Why City of Heroes Died

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City of Heroes was a popular MMO developed by NCSoft and Cryptic Studios back in the early 2000's. Unfortunately, it was closed down due to some reasons that will be discussed in this video. But, there is hope on the horizon!
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[@jasongaylard2547]

It was murdered, and now its back like a vengeful spirit. A common superhero/villain trope.

[@godza8107]

No comments?

[@mkmike4903]

@@godza8107 no hes an idiot

[@cariboujones3285]

@@mkmike4903 gaylard

[@mkmike4903]

@@cariboujones3285 ok rump ranger

[@zeehero7280]

Like a zombie from beyond the grave it riiises!

[@FreakazoidRobots]

The fan made servers up today make the game even better than it was in the past. Imagine an MMO where all the paid content is offered for free at first level.

[@joshuawilliams1026]

Depends on the server you play for. Homecoming everything is free. Reborn you have to earn things like items for base and capes for getting a 50. It’s closest to the original game.

[@joshuawilliams1026]

IdleBigots I know it’s like 8,000 or so people playing. The private server couldn’t hold more than like 1000 people at first now it holds 8000-10,000 without much issue.

[@slickrick2345]

@IdleBigots I heard the news months ago...but finally found the homecoming server and have been loving every second. Its like coming back home! Got some others back in too. The community is also fantastic

[@celestialfox3043]

where can i find the private server. I remember playing this game as a kid, I'd like to relive my childhood a little

[@FreakazoidRobots]

@@celestialfox3043 Tequila isn't my favorite launcher, but this should be enough to get you started: forums.homecomingservers.com/installation-guide/

[@Ston247]

In 2004, I waited across the street in a diner until Game Stop opened. As soon as the gate was unlocked, I swooped down on them like the FBI .... lol. All the lights were not turned on yet as I purchased CoH. After I installed the game I played until I fell asleep at the keyboard.

[@zeehero7280]

FBI OPEN UP! HAND OVER YOUR CITY OF HEROES COPY!

[@robokast]

quick little comment: i realize the game isn’t still dead. there’s a passionate community behind city of heroes homecoming and other projects, and a lot of people still play it. in this video i’m solely referring to the original city of heroes game owned by NCsoft.

[@Ken220]

City of Heroes will never die

[@KenMabie]

here is the torrent magnet link so that you can download all the files you need to run your very own CIty of Heroes/City of Villains/Rogue server magnet:?xt=urn:btih:883783039a964380b92018ba6b6990b39a389eda&dn=COH%20Collection&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tvunderground.org.ru%3A3218%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fkw.serverpit.com%3A1337%2Fannounce here is the link for the I24 definitions - drive.google.com/file/d/1QfML3Aiz7Bq999aSG_R4IxV0ozWBuSlR/view?usp=drive_open and if you need any help check here - ourowiki.ouro-comdev.com/index.php?title=Main_Page they have all the files and instructions on how to set up a server and client software

[@Fhrgaderga]

I mean, there's Rebirth, coxg, Reddit, Victory... Homecoming isn't the only one in town, yet everyone fails to acknowledge that fact.

[@JATMN]

Yea as mentioned by others.. Homecoming did NOT "Remastering" the game.. And while its a large server its not the core of the supporting ongoing development community.. Your actually commenting with a lack of real information on the topic I would advise deleting this comment or revise it after more research

[@luketfer]

Can't we all just be happy that we have so MANY active servers and projects going for what NCsoft considered a dead game with no call to it. Between all of those servers I'm wondering how many players CoH has now. I know Homecoming announced 100k players at one point. Do any of you guys now the figures for the other servers, I'm just curious is all since CoH (before it died) needed 100k to 'keep the lights on' as it were and that more than that would help with development further.

[@echopryme]

Right off the bat... kill the word "WAS" from this video. City of Heroes is back and lives!!! Servers are full and shit isn't dead!!!

[@Game-Goblin]

True that... Already working hard on filling up my toon slots bwahahahahaha!!!

[@dnsean03]

Send me info.. I tried to find it but no luck

[@Game-Goblin]

@@dnsean03 forums.homecomingservers.com/index.php/topic,950.0.html

[@nekoali2]

@Liberty Justice It's comic tradition. Nobody stays dead forever.

[@ocoolwow]

Doesn't count if the game is shit, and this game is a steaming pile...

