Cryptic confirms attempts to poach City of Heroes players, doesn't care

Cryptic's confirmed it's actively trying to poach City of Heroes players for the Champions Online beta, Massively reports.

It was rumoured on Wednesday the developer was using the City of Heroes forum to recruit for the test.

Said Cryptic's Ivan Sulic in a forum post on the matter.

"So, we're currently running the closed beta test for Champions Online and a few of our employees thought it might be a good idea to contact avid MMO notables and various guild leaders floating about to see if they wanted to test. I'm certain this wasn't meant to be a malicious attack on a competing product, nor did anyone intend to steal players, violate user agreements, kill babies, or knife hardworking farmers in the back. We had invites to send and the folks who send them figured people who play MMOs most might want them most. If a line was crossed, it was totally inadvertent and no harm was intended.

That being said, we have just recently restructured the Community, PR, and Marketing departments (part of the reason I'm here), so we'll make sure to stay straight as an arrow from here on. Shills, poaching, bullshotting... No chance, man. We make good games and we hope people will play them. Best anyone can do, right?"

Naughty rabbits.