The Daily Grind: Champions Online launch day edition

I wouldn't call it smooth. Half of the people I know didn't receive their headstart code til the last day, some people got bad codes, the servers were down constantly, and then because they had so much trouble, they decided to give everyone that logged in the perks and the pets no matter if they completed the content or not.

So...no. Not smooth at all.

I was completely sure I was going to preorder this game, until I got to early August and that the few people I knew in the beta convinced me to sit tight and wait a bit longer until the game is a bit more polished before I go out and buy it. So for now, I haven't even touched it!

Maybe they will push out a patch today or this month that will fix all the powers that are broken or bugged to hell.

As far as MMO starts go this was quite smooth.

I agree Headstart was very smooth.

Having a blast with it so far!

Completed some of the public quests today which I've been trying to do since closed beta but were bugged before, so things have certainly improved now for retail. However I haven't seen a Head Start programme so blatantly used as an extended beta phase before.

I've had a blast in the early start. Made a bunch of characters and learnt a lot. There are some powers that don't work as intended or are broken, but most work well. There will be quite a bit of game balancing to come I'm sure.

Oh and yes the event was bugged fairly badly.

Anyway the servers were up almost constantly and I could play when I wanted. Very happy to be playing at the moment, I just hope Cryptic keep up the updates and fixes and address some of the issues coming to light.

Same here, Headstart was smooth, now lvl 16 and still no big bad bug (only thoes damn Qularr!)

A couple of unbalanced powers but the game is great.

-- Life is short... play more!

The launch hasn't been without its share of issues, but all things considered they've been really small ones, and they're getting attention from the dev team. For an MMO launch this has been pretty smooth sailing.

It's also worth considering that MMOs are constantly in development, and no matter how much internal testing is done there are issues regarding load, balance, etc that just won't be apparent until they have many thousands of hardcore min-maxing dedicated players poking at all of the nooks and crannies. On the bright side, though, Cryptic has proven that they're willing to develop in response to the community's suggestions. I'm looking forward to being a part of that and seeing what the game grows into over the next six months to a year.