Ship of Heroes gets a release date!

[Techwright]

22 hours ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

So it's been 2 hours. Did the game unlock? Can you download it?

 

14 hours ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

Release date on Steam now shows as: "Coming soon."

 

 

 

[heyedwin]

Edited August 19 by heyedwin
I just added the whole picture instead of just the cut off.

[heyedwin]

This is from their official Discord channel.

[heyedwin]

Update.

[El D]

On 8/18/2025 at 4:13 PM, Skyhawke said:

I just peeked at their Steam forum and it made me miss Diantane. 🤣

 

This prompted me to poke around the community hub and the interactions from their dev team - at least the only dev I see active - are not promising.

 

 

Making a 'temper your expectations, our promotions don't actually mean the level of creativity or content we're implying' post the day before your 'make the superhero of your dreams! IN SPAAAAAACE!' game is supposed to release is not the best omen. On a certain creative level I kind of respect them for actually sticking to their guns design-wise (if that's what this is rather than 'we took years and years to make what limited content we have, we won't get non-human items functional in under a decade' thing), but dang if my glimpses here don't give me early CoH forums Statesman flashbacks. Complete with apparently removing and ignoring criticism. At least Jack actually had his games go live when they were supposed to, which imo earns more 'you don't see the creative vision' points to spend versus this nonsense.

Edited August 23 by El D

[Krimson]

So... This game might possibly compete with Rebirth maybe... Rebirth, with it's 35 players might even win. 

[heyedwin]

It looks like it's hitting 'to be announced' status, unfortunately, due to Steam.

 

https://shipofheroes.com/forum/all-launch-topics/launch-update/#p31330

 

Edited August 24 by heyedwin
I've added the source.

[Skyhawke]

It'll be interesting to see how this goes down in flames pans out if/when it launches. I do think a price and sub fee are going to bite them in the ass.

[heyedwin]

I'm guessing it might get pushed past labor day at this point, which sucks.

 

Edited August 25 by heyedwin

[Amp Up]

You have to pay for soh? Ook that ship right in the dooker!

[WanderingAries]

8 minutes ago, Amp Up said:

You have to pay for soh? Ook that ship right in the dooker!

 

I'm assuming that's to cover hardware / software costs. It will technically be a new game vs this one, so there's to be some variance in expectations TBH.

[WanderingAries]

On 8/23/2025 at 6:29 PM, El D said:

 

This prompted me to poke around the community hub and the interactions from their dev team - at least the only dev I see active - are not promising.

 

 

Making a 'temper your expectations, our promotions don't actually mean the level of creativity or content we're implying' post the day before your 'make the superhero of your dreams! IN SPAAAAAACE!' game is supposed to release is not the best omen. On a certain creative level I kind of respect them for actually sticking to their guns design-wise (if that's what this is rather than 'we took years and years to make what limited content we have, we won't get non-human items functional in under a decade' thing), but dang if my glimpses here don't give me early CoH forums Statesman flashbacks. Complete with apparently removing and ignoring criticism. At least Jack actually had his games go live when they were supposed to, which imo earns more 'you don't see the creative vision' points to spend versus this nonsense.

 

Yeah, that's not the best PR considering they Could implement it later if that's in their worldview for the game. They may also be tiptoeing around the "CoX Clone" aspect of the whole thing.

[heyedwin]

Update : https://shipofheroes.com/forum/all-launch-topics/launch-update/page-2/

 

[heyedwin]

Another update :   https://shipofheroes.com/forum/all-launch-topics/launch-update/page-2/

 

[Lunar Ronin]

The question is: With the way that Heroic Games deletes even slightly negative feedback or concerns from the Steam forums and from their Discord server, and bans anyone expressing said slightly negative feedback or concerns from the Steam forums and Discord server, will anyone even care?

 

One of the biggest Heroic Games and Ship of Heroes supporters since 2017, and who was going to be an in-game moderator once the game launched, told the lead developer yesterday that Heroic Games' treatment of people expressing legitimate concerns about the game was unacceptable, said that he was done with Ship of Heroes, and left the Discord server.  That is just slightly concerning.

 

I've put $,$$$ into Ship of Heroes over the years.  Seeing the way that the developers have been treating people the past few months and trying to bury all feedback that isn't glowing... it's not a good look.  The lead developers have taken the philosophy "If you're not with us, you're against us" to heart, and assume that anyone with any negative feedback or concerns is out to sabotage the game.  That's... really not good.  It's going to be a very niche MMOG.  You want as many people to at least try it out as possible.

Edited September 6 by Lunar Ronin

[El D]

42 minutes ago, Lunar Ronin said:

I've put $,$$$ into Ship of Heroes over the years.  Seeing the way that the developers have been treating people the past few months and trying to bury all feedback that isn't glowing... it's not a good look.  The lead developers have taken the philosophy "If you're not with us, you're against us" to heart, and assume that anyone with any negative feedback or concerns is out to sabotage the game.  That's... really not good.  It's going to be a very niche MMOG.  You want as many people to at least try it out as possible.

 

Not only is it antagonistic toward the community they ought to be enticing, it's showcasing a pretty big lack of faith in the product they've spent so long working on. If they know their game is solid and will put various doubts folks are expressing to bed, they wouldn't need to moderate so hard much less go scorched Earth. Invite the doubters to play and have the game prove them wrong. Not that every remark I've seen is entirely fair (they've definitely had to wrangle some trolling) but there's been a lot of reasonable concerns from folks whom they've outright banned already. 'Hey, I was wrong about their game - it's good!' is much better rep than 'They banned me for voicing basic concerns/legit criticisms.'

[Krimson]

This is from a few days ago. Apparently, Steam is aware of the behavior of the dev team. 

 

[Skyhawke]

I, and I think plenty others, have tried to at least keep a "Hey, good for them" attitude during this looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong development cycle. However, they've just been shooting themselves in the foot left and right lately and all the while asking for upfront money and then continuous money. At this point, self implosion is pretty much where I see this game going...and you know what?

 

 

[Techwright]

 

 

 

[heyedwin]

Update : https://steamcommunity.com/app/1890100/discussions/0/707749927473742882/?tscn=1757725982