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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.

Buildup.

Vague Patch Notes: The war of the MMO builds

Eliot Lefebvre - 9
Talking about your build in an MMORPG can be oddly contentious with people. On the one hand, you are inevitably going to have people...
This is probably fine.

End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2025

Eliot Lefebvre - 21
I am the sort of person who derives no small amount of ongoing satisfaction from the idea that I have had an influence upon...

Interview: NCsoft America’s new CEO, Jeonghee Jin, on awakening the ‘sleeping giant in the West’

Carlo Lacsina - 7
A few years ago, I attended Black Desert Online's Heidel Ball, one of the yearly events that Pearl Abyss holds to make major announcements for...

City of Heroes Homecoming offers a brief roadmap with two major updates planned for 2025

Bree Royce - 3
While City of Heroes Homecoming's license from NCsoft was big news last January, regular readers will know that after the initial rush of players...

End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2025 and beyond

Justin Olivetti - 4
As we turn the page on another fascinating year of MMORPG history, we cross into fresh territory. What lies ahead? Surprises, disappointments, and endless...

City of Heroes Homecoming expands today with the addition of the Victory server

Bree Royce - 6
A year ago when NCsoft first granted City of Heroes Homecoming the license to operate officially, the devs made clear that they would be...
Here we are again.

End-of-year Eleven: The best value MMOs at the top of 2025

Eliot Lefebvre - 10
So here we are again, at the transition for another year, and let me tell you that I am glad this column went a...
Not cool!

Vague Patch Notes: How Throne and Liberty actually got my attention

Eliot Lefebvre - 1
Leading up to the release of Throne and Liberty, I was not particularly enthusiastic about the game's prospects on a whole. The reasons for...

Superhero MMO project City of Titans shows off gameplay improvements after a quiet 2024

Justin Olivetti - 2
It's probably not the best sign when a developing MMO barely pokes its head up to make any sort of fuss over the course...

MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Best Classic MMO

Bree Royce - 7
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Best Classic MMO, which was awarded to Final Fantasy XI last year. We've...

MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: MMO Studio of the Year

Bree Royce - 4
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the MMO Studio of the Year, which was awarded to Standing Stone Games...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025

Bree Royce - 16
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...

Vague Patch Notes: MMORPG accelerationism is a stupid sucker’s game

Eliot Lefebvre - 19
The most recent Warframe update starts with a solid chunk of story, and the story that it tells is that of a time loop....
hands across whatever this fantasy world is called

Massively OP Podcast Episode 498: Pantheon’s power play

Justin Olivetti - 8
Justin, Bree, and Chris discuss Pantheon's early access, Ship of Heroes' launch window, Warframe 1999's release, World of Warcraft's Siren Isle, Elder Scrolls Online's outage and union, and Old School RuneScape's sailing, with adventures in WoW Classic, SWTOR, LOTRO, Palworld, Dauntless, Guild Wars 2, and Farm Together 2, plus mailbag topics on midcore MMO players and abilities we wish were in every MMORPG.

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best event of 2024?

Bree Royce - 5
I'm well aware that this is going to be a hard Daily Grind to answer because it used to be an award, and it...

Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2024

Bree Royce - 5
You know, this traditional end-of-the-year roundtable shouldn't be a thing. We've been doing this such a long time and getting so much coverage on...

Eight-year-old indie superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes sets a Q2 2025 launch window

Bree Royce - 11
Just a few weeks ago, we noted that it appeared Ship of Heroes' release plans had continued shifting around (at one point, it was...

End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO surprises of 2024

Eliot Lefebvre - 5
I have not had a good 2024. I have, in fact, had the absolute opposite of that. I feel like I exist now through...
Sparky!

Design Mockument: In defense of visual ability customization in MMORPGs

Eliot Lefebvre - 2
I will never know who it was working behind the scenes at City of Heroes who first had the idea to let players customize...

Massively Overthinking: The top three MMOs we played in 2024

Bree Royce - 13
I know from experience that when I list out the MMOs I want to play in a given year, it is an aspirational list....
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