of MMOs he would recommend people play. It was a pretty...
We never like these things.

But seriously, lockboxes suck, even if the ESRB doesn’t think they’re gambling. Stop buying lockboxes.

Bree Royce - 254
So, MMO players. Are you tired of hearing about lockboxes and gambleboxes? It feels like we've been complaining about them for like six or...

Ship of Heroes has finished up its first character creator alpha – here’s what you built

Bree Royce - 19
Quietly zipping along this fall is City of Heroes spiritual successor Ship of Heroes, which has been running a small external alpha test with...

Massively Overthinking: Epic Tavern-style player-generated content in MMORPGs

Bree Royce - 10
Ever played Epic Tavern? Massively OP reader Uli though it would make an interesting point of comparison for MMO content. "Epic Tavern is a...

Valiance Online confirms sidekicking, talks visual effects upgrades

Justin Olivetti - 6
One of City of Heroes' best features is going to be making a reappearance in its spiritual successor. Valiance Online confirmed to Massively OP...

Leaderboard: Which of the City of Heroes spiritual successors are you looking forward to?

Bree Royce - 36
A few years ago, we counted basically three City of Heroes successor games, all made by indie studios. In 2017, we still have three...

Master X Master gives love to Statesman, hate to Ghost Widow

Justin Olivetti - 1
It has been a couple of weeks since the previous Master X Master update, and while yesterday's patch doesn't deliver much in terms of...
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