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City of Heroes: Homecoming Gets Officially Licensed By NCSoft to Run and Develop the Game | MMORPG.c

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited January 4 in News & Features Discussion

imageCity of Heroes: Homecoming Gets Officially Licensed By NCSoft to Run and Develop the Game | MMORPG.com

NCSoft has given City of Heroes: Homecoming an official license to operate its CoH server. The team confirmed the news and are sharing a FAQ on what this means for access and continued development.

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  • TillerTiller Member LegendaryPosts: 11,485
    I hope this opens the door for more canceled games getting some official emulator licensing like SWG and Marvel Heroes. I see no where they mentioned what it cost them.
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  • Jaguaratron1Jaguaratron1 Member UncommonPosts: 299
    A fan run server of a 20 year old MMO which shut down over a decade ago has more players on it than many "triple A" games.

    Very surprised NCsoft did this, not normally the way companies work but I think its a good PR move
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  • Jaguaratron1Jaguaratron1 Member UncommonPosts: 299
    Incidentally I would like to add its hilarious that Jack Emmert hated City of Heroes and stuck his nose in two other Superhero MMOs to make "his vision" in DCUO and Champions Online and those two games combined is about a 5th of the playerbase of Homecoming.
    strawhat0981
  • RaagnarzRaagnarz Member RarePosts: 647
    Damn never expected to hear this and I echo others sentiments that hopefully this paves the way for other games like SWG to get official status from the OG devs/company.
    Tokken
  • achesomaachesoma Member RarePosts: 1,768
    When WildStar?
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  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,499

    Tiller said:

    I hope this opens the door for more canceled games getting some official emulator licensing like SWG and Marvel Heroes. I see no where they mentioned what it cost them.



    City of Heroes isn't a big IP in itself, but Star Wars and Marvel sure are. I can't see the latter giving out a free license.
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  • DattelisDattelis Member EpicPosts: 1,675
    So who will publish? NCSoft?
  • TillerTiller Member LegendaryPosts: 11,485
    achesoma said:
    When WildStar?

    In hindsight people now think the game was good, at the time people really shredded it because of the graphics and pay to play. It got pretty empty if I remember. Knowing what we know now about the direction of the industry as a whole maybe it would do ok, I don't know.
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  • TokkenTokken Member EpicPosts: 3,649
    SWG and Marvel Heroes, YES PLEASE!
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  • TerazonTerazon Member RarePosts: 424
    Asheron's Call 2 (sue me I liked it)  and Matrix Online would be cool 
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  • Asm0deusAsm0deus Member EpicPosts: 4,618
    edited January 5
    Nice! Great news for them.

    When Homecoming first came out I played this for a bit and did some CS in the discord and forums for people having trouble getting the game to work.

    Was back when they were using Tequila to launch the game. I would imagine they got a better launcher now!

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  • KallendalKallendal Member UncommonPosts: 53
    COH/COV were incredible titles. the MMO as a whole was taken offline way way too early. I have been playing on Homecoming for ~ 2+ years, on and off. a LOT of fun and increibly fun community. If you haven't tried it, I recommened at least giving it a try. For those that have play COH back in the day, HOMECOMING offers great changes and advances in classes.
    ValdemarJ
  • KumaponKumapon Member EpicPosts: 1,605

    This is pretty big. I don’t think this has ever happened before?

    Huge congrats to that team. I know there will be drama regarding other servers but I see this as good news. For now, anyways. NCSoft could have shut them down at any point over the years.


    TokkenValdemarJ
  • FrodoFraginsFrodoFragins Member EpicPosts: 6,057
    edited January 5
    The last I heard, NCSoft was aware of them reusing original source code, donated by former devs, and let them be.  Maybe NCSoft just wants some money from it.

    Tokken said:
    SWG and Marvel Heroes, YES PLEASE!

    Sadly no Marvel Heroes source code has made it to private server people's hands.  Unless it's a tiny and super, duper secret one. :(

    The MH emulator people have a VERY long road ahead of them.

    https://github.com/Crypto137/MHServerEmu

    At least SWG has working emus up and running though.
  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 8,177
    Daybreak allowed P99 and NCSoft is okaying Homecoming. Very good and I hope to see more companies being magnanimous.
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  • GinazGinaz Member RarePosts: 2,572
    After hearing about this, I downloaded the game tonight.  I'm glad people enjoy it and this news means it won't be going away anytime soon, but I just couldn't get into it.  It's old and clunky.  LOTRO came out around the same time and I don't get same feeling with that game even though it lacks a lot of modern features.
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  • KnightFalzKnightFalz Member EpicPosts: 4,583

    Jaguaratron1 said:

    Incidentally I would like to add its hilarious that Jack Emmert hated City of Heroes and stuck his nose in two other Superhero MMOs to make "his vision" in DCUO and Champions Online and those two games combined is about a 5th of the playerbase of Homecoming.



    You mean the two superhero MMORPGs that never shut down and still remain commercially viable despite one having to cover a DC licence fee?

    Yeah, CoH sure showed them...

    Anyway, this seems good news for Homecoming and I'm all for that.
  • KnightFalzKnightFalz Member EpicPosts: 4,583
    Ginaz said:
    After hearing about this, I downloaded the game tonight.  I'm glad people enjoy it and this news means it won't be going away anytime soon, but I just couldn't get into it.  It's old and clunky.  LOTRO came out around the same time and I don't get same feeling with that game even though it lacks a lot of modern features.

    What archetype did you play (and which primary and secondary powers) and now long did you give it?

    Also, what made it feel more clunky to you than any other tab-target MMORPG?
  • ParagonianParagonian Member UncommonPosts: 39
    Unbelievable. I never thought I'd see the day.
  • ParagonianParagonian Member UncommonPosts: 39

    Ginaz said:

    After hearing about this, I downloaded the game tonight.  I'm glad people enjoy it and this news means it won't be going away anytime soon, but I just couldn't get into it.  It's old and clunky.  LOTRO came out around the same time and I don't get same feeling with that game even though it lacks a lot of modern features.



    CoH came out 2 months prior to WoW's release(Nov '04), and LotRO came out in 2007.
  • DeskMonkey13DeskMonkey13 Member UncommonPosts: 162
    Many fond memories of this game. :)
  • DeskMonkey13DeskMonkey13 Member UncommonPosts: 162
    Oh yea! And it was my first catfishing experience. Hahahaha.
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  • DeskMonkey13DeskMonkey13 Member UncommonPosts: 162

    Tiller said:


    achesoma said:

    When WildStar?



    In hindsight people now think the game was good, at the time people really shredded it because of the graphics and pay to play. It got pretty empty if I remember. Knowing what we know now about the direction of the industry as a whole maybe it would do ok, I don't know.



    Yea the F2P gamers are usually the ones the industry point the finger at.
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,429
    DeskMonkey13 said:
    Oh yea! And it was my first catfishing experience. Hahahaha.
    Only your first?! :)
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,429
    edited January 5


    Incidentally I would like to add its hilarious that Jack Emmert hated City of Heroes and stuck his nose in two other Superhero MMOs to make "his vision" in DCUO and Champions Online and those two games combined is about a 5th of the playerbase of Homecoming.



    You mean the two superhero MMORPGs that never shut down and still remain commercially viable despite one having to cover a DC licence fee?

    Yeah, CoH sure showed them...

    Anyway, this seems good news for Homecoming and I'm all for that.
    As far as I know Champions Online has a licensee via the Champions RPG from Hero Games. But yes, no doubt they have to pay a license for that. For me CoH was the best, then Champions then DCUO. But they were all good, no two ways about that.
    uriel_mafess
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