[@oldmanmercy2773]

CoH didn't die, it was shut down. To this day, I refuse to buy anything with the NCSoft logo.

[@Coach_Butch]

This is the proper response. FUCK NCSoft!

[@CentralNexusPrime]

Same here ....

[@PrimeroTSJ]

It's back though.....

[@MindstormXL]

@@Coach_Butch I cut off the NCsoft labels from my CoH/CoV shirts

[@nyxsyn]

NCSoft is shit....ruined a damn good thing!

[@silbakor629]

This was my first MMO. The best gaming community I have ever known. Some of the people I met playing this game I am still friends with to this day. We moved around from game to game, never quite finding another home. You can't imagine how I felt the day I learned about the underground server. I read everything I could find about it and I was there for Day 1 of the Homecoming server. And that's exactly what it was, a homecoming! I was literally brought to tears when I stepped into Atlas Park again for the first time in 12 years. And the community is still there. I love this game.

[@punk3rpaul691]

Is it still going strong ? What are the player numbers like ? i played when i was much younger, but im 29 now, i feel id have a much more enjoyable experience in my age today than i did back then. Albeit, i still have wicked nostalgia regardless. Truly a marvelous experience to be had as a kid growing up.

[@silbakor629]

@@punk3rpaul691 The community is still there and still as great as it was on live. The numbers are pretty good and there is new content being added frequently. I would check it out, even if it is just for nostalgia's sake.

[@CentralNexusPrime]

NCSoft: You can’t make money on superheroes.... MARVEL Studios: Say what???

[@luketfer]

Thats one of the funniest things, if NCsoft had just stuck it out, they could be making BANK with the rise of the MCU and other superhero movies if they'd kept up the game and maybe even bought out CoH2.

[@The_Bermuda_Nonagon]

Marvel released the Avengers movie in May 2012, then NCSoft announced this game would be shutdown in August 2012. Soooo yeah, poor timing.

[@seanmalloy7249]

@@luketfer Even if NCsoft had stuck it out, it wouldn't have been what they wanted. The vast majority of Asian MMOs don't make their money off subscriptions; they make their money off microtransactions in the cash shop, with people buying better or more attractive gear for individual characters. CoH had already established their store as account-wide one-time unlocks for costume pieces that had no in-game effects, since all of the ways to make your character better -- enhancements, temporary powers, accolades, etc. -- were already in the game, and you could acquire them just by playing the game. There was nothing NCsoft could do to monetize the game to make it an ongoing stream of microtransaction income directly to NCsoft (via their 'NCoin' common currency for buying items from the cash shops for NCsoft's various games) without breaking the game as it was and alienating the playerbase.

[@khanyeeast5556]

I love these videos so much! I wish there could be way more but I guess I would much rather have quality over quantity

[@robokast]

I really appreciate it!!

[@glutenfreegam3r177]

A part of me died with City of Heroes. So many friends lost.

[@Iluvantir]

This was the first MMO I ever played, and still has a place in my heart. Only recently found out about the fan run server.... and my Hero and Villain is now back... helping or harming as they will. Long live CoH/V

[@banrajanand7983]

You know its back up right? There is a fan server rn that has everything!

[@Iluvantir]

@@banrajanand7983 Yeah! I'm already on there. Enjoying it. :)

[@deckerstirek9213]

@@Iluvantir 2 year old comment. Is it still active do you know?

[@Iluvantir]

@@deckerstirek9213 I think so, but it's been a year since I popped in there - had a new PC and haven't tried installing it to find out.

[@warshade2029]

17:10 Now *that* brought a tear to my eye. NCSoft is so cold...

[@Wraiven22]

I love that you can customize your character exactly how you want it before you even play. I love that I don't have to pick gear that fucks up my look just because it's more powerful. I also just love the game in general. It's the only game i've been paying since I found out about the new servers.

[@buttnugget2900]

I remember being in the Rallys. The servers were SO laggy but there were so many people on it was amazing. NCsoft lost me as a customer after they closed the game.

[@ravissary79]

The CoV plotline was fantastic. And some of the task forces that let you mix heroes and villains was amazing.

[@zeehero7280]

"now get along guys so we can defeat these aliens we both want to get off our planet!" Hero: "yeah those aliens disrupt law and order!" Villain: "Yeah, the world is MINE to conquer, not theirs!"

