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Some Speculation from Massively.
Guild Wars and Dungeon Runners both used alternatives to the usual subscription model, with Guild Wars being free-to-play once the game was purchased and Dungeon Runners using a now-more-common microtransaction model. Will NCsoft West be continuing to try alternative subscription...
Monday, Nov 2
a couple days ago, on Twitter...
Bill Willingham, for the uninitiated, is a brilliant comic book writer and artist (though mainly writer these days, though he did draw Nightcrawler's feet for me at a convention... long story), and creator of Fables, one of my favorite Vertigo series. Though he has done some superhero stuff...
Monday, Oct 26
My friend's essay on why he prefers CoH to Champions Online
I'm sad about this. The poor quality of the game is just astonishing to me given the people who created it. But I'm going back to City of Heroes, where the villains and zones have personality, the equipment and enhancement systems make sense, and the missions feel like I am Fighting the Forces...
Sunday, Oct 25
Marcian Tobay tweets HeroCon panels:
17. You may be able to mail items/inf in the future. 19. Possible future: mailing items. 22. Water based power sets won't happen... 27. "We're going to try and give Heroes and Villains that don't faulter into Rogues or Vigilantes something special." - Posi
Tuesday, Oct 13
Recent City of Heroes Updates
Brace yourself for the apocalypse as our annual Halloween Event returns to City of Heroes® ! Legions of Zombies, Werewolves, Jack-o-Lanterns, and other foul denizens are preparing to descend upon Paragon City™ and the Rogue Isles™. This year they're bringing even more powerful allies...
Tuesday, Sep 29
City of Heroes/Villians Double XP WEEKEND
It is announced on the boards http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=2284754#post2284754 DOUBLE XP WEEKEND!!!! What's the plan LJ? I want to run 4 toons to 50 if I can. Who wants to help. (Virtue Server) Elvnsword
Friday, Sep 25
Server Maintenance Window Change
We, at the Paragon Studios, take the maintenance of our servers very seriously and with the recent evolution of City of Heroes® it has become increasingly necessary to have simultaneous maintenances of the North American and European servers due in part to common systems used on all our...
Wednesday, Sep 23
An open (love) letter to The Devs
I have posted an open letter on the official forums. I had discussed this privately in my journal, and it was requested that I provide a link and the final draft here in the community. First allow me to say that I do not think anything I could write can adequately convey just how thankful I am not o...
Ten Ton Hammer Interview
for the first time. We spoke with Matt "Positron" Miller, Senior Lead Producer of City of Heroes, about what the change will entail. “This process is not immediate, it’s not a switch, it’s not a $30 charge. It’s a story that you go through. For heroes, it’s a fall from grace, for villains it’s a re...
Tuesday, Sep 15
City of Heroes® Issue 16: Power Spectrum
Archetype - Blasters Archetype - Brutes Claws Archetype - Controllers Archetype - Corruptors Archetype - Defenders Archetype - Dominators Archetype -Masterminds Archetype -Scrappers Archetype -Tankers Archetype -Stalkers Character Creation City Zones Co-Op Zones City Zones
Smells like i16...
Live Server Maintenance - Tuesday 15th September 2009The North American and European City of Heroes servers will be offline for extended maintenance on Tuesday 15th September 2009. Start Time: 6 AM Central (12 PM British Summer Time and 13:00 Central European Summer Time)
Thursday, Sep 10
CoX Panel @ Dragon-Con
For those who are interested, here is the footage I captured from the City of Heroes panel at Dragon-Con this past weekend. Complete running time is about 22 mins but the actual panel was longer. I did not record the first half which was sort of general rant about AE. I know that someone recorded...
Friday, Sep 4
Gamespy Interview with Posi
Going Rogue is the long-awaited first City of Heroes expansion since the launch of City of Villains. With the Going Rogue expansion, you'll be able to turn your hero into a villain or vice-versa, or walk the shades of gray in between. When I recently spoke to Matt Miller, Lead Designer on City...
Monday, Aug 31
I wasn't aware that things were so "narrow of scope" here?
Their reply was: As I don't see what this has to do with City of Heroes/Villains, I am deleting this post. Now, I agree that it does not directly deal with CoH, but then again, neither does the price of tickets to Hero-Con.
Wednesday, Aug 26
I16: Open Beta Patch Notes
Character Creation Zones Zones Affected: Co-Op Zones PVP Powers Scary Monsters Old Total - 7 New Total - 12 City of Heroes City of Villains Fixed a bug that would prevent a Villain from being able to trade with other Villains after a respec.
Issue 16 Enters Open Beta
The Open Beta for Issue 16: Power Spectrum is now available to all our City of Heroes and City of Villains players! To check out the Open Beta, all you need to do is log into the Training Room Test Server! If you are not familiar with the process to access the test server, please read this post: H...
Wednesday, Aug 19
Natural Born Grinder
I'm going to tell you about my 71-year-old father. He doesn't play City of Heroes, but his casual interest in electronic gaming is certainly what got me started on my obsessions as wee child with an Atari 2600. My retired dad, who usually sends me silly e-mail forwards every day, but hadn...
