City of Heroes on its third year and some random facts

 

This April 28, City of Heroes (COH) celebrates its third year since it was first released. The game’s developers Cryptic Studios and publisher NCsoft must be really proud of this achievement.

In the an NCsoft-admistered press release, they attribute the success of their MMORPG to multiple factors. Among them include the free expansions (now at number nine) and content, the robust character customization options the game offers, and their thrust against the common medieval setting that seems to pervade most games of the same genre in the market today.

Within three years, more than 24 million characters have been created in City of Heroes and City of Villains. Over 102,000 of the said characters have already topped out at level 50. 654,000 super groups have been established which have given birth to 66,000 super group bases. NCSoft released some more statistics on the game that factoid hungry fans might want to know:

• 27% of the hero characters created were blasters, making it the most popular hero archetype.
• 26% of the villain characters created were Masterminds, making it the most popular villain.
• 32% of the characters with travel powers chose flight, followed by super jump at 28%, super speed at 25% and teleport at 14%.

So what’s the latest on the game? The latest release of the game is the Good Versus Evil Edition which includes both City of Heroes and City of Villains. The latest expansion, Issue 9: Breakthrough, which will be released soon adds a crafting system and auction houses.

 

This April 28, City of Heroes (COH) celebrates its third year since it was first released. The game’s developers Cryptic Studios and publisher NCsoft must be really proud of this achievement.

In the an NCsoft-admistered press release, they attribute the success of their MMORPG to multiple factors. Among them include the free expansions (now at number nine) and content, the robust character customization options the game offers, and their thrust against the common medieval setting that seems to pervade most games of the same genre in the market today.

Within three years, more than 24 million characters have been created in City of Heroes and City of Villains. Over 102,000 of the said characters have already topped out at level 50. 654,000 super groups have been established which have given birth to 66,000 super group bases. NCSoft released some more statistics on the game that factoid hungry fans might want to know:

• 27% of the hero characters created were blasters, making it the most popular hero archetype.
• 26% of the villain characters created were Masterminds, making it the most popular villain.
• 32% of the characters with travel powers chose flight, followed by super jump at 28%, super speed at 25% and teleport at 14%.

So what’s the latest on the game? The latest release of the game is the Good Versus Evil Edition which includes both City of Heroes and City of Villains. The latest expansion, Issue 9: Breakthrough, which will be released soon adds a crafting system and auction houses.