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Filed under: Super-hero, Patches, News items, Champions Online
Cryptic has revealed the free costume pieces in next week’s Nemesis Confrontation update, which come in addition to two unlockable costume sets. Among the new free costume items are some exceptionally sweet capes, although we’re sure many players will be filled with glee to see new weapons being added to the costume creator.
While these are only cosmetic costume options, they’re important to players who wield specific guns or swords. It may seem like a minor issue to some, but having an outfit that makes sense — and looks cool at the same time — is surprisingly important to players who revel in a game like Champions Online.
You can also now put guitars on the back of your characters; something that immediately reeks of potential. We have to wonder if guitars are going to be added as visual replacements for sword based powers, enabling us to whack enemies with our musical axes. If someone at Cryptic could make that so, it would be somewhere within the vicinity of pure awesome.
Free costume parts galore in Champions Online originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 4:00pm by Kyle Horner
Filed Under: Free, atari, champions, champions-online, costume, costume-pieces, costumes, cryptic, cryptic-studios, nemesis-confrontation, november, patch, update
Where did you buy your last MMO and where will you buy your next? Chances are you’ll be getting it on Steam or so the story goes according to Brad Wardell, head honcho over at Stardock. We’re inclined to agree with his assertion that Valve’s digital distribution platform holds roughly 70% of the PC market as many of us here at Massively have been buying our MMOs — and PC games in general — on the service for some time now.
So is it a good thing or a bad thing for MMO players? Our experience with purchasing games like Aion and Champions Online through the service has been positive, and so long as no complications arise via patches or other client issues we see no reason to stop utilizing the service unless better offers appear.
The only real MMO-related issue we can see is with collector’s editions. Some games offer a different set of bonus material for people who opt out of the physical copy and go for the digital, but certain items like art books, mouse pads and other bric-a-brac can’t be delivered through a wire… at least, not until sometime in the far flung future.
Now, as far as the Steamworks integration issue goes… Well, that’s a whole other sack of fishes.
Filed under: MMO industry, News items, Opinion
Steam estimated at selling to 70% of PC market originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 8:00pm by Kyle Horner
Filed Under: aion, atari, brad-wardell, champions, champions-online, digital-distribution, eurogamer, impulse, ncsoft, opinion, stardock, steam, valve
With the last of several Halloween events wrapping up, we figured we’d put out one of the last few screenshots for the recent in-game events folks have sent in to us. Today’s One Shots comes to us from Grey, who captured this bit of silliness in Champions Online. Why silly when it looks relatively peaceful? Check out the note that came along with it: Hi guys. Thought this might interest you. Here is a screenie of my character, essentially a robot, musing under the red moon (not quite Blood Red) during the event in Champions Online. As the bard, Christopher Cross said, “If you get caught between the Bloodmoon and Millennium City, I know it’s crazy, but it’s true…”
If you’ve got a bad pun lurking in relation to one of your screenshots, get it out and into an email to us. Those things can hurt you if you leave ‘em unpunned too long. Email the punbomb (and screenshot) to us here at oneshots AT massively DOT com along with your name, the name of the game, and a quick description. We’ll unleash the pun-ishment on the world and let them know it was all you.
Filed under: Super-hero, Screenshots, One Shots, Champions Online
One Shots: Full moons bring out the crazy originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on November 13th, 2009 at 2:00pm by Krystalle Voecks
Filed Under: champions, champions-online, co, cryptic, cryptic-studios, grey, one-shots, screenshot, screenshots
Yes everyone, it’s one of those articles. I promised you guys way back before the launch of Champions Online that I would talk about the C-Store when it finally came out. Well, it finally came out last week, and you guys certainly had a lot to say on the matter.
To many, this is just another bad move on the part of Cryptic. However, according to the general MMO population, every move that Cryptic has made has been a bad move. (Yes Kdolo, Sakura Park, we heard you the last 50 times.) If I took every comment people told me about Champions Online as truth, then I’d think it was a buggy, unplayable mess that’s powered by unsympathetic robots who want to do nothing more than suck all of the cash out of your wallet.
Unfortunately for the naysayers, I actually play Champions Online. And, like I did before, I’m going to give my honest opinions on this next move from Cryptic.
Continue reading Anti-Aliased: I like walking into towering infernos (like the Champions Online C-Store)
Filed under: Super-hero, Business models, Culture, MMO industry, Opinion, Champions Online, Anti-Aliased
Anti-Aliased: I like walking into towering infernos (like the Champions Online C-Store) originally appeared on Massively on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on October 29th, 2009 at 6:00pm by Seraphina Brennan
Filed Under: anti-aliased, c-store, champions, champions-online, champions-store, cryptic, cryptic-studios, featured, opinion
It would seem that spandex hasn’t gone out of style in the MMO world. Kotaku is reporting that Cryptic Studios told them that one million superheroes have been created in Champions Online to date. That’s a lot of different heroic concepts, costumes, and back-stories! What’s even more fun when you think about it? That means there are a million nemeses running around in there too. Cryptic has created a veritable cornucopia of comic-book evil.
In a quick survey of the team here at Massively, the average seems to be hovering at 4 characters per Champions Online account. If our completely unscientific average is anywhere near accurate, that would put Champions Online in the neighborhood of approximately 250,000 accounts, which certainly isn’t bad for having launched recently. With all the crime still out there on Millennium City streets, though, we hope those heroes will get to work — there are still a lot more bad guys to beat down!
Filed under: Super-hero, New titles, News items, Champions Online
A heroic million inhabit Champions Online originally appeared on Massively on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on October 29th, 2009 at 5:00pm by Krystalle Voecks
Filed Under: breaking, champions, champions-online, co, cryptic, cryptic-studios, one-million-characters, superheroes
