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City of Heroes Dev Renamed
NCsoft’s Mountain View, Northern California-based NorCal studio has been renamed Paragon Studios.
The 50 staff strong developer recently launched the Mission Architect system for City of Heroes, which introduced the ability for users to create and share their own custom missions.
"The renaming of our studio to Paragon Studios represents our devotion to the present and future of the City of Heroes series," said Brian Clayton, general manager of Paragon Studios and executive producer for the City of Heroes franchise.
"As pioneers in the comic book-inspired MMO genre, together with our esteemed veteran development team, it is our mission to continually strive for innovation, solidify the strength of our brand, and continue providing high quality experiences for City of Heroes and any future projects that come from Paragon Studios."
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True on one count, but NCSoft was partner (half-owner) of the IP, plus there are a good number of Cryptic alumni that jumped from Cryptic to NCNC-now-Paragon Studios when NCSoft bought out Cryptic's claim on the game.
As for the game itself - its quite good, and I've been playing for over 3 years now. The mission creator is enjoyable so far. I look forward to seeing how the Mission Architect is expanded, refined, and hopefully copied by other games, each with their own spin on it!
I think it's a bit inaccurate for NC Soft to dub them "pioneers", since it was Cryptic that originally developed City of Heroes/Villains.
Not to take anything away from the studio, I mean the mission/campaign editor sounds like a great idea (can't comment on how well it works without having used it) and I hope future MMORPGs include similar options. That really opens the door for making it possible to have a table top RPG experience via a MMORPG.