Gone Gold MMO Double Bill: Champions Online, Aion

Dear Champion's Online,

I was mildly interested in your game. I was considering purchasing it and playing for a while with some friends. It certainly looks better than other upcoming Super Hero based games.

However, when I decided to try your "limited open beta" I discovered that I was required to be a FilePlanet subscriber to participate. Since Fileshack gives me everything I could ever want in a file hosting service for free, I certainly have no intention of paying Fileplanet for the glorious privilege of beta testing your game for you.

If your intention is not for me, and other, to help beta test your game then you should not call this an open beta, you should call it a "5 dollar minimum demo".

Please be sure to let Shacknews know when your game has been out for 6 months, you are folding your servers into one another due to a lack of players, and you finally decide that a free trial for potential customers would be a good idea. I probably won't be interested any more by that point, but I'm sure someone will.

Aion just looks so blah. I don't get the hype

You have to subscribe to fp to gain access to the open beta. So in essence, it's only open to FP subscribers. It's closed to the rest of us.

It makes me wonder about the longevity of this game.

Champions Online...where we release open beta and our patch servers are overwhelmed.