Celebrating Seven Years of City of Heroes

from: http://kotaku.com/#!5796646/celebrating-seven-years-of-city-of-heroes

Celebrating Seven Years of City of Heroes

Mike Fahey — Seven years ago today, NCsoft and Cryptic Studios
released City of Heroes, providing fantasy-gorged massively
multiplayer online gamers a new way to waste countless hours of their
lives alongside thousands of their closest friends. Let's celebrate
seven years of heroes and villains with a colorful infographic and
nostalgia-laden anecdotes!

I fondly remember the day City of Heroes went live. I must have spent
a dozen hours camped in front of my computer, soaking in everything
Cryptic Studios had created. Then I finished creating my character and
moved on to the game proper. It was nice enough, but damn if that
character creator didn't keep calling me back.

Seven years later more than 42 million characters have been created
(some of them not mine) and 15.7 billion experience points have been
earned. The game has survived a Marvel lawsuit, a studio transition,
the invasion of super villains, and the release of two competing
superhero MMOs, including Champions Online, a game crafted by City of
Heroes' original development studio.

NCsoft and Paragon Studios has a month of special events and sales
laid out for City of Heroes players to help celebrate scratching seven
years of the superhero itch.