I know Racy mentioned this, but it actually goes live today.
Racy and I beta tested this game, and we actually really enjoyed it – to the point of dropping $400 on two lifetime accounts! Problem. On launch day, they completely changed the effects of the classes we had chose.
First off, that completely changed our characters’ abilities on launch day. MAN did that hack us off. We felt like we bought something and got a shell game instead.
Second, any company that makes those kinds of radical changes without even testing them cannot be trusted.
However, on the plus side, Cryptic gave us refunds! Faith restored. At least I know I can trust them not to completely hose me over, unlike the producers of Aion, who are just schmucks.
Finally, the character models on Champions Online were OUT THE BOX. I mean, stunning. Right there with AoC and Aion. The quests needed a little help, buy overall, the game was actually pretty fun. Did I mention the character models? And one can imagine what Racy looked like with a name like.. err, well. You get the picture.
I also liked the way they worked out the powers for the characters as well. I mean, that is until they hosed mine, but I imagine they fixed that bit.. game wouldn’t have survived without it.
Anyway – hey, it’s a free trial. You get to look at super (pun intended!) sexy character models and get a break from some other game, until The Old Republic comes out. What could go wrong? 
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Champions Online Anniversary
by Racy
If you’ve always wanted to try out Champions Online, but didn’t want to pay to play, here’s your chance…Cryptic has announced that for it’s one year anniversary, anyone can check out the game, and all that they’ve worked on in the past year for free. There will be no need to register a key, provide a credit card, or even purchase the game. All you need to do is register a free account starting on August 27th here . Gameplay won’t be available until September 1st, but it will give you an opportunity to download the client and any necessary patches. Players will be able to play on the public servers, as opposed to just the demo servers that are normally available to check out the free trial.
There will also be an anniversary event being held in Millennium City from August 27th through September 7th. I guess it’s worth a look-see if you’ve got the time and are so inclined. I don’t know that I’ll take the time personally – I mean, I haven’t even touched LOTRO or Lego Beta Universe in weeks/months since we started playing World of Warcraft regularly again.
As I’ve mentioned previously, I just can’t get into super-hero games, even though I felt Champions had a lot of potential, enough for us to initially purchase a lifetime sub for a “beer and pretzels” game. It’s too bad things didn’t work out how we had hoped, and if I had more time and more energy, I’d check it out.
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