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DC Universe To Be Free

DCUO continues to be on my short of list heavily anticipated titles right up there with Heavy Rain, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Onelastcontinue had an opportunity to talk to Wes Yanagi, Senior Producer at Sony Online Entertaintment at Gamescom 2009, go hands on with the game, and came away impressed despite the game still being in pre-alpha. Wes revealed several details on gameplay, character creation, and one big suprise: no subscription fee

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thebudgetgamer - 105 days 1 hour ago

1 - DC Universe To Be Free

now thats my kind of pricing.

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thedisagreefairy - 105 days ago

1.1 - thats really great

i think sony has a sleeper hit ready to go now.

i think alot of gamers will try their first mmorpg with this game.

hell i might even try my first mmo because this superhero idea sounds pretty cool

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thebudgetgamer - 105 days ago

1.2 - it would be a first for me as well.

i'm not really an rpg guy aside from ff7 and the original phantasy star. i'm more of a wrpg lover, but with no monthly fee i owe it to my self to try to expand my gaming world.

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badz149 - 105 days ago

1.3 - yeah...really nice to hear

this might be a sleeper hit! will batman be featured in this game?

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deadreckoning666 - 105 days ago

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OMG, this is the best news ive heard from Sony all year!

Sony's really REALLY impressing me.

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alster23 - 105 days ago

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is this cross platform with the pc

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FlatulentGhost - 105 days ago

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One just has to look at the massive success Free Realms has turned out to be for Sony to see that they see this as a winning business model.

Last I checked Free Realms was up to 5 or 6 million players and growing fast.

"is this cross platform with the pc"

From the article:

"As impressive as no subscription fee’s is, open platform servers is equally as impressive. To be able to play with or against people on either PC or PS3 could create quite an expansive world. Further to play your created character on either a PC or PS3 would be nice when the PS3 is not accessible."

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leyego - 105 days ago

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free??

i wasn't gona pick this up because i didn't want to pay monthly fees.
but if its free thats a different story. i just need the offical 100% word from the devs and im sold.

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IDemonstalkerXI - 104 days 23 hours ago

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sweeeeet.

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FlatulentGhost - 104 days 23 hours ago

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This is the way to do online right:

PSN - free for everyone. You never have to worry about subscriptions or if your friends are currently subscribing. Premium content costs money but nothing that stops you from using the basic service.

Home - free fro everyone. Premium content costs money, but it never stops you from accessing all the areas of Home.

Free Realms - free for everyone. There is half the game that you can access to if you pay a monthly fee, but it is additional content and nothing that stops you from progressing through the free half of the game. I've played for months and never payed a dime and it is the most fun I've had with a MMORPG in a very long time.

I assume DC will be the same model. There will be stuff for people to buy in game, but it will be nothing that stops anyone from playing the game if they don't every buy anything.

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scottie2521 - 104 days 23 hours ago

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interesting......

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FlatulentGhost - 104 days 23 hours ago

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Here is Sony's Free Realms:

http://www.freerealms.com/

This might be the model they are going to implement - click on What is Free Realms?

You have half the classes and quests are free. The other half you pay a 5 dollar a month fee to access.

BTW, Free Realms, though targeted at kids, is incredibly fun. Sony did an amazing job with the game. You don't have to download some 10 gig installer, everything is streamed. You can be playing in about a minute or so after creating a login.

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Sarcasm - 104 days 23 hours ago

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I have to say, this title went from "I'll think about renting it" to maybe "I'll buy it"

Seeing as it will be a nice long experience it will be worth the money.

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Sarcasm - 104 days 23 hours ago

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Oh I get it now, this is the game that MS said "Cross-Platform games" just work better. Maybe he's talking about the PC?

lmao

And for those who keep saying "But but but the PC is a MS platform, so if it's on PC/360 it's exclusive to MS!!!"

Then I guess for the first time, PS3 players will be able to play with Microsoft PC players.

Idiots.

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I_am_rushin - 104 days 22 hours ago

1.14 - Calm down guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is great news. IF TRUE. So if next month we find out that DCUO will have subscriptions don't go blaming Sony. Blame this site.

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DaTruth - 104 days 22 hours ago

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Officially on my radar! Guess it's sort of like Home, if it's free, why can't this?(Unless Home makes money with advertisements) This is better than Home though; If anyone gets on that h0m0 crap, you can kick their a$$ with super powers! Or hitting on you with Wonder Woman and their really a dude!

Does anyone still have bad things to say about Sony!

If this isn't really free, people will now call it a Sony lie and say, "Sony said this would be teh free. AHHH Sony lies!!!"

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Blaze929 - 104 days 22 hours ago

1.16 - Free?

Yeah i HIGHLY doubt this is true. I'll wait for an official Word from Sony or a Press Release before I get excited. Would amaze me just how Sony could manage to make this game without any subscription fees.