[@fromenze]

The Endgame, _before_ Endgame

[@bvarino100197]

No, it was the endgame then became the endgame

[@SignoftheMagi]

Superheroes never really die. They just wait for the comeback. And the story never ends. City Of Heroes is BACK.

[@33kenpachi]

City of Heroes IS UP on private server City of Heroes rebirth Or city of Heroes homecoming !!!

[@Tajimothy]

I remember city of heroes was fun to me purely because up until that point it was the only game I had ever been able to freely fly around in (if you chose flying of course but i remember there was also like super jump or super speed to choose from)

[@KenMabie]

This game could literally be the Oasis from Ready Player One

[@mattiron26]

Yeah I got a little misty eyed when he talks about the "final day". But then, I'm going to go play my favorite brute on CoH right now :)

[@ALEXISAGREIVER]

Loving these throwback nostalgic videos. Keep up the great work RoboKast!

[@joshuawilliams1026]

Throwback? The game is back!!

[@jerrymorelock3136]

Character creation was much a game in its own right. To this day I've seen nothing else even remotely close.

[@pfergee]

I look so damn forward to each installment of this video series of yours. This is one may be your best one to date too.

[@robokast]

Thank you so much!

[@garicrewsen1128]

I played CoH as a monthly membership player and dove deeper into the game when CoV launched. I remember the rallies to keep the servers open, and the subsequent farewell message penned by Andy Belford (who I believe was one of the subjects of the documentary movie "Second Skin", which drove me even further into the community/family aspect of MMOs in general). After server shutdown, I was desperate to find anything MMO that wasn't W.o.W. and what it had become with the inevitable release of the Blood Elf/Outland Expansion looming on the horizon. FF to 2008 and the release of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (W.A.R.) led by the infamous Paul Barnett of Mythic Studios, two entities both now reviled by the W.A.R. community, but not more than EA studios, aka "game dEAth", who shut down W.A.R. servers on the 5th anniversary of W.A.R.'s launch with tens of thousands of players remaining online and battling in the RvR lakes up to the moment EA flipped the switch and the lights went out. Thousands upon thousands of close friendships, many considering each other as "members of their own families", which never would have materialized were it not for the daily/nightly ventures into the "RvR lakes" bent on total destruction of the massive warbands of the enemy of one's respective chosen side: Destruction vs. Order, were lost in that instant. My GF and I, who solidified our now decade long relationship through our nightly excursions in W.A.R. - I played since launch day, she began playing in 2010 shortly after we met - and the members of our guild at that time who we continued to run with even after she and I moved to different guilds due to various reasons, some minor, some major, but none so horrible we would be estranged from former guildies, our relationships with them and current guildies becoming stronger through the years. The mismanagement by Mythic, the hands off approach of Games Workshop (creator and owner of the Warhammer universe) and the move of command of W.A.R. from Mythic, to BioWare, then to who sounded the games deathknell, game dEAth (EA studios), clearly put the writing on the wall about the future of W.A.R. Andy Belford was the community manager of W.A.R., the same role he had in CoH. It seems he has been unlucky enough to be part of great games that get axed for no other reason than turning profit losses. He was a great person to have in that role as he is foundationally a MMO gamer at heart, as can be seen in the movie "Second Skin." IIRC, I believe it was Andy that stayed aboard W.A.R.'s sinking ship, working double shifts, coding in new adventures and activities in some of the less populated areas of W.A.R. in a last ditch effort to revitalize and retain areas and players to convince EA that a shutdown was unnecessary and detrimental to their coffers and a tight, familial gaming community. And he did just that until he was excused from the project, I believe even without notice. That's a long time ago, however, and mixed with deep emotions on my part, of which I don't desire to relive as I've shed far too many tears over the loss experienced at lights out, and foreshadows news on a much brighter note: W.A.R. LIVES!! Now known as RoR (Return of Reckoning) continuing to be developed on a forever free, private server by a unique group of individuals, in addition to their "9-5 careers" and family obligations, daily invest several hours of purely volunteer time into not just keeping the original code running, but making vast, sweeping and game changing alterations to the original game, maybe not unlike those who have done the same with CoH. The only caveats are: This group owns the server and as such has overarching say in who is allowed to play. These are good people and do not allow ANY flack toward developers nor any form of in game cheating, dealing summarily and with finality toward those who dare challenge them or their decisions. That is all laid out in the official forum @ www.returnofreckoning.com and although sounds totalitarian, has led to the complete ongoing absence of gold farmers, botters, and any other sort of cheater, since the private server was launched, appropriately one year after game dEAth flipped the switch. The server cap was only in the low hundreds back then. Slowly, methodically, as almost every major and minor bug has been fixed, new aspects and abilities added to game play, while removing those that made no sense or were simply ineffective, the server cap is at 1500, which may not seem like many, until one thinks about the fact there is ZERO revenue produced by this game, with a pittance of a stipend produced by adverts on the official forum, all of which goes to the maintenance of the physical server, which has been upgraded (read: they bought a bigger, better one) twice, and remember that none of the devs receive a penny from anyone or anything inside or outside the game as this would bring Games Workshop copyright lawyers in like hounds on a blood hunt. The other major shift is that the sole server is located, IIRC in France and RoR has far more (satisfied) players who reside in that area of the globe who suffered terrible ping during the life of W.A.R. Those of us in the states now enjoy a similar experience, but nowhere near what our EU brothers and sisters did in W.A.R. So this volunteer group, running on a ZERO dollar/euro budget, have our beloved game running far better, while developing NEW content, abilities and armor than the original paid version. It just goes to show that it is never a large group with unlimited funds that makes sweeping change. It is the small, familial, underfunded and unsung but fully dedicated group that makes lasting, positive change in our world, irl and beyond. My hat is off to those of whom are continuing to manage CoH and I will drop by and spend time within that world now that I know it exists, and I hope any and all reading this whether veteran or no0b to RoR (W.A.R.) would drop by and see old friends or make new ones and enjoy all these selfless devs have to offer for free.

