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.

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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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?

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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

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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

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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 ...
It's not particularly cruel.

Massively Overthinking: The curse of player-generated MMO content

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The influx of new player-generated-content-oriented MMOs might make you think that PGC is on the rise, but if you've been around the genre for...
Wow, positive.

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...

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