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The Digital Continuum: Player abuse, redemption and revolution
Lets go back about ten years or so to the original EverQuest. Now it isn't my intention to pick on any one game, I just happen to be more familiar with it than Ultima Online or Meridian 59. For the sake of immersion let me assume the role of a 1999 copy of EverQuest that you happen to be playing on your gaming machine back in the last year of the last century.You just died in EverQuest. How dare you die! Since you had the nerve to be defeated in combat, you'll now be required to run from your binding point -- which could potentially be very far away -- to your dead body, which contains all of your equipment and bags that just happen to hold all of your inventory. If you fail to do this, then you lose all of these items. Oh but you've already lost some experience and possibly de-leveled if you happened to have recently leveled up.Hey! Why are you logging out? So what if you think you'd rather play Half-Life right now, this is the game you're paying for monthly. Don't you think you'd better get the most out of it? Hah! See? I knew you were only bluffing. All right, now get to running, noob.
The Digital Continuum: Omega solo solution
There was a time in my MMO playing when I would spend hours looking for a group in games like Final Fantasy XI. No television was watched and no handheld gaming devices were manipulated during those prolonged waiting periods. I just sat there chatting with whomever I could in-game. Today, I don't think I could see myself doing this even with the aid of a Nintendo DS or a PSP with which to chip away the hours. Hell, I probably couldn't even do this with one of my favorite shows like Lucky Louie or Flight of the Concords.This is why it warms my heart to know that Champions Online will contain not only solo content across every level, but some kind of secret endgame feature called the Omega System. My first reaction upon this revelation was simply, "Wow" I certainly hope that with a title like "The Omega System" Cryptic has a compelling endgame feature planned that will amaze everyone or at the very least please everyone.
Champions Online's mysterious Omega System
When Jack Emmert makes a dev blog post on the official Champions Online website, we tend to take notice. He is, after all recognized as figurehead of the team behind City of Heroes. When we began reading his most recent post about solo content in Cryptic's upcoming MMORPG Champions Online our expectations were for Jack to talk about how solo content will be offered throughout the entire game. While those predictions of ours certainly came true, what we didn't not expect was a -- fittingly cryptic -- mentioning of the Omega System."Omega System... what's that?" we wondered aloud. Unfortunately all we get is a mention of the system at the end of Jack's post with the admission that it still needs some finishing touches. To us, saying that a system needs some finishing touches means it's probably not too far off from being announced. So hang in their boys and girls, we get the feeling that the mystery of the fabled Omega System will be revealed soon enough!
