Comments on: Champions Online OB off to a rough start

By: xXJayeDuBXx

xXJayeDuBXx — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:15:20 +0000

Monday was a pain indeed with the launcher issue. But, I will tell you that I found myself actually enjoying the game. I have been creating one of each powerset and leveling them to about level 2 or 3 just to get a feel for them, but so far it’s been fun!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:43:23 +0000

Patching was quick and painless once I found it in a zip file. I found it in the forums, but it wasn’t obvious and the devs usually just pointed people to Fileplanet.

My old Radeon 9800 Pro is struggling. I might have finally reached the point where PC games simply won’t be that fun until I buy a new PC.

My first character is named Seeker.

By: Ysharros

Ysharros — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:42:38 +0000

Keep us posted! I’m making an executive Ysh-decision and not jumping on the prelaunch bandwagon for this one (or any other game) this year; I’m just too tired of the rollercoaster rides.

That said, sooo many games had rocky launches, including the 800-lb gorilla (especially on some servers, including the one I picked). It’s not a good sign, but hopefully it’s not the death-knell either. That said, it’s about time games companies devoted some thought and resources to making these prelaunch things WORK RIGHT. It’s not good to make a bad impression from the get-go, and it’s not rocket-science either provided you actually allow some manpower away from the last minute bug crunch and onto the last minute preview crunch.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:30:52 +0000

I left the latest Fileplanet version of the patcher running overnight. It’s been paused and apparently waiting for a connection at 39.7% for the past half-hour. This after restarting the patcher a dozen times yesterday.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:38:47 +0000

Well in theory you could patch your closed beta client. I had a friend who managed to do that before the crush began (he just happened to try patching mid-morning yesterday).

Basically it sounds like 99% of their problems revolved around not having sufficient ‘patching bandwidth’.

By: SmakenDahed

SmakenDahed — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:24:36 +0000

I’m scared. I’ve been promising my 6 year old I’d get this instead of installing CoH/V again. If it’s going to be this rough a ride for patching… ouch.

I’m surprised they put a ‘new build’ up there and didn’t have their patcher update the previous beta clients? A build is good for new people to avoid patching, but they should probably have their patcher work for the folks that were there in beta.

By: West Karana Â» Daily Blogroll 8/18: Champions Edition

West Karana Â» Daily Blogroll 8/18: Champions Edition — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:10:17 +0000

[...] get the Champions Online website to validate his open beta key. Pete Smith of Dragonchasers has a little more news about how bad the servers were melting in that Los Gatos heat — 20,000 simultaneous patcher [...]

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:03:09 +0000

Patrick was devastated that we couldn’t get into the open beta until 6PM — I can’t imagine not getting in until 10:30 or 11PM. I don’t know exactly what he did, but apparently he had to download the patch, download a second patch on top of it, and then use the patcher to download the remaining bit of patch…I don’t really know.

It definitely was a bad first impression for those of us eager to get into the open beta.