NihonTiger90
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DC Universe Online |OT2| Free to play is now live
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ElRenoRaven
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Sblargh said:
Can't blame you. F2P when done right can save a ton of money like this one and champions. Buy some costumes and archetypes on it you like and bam all you need. This one really just the expansions like the Green Lantern stuff and you're good to go.
HarryDemeanor
Member
Nope, which I'm surprised to see. Games Workshop is probably keeping them from going F2P though.JWong said:
Micromegas
Member
This "underestimating server demand" thing is getting pretty old from companies as big as Sony, et al. I could understand with untested properties, untested brands, but Sony... C'mon.
TrAcEr_x90
Member
So whats the verdict on this game? Seemed pretty positive when it first came out? But I don't hear about it what so ever anymore? I downloaded it, might try it tonight. I only played about 9 hours of WoW and stopped. I'd like to get into a MMO someday.
SixStringPsycho
Member
Fuck! I cant get past the character creation screen. Its automatically takes me back to the server world choose option. And have to rewatch or skip the intro so I can start creating again. Then repeat! Bah!
Professor Beef
Banned
I only got to play the tutorial, but I like the combat.TrAcEr_x90 said:
BattleMonkey
Member
HarryDemeanor said:
Yup WAR is not free probably because of licensing issues. That's why they are making a separate warhammer f2p game based on the same engine.
probably the best game we will ever get for alot of DC characters, and the Universe as awhole. I stopped playing awhile back because of other responsibilities but i'll probably jump on again soon. Anyone know if characters were deleted after the jump to F2P? I have a bunch of characters in tier gear, and ready to rumble if not.
Hows the F2P model treating the game so far? Lots of issues going on, because if so I may wait alittle while to let them fix up some of the issues.
Hows the F2P model treating the game so far? Lots of issues going on, because if so I may wait alittle while to let them fix up some of the issues.
Xplatformer
Member
TrAcEr_x90 said:
Loved the game up to level 30. Once the story driven solo content started to dry up I lost a lot of interest.
Professor Beef said:
DCU combat has made all other MMO combat stale to me. Really makes me worry about how enjoyable SWTOR combat will be.
HarryDemeanor
Member
I completely forgot they were making a MOBA from it.BattleMonkey said:
HarryDemeanor
Member
The model they're using is fine. I personally don't like the current cash limits for Free and Premium players. 1500/2000 is low even if cash at the moment is worthless.ReaperXL07 said:
HarryDemeanor said:
No, sorry. I was asking more about the performance related issues. I would expect with it going free to play that it would be a pretty big hurdle for them to overcome for atleast alittle while. They had some issues with server side stuff for awhile after the game released (although I did not get hit by alot of it.), Should have been more clear.
Story of this game while wasn't F2P was "waiting for SoE to fix stuff", I wouldn't expect this to change soon. That said, it's been some months since I don't play, so stuff may have been fixed, what do I know?
When I left, game had a patch that changed it from "very easy, with one or two challenging stuff" to "shit is impossible, wtf?"
When I left, game had a patch that changed it from "very easy, with one or two challenging stuff" to "shit is impossible, wtf?"
dreamer3kx
Member
Is it ok to turn off my system, currently downloading but its just going to take way too long right now, dont want to mess anything up.
PSN name is:Ohwiseone, will use database whenever this download completes.
Unfortunately, I am using the University internet, and its late.. So I will just turn this on before class tomorrow and maybe it will downloaded by the time i get done with class.
as of this post 13,480 MB to go...
Unfortunately, I am using the University internet, and its late.. So I will just turn this on before class tomorrow and maybe it will downloaded by the time i get done with class.
as of this post 13,480 MB to go...
ElRenoRaven
Member
Akkad said:
Again? It's been down almost all day minus an hour or so. PC has been down pretty much all but 30 mins. It's sad as hell too.
HarryDemeanor
Member
Oh sorry for misreading. Haha. That was my fault, not yours.ReaperXL07 said:
They're having big server problems right now with new players trying to log in. It's been going up and down all day. Some lag here and there too while in-game on PC.
HarryDemeanor
Member
You will resume where you left off when you cancelled it.MrPliskin said:
xKilltheMx
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Are the servers for US PS3 back up yet? =\
evil solrac v3.0
Member
are teh PC servers down as well?? fuck man I want to play!!!
SixStringPsycho
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lol Imagine having to wait 10 hours again...MrPliskin said:
They've updated the post they made earlier today, looks like they're bringing up the servers for some more debug info.
