I took one look at this game and thought I'd go ahead and play it. It's free but I'm the type that doesn't like to be limited so I was gonna buy a life sb. I've been trying to download this game all day with nothing but issues. So much so that i've given up on this. It looked like an amazing game, it probably is an amazing game. But I'm not gonna waste time and money on a game that i've spent 6 hours trouble shooting the download client.
I had no trouble downloading the game from Cryptic's link on my laptop (even though it took about 4 hours... ) but I'm trying to get the game on my much faster computer also, and the same client is stuck at 0.00 kb/s...
So, being impatient, I went to Fileplanet and got what I thought was the right thing. I downloaded the Champions-Online Free For All Client and, after looking at what I downloaded, I only got two folders in the big CO folder: One named directx and one named piggs. No EXE or Install icon in sight.
How do I install the game with a directx folder and a piggs folder? Did I get the wrong thing? Should I just shut up and wait for Cryptic's incredibly slow download client to go? (I'm very inclined to just stop bothering and see if ithe game even works on my laptop...)
I had no trouble downloading the game from Cryptic's link on my laptop (even though it took about 4 hours... ) but I'm trying to get the game on my much faster computer also, and the same client is stuck at 0.00 kb/s...
So, being impatient, I went to Fileplanet and got what I thought was the right thing. I downloaded the Champions-Online Free For All Client and, after looking at what I downloaded, I only got two folders in the big CO folder: One named directx and one named piggs. No EXE or Install icon in sight.
How do I install the game with a directx folder and a piggs folder? Did I get the wrong thing? Should I just shut up and wait for Cryptic's incredibly slow download client to go? (I'm very inclined to just stop bothering and see if ithe game even works on my laptop...)
Thanks...
I did the same thing as you. Downloaded from file planet.
One of the files you see should be zipped, therfore it need to be unzipped then set up. Afterwards it will update the launcher and do a patch. All of this took me 5 hours over all however that is a LOT better than having had waited 10 hours and only been at 45% at 0.00/kb/s YISH!!
The game seems to work perfectly fine with the FilePlanet download.
I did the same thing as you. Downloaded from file planet.
One of the files you see should be zipped, therfore it need to be unzipped then set up. Afterwards it will update the launcher and do a patch. All of this took me 5 hours over all however that is a LOT better than having had waited 10 hours and only been at 45% at 0.00/kb/s YISH!!
The game seems to work perfectly fine with the FilePlanet download.
In case you do not know (you probably do though) you have to download the download manager on Fileplanet and then download it there. If you already knew this, please ignore me.
It might not be Cryptic itself to blame, rather than the distributing company (or whoever owns the servers in question.) However, I completely agree that something should be done about this. I went through the entire topic and there's at least a dozen people that have passed up on this game entirely because of this issue. Talk about shooting your own foot off. You're losing potential customers over this issue, so I sincerely hope that someone in a position to do something about it will read this topic over and realize that it's in their best interest to find a solution to this problem asap.
Really, one of the most atrocious downloads i have ever run across. I started downloading LAST NIGHT and woke up 9 hours later at 63%. I hope game companies realize how important an easy set up, installation and registration is to gamers. If a game is more work then is necessary, they usually go somewhere else instead of wasting that much time. I realize that this is one of the only super hero mmo and most likely everyone will put a little extra effort to play, but this is sadistic on cryptics end.
Barely any helpful response from and actual mod or admin on the forums, just a bunch of newbie downloaders helping each other out with a ridiculous client to play a game that seems to be very exciting to play.....though ive lowered my expectations greatly now since running into this problem, since i fear being disappointed again.
Not a good way for a new player to enter a game, or be tempted on spending money.
