Champions Online Apologizes for Ending Lifetime Promotion Offer
August 26, 2009 by srfto
Over at Cryptic they are having their hands full in the forum with an enraged community already because of their announcement that there are only 1000 lifetime membership and 500 six-month subscription offers left.
The problem is that everybody thought the promotion would end on September 1st, which is why they are shocked when Cryptic broke the news that it was a limited availability offer.
Due to high demand, we’ve only got 1000 Lifetime subscriptions and 500 discounted 6 Month subscriptions left, so make sure you grab them before it’s too late! You can check out our current offers at our exclusive specials page. Once we’ve run out of 6 Month subscriptions, you’ll still be able to purchase them, but at their standard price of $77.94 (that’s a savings of $12 from the normal month to month rate). There are no current plans to offer another Lifetime subscription plan, so if you’ve been on the fence about it, now’s the time to buy it!
After that first post from Cryptic, the bashing came in so Cryptic had this to say:
First, we do sincerely apologize 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 emphasized 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.It’s hard for all of us here at Cryptic to see outcry in our communities. We work day and night to create the best gaming experiences we can and any missteps – big or small – on the long, winding, and sometimes treacherous path of development are always regrettable.
We do apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you and we do sincerely hope you understand and come play Champions Online with us this September.
Well it sucks if you missed out on a great deal, but you have to give credit to Cryptic to actually have went through this kind of promotion deal. Hopefully, more new MMORPGs will offer lifetime promotion offers and maybe this time they will do it right.
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Its rubbish! they shouldn’t end up the life time promotion. apologizing is not enough.
False advertising on the box of Champions Online, Nowhere does it state there is a monthly subscription payment required to play and now iam left with a game i cannot even part exchange because of the law. Nice con you have going i hope you make lots of money you ripping thieves.