Thursday, Aug 13
How Do Dat?
This may seem like a stupid question, but it's something I've wanted to know for some time now: how do you take screenshots in City of Heroes? I feel like I could do a lot of stuff if I had pictures of my heroes or villains and it would really help if I knew what to do.
Wednesday, Aug 12
I16: Super-Sidekicking Explained
Before we went and removed this playstyle completely from City of Heroes we wanted to make sure we were doing the right thing. We did extensive datamines to see how many accounts were actually participating in a “bridge” team, and were surprised to see just how low of a percentage it actuall...
Saturday, Aug 8
Sometimes we make our own fun.
And with tonight's game session out of the way, I've accomplished another couple of personal goals in City of Heroes. Using the "temporary power" Baseball Bat, I have now hit every one of the high-tier ultra-super-villains (Ghost Widow, Sirrocco, Lord Recluse, Mako, etc) over the back o...
Friday, Aug 7
North America Live Server Downtime
Please note that the usual Monday morning maintenance will be an hour longer this Monday 8/10. All North American live servers for City of Heroes will be brought down starting at 5:00 AM Pacific Time (8:00 AM Eastern Time). Starting at 7:00 AM Pacific Time (10:00 AM Eastern Time) on Tuesday 8...
Something to discuss about our beloved game....
Why City of Heroes SHOULD Be Worried By Cecil Adkins Cecil Adkins is a fiction writer and covers MMORPGs for Examiner.com. He is an active player of City of Heroes, World of Warcraft, and several other MMOs. He can be found on the web at www.ceciladkins.com.
Wednesday, Aug 5
Announced Downtime - August 6th
NA Servers Euro Servers European Live Server Maintenance - Thursday 6th August 2009 In order to implement the build that was originally going live on Tuesday 4th August, the European City of Heroes servers will be offline on Thusday 6th August 2009.
Monday, Aug 3
DXP, Round 2
Due to the stability issues that occurred with the North American servers this past Double XP Weekend, we plan to offer another Double XP Weekend in North America after Issue 16 launches. The City of Heroes Team __________________
Friday, Jul 31
Facebook?
I am a 'fan' of the City of Heroes page on FB but I was wondering, is there a page specifically for LJers who play CoH?
Wednesday, Jul 29
"Loyalty Subscription Program"
KEEP YOUR ACCOUNT ACTIVE All City of Heroes and City of Villains® players who maintain an active account for the time period beginning August 15, 2009, and ending November 15, 2009, will receive a set of special rewards for their loyalty to Paragon City™ and The Rogue Isles™:
Tuesday, Jul 28
Paragon Studios @ SDCC on Gamasutra
The superhero MMO City of Heroes has seen a lot, as far as MMOs go -- it was released over five years ago, pre-World of Warcraft, has gone through a major studio shift, and is still under active development and promotion by publisher NCsoft.
Sunday, Jul 19
A modest suggestion for Veteran Awards
You could have the Costume pack. Which has all the non-essential, but cool costume options (Wings, Tech Sleek and Samurai armor, trenchcoats, etc.). And you could buy respecs and free costume changes, maybe separately or in packs of 1, 3, 5 or 10.
Thursday, Jul 16
Issue 16 details!
At last, our next free content update unveils the all new, much requested and long awaited Powers Customization system! You wanted more control over what your characters' powers look like, and you are getting it! Issue 16: Power Spectrum takes City of Heroes' unparalleled character cr...
Saturday, Jul 11
Playing lots of CoH for a while...
Earlier this week, on Tuesday evening, I broke my left heel. So for the next several weeks, I'm going to be playing a lot of City of Heroes while my foot heals. I'm @Archimagos, with Heroes on Victory (lvls 10-45), Virtue (lvls 6-30), Pinnacle (lvls 6-10), and Justice (lvls 10 & 20); and vi...
Wednesday, Jun 24
Details about the Super Science booster pack and stuff going on in test right now
It contains new science themed costume pieces, emotes, and costume change emotes… as well as the new Super Tailor feature that will allow you to change the inherent body type of your character to Male, Female or Huge for each costume slot! Costume Pieces: Emotes: Costume Change Emotes:
Monday, Jun 22
City of Heroes: The RPG
So, years ago, I read a thread on LJ of a guy wanting to explore a RPG via City of Heroes. It failed horribly as the guy was far from in control of the game. It was a semui pointless excercize in just running the missions as presented and trying to be IC as we did it.
Tuesday, May 12
City of Heroes: Going Rogue press release
http://us.ncsoft.com/en/news/press-releases/going-rogue.html Also, it's interesting that the two characters in the trailer are identified as Maelstrom, "a pistol-wielding hero gone rogue", and Desdemona, "a demon-summoning villain who has been redeemed".
Monday, May 11
Oh my holy gods.
Found this in my inbox: Paragon Studios™ is proud to officially announce the next City of Heroes® expansion, City of Heroes Going Rogue™! This will be the first major expansion for the City of Heroes franchise since the launch of City of Villains® in 2005.