I should make a positive here and its to all the posters who contributed to helping the newbs in this thread. Your efforts have helped quite a few here, more so then the company itself, and I thank you. If it wasnt for you guys, cryptic would be short some more players, they should thank you as well. Good work guys, less then an hour to go now.
finally i could post but.........why i cant post on other categories please answer ...and i am sliver member
because you are a silver.
the web site originally was set so only people who have active subscriptions could post on the forum (when the game was pay to play) and everyone could post in the pc tech issues (for those having problems creating an account)
Since the forum account are linked direcly to game accounts the fourm security setup is still tied to the subscription requirment.
not sure if it is posible or how much it would take to correct it and still provide a means to limit spam postings in the forum.
because you are a silver.
the web site originally was set so only people who have active subscriptions could post on the forum (when the game was pay to play) and everyone could post in the pc tech issues (for those having problems creating an account)
Since the forum account are linked direcly to game accounts the fourm security setup is still tied to the subscription requirment.
not sure if it is posible or how much it would take to correct it and still provide a means to limit spam postings in the forum.
you make it sound like being a silver is a bad thing there Pegasus. what the crap is up with all the freakin patches? i've been waiting over 3 hours to play this game but i cant because i have to wait for 2912 MB of patches to download first.:mad::mad::mad:
Hey Just letting everyone know that I am downloading Champions Online Free to Play Client for fileplanet.com
Not sure if this will work or not but I will let you know if it does. It is downloading the whole game from fileplanet instead of using the installer that is running really slow.
PS. It works. On Fileplanet there are two files you can download one is Champions Online Free to Play Client and the other is Champions online Free For All Client. Download the Champions Online Free to Play Client and you will not have to worry about the slow speeds.
Ahhh thanks so much for that. xD I'm glad I didn't have to look so hard. I was about to give up haha!
I downloaded the 3gb file from fileplanet, but maybe am i too dumb but the zip file doesnt seem to work at all, windows keeps telling me it is not valid, but again maybe i'm not doing correctly since its a zip file.
Also, i got no problem downloading it with my real PC with the original download, but now that i am trying to dl on my laptop, this has become a nightmare.
But keep going guys, this game rocks and this is free
I would rather download it full through a host than download it through the ChampionsF2P.exe! The download through the program goes slow, gets disconnected from some random reason, and it's annoying. Through Fileplanet or any such host is better than through the program.
I just downloaded it through Fileplanet, and its file was corrupted or damaged. Screw this crap, I lost like almost my whole hours on downloading a game which as a result of, instead, fun, was simply a huge pain in my head. Work in at least a fix toward the download, not even the .exe program to download it is good enough for us. It always fails, giving you 0.00% KB for it. Screw it. I'll have to download it from somewhere else, now.
Yeah - I'm another disgruntled customer - or non-customer I should say.
I've been on the F2p downloader now for the past 2 days. I'm in the UK and noticed that I get about 250kb/s in the morning and then it rapidly deteriorates to 0.00 - 3kb/s when the US is in full swing.
Still on 59%!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm also downloading the fileplanet.com .exe file and getting about 240 kb/s - which will take another 4 hours!
I'll keep both running just in case the fileplanet one gets corrupt of something.
This is my first experience of the game and I have to agree with the others here - **** poor impression.
I tried EVE online the other night and it downloaded in a fraction of the time.
I have been trying all day long with this abysmal speed that was never quite as bad as some of these posts I am seeing but I eventually gave up and grabbed the client at http://www.bigdownload.com/games/champions-online/pc/champions-online-free-to-play-client/ and I am currently sucking it up at 1.2 mbs so I have traded 8 hours of waiting to... let's see... 24 mins left.
