Champions Online Subscription Options
Posted by Stropp on August 5, 2009Cryptic have announced their pricing for a subscription to Champions Online. As expected, there will be the usual 15 quid a month subscription that everyone gets. However, Cryptic have also gone the LotRO route and are making available a lifetime membership for $200 or a six month option for $60 dollars (saving $5 a month.)
I don’t think I’m going to take either of those options.
It’s not that I don’t think lifetime subscriptions are a bad thing. I did buy the LotRO lifetime sub when the game was released and I’m glad I did. As a fan of both the books and movies I knew I was going to have this game on my harddrive for a while.
Even though I don’t play LotRO as much as some other games ( it’s more of a diversionary game for me) the lifetime sub has saved me the hassle of unsubcribing everytime I stop playing for a few months, and has saved me a bunch of cash as a result.
I like the idea of lifetime subscriptions. I’d like to see every new game (and perhaps some of the older ones) offer lifetime subscriptions. They might find their active numbers improve.
But Champions Online is only currently offering their extraordinary subscription options until the end of August.
The game gets released on the 1st of September so if I want the special offers I’ll have to make my decision site unseen…
Because the beta NDA is still up. There’s no real info from the beta players available that I can base a decision on.
And that leads me to another point, not everyone in the beta is going to buy Champions Online. Okay, that’s pretty obvious but, the reasons I’ve heard for these decisions is that these beta testers don’t really like the gameplay. That does ring some warning bells.
Normally I wouldn’t mind buying a game sight unseen. I do my homework more often now so there’s less risk, but in this case there’s not a lot to check out. It’s one thing to buy a game blind and play out the free month if the game is a dud. It’s quite another to buy the game AND pony up another $200 or $60 dollars extra if the game isn’t that great.
So, I’ll probably give Champions Online a few weeks before I have a looksee. And of course, there’s Jumpgate Online later in September, and Fallen Earth with it’s post-apocalyptic setting is also very tempting.
I’m just wondering if I should subscribe at release for any of them.
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I’m in the same boat. And I’m hearing mixed signals on the “open beta” about how open it will actually be. It’s all starting to feel like they’ve got something to hide.
I *want to* be excited about this game but conditions seem to be conspiring against that for me.
Yeah, that’s the impression I’m getting too. There’s probably nothing to it. I doubt there’s anyone trying to con people into buying the lifetime subs by intentionally hiding info on the game, but there’s starting to be a perception that it might be the case. That could be bad for business.
Im in the Closed beta and I wouldnt say they are hiding anything in particular. Im worried about the state of the game for their release date but I have to say I’ve loved any playtime I’ve had so far. Its going to be you either love it or hate it however – Mix WoW and CoH thats all I can say
I would probably buy it, but first would like to get some more info. As soon the beta apps opened I had placed my info on the site and no reply from them, not even what they are planning on doing and much less game play, only some talks here and there.
Age of Conan told me something about this games, when they block you even if some parts its because there is a “touch of illusion” in the readiness to release of the game. (on AoC the lvl cap for example).
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