Champions Online was one of my favorite games for a brief time. I only managed to get into it a few months before the transition away from the monthly subscription service. Haven't played since then because I lost access to SO much content into which I had invested hundreds of hours. I'd be interested to see what can be done to salvage the game at this point.

Hi Jack,

I was a CoH player since launch, and was always impressed with the team's commitment to the community and making meaningful great updates with each new issue.

Despite my best efforts, Champions never really did it for me compared to CoH/CoV. For me, nothing in the superhero MMO space has really ever recaptured the magic of CoH. It had a very specific, almost joyful, aspect to how it portrayed its city, and was always filled with moments of hilarity and sobering storylines. But most of all, it was a great game to boot up, team up with 7 other costumed freaks, and just let fists and energy beams fly in warehouses. Adding PhysX was one of the best things added to CoH, since bodies were suddenly flying left and right from knockback effects.

I even found my old CoH comics in a cardboard box the other day! Can you even imagine a subscription MMO sending you comics today?

CoH is currently in an odd space regarding licensing and free community servers. Can Cryptic buy it back from NCSoft? One can only hope...

I'm excited to see you back at the helm, and hope this brings great things to Cryptic's titles.

Yeah, not holding my breath for meaningful changes.

They didn't even use gameplay footage for Champions Online in the accompanying video

It's so over

Ive been perma banned, a long time ago ... and without me, you are worthless.

Hope for the best Love CoH, still play homecoming server to this day. Would be good to see some meaningful updates to Champions. Maybe some work on the nemesis system as that is the unique part of the game.

Praying this means we get normal monthly subs back instead of just the lifetime sub...

Should have known the whole Netease layoff and Embracer Group layoff would lead to this.

City of Heroes is still my favorite game of all time. This was a wonderful post to see in 2026. While I don't have high hopes for any meaningful changes to CO, that's ok. These super hero games existed as they did at the right time. They are not perfect, but nothing else compares. Even today as I play CoH, the amount of love and creativity that went into the world building is undeniable at every turn.

I have no point to what I am saying. I just miss the old days. The old communities. The time in which we could leisurely escape into these vast digital worlds.

Much love to everyone. And for what it is worth Jack, you changed a lot of lives with City of Heroes. I wish you genuine good luck.

I cant come back until the damage and almost every change done by a certain hire who recently left, is rolled back.
I have offered to fix CO before, and this is my final lift of the eyebrow, please inject hope.

The changes done over the last 10 years has crippled CO's chances of retaining players. You keep having new players try the game, but not stick around for very long and the reasons are obvious lessons which are not being learned, and when the entire veteran community is literally yelling out loud the wrongs that have been happening...it has been on deaf ears.

We know how to fix CO, but a lot of time has gone by with our expertise being overrided, by selfish ego's or folks who dont completely understand what theyre doing to the systems, often making changes to suit themselves and not the entire community.

I can put my offer of support, i know how to fix CO...on the table.
You need only reach over and meet half way.

i still play city of heroes !!!! forever my favourite game ever !!!

So the guy who was dragging City of Heroes down until he left has returned to his counter-project, thinking he can somehow pull people off Homecoming? Yeah, good luck with that, bud. Homecoming is free, and all the dlcs/cosmetics are free now. CO is just "F-you, pay me".

I'll never return to CO.

I miss people crying in B.A.S.H.

Years had been passed with Cryptic with many ups and downs. Unfortunately, the two games which I consider them that they suffered the most are City of Heroes and Champions Online, together, no matter what.

CoH we all know about its stories, including with CO when both were competiting against each others while being made by the same company. But I am still a fond of CO, despite of many hates I can give with its negative points because it is rare to see a Super Hero MMORPG that is still alive as "Official" (CoH is considered as a private server so it does not count. But It works very fine and updating things up too. A big thumbs up for the fans there.)

So far, from the CO discord, many players did sent bugs to fix, ideas, power balancements, etc. It is quite unfortunate that these topics which the players had been talking about since years were barely been touched.

I think what it would need there is litterally a very large table and to look at the pile of files which they had not been looked upon since then. I know the list itself is long, especially for each games. But some of them, to my eyes, require more attentions than the others at this point.