@Mr. Analog was right, last year NCSoft gave Homecoming their blessing to use the IP and continue the game. I'm playing on Everlasting server, but looks like you can character transfer.
To get playing head to https://forums.homecomingservers.com/getting-started/, create a Forums account then once verified you create a Game Account and download the launcher.2025-02-15 00_26_58-Outbreak.png2025-02-15 00_29_27-Outbreak.png2025-02-15 00_23_13-Outbreak.png
WAIT.
WAT.
[urge to create Melee maxed toon and SuperJump across town rising]
❤️ @ https://forums.homecomingservers.com/status/ (more than 1900 players currently logged in across all servers... 20 years later)
Angst Technology -- remember that classic web comic[**]? So good. Golden age of the interwebs.
In this recent City Of Heroes video, at 1:29:36 the "InkTank" artist Barry Smith explains ( @ 1:29:36 ) how COH died and then came back 😎
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6bRQs466GA&t=1h29m36s
City Of Heroes - Time to level some alts! (BeardedCoffeeMonkey 02Aug2023)
[**] https://comics.beardedcoffeemonkey.com/
^ every AT strip is there! And also his later web comics: the paintball one, the comic store one, and the semi-autobiographical one where his character gets hired by Dante at the Angst Technology company to work on a "Cowmandos" video game 🙂