Anti-Aliased: It pays to be paranoid

Nov 05 2009

Anti-Aliased: It pays to be paranoid

Published by admin at 2:30 pm under 65770

Blame Shawn Schuster. No, really, it’s applicable this time and I’m not just pulling your leg.

Many of you were wondering why we hadn’t talked about the Champions Online failures this past weekend — The “Blood Moon Blunder.” Well, it was because pretty much the second we started getting reports from you guys about the client not working on Steam, or subscribing players complaining of the lag that the servers had over the weekend, Shawn turned to me, slapped the story on my desk and said, “All yours for Anti-Aliased.”

And I sat there, smiled, and politely responded, “Oh crap. This is going to drive them all up the wall even further than last week’s article. I’ll do it.”

So was the Champions free weekend a failure? Absolutely, but not for the reasons you may think. Come on, follow me after the break, and we’ll go into yet another (and hopefully the last for a while) opinion column on Champions.

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