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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.

MMO Mechanics: Zonation and scaling mechanics in MMORPGs

Tina Lauro Pollock - 0
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

Eliot Lefebvre - 0
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

Bree Royce - 0
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

Bree Royce - 58
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

Justin Olivetti - 57
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

Eliot Lefebvre - 21
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

Justin Olivetti - 14
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

Justin Olivetti - 61
"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

Justin Olivetti - 6
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

Justin Olivetti - 23
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?

Bree Royce - 45
Massively OP reader Leiloni tipped us off to a great blog post by MMO blogger Ethan "Isarii" Macfie, in which the author questions his...
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...
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