Comments on: Why I Quit Champions Online

By: RedMattis

RedMattis — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:17:18 +0000

Still play it, it’s got far more soul than games like WoW. (IMO)

By: Nagrand

Nagrand — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:42:47 +0000

Sounds like that new game freshness blinded you a bit.

By: LSimon

LSimon — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:53:28 +0000

Luk, that’s a great summation of everything CO is missing. I think the writer hits the nail on the head though, the game just doesn’t seem like its own world. To many people that idea is very important, whether they realize it or not.

By: natureboy

natureboy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:55:35 +0000

I knew this game would flail and lose players during the beta. It needed another six months to a year at that point, not 30-60 days.

By: Snorlax

Snorlax — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:06:57 +0000

Do you see yourself coming back now that Cryptic has backpedaled on their paid content pack/expansion and put out some olive branches to the community?

By: wtong

wtong — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:33:35 +0000

Sounds like most of you held out WAY longer than me. I had high hopes that things would get better than the beta, but after the patch and lackluster first month support, I didn’t even bother subscribing at all.

By: Prophet

Prophet — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:58:36 +0000

I like to think of the soul of a game as the “it” that little extra something that you cant always identify or see, but that keeps you coming back to the game for some reason. IMHO CO definitely lacks the “it”

By: Luk

Luk — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:09:39 +0000

I agree about CO at is lacking some major elements that make or break an MMO. Although we can argue about soulless or soulful semantics, but this game is missing some major hooks to keep people playing that most MMOs take for granted.

1. Not enough variety in content. Not enough content period.
2. Small and not immersible environments. Instancing is only splitting it up and makes the environment seem even smaller
3. No grouping incentive.
4. No goals for community to build and maintain guilds.
5. After getting all the good powers there is no motivation to level up because the additional powers are not making any impact on the way you play the game.

In short it sounds like a single player game with multi-player elements, why should the players pay box price + monthly fee + MT and be charged for DLC is beyond reason. I got more game-play and content out Borderlands without paying a cent after buying the box.

By: Qix

Qix — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:09:16 +0000

I agree with Bob. Most of us get bores with the same MMO after a while. WoW just happens to be really good at keeping people, but I left when They nerfed my main, and I really really did not want to spend the time, doing the same content leveling another charachter…

By: Inktomi

Inktomi — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:07:53 +0000

Good writeup. Charging people for a sub AND content is a big no-no in my book. This reeks of Bill Roper’s bad business tactics.
Soulful MMO experience: No EVE?