City of Heroes - Now Free!

[Tawmis]

City of Heroes - Now Free!
http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/freedom.php

[DeadPoolX]

I beta tested CoH before it was released, so I doubt it's even close to the same game I remember. That said, what's the difference between City of Heroes and Champions Online?

Maia and I've played CO (when it became F2P) and although we enjoyed it for a short period of time, it lost its appeal pretty quickly. It's free, so we've got nothing to lose by trying it, but I'd like to know if it's even worth the time to sign up and download in the first place.

[Tawmis]

I beta tested CoH before it was released, so I doubt it's even close to the same game I remember. That said, what's the difference between City of Heroes and Champions Online?

Maia and I've played CO (when it became F2P) and although we enjoyed it for a short period of time, it lost its appeal pretty quickly. It's free, so we've got nothing to lose by trying it, but I'd like to know if it's even worth the time to sign up and download in the first place.

I did beta too for CoH. If you remember your user name and password, if you remember, if you beta'ed CoH, you had that special speed boost power (where you glowed when activated). That all still works. I found the server with all my characters and found one of them was still level 1, so I started him; and they have made some great changes to some of the quests! It's pretty fun so far, I am now level 7 (just from when I posted the above to right now).

EDIT: I think CoH is miles better than Champions. I did Champions when it went free as well, thinking it'd be like CoH. I was greatly disappointed. The quests, the UI, all of it was inferior to CoH. But as you said, I played Champions for a bit, just because it was indeed free.