Get City of Heroes Going Rogue: Complete Collection for a special anniversary price [Updated]

So tempting to just check out CoH to see what Going Rogue is all about.

Turns out Guild Wars is on sale too. I might have to head on down to Gamestop if Steam doesn't have them on sale soon

I would wait until it is $5 before buying it. Maybe not even then.
I played COH for a long time (before Going Rogue), so it is all "been there done that" feeling. Great game and very new player friendly, unfortunately, it has not aged well, so unless there is a COH 2 somewhere in the future, I would rather wait for DCUO to go F2P (no credit card required) before even considering COH again.

ALL THE FAIL-TROLLS CAN SHUT UP NOW

http://eu.cityofheroes.com/en/news/article/april_producers_letter

THIS IS FROM : April Producer’s Letter and Anniversary Address

Happy anniversary, everyone! After seven years of live service, City of Heroes remains the most successful super-powered MMO of all time, and that’s thanks to you, the great people who have played the game these many years. We here at Paragon Studios have planned a whole month of celebrations for you, including in-game events, community participation, and even some special deals in the store.

Some of our most experienced players will recall that in the early days, City of Heroes was a very different game. The leveling curve was quite steep, missions used the longest maps whenever possible, the Monorail and Ferry required you to traverse long distances between multiple lines, and contacts regularly sent you to a different zone for every mission and were very private about their cell phone numbers. Some of the earliest Task Forces and Strike Forces were quite long as well, and I know I spent many a weekend on Trials that required a significant amount of dedication to complete.

We have changed many of these things over the last few years, sometimes by reworking existing content, other times by approaching new content differently. “Live” is an appropriate term for an MMO, since it really does feel alive—always changing and evolving. Our goals have shifted more and more to make the game more accessible and friendly to your lifestyle. We want our more casual players to be able to engage in all of the action, as well as provide a wealth of options for our hardcore players to explore.

It is important to learn from the past—it got us here and we are thankful for the successes we’ve had, as well as some of the things we learned from that weren’t so successful. We want to build on that history and we are focused on the future of the game: we know we have many great years ahead of us. Being able to constantly improve and expand upon the game is truly one of the most rewarding things to experience as a developer, and we always want that to show in our passion for City of Heroes.

We view City of Heroes is as a storytelling medium. We have a lot of long-term plans for the main story, and all of these plans are intended to provide a backdrop for the stories you tell with your characters every day. The Incarnate storyline weaves into the Freedom Phalanx, Arachnos, and the Praetorian storyline, and they all lead to the “Coming Storm” we have been hinting at for a some time now. The Well of the Furies, the Menders, the Letter Writer – all of these entities have their own agendas, and their motives are currently unclear, but that will change and threads of these tales will be more tightly wound. The next year in particular already bears some true surprises, and your characters will become more important all the time.

Related to this, the Incarnate System is an important part of our plans, and in May we will be going into closed beta with the next Incarnate Trial: Keyes Island Anti-Matter Reactor. As I have noted before, we will add incarnate Trials with every issue, but this year we will roll out even more Incarnate Trials to build a solid foundation for the future. We will also expand the Incarnate Abilities periodically, though not necessarily as often as we add Incarnate Trials. This includes adding more abilities to any individual slot as well as growing up the tree – one of the great things about the Incarnate System is that you can swap between multiple abilities for any Incarnate slot, and we want to give you more choices to use in more situations, there won’t always be a single “best” choice when it comes to an Incarnate Ability. We will also introduce new Incarnate Trees in the distant future to broaden your choices.

We know that there are players who are looking for alternative ways to experience the Incarnate System, especially options that are more accessible to solo players and small groups. We are looking into this for a future issue, and we want it to be added in a meaningful way that augments the epic Incarnate storyline and still remains accessible to our more casual players. Group-oriented play remains an important part of the CoH experience but we understand that not everyone likes to play in a group, and we will endeavor to take this into consideration in future development decisions.

Additionally we will introduce content that is not directly Incarnate-related; we will wrap up some old plotlines and expand on others. In the next Issue (21), we will be featuring an entire new zone with lots of things to do, both solo and in a group. We aren’t abandoning the independent spirit many of our players have. The zone will not only have new story arcs and contacts, but a very unique zone event that significantly links it to the greater storyline of the world.

We are very much looking forward to this month of celebrations, and future celebrations as well. Thanks for your ongoing loyalty, for your honest feedback over the years, and the great times we all get to share with you.

Sincerely,

Nate “Second Measure” Birkholz

@Unverified

I have no idea idea what point you are making. You posted a company letter. Do you really expect them to say anything but positive things about their game? Get a life and realize these commenters have played the game for a long time and are simply presenting their opinion. Your insecurity by calling them trolls and inability to use your own words betray any decent point you hoped to make.

Just say you like the game, like the community and found the additions met your expectations and you won't come off as such an ass.