Take-Two drops Champions Online

Champions Online cinda looks interesting. But im not sure if i whould play it. After all Cryptic have deleted my subscription to Ciry of Heros two times. Without asking or telling me about it. I just tried to log on and it sed i cant because i dont have an active subscription. But why whouldent BioWare and LucasArts work together? And why whould EA care about that? EA will or might get there fair share of the cash. Atleast thats what im guesing.

I hope this game get teleported to a good develepor -Live long and Prosper -Spock

I about crapped my pants when I heard this was also going to be able to be played from an Xbox 360!!! I pray to the gaming gods that Atari will go ahead and support a 360 version!!! I was already trying to figure out how much it would cost to upgrade my 360 and stuff. 40$/month for broadband, 10$/month for XBL, 15$/month for CO subscription + a new hard drive for the 360 arcade + an xbox keyboard....

Has there been any news anywhere about if this game is still a go ????

dude, jason19 I can barely understand a word of what you said.

So still no word on the whole pay to play thing then? No one knows? Anything? If you do have to pay to play, then how much will it be per month? Hopefully they will realize that people do not want to not only pay for xbox live, but pay to play a game on line on top of that. That's just outlandish and scary. I do not think I can deal with that. Gruug.....oh well, guess we'll just have to wait and see. Hopefully they will be nice and only charge the P.C. users.

BlackAce...More like StupidFACE...Huh...huh!! Seriously, shut up. These are the guys who made City Of Heroes, so it is not, in anyway, a "wannabe". Also, they are not generic heroes considering YOU make them. Man you suck..

Why does this news not surprise me one bit? I guess no one wants to go "Where no man has gone before."

o'well

Gruug, your name fits.Quite an ogreish thing to say.

Not interested in anything "cross platform". That means I have removed Star Trek Online and Champions from my wish list.

I haven't played a MMO in years, and I was really looking forward to this one. Hopefully someone else will take it on; there's a lot of potential in this property.

why is there always people complaining about charges? usually MMORPG's work that way....95%of the times even free ones charge you for some stuff for those with very high levels....

Blackace, it is not generic super heroes. It is based off an already established IP created in 1981. Is it me or do people not even bother to research a game before they bash it? Here is an interesting idea, look into a game and see what it is about before you just trash it. Play it before you judge it. Oh and read an article before you call a game dead.

"$9.99 - $14.99 a month" is nothing. Stop complaining about games that charge, there are good reasons for this price.

To be fair. It remains unseen if an MMORPG can actually be pulled of in a good way on consoles. I highly doubt it since it's best of on a PC platform that has easy Internet connection, Keyboard and mouse, Ventrilo etc.

I'm relieved - Take-two is not a good publisher. They will probably be better off in someone else's hands.

I'm not overly excite about Champions Online. When it had the Marvel characters in it, it seemed interesting. Using generic super heroes will make this game a CoH wannabe MMO. If it's FREE maybe I'll have a look, but I refuse to pay $9.99 - $14.99 a month for another MMO. More MMO's need to be like Guild Wars.

why are game companys falling to the Gamer Godz

Bring Marvel Online back!!

I wouldn't care much if this game wasn't published at all - especially if you it's not a 'pay-once' MMO. It had potential, but after seeing previews and stuff it really doesn't sound up to much, especially when compared with other '09 games.

The saying is "you can polish a turd, but it's still a turd" not "you can't polish a turd" I really don't know how people got confused about that

Actually, Zoomer30, you can polish a turd. Mythbusters have proven this... youtube it. :P

Now all they need to do is drop Star Trek Online. I mean you cant polish a turd. We all know STO is a cancelled game just waiting to happen. Pull the plug.

What in the world are you guys worrying about? The game is not cancelled. They're simply changing publishers. Atari is going to publish the game instead of Take Two. That makes perfect sense now that Atari owns the IP. There is no reason for Atari to pay Take Two to do something Atari can do itself - publish the game.

this will change budgeting and content even. At least this is something that could go either way. I hope this allows them to do some stuff that their former publisher wasn't allowing. Who know though.

It seems that this is very common trend among game companies...the industry is changing.

Yes, but the problem with delays like these is that this game will probably be pushed back until a tentative late 2010 release. Which would be too late. Kind of like what happened with Too Human, by the time it finally came out no one really cared and had more than likely forgotten about its existence. You cannot over hype games like this and then release them in 3 years. Waiting is annoying, unavoidable most of the time, but still annoying. I will still buy it and play it no matter what. I have one question though, if anyone has an idea what the answer might be that would be great. Will you have to pay to play this game, like phantasy star,(I only played the demo, don't worry) or will it be free to play? Cause if you have to pay for your Live membership, and then pay to play this on top of that, it would be really bothersome.

please no more nails

I could be wrong but I thought I saw a demo of this game the other day on X-Play XL. << LINK REMOVED >> The official x-play vids: << LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> for some reason their tail ends were cut off

I will watched it, havent seen much for this game

People this game is not canceled! Stop freaking out. Atari bought the studio that is making "CO", Take two was publishing. Just put two and two together and calm down. sheesh.

I dont think Take-Two Interactive has done all that great of a job for a very long time anyway.

No surprise there. Fewer companies involved, less money to have to share. Given Atari is publishing the retail version of EVE, plus The Witcher? Looks like they're wanting to get a name for themselves in RPG's.

NO please don't cancel this!

I don't know. I was hyper-interested in this game when I heard about it, then I heard that the same devs behind City of Heroes was making it. Now, if CO is just another COH, I'll pass. I don't need to waste time on another "Treadmill Online" game.

We'll see. I'm interested in the gameplay- MMOs thus far have not had enough action for me. It feels more like I'm watching my guy fight, then actually fighting... click a button now and then... and wait for fights to be over so I can... well, do it again. Depending on how far this game diverges from that formula is how much I'll like it, I think. They say its going to be more "action packed" then other MMOs, but the videos so far don't seem to indicate that.

Settle down it's not like it's dead in the water. I suspect we will still see the game. Look at Brutal Legend and Riddick, you never know what's gonna happen.

Umm...big....deal?Different publisher, same game. BTW it's kinda funny that they didn't mention how Lucasarts is required by contract to at least semi-produce any game that uses the Star Wars license.Odd that they downplayed that.

Lol I guess COH and COV dont have any competition still.

im psyched for champions online

Thats kinda sad i was looking forward to it, but what's the deal with the DC universe online I really want to play that one

NOOOOO!!!!!!

Oh well, I was looking forward to the game.

:( PLEASE don't cancel it

Lets hope it isn't canceled.

well that sucks... but cant be help