Shifting to a free-to-play model yesterday, DC Universe Online opened the gates to the freeloading hordes. More than 120,000 signed up for the MMO said John Smedley, the president of Sony Online Entertainment. That figure’s for the PC, though. No word yet on PS3 enrollments.
Smedley also touted figures for number of users logged in, up more than 400 per cent over the previous month. Sounds great, until you realise the influx of free players have caused stability issues and long login queues.
Under the new freemium model, free players get two character slots and all standard game content; tiered pricing delivers additional character slots and expansions, plus a larger item inventory.
Chazz
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 3:11 PMHow many of them are unique users though? :P
Trjn
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 3:14 PMAs with all things on the internet, there are only two unique users.
You and the person you’re talking to/interacting with.
Sam
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 3:33 PMNo word on the PS3 version because everyone is still downloading from whatever horrible servers they use. One and a half days and I’m at 40%.
Bigtones
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 3:48 PMgeeze! Can I ask what the download size is? Would like to know how much space I might need to clear.
Ynefel
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 3:52 PMIt’s about 15gb.
toasey
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 4:21 PMI was contemplating for PS3 but no trophy support unless you pay subscription fees
Lasher
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 4:27 PMi started the dl at about 12am last night and its 35% done as of now… ouch. And its not like you can download in the background either – you need an approx 125mb installer off psn store- which updates another 125mb after you install it, and then BAM! 15gb suckers! Prepare to download for a long time with no ps3 for a while. Many ppl say it’s totally worth it though – I hope they’re right.
Jarrod
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 4:59 PMI got mine up and running on the PS3 this morning (after downloading for ages), and got about 15 mins of gameplay in before work. It went well – logged me into an EU server though.
Brendan
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 5:47 PMI”ve still got 12 gigs of downloading to go :(
Quincy
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 5:59 PMWhat’s the best platform to get it for, PS3 or PC?
At 15GB+ I don’t plan on downloading it twice. However if you create an account on PC can you use it on the PS3 as well? Never played an MMO before so keen to try it.
Lasher
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 8:49 PMPretty sure ps3/pc are separate. I would wage that pc would be a lot quicker to download, mine’s still going :/
Lad
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 9:44 PMI got to about 9% of the download and then got told you need to pay for trophies and cancelled that shit straight away
Joshy206
Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 12:56 PMWait… you stopped wanting the game because trophies were extra? Do they really matter that much?
Cameron
Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 10:01 PMI didn’t think Trophies were special enough to not play a free game if they weren’t included………
Krow
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 11:30 AMTo the kiddies that waste their lives playing games… Yes. It is all they got to show for it!!
Cameron
Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 10:03 PMI wonder if this game is going to get re-reviewed now it’s gone free to play. I’ve had a bit of a play with it this evening and it seems pretty cool, but I’m not sure if it’s been improved since launch (I’d suspect so) or if some of the complaints raised at the start of the year are still valid.
Krow
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 11:20 AMMy Download took about 4 hours and I have a 10mbs d/l speed. Your ISP must suck. Get off that DSL…. ya laggin muh game!!