And so lots of people, including me, showed back up to the game and started playing new superheroes in Paragon City and supervillains in the Rogue Isles.

No cease-and-desist notices, at least not yet. When word got out, everyone panicked, expecting NCSoft to hit the game with a lawsuit - but NCSoft has weirdly turned cool about the whole thing. Some guys had cobbled together their own secret game server with all the old code, all working perfectly, and they’d been playing with a few friends for years.

But the years passed, and all of us superhero fans had to move on.Īnd then, all of a sudden, about a year back, City of Heroes returned. I mourned the end of that game plenty, and I figured there would never be any computer game that’d catch my attention the way CoH did. Y’all remember City of Heroes, right? My great video game obsession, the best dang superhero MMO ever, shut down too early back in 2012.

Of all the weird things that’ve happened in the last four years, few have been more unexpected and more welcome than the return of City of Heroes.

Lets play city of heroes