This in a nutshell. Still in the meantime I'm hedging my bets. I've had a lifetime subscription to STO since beta but let it sit for a while, but Diz just seems... wrong in star trek. Mostly because she can't indiscriminately kill heretics. And I don't know if champions will let me play the character I want to AT ALL, and I won't know until I have a paid account.
Luna can't exist at all in Star Trek because... well, she's a superhero, not a Starfleet officer. My original alter ego of 17 years took to the Captain's chair in STO. And in Champions, I can't really make her at all. I can make someone
like her if I subscribe to get the free form power selection... but I can't even come close to her costume. All of the textures or clothing that resemble what she wears are just different enough to not work. And the game is just... ugh, I don't know. It's not similar enough to CoX. The character faces are god awful, the combat is too twitchy and button mashy, the mission structure is that branching, "Have to share quests" garbage from other MMO's.
If none of these are a viable choice come November 30, I'll be harking back to my pre-City days with my RL friends on Phantasy Star Online 2 in January when the Western launch hits. The majority of us were on the original PSO on Dreamcast on the US launch day in January 2001 and played until the servers shutdown. I still have the game receipt from Electronics Boutique, for Pete's sake! It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience; the pioneering online community of the first ever online RPG for a console.
The later ports and Phantasy Star Universe never captured that same magic and we went separate ways to other games. I discovered CoH in 2005 and instantly felt I found a new home.
Sorry, nothingness, you can't have this one.