[@Greystar2426]

Consistent quality and discussion in every video. Keep up the good work

[@SapphWolf]

I loved this game. The regular zone events really gave you a sense of community even if you were mainly a solo player or just played with the same group of friends all the time. Everyone putting the mission they doing on hold to fight off a zombie apocalypse or stop an alien invasion. It was always exhilarating when you'd be doing your own thing and then suddenly the sky would change color and you know shit's about to get real. I have such fond memories of that game. Far more than any other MMO I've ever played.

[@piggybankvillan]

Not really into superheroes or superhero games, and I've never played this game, but I do remember seeing ads and videos for it and thought it actually looked pretty fun. I feel like the game was ahead of its time. If they came out with a modernized superhero MMO, I think it would flourish in today's more prominent Marvel/DC nerd culture. Anyways, excellent video on this one RoboKast.

[@ericvulgate]

I wasn't into super heroes either. There's so much more to coh than superheroes... Or there's more to superheroes than I thought 😁

[@LagunaShirogane]

CoH has been reborn!! Look for CoH Homecoming!!! Trust me.

[@Blackcat70_]

All I can say now is... Welcome Home...

[@lboston4660]

I remember seeing this game in store shelves but never really thought much of it. It looks pretty cool though. Something about the aesthetic really calls to me so I'll see if I can figure out how to get into these new community servers and check the game out. Thanks for the great video!!

[@theterminator6121]

Yeah dude did you check it out ?

[@luis377]

i remember having a naked character just beat up some people those were the times

[@hichaeljordan963]

The game got revived I’ve been playing it for a week now

[@bigsassyster]

I remember designing the character was half the fun of the game.

[@DoctorEviloply]

I'm glad City of Heroes is back. Even though the source code was held hostage and the existence of a private server that was more of a cult than a server was kept secret from those deemed unworthy for over 9 years. Make no mistake, If it wasn't for Destroyerstroyer leaking that the server existed after years of bullying and blackmail to keep it secret. We'd never know that CoH was ever back. And even now, that still makes me angry.

[@Alexander-ix2jp]

And now it's officially back online with an official license from ncsoft all while running on an emulated server that has kept the lights on all these years

[@Yekiim]

Robokast most of the time I hate when a KZbinr I watch changes their videos to something completely different. However I LOVE what you did and how you changed to this style of videos

[@robokast]

thank you so much!! that means a lot!

[@AgentExeider]

What I liked about COH's F2P model vs other games, was that it pushed you in the direction of getting a Sub instead of keeping you a F2P player and a la carte your experience perpetually. the F2P model gave you a taste and eventually you'd sub up to get the rest.

[@WhiteCandle]

The best thing about COH was always: the class of Players. If you've tried the other MMORPG's, such as DCUO, and even GW2, you've noticed they are filled with many many vile players. The COH community was a fantastic bunch who would help you out, when able, and never treat you like dirt. I never found COH players to be anything but helpful. In a way, it's better that COH has continued the way it has, with supportive players who care about the Community....and it's great that the jerks remained in the other MMORPG games.

