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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.

Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2023 MMO predictions

Bree Royce - 17
We've been offering up an MMO predictions list for Massively Overthinking for years upon years now as our writers and readers prognosticate on the...
Dive! DIVE!

Ship of Heroes buffs up its travel powers in the service of this weird thing called ‘fun’

Bree Royce - 4
On this week's MOP Podcast, Justin and I derailed into talking about superhero powers and travel powers, so it's perfect timing that Heroic Games'...

Massively Overthinking: Penalties for failure in MMORPGs (beyond death)

Bree Royce - 23
MMOs generally have one big obvious penalty for failure, right? You die. Oh, usually not forever, not unless it's some niche hardcore realm, and...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 447: MMO hackers, headstarts, and proliferations

Justin Olivetti - 7
Justin and Bree discuss the hackings of Ethyrial and Fractured, Palia's beta update, City of Titan's test launch, World of Warcraft's paid expansion headstart, and Guild Wars 2's weapon proliferation beta, with adventures in Project Gorgon, LOTRO, Fallout 76, and WoW.
Seriously, though, whatever.

Vague Patch Notes: The myth of the ‘first’ MMORPG

Eliot Lefebvre - 14
One of the things I like to joke about every so often is various myths about the history of MMOs, and a lot of...

Kickstarted superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes’ power augments borrow all the right bits from City of Heroes

Bree Royce - 1
How about news on two crowdfunded superhero MMORPGs in one day? We'll take it: Not only did City of Titans drop a new build...

Kickstarted superhero MMORPG City of Titans releases new test build with massively expanded map

Bree Royce - 18
Big news for superhero MMORPG fans today, as the crowdfunded City of Heroes spiritual successor City of Titans has released a new development update...
So many colors in the rainbow.

Perfect Ten: Classic video games that would make terrible MMORPGs

Eliot Lefebvre - 21
There was a time when MMORPGs were all based on existing storied single-player RPG franchises, and that time was when Ultima Online launched and...

The Daily Grind: What’s clogging up your main MMO character’s bank right now?

Bree Royce - 26
Lord of the Rings Online seems deliberately designed to make even people who enjoy organizing inventories (me) a wee bit crazy about it. I...

Ship of Heroes revamps targeting brackets and tab-targeting ahead of next test

Bree Royce - 1
Heroic Games is continuing to forge ahead with its development of Ship of Heroes following the game's most recent demo test at SteamFest. Its...
That's

Massively Overthinking: The ‘elements’ of MMOs

Bree Royce - 10
MOP reader Nibbana recently posed us a fun question: "As I play my Scrapper in Guild Wars 2, I thought to myself, man, I...

Ship of Heroes refurbs its camera, addresses feedback, and floats another demo event

Bree Royce - 2
Following up on what it characterizes as a "highly successful beta demo" during Steam Next Fest, Heroic Games has a new dev blog and...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 441: A Blizzard trick or treat

Justin Olivetti - 10
Justin and Bree discuss MMO Halloween events, Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard acquisition, WoW Classic's LFD, Embers Adrift, and Ship of Heroes, with adventures in LOTRO, New World, and WoW Classic, plus a mailbag topic on the potential for WoW on console and Gamepass.

Ship of Heroes’ digital storefront leaks the MMORPG’s box price and subscription fee

Chris Neal - 17
Update 10/17/23: Ship of Heroes' Casey McGeever has clarified that the publicly accessible pricing page - which has since been removed from the game's...
Nope!

Vague Patch Notes: Why procedural generation doesn’t solve the content problems of MMOs

Eliot Lefebvre - 23
Just yesterday, MOP's Justin ran down the various features that the long-canceled EverQuest Next promised before its demise - including the promise of all...

The Stream Team: Diving into the latest Ship of Heroes demo build

Chris Neal - 1
Our readers already know that Ship of Heroes has a demo version out as part of Steam Next Fest, so that means it's obviously...

Ship of Heroes provides a full playthrough video of its demo’s very first mission

Chris Neal - 10
The Steam Next Fest demo for superheroic MMORPG Ship of Heroes may be online, but perhaps you'd rather see what's happening in the game...

Ship of Heroes’ free demo is live on Steam through next Monday

Justin Olivetti - 9
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's an upcoming superhero MMORPG that's opening its doors for a limited time only! OK, that slogan needs...
Red eyes take warning.

Ship of Heroes is running a free-to-play demo during next week’s Steam Next Fest

Bree Royce - 7
Indie MMO fans have long watched the progress of Ship of Heroes, the last City of Heroes spiritual successor and the one we've typical...
It's old.

Massively Overthinking: What’s the most chaotic behavior you’ve seen from MMO players?

Bree Royce - 8
A week or two ago, I found myself discussing Ultima Online by way of trying to convince our work chat that players often do...
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