This is starting to feel like a repeat of the US PS3 MegaServer issues. Hopefully this doesn't take weeks to fix like it did last time. : /
Here's a link to the PS3 forums. Usually people will make a new thread there when the server crashes/restarts. There's also the server status page. While usually it's not very up to date, you can get an idea of the server status if you know what to look for. If the time since the last response is more than a couple of minutes the server is probably down. It also loves to report offline servers as low pop instead of down so if its low during the middle of the day it's probably down.
Deadmeat said:
This is starting to feel like a repeat of the US PS3 MegaServer issues. Hopefully this doesn't take weeks to fix like it did last time. : /
Seems like it's up right now. Queue is probably something ridiculous though.xKilltheMx said:
Here's a link to the PS3 forums. Usually people will make a new thread there when the server crashes/restarts. There's also the server status page. While usually it's not very up to date, you can get an idea of the server status if you know what to look for. If the time since the last response is more than a couple of minutes the server is probably down. It also loves to report offline servers as low pop instead of down so if its low during the middle of the day it's probably down.
PC Forums. Looks like they're up at the moment.evil solrac v3.0 said:
KiteGr
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IMOWilly105 said:
SW:TOR will be a mediocre game as well, but unlike DC univerce, the Bioware and Starwars fans are Hard core and they won't stop playing just because the game is bad.
I don't see SW:tor going f2p. At least not after a year of it's release...
I would love to have a single player version of that game though.
xKilltheMx
Member
Just got my Fight The Light DLC purchased, time to make my green lantern. Hmm need a good name for him/her though.
iSurvivedTheOutage
Member
Oh how I am lttp...
well...not really..
played beta on ps3 and liked it.
well...not really..
played beta on ps3 and liked it.
Professor Beef
Banned
Just made a villain on the PvE side for PC, and it's awesome.
BattleMonkey
Member
I imagine this is all a problem with there megaserver tech. It was implemented with small playerbase and not really tested for 100+k new players.
RPGCrazied
Member
Finally got to play it, and it runs pretty smooth so far. I have it at max settings. Though I'm running it on a 6 core machine @ 3.2, 6gigs of DDR3 and HD Radeon 5770 1gig.
I have to say, I like it more than Champions Online, but it is a letdown on customization. Not a big deal, I like the combat, feels nice and arcadey. I might pay the one time $5 for the extra stuff.
Don't know if this is a spoiler but,
I have to say, I like it more than Champions Online, but it is a letdown on customization. Not a big deal, I like the combat, feels nice and arcadey. I might pay the one time $5 for the extra stuff.
Don't know if this is a spoiler but,
Do you need a group to take down scarecrow? My level 6 Gadgets/Bows can't survive down there.
Willy105 said:
I seriously doubt SWTOR is ever going F2P. The game is getting glowing reviews in the beta stage, and its bugs are getting ironed out quickly and efficiently. Games tend to only drift to the F2P model if the game loses too many paying subscribers. I just don't see that happening with SWTOR. Like someone else mentioned, there's enough disenfranchised Wrath babies, KotoR fanboys, Bioware fanboys, and Star Wars fanboys to keep the game going for a long time.
Oh, and then there's this;
F2P is the model if your game fails to live up to expectations and you need to recoup money. EVERY MMO dev wants their game to be like WoW, which generates billions a year for Blizzard through their subscription model.
You need to be the same faction to group up. There's a ton of heroes in the game and most of the content is hero centric causing a huge faction imbalance that I imagine will only get worse with all the F2P people. I would recommend going villain, you'll have an easier time with the PvP queues. They've been hinting that same faction PvP queues are coming, but that might take a while.Bradach said:
Doubt it. They need to patch the servers to handle the traffic before it'll be stable otherwise it'll keep crashing when it gets hammered.Dunlop said:
Yup. They had the same issues when they implemented the US PS3 megaserver and it took them weeks to iron it out.BattleMonkey said:
More styles become available to you later on in the game and that makes the customization a tad bit better.RPGCrazied said:
As for the Scarecrow mission, is it the Halloween Event or the Batman mentor starter mission? If its the event you can solo it but not at lv 6. If it's the Batman mission, yeah you're supposed to be able to solo all the lv 1 - 30 mission but I personally prefer grouping up for them because it makes it easier and less dull. Try doing some side mission or race so you can lv up or group up with someone near the entrance who also needs that mission.
RPGCrazied
Member
Ok, thanks. Is there anyway to stop the pop-in the game has? It's kinda distracting.
BattleMonkey
Member
RPGCrazied said:
On PS3? No. It was much worse actually at launch really, they did improve the visual smoothness and pop in with updates but doubt it's going anymore.
RPGCrazied
Member
No, actually I'm on PC.