Okay...I've been playing this game in beta for weeks.

My daughter who is a COH fanatic LOVES COH and hates this game.

However, for weeks I tell her about it and she says "I don't wanna hear about F'n Champions Online"

I am like "But get this, I got a perk called Ceiling Cat during PVP..thats funny, right?"

She basically took over my COH account a few years ago when she fell in love with that game and I've not been able to play it since.

So tonight I read that Lifetime subs will be gone at midnight.....I sat there until a few minutes ago (15 minutes til the deadline) and I finally decided to get the second account.

They don't make it easy. I couldn't link it to a master account.  I had to use a secondary email for validation. That was a bummer.

However, in the end I've got the second lifetime sub, because I am pretty sure when COH drops I16 and Going Rogue and still can't keep subscribers, she'll be like "Let me log into your CO Account" and I can bust this out as my present to her!

Nice story :)

So in other words, you wasted $200 in addition to a previous life time sub?

Let me help put it in perspective. IF....huge IF, your daughter suddenly decides to like CO. Will she really play it for 1.5 years? Really? Anything past that and you would be spending very little. In otherwords, you are basing your entire purchased on the concept your daughter will be playing this same game for more than 2 years (sub fee wise), in which then you would be saving money.

Look I dont want to call you an idiot or anything, but it seems like you have money to waste. If so, what will a few 20-50 dollars matter if she decides to play over 2 years? You see the perspective there? The life time option is a bit of a trick all based on assumption.

Very few people play the same mmorpg for over 2 years straight, and the ones that do end up playing more complex mmorpgs. CO is not one of them, it does target the casual gamer.

Taking that perspective into consideration... i am sorry for your loss.

Don't really see the need to be insulting to the OP :(, Although I'll admit I want this game to flop so hard Cryptic goes out of business and no other company will ever again attempt to put Item Malls and Pay2Play together ever again out of sheer terror.

Whow, some people really dont know what to do with money

Perhaps you could invested that 200$ into your daughters education ?

I think that you did a fine enough thing.  The idea that you purchased this because you wanted to share it with your daughter, as well as the fact that you wanted to share your delight with us is just fine.  I say congratulations and I hope the two of you enjoy your time playing. 

I don't think this game will be able to the problems it has as far as pvp, clunkiness, cash shop, ect... I give it a year... with DC Universe coming out it's going to do better because it will get more attention for having the DC in front of it's name. Plus it looks like much better from the screens.

So in enjoy the lifetime subscription... to bad it's going to be for the life of the game and not your life.

Personally I would probably not go lifetime, but I think it's great you play MMOs with your daughter.

Looking forward to my kids being old enough to do the same thing.

As Murphy's Law dictates, any game that I say is garbage and will not last 3 months will turn into a decade long-lived game.

That said, on your behalf and in hopes that you get your money's worth out of those two accounts-

Champions Online is garbage and won't last 3 months.

well hope the games worth it for life time sub.

I was fighting the urge too, Malakhon.  

I did a trial of CoH and enjoyed it enough to consider subbing, but I decided to hold off for Champions.   Now that Champions is here, I thought about holding off for Star Wars with the same mindset.

But as the lifetime sub window ticked down, I started to wig out.  Got my lifetime sub confirmation e-mail with 10 minutes to spare.  

See you in game!

Unfortunately for you, I don't think CoH is going anywhere bad too fast.

Got my LIfe the minute they re-instated. When this game is still here 3-5 years come back to this thread and give me my props for calling it.

A lot of negativity...sheesh. Grats to the OP for sharing something that she enjoys with her daughter. I like CO a lot. I just couldn't bring myself to pay for the lifetime sub. I got the 6 month sub deal. I played CoH for 4 years and dearly loved the game til they ruined it with the AE.

I have no idea what the other poster meant by the "clunkiness". Movement is fluid, though the animations, I think, need a little tweaking. The UI is also pretty fluid, and works well with the game's mechanics. I'm just waiting to see where the developers take the game, what items make it into the RMT, and what the update cycle will be like before I buy the lifetime, if its still offered then.

That said, I am enjoying the game. I am experiencing the joy that I had lost when CoH decided to take a terrible turn. We can only wait and see what the state of the game will be in 6 months.

lol.. dude .

I still dont get how can people pay $200 for such a limited game but hey.. thats just me.. still.. will you be playing this in 2 years? Are you sure about that?

Even better.. will this game still be live in 2 years? hmmm..

 alot of people pay 50 thousand dollars to get into a poker game where only 5 people get their money back or win more then they spent.  so folks dropping 200 on a sub is nothing really, i bet alot of you guys insulting the people that bought lifetime subs spend 200 bucks getting drunk every month.  too each their own, no need to insult people with money for how they spent their money after the fact.  damn trolls, go back to your caves!

Originally posted by neorandom

 alot of people pay 50 thousand dollars to get into a poker game where only 5 people get their money back or win more then they spent.  so folks dropping 200 on a sub is nothing really, i bet alot of you guys insulting the people that bought lifetime subs spend 200 bucks getting drunk every month.  too each their own, no need to insult people with money for how they spent their money after the fact.  damn trolls, go back to your caves!

This.

A lot of people will be staying with CoX, even those who have played CO, so I don't think CoX will be dying anytime soon.  CoX has been around for many years and has survived many threats, we don't know if CO will have that kind of staying power. 

I assume you only have one PC at home, otherwise I think you would have bought another CoX account and played along with your daughter.  If the lifetime sub for CO is intended for her, how do you know she'd even consider playing the game when she's already happy with CoX?

Originally posted by Dionyseus

A lot of people will be staying with CoX, even those who have played CO, so I don't think CoX will be dying anytime soon.  CoX has been around for many years and has survived many threats, we don't know if CO will have that kind of staying power. 

I assume you only have one PC at home, otherwise I think you would have bought another CoX account and played along with your daughter.  If the lifetime sub for CO is intended for her, how do you know she'd even consider playing the game when she's already happy with CoX?

Well those people can stick to CoX as it ain't many anyway lol. No offence tho. But the 2 EU servers in CoX are both pretty much dead.

Maybe there is a bit more life on one of the US servers in CoX? I don't know.

But so far, in Headstart alone. The server is crammed with people having a good time. That's all what counts.