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City of Heroes EU Release Date Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the up-up-and-away dept.

GamesIndustry.biz has the news that NCSoft will be releasing City of Heroes in Europe on February 4th. The EU customers get all sorts of fancy doodads to offset the delayed release. From the article: "European customers will receive a special deluxe edition of the game, which includes all of the content updates to date, an 88 page comic, and a number of serial codes which unlock special items in the game."

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  1. Re:Infomation for us! \o/ by MacroRex · · Score: 3, Interesting
    CoH is exactly the MMO I want to play. There is no crafting. There is only the barest notion of "treasure" (bad guys sometimes drop enhancements to your powers). There is no notion of "camping" as I understand the EQ definition. It is very easy to just load up CoH and PLAY, without worrying about the secondary and tertiary activities that seem to overwhelm the actual game in UO or Everquest or SWG.

    My sentiments exactly. Since I have job and a spouse I can't play any game 24/7 like I used to do with MUDs 10 years ago. This means a MMO needs to be playable casually, and this is where City of Heroes excels. Only have 30 minutes? Fine, load up the game and go do a mission, or just arrest villains that plague the streets. No need to sit in PoK or whatever looking for a group first. On the other hand, if you like teaming up, CoH has it down pat, too. The team seek functionality is the best I've seen in any game, and the concepts of sidekicking/exemplaring mean that it is possible to team up with absolutely anyone else, no matter what level they are.

    I am an European player. However, most likely I will not be joining the new EU servers. There are two reasons; first, my server (Justice) works without any noticeable lag, so there are no performance issues solved by switching. Second, Cryptic/NCSoft have announced that they will not be offering a chance to transfer characters to the new servers. Money is no issue for me.

    I can understand this policy (it prevents ebaying), but I've put 4 months worth of my precious free time into my few characters. None of them are even level 40, but I've grown very fond of them. The idea of doing the lower levels again with them just is horrible. As I said, I'm not a powergamer per se, and don't have the option nor the motivation to quickly pump hundreds of playhours into the game just to get back where I am now. I play the game to have a fun, and the minute it turns into a chore, I'll quit.