Champions Online Free to Play 10/30-11/2

[Maeve]

Blood Moon Weekend

The Undying Lord, Takofanes, a necromantic ruler who dominated the earth thousands of years ago is back.

Takofanes' last encounter with the Champions of Millennium City ended with half our world's beloved heroes slain. Who now can stand against him?
Hate zombies? Abhor mummies? Detest the dreaded undead? Like to play MMOs for free? You could be the one. You could be the Champion we need!

Click the "Sign Up Now" button below to access our free Blood Moon promotional weekend. Since you are not currently logged in, you will first be prompted to do so. If you do not yet have a free Cryptic account with us, you can simply click the "Create An Account And Sign Up Now" button to make one, which will also grant you access to our free Blood Moon promotional weekend.

The free promotional weekend will run from 10:00 a.m. October 30th until 10:00 a.m. November 2nd (Pacific), but all our subscribers will be able to enjoy the Blood Moon content starting October 27th.

If you don't yet have the game installed, download it now using the link below.

[Grok]

Wow, a free play weekend a month after launch?

Makes me suspicious that subscription and retention numbers aren't what they were hoping for, but perhaps they're simply being proactive in their marketing of the game.

I might give it a try.

[Slurm]

Yeah, at least from a blogger perspective, it seems that people aren't hanging around.

[Solvanirn]

I really loved the Champions RPG (in fact still have the character creation software). Loved the whole universe they created. Love superheroes storys. Love the customization of making a giant insect that shot fire beams from his antennae or a 3 foot tall ninja that used guns.

Absolutely hated Champions Online. Just wasn't for me. It seemed like all everyone did was dps and use the latest imbalanced pvp skill to roll through matches in their arena-esque pvp (fucking freeze mines). Don't get me wrong, to be able to run around and smash VIPER goons with propane tanks and shoot lazers was fun. I just gave up after level 20, as there was not enough stuff to hold my interest.

Maybe it got better at higher levels, but getting there was a pain. Getting people to group was even more of a pain.

[Grok]

Yeah, from the time I spent in beta, I just didn't see the game having much longevity.

[Bacchus]

My biggest problem with it were the lack of powers in the power sets. If I wanted to make a Fire-based toon, I would run out of fire powers to take at level 20. Now what? Am I supposed to give him a sniper rifle? The ability to summon a monster out of thin air? I got 3 different toons to level 30+ and just couldn't bring myself to try and level them any further.

I think someone forgot to put the carrot on the stick when they were making that game.