I find it to be an extremely sleazeball maneuver myself. There are plenty of other sources of advertising out there, and certainly no lack of word of mouth about Champions Online. But this is like one store going into a competitor's store and trying to get people to shop with them instead of the store they're currently at. At the best, it's irritating to the customers. After all, if they wanted to shop at the other store, they'd go there. And you can bet that the owners of the first store would be throwing the people doing the advertising out as soon as possible.

The saying goes 'all's fair in love and war'. Well, this is neither. The fact that CoH/V used to be under the care of Cryptic only makes it seem a more sleazy trick.