I think the entire Champion Online server farm just hit the wall. Forums aren't working and the launcher is giving a "cannot display webpage". Oh well, guess I'll try again tomorrow and just enjoy District 9 tonight.

WTF?! I was finally at 10 minute wait then all of a sudden I jumped down in the line and it's at 32 minutes again.

This patching is such a mess. I guess that's what open Beta's are for, but still. I've been messing around with this for the past few hours and still haven't even seen a good percentage of it finished. 

Looks like Cryptic's servers crashed agian.  If today is any sign of things to come, this is definitely not a good sign for the game.

THIRD TIME *IS* THE TRY, YES! 
 
Now to restart endlessly while it fucks itself continuously.

Between the lifetime subs, microtransactions, fileplanet association, and severe installation and patching issues with the game half a month away, looks like this is going to be one big failure

" Between the lifetime subs, microtransactions, fileplanet association, and severe installation and patching issues with the game half a month away, looks like this is going to be one big failure "

The servers are back up and it seems to not be locking up, still slow as shit though.
 
@Diamond said:

" Between the lifetime subs, microtransactions, fileplanet association, and severe installation and patching issues with the game half a month away, looks like this is going to be one big failure "

" @Diamond said:

" Between the lifetime subs, microtransactions, fileplanet association, and severe installation and patching issues with the game half a month away, looks like this is going to be one big failure "

What beta for an MMO these days really doesn't go through fileplanet or have patching issues in the open beta? It's like a right of passage by now. Stop doomsaying. "

Can't remember the last beta I played that had problems quite this severe right off the block.  Plenty of betas don't require you to pay to DL from FP either.
 
As far as the microtransactions, even if you can earn the items in game, it's a horrible aspect if a person can simply buy an item I have to 'work' ingame for hours to get.

Maybe I'm just seeing things, but I went from 200MB to almost 2GB within like two minutes. I tried that method and it screwed it up, uninstalled and reinstalled and it's patching really, really quickly.

im 178 in the que to start downloading... still going to be like 30 minutes 

Well, it went from 0 to 1.6GB within two minutes, but now it seems to be going at a steady 900 kb/s. Seems like the fun was over.

Thanks I got mine...Much appreciated...Gotta love the French....I guess they kinda do owe us Americans something...
 
  

"As far as the microtransactions, even if you can earn the items in game, it's a horrible aspect if a person can simply buy an item I have to 'work' ingame for hours to get. "

I'm still in the line at fileplanet xD

Why does it bother you how someone else plays the game? Maybe someone doesn't want to play for hours to get loot so they just buy it. How does that in any way affect you? You can go buy it or you can enjoy the game and work towards it. Hell people have always been able to buy gold and items in MMOs from unofficial sources. It's only a problem if they offer something unique to people who pay.   If you consider it "work" you can always buy it yourself, or you know, not play the game. "

I get to around to the 600th place in line then I jump right back up to 900. Curse you FilePlanet.

" Can't remember the last beta I played that had problems quite this severe right off the block.  Plenty of betas don't require you to pay to DL from FP either.  As far as the microtransactions, even if you can earn the items in game, it's a horrible aspect if a person can simply buy an item I have to 'work' ingame for hours to get. "

 
 
@Psyx2 said:

" I get to around to the 600th place in line then I jump right back up to 900. Curse you FilePlanet. "

woot it's moving now, just hit 1% and it only took 30 minutes, go me!

" @Jayge: Do this:
 
1) Go to Program Files/Cryptic Studios/Champion Online/Live/Prepatch/piggs and delete everything in the piggs folder.(Should be a bunch of 65kb files)
2) Go to Program Files/Cryptic Studios/Champion Online/Live/Piggs and delete all the files there.
3)Copy all the .hogg files in Program Files/Cryptic Studios/Champion Online/Live/ and paste them in Program Files/Cryptic Studios/Champion Online/Live/Piggs. "

" @CoverlessTech said:

Why does it bother you how someone else plays the game? Maybe someone doesn't want to play for hours to get loot so they just buy it. How does that in any way affect you? You can go buy it or you can enjoy the game and work towards it. Hell people have always been able to buy gold and items in MMOs from unofficial sources. It's only a problem if they offer something unique to people who pay.   If you consider it "work" you can always buy it yourself, or you know, not play the game. "

In any game it's absolutely vital for players to be on even footing to me.  Part of my competitive nature.  Many MMOs will ban players for buying gold or accounts.  People can be scammed or ripped off.  I plan on not playing the game anyways, but I was very interested in CO until the last month or so... "

I'm not sitting at 24.3%.  whoopie!

" @CitizenKane: seriously, you are already at that percent or did I completely miss your joke? You said your 'not' there, but I smell sarcasm. Bah, I think I've already looked too deep into this! "

I'm at 4% and I hate all of you.

 @Cloneslayer: Start the patch. Close it with X(don't cancel) then do that and start the patch again.  "

It keeps locking up at ~870 KBs for me

" @Out_On_Bail said:

" @CitizenKane: seriously, you are already at that percent or did I completely miss your joke? You said your 'not' there, but I smell sarcasm. Bah, I think I've already looked too deep into this! "

I may be wrong but I think he may mean he was stuck at 24% but he isn't anymore? "

I can't even get passed this fucking fileplanet line and it's starting to piss me off intensively.

" @CL60: I've been a member of them for a little bit now. When I redownloaded the client earlier it took me 10 minutes. I don't know your money situation, but I do enjoy the premium downloads from them for the price of 15 bucks every few months.  Just something to think about.  Plus I get beta access to whatever is available, been enjoying the Huxley beta recently because of it. "

"The Champions  Online website is currently down for maitenance. Normal gameplay is not affected." 
I got this message when i try to play. >.>

" @CL60: It's a 15% quarterly fee, which is every 3 months. All the same I can understand your point. Just wanted to toss out that information for you incase you were interested.    edi: 15%? 15$* "

I am getting jumbled around the lineup rapidly right now. When I started I was at 530/530 (obviously), then I went down to 350/603 or something, then up to 370, then up to 380, and then it went to 380/403.
 
Man, this thing is all over the place.
 
Oh, wait, went back up to 600 there again.

Thanks, you rock! Got my key and made an account but Fileplanets being a bitch like usual, so I'll try to download tomorrow, le sigh.

I'm actually downloading now!!!!!!

" @Out_On_Bail said:

" @CitizenKane: seriously, you are already at that percent or did I completely miss your joke? You said your 'not' there, but I smell sarcasm. Bah, I think I've already looked too deep into this! "

I may be wrong but I think he may mean he was stuck at 24% but he isn't anymore? "

" @CL60 said:

" @Out_On_Bail said:

" @CitizenKane: seriously, you are already at that percent or did I completely miss your joke? You said your 'not' there, but I smell sarcasm. Bah, I think I've already looked too deep into this! "

I may be wrong but I think he may mean he was stuck at 24% but he isn't anymore? "

I meant to say "I'm now sitting at 24.3%".  But then it froze and I had to start over.  :( "

I've been stuck at the same place in the line for about 30 minutes now.

<3 and kisses

Fileplanet needs to go die.

" How long does the email take to get sent? Was it instantaneous for you guys? "

" @CitizenKane: Ouch. Well you shouldn't really be starting over, the percentage starts over but what you've already DL'd should still be there. The patched file xxxx.xxMB/950MB <- that 950 should be a smaller number then what you started with. "