Champedia launches for Champions Online
by Eliot Lefebvre 
Nov 11th 2009 at 10:00AM
Filed under: Betas, Super-hero, News items, Champions Online
As MMOs become more and more complex, there's an increasing need for information regarding the game at a player's fingertips. Especially since most of them are being played while on the computer, so a quick search of information is just an alt-tab away, no matter what the situation. Champions Online has stepped up to the plate with their own official offering: the Champedia, a database of every superpower, mission, super group, and character currently in the game. It's fully searchable at this point, although it's still in beta.
There have been debates in the community about adding on currently-played characters into a publicly accessible database, but Champions Online also includes the feature for guild masters to manage their organization directly from the site. A quick log-in allows the group leader to do everything from changing the message of the day to handling promotions without ever having to enter the game. It's not perfect yet, of course -- the Mission section, for instance, includes nothing but the basic mission text -- but if properly managed it could be a great asset to the community looking for information straight from the official source. Now if only it included wiki functionality...
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JP said on 10:08AM 11-11-2009
I'll give them credit here, that's a pretty bad ass concept. Intergrating things w/in the game from outside the game is something I hope more developers do.
Like mentioned, it's in beta, and the page itself is a little clunky, but overall this is pretty effing cool. Even if I think the game itself is crap.
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MrBounce said on 12:45PM 11-12-2009
WoW has had an armory that provides similar functions for quite a while now (that gives a lot more details about characters).
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