Why is it that when I press start that the bar shows a sliver and won't even move. even after 15 minutes? I posted already in Technical issues but seems like no one cares about me
the client download uses a very simple bit torrent to download the client. speed will be based on number of seeds and whether your isp filter torrent traffic. I believe you can use a more robust torrent program to download the client.
now the patcher (not the client downloader instaler) from the launcer patches the game using port 7255 so if that port is filtered or block it will affect the patching speed.
is this true?
if it is true why the hell the downloader don't display a clearly visible message about port forwarding this port to speed up the process? this is not user friendly at all
i've started the donwloader today, at 10:30 am (UTC +1), and as now i am only at 83.4% ... this is not a good impression
also, I've downloaded the game from steam yesterday, and today I need an update of 1.3GB? Why I need to do this? Can't you release an up to date client on steam?
also, your game is supposed to be tied to one of the steam achievements for this holiday event, if this is true and if the package dowloaded from steam isn't up to date at that time what you think will be the reaction of the steam users when they'll come to play your game and find out that they need a 6-700MB update from your really slow downloader other than the steam download to play the game?
I downloaded the F2P Client and starts downloading at 120kb/s, after a while i goes down to 0.00kb/s, what's happenin?? i open the file again and starts downloading at 120kb/s and again (after a while) it goes down to 0.00kb/s...what can I do???
Im not sure whats going on, but all of my cryptic games are having trouble for the first time. is something wrtong with the servers? is anyone else having this problem?
Hello! i downloaded the game from the torrent..everything was smooth..but..my problem is..the Patch..i installed the game yesterday and then it started patching...and since yesterday..its only at 5%...any chance i can manually download the files?
THE SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEMS IS WAIT FOR PW/ATARI TO RELEASE A ****ING MANUAL PATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEEN WAITING HERE DOWNLOADING A 222MB FILE AND I LEAVE IT FOR 2 or 5 HOURS THEN IT DOWNLOADED ONLY 10MB!!! 4.5%!
Edit : That way you can use your original download speed or your download accelerator to download the manual patch TALA~!!
I have the same problem, it has been over 30 minutes and i only have 64mb of 5293. It's downloading extremely slowly and at this pace it won't be done anytime soon. I used the link from the OP in this thread since the download i got at registration was extremely slow at updating (over an hour for 12mb). Is there anything i can do to speed this along? I can usually download at 1.2mb/s.
so I got a new computer a while ago I haven't been on CO in a long time and thought I'd re-install it I noticed 2 things. First that the client patches as it downloads and it seems like it does it for every file instead of downloading a batch and then patching like every other client I've ever seen, but I did notice it picks up right were it left off if you cancel it. The second is that when one client is open the others don't work so you cant patch STO and Co and Neverwinter at the same time just one at a time. So if all 3 games come from the same patch server I wonder how that's effecting it as well. I had 5000mb+ to download and install it's doing it at 9-10 kbs. last nigh I had it running while I went to sleep woke up to find the client CTD'd while patching probably during server maintance. so I got 1857 mb to go its been 45 min and only for 112 mb so its gonna take around 8 hours :eek:.
so I found a thread were another user suggested disabling on demand patching from the client options so I did, the size changed from 1800mb to 4000mb the speed seems faster however because of the increase in size the the time will take the same
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So, being impatient, I went to Fileplanet and got what I thought was the right thing. I downloaded the Champions-Online Free For All Client and, after looking at what I downloaded, I only got two folders in the big CO folder: One named directx and one named piggs. No EXE or Install icon in sight.
How do I install the game with a directx folder and a piggs folder? Did I get the wrong thing? Should I just shut up and wait for Cryptic's incredibly slow download client to go? (I'm very inclined to just stop bothering and see if ithe game even works on my laptop...)
Thanks...
I did the same thing as you. Downloaded from file planet.
One of the files you see should be zipped, therfore it need to be unzipped then set up. Afterwards it will update the launcher and do a patch. All of this took me 5 hours over all however that is a LOT better than having had waited 10 hours and only been at 45% at 0.00/kb/s YISH!!
The game seems to work perfectly fine with the FilePlanet download.
He's right. It took me 30 minutes to download the full game..
I got it figured out. It's installing now.
Thanks!
I don't care if it's free; the fact that so many people are having these issue speaks very poorly of this game and its owners.
I played pen and paper Champions over 20 years ago and was excited to relive a bit of those days.
