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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.

This is surely not going to turn out badly.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO would be most improved by an engine overhaul in 2025?

Bree Royce - 23
On MOP, we can seldom go a single day without someone in the comments wondering when a specific MMO will get an engine upgrade...

The Daily Grind: Are you pro-cape or anti-cape in MMOs?

Justin Olivetti - 44
One of the fascinating bits of City of Heroes' history is that this superhero MMO originally launched without the ability to equip capes to...

City of Heroes Homecoming’s i28p2 Legacy is live with the Kallisti Wharf revamp and two new powersets

Bree Royce - 10
Last month, City of Heroes Homecoming emerged from a long content drought with news of a big patch that quickly turned controversial. As of...

The Daily Grind: How do you manage your MMORPG alts?

Bree Royce - 20
You might not know this about me, but I'm a bit of a spreadsheet junkie. I have spreadsheets for literally everything, especially for my...

Kickstarted superhero MMO Ship of Heroes shows off its animation and FX overhaul

Bree Royce - 1
Ship of Heroes is still zooming along toward a release this season, and ahead of what we assume will be a hard date announcement...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 520: Get in gamers, we’re going on a road trip!

Justin Olivetti - 7
Justin and Bree discuss Dune Awakening, Elder Scrolls Online, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, New World, and City of Heroes, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and Palia, plus a mailbag topic on whether a bad MMO is better than none.
City of.

Into the Super-Verse: What the heck is going on with balancing in City of Heroes Homecoming?

Eliot Lefebvre - 64
When we first looked at the beta patch notes for City of Heroes: Homecoming's i28p2 Legacy, the first joke I made to MOP's Bree...
Control.

City of Heroes Homecoming’s i28p2 Legacy enters testing with a major content revamp for Kallisti Wharf

Bree Royce - 4
City of Heroes Homecoming fans, your long wait for fresh content is over - or will be soon, anyway. The officially licensed live version...

Fallout 76’s Gone Fission update and 21st season have arrived with fishing content and a janky houseboat

Bree Royce - 0
I'm contractually obligated to adore the name of the latest Fallout 76 patch because I have had a City of Heroes characters named "Gone...

Massively Overthinking: What will the MMORPG genre look like in 2030?

Bree Royce - 36
If you had asked me in 2020 what the MMO genre would look like in 2025, I'm not sure how I would've answered. It...

The Daily Grind: How much money would you pay to keep a beloved MMORPG online?

Bree Royce - 19
Back in April, Wild Terra 2 studio Juvty Worlds did something fairly unusual in the MMORPG world, at least outside of rogue servers and...
Power up.

City of Heroes Rebirth celebrates its sixth birthday this month with XP events and Nemesis invasions

Bree Royce - 0
It's hard for me to believe it, but it's been over six years since the City of Heroes community whirred back to life with...
Why not goblins, just like George Carlin suggested?

Vague Patch Notes: Challenge and rewards in MMOs are made up

Eliot Lefebvre - 4
All right, folks, pop quiz. I want you to name for me the first major raid in Ultima Online. That was the first game...

The Daily Grind: Do you play the same MMOs as your significant other?

Bree Royce - 24
One of the things I love about having a dedicated room in my house with all the computers is that my family games together...
SHIP IT

City of Heroes Homecoming marks the original MMO’s 21st anniversary with a badge and event

Chris Neal - 1
Badgers of City of Heroes: Homecoming, rise up! Today marks the 21st anniversary of the original MMORPG's release, which is reason enough for the...
I've got a lot of problems with you people!

Storyboard: Dealing with the things your MMOs characters can’t do (but still can)

Eliot Lefebvre - 5
In the middle of Final Fantasy XIV's post-Stormblood patches, there's a scene where the characters need to purchase a specific katana. An exact price...

The Daily Grind: What are the tipoffs that mark gamers out as veteran MMORPG players?

Bree Royce - 39
Back during the first weekend of the Lord of the Rings Online transfer mess, I spent an inordinate amount of time in the game's...

Massively Overthinking: The eternal granular squabbles in our pet MMORPGs

Bree Royce - 4
So if you don't play a Star Wars Galaxies rogue server - and chances are that you don't - you probably have no idea...

One Shots: That’s a whole lot of WD-40

Justin Olivetti - 7
Let's be real: A giant, city-destroying robot is going to require lubrication by the tankful. And some poor sap is going to have the...
Shoop.

Vague Patch Notes: Level scaling in MMOs with the lateral spread and the temporary shrink

Eliot Lefebvre - 8
Last week I talked about how MMORPGs use level scaling to accomplish actually useful and important goals. In short, there is an issue with...
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