Champions Online News & Events & Guides

What kinds of advertising plans does Cryptic have for the F2P launch?

It's still being worked on by our marketing team, but we do intend to have advertising for the F2P launch. We're hoping to actually do sort of a re-launch of Champions with this. The hope is to really get the word out that, hey, we're free-to-play, it's a really great action game, and it won't cost your Champions Online Gold. Banner ads, probably magazine inserts, but I don't know right now, the plans are still being laid out.

What's going to happen with the Icon perk (which gives an extra character slot)? Is access to it going to change?

It will absolutely not change for Champions Online Gold players. We're debating whether or not it will be available to Silver players.

How will previous subscribers' characters and slots work?

There's a little bit of trickiness regarding how many open slots you actually have. People who used to be subscribers of Champions will notice that they have a lot of characters they can't play, but they still have an extra slot open. Basically, we don't count the first six unplayable characters against your character count. So even if you had previous Gold characters, unless you had a full stable, you'll be able to make a Silver character and play right [away] without deleting any.

Now that Serpent Lantern and Demonflame are C-Store purchases, are there any plans to propagate or adjust the in-game rewards for them (which are currently the best in the game)?

We probably won't be propagating that to the rest of the game, although we might to the high-end lairs. We have a lot of things we want to do with rewards in general, although it's too early for us to talk about it. In terms of the Legendary stuff, though, that will probably stay inside the adventure packs. The Legendary loot is bind-on-equip, so it can be sold or traded. They can buy it with in-game money, so they don't need to spend real money.