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NoBias - 104 days 22 hours ago

1.17 - I'll be picking up both this and Champions when they release for consoles

Only thing that worries me is that if the no subscription fee is true, the game could easily go to hell pretty quickly. Meaning that support and services being put to stop glitching, hacks and over all stability won't be there (or it won't be there as frequently as it should).

I'd rather pay a small fee for a strong running/well kept MMO vs a free one with bugs and people hacking everywhere. Here's hoping that the game is really stable.

Still, I think we should wait for an official word before people start cheering, hollering and praising. Remember the Killzone 2 "free" map packs?

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djfullshred - 104 days 21 hours ago

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thedisagreefairy - I think you are right. I have never played a MMORPG game before, but this one has my interest. I might be one of those noobs jumping in on this one.

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Baka-akaB - 104 days 21 hours ago

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@NoBias

How the hell is there a correlation between subcription and that ?
We are not talking about some lame and cheap f2p mmo from small korean or chinese studios but an actually big commercial project here .You still buy the game obviously .

Besides look at guild wars , it's without subscription , thought not yet open like it's upcoming sequel , but it wasnt ridden with hacks , it's servers have been consistantly stable since early days , and the game had and still got a massive amount of support .

Hell even if it wasnt at first , Gw1 is probably the most balanced pvp game existing .

Subs dont prevent hacking , or awful mmo launches . in fact most paid mmo i've seen have been infested for a short time or not with cheats , and all of them had bad launch , except again guild wars .

And if we were to make analogies , XBL got a lot of hackers , be it to cheat in stuff like cod , or to play pirated versions of game ... while it remains limited to stuff like said cod on the free psn .

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vhero - 104 days 1 hour ago

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Would never have have been free on 360..

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sabestar - 105 days 1 hour ago

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The free subscription thing just guaranteed Sony Online an extra copy sold (to me hehe)

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Kappa Mikey - 105 days ago

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awww man this game is still in the pre-alpha stage, I can't wait no longer! and now I hear it'll be a free subscription. Take note Square Enix! FF14 should be free as well

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SprSynJn - 104 days 23 hours ago

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I doubt FFXIV will be free. If they expect it to sell they will have to compete with Sony, but I seriously doubt they will even consider it competition. So don't expect it to be free.

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ReaperXL7 - 105 days 1 hour ago

3 - Cannot wait.

Hell Yeah!

Been waiting for DC Universe for along time now, and now that I know it's going to be free to play it's all the more exciting.

I'm just glad DC has been getting love from the gaming community lately as i've always been a bigger fan of DC than Marvel.

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cheapndirty - 104 days 2 hours ago

3.1 - Finally

This is a SOny exclusive that I will buy at day and date. The other exclusives have been great but not enough for me to pre order and all that. Now I have to get my other ps3 friends to buy that too so we can go roam around in DC world.

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vShinobi - 105 days ago

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Free is always better.

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Sarcasm - 104 days 23 hours ago

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Except if it doesn't have Cross-Game chat you need to pay $50.

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Redempteur - 104 days 23 hours ago

4.2 - That's how it should always had been on consoles

FREE

DId you see that ?

Dc online !
The agency
FF14

FREE !!

Do you really have to pay each month to feel you have a good product in your hands ? I don't think so

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tda-danny - 104 days 9 hours ago

4.3 - ffxiv

The Final Fantasy MMO will have a monthly sub fee unfortunately. It was said so by one of the producers a short time ago.

Quote:
"according to producer Hiromichi Tanaka, there will indeed be a subscription fee. "It's going to be a 30 days-based subscription," Tanaka told VG247 at GamesCom last week."

http://www.psxextreme.com/p...

Not that it matters, FFXIV is still day one for me!!

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Rifle-Man - 105 days ago

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Everyone loves free!

I know it, Google knows it, Sony knows it.

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harrisk954 - 104 days 23 hours ago

5.1 - Yeah, but...

I don't think that MS knows it!

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Redempteur - 104 days 23 hours ago

5.2 - @harrisk954

Too bad for them then !!!

My wallet on the other hand feel fine

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blackpanther25 - 105 days ago

6 - Very smart move

a lot more people (including me) are going to get this game cause its free to play. I mean honestly i wasn't gonna get it before.

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godcrusher - 105 days ago

7 - Its great that

its free. The problem I have with monthly fees is that I feel obligated to play now that I pay 11.99 a month. I am getting this game for sure.

I just wish the Marvel MMO for the 360 did not get canceled. That was one of the main reasons I got my 360.

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Baka-akaB - 104 days 22 hours ago

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not me , i'm pretty sure champions is basically the scraping of what would have been the Marvel mmo , and i havent been thrilled by many things of that game .

At least with a new dev and marvel mmo on the horizon, there is always a chance it could turn alright . especially if getting clue from both Champions and DCU's advantages and flaws .

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Theoneneo81 - 105 days ago

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Yeah if its free it may hold me over till Old Republic comes out if its out before that!

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samoon - 105 days ago

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HELL YEAH!

