city of heroes

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.

It's not particularly cruel.

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Perfect Ten: Awesome (and unique) MMORPG classes

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Class-based systems are one of those holdovers from tabletop RPGs that work surprisingly well in MMOs. I basically put up with class systems in...
Guess who's back. Back again.

Perfect Ten: What you need to know before you play an older MMORPG

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I cut my teeth on MMOs with the launch of Final Fantasy XI in America. My roommate in college was interested in the game,...

City of Titans gives a sneak peek at four iconic heroes

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As a framework for City of Titan's narrative, the team has created "The Twelve:" 12 NPC superheroes that exemplify each of the 12 positions...
Heroic?

Valiance Online’s pre-alpha is available for testing

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Do you feel a burning desire to get in and try out one of the intended spiritual successors to City of Heroes? Because you...

City of Titans pours effort into creating a ‘dynamic, thriving’ metropolis

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Metropolis. Gotham. Hell's Kitchen. Asgard. Sometimes the places that superheroes visit are just as iconic as the heroes themselves. The upcoming City of Titans...

Tamriel Infinium: Six features Elder Scrolls Online’s level-scaling system needs

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I have a terrible confession to make: I was about to write off Elder Scrolls Online. I was going to consider it dead to...

Massively Overthinking: The MMO dev brains we’d like to pick

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This week's Overthinking question comes to us from longtime Patron Roger. "If you guys could magically open a connection to any dev team, which team...
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The Daily Grind: What’s the best pet class in an MMORPG?

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I hated pets when I first got started in MMORPGs. Pets in early MMOs had such terrible AI and were such a nuisance to...

City of Titans teases its superhero character modeling

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Missing Worlds Media's Warcabbit is showing us how the superhero sausage is made in a recent post on the City of Titans forums. The in-development...
I TRUSTED YOU

Perfect Ten: Our favorite MMORPG articles from 2015

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The first year of Massively Overpowered had its ups and downs, like anything does, but I think we had some pretty great content in...

Hyperspace Beacon: A roleplayer’s SWTOR wishlist

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The dawn of a new year is a great time for many people to hit a tiny reset button on life. I’m doing that personally....

Valiance Online tests new client-to-server architecture, previews new website

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Crime never sleeps and superhero MMOs never take a holiday from patching. Valiance Online has been hard at work whipping up a couple of new...

City of Titans gives a glimpse of its character creator, hints at 2016 testing

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City of Titans doesn't seem to mind that some of its demo videos came to light over the past month, although the studio said that...
All right, the Lopp have some chops here too.

Global Chat: Wrapping up 2015 across the MMORPG blogosphere

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As the final pages turn on 2015, MMO bloggers engage in a favorite pastime of recalling their best and most notable gaming experiences of...
Never over.

Perfect Ten: The 10 best MMORPG updates and expansions of 2015

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There is no way we can list all of the great updates in a given year. It's not possible. We are always going to...

Valiance Online roots for City of Titans

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Valiance Online doesn't see itself in direct competition with City of Titans for the throne of City of Heroes spiritual succession. How do we...
Well, it was nice of you to call.

Valiance Online releases screenshots and a promise of more to come

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The team behind Valiance Online has been rather quiet lately, but a long string of silence was broken recently with a quartet of new...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Most Likely to Flop

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our most likely to flop in 2016 and beyond award. Last year, Star Citizen took home this dishonor, leading to...
Blacker than the blackest black.

DC Universe Online reveals the conclusion to the War of the Light in Episode 20

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The heroes and villains of DC Universe Online have been dealing with the War of the Light for a while now, but the arrival...

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