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Earlier this month Cryptic announced details of limited time lifetime and six month subscription offers for its upcoming MMO, Champions Online.
Cryptic has now announced that all special offer subscriptions are now gone, leading to some angry fan feedback on the Champions Online forums. While the six month subs can still be purchased at the standard price of $77.84, the lifetime subs are gone and Cryptic says it has “no current plans to offer another Lifetime subscription plan”.
Following a flurry of forum posts by angered fans, Cryptic posted in an attempt to calm the situation.
“First, we do sincerely apologise for the rather abrupt end to the promotional offers. It was never our intention to spring that news on our fans or anyone else. In short, we had an allotment of special subscription packages to sell over a fixed time (ending September 1). When we began approaching the offer cap before the date cap, we had to message. Frankly, we never suspected our special offers to be so popular.
“While we did mention that supplies were limited in an announcement post, we definitely should have emphasised our limits more explicitly in all our messaging. Again, we just never expected supply to be any kind of an issue. The community response to our offers has been… amazing.”
The problem fans have does not appear to be the fact the offer was limited, but that it was not made clear that there was a limited number of subs on offer – not, as many thought, a limited time offer to end of September 1.
Cryptic concluded; “We do apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused you and we do sincerely hope you understand and come play Champions Online with us this September.”
Via VE3D
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