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Champions Online Release Date Announced

by Alice O'Connor, Apr 24, 2009 8:20am PDT

Related Topics – Champions Online, N3II: Ninety-Nine Nights, xbox 360, screenshots, PC

Cryptic Studios' superhero MMO Champions Online is to be released for PC on July 14, DarkZero reports from a press event held by publisher Atari in London today.

Apparently, the date wasn't meant to be announced until May 8, as sites like IncGamers have pulled their reports, but let's distract from that with new screenshots.

There's no update to Atari's previous announcement that Champions Online would be coming to "consoles"--with only an Xbox 360 version confirmed so far--after the PC.

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I have no idea how they aren't being sued by NCSoft for blantantly ripping off everything about City of Heroes when the Cryptic dudes left that game. All of the footage I've seen looks like straight animation rips from COH.

Given that, I am excited to try this out. COH was a complete blast for a few months.

Apr 24, 2009 8:59am PDT

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  The most fun I had in COH was character creation. I don't think I actually started playing the game unti... : o0JediBeavis0o
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    There was that aspect and then the first time you got your travel power. That was some serious fun. : ashkie
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I'm at a loss as to why anyone would think this would be good. Emmert is all about grind, and Matt Miller and co. are not on this new team. As I understand it - it was Emmert that was behind the "Enhancemenrt Diversification" that caused droves to emigrate to other games back in CoH issue 6.

Meanwhile the current team has actually been listening to its customer base and working to diminish the grind somewhat - as well as allowing more customization which, as I recall, Jack was adamantly against.

Add that Atari is going to rush this out . Formula for success this isn't.

Apr 25, 2009 12:23am PDT

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... that's not a good idea.

Apr 24, 2009 8:21am PDT

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... that's not a good idea. : LoioshDwaggie
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i'm lost. how many super hero mmo's are coming out or being developed? this one, marvel one, dc one, any more? or is this one of the marvel/dc ones that was axed then brought back to life or is made by the dudes that made that other thing or isn't the coh dudes making a coh2 or something blahadkfjawf

Apr 24, 2009 10:00am PDT

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I just want this to come out so they can focus on Star Trek Online.

Apr 24, 2009 11:12am PDT

I just want this to come out so they can focus on Star Trek Online. : critch

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i somehow received an invite to the "preview" a week or so ago, which is weird because im pretty sure i never signed up for it... anyhow, there was some kind of god-awful-long NDA that i didnt actually read, so im just going to assume that im allowed to say im in the preview, but not allowed to say anything about the actual game. which is ok, since for some reas... zzzzZZZzzzz *snort* huhwhat? i fell asleep, sorry. anyhow like i was saying, every time i even think about the few hours i spent playing champ... zzzzZZZzzz

Apr 24, 2009 9:08am PDT

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So, you know, if anyone has a spare beta key laying around...

Apr 24, 2009 10:16am PDT

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