[@davidcrimson3768]

Fan made servers are still up. Would recommend it, I'm a fairly new player. It's a nice play and time killer if you need time to kill.

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

I held a torch near the end and was there when the server went down I was in tears. I loved that game.

[@jaistar4695]

You have nice videos that tell me so much about how these awesome games died and failed keep up the good work!

[@BobbyHockaday]

Miss it so much, anyone else remember the sewer runs?

[@richardgombert2752]

Damn it's been forever since I've played this. It was legit my favorite game ever lol

[@joshuawilliams1026]

Richard Gombert it’s back!!! I’m so happy this game is back and alive.

[@glennf7948]

Hell yeah love this game

[@guyver-9717]

Same

[@TubeNotMe]

It's nice that it's back, but it's just not the same for me. I remember when it started out and we were playing through all the missions and everything. Now it seems everybody just rushes to level up with Death From Below, farming, task forces, and so forth until they're up in the end-game content. Rushing through stuff without taking time to enjoy the superhero experience was always something of a problem, but with the comeback it seems to have escalated to the max.

[@juuso8142]

could you do a same type of video about lego universer, i played it ton as a kid and for some reason it was shut down, ty!

[@cforth2725]

Thank you for posting this video I was just feeling nostalgic and seeing if anything existed on KZbin about my favorite game Yes I was around since beta and I remember marvel suing them And you brought back a lot of cool memories I did not know that this game was fan base ran still I'm going to definitely have to check out how to get back into Paragon City Thank you so much for posting this

[@theplacewheregoodthingshappen]

Robokast: Humans used the alien technoblogy to build a wall to seperate them in safety Me: *Attack on titan opening intensifies*

[@MichaelThiesdjjester]

It wasn't an expensive game compared to other MMO's at the time, it was the standard industry pricing model.

[@Mammerd]

These videos are amazing man

[@justmazen3168]

can you talk about super hero squad online? its my child hood game and i was super sad when i first heard that it got shutdown

[@eltirick6550]

I know your voice from somewhere but i dont know exactly where .. i feel like i knew a youtuber with the same voice when i was younger .. anyway Good video i love your series 🙏

[@jcope3886]

I started playing about a month after launch. Played up until jusr before Rogue, as I was playing other MMO's with friends that didn't play CoH and Global Heroics, my hero team, had faded to the winds. I tried to return shortly before the game was shutdown. So happy to see it's back. Even if my current PC isn'tt up for gaming.

[@seth7407]

When I played the game back when it came out, Lots of players would make copyright infringing characters and then they would show up later as blank default looking characters. These kind of looks would range from marvel, DC, NSFW, Star Wars and really anything that would be considered problematic. So they may have never been sued by these companies, they still did what they could to restrict what kind of builds you can make

[@MichaelEC1]

Holy shit! So glad I looked this up. I loved this game and really missed it. SO glad that the fans got it up and going again. I'm gonna find it and play it tonight.

[@TigerLoveHeart]

and today NCsoft gave full rights to homecoming server for ownership of the game, which they apparently won't change the model, keep it based on donations to keep the game running

[@NateVonGrimm]

NCSoft didn't give ownership of CoH to the Homecoming team. They gave them a license to run CoH servers legally. NCSoft still own 100% of the rights to CoH

[@Arthezius]

Still playing this. City of Heroes Homecoming. Look it up and come join in!

[@ghostprxphet]

Hey Robo, can you please make a video on Blockland? The game had huge potential but was sadly abandoned by the developer. Really interesting story

[@LluksRellik]

Yay another upload I love watching robocast

[@crxmsxn9444]

This video needs more publicity

[@ShandiNicole1982]

I was a beta tester. Played to the second they shut down. I miss it, but now I’m a mother and really no time to play.

[@MarkLittle-rq2bq]

NCSoft offered Homecoming a licensing agreement - City of Heroes officially lives once more.

