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Lawful Neutral: What DMCA exemption victories really mean for MMO preservation
You might remember back in October, we covered how the US Library of Congress granted expanded DMCA exceptions for preserving online games. The Library...
City of Titans’ primer gets you up to speed on this superhero MMO
With City of Titans picking up development steam, the team figured that this would be an opportune time to put out a primer to...
City of Heroes: Homecoming’s new home, EU players, multiboxing, SEGS, and… piglets
Good news for players of City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue servers: The planned server moves - from The Netherlands to new destinations in Canada...
Into the Super-verse: Getting to know City of Heroes all over again
It has been well over a decade since I played City of Heroes with any regularity, and yet when I saw that familiar loading...
City of Heroes rogue server teams activate i24 PTS, prep for tomorrow’s Homecoming server moves
Earlier this week, we covered one of the true-neutral City of Heroes rogue server groups, Ouroboros, and its efforts in restoring the game to...
City of Heroes community forms Round Table as Homecoming rogue servers count over 56,000 players
Multiple City of Heroes groups now say they're working under yet another initiative to bring the rogue server community together.
"The Round Table has been...
One Shots: What am I looking at here, exactly?
I guess I was asking for pure nightmare fuel when I issued a challenge last week to create the most disturbing and deformed avatars...
City of Heroes Homecoming delays move, plans EU server, offers XP boots, and battles toxicity
Remember how we were all preparing for an outage for the City of Heroes rogue servers run by the Homecoming team this weekend? It's...
Massively Overthinking: Do you play MMO characters you like – or characters that are objectively good?
Earlier this week, some Massively OP writers were hanging out in team chat talking about favorite City of Heroes powersets from back in the...
City of Heroes’ Homecoming servers port to Canada this weekend, server status page is live
The City of Heroes Homecoming servers are packing up their bags and moving to new hosting this weekend, so you should probably expect some...
Leaderboard: Would you donate for a City of Heroes rogue server?
Last night's public announcement that the City of Heroes Homecoming team was changing its stance on donations and felt "comfortable" accepting them now after...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 219: The 64-bit generation
Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard financials, City of Heroes, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, WoW Classic, EVE Online, LOTRO, and Guild Wars, with mailbag topics on Blizzard, everythingboxes, genderlocking, and dad jokes.
City of Heroes: New servers, Discord drama, and Homecoming gets $6900 in donations in 20 minutes
Just in case you didn't think City of Heroes had enough community rogue servers, here comes another one.
The Homecoming team - that's the team...
The Daily Grind: Do you actually feel as if you’re part of your fave MMO’s community?
Last month, when news of the City of Heroes mess hit, the Massively OP writers and readers had multiple discussions about community - you...
City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers will offer character transfers after all
The business of saving City of Heroes has now stretched on three weeks since our first article, but it hasn't slowed down a bit. Over...
City of Heroes now has a fifth rogue server live as Homecoming buffs up and work on i24 continues
The 4chan-backed group /coxg/ now has an alternative City of Heroes rogue server up for those who don't want to play on the existing...
Massively Overthinking: Super wrong snap judgments of MMORPGs
The year was 2004, and the month was May. My guild was growing increasingly frustrated with Star Wars Galaxies' slow development pace, so we...
City of Heroes’ rogue servers nerf AE farms, boost XP, but can’t do character transfers
If you were planning to abuse the Architect Entertainment system on City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue servers, we hope you already got your...
Valiance Online’s latest alpha patch touches on characters, animations, and interior procedural generation
We're having a superhero MMO moment here, folks. Last week, Valiance Online teased something big happening, and now we know what it is: an...
Two weeks in, City of Heroes has four rogue servers and heartwarmingly massive queues
Two weeks after we first broke the story confirming the City of Heroes secret private server leak, the game has turned 15 years old...
