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Optional Character Slot Details Announced
NC Soft posted this on the 15th April 2008
NCsoft NorCal Studios is pleased to announce the pricing and details for the coming Optional Additional Character Slot feature. As we previously announced, we hear...

First Glimpse of the Villain Epics
Adrian Bott posted this on the 9th April 2008
Issue 12 Beta for CoX is currently in Friends and Family stage and closed to anyone else, but bugs do happen, and one forum poster has accidentally accessed the Villain Epic Archetypes.

He’s generously taken plenty of screenshots and thus given us the first real taste of how t...


In-Game Ads for Paragon City
Brian Clayton posted this on the 3rd April 2008
In-game advertising is something that we have carefully considered ever since the initial release of City of Heroes in 2004. From our perspective it always came down to a few fundamental questions: Will this technology make our game experience more immersive or less immersive? In other words, ...

Is There Room For Two Superhero MMOs?
Camo_Fire posted this on the 11th March 2008
In early 2008, Cryptic Studios announced that it would be debuting a new game called Champions Online. Champions began as a pen-and-paper tabletop role-playing game. Champions Online’s lead developer Jack Emmet (you may know him better as the early Statesman) found the original Champions...

Jack Emmert on Cryptic's success (and failure)
Elizabeth Harper posted this on the 22nd February 2008
CoH, as you may know, launched in April 2004. During this year, the game grew to 180,000 subscribers while, content-wise, Cryptic worked on fixing bugs and providing game play options to level 50 without any additions or changes to game play. Things might have continued swimmingly for...

City of Heroes / City of Villains Sucks / Rocks
Gary Mitchel, Deanna Toxopeus posted this on the 9th February 2008
Now, I played some other MMORPGs, and then quit them when they did not hold my interest, usually after that first free month. But CoH, and its follow up City of Villains, have me playing almost daily since its debut in April 2004.

To explain why this game is so good, while also pointing out w...


Issue 11: A Stitch in Time
Cryptic Studios posted this on the 2nd October 2007
Issue 11: A Stitch in Time reveals that all that is and was is not as it should be! The mysterious Ouroboros organization, a group of beings from the ends of time, enlists the aid of Heroes and Villains to rewrite the past. Heroes and Villains are able to travel through time using the new Ouroboros ...

Developer Diary ? Turning Literature into Content
Matt 'Positron' Miller posted this on the 30th July 2007
With the decision made to use the Rikti for Issue 10, and bring Vanguard into the limelight, we knew it was the perfect opportunity to bring Hero 1 back from the Rikti homeworld, albeit a little changed.

NOTE: City of Heroes spoiler information follows.

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Announcing Character Transfer and Rename Testing
City of Heroes Development Team posted this on the 17th July 2007
Starting on Tuesday, July 17th, the Training Room Test Server will have two new game features enabled for testing: Character Transfer and Character Rename. Character Transfer will allow customers to move characters from one server to another. Character Rename will allow customers to rename a selecte...

Issue 10 - Invasion
Cryptic Studios posted this on the 13th June 2007

The skies over Paragon City are filled with dark grey thunderheads. It is the same in the Rogue Isles, Europe, and across the globe. Small ships dart through the heavy weather … and there are so very many of them.

The Rikti have returned.

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Player files lawsuit seeking to ban "real money trading"
The case is thought to be the first of its kind - a lawsuit filed by a player seeking to ban &...
 
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