City of Heroes nears launch...

[WarLocke]

And so, those that forget the past are bound to repeat it. I though you still remembered the Diablo II release date(s)

I don't think Cryptic can/will push the release date back (or at least not too far - definitely not a Blizzard-style +2 years); here's my evidence:

1) Cryptic is a relatively new/young development house: they don't have the name-recognition that Blizzard does (yet) and they can't delay their game for very long now that it's publicly known they're beta-testing before people will get disgruntled.

2) The beta seems to be going well, and by all accounts is very stable and feature-rich. There were a couple threads posted recently on the forums with footage from a trade show (CPL, but I don't know what the acronym means) that looks at least as good as DAoC did at release.

... OK, so I've only got 2 arguments. So sue me. :o

Warlocke, master of magic!

Nah, I'm not going to use my name for a character (even if it wouldn't be instantly snapped up). I'm thinking of playing a Technology origin character and roleplaying as a robot - then I could use the Cyborg Name Generator and use something like:



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