DC Universe Online Pricing

Being a big comic fan i was kind of excited about this game but the pricing is rediculous, $59.99 for the game and a 30 day subscription and then after that $14.99 a month. This game had potential to be a decent seller but i bet with this price plan it will hardly move as many units as if it were free to play each month. I won't be buying this now, who else will? And what do you think about the pricing?

Kcchiefs31

if it would be free to play they wouldn't make any money on it. That's how MMOs work and DC Univese pricing is typical for games of this genre.

The only real alternative is switching the whole thing to microtransactions, but that might be risky and propably would result in same ammount of hate (he's got all those cool items because he paid for it in hard cash, while I spent month trying to find them in gameworld? NO FAIR!! ;) )

For a full priced online only game with a monthly subscription i still think it seems outrageous. i just cant see a monthly subscription based game selling good on a console. JHUTCHINSON0015

Thats what most MMO games cost. Its really not that bad, I mean I played wow for about 3 months I think i got my money's worth.

The pricing came after E3 this year. Theres an article on it on 1up.com but for some reason my computer isnt letting me copy and past a link to it on here.

It's a MMO so a monthly fee of $14.99 isn't all that surprising at all. It is expensive to keep a MMORPG up and running.

$14.99 AND microtransactions according to the article

http://www.1up.com/news/universe-online-price-release-date

F' that!

guild wars 4tw BEST free2play ever just gotta buy the gameBladex2k

[QUOTE="Bladex2k"]guild wars 4tw BEST free2play ever just gotta buy the gamespookykid143

$14.99 AND microtransactions according to the article

http://www.1up.com/news/universe-online-price-release-date

F' that!

dangerclose1982

[QUOTE="spookykid143"]

[QUOTE="Bladex2k"]guild wars 4tw BEST free2play ever just gotta buy the gameBladex2k

$14.99 AND microtransactions according to the article

http://www.1up.com/news/universe-online-price-release-date

F' that!

dangerclose1982

WoW is doing this aswell :S pay for name changes,realm changes,race changes,mounts etc.

This is news? MMO's always are priced at $15 a month for the most part, welcome to PC gaming!

If an MMO doesn't have a monthly fee it's gonna suck hard. If your interested try it, you'll be surprised how easily you pay the fee if the game is good. Happened to me with WOW and I was one of those people that said "I'd NEVER pay a fee for a video game!".

It's understandable the monthly fees but they charge for full price for the game as well. I've seen a few MMORPGs on Steam lately priced at £40 plus a monthly fee. Get lost.

[QUOTE="spookykid143"]

[QUOTE="Bladex2k"]guild wars 4tw BEST free2play ever just gotta buy the gameBladex2k

Being a big comic fan i was kind of excited about this game but the pricing is rediculous, $59.99 for the game and a 30 day subscription and then after that $14.99 a month. This game had potential to be a decent seller but i bet with this price plan it will hardly move as many units as if it were free to play each month. I won't be buying this now, who else will? And what do you think about the pricing?

Kcchiefs31

JHUTCHINSON0015

when i play a good one it's all i do for a few months so instead of buying $50 to $100 worth of games those few months i instead only spend money on the game plus the $15 a month.

if you don't want to pay for dc online you are in luck, it looks horrible, i was excited about it until i saw the gameplay videos.

Being a big comic fan i was kind of excited about this game but the pricing is rediculous, $59.99 for the game and a 30 day subscription and then after that $14.99 a month. This game had potential to be a decent seller but i bet with this price plan it will hardly move as many units as if it were free to play each month. I won't be buying this now, who else will? And what do you think about the pricing?

Kcchiefs31

JHUTCHINSON0015

Most big MMO's are around 15 a month. Not surprised at all. CRUSHER88

Yeah, but this isn't exactly WoW. If you want to charge what WoW charges you have to guarantee you will deliver the same quality that WoW delivers.

You can't just charge a price for no reason other than "Well, they do it too!"

I predict this game will flop because of the price and, as always, the developers will blame WoW and cry about how it is unfair only one MMORPG can be supported at a time.

No MMO will offer what WoW offers at launch in regards to the amount of content. That's just impossible. They can however, offer new experiences, better graphics and the like. As long as it's a good game in it's own right, offers something new to the MMO world, and has enough content to outlast the first couple of months, it will do fine.