[@markittystuff]

It's pretty cool honestly to see that at least some people got to move forward after City of Heroes like Andy Belford who was the one who posted the farewell. It's cool that he was the community manager for City of Heroes and to see him move to be the community manager for Overwatch is just nice. It's fitting. I hope more of the team that was working on this found other opportunities

[@Ova_is_Better_than_Anime]

I played the game too late, in 2011 I think. My character was named Eleknetic, by using eletric for combat and Kinect powers as defense. I wrote his own backstory tie-in with Blue Spectrum, the fallen hero that you can choose if you want to save or not in the tutorial. I played a lot of that game, but in late 2012, I knew something was wrong, I never understood why there was so many people in front of the "White House" in Paragon City with the emote of torch, I didn't know what was happening, so I continued with my playthrough. One day my older sis asked me to create an account for her and let her play for herself, but I couldn't because of what was about to happen. And then, one single day, the game closed, with my character, my progress...my friends. My sis couldn't even play it....I still miss that game, I even tried to play DCUO, but it ain't the same thing, it just ain't....

[@goshtamoshta]

I heard there are private servers!

[@Ova_is_Better_than_Anime]

@@goshtamoshta I've been playin' City of Heroes Homecoming, a community server, it has been marvelous till this day. I even remade my character that I described above, but a little bit aged, since it ain'g 2012 anymore hehe

[@goshtamoshta]

@@Ova_is_Better_than_Anime I've never heard of the game until yesterday and I was looking for games that gave me nostalgia. I'll try it out!

[@Ova_is_Better_than_Anime]

@@goshtamoshta I'm crossing my fingers for you to like it

[@PaperGunner722]

I really felt as you should've mentioned Champion's Online as well DC Universe Online. Champions was also developed by Cryptic Studios, and I'll always see that game as the successor to CoH. Even if it's a bit P2W. DC Universe is the polished versions of both games, and is very much well alive, despite having a smaller player base as they did before. The thing unique about CoH was that it created the Hero MMO genre. The genre is one of the few that allows you to create a character that is truly yours. With Hero MMOs, theres a deep connection with your character that isnt seen in many other MMOs. With this, I dont see the future being with a CoH remake, but with Champions Online and DC. CoH died, not because they weren't in the right market, but because the market became bigger than CoH could compete with. Champions came out in 2009, and DC came out in 2011, a year before CoH died. CoH couldn't compete, it was a niche market they tried to fill for, and you cant compete with better quality games and a more active player base. If anyone wants to relive those CoH days, play Champions, if anyone wants to see a modern CoH, play DC.

[@paveesfox375]

Ignoring graphics and different gameplay. City of heroes had a more complete world structure and actual variety. The concept of endgame wasnt built around optimization versus DC online(where you are forced to do powers a certain way to do content compently) all games have meta but it wasn't an issue in coh as compared to dcuo. I tried champions a few times and to me it is the worst of the 3. Dcuo isn't going to last and champions is forgettable to point It's a niche in and of itself. Hell coh homecoming servers are as amazing as I remember and I am still playing coh(they even fixed and released i24 and i25 that previously were unreleased).

[@mattlee1581]

This is objectively wrong.

[@ViccVegaa023]

It's interesting that most Comic Book Superhero fans at the time COH was released were either Marvel or DC fans with fans of individual Image creators in there as well. COH wouldn't have much interested DC or Marvel heads much and Champions probably would have the interest of the old school Pen and Paper crowd since it was a brand they knew like D&D. It's probably a tough dollar in this PARTICULAR MMO market (Superheroes) because the total potential market is so fragmented. A generic Fantasy MMO might have a chance to interest a wide market fantasy fans but with Superheroes there are fans ready to ignore new projects based on what the game ISN'T. Not a Marvel game? Not interested! Not a DC product? Same? And the Asian market probably only wanted something that either looked like 80's Shonen Hero Anime or Marvel stuff. Honestly its impressive and amazing that COH lasted as long as it did.

[@Kededian]

I remember pulling entire instances with my invul tank. Thus boosting tons of players with the sidekick option. Ah those were the days. Then the agronerf came. And the fun was over...

[@randomoblong5076]

Next video do Cloud Pirates, I played it since it released but it shut down after around a month. :3

[@Grizzly907LA]

Its 2020 and this game came out in 2004. People are still playing it and they're also donating to keep the various serves up and running. That goes to prove that you can't keep a good thing down. NcSoft stepped in it big time when they shut the game down.

[@cupcakepower6479]

I didn't play the game so I didn't know the story behind the scene. But when I saw the name NCsoft, I was really not surprised.

