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Champions Online Companion!

flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
edited April 2014 in Champions Online Discussion
Who remembers when Champions Online had an phone app?
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It had cool features like:
-My Characters.
-My Friends.
-CHAMPedia.
-Streams.
-Mail.
-News.



That's about it.
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  • chaoswolf820chaoswolf820 Posts: 756 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    This seems to be of questionable veracity.
  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    O'Really.
    http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/12/15/champions-online-announces-iphone-app-champions-companion/
    :cool:
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  • nephtnepht Posts: 6,898 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Oh wow. Never new this was a thing O_O
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  • cptmillenniumcptmillennium Posts: 454 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I used it all the time. I was really disappointed when support for it ended.
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  • humanconductorhumanconductor Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Agreed. I remember being able to pose the character in the MyChamps screen too.
  • biffsmackwellbiffsmackwell Posts: 4,743 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    humanconductor wrote: »
    Agreed. I remember being able to pose the character in the MyChamps screen too.

    Yeah, the character poser worked better in the app than in the web browser.

    Champs had some really awesome features during launch, they were really ambitious with it, being able to see in-game mail from the forums, being able to do bios and character portraits from the web, all the social media integration. Then they threw it all away. Sad.
  • kallethenkallethen Posts: 1,576 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I very much miss being able to show off my characters via the website. Also miss being able to see which of my friends were online through the website.
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  • aceretrieveraceretriever Posts: 239 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    humanconductor wrote: »
    Agreed. I remember being able to pose the character in the MyChamps screen too.
    biffsmackwell wrote: »
    Yeah, the character poser worked better in the app than in the web browser.

    Champs had some really awesome features during launch, they were really ambitious with it, being able to see in-game mail from the forums, being able to do bios and character portraits from the web, all the social media integration. Then they threw it all away. Sad.
    kallethen wrote: »
    I very much miss being able to show off my characters via the website. Also miss being able to see which of my friends were online through the website.

    I want to build a time machine just to experience these functions. :c

    Ah man, this game was much more awesome in the past, apparently...
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  • biffsmackwellbiffsmackwell Posts: 4,743 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    aceretriever wrote: »
    I want to build a time machine just to experience these functions. :c

    Ah man, this game was much more awesome in the past, apparently...

    They pushed boundaries with Champs back in the day. They were ambitious. One of the things that they did (and thankfully still have), is the universal chat system. You can chat with people in any of their games, as well as being able to connect to chats from outside the game. It's an amazing feature I hope stays with the game forever.
  • chaoswolf820chaoswolf820 Posts: 756 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    biffsmackwell wrote: »
    They pushed boundaries with Champs back in the day. They were ambitious. One of the things that they did (and thankfully still have), is the universal chat system. You can chat with people in any of their games, as well as being able to connect to chats from outside the game. It's an amazing feature I hope stays with the game forever.

    For its games, Blizzard is trying to do the same with Battle Net chat... they'd just delayed it for now to ensure the smooth release of the Diablo expac.
  • championshewolfchampionshewolf Posts: 4,376 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    biffsmackwell wrote: »
    Yeah, the character poser worked better in the app than in the web browser.

    Champs had some really awesome features during launch, they were really ambitious with it, being able to see in-game mail from the forums, being able to do bios and character portraits from the web, all the social media integration. Then they threw it all away. Sad.

    I think most of it being thrown away was due to Atari, since all those features were lost during the Atari regime.
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  • blademaster5121blademaster5121 Posts: 956 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    championshewolf wrote: »
    I think most of it being thrown away was due to Atari, since all those features were lost during the Atari regime.

    No the web browser features (specifically) were lost during the PWE switch actually. Though I know nothing about the app.
  • bluedarkybluedarky Posts: 1,232 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    blademaster5121 wrote: »
    No the web browser features (specifically) were lost during the PWE switch actually. Though I know nothing about the app.

    Atari allowed Cryptic to design the website and link it into the game data, when PWE took over they took control of the site from Cryptic and unlinked the game data. The app lost support about the same time because it used the same calls as the website.
  • championshewolfchampionshewolf Posts: 4,376 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    blademaster5121 wrote: »
    No the web browser features (specifically) were lost during the PWE switch actually. Though I know nothing about the app.

    Definitely not how I remember it since many of those features were shut off long before the PWE acquisition.
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  • kallethenkallethen Posts: 1,576 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    No, the character viewing, game mail reading, friends online status, etc via website was dropped when PWE converted the CO's websites to PWE's server structure.

    I would forgive it if they somehow bring the Gateway from NW to CO...
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  • draogndraogn Posts: 1,269 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    championshewolf wrote: »
    Definitely not how I remember it since many of those features were shut off long before the PWE acquisition.



    We lost the in-game mail and friend list integration just shortly after the announcement that PWE had bought Cryptic, right around the time when PWE made the first modifications to the website and forums. They claimed there were tech issues with keeping it.

    I get that Atari is the focus of a lot of angst when it comes to CO and STO, however there are only a couple of constants present, and Atari isn't one of them.
  • crypticbuxomcrypticbuxom Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Its really hard to blame Atari when they are the reason we even got content after Resistance. As soon as PWE purchased them, mid Whiteout, production for new content halted because Cryptic couldn't be hassled to develop more content for Champions. Its why Whiteout fell flat on its face in the last issue and we never got a REAL Whiteout complete update. And hideouts weren't finished. And features were removed.

    And PWE isn't to blame for this either.
  • iamruneiamrune Posts: 969 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    biffsmackwell wrote: »
    Yeah, the character poser worked better in the app than in the web browser.

    Champs had some really awesome features during launch, they were really ambitious with it, being able to see in-game mail from the forums, being able to do bios and character portraits from the web, all the social media integration. Then they threw it all away. Sad.

    They didn't throw **** away.

    They made all this stuff work great for Neverwinter on the new network infrastructure with PWI, but never bothered to bring it back online for us. or for STO.
    Kind of pisses me off, actually.
    championshewolf wrote: »
    Definitely not how I remember it since many of those features were shut off long before the PWE acquisition.


    Just an FYI, you are misremembering it.. It was absolutely due to the transition to PWI website and structure.
  • pariahoyamapariahoyama Posts: 48 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I miss a lot of these features. I really like being able to pose and show off my characters. Ah, the good ole days of yesteryear.
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