Ship of Heroes gets a release date!

[strix_]

It's really impressive what this team of enthusiastic amateurs were able to accomplish!

...I am never paying a box price and a monthly subscription fee for this product when it looks quite bad and CoH is, y'know, right here. What a strange little relic of the CoH dark age this game has turned out to be

Edited September 18 by strix_

[Lunar Ronin]

Heroic Games announced the pricing for Ship of Heroes.

 

$60 for the base game, and a $15 per month subscription...

 

 

[Skyhawke]

20 minutes ago, Lunar Ronin said:

Heroic Games announced the pricing for Ship of Heroes.

 

$60 for the base game, and a $15 per month subscription...

 

 

 

 

[Kyksie]

1 hour ago, Lunar Ronin said:

Heroic Games announced the pricing for Ship of Heroes.

 

$60 for the base game, and a $15 per month subscription...

 

 

 

...and just like that, ten years work down the drain.

[battlewraith]

Looks like Borderlands 4 is going to have some stiff competition.

 

[El D]

The cost alone is ludicrous but it gets even better with the 'What is included' section. The $60 download fee and a full price monthly subscription provides 10 character slots.

 

Not 10 per server, 10 per account. Minimum $75 for the same amount of slots as a single page on a single server on Homecoming.

 

 

[Kyksie]

I just noticed that the recommended system specs include 32GB RAM. Even the upcoming Battlefield 6 only recommends 16. Slideshow framerates and microstuttering ahoy. 

[heyedwin]

https://massivelyop.com/2025/09/19/we-finally-know-how-much-ship-of-heroes-will-cost-59-99-for-the-box-and-a-month-of-sub/

 

Another update.

[lemming]

2 hours ago, El D said:

The cost alone is ludicrous but it gets even better with the 'What is included' section. The $60 download fee and a full price monthly subscription provides 10 character slots.

 

Not 10 per server, 10 per account. Minimum $75 for the same amount of slots as a single page on a single server on Homecoming.

 

To be fair, that's not far off of what live was.   (Well, there it was per server)

 

I don't think comparing what we get at HC to be that fair, though I'm not interested in trying out Ship at this point.

[Skyhawke]

2 hours ago, lemming said:

To be fair, that's not far off of what live was.   (Well, there it was per server)

 

I don't think comparing what we get at HC to be that fair, though I'm not interested in trying out Ship at this point.

 

Oh, it's absolutely fair. HC is it's direct competition and they need to at the very least "one up" HC if they expect to survive for any appreciable amount of time. 

[Krimson]

Pricing. Totally not delusional. 

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/MMORPG/s/JAkqc1hxz2

[biostem]

2 hours ago, Krimson said:

Pricing. Totally not delusional. 

A full subscription game nowadays and a full box price?  Yikes!

[biostem]

5 hours ago, lemming said:

I don't think comparing what we get at HC to be that fair

It is fair in as far as it is an available alternative.  Even discounting HC, there's also Champions Online AND DCUO....

[lemming]

2 hours ago, biostem said:

It is fair in as far as it is an available alternative.  Even discounting HC, there's also Champions Online AND DCUO....

Hard to price against free.   Now, if you compare art, play, etc...  that's fair.

 

It's on the high side of pricing for the quality I've seen of it.

[biostem]

49 minutes ago, lemming said:

Hard to price against free.   Now, if you compare art, play, etc...  that's fair.

Oh no doubt, but IMO you need to consider the competition you're up against.  If they had gone a "freemium" model, since having a solid playerbase is so important, and assuming they had a superior product, they would probably make more money overall...

[battlewraith]

15 hours ago, Kyksie said:

I just noticed that the recommended system specs include 32GB RAM. Even the upcoming Battlefield 6 only recommends 16. Slideshow framerates and microstuttering ahoy. 

 

Everyone is rightly focused on price, but damn that’s a lot of RAM for a game that looks like that. Seems very risky to drop enough money for a AAA game on something that appears very poorly optimized.

[Skyhawke]

1 hour ago, battlewraith said:

 

Everyone is rightly focused on price, but damn that’s a lot of RAM for a game that looks like that. Seems very risky to drop enough money for a AAA game on something that appears very poorly optimized.

 

Or the fact that it feels like they're saying "32 gb of ram" because that's the new "you must have this much" standard for AAA gaming now, it seems. Nerd buzzword, if you will. That and the way they're treating people on the Steam forums makes me wonder if Randy Pitchford is their PR person. 😄

[heyedwin]

Pricing confirmed via their official website.

 

https://shipofheroes.com/Pricing-and-Release-Details/?amp;utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-09-19&utm_campaign=Pricing+and+Release+Details

 

[battlewraith]

8 hours ago, Skyhawke said:

 

Or the fact that it feels like they're saying "32 gb of ram" because that's the new "you must have this much" standard for AAA gaming now, it seems. Nerd buzzword, if you will. That and the way they're treating people on the Steam forums makes me wonder if Randy Pitchford is their PR person. 😄

 

It’s just crazy to me. The last three games I played all have vastly better graphics than this and didn’t recommend that much. Google came up with some minimum specs for this game that are lower, but they aren’t listed on the company’s info page. I think I’d probably have to buy a new computer to run those recommended specs.

[Krimson]

My guess on the memory requirements would be unresolved memory leaks. 

[Kyksie]

1 hour ago, Krimson said:

My guess on the memory requirements would be unresolved memory leaks. 

 

I'd say it's a CYA in case of shitty performance.

[Skyhawke]

Well, it supposedly launches tomorrow so we'll see how big their "different base of players" will be. I have a feeling it's going to be a wee bit on the small side. Again, on one hand I wish them luck and on the other hand I'm really sadistically looking forward to the crash and burn. 

[Skyhawke]

Also, I know the graphics in COH aren't top notch, but I've never seen a character that looked like it yearned for the release of death like this SOH character does. 😅

 

 

[Skyhawke]

Since I was up early, did chores and am bored while the wife is still asleep I did some digging. Ho. Lee. Crap. This was from their free playtest and they expect better at exorbitant pricing? I don't think this will even be the cash grab some are saying it is. I think this is just gonna be sad. 

 

 

[Techwright]

2 hours ago, Skyhawke said:

Since I was up early, did chores and am bored while the wife is still asleep I did some digging. Ho. Lee. Crap. This was from their free playtest and they expect better at exorbitant pricing? I don't think this will even be the cash grab some are saying it is. I think this is just gonna be sad. 

 

 

 

Ouch.   If this was a game cartridge, I'd have said Atari's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial had a rival.