For some of the players who dismissed SCORE as a wild embellishment or rumor, there’s a sense of betrayal. There’s also the question of who got invited and why - and as a follow-up, who didn’t get invited. (NCSoft declined to comment on the matter.) Other fans are angry at Brian, feeling that NCSoft may crack down on this server as a result of the leak. Many players lost long-term communities or friends over City of Heroes, and the more time that passes, the weaker those links become. Some are furious that there’s been a way to return to Paragon City that they didn’t know about. Pardini added that not only would this be an inexcusable privacy breach, but “that is not information that a game server would ever need to operate, and so it would have been completely pointless to share.”Ĭity of Heroes fans are in an uproar. He said he is not a City of Heroes subreddit moderator, that other emulation clients are not in league with SCORE’s community, and that no personal information from customer accounts was ever distributed to SCORE by Paragon’s former employees. In a statement to Massively OP, SCORE’s lead developer, Leandro Pardini, denied many of Brian’s accusations.
His other allegation is that the secret SCORE server may have a database backup of the live game, which could include account information. He alleges that SCORE was kept quiet by power players in the City of Heroes community.īrian’s first objection is that “playing the game, and not being able to share the game, was not fun.” Many fans lost a major emotional investment when City of Heroes was closed down, and they have been holding out hope that they can return to their digital home. By revealing the existence of this secret server, Brian broke a nondisclosure agreement that he had signed. The emulator SCORE (Secret Cabal of Reverse Engineers), according to Brian, has been run in secrecy by a closed community for the last six years. As Massively Overpowered originally reported, this leak - as well as the reaction to it - has led a once-dormant community to explode into chaos.ĭestroyer Stroyer, who identifies himself as Brian, shared his experience in a 34-minute video. Rumors have persisted for years in the City of Heroes community about a full private server, and they were finally confirmed by a player named Destroyer Stroyer.
Paragon Chat and SEGS are two of the surviving mirrors of City of Heroes’ content, but neither of them have full functionality. Fans rallied for in-game protests, funded spiritual successors on Kickstarter, and eventually fell back on creating their own versions of City of Heroes that couldn’t be taken away from them. The superhero themed game, along with developer Paragon Studios, was shuttered due to a “realignment of company focus and publishing support” by publisher NCSoft. 31, 2012, fans began battling for the fate of their favorite MMO. When City of Heroes’ developers announced that they would be shutting the game down on Aug.
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