buffed posted an interview with Bill Roper -- Executive Producer for Cryptic's Champions Online -- about the state of the game and the issues the development-team faced after the launch of the MMO. Bill Roper also states that "MMO players are an incredibly picky group now" and that new MMOs have a hard time competing with World of Warcraft.
Cryptic Studios has released several new costume parts for characters in its superhero MMO, Champions Online.
What's more dangerous than an interdimensional prison in which malevolent creatures of immense power plot the destruction of the entire Champions Online world? That same prison being taken over and used as a lair by your hero's Nemesis and the dangerous Shadow Destroyer. After hints and the surprise playtest event, the official site has unveiled a preview of the upcoming Nemesis Confrontation, which looks like an interesting jump forward in the content offered by the game.
Champions Online has a secret and they're not going to tell you! However, you can probably make a few guesses as to the secret if you haven't already, when you participate in their secret playtest. Champions Online Community Team member David "Daeke" Bass posted this interesting piece of news today: "We've got a big feature coming out next week, but we want your help to test it before then. We can't give too many details now."
Online game maker Cryptic Studios said its most recent MMORPG, the Atari-published Champions Online, has garnered over 1 million created superhero characters, but the size of the subscriber base is unclear.
Champions Online design director Bill Roper gave a State of the Game address to players today. He outlined some of the future content on the way and also teased a big announcement.
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The Halloween-themed Blood Moon event hits Champions Online next week and Cryptic wants new players to experience it, too. They're going to let the public play the super hero MMORPG free of charge for four days.
Cryptic's superhero MMO Champions Online has been given a permanent price reduction across digital outlets and retailers.
G4TV writes:
Crytpic, makers of superhero MMO Champions Online, has revealed a slew of new items that will be available on Tuesday October 19th, after the scheduled midnight downtime, in the C-Store, their microtransaction store for in-game items. The new items include two entire new costume sets, including a Halloween-themed set, a Beast Cyborg and Samurai one, new emblems, full respec tokens, rename tokens, additional character slots, and additional costume slots.
Champions Online players can now make comic strips that star their own characters, thanks to a new collaboration between Cryptic Studios and MashON.
IncGamers writes that Cryptic Studios has released information about upcoming additions and changes to Champions Online, along with a launch date for the in-game event, Blood Moon and new information on the new Celestial Power Set.
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Jaime Skelton writes, "Champions Online has had one of the most dramatic MMO launches in recent history, and 18 days in, there's still changes coming in the superhero MMO's agenda. A new post elaborates economy changes that will be coming to the game."
Today's Champions Online patch doesn't include a free re-specialization feature but there's an easy way to do it anyway.
Champions Online has received a large update bringing over 150 documented fixes, tweaks and improvements spanning several different areas of the game.
Super hero MMORPG Champions Online just launched yesterday and there's already new content lined up. In late October, you can expect a "Blood Moon" update to arrive.
Cryptic strikes players with "GDN II".