Twitter added to Champions Online, social butterflies rejoice
by Kyle Horner 
Jul 2nd 2009 at 10:00AM
Filed under: Super-hero, New titles, News items, Champions Online
You're inside a rather challenging instance, only moments away from the big fight. Your party is getting ready, resting up, etc and so you take a moment to hammer out a short message to your friends on Twitter. "Oh man, about to take on my Nemesis, Big Bad Boss Man, wish us luck!" you say, netting you a few encouraging replies. Then you engage and the ensuing carnage is nigh legendary. The party just takes a serious beating and is torn limb from heroic limb by your Nemesis. You decide to share this with the world, only to see your buddies instantly share their empathetic thoughts on your embarrassing defeat.
We think it's got some substantially fun possibilities. Plus, if Cryptic can work in Twitter support to their games, what else could they do? Facebook seems like the next step, but there's also Pandora and Last.FM support to consider, too.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Ardy said on 10:26AM 7-02-2009
http://echoesofnonsense.blogspot.com/2009/07/communication-integration.html
Already put some thoughts to blog on it.
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Inge said on 10:27AM 7-02-2009
didn't they clearly state that this was still under NDA? or does that not apply to the press in this case? not to be a dick, I'm just curious
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Inge said on 10:28AM 7-02-2009
no, I'm an idiot. sorry. for some reason though, it said on the patchnotes that it was under NDA :S
Ardy said on 10:50AM 7-02-2009
Oh it the game is still under NDA, the ability to tweet is not. Heck the tweets come out showing as originating from Champions Online :P
I just couldnt tweet about or
Ardy said on 10:52AM 7-02-2009
....don't used < or when you are making a joke. Silly self.
Anyway, you can tweet, and talk about the tweeting, just cant give away beta stuff which is covered by the nda.
Iokthemonkey said on 10:30AM 7-02-2009
The more I see of CO, the less I want to play it.
Twitter? Twatter more like.
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THAC0 said on 11:02AM 7-02-2009
I don't want twatter in my tiddly winks TYVM!
Russell Clarke said on 3:44AM 7-03-2009
Yep. There's a twat for that.
SignpostMarv Martin said on 10:30AM 7-02-2009
So long as they use the Twitter API and don't ask for the account password, I'm all for it.
Though since I've got dual monitors, I'm not sure how often I'd use the in-game tweet feature to manually tweet, but I'm sure it'll be handy for automated stuff like dinging/major quest competition etc. (followed by a flurry of "gz" replies :-P)
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Dude said on 10:31AM 7-02-2009
Shush, NDA, NDA. Naughty. :P Twitter that.
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Aganazer said on 10:41AM 7-02-2009
Its a silly feature, but it fits considering how well integrated the game is with the web.
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Xugu Madison said on 10:42AM 7-02-2009
That's... interesting... not entirely sure it's useful, but interesting. Most of the use I've seen Twitter get is for news and news discussion, but we'll see.
Would love to see an MMO with integrated XMPP (Jabber, same protocol Google Talk uses) support, personally. Let me send messages from XuguMadison@championsonline.com to MyFriend@worldofwarcraft.com (although obviously names would have to be a little more complex), without having a third-party IM client in the loop...
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SignpostMarv Martin said on 10:54AM 7-02-2009
Theoretically, wouldn't WoW contacts be character@realm.territory.worldofwarcraft.com ?
Xugu Madison said on 10:58AM 7-02-2009
I was considering character%realm@worldofwarcraft.com , but your idea makes more sense. Territory is in the domain, at least for WoW, though; there's www.wow-europe.com for Europe, for example.
Celestial Lord said on 10:52AM 7-02-2009
Ugh. I can't stand social networking sites. I've been looking forward to Champions Online, and I hope people don't expect others to use Twitter to organize groups, raids, and such. If they do, I'll be canceling my account.
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SignpostMarv Martin said on 10:55AM 7-02-2009
Unlikely. It isn't with their business interests to have an essential part of the gameplay experience rely upon a third-party service that they don't operate (since it could go down, rendering the game near-impossible to play)
Snailking said on 10:53AM 7-02-2009
aaaaaaaaaaaaaand I'm out.
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Xugu Madison said on 10:57AM 7-02-2009
I was considering character%realm@worldofwarcraft.com , but your idea makes more sense. Territory is in the domain, at least for WoW, though; there's www.wow-europe.com for Europe, for example.
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SignpostMarv Martin said on 10:58AM 7-02-2009
Territory is a sub-domain of the Armory :-P
ScytheNoire said on 1:03PM 7-02-2009
It's a smart step. Integrating social media into gaming, especially MMO's which are social games, is a smart move. Expect many more to follow, although some have already been doing this (LotRO) and most have huge social following groups (WoW, EVE).
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