Champions Online Open Beta Details

The Champions Online Website has details on open beta testing of Cryptic's upcoming superhero MMORPG, saying the beta will begin, as indicated, on August 17th and be administered through FilePlanet. Just yesterday Cryptic announced preorders are guaranteed a spot in the beta, and now word is: "Starting on August 5th, the open beta client will be available for download on a first-come, first-serve basis on FilePlanet. The site will be giving away 50,000 keys to North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand." Update: We have confirmed with FilePlanet high command that they will be issuing these keys to their paid subscribers, so this open beta is less "open" than most.
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details
Jul 29, 2009, 13:14
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details Jul 29, 2009, 13:14
Jul 29, 2009, 13:14
 
All open beta's are anymore is just free PR from Marketing guys. Oh and to stress test the servers.

QFT.

I see open beta's as the only free way to try a game like this without risking your money. I think I'm going to pre-order this game from gamestop to ensure I get a chance to play it during that time. It doesn't cost any money to pre-order and you can cancel it if you choose to do so...

The game looks like it could be fun, I'd like to play around with it but at this point I highly doubt I'll be putting any money into it. (Although I have almost no idea what to expect from it)
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Jul 29, 2009, 07:02
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Re: Evening Consolidation Jul 29, 2009, 07:02
Jul 29, 2009, 07:02
 
The purpose of WOW's open beta was to tweak the servers for release. The first few days even after release they had to crank out more servers. They did not expect Wow to sell that well. I remember open beta well and I also played in the closed beta(NA version). With a launch of this magnitude, blizzard did great mho.
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details
Jul 29, 2009, 05:48
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details Jul 29, 2009, 05:48
Jul 29, 2009, 05:48
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So the logic in this thread is that... If a game sucks... It has a smaller Open Beta... Wow... That's not backwards at all... And sure as hell isn't what I do : )

It's a rule of thumb that has worked for me, flagging up Warhammer Online's mercifully short week-long open beta and Age of Conan's entirely misleading level 13-capped open beta, not to mention various other betas through the years. Your mileage, however, may vary.

And as for WoW's 'Open Beta'... No idea, or comment, on the EU portion, but in NA, the game played as complete and utter shit upon launch... Took them 1-2 weeks (or maybe longer... old memory) to get the item aspect working enough that it wasn't lagged to shit every time you tried to loot/vend/etc.

I can't comment on anyone else's experience of the EU open beta, but mine was pretty smooth, to the point where I had no hesitation in buying the complete game.
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details
Jul 29, 2009, 02:22
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details Jul 29, 2009, 02:22
Jul 29, 2009, 02:22
 
So the logic in this thread is that... If a game sucks... It has a smaller Open Beta... Wow... That's not backwards at all... And sure as hell isn't what I do : )

I'm looking forward to this... I don't like the cel shaded... gimmick, and I thought most of the screenies looked like crap because of it, but as with so many game screenies, it looks better when moving : )

I bounced back and forth between CoH and WoW when they were new... Always going back to CoH because the combat was better, faster, more action packed, and while CO has it's differences from CoH, It looks like v2.0 to me, and I like the improvements.

And as for WoW's 'Open Beta'... No idea, or comment, on the EU portion, but in NA, the game played as complete and utter shit upon launch... Took them 1-2 weeks (or maybe longer... old memory) to get the item aspect working enough that it wasn't lagged to shit every time you tried to loot/vend/etc.

First power set was released on their site, which'll likely be posted by Blue tomorrow (Wed)... Good stuff : )

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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details
Jul 28, 2009, 23:07
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details Jul 28, 2009, 23:07
Jul 28, 2009, 23:07
 
All open beta's are anymore is just free PR from Marketing guys. Oh and to stress test the servers.

Champions Online has a small group of closed beta testers and so much has been tweaked and changed and bugged, that you would NEVER get this sorta feedback with an open beta.

Yeah it must be Cryptic's fault that Microsoft/Marvel shitcanned them considering they have shitcanned any and all mmo type games that were going to be on the Xbox/360.
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details
Jul 28, 2009, 21:20
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details Jul 28, 2009, 21:20
Jul 28, 2009, 21:20
 
There's a reason Marvel shitcanned them. They don't know how to make good games. They're not bad, but they're not really good either, just sort of meh

Marvel was canceled because Microsoft hired in a replacement to run their games division, he took a look at the contract between Microsoft and Marvel, decided it wasn't sweet enough for Microsoft, and tried to renegotiate with Marvel.

