eatmorekix quotes Vice:
In 2012, Paragon Studios announced it was shutting down City of Heroes, a massively multiplayer online game where a community of players created their own superheroes, went on adventures together, and formed lasting friendships.
The news was crushing to the game’s devoted community because they could no longer play and hang out in the virtual space they loved, and today, years after the game’s shutdown, the community is in an uproar again. As Massivelyop first reported, a group of City of Heroes players called the Secret Cabal of Reverse Engineers (SCORE) had created their own, private server where they could continue to play the game for the last six years, but kept it relatively secret.
“I like the rest of you have been lied to,” Reddit user avoca wrote in a thread titled “BE ANGRY” on the City of Heroes subreddit. “I have been told City of Heroes has been shutdown. Today, I learn I have been mistaken. For all of these years, City of Heroes has lived on. In secret. For every passing day and every withdrawal symptom, a person is playing on this secret server, and they are gaining xp, leveling up, performing task forces and forming supergroups.”
In 2004 the game’s lead designer answered questions from Slashdot’s reader.
15 years, a member of the emulator team tells Massivelyop that they’d tried to keep their City of Heroes server a secret for over six years because they were worried about getting a cease and desist notice from the game’s publishers.
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Source:: Slashdot