Cryptic Gives Away Another Free Champions Weekend MMORPG Champions Online to Bring New Player Ccostumes and Quests

Super hero-themed MMORPG Champions Online is having its second free-play
weekend, after only being released two months ago and having its first
free-play weekend one month ago. The upcoming free-play weekend, which
will be based around Thanksgiving, will coincide with an in-game content
update called 'Nemesis Confrontation', and will feature new player
costumes and quests.
The developers of the game hope that it will lure new players in, as the
new quest kidnaps the player to an intergalactic prison where you have
to fight your way out to freedom. However, as good as it may sound and
despite a lukewarm launch reception,the folks from Cryptic Studios had
several adverting campaigns, like reduced subscription deals, price
drops and free-play weekends, which leads one to wonder if the game is
actually struggling for subscriptions. But since exact numbers of active
subscriptions are rarely released publicly by a MMO developer, and
usually only when the game is doing well,ย all these are only speculation.
Champions Online faces competition from City of Heroes, Cryptic's first
super hero-themed MMO that is now being run by NCSoft, and a pending DC
Universe Online, a game with the popular DC Comics license.
The 'executive producer' of Cryptic is Bill Roper, formerly of Blizzard
Software and Flagship Studios, who worked on such critically acclaimed
games like Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3, but also worked on MMO bust,
Hellgate: London.