On 1/15/2024 4:14 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
Do you remember "City of Heroes"?
Yes, I loved it when the game was new. But it slowly changed for the
worse. I loved City of Villains as well, but it also slowly changed for
the worse.
So there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when the game shut
down amongst its users. But, being heroic nerds, they didn't take the
removal of their game lying down, but quickly spun up their own
quasi-legal servers and just kept playing.
Well, a very small group not much more than a D&D group had their one
server for a very long time. Other people who weren't aware of that
tried to make their own clones, unsuccessfully. A couple years ago the
severs and client was released to the wild.
Homecoming put their spin on that out and got around 10,000 players to
start, though that dwindled over the next few months, I'm not sure what
it's at now. Their spin was way easier and quicker and perhaps got rid
of a bit too much of the grind. I had done everything there was do in
about 3 months.
I had posted here about it of course.
And of course there was a few alternatives for the superhero MMO at that
point. One even made by the same people who made CoH, but it was a micro-transaction mess, and I actively disliked that one. The DC heroes
of course, but that's only good if you want to play DC, and of course
has the micro-transactions as well, that one just didn't grab me.
And the marvel game which was fun (not as fun) but again
micro-transactions and was again shut down for some reason.
Except... last week it was announced that "City of Heroes" is coming
back. NCSoft, owners of the property, have just granted a fan server
an official license.
Now that's news, it was rumored they were in talks, but I assumed that
was just rumors.
Yes, what that means?
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