Board 8 > DC Universe Online: Free to play *and* download November 1st for PC and PS3.

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Sony servers are gonna die November 1st.
don't think they allow for crossplatform game right now. would be nice if that happened, but i doubt it.


this makes my question of which online game should i play even more difficult. City of Heroes? Diablo 2? DC Universe? and nevermind everything upcoming.

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Doesn't Guild Wars 2 come out that day?

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don't think so.
Uncharted 3 does however.

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I don't even know what you mean by Sony servers are gonna die, but if you think a ton of people will suddenly want to play DC cuz its free... lol

And there will never be cross-platform on DCUO, so nobody get your hopes up.

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it's free to download is the problem for that. they'll be hit by it on both PC and PS3's ends of people downloading a 10GB game on the same day as people will rabidly play one of their biggest games of the year online.

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so people on PS3 and those on PC will be on different servers that don't interact? or will they be playing together?

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They play on different servers.

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that's pretty disappointing

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it's okay. i'm sure ltm will be on both.

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the bad news just keeps piling up

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From: saveus_Maria | #010
the bad news just keeps piling up

Seriously though, even a major DC fanboy like me became bored ****less after a few weeks. I doubt I'll even play it free at this point.

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haha yeah I was pretty much planning on making like one character and flying around for a bit before getting bored and never playing again

but considering how small the playerbase for this is already going to be, splitting them up into two seems like a terrible idea

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man. so wait is there anything this game does that's really any better than city of heroes.

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The main issue is how ****ing awful it runs on the PS3.

It wouldn't be fair.

Also the game feels awful unless you're using a controller.

It's got no real endgame to speak of, and caps at Lv. 40.

For like...an hour, it's gonna seem pretty great. But then...ugh.

Downloading it to dick around in the character creator seems like a good idea, though. I already have both PS3 and PC version (No PC when it came out, moronically bought it for $20 during a Steam sale later), so...maybe one day...

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From: Wanglicious | #013
man. so wait is there anything this game does that's really any better than city of heroes.

Isn't CoH kind of an jumbled mess?

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well at least this topic helped me decide which platform to download it on

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an... mmo that feels bad with a keyboard.

somehow i don't think i can grasp that. and a jumbled mess makes sense for city of heroes but doesn't say anything on this one. <__<;

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For as mediocre as it is, DCUO is a fairly tight, straightforward experience, with clear goals and options. CoH always struck me as...dumping you in the middle of the city and not telling you jack ****. I've barely seen it, though. As for why it feels bad with a keyboard, the game was made for the PS3, it was ported to PC.

....Which makes how awful it runs on the PS3 even worse.

From: saveus_Maria | #016
well at least this topic helped me decide which platform to download it on

The absolute best option is the PC with a PS3 controller. I don't know if that will still allow you to type on the keyboard, I don't see why it wouldn't.

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yeah that's my plan. already have the drivers and such since I use my PS3 controller to play games on the PC all the time.

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well i'd get it for PC anyway because i don't have or want a ps3 until it's more hacked than the psp and costs as much as one too.

i've got a couple controllers though. 360 controller, FF14 controller which also doubles as a PS3 controller strangely and was quite cheap. i'll try on both.

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360 controllers work great with DC

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From: KimPilgrim | Posted: 10/27/2011 10:24:26 PM | #018
I don't know if that will still allow you to type on the keyboard, I don't see why it wouldn't.

It does, well at least it did.

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http://www.dcuniverseonline.com/free/

yeah, note the 'coming soon' in the corner there.
but it's worth noting that yes, free version is gimped from the full one that paying gets you. of course if you're just trying to dick around for a while to get a feel for the game, who cares.

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Jumping into City of Heroes now is better than ever. They have loads of tutorial stuff now. (And they had plenty before, so I have no idea what ltm is talking about) CoH has loads of content, creative stories, and plenty of end game stuff to keep you busy. (if you pay, at least.)

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Just wanted to point out it was a limited version and was too lazy to actually get my keyboard and type out a message.

If you spend any amount of money whatsoever, you do get an account upgrade, though.

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Of course it's limited! It's not like they just give out the whole game for free lol

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Actually it's $5 minimum for premium. Still not that much.

Of course it's limited! It's not like they just give out the whole game for free lol
It could have been doing THAT bad >_<

awesome, I don't have a PC so it should be cool to dick around in this for a week or so.

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augh there are so few types of powers and the worst is that the closest to what I wanted would be Fire which I know EVERYONE in the game is going to have

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From: saveus_Maria | #031
augh there are so few types of powers and the worst is that the closest to what I wanted would be Fire which I know EVERYONE in the game is going to have

I haven't checked it out in a while but I would think about half the playerbase would be running around as Green/Yellow Lanterns by now.

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Also, when they say that F2P starts Nov 1 they mean that night. Don't expect to be playing the game before 6 or 7 PST.

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You still have to buy DLC to be a Green Lantern, don't you? I'd play if that was included, but if I can't join the Corps from the off I dunno if I can even be bothered to try it for free, let alone pay money.

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The Green Lantern/Sinestro Corps pack was free when it came out.

Don't know where it stands now.

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I remember when people were talking about this game like it would be a huge deal.

Whatever happened to Star Trek Online, anyway? Is it F2P too?

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i honestly dont' know the first thing about what kind of character i can be! that'll be fun.

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