I just signed up for this game, which seemd like it might be fun for a while. But the game client is only downloadable in one peice, and apparently not resumable, so at 3.3gb I am not willing to give up my pc for a week, while it downloads.

Also, their forum is ONLY usable by players that have a subscription, sure you can read the posts, but not make any nor can you contact the publishers directly via their contact us page, again you need a sub, how pathetic!

Players beware...

nice story...

LOL, funny, I just started downloading this :P

I think you are just a tiny bit mad

I would probably rather play dcuo but I don't have a key to try it soooo...

what is this i don't even...

Originally posted by zastroph

I just signed up for this game, which seemd like it might be fun for a while. But the game client is only downloadable in one peice, and apparently not resumable, so at 3.3gb I am not willing to give up my pc for a week, while it downloads.

 

Also, their forum is ONLY usable by players that have a subscription, sure you can read the posts, but not make any nor can you contact the publishers directly via their contact us page, again you need a sub, how pathetic!

 

Players beware...

Generally, the first part of the download is slow. It speeds up as you go.

Actually, the game client IS "resumable". If you stop or are interrupted during the DL process it will resume from where you were at when stopped.

As to the "can't post on forums" issue, I think you must create an account "f2p" or otherwise to post. If you have not done that you can not post as with most MMOs' forums.

if it takes you a week to download the game then you need to get off the dial-up. I have a slow DSL and it only took a few hours to download just let it download over night while you are sleeping the game is fun for being free. The only thing i don't like is that you can only make 2 characters.

Originally posted by Gruug

Actually, the game client IS "resumable". If you stop or are interrupted during the DL process it will resume from where you were at when stopped.

As to the "can't post on forums" issue, I think you must create an account "f2p" or otherwise to post. If you have not done that you can not post as with most MMOs' forums.

Thee download manager has just one button "Cancel" and after clicking on this, and starting it again, it went through the initial question of whee to save the game.

As for posting, I was logged in to the forum, and tried to post a question on any alternatives for downloading, when it stated that I MUST be a subscriber to post in the forum.

You need a better computer and internet connection. 

dont click cancel just X out of the window.  that works with most MMO launchers, they dont have a pause button but if you just close the window (not hit cancel) it should resume next time you run it.

hope that helps.

Originally posted by zastroph

I just signed up for this game, which seemd like it might be fun for a while. But the game client is only downloadable in one peice, and apparently not resumable, so at 3.3gb I am not willing to give up my pc for a week, while it downloads.

 

Also, their forum is ONLY usable by players that have a subscription, sure you can read the posts, but not make any nor can you contact the publishers directly via their contact us page, again you need a sub, how pathetic!

 

Players beware...

Its 2011 .. 3.3GB should be done in 20 minutes.

Dont blame the game, blame your 1989 internet connection.

FYI; Horrible game, youre not missing anything.

Originally posted by zastroph

Originally posted by Gruug

Actually, the game client IS "resumable". If you stop or are interrupted during the DL process it will resume from where you were at when stopped.

As to the "can't post on forums" issue, I think you must create an account "f2p" or otherwise to post. If you have not done that you can not post as with most MMOs' forums.

Thee download manager has just one button "Cancel" and after clicking on this, and starting it again, it went through the initial question of whee to save the game.

As for posting, I was logged in to the forum, and tried to post a question on any alternatives for downloading, when it stated that I MUST be a subscriber to post in the forum.

yea it take a long time to patch .... but if u cancel ..it should had save. ..it did for me .

CO download manager is pretty slow for me...

Try one of these http://champions-online.com/download

Yes, a better internet connection would help, but I live in Australia, where the higher the speed the more you pay, so I am stuck with a 1,500k/256k connection.

Originally posted by zastroph

Originally posted by Gruug

Actually, the game client IS "resumable". If you stop or are interrupted during the DL process it will resume from where you were at when stopped.

As to the "can't post on forums" issue, I think you must create an account "f2p" or otherwise to post. If you have not done that you can not post as with most MMOs' forums.

Thee download manager has just one button "Cancel" and after clicking on this, and starting it again, it went through the initial question of whee to save the game.

As for posting, I was logged in to the forum, and tried to post a question on any alternatives for downloading, when it stated that I MUST be a subscriber to post in the forum.

 As I recall, there are restrictions between the "free" forums and those that are paying. There should be a forum thread area for "free" players only as I recall.

I am wondering if you actually finished installing the "installer". If you do not finish installing the first part, the installer, it will not resume whenever you quit. Once the installer is in place it should stop and resume as mentioned.

Originally posted by xpiher

You need a better computer and internet connection. 

You need a better bucket.

How does better computer and internet connection help? Do you want him to donate them to Cryptic?

Originally posted by zastroph

I just signed up for this game, which seemd like it might be fun for a while. But the game client is only downloadable in one peice, and apparently not resumable, so at 3.3gb I am not willing to give up my pc for a week, while it downloads.

 

Also, their forum is ONLY usable by players that have a subscription, sure you can read the posts, but not make any nor can you contact the publishers directly via their contact us page, again you need a sub, how pathetic!

 

Players beware...

How DARE there be any inconveniences accessing this game I'm not paying a thing for!? The gall of some companies!

Wow. And I actually thought you were going to talk about the actual game when I clicked onto this thread.

Sadly I was wrong.

I actually downloaded the game (only took me 45 minutes).

I agree that it sucks but I base that against my experience with City of Heroes, not because I was expecting another City of Heroes, but because I was expecting a better game, which CO is not even close to in any way, shape, or form.

Here's my honest review after playing for a week or so.

Graphics - Badly done cell shading makes my eyes hurt, and the anti-aliasing doesn't work at all. Also the character models look like they're marketed towards grade-schoolers, which they probably are.

Gameplay - Rubberbanding due to bad server hardware and/or bad (or nonexistent) player-region server grouping makes the game already hard to play. In between lag spikes, the fighting controls are unresponsive at best. I find myself facerolling often. The gameplay design is a bad clone of CoH, with an autoattack thrown in to make it even worse.

Community - I didn't notice one. Which is bad. Millennium City zone chat is filled with silence with the occasional "hw to cast spel??". I also didn't notice any trace of supergroups or whatever they have there.

Let me tell you a story. After the guys at Paragon Studios pretty much said F-U to Cryptic when they left and made their own studio, Cryptic attempted to make Marvel Online just to try to rival CoH because they were butthurt. But then Marvel sued cryptic for some retarded reason (most likely more butthurt) that I don't care about. So Cryptic shat their pants for a bit then had to completely restructure the game over some pen-and-paper game nobody's heard about (while CoH is filled with ORIGINAL lore). More butthurt ensues afterwards.

CO is a game spawned from and basted with jealous butthurt since early development and you can tell.

Yea.. Im on a crappy DSL connection (3mbps) and I can download 3 gigs in a few hours. Miss Cable where it would only take about 20-30min but Im on one of the slower DSL connections. If it takes you that long OP then you are on 56k and shouldnt be playing MMOs with that ancient of a connection.

OP, sorry about your frustration with the lack of customer service. Thats not new in the F2P type games. Dungeons and Dragons Online is the same way. Remember the old sating, "You get what you pay for".  In this case you are not paying anything so you get very little. Also, its not like they didnt tell you ahead of time there was no support other then the knowledge base. They have a matrix of what you get and dont get on there site. http://www.champions-online.com/f2p_matrix