[@professr9343]

Brought this game but never had a good enough computer to run it back then

[@Ifromthek]

Does anyone know this one game where you could buy mounts such as tigers or Magical flying carpets and what not, There was like building plots I guess you could say and I cant remember much but I remember people would have like this magical trail of dust and shit.

[@alexbro2511]

tbh i still wished u talked about ark in the state it's in now. not just about how it's mostly dead but how the severs have turn into a mega-tribe nightmare. from what i've seen so far you have talked about rust,day z,miscreated, and rfk i wish you could talk about ark as well

[@MHesse]

Thank you so much for this video. Because of which I am now able to play City of Heroes again!

[@acowinthebarn3312]

Oh dude, could you do a video explaining why Guns of Icarus died? It's such a fun game and had so much potential, but it struggles to sometimes even break *25 players.*

[@Rev0lution1991]

Anyone that gets recommended this video Years later just know. City of Heroes is officially back. Homecoming received an official license in feb2024 and WE ARE BACK!!

[@xp10199]

I remember seeing this game all the time in PC game aisles. Always wondered what it was like.

[@Glitch35z]

That game it was the one i liked to try but never done it cause they closed it,thank god we have private servers and fans that keep it alive

[@TheLoneClaw]

Great video, but I found it a little odd that you didn't mention City of Heroes' second expansion, Going Rogue.

[@UltraBiPolar]

Did he actually play the game when it was released or within the first few years ? There was more to the death of this game, it’s called WoW.

[@sideeggunnecessary]

It wasn't overpriced at all, but completely in line with its contemporaries at the time, everquest, dark age of camelot, planetside and world of warcraft were all a full game purchase alongside a monthly fee

[@GenericPast]

I miss the days when community managers like CuppaJo ran the forum and interacted with players.

[@TheNeoVid]

Even after all these years, I'm still wishing that CoH had ended up setting the default for MMO design instead of Everquest/WoW.

[@joyroc885]

COH has the best community of any game I have ever played. Glad its back!

[@stevesmith1810]

@Xoeei from Freedom Server here, great video, thank you!

[@AndrewAment]

Moral of the story: Greed is evil. And the game isn’t dead; I have seven alts atm on Torchbearers.

[@Beowolf193]

Didn't die its back, one word Homecoming

[@bethemooseef6647]

You're my favorite KZbinr keep doing what you doing

[@jaistar4695]

Dude you must do ALOT of research I like your commitment also yes I subscribed.

[@zeehero7280]

City of Heroes eventually would need a new game made due to its engine and combat mechanics being increasingly more painful and dated. but at the time the shutdown was due to a lot of factors at once.

[@OdeeOz]

Wish they'd bring back *_Galaxy City as a starting point!_*

[@nextxguy1964]

Today is 04/01/2020 and to this day I still miss City of Heroes. I have yet to find a game as good as City of Heroes was. Now I have heard of the launch of City of Heroes on the fan base server. I've checked into it and the reviews finding there are issues with the game. Server crashing, login issues and possible lawsuits from nc soft leading me to not play. I will wait till the game returns legally if it ever does. I doubt it ever will but there's hope.

[@speeddex4745]

Can you make a gmod dark rp vid im an old subscriber and dark rp is what got me into your channel

[@thin_retro_god1570]

Thankyou for the nostalgia

[@obsidiancomet9580]

The worst bit about the closing of city of heroes was that NCSOFT, realizing their mistake when everybody lashed out at them, thought about rebooting the game, but decided not to in order to save face, because that would mean that they would be admitting that they fucked up.

[@KenMabie]

I was there .. during the Great Rikiti Warzone Battle ... Than Datass clapped his jewel encrused Infinity Booty and all of existence was gone ..

[@jrag1000]

That marvel lawsuit pissed me off, and they never made their game, then years later they did avengers and well...

[@brokenserenity01]

it was actualyl wildstar that they shifted development to as gw2 was already out by the time CoH died.but the rest it very true and tragic given how much potential the game had and how few good superhero games there are despite the popularity of heroes being so high the last decade or so.

[@brandongraf4797]

how can i play this now?? can you send a link to that private server download, miss this game

[@PhotonHerald]

Nice to see the references back to Pirates of the Caribbean Online.

[@robertleeluben]

Like in any great super hero story, death was only temporary. You can play it right now.

[@alistairmcelwee7467]

I loved CoH. Had no idea that there are fan servers. Can’t wait to get on one.

[@richardroberson2564]

How have I not heard of this game before?