All it will ask for is the basic customer information (name, age, address) and an email address verify that email address and you're in.įree players will be able to create two characters (not two per server, two total) on any but one of the servers. To play City of Heroes on a completely new, completely free account, all you need is to download the installer from and run it. So, with the understanding that this is partial and incomplete, and doesn't include some 'edge cases' and 'special cases,' here's how it's going to work, from Tuesday on:įree: If You Never Give Them a Dime, and Never Have There's an official announcement page, that links to several FAQs, and players have written at least two guides to what this means, but they really fail, in my opinion, to sum it up concisely. Together, they add up to this: barring any disaster between now and then, City of Heroes will have gone 'freemium' (free to play basic experience, premium services available) by noon on Tuesday, September 27th. And the servers will be down, Tuesday of next week, from 6:00 am to noon, Central time, for bug fixes. If you have ever bought any boxed set or ever had even a one month subscription to City of Heroes or City of Villains, it may have already gone free for your account if not, it'll be rolled out over the next couple of days. City of Heroes: Freedom is going live next week. BradhicksParagon Studios just made a set of three back-to-back-to-back announcements on the City of Heroes forums.

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