NCSoft shut down the superhero MMORPG City of Heroes in late 2012. Since then, fans have been waiting for an (unofficial) successor. But that’s not necessary because City of Heroes can still be played on a private server for a long time. This was a closely guarded secret for a long time – now it has come to light.
What was City of Heroes? The MMORPG allowed you to create your own superhero or supervillain and then experience adventures in the city of Paragon City.
Fans particularly liked the character system with superpowers and the combat system, in which groups could act together.
The game was discontinued in December 2012. Fans have since wished for an MMO with a similar gaming experience. Therefore, many have pinned their hopes on the upcoming titles Ship of Heroes and City of Titans.
City of Heroes can still be played
The game is not actually dead? A Youtuber recently revealed that City of Heroes can still be played, but most fans knew nothing about it. The Youtuber Destroyer Stroyer explained in a video that he received a private invitation for SCORE (Secret Cabal Of Reverse Engineers) a few years ago.
SCORE is a fully functional private server for City of Heroes, on which it is even possible to revive the old heroes from the official version and simply continue playing. The server is said to have been in existence for six years.
The fans are angry
What is the problem? Actually, the fans of the MMORPG City of Heroes should be happy, but that is not the case. On the one hand, many are angry because the server was kept secret and it was believed that the City-of-Heroes community would stick together. However, only about 3,000 players received invitations.
Fan avoca says on Reddit: “I was lied to. It was said that City of Heroes was shut down. Today I found out that I was wrong about that.”
On the other hand, Destroyer Stroyer claims that a former developer of City of Heroes provided the people behind SCORE with the data of the former players. This also included private information such as payment details, addresses, and more. Among this data was also the player database, which is why it is possible to continue playing with your old heroes.
What do the server operators say? Leandro Pardini, a City-of-Heroes fan who is part of the SCORE team, explained the situation. According to him, the server had to be kept secret to prevent NCSoft from shutting it down. Because that happened with a private server of the discontinued MMORPG Tabula Rasa, in which he was also involved.
Furthermore, it is not true that SCORE possesses private player data. As far as the character data is concerned, a tool was developed before the MMORPG was shut down that allowed fans to save their characters offline.
Finally, a person contacted Leandro and handed over the entire database to him. However, this is said not to contain any personal data.
How can you play now? You still have to be personally invited by SCORE in order to play City of Heroes on the private server. You apparently get the invitation if you show that you are a big fan of the online game in forums like Reddit.
