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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.

This isn't how it had to be.

Perfect Ten: Incompetent leaders in MMORPGs

Eliot Lefebvre - 0
Leadership is difficult. You have to get a group of people to work together when they may or may not be naturally inclined to...

Valiance Online will launch free-to-play, heads into alpha

Bree Royce - 0
Valiance Online Creative Director, Programming Director, and Executive Producer IronSight has penned a dev blog today explaining that the game is finally moving on...

The Witching Hour Halloween events return to DC Universe Online

Bree Royce - 0
While it's been Halloween in the stores for at least two months already, the holiday festivities are just getting started in MMORPGs now that...

Thug life brawler SMASH+GRAB has launched into Steam early access

Bree Royce - 0
The last time I was all about that thug life was probably City of Heroes, whose bank robbery missions literally awarded experience for smashing...
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City of Titans shows off fully modeled capes

Eliot Lefebvre - 0
Superheroes don't always wear capes at this point. There have been entire movies highlighting the need for not having capes. But it's just not...
A journey into complexity.

Perfect Ten: Questions to ask before backing an MMO Kickstarter

Eliot Lefebvre - 0
I am not a big fan of Kickstarter in general, but I like to think that I'm not a big fan for actual reasons...

Leaderboard: Where did all the City of Heroes players go?

Bree Royce - 0
Based on the comments under Justin's Perfect Ten on City of Heroes memories this past week, a lot of folks out there in our audience really...

The Daily Grind: Are MMOs better the second time you play them?

Bree Royce - 0
Whenever someone makes a statement like "video games are better the second time you play them," my gut reaction is "nuh-uh!" That's exactly the...

Perfect Ten: My favorite memories from City of Heroes

Justin Olivetti - 1
I've noticed that some people get irritated when others repeatedly bring up long-dead MMORPGs. I think there's the mentality of, "What's done is done,...
Actually developing a title to not be a boring slog is a skill some developers have yet to master.

Perfect Ten: The worst-squandered IPs in online gaming

Eliot Lefebvre - 0
There are always going to be differences in opinion about what should be done with an IP based upon a franchise. That's just natural....

The Daily Grind: What original IP MMORPG deserves a true sequel?

Justin Olivetti - 0
One repeated refrain that comes up around the Massively OP office when we're dealing with older MMOs is, "Wouldn't it be great if they...
TSW

Massively Overthinking: What’s the worst MMORPG for duos?

Bree Royce - 0
Massively OP reader Styopa recently wrote in to us to propose that we write about the best MMORPGs for duoing. I was all set...

You can hide your costume in City of Titans

Justin Olivetti - 0
"It's taken three years. Three years of every possible thing going wrong. Three years of trial and effort, of skill and talent, of error...

The MOP Up: EverQuest II says hello to Kunark (August 21, 2016)

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...
This is not h

Massively Overthinking: The best combat systems in MMORPGs

Bree Royce - 0
One of the big problems in the MMORPG genre as I see it is game studios' inclination to prioritize combat above all else, turning...

Valiance Online preps new character creator while City of Titans spies on villains

Justin Olivetti - 0
Time to catch up on the sinister plans and inspirational acts of City of Heroes' spiritual successors. Don't worry: We won't tell anyone your...

The Daily Grind: Should MMORPGs have special areas for paying players?

Bree Royce - 0
I was poking around in the Guild Wars 2 cash shop this weekend when I realized that ArenaNet is selling teleports to Noble's Folly....
Also, let's just put this out there, how about more robots?

Check out some classic bloopers from City of Heroes’ business model swap

Eliot Lefebvre - 0
The people behind City of Heroes were not actors, but Paragon Studios staff was very forward-facing and open with players. So when the team...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG soundtracks

Bree Royce - 0
MOP's Justin Olivetti created the music-centered Jukebox Heroes column back on Massively-that-was and brought it along to us here, and to this day it's...
Patreocide.

City of Titans launches a comic-based Patreon

Eliot Lefebvre - 0
Developing a game is expensive, and that's why City of Titans has taken to Patreon... sort of. See, the developers are not asking for...
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