Marvel flipped them the bird, they both walked away from the project, and Cryptic scrambled to find some cash to turn MUO into CO...mainly by selling City of Heroes to NCSoft and later by selling themselves to Atari.

One can't help but think that if MUO had show more promise that both Microsoft and Marvel would have worked harder to reach some kind of compromise, but it was still very early in development at that point in time.

Whether you liked CoH or not, it is unarguably a successful and well regarded MMO, and Cryptic was responsible for that success from conception, through development, and into for the first 3 years of live support.

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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details
Jul 28, 2009, 20:58
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details Jul 28, 2009, 20:58
Jul 28, 2009, 20:58
 
I don't need to play it. From everything I've seen and read - particularly from beta testers, it's just more of the same from Cryptic. There's a reason Marvel shitcanned them. They don't know how to make good games. They're not bad, but they're not really good either, just sort of meh. And it's a given that any game with this short an OB has major problems and/or lack of content. We've seen this time and time again through the years.
"The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip." - Henny Youngman
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details
Jul 28, 2009, 20:29
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details Jul 28, 2009, 20:29
Jul 28, 2009, 20:29
 
Cutter until you've played it I suggest holding your judgement. It's nothing like CoX. Granted it's Cel Shaded, visually with the lighting engine they have, there isn't a MMO out there that touches Champions Online Visually, and before that I would have said Age of Conan was the best looking MMO.

As for the beta they have put quite a bit of polish on the game in the last few weeks.

As much as I hate Bill and Flagship Studios debacle, Bill is doing what he did for Cryptic as what he did at Blizzard. And thankfully Bill was added fairly late into the game that he hasn't had a chance to pull a Hellgate London on Champions Online.
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details
Jul 28, 2009, 19:13
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details Jul 28, 2009, 19:13
Jul 28, 2009, 19:13
 
Yeah, CO will suck for sure. Fugly cel-shaded graphics and it's really just CoX redux anyway. And yeah, a 2 week OB speaks volumes about how unready or shitty this game really is. It's just enough to let people get a taste of the initial stuff that's really polished without the ability to see how little there is and how broken it is later on. Shit, the fact that they hired Bill Roper pretty much says it all.

I just wish DCUO would hurry up and get here, then Marvel too.
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details
Jul 28, 2009, 18:27
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details Jul 28, 2009, 18:27
Jul 28, 2009, 18:27
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You can tell how good an MMoRPG is going to be (and how much confidence the developer has in it) by the length of the open beta period. IIRC, the open beta for WoW in Europe lasted a month, a span during which I played the game furiously, yet still came back for another 6 months when it was over. Somehow I don't see the same thing happening with CO.
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details
Jul 28, 2009, 18:20
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details Jul 28, 2009, 18:20
Jul 28, 2009, 18:20
 
They said the date was "most likely going to change," but it looks like it didn't.

http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=99837

That would be the one I was thinking about. Very unusual to see someone qualify a date like that and then actually end up sticking it.
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Jul 28, 2009, 18:19
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details Jul 28, 2009, 18:19
Jul 28, 2009, 18:19
 
Because Fileplanet pays through the nose to get the exclusively distribution rights of the betas and Cryptic wants the dough. It's just business, nothing personal, though I think it blows donkey balls, myself.
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Jul 28, 2009, 18:05
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details Jul 28, 2009, 18:05
Jul 28, 2009, 18:05
 
Instead of whoring out to FilePlanet, why not let in the people who signed up for the beta months ago?
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Jul 28, 2009, 17:39
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details Jul 28, 2009, 17:39
Jul 28, 2009, 17:39
 
Wait...didn't they say it wasn't going to begin on August 17th?

They said the date was "most likely going to change," but it looks like it didn't.

http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=99837
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details
Jul 28, 2009, 17:35
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Re: Champions Online Open Beta Details Jul 28, 2009, 17:35
Jul 28, 2009, 17:35
 
Wait...didn't they say it wasn't going to begin on August 17th?

Still think they're cutting it way too close with this beta if the launch date is still Sept. 1st. Looks like it's going to be a rough launch.
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