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• unfilteredJW Member RarePosts: 398

  October 2015

  I'm going to ask the usual "Should I give this game a go?" post right here. And, if I should, sub or no?

  I'm a MUDder. I play MUDs.

  Current: Dragonrealms
• falc0n Member UncommonPosts: 385

  October 2015

  No
• MysteryB Member UncommonPosts: 355

  October 2015

  Champions is a fun game I would say if you liked City of Heroes or never played it but want a superhero MMO Champions definatly feels like a comic book game, however it is not as good as City of Heroes was.

  Mystery Bounty
• Ryuushima Member UncommonPosts: 63

  October 2015 edited October 2015

  hahah new lockboxes, always new lockboxes. For the last few years almost all "updates" have been new lockboxes. Not long after it went f2p the game stopped getting big updates. Sure it got some silly things once in a while but the only reason I spend quite some time in it was the community and the costume contests that were pretty hilarious edit: lolol I only just now read their plans for the future and even that has plans for additional lockboxes. If that is their way to hype up players then lol just lol.
• Vorthanion Member RarePosts: 2,749

  October 2015

  I guess it's more proof that if you put gambling into the hands of the masses, they will gamble it all away......lockboxes.......lockboxes and yet even more lockboxes. They aren't even ashamed to call it content.

  
• Tamanous Member RarePosts: 3,030

  October 2015 edited October 2015

  Ryuushima said:

  hahah new lockboxes, always new lockboxes. For the last few years almost all "updates" have been new lockboxes. Not long after it went f2p the game stopped getting big updates. Sure it got some silly things once in a while but the only reason I spend quite some time in it was the community and the costume contests that were pretty hilarious edit: lolol I only just now read their plans for the future and even that has plans for additional lockboxes. If that is their way to hype up players then lol just lol.

  As much as I dislike this pay method the reality is they use it and adding more variety to lock boxes does indeed improve that system. Not everyone actually pays cash for for keys but instead use the questionite exchange in game when they can. Frankly I simply try to ignore most of the cash shop items when I play the game.

  I have only one interest with the update and something I have been waiting for for a very long time: New end game content. Sadly this only confirms something is coming but not what. It will have to impress me greatly to bother to play more. Not only this but old content needs a hell of lot of upgrades too. Alerts need to evolve like they did in STO, Unity missions need an entire renewal and old instances need reason to return to and tied into progression paths instead of one Alert only offering a chance.

  At this game's core is a rather fun system. I call it arcade mmo fun. It's mmo bubblegum. The game simply was abandoned and reached even it's original planned potential.

  You stay sassy!
• Po_gg Member EpicPosts: 5,749

  October 2015

  That's an odd blog entry... I'm just recently back in CO but even I've put more details in my random posts   where's the Malvan Sky Race, the Anniversary, the current Blood Moon from the list? Also, as far as I can recall, her name is with a 'z' (and a small k), kaizerin
  It's a bit funny that both in the past, and in the planned future, the most detailed feature is "more lockboxes" - but I'm biased in this matter (speak against that mechanic in games since years) so I stop with the "bit funny"   (and in CO's defense, its lockboxes are the least "intrusive" among the three Cryptic titles, gameplay-wise. Still, I don't like them)
  
  

  justinsalesart said:

  I'm going to ask the usual "Should I give this game a go?" post right here. And, if I should, sub or no?

  First the latter: it's a tough call, CO has a pretty odd f2p model. Everything is free except Freeform - but of course that's the best part of the game.
  
  Should you give it a go, definitely, why not? It's a fun game, very "comic book"-y feel, plenty of mocking at the genre (and the mmo genre too, love my "Trash of the Lich King" title ), it's a quick download, has a streamlined early gameplay as the blog entry says above, etc.
  I'd say jump in it, play it through with an Archetype for free, and if you like it and plan to stay a bit, then you can start to think on the "sub or no" question.
  (in short, if you love theory-crafting, and are an altoholic, go with a sub. If not that much, just buy a Freeform slot, or just keep playing for free with the Archetypes)
  
• Po_gg Member EpicPosts: 5,749

  November 2015

  I still linger around CO (now that TSW's Samhain is over ), so just to even out the DCUO E19 announcement in the news section (which is cool, don't get me wrong... DCUO is fun too) I thought I drop here a bump, since yesterday the Nighthawk event was switched on: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/champions-online/news/detail/9650013
  
  Just with Blood Moon, there's an AT among the barterable rewards (Night Avenger, it's around 10 bucks in the store) and two vehicles. Maybe this will be a common pattern with events in the future, halloween also had 2 vehicles and an AT...
  Event itself has a nice story and an aerial bossfight at the end - not a surprise, since Nighthawk "brought" the vehicles into the game in the first place