DCUO NDA Lifted - See Screenshots from the Game

looks good

thats great, still not gonna pay 180 dollars a year to play it online. (12months X 15 dollars a month)-for those who argue the price

What GreenHalJordan said.....

yeah i hate pay to play, i don't have nearly enough free time to dedicate that much money for something i can only play on the occasional weekend. for those of us who want it but can't justify the price it really sucks.
i mean really sucks. bad. so bad

@lee777
yea like city of heroes.
they should have a top up pay plan too...
so u can top up 15 $ and that means u get i dont know....10 hours of gameplay? so thats 1.5 $ per hour?? sounds good to me.

Pre-ordered this!!

When does the PS3 Beta start??

The pay-to-play model is right for some games. It is an MMO where part of your monthly fee is the ability to team with other players, and where the developer continues to build and develop the game to keep subscribers.

You are too used to console games, where you buy it once, play it for a while and then you are done. The game publisher then comes out with a new game, and you have to pay again.

I've been in City of Heroes for years. I find it is a fantastic deal, because the game provides most of my entertainment for only 15 bucks a month (well, for me about 12 due to taking advantage of specials). I have a group of friends who have been together for almost as long as I have been in the game, and we meet up most nights to voice chat while in the game.

One of our group was in the DC Online Beta. He said that the game looked wonderful, but the gameplay was difficult and tedious. It is clearly designed for consoles, making the computer controls difficult and the options limited compared to a computer-only title like City of Heroes. It also has limited content, which is not unusual for a new game -- Champions Online had the same problem, and looks like it is failing. CoH is still going strong in part because it has a loyal subscriber base of around 100K and it has 7 years worth of content (plus, players can make their own missions). He is not interested in subscribing to DCUO after trying the Beta, but he said that his son liked it.

@theWorld - yes you can get capes right away. They are available in the character creater.

@Ambushbug - I made about 15 characters, most made it to level 9 before i deleted them. On some of them i chose the same powers but different weapons to try different combos. I also agree with you that the game seriously lacks content. If it wasn't for testing and creating alts to try out different powers i would have been done with the game in 3-5 days. It is fun to play but the lack of content means that i wont be buying it.

@themanfromroom5 - fire, ice, nature, sorcery, gadgets, and mental.

@frog f u fanboy...

I really think that you should be able to make your player a member of the GL corps, or be able to make up your own corps

It's made even more limited by the fact that your power set locks you into a role. Such as all fire and ice characters are tanks, all gadgets and mental characters are controllers, and all sorcery and nature characters are healers. Overall game just needs more diversity in every department. It would be a decent one shot action game to buy on a console, just don't see it being a success as a subscription based game but I guess we will see.