Shot Across Champion's Bow: Loyalty Program

If you keep your City of Heroes subscription active during August 15 to November 15 (just so happening to coincide with Champion's Online launch window) you get access to the Going Rogue closed beta.

It works in three tiers:

1. 60+ month vets

2. Loyalty Program (those who keep their account active Aug 15 to November 15)

3. Those who pre-order Going Rogue

I presume tier 1 gets in first, then 2 later on and finally 3.

Well played devs. Well played.

September is going to be a very interesting time to see what happens in the very first superhero MMO competition. My prediction? A year from September both City of Heroes and Champions Online will have a player base of about 150,000 players each. After DC? It's anyone's guess. Whoever comes up with the WoW of superhero MMOs will be the winner in the long run, though. With their recent announcement that they are making another go at the MMO superhero market, Marvel just might be the one to do it, if they can learn from the strength's and weaknesses of CoH, CO and DCUO.

You heard it here first. Marvel's MMO will rule the roost (in 2014 lol).