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Champions Online Poaching Users from Rival MMO
Cryptic Studios has confirmed that it recruited players for the Champions Online closed beta from rival City of Heroes and other PC MMOs.
Rumors of such practices came up through Massively earlier this week. In fact, the official City of Heroes website warned players and forum-users of solicitations from “another game company trying to lure you to their competing product.”
"I’m certain this wasn’t meant to be a malicious attack on a competing product, nor did anyone intend to steal players, violate user agreements, kill babies, or knife hardworking farmers in the back," reads a statement from Cryptic’s Ivan Sulic.
"A few of our employees thought it might be a good idea to contact avid MMO notables and various guild leaders floating about to see if they wanted to test," he added. "The folks who send [invites] figured people who play MMOs most might want them most. If a line was crossed, it was totally inadvertent and no harm was intended."
The PC version of Champions Online is due out sometime this spring. A Xbox 360 version is also in development, though no release timeframe was given.