DC Universe Online

[Tenchuwoh]

DC Universe Online is in Playstation Store!U must pay for it every 30(12€),90(35€),180(65€) days!Did anyone of u played the BETA(I didn't cause it needs 5hours to be installed)?Is it good?Does it worth the money?Do i need anything else except a PSN Card to download it or to play it?Thanks

[adz2k7]

Yeah, you need the actual game disc.

[dnlgee]

IMO, going off the beta, there's a lot of room for improvement and it seemed pretty basic. Also going off the beta I wouldn't even consider paying a monthly fee to play the game. I expected more from an MMO tbh.

That's just my personal opinion.

[d3m0nsall]

I was in the Beta which was ok but personally I do not think the game is worth the monthly fee... But thats me, you might like it...

[Scythegpd]

Posted this somewhere else:
Correct me if I’m wrong but is that DCUO subscription not pretty much the same as the WoW subscription?
Right, so a brand new, unproven, console MMORPG is trying to charge the same as the worlds biggest MMORPG which has just released an expansion? And this after having to pay pretty much full price for the game itself in the first place?

My god who comes up with these ideas! DCUO … another game destined for obscurity due to absurd pricing decisions. I hope it succeeds but I really don’t see it garnering any more than a hardcore niche

[Sjthjs]

£100 to play for a year. Well, DCUO was a must buy for me, and absolute essential purchase. But I massively disagree with games that you buy, then have to pay again to actually play. What a massive superhuman disappointment. I cannot express how disappointed I am. I can safely say that I will never play this game. And I think that I'm not the only one who this game has alienated due to this game charging you to play.

I don't buy Red Dead Redemption, then have to pay a subscription fee to play. I can now see this game flopping. The main market for DCUO will be kids aged 10-18 (as well as the older fans). So why they have blatantly priced it well out of the pocket money range I have no idea

[stalker1982]

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Scythegpd wrote:
Posted this somewhere else:
Correct me if I’m wrong but is that DCUO subscription not pretty much the same as the WoW subscription?
Right, so a brand new, unproven, console MMORPG is trying to charge the same as the worlds biggest MMORPG which has just released an expansion? And this after having to pay pretty much full price for the game itself in the first place?

My god who comes up with these ideas! DCUO … another game destined for obscurity due to absurd pricing decisions. I hope it succeeds but I really don’t see it garnering any more than a hardcore niche

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im still iffy about dc it has potential but with the old republic coming out this year and all 

[MagikToaster]

Why are people so surprised that an MMO is charging!! It's been that way since they began years ago. And to be honest the monthly fee back then with some of them was still £10-£15 per month.

As for the comparison with WOW this game was a new game once too and it charged £10 a month to play. OK it rocketed to fame pretty quickly but nobody really knew if it was going to be any good.

If you want to play an MMO be prepared to part with your hard earned cash each month. Even the Free MMO's make you buy stuff in game (kinda like Home) if you want to have any kind of a game experience out of them.

In saying that most MMO's are pretty buggy at the start to it might be an idea to hold off for a while before jumping on board. But if it's a good game then why not pay the money each month. If it's a good MMO you will get a LOT more hours of play than ANYTHING you will pay £40 for.

As for pricing it out of the 'pocket money' range, I think that the several million users of WOW might disagree. They seem to have found the cash to pay for that subscription each month...

[dnlgee]

2 words. Guild Wars.

Best free MMORPG EVAR!

[sparky123]

Ok, as a big fan of MMO's on the PC I'm going to do something that goes against everything I stand for when it comes to MMO games and actually defend SOE here, for a moment at least.

The reason most MMO's charge around a tenner for a months access is to cover the cost of the server hosting, the bandwidth costs, new patch and game content costs etc. MMO's are not like single player games and a good MMO evolves over time and if you find that you like them then they can be well worth the money (Obviously MMO's aren't for everyone). Some people will usually hold up Guild Wars as some kind of proof that a subscription isnt required, but Guildwars was not a real MMO and used Peer to Peer technology to instance all areas of the game, apart from the town hubs, and host them from the players machines thus saving them a fortune on server and bandwidth costs, this was also the reason why you only ever saw yourself or your party once you left town.

For those who think that MMO's should be free then my advise is be careful what you wish for, there are plenty of free MMO's on the PC and 99% of them are utter garbage, the remainder use an ingame store that almost forces you to purchase items in order to get any fun out of the game as after the initial few levels they become extreme grind fests and in the end they often end up costing you more than a monthly sub of £10.

Recently a hybrid model has been adopted whereby companies are still charging the monthly fee and including an ingame store, This is where I stop defending SOE as they have shown to have one of the most expensive ingame item stores in any Pay to Play MMO with Everquest 2 (Massively did an article on it), I know that DCUO contains an ingame store so be warned that it will get stocked full of future goodies that you will also pay for and if SOE follow the same path as they did in EQ2 it will start out as cosmetic  items and then gradually become items that become more gameplay impacting until it ends up with items on that really should be including as part of the subscription costs. In the future I would not be suprised to see new power sets, new weapons and items like a superhero club house etc on there for silly amounts of money. It doesn't bother everyone but my attitude is that either give me the content for the cost of the subscription with no ingame store, or make the game free and sell items in a store, don't try to do both.

This is just my opinion and something that often causes heated debate on some mmo forums I go on.