just wondering who is behind bring this game back

[zerotothepi]

so first off thanks for all your hard work in bring this game back and bring it back for free wow its great just like to know more about the company or group that's doing all this hard work for us

[Water]

 

[Oubliette_Red]

The TL;DR version

• In 2012, CoH was shut down by it's parent company NCsoft
• Shortly thereafter, the rogue server came into being and was held a closely guarded secret with invite only access
• Some years later, existence of the rogue server became common knowledge (to those that paid attention to news about CoH).
• There was a lot of screaming and gnashing of teeth
• CoH game/server code got leaked into the wild so the anyone and everyone could run their own rogue server. This would also make it difficult for NCsoft to squash since there were now numerous servers running.
• Homecoming (HC) was one of the servers that was born of this. They then spent years working with NCsoft to legitimize their existence which finally happened this year.

The HC devs themselves as well as all the mods are volunteers that have worked countless hours to continue the unique world that is CoH.

[Snarky]

Da Illuminatus Secretus……

[Greycat]

Yeah. Be cautious about Reddit. There are some who consider HC - and SCoRE - and anyone associated with or even mentioning them to be baby-murdering puppy-kicking evil and will just attack you.

 

[Krimson]

It's funny checking the post history of the butthurt Redditors. They always seem to act surprised every time a community bans them, wondering why no one sees them as being as wonderful as they claim to be. Reddit is full of comedy gold.

[Snarky]

1 hour ago, Greycat said:

Yeah. Be cautious about Reddit. There are some who consider HC - and SCoRE - and anyone associated with or even mentioning them to be baby-murdering puppy-kicking evil and will just attack you.

 

lil ol' me?

[Snarky]

1 hour ago, Krimson said:

It's funny checking the post history of the butthurt Redditors. They always seem to act surprised every time a community bans them, wondering why no one sees them as being as wonderful as they claim to be. Reddit is full of comedy gold.

manufactured outrage is a virtual commodity worth more than bitcoin

[Lines]

A list of the heroes can be found here

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/staff/

[zerotothepi]

thanks for the info 

[Ghost]

25 minutes ago, Snarky said:

manufactured outrage is a virtual commodity worth more than bitcoin

Manufacture Outrage is all the rage!

[starro]

city of heroes score drama | Massively Overpowered (massivelyop.com)

[Krimson]

1 hour ago, starro said:

city of heroes score drama | Massively Overpowered (massivelyop.com)

Nice. I missed a whole bunch of that because I was busy trying to remember how to play the game.

[starro]

1 hour ago, Krimson said:

Nice. I missed a whole bunch of that because I was busy trying to remember how to play the game.

MassivelyOP is very supportive of COH and tries to be neutral and supportive to the installs and successor efforts like city of titans and ship of heroes.

[Greycat]

4 hours ago, Snarky said:

lil ol' me?

 

No, no, you're baby or puppy *biting.*

[Luminara]

Group photo of the HC team:

 

[Oubliette_Red]

 

16 hours ago, Snarky said:

17 hours ago, Greycat said:

Yeah. Be cautious about Reddit. There are some who consider HC - and SCoRE - and anyone associated with or even mentioning them to be baby-murdering puppy-kicking evil and will just attack you.

 

manufactured outrage is a virtual commodity worth more than bitcoin

 

I call those people Joanna

 

[Ghost]

18 hours ago, starro said:

city of heroes score drama | Massively Overpowered (massivelyop.com)

Thanks for posting this!

It have me something to do for 8 boring hours at work 🙂

[starro]

2 hours ago, Ghost said:

Thanks for posting this!

It have me something to do for 8 boring hours at work 🙂

....SO many people tried over the years to get COH back.   I had a spreadsheet from about August 2012 through January 2019 where I tracked any article, forum post or interesting internet find about the shutdown, spiritual successors, coh lease/buy efforts, original devs popping up or just interesting things.  Then I was dumb and deleted it and 'moved on'.... There was about three efforts that sputtered out before Score happened.

 

[Krimson]

16 minutes ago, starro said:

....SO many people tried over the years to get COH back.   I had a spreadsheet from about August 2012 through January 2019 where I tracked any article, forum post or interesting internet find about the shutdown, spiritual successors, coh lease/buy efforts, original devs popping up or just interesting things.  Then I was dumb and deleted it and 'moved on'.... There was about three efforts that sputtered out before Score happened.

 

There's an entire PILE of spiritual successors. 😄

[Aeroprism]

On 6/15/2024 at 5:29 PM, Snarky said:

manufactured outrage is a virtual commodity worth more than bitcoin

 

And it's so much easier to create too!! 

 

As for the original topic and the reddit-rage, I must admit that I really don't mind having joined the party a few years after it started. This allowed me to enjoy a mature, well developped server. And since then, the party and the alts just kept going!

[Ravenplume]

It's a Nemesis plot, of course.

[Sanguinesun]

On 6/16/2024 at 7:36 AM, starro said:

city of heroes score drama | Massively Overpowered (massivelyop.com)

 

There's a certain amount of irony with the articles that Massively has done over the years with all that, especially once you know how they were involved with it.

[Ghost]

20 hours ago, starro said:

....SO many people tried over the years to get COH back.   I had a spreadsheet from about August 2012 through January 2019 where I tracked any article, forum post or interesting internet find about the shutdown, spiritual successors, coh lease/buy efforts, original devs popping up or just interesting things.  Then I was dumb and deleted it and 'moved on'.... There was about three efforts that sputtered out before Score happened.

 

Damn, I would have loved seeing that

[starro]

4 hours ago, Ghost said:

Damn, I would have loved seeing that

It was my collection of broken links to the shut down coverage, spiritual successors, side projects (i.e. segs and paragon chat), former devs making an appearance online or AMA.    It was all broken link or stuff on Titan Forum that was all good stuff edited out.