DC UNIVERSE - Cheeky - i was like wtf?

[Symonator]

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SAN DIEGO – July 11, 2011 – Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) today announced the first Downloadable Content (DLC) pack for DC Universe Online (DCUO), "Fight for the Light." Featuring DC Comics favorite The Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) and the introduction of the game's seventh power set – Light, the new downloadable content will be available this summer for both PC and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system.



"The Green Lantern has been a mainstay for DC Comics fans for more than 60 years, and is a fan favorite among our players," said Mark Anderson, Game Director of DC Universe Online. "We've listened to the feedback, and fans can now create their own Lantern-inspired characters including the use of light powers."



In addition to the new light power set, players will also be able to interact with Green Lantern based characters and content in DC Universe Online in these all-new gameplay scenarios:



S.T.A.R. Labs – Deep within S.T.A.R Labs, Brainiac seeks to control experimental devices that will allow him to harness the power source behind the Lantern Corps' rings. This attack throws the Lantern Corps into chaos, and players must join a fragile truce between the Green and Yellow Lantern Corps to bring the powerful devices back under STAR Labs control.



Coast City – Players must battle their way through the "City Without Fear" to Ferris Aircraft, the home of fighter ace Hal Jordan. Here they face the unbridled rage of the Red Lantern Corps in a showdown to save the city and the Universe.



Sciencells Prison – On the Green Lantern Corp's home planet Oa, heroes will join with Guy Gardner to stop a prison break that threatens to release the most feared prisoners of the Green Lantern Corps. Villains will fight alongside Sinestro as he attempts to release the Green Lantern Corps' greatest foes and retrieve the evil Lyssa Drak from her emerald powered prison cell.



Green Lantern offers another exciting superhero for PC and PS3 players to join forces with in their epic battles online, following DCUO's ongoing combat missions featuring other DC Comics legends such as, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Joker and Lex Luthor.



DC Universe Online's "Fight for the Light" DLC pack will be available for download for $9.99 USD this summer for PC and PlayStation®3 players.



DC Universe Online is licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on behalf of DC Entertainment. For more information about DC Universe Online, visit http://www.DCUniverseOnline.com.





About DC Universe Online

Lex Luthor has traveled back through time with news of a dire future: While the heroes and villains spent years battling amongst themselves, Brainiac has been feeding on their powers, building strength to return to Earth and destroy humanity. To change the future, Lex has come back to set off a device that bestows super powers to thousands of every-day citizens and give humanity a fighting chance. Can Brainiac be stopped, or is this another nefarious Lex Luthor plot?



For the first time, players and fans will be able to enter the DC Universe as an active force for good or evil. A massively multiplayer experience, DC Universe Online delivers unparalleled high-energy, physics-powered combat that brings the player's extraordinary powers to life.



DC Universe Online was created in the artistic vision of legendary comic book artist Jim Lee, and set within a world created by famous DC writers including Geoff Johns and Marv Wolfman.



Rated T for Teen with Mild Blood, Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes and Violence, DC Universe Online is available for PC and PlayStation 3 for the suggested retail prices of $39.99 and $49.99, respectively. The game includes one 30-day game membership, with monthly subscriptions available thereafter for $14.99. For players of the PC version of the game, DCUO will be included in SOE's all-in-one Station Access subscription.





About SOE

Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) is a recognized worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online games. Best known for its blockbuster hits and franchises, including EverQuest®, EverQuest® II, Champions of Norrath®, PlanetSide®, Free Realms®, Clone Wars Adventures™ and DC Universe Online™, SOE creates, develops and provides compelling online entertainment for a variety of platforms. SOE is building on its proven legacy and pioneering the future of online worlds through creative development and inspired gameplay design for audiences of all ages. To learn more, visit http://www.soe.com.



SOE, the SOE logo, EverQuest, Champions of Norrath, PlanetSide and Free Realms are registered trademarks of Sony Online Entertainment LLC. All other trademarks and trade names are properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved.





About Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, is a premier worldwide publisher, developer, licensor and distributor of entertainment content for the interactive space across all current and future platforms, including console, handheld and PC-based gaming for both internal and third party game titles.



About DC Entertainment

DC Entertainment, home to such iconic DC Comics properties as Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, The Flash, MAD Magazine, and Fables, is the creative division charged with strategically integrating across Warner Bros. and Time Warner. DC Entertainment works in concert with many key Warner Bros. divisions to unleash its superheroic characters across all media, including but not limited to film, television, consumer products, home entertainment, and interactive games. Publishing over 1,000 comic books, graphic novels and magazines each year, DC Comics is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world.

cheeky no? they want to not only already charge you £10 a month to play but also charge for download content? aka an "expansion"... they should feel ashamed of themselves.
You pay subs for content, and updates... wtf? now pay extra for more stuff that will also be dead in a month or 2?

[DJ-Daz]

"premium content"

It's how they keep it alive, or kill it quick more like.

[InfiniteStates]

What few remaining players will dry up after they start getting slapped for DLC surely?

Although I heard somewhere that it was going free-to-play...? If that's the case, I might consider playing it. But fuck subs. And fuck paid DLC on top of subs.

[Symonator]

I'd only play this game if it was F2p now, i couldn't justify the such high tariff for the people that play it.

When it first came out it was pretty decent.. but after a while i started to see why people said it should of been 2-£5 a month instead of the initial £10.99

[Symonator]

well going back on what i said, last night i got myself a 1 month sub.
Only to be met with low pop servers, honestly it was so quiet, i was wondering if i was still connected online lmao.

They are doing "mega servers" soon where they merge all servers - of course they are megaservers.. not.. what they really mean is, we don't have enough players so we need to put you all on one and not several seperate ones.
loool.

I'll keep playing for the month, but so far nothing socially has changed, still the sam old quiet game, some groups all elite now, best gear just standing about with nothing to do.

I saw a few new level people, but hardly mmo-scale.

[InfiniteStates]

LMAO - well "mega-servers" sounds a lot better than "barrel-scraping-servers".

[InfiniteStates]

They're not charging for the Green Lantern DLC any more...unless that only applies to the States.

If you've been anxiously awaiting the first downloadable content pack for DC Universe Online, I have good news -- it's coming soon, and it's coming for free. "Fight for the Light" will arrive Tuesday, September 6th in the U.S. No work on international release dates. This pack adds Green Lantern and Sinestro Corps. power rings for new characters (and characters looking to respec at Level 30) along with three new missions. Originally, it was going to cost you $9.99, but Sony Online Entertainment said in a release it dropped the price tag "as a way to thank its loyal players."

"as a way to thank its loyal players."?

Bollocks - "so we don't look like complete money grabbing wankers" more like...

[Symonator]

free sounds good.

[DJ-Daz]

It might get people playing again... if only for a short while.

[Symonator]

i like the idea of being allowed to re-spec.
Which means i can change to the new powers without fucking about making new chars.. which is good i think.

But the game is still £10 a month lol, they should honestly make it a few pounds to play they would get tonnes of people then 2-5 quid would see massive rise in subs.

[InfiniteStates]

Yeah, I would probably pick it up for £2, maybe £4, per month.
£10 in a recession is insane.