This is how u get people to play your MMO and in the long run STAY WITH YOUR MMO!!

It's games like this that I would support 100% with Microtransactions and buy their stuff!

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Polluted - 105 days ago

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Awesome. I've been looking forward to this one a lot and the subscription fee was the one thing in the back of my mind keeping hype levels low. This is great news.

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akaFullMetal - 104 days 23 hours ago

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wow that's great, i wasn't going to get it before, but who can resist free.

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ukilnme - 104 days 23 hours ago

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Awesome. This will be my first MMO.

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Nitrowolf2 - 104 days 23 hours ago

13 - Now i will buy this

i was feeling that they would charge for it and at a high price. Free is always good.

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Thoreau - 104 days 23 hours ago

14 - sony

too many games.....

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BXbomber - 104 days 23 hours ago

15 - .

DAY 1 BUY, THX SONY!!!!!!!

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MariusElijah - 104 days 23 hours ago

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Ummm I just came from a forum with the speaker being a guy from SOE talking about this game and he mentioned subscriptions........

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Jeff257 - 104 days 23 hours ago

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DCU Online is going to be my first MMO and would have been even with a monthly fee but dang this is some great news.

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Sigh - 104 days 23 hours ago

18 - WOW

An MMO to be free, damn Sony is just too damn generous lol. Can't wait.

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Baka-akaB - 104 days 23 hours ago

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See , i knew i was right to pick this game over champions ... (regardless of platform crap) .

Champions :
- no possibility to create a villain until some paid addon someday
- a bit broken gameplay only starting to get fixed via patches
- no actual pvp (please silly arenas dont cut it ) , and especially not with villains since you cant create them
- subcriptions and yet oddly cash shops ?

DCU online :
- villains creations
- hero vs villains pvp out of the box
- pvp quests
- join the justice league!
- meet actual franchise heroes that arent lame
- no subscription!
- cross platform servers

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jovherye - 104 days 23 hours ago

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Yay!!! Hope this game kicks A$$$!!!

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cmrbe - 104 days 23 hours ago

21 - What exactly do you do in this Game?

anyone?.

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Kazuo Hirai_Sony CEO - 105 days ago

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We love to give things for free at sony.

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Shadow Man - 104 days 23 hours ago

1.1 - and PC

inb4 "live cost $50 a year"

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BXbomber - 104 days 23 hours ago

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SONY FTW!!!!!

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- Ghost of Sparta - - 104 days 22 hours ago

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Live costs over $200 every 4 years.

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jdktech2010 - 104 days 21 hours ago

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ummm....that's 50 a year....for those who can't do math

Also, no one pays 50 anymore....there's always a deal for 40 or less (see Amazon right now) that would bring it to 160 for 4 years......

Try to think at least a little bit objectively...I realize it's tough for you

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Baka-akaB - 104 days 20 hours ago

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an extra cost is an extra cost , especially when compared to ... no cost , and no reason at all compared to at least one platform (PC) .

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sunil - 104 days 18 hours ago

1.6 - @jdktech2010

Nobody is talking about discounts / markdowns. If that being the case, I can get the PS3 Slim for 249.99. Going by retail Live subscription is $50.

+ match for you - Live is $50 per year per xbox live account. Which would simply mean (average family being 4) - $50 x 4 accounts = $200 per year.

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MAiKU - 104 days 17 hours ago

1.7 - @ Shadow Woman

In before or not, your 360 is a PC. and it costs 50 (or even 40 for the "savvy buyer up there") a year.

I don't think you'd be intelligent enough to use an actual PC so why support it?

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Ninji - 104 days 23 hours ago

2 - So look at what we have now...

DC Universe (No monthly fee)
Free Realms (No monthly fee)
The Agency (No monthly fee)
Angel Love Online (No monthly fee/Japan)
FF14 (Monthly fee)

Square-Enix is the only one charging an online fee and like all Square-Enix games, it will suck.

Square-Enix fails.

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suunyd - 104 days 23 hours ago

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Ninji are you DNAGENT? He was practically the only one who talked about SE in practically every article. And now you do as well.

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Baka-akaB - 104 days 20 hours ago

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you're full of crap

FFXI rocks actually and is easily the best pve experience despite it's age and platform of origin... only bested by well other paid mmos .

FFXIV will most likely be better and more accessible finally , and will most likely feature at least decent pvp ...

Now it's awesome to not pay for both DC and Agency ... the only two real mmo of that list ...

Free realms got huge extra costs in the form of paid items , and is mostly a kiddie game .

Angel love online is some crap no one would even pay for , and that you most likely didnt even bother to try ..

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cmrbe - 104 days 23 hours ago

3 - Free is a dirty word

to MS.

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waseem335 - 104 days 22 hours ago

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Now this is a 100% on release buy :D

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STRAIGHTASL - 104 days 18 hours ago

6 - remind to everyone.

remember SONY IS SO FREE and MS IS NO FREE.

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