On Betas, Champions and Lifetime offers Lost

You gotta admit, Cryptic have balls. Imagine, not only offering a lifetime subscription to Champions Online where you have to sign on the dotted line before you've even seen the game, but then retracting the offer before the listed end date.

Add to that their 'open' beta, which wasn't technically open at all - thus inspiring perplexing headlines such as "Open beta fully opens for Champions Online".

As Dave mentioned to me, it's like Cryptic occupy some kind of strange Bizzaro world of their own. Oddly appropriate, methinks.

Update: And they're back! So Cryptic have common sense when it comes to PR too!