City of Heroes News & Events & Guides

Nearly five years from its launch in 2004, coh continues to survive and thrive under the newly-rebranded Paragon Studios. And thanks to the recent Issue 14: Architect update, it seems to be doing even better than before.
In CoH Influencedescribing the progress of the game's newly implement user created content.

According to Paragon's Matt "Positron" Miller(CoH Influence), "Like every system we design here, the Mission Architect system has been a labor of love that we have poured over every little decision on. I feel like everything we have worked on has really been worth it when I see that within 60 minutes, we had 360 entire Mission Arcs (each containing up to 5 missions) available for other people to play. By midnight on day one, we had over 2600 arcs, and exactly 24 hours after launch we were already at 3800 arcs."

That's quite a lot of story arcs. More data after the jump.

"City of Heroes influence Users are now talking about which Mission Arcs are fun, and which ones are brutal. They have set up threads in our forums where they "Review" each others' work, giving critiques and criticisms on the arcs published by others," he wrote, adding that users have been churning out movie-style posters, comic-style covers and even machinima to promote their creations.