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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 is the way we won't.

Former City of Heroes artist hosts an impromptu Reddit AMA

Eliot Lefebvre - 6
People always get nostalgic for City of Heroes around the time of its anniversary, even though it's gone. It's not just players, either. Former...

The Daily Grind: Are you ever sad when you levelcap in an MMORPG?

Bree Royce - 116
I recently levelcapped another character in Guild Wars 2, my Asura Guardian, and yet as soon as she dinged, some of the spark of...

The MOP Up: Allods’ Gibberling Festival (May 1, 2016)

Justin Olivetti - 7
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...

The Daily Grind: How would canceled MMOs be doing right now if they were still operating?

Justin Olivetti - 129
Many of us have our private (or not-so-private) sorrows regarding shuttered MMORPGs. Yes, we wish that they were still alive and often opine that...
Wow, positive.

Perfect Ten: Ten City of Heroes systems every MMO should have stolen by now

Eliot Lefebvre - 152
Today, City of Heroes turns 12 years old. Except it doesn't; the game shut down three years ago, it never lived until it reached twelve,...
I'm going to blame these jerks.

Former City of Heroes developers fill out the game’s annual lore reveal

Eliot Lefebvre - 9
There are going to be two potential reactions to the yearly set of lore reveals from former City of Heroes developers Matt Miller and...

City of Heroes fans mark 12th anniversary in Paragon Chat and Champions Online

Justin Olivetti - 60
Twelve years ago, heroes answered the call to defend Paragon City against aliens, bandits, and nefarious sewer zombies. City of Heroes launched on April 27th,...
Who's dark now?

The Daily Grind: Is there an MMORPG class type you can’t stand playing?

Bree Royce - 192
For me, it's rogues. Ug. It's bizarre because I adore rogues, thieves, and especially stealth archers in single-player roleplaying games. There's never been an Elder...
Guess who's back. Back again.

Perfect Ten: The odd things I noticed slipping back into Final Fantasy XI

Eliot Lefebvre - 58
Over the years, I may have spent more money on Final Fantasy XI than any other MMO. It's undoubtedly my first MMO, and it's...

The harsh lesson City of Titans learned from Kickstarter

Justin Olivetti - 63
When fans bankrolled a project to bring a superhero MMO to live to the tune of a little over $678,000, it wasn't without a...

Working As Intended: Busting up the MMORPG nostalgia party

Bree Royce - 156
Last week, a clever Massively OP commenter, SC_Deadline, neatly summed up the ongoing Nostalrius emulator shutdown as Blizzard "bust up someone's nostalgia party," which...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG expansion you’ve experienced?

Justin Olivetti - 137
Very few things get me as excited as the announcement of a new expansion for a favorite MMO. Expansions are thrilling events, stirring up...

Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with huge class rosters

Justin Olivetti - 57
After talking with Mark Jacobs the other week about the difficulty of balancing Camelot Unchained's 30 classes, it got my mind thinking of MMOs...
Vorp?

Players plan a 12th anniversary celebration for City of Heroes

Eliot Lefebvre - 24
City of Heroes is gone, but the dedicated fans of the game aren't about to let a little thing like the title's shutdown prevent...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG classes

Bree Royce - 88
Nostalgia has me this week: I've been thinking a lot about some of my all-time favorite MMORPG characters, some of whom I can't physically play anymore...

City of Titans takes MMO player retention cue from the hospitality industry

Justin Olivetti - 31
The city in City of Titans is more than a soulless backdrop; to its developers, the metropolis is "a vibrant, living organism" that can...

The Daily Grind: Is instancing in MMORPGs our real enemy?

Bree Royce - 174
The first MMORPGs I ever played hadn't come up with instancing yet. They had perceptible server lines and time-sucking zone walls, but everyone was...

Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Are MMO communities real or fake?

Andrew Ross - 80
We've come a long way in our discussion of Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt's book The Video Game Debate: Unravelling the Physical, Social, and Psychological...

Massively OP’s guide to MMORPG death penalties

Justin Olivetti - 60
In real life, when you die the penalty is... death. You just get that one go at things. But in MMOs, player characters are...
It looks much better now.

City of Titans has pubbed video of its ‘functional first pass’ build

Bree Royce - 24
City of Heroes-inspired superhero indie MMO City of Titans has hit a major milestone this week: It's created its "first packaged executable that ...
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