No, its not rubbish. Its just not worth a monthly sub.

If they keep offering these free days then there would never be any point in subscribing. You could easily see everything that is new during those days.

I tried it during the Bloodmoon weekend - completely bored. Most of the time, healthy disagreement is just great - all part of thinking and acting critically - and there are times when something is obvious trash, appealing only to small children and people who love the concept of a superhero MMO and are willing to settle for this sub-par crap because it doesn't have any real competition yet.

The gameplay is a dumbed-down version of World of Warcraft's own mechanics, the artwork is something out of an 80's Fisher-Price catalogue and the people I met in-game were all teenagers.

I almost ended up doing support for this game. The fact that the company was only willing to pay me $15.00 says something about their general ethics and sensibilities. Before they even brought me in for an interview, one whole city away from me (knowing I had to travel over an hour on public transport to get there) I gave them my salary expectations. I went through the entire interview process and only after all of that I was told that they were only willing to take me on for $15.00 an hour. I am a professional with 6 years of experience and a degree with an average salary of $60K.

There was also the small issue of Cryptic trying to steal customers away from their competition by posting in their game's forums - adding insult to injury, they were proud and rude and only apologized after causing serious community disdain.

Disgusting. Tasteless. Stupid.

@Teloch:

You have a degree with 6 years experience, and you wanted to go do tech support? What's the matter, couldn't find a real job?

You wanted to do tech support for a MMO and get paid 60k for it?

LOL.... I've seen some moronic posts on here, but yours takes the cake.

@MrBounce

Your insensitivity and complete disregard for critical assessment is alarming. Are you not aware that the average salary for technical support in the Bay Area is around $45K? Are you aware that my last support position paid $52K? Do you realize that someone of my calibre is taking on support roles because the market has dried up due to a recession? Do you not think it's odd that I was brought into an interview when I made it plain to Cryptic what my salary expectations are?

I did not expect $60K, I expected at least $40K. Have something substantive to say?

@MrBounce Haha! Served!

I had a job supporting Adobe apps for (almost) 80k a year, but that was at a tier 3 level (basically the last stop for issues before I enlist engineering's help). It took 8 years of some seriously awful work to get to that level. I made that much I figured because I ran accounts who paid in some cases half a million a year for support and maintainence - several enterprises every single one of you has heard of and used their products in one way or another.

Sadly I got riffed in the round of layoffs last year, but no - you won't make 60k a year entry level doing anything in this economy with only 6 years experience.

@Veritt

I had made it more than clear that support is not my primary function. I'm a Unix Network Admin. I'm done wasting my time here - all I wanted to do was make it clear to any passers-by that Champions is a terrible game and that the company that produces it has some serious issues. Reiterating further is really pointless.