Sucks that I won't. :mad:
Barely any helpful response from and actual mod or admin on the forums, just a bunch of newbie downloaders helping each other out with a ridiculous client to play a game that seems to be very exciting to play.....though ive lowered my expectations greatly now since running into this problem, since i fear being disappointed again.
Not a good way for a new player to enter a game, or be tempted on spending money.
I should make a positive here and its to all the posters who contributed to helping the newbs in this thread. Your efforts have helped quite a few here, more so then the company itself, and I thank you. If it wasnt for you guys, cryptic would be short some more players, they should thank you as well. Good work guys, less then an hour to go now.
because you are a silver.
the web site originally was set so only people who have active subscriptions could post on the forum (when the game was pay to play) and everyone could post in the pc tech issues (for those having problems creating an account)
Since the forum account are linked direcly to game accounts the fourm security setup is still tied to the subscription requirment.
not sure if it is posible or how much it would take to correct it and still provide a means to limit spam postings in the forum.
you make it sound like being a silver is a bad thing there Pegasus. what the crap is up with all the freakin patches? i've been waiting over 3 hours to play this game but i cant because i have to wait for 2912 MB of patches to download first.:mad::mad::mad:
Ahhh thanks so much for that. xD I'm glad I didn't have to look so hard. I was about to give up haha!
Your torrent / torrent program sucks.
Fix it or you lose potential gamers due to sheer impatience.
30k is simply NOT acceptable over a broadband connection.
I cannot believe anyone would wait for this.
- Mako
Also, i got no problem downloading it with my real PC with the original download, but now that i am trying to dl on my laptop, this has become a nightmare.
But keep going guys, this game rocks and this is free
I just downloaded it through Fileplanet, and its file was corrupted or damaged. Screw this crap, I lost like almost my whole hours on downloading a game which as a result of, instead, fun, was simply a huge pain in my head. Work in at least a fix toward the download, not even the .exe program to download it is good enough for us. It always fails, giving you 0.00% KB for it. Screw it. I'll have to download it from somewhere else, now.
Why yes, I am redownloading the game. Thought it would help my other problems I was having.
http://www.joystiq.com/game/champions-online/download/champions-online-free-to-play-client/
This is the one i used originally. 2.9 GB full F2P client, it'll be downloaded in about an hour or two.
use that. already at 19% and its running for 8 mins, pretty good for Champions Online.
i downloaded almost 3GB of game client.
launcher now tells me I need to download another 1GB, with the SAME CRAPPY SPEED AGAIN?!
COME THE XXXX ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This piece of work here aint worth your time and bandwidth, even if it's free.
I've been on the F2p downloader now for the past 2 days. I'm in the UK and noticed that I get about 250kb/s in the morning and then it rapidly deteriorates to 0.00 - 3kb/s when the US is in full swing.
Still on 59%!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm also downloading the fileplanet.com .exe file and getting about 240 kb/s - which will take another 4 hours!
I'll keep both running just in case the fileplanet one gets corrupt of something.
This is my first experience of the game and I have to agree with the others here - **** poor impression.
I tried EVE online the other night and it downloaded in a fraction of the time.
Rhyfelwr
Q1: Why is it so slow to download?
Q2: 0.20 kb/s :eek: WTF!! OMG!! How can i speed this up?
if it is true why the hell the downloader don't display a clearly visible message about port forwarding this port to speed up the process? this is not user friendly at all
i've started the donwloader today, at 10:30 am (UTC +1), and as now i am only at 83.4% ... this is not a good impression
also, I've downloaded the game from steam yesterday, and today I need an update of 1.3GB? Why I need to do this? Can't you release an up to date client on steam?
also, your game is supposed to be tied to one of the steam achievements for this holiday event, if this is true and if the package dowloaded from steam isn't up to date at that time what you think will be the reaction of the steam users when they'll come to play your game and find out that they need a 6-700MB update from your really slow downloader other than the steam download to play the game?
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Edit : That way you can use your original download speed or your download accelerator to download the manual patch TALA~!!