Cryptic Shits on it's Champions Online Community Yet Again!

What was a pretty good game late in beta and pre-release, quickly turned to shit on launch day. Champion's Online was poised to greatness before they pulled the rug out from under it's community with a sweeping patch. This release day patch essentially brought turned every "super hero" into a chump. It was a huge blow to a community that was behind that was cheering the songs of greatness to Cryptic. You would think that after that whole debacle, they would have learned their lesson right? Right!? Sure they did...

On Tuesday, Cryptic dropped a bomb on their game, and it wasn't the kind of bomb with cheers of joy, streamers and champagne. This bomb stunk like a fresh pile laid upon the earth by your next door neighbor's French poodle on a hot summer day. This massive patch, dubbed "The Kitchen Sink" is a laundry list of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and changes. Unfortunately, when Cryptic released the patch, they decided to not just drop a patch that wasn't ready, but decided to smack their community in the face with a kitchen sink.

Lemuria (Lagmuria) was to get a zone wide fix for it's poor performance and lag. The fix was included in the patch and it actually made matters worse. Players are reporting to be stuck in the zone with no way to log into their characters. Not only that, but game wide lag has become prevalent through out the game. Even the fixes to the crafting system was an epic fail as now players are reporting losing not only the items they are crafting but the material used to make the item.

Something else baffling with the patch, is their insistence of changing powers that require a free retcon. Only to give the players with those power sets the free retcon in an "upcoming" patch.

Lastly, and what I call "Lets take a shit on our community" announcement by Daeke that their upcoming filler content patch is a going to be a paid for expansion! First the game hasn't been out a year, and their already going to charge for an expansion? The real kick in the teeth is the fact that they are just adding more content to the level 37 to 40. Most, if not all Champions Online players will agree that content was already extremely lacking that level, forcing people to either roll up a new character, or force them to do repeatable quests to hit the end game. No matter how you slice it, this is a smack in the face to players, who should have that content already in the game, for free anyway.

It's clear Cryptic in no way, shape or form has learned anything from it's launch day debacle, and continues to keep me away from a game I wanted to love playing. With the upcoming Star Trek Online, I can't help but avoid that game, as Cryptic continues to show it's lack of thought and care for it's own community.

-Draok out