City of Heroes extends free transfers yet again

by Eliot Lefebvre on Mar 1st 2010 10:00AM

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City of Heroes players have been heavily anticipating the upcoming double experience weekend for understandable reasons -- there's no finer chance to get a character leveled, or take a character who hasn't been played in a while and bring them up to new heights. As the developers have been wont to do of late, they decided to sweeten the deal a fair bit -- specifically, they've decided to add in a healthy dose of moving your character wherever the heck you want.

That's right -- after the last extension, the team decided to further lengthen the period allowed for free server transfers. February 28th was originally slated to be the final day, but with the weekend so close, they've pushed it ahead another week, ending either on Sunday or Monday. (The official announcement says "Sunday, March 8th." This is doubtlessly a typo, as the calendar forbids such an interaction from taking place.)

An extended transfer period means that everyone you play should be well-positioned for the double experience weekend, as well as the upcoming changes to the game. So get your smackdown on in City of Heroes wherever you want, and ramp up for the big changes just over the horizon.

[ Thanks to Skystreak for the tip! ]

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Reader Comments (3)

Not to mention the Going Rogue preorder going on sale, meaning there will be a bunch of new Dual Pistols characters running around that weekend.

This "dated" game really wants me to like them...

...Bill Roper should be taking notes.

This game seems to be doing all the right things lately. Add to that a lead dev that has a better feel of what to add to an MMO (I hope) and this game could take off again. It all depends on what they do with Going Rogue and future updates. When I was playing last year the updates were slow and they really sold out on Mission Architect - it is an amazing tool in the game but not something as amazing as they thought it might be. It seems they really thought it would be a big ticket item; it was worked on at the expense of other updates and features since everyone was working on it. At the time, it wasn't worth it. The game then stagnated with other updates last year and drove away a lot of players. I hope they come back.

I think I will be going back to it very soon (tm). I've tried other games but this one is hard to stay away from. I think it is the best MMO for the casual AND serious gamer.