Tenzhi

Gold membership also allows you to make freeform characters rather than be stuck with an Archetype, allowing you to mix and match powers from all sets.

At the top of my list is my namesake, Tenzhi. He's a regular alter ego of mine, whose story varies from universe to universe. He usually takes the form of a short little old man with large white eyebrows and facial hair, with the void of the universe where his eyes should be. Occasionally he takes the form of a dragon (exhibiting some physical characteristics similar to Chinese dragons).

And there's Eustace Black, whose story can be read here. I never got him past the middle levels, but I really enjoyed creating his look and backstory.

Hard to say... it's the sort of thing that could potentially put me off a game for good. It took me a very long time to reroll my namesake after they killed Regeneration's appeal for me because I'm loath to lose character progress. I don't even like being temporarily reduced by exemplaring.

Personally, I like the stylized graphics for Champions Online, though I prefer to turn off the similar-to-cel-shading-outlines.

From the Wikipedia entry for Shonen Jump:

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Ugh. Trying to link my account to login to the forums over there is proving to be quite a headache. And since I can't access my email from work, it appears I won't easily be able to login from the place where it's most important to me. And I swear I played Jade Dynasty, but neither of my e-mails is linked to a Perfect World account.

If it went double I'd drop down to F2P. If F2P was no longer available at that point then I would drop the game.

Indeed, at this point even if the game gets a last minute save I'm going to be a bit leery about continuing my sub just to have the rug pulled out from under me again a scant few more months down the road.

While I'm not a big fan of blocking, I absolutely hate consumables.

Of course, I'm also not a big fan of loot/equipment-based superheroes, but given that I'm not in denial about enhancements I can't really count that as a point against ChO.

I was just looking at their official wiki, and it looks like the defensive abilities may still be rather weak. Weaker than an unslotted Tanker. Still, I'll probably give it a try again in the not-too-far-flung-future.

I had an account for Champions once (I was there for beta and the disappointing launch and a couple months after)... haven't checked in in awhile, so I don't know if it disintegrated or got hacked or something.

The game wasn't nearly alt-friendly enough - the lack of character slots was terribly restrictive. Characters with defensive abilities were far too squishy, and characters that focused on offensive abilities weren't damaging enough to make up for being ridiculously fragile. They slowed down advancement so that instead of being able to follow different paths with different characters you had to do pretty much every story arc/area with every character.

But I liked the free-form power selection - I had a character whose gimmick was a variety of breath weapons which was the only character I got to high levels. If they've killed that with their changes I'll likely be even more disappointed with the game, unless there's been a dramatic enough increase to defensive/offensive abilities to make up for the restrictions.