City of Heroes just went Free to Play.

[stefan]

so, uh, yeah.

http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/about_...m_overview.php

in short:

if you've never played CoH and join, you're a F2P player and you get most of the basic stuff. if you've ever given CoH money at some point, e.g. buying the game or playing for however many months, you're premium, which has benefits like being able to play Mission Architect arcs or access to the ingame marketplace, etc. if you choose to keep paying monthly fees, you get VIP status and the latest expansion plus most of the locked content included. They also reactivated all of their lapsed accounts, so if you ever played CoH at all before you can just download the client and log back in.

they removed the hero/villain limitation on archetypes (e.g. you can be a heroic Mastermind or a villainous Blaster), you choose which side you're on during the tutorial mission. however, a couple of the standard archetypes, plus the elite archetypes, are locked out and need to be either purchased or unlocked by being VIP.

I figured what the hell, dusted off my old account, having a decent amount of fun starting a new character. anyone else interested in the new vistas of F2P superheroics? especially ssince, as far as I can tell, they haven't made the F2P model quite as pants-on-head retarded as champions online did.

[Grimpond]

Yeah, I'll give it a shot if I can rem ember what my old account was.

[Doc ock rokc]

HAhahah Sweet! I can go premiu-Fuck what was my account!

I don't know why but this game was always better to me then Champions...

[Azisien]

Probably because Champions was shit. That was probably why.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Well, in Champions' defense, its character generator seems a lot less buttFiftfiend-ugly than City of Heroes.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Azisien

Probably because Champions was shit. That was probably why.

But so's CoH, so that still doesn't explain the preference.

[Viridis]

Might reinstall this if I ever have Windows again. I didn't even fight things. I just pointed my squad of stompy death robots in the general direction of things to murder, like a mini-RTS.

[Token]

I... actually like Champions.

but hey if this one actually gives me the option to play as a villain, i'm in

[Melfice]

Not sure if it was the Flying Hollander or the Flaming Hollander, but I do know he shall fly again!

... if I remember my log-in data.

EDIT: Also, I remember that when I downloaded the game for the first time, it took me over ten hours, including installation.
Hopefully, it'll be faster this time. @_@

[akaSM]

Hey, I could sort of "play" this in my netbook, I just hope it doesn't catch fire or something. It cannot be worse than Spiral Knights with it's glorious 5 fps, right? :3