All the speculation is great but the bottom line is you can play OB starting this afternoon, decide for yourself, and then subscribe as appropriate or not. Knowing what I know about this game and myself I subbed for 6 months. There are other games coming out (MMOs and NON-MMOs) that have my attention but I can see this game giving me a good six months or more. I hope more but that will depend on the devs adding content and features that ARE NOT in the item mall.
I know lots of people who participated in the closed beta and are jumping all over lifetime and six month subs so there is definately an audience appeal to those who have played it. First and foremost they love the Supers Genre and for a life time sub you better too.
I know some ppl will argue that WoW is handsdown better but I'm not such a big fan of WoW. When I look at WoW I see nothing new, instants, raids, massive PvE content, solid PvP content but everyone has been done before BUT champion online's customization seems interesting a concept I haven't seen in a MMO before.
my vote is if you plan going hardcore on it then its worthwhile
200 is 20 months of sub to break even. That assumes no breaks or time spent in another MMO.
I've been in closed beta since Cryptic invited pretty much everyone who played CoX some 6 months ago. I am not buying a lifetime, 6 month or even a box on launch. This game might be finished by the holiday season but Sept 1, no.
What CO did do though is drive home who much Cryptic got right with CoX. So I will finish the beta that I agreed on but probably resub to CoX before I sub to CO. But who knows maybe today's monster OB patch will be a miracle patch, happened for AoC so its possible.
Bigger reason not to lifetime... I have a shelf of MMOs and no patience for standing around waiting on content. Figure by the time I revisit AoC, LotRO, CoX, Aion... CO might be ready for primetime. And then when I run through the tiny content of CO, the EQ2 expansion should be out. Rinse and repeat :P Welcome to the new reality.
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All the speculation is great but the bottom line is you can play OB starting this afternoon, decide for yourself, and then subscribe as appropriate or not. Knowing what I know about this game and myself I subbed for 6 months. There are other games coming out (MMOs and NON-MMOs) that have my attention but I can see this game giving me a good six months or more. I hope more but that will depend on the devs adding content and features that ARE NOT in the item mall.
I know lots of people who participated in the closed beta and are jumping all over lifetime and six month subs so there is definately an audience appeal to those who have played it. First and foremost they love the Supers Genre and for a life time sub you better too.
Make long short.
How much money have you spent on WoW?
I know some ppl will argue that WoW is handsdown better but I'm not such a big fan of WoW. When I look at WoW I see nothing new, instants, raids, massive PvE content, solid PvP content but everyone has been done before BUT champion online's customization seems interesting a concept I haven't seen in a MMO before.
my vote is if you plan going hardcore on it then its worthwhile
200 is 20 months of sub to break even. That assumes no breaks or time spent in another MMO.
I've been in closed beta since Cryptic invited pretty much everyone who played CoX some 6 months ago. I am not buying a lifetime, 6 month or even a box on launch. This game might be finished by the holiday season but Sept 1, no.
What CO did do though is drive home who much Cryptic got right with CoX. So I will finish the beta that I agreed on but probably resub to CoX before I sub to CO. But who knows maybe today's monster OB patch will be a miracle patch, happened for AoC so its possible.
Bigger reason not to lifetime... I have a shelf of MMOs and no patience for standing around waiting on content. Figure by the time I revisit AoC, LotRO, CoX, Aion... CO might be ready for primetime. And then when I run through the tiny content of CO, the EQ2 expansion should be out. Rinse and repeat :P Welcome to the new reality.