Wednesday, Apr 29
Even more interviews.
OMG RPG I'm Matt Miller, who players would know as "Positron." I am the Lead Designer for City of Heroes/City of Villains. 11. Who would win in a fight; The Statesman or Captain America? OMG RPG: Five years of City of Heroes: How will you celebrate?
Tuesday, Apr 28
Massively Interviews Positron
Working with Sean Fish on Issues 19 and 20 of the City of Heroes comic book. It was such a nice change of pace of story-telling mediums. I hope I get a chance to write a comic again in the future. Where do you see City of Heroes and City of Villains going in another 5 years? Will we see a City of Heroes 2?
Thursday, Apr 23
5th Anniversary! Clear your schedules!
We're not going to ruin the surprise...but suffice it to say that all CHAOS is going to break loose in-game on our anniversary date and you're not going to want to miss it! From 11am EST on April 28th to 12am EST, get ready to re-experience some of the things that have made City of Heroes® the great...
Healer Aggro
Is there such a thing as 'healer aggro' in City of Heroes? As in, the enemies can be drawn off the damage dealers by an effective healer? This kind of thing exists in WOW, but I was pretty sure there was nothing of the kind in COH. Then a raging debate on my SG's vent server left some doubt in my mind....
Tuesday, Apr 21
Downtime/Fixes
Following the publish the following servers will be unavailable to players for a further two hours, until 11am CST so that we can further address the base issue.All EU ShardsChampionFreedomTriumphVictoryVirtueOn Wednesday 4/22 from 8am CST until 10am CST the remaining servers will b...
Friday, Apr 17
Update: Architect Edition is retail store only!
Thank you for contacting NCsoft Account Support! The City of Heroes Architect Edition is a retail product online and is not available at this time for online code purchase. The Architect Edition is a full version of the game that comes with your choice of either the Super Booster I: Cyborg P...
Opinion: i14 Follow up from Positron
Like every system we design here, the Mission Architect system has been a labor of love that we have poured over every little decision on. I feel like everything we have worked on has really been worth it when I see that within 60 minutes, we had 360 entire Mission Arcs (each containing up to 5 m...
Weekly coh_ma Digest
Title: Intellectual Property Theft - Save the Secrets of the Architect System! Arc ID: 39392 Author: @Burnin Up Recommended by: samurai_ko Description: Can you save the Architect System? How long can the development team hold out?
Tuesday, Apr 14
As of 10:14AM PST
City of Heroes® / City of Villains® account successfully upgraded! The Magic Pack is mine! BWAHAHAHAHA! Ahem. I am pleased.
Wednesday, Apr 8
Costume Change Emotes! (AKA Super Booster II: Magic)
City of Heroes Super Booster II: Magic includes an extensive magic themed costume set, four character ‘costume change emotes,’ and a Mystic Fortune power. This purchase enables these features for all characters on the game account from level one, however the costume change emotes* req...
Tuesday, Apr 7
Hero 1 talks about Mission Architect.
So, should the game be making the missions or playing the missions? Ought missions be fun to make or fun to play? Apparently, the development team is still arguing about this. On one hand, you could say that if it's not fun to make, no one's going to make it. But on the other, perhaps it doesn't ma...
Wednesday, Apr 1
CoH: Golden Age
Now you get to experience what it was like to be in Paragon City before the Rikti invasions. An innovative interface brings a new level of detail to the sights and sounds of City of Heroes, as your character blasts, punches, and superspeeds his or her way through the game. "It's a brand new way t...
Thursday, Mar 19
CoH/CoV Architect Fileshare
track download popularity include notes along with your files obtain commentary on your files share keybind files, window settings, costumes, critters, missions/arcs, and critter groups quickly find any type of City of Heroes Architect file you're looking for (I hope!)
Thursday, Mar 5
CoX vs. WoW vs. LotRO part 13: Character
Individualization is very important to many people. Similar to what I mentioned earlier, in CoX your individuality comes right out of the gate. Rarely will you see another character with the same costume as you, unless you use everything from a matching costume set. And in WoW and LotRO your...
Thursday, Jul 10
For those of you interested
No more heroes? Don't tell that to Cryptic Studios, the renowned massively multiplayer online game developer that created City of Heroes. Next up for Cryptic is Champions Online, a new superhero MMOG based on the classic pen-and-paper role-playing game from Hero Games. We stopped by Cry...
Tuesday, Apr 15
Positron on Additional Character Slots
City of Heroes Senior Lead Designer, Matt "Positron" Miller brings us the details about a player requested feature that has been added to Issue 12: Midnight Hour: Optional Character Slots! Additional Optional Character Slots will be available on a purchasable basis. These are one-tim...
Monday, Mar 31
Opinion: WTH? Info on a monday?
With the many additions of costumes over the years to City of Heroes and City of Villains, it can be hard to find all the parts and pieces of various costume “sets.” For instance, you want to make a Jester themed character using the all of the various Jester costume items.
