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City of Heroes comes to the Mac
Along with EVE Online and World of Warcraft, Mac users have another popular MMO to play with. It took a while, but NCsoft has finally brought their superhero massively multiplayer online game, City of Heroes, to OS X. When we heard the game was ported over by TransGaming, we flinched a bit, but NCsoft has assured us that there is no funny DRM on the release, and our colleagues over at Massively have tried out the client early, and put to rest any major questions about the quality of the port, saying that it runs well, save for a few bumps when the action gets crowded on screen.
As promised, the Mac "Special Edition" is a digital release, and comes with both the City of Heroes and the City of Villians expansion, as well as a month of game time (after that there's a subscription fee to play along), and two exclusive items: a Mission Teleporter power, to get you directly into missions, and a special "Valkyrie" costume set. The game is available for $19.99 over on NCsoft's site right now, so if you've been waiting to get some superhero MMO action underway, now's your chance.
As promised, the Mac "Special Edition" is a digital release, and comes with both the City of Heroes and the City of Villians expansion, as well as a month of game time (after that there's a subscription fee to play along), and two exclusive items: a Mission Teleporter power, to get you directly into missions, and a special "Valkyrie" costume set. The game is available for $19.99 over on NCsoft's site right now, so if you've been waiting to get some superhero MMO action underway, now's your chance.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
William Bokunic said 9:02AM on 1-09-2009
Where's our Guild Wars Mac port now? =(
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dorian said 11:48AM on 1-09-2009
agreed! I've been using Crossover for the time being but I know some people who haven't got it work.
jollyllama said 3:49PM on 1-09-2009
I've been playing GW for the last year through Boot Camp. Quite simply, I'm done waiting for mac ports of anything. Boot Camp works with everything, and if anything, having to reboot is an incentive not to play games too much, which quite frankly I need sometimes...
KomputarGuy said 9:29AM on 1-09-2009
Can I use this version free somehow since I already own the PC version and its driving me nuts to have to keep booting into windows every time I want to play?
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Frost said 9:40AM on 1-09-2009
Yes. If you already have a CoH account there's no need to buy anything unless you want the extra in game items.
You can download the client direct at ftp://client.coh.com/US/
KomputarGuy said 10:23AM on 1-09-2009
ah, excellent, can't wait to try it out in OSX.
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h8rain said 10:25AM on 1-09-2009
WARNING TROLL POST:
Wow. Porting a 4 year old MMO. It would be ironic if they shut down the servers in like a year.
I wonder how many players they have subscribed to the game.
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ryanegray said 10:44AM on 1-09-2009
I was thinking the same thing: "Too little, too late". I was with the game for 4 years but most everyone I know has completely lost interest and left. Maybe City of Heroes 2 will have a Mac client right out of the gate.
dorian said 1:35PM on 1-09-2009
i thought the same thing.
Drew said 4:35PM on 1-09-2009
Troll post nothing. This seems like bad news to me. The game is already failing. How is a mac port supposed to succeed? And when it doesn't, isn't that more reason to -not- make mac ports? "Well City of Heroes failed miserably." Well of course it did, it was already dead.
Fred said 10:29AM on 1-09-2009
What's up with that screenshot?
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blunckhouse said 12:38PM on 1-09-2009
Why, it's a screenshot of a screenshot application, of course!
Think Adrian said 1:38PM on 1-09-2009
He does what I usually do when the game isn't ported for the mac - watch screen shots and believe!
Craig Sayer said 10:44AM on 1-09-2009
What about "Pirates of the Caribbean Online" at http://www.piratesonline.com
We have been playing this online game for over a year now and works great on the Mac! My whole family plays it under the one account on four different computers.
Great fun sailing your ship with your wife and kids on the cannons!
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balls said 5:18PM on 1-09-2009
Bootcamp ftw. My late 2008 mbp handles L4D pretty darn good. Just gets a tad hot.
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moehong said 12:22PM on 1-10-2009
Can you play without the MMO aspects if you don't want to pay the subscription?
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