saw this posted on a fb group page about coh/cov found it interesting - It has six entries in the Guinness Book of Records – First superhero based MMO, first 'evil' MMO expansion, first MMO to use adaptive difficulty and the first MMO to use a mentoring system. In the 2012 Gamer's Edition, it was in the top ten list of MMOs based on subscribed users (and was the only non-fantasy style game on the list) and holds the record for the most free content updates ever.
I didn't know any of this, but it doesn't surprise me all that much. Just another reason Cities was amazing and NCSoft is evil. *Sigh*
"City of Heroes" was the first MMORPG based not only on superheroes, but heavily on comic books, pre-dating Sony Online "DC Universe Online" by nearly 7 years. The free downloadable updates for the game were known as "Issues," with actual titles that added new content to the popular MMO. The upcoming issue 24, was titled "Resurgence."
Paid expansions included "City of Villains" in 2005 and "City of Heroes: Going Rogue" in 2010. The lore and backstory of the game was so popular that there were many tie-in projects in other media, including novels, a collectible card game and — not surprisingly — a comic book series from publishers Blue King and Top Cow.
"City of Heroes" had over 120,000 subscribers in the US and Europe as of September 2008 and added a free-to-play subscription model in October of 2011.
It has six entries in the Guinness Book of Records – First superhero based MMO, first 'evil' MMO expansion, first MMO to use adaptive difficulty and the first MMO to use a mentoring system. In the 2012 Gamer's Edition, it was in the top ten list of MMOs based on subscribed users (and was the only non-fantasy style game on the list) and holds the record for the most free content updates ever.
Of all of the MMOs that have been closed down, NCsoft are now responsible for cancelling a third of them – Auto Assault, Exteel, Dungeon Runners, Linage 1 (US/EU), Tabula Rasa and now City of Heroes. To date, it has actively opposed any third party attempts to purchase the intellectual property rights of any of its closed-down games.
Since the announcement that their game was to close, City of Heroes players raised over $8,000 for the Children's Miracle Network Hospital as part of the Extra Life charity event in October. The fourth annual Real World Hero charity drive is currently underway and players have already raised over $3,000 for charities including Operation Gratitude and Heifer International. In its four-year history, Real World Hero has raised $29,276.47
??? Where does that quote come from?
I did a search at Guinness's site for MMO http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/Search.aspx?q=mmo and none of the results were for City. Then again, I did the same search five minutes later and the six results it'd given me previously were no longer showing up. So maybe their search is borked.
The six MMO records it had listed were for "Most Popular Console MMO", "First Sci-Fi MMORPG", "Most Money Received for a Virtual World", "First Console Sports MMO", "Longest-Running Sci-Fi MMO", and "First MMO First-Person Shooter". None of those were for City of Heroes.
So before citing the "City's in Guinness" thing to the rest of the world, someone may wish to verify that City is actually in it. Unfortunately, a lot of what flies around on Facebook isn't truth, and it'd be awful embarrassing if we started spreading this as a talking point and it turned out to be false. :/
This is what I can find:
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/6000/first-superhero-based-massive-multiplaye-online-role-player-game
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/6000/first-mmorpg-to-use-a-mentoring-system
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/6000/first-mmorpg-tp-use-adaptive-difficulty
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/6000/first-evil-mmorpg-expansion
And the search function on that site is... horrible
COH is in Guinness. It's this edition, I believe. (I have a copy of it at home). Most of the entries in the gamer's edition don't show up on the Guinness website.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1904994458/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00
Quote from: healix on December 04, 2012, 08:45:04 AMit was in the top ten list of MMOs based on subscribed users (and was the only non-fantasy style game on the list) and holds the record for the most free content updates ever.
EVE is not exactly fantasy either and it has around 400k subscribers...
Just a note 0-o