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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.

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Perfect Ten: The ten things I look forward to with MMO launches

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It's not long now until World of Warcraft: Legion launches, which is all that I've been waiting for now for a while. Sure, technically...

The Daily Grind: Should MMOs churn out new classes on a regular basis?

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I continue to be impressed and occasionally bewildered by how Marvel Heroes keeps releasing new classes into the game, sometimes as frequently as every...

Massively Overthinking: The golden age of MMORPGs

Bree Royce - 0
This week's Massively Overthinking is a serious one from our dear Patreon patron Duane. Here's the jumping off point for his topic: "There has lately...

City of Titans cosplay takes a turn for the heroic

Bree Royce - 0
City of Titans cosplay has taken a turn for the heroic. Missing Worlds Media's Terwyn told forumgoers this week that work continues on one of...
Titan-size!

City of Titan’s new video highlights progress, introduces webcomic

Bree Royce - 0
How far has City of Titans come in two years? Pretty damn far, Missing Worlds Media's Shadow Elusive writes today, and the indie studio's...

Perfect Ten: MMO novel tie-ins

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When I was a kid and only slightly more nerdy than I am today, I used to read movie novelizations like crazy. I don't...

MMO Mechanics: Zonation and scaling mechanics in MMORPGs

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The recent E3 hubub about The Elder Scrolls Online new level syncing mechanics being extended has got me thinking all about the mechanics behind zones in MMOs,...
So many colors in the rainbow.

Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with distinct visual styles

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Given the choice, I am always going to pick a game with stylized graphics over realistic ones. This is for many reasons; it's partly...

Massively Overthinking: Solving the MMORPG grouping problem

Bree Royce - 0
Massively OP Patron Roger has another great question for the crew this week. "I have the hardest time pushing myself to join a group, but...
Boys and girls in cars, dogs and cats on lawns - from up here I can see them all.

Valiance Online preps for alpha patch, Steam move

Bree Royce - 0
Valiance Online is packing up and prepping for a move... to Steam. The City of Heroes-inspired indie superhero MMORPG was Greenlit on the platform back...

Massively Overthinking: The stories inside MMORPGs

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This week's topic comes to us from one of our dear Patrons, Roger. "I love stories, and some games tell great stories. MMOs have trouble...
Boring space dad yay.

Massively Overthinking: Playing the game of timers in MMOs

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Massively OP reader The Chief Turtle recently sent us a question that I think ties in neatly to the daily quests Overthinking we discussed a few...

Perfect Ten: My highlights from pre-launch MMO hype

Justin Olivetti - 30
Maybe the hype and anticipation of an upcoming MMORPG leaves you feeling burned out and turned off these days. Considering that some titles can...

One Shots: You put a spell on me

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One of the very few MMORPGs that my wife and I ever played together was Wizard101, and I think most of that time involved...
This is not that mission.

Check out a prototype mission in City of Titans

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Developing a game is about developing lots of moving pieces and then finally putting them all together after the fact. We've seen a large...

Watch City of Heroes fans celebrate its birthday

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If you haven't picked up on the fact, there's a lot of us that continue to care deeply about City of Heroes, even years...

Perfect Ten: The final minutes of beloved MMORPGs

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"This is how the world ends," T S Eliot wrote in his famous poem, "not with a bang, but with a whimper." That might well...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 63: Leisure suit Larry

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Justin and Larry discuss pristine WoW servers, TSW, Trove, Champs Online, SWTOR, lockboxes, and birthdays in CoH, LOTRO, and Guild Wars.

Jukebox Heroes: City of Heroes’ soundtrack

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In the history of MMORPGs, City of Heroes might well go down as having one of the most passionate communities in the genre. People didn't...

The Daily Grind: Do your MMO choices actually reflect your playstyle?

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Massively OP reader Leiloni tipped us off to a great blog post by MMO blogger Ethan "Isarii" Macfie, in which the author questions his...
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