Cryptic Offering Lifetime Subscription to Champions MMO
Cryptic Studios, formerly of City of Heroes, has been working on the Champions MMORPG set for release September 1.
They’re taking a page from Turbine and offering a lifetime subscription for $200. They’re throwing in extra costumes, an in-game widget, eight extra character slots for alt-aholics like me, and access to the Star Trek Online closed beta later this year, along with the lifetime access. The only catch: the offer’s only good until the game launches.
In case you’re wondering, at $15/month, the lifetime subscription pays off in 13 months. So if you think you’ll like the game enough to be playing it for years, it’s a pretty good deal, even without all the extra goodies.
On the other hand, it’s a lot to fork over for a game sight-unseen. I played City of Heroes for over two years, and it was pretty fun, and I generally trust Cryptic’s game-development instincts (although I would hope Champions has a stronger endgame than CoH did). But that’s a lot of trust.
They’re also offering pre-orderers a 6-month subscription for $60, which saves you $30, and also gets you Star Trek beta access and one of the bonus costume sets. So if you like the idea but you aren’t sure the game’s going to hold your interest, that’s a pretty nice way to go. Or if you’re interested in both Champions and Star Trek, I guess.
I’m going to need to think this one over. I like the Champions universe, so it’s a very tempting offer for me, even though I’m mildly disappointed that the game won’t be using the HERO system. Of course, it couldn’t use HERO fully, but I think HERO’s system of points, advantages, and disadvantages is practically made for an MMO setup, where you gain experience to become more powerful to gain more experience, and so forth. A streamlined version of HERO might’ve been fun to see.
Even so, cheers to Cryptic for making a superhero MMO. It’s a genre that’s sadly underrepresented at the moment.
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