Wow, PSN literally has it's hand in your wallet x.x

I don't have a PS3, but this makes sense given that it's a pay-to-play game.

Yah I just went on DCUO yesterday and their was and when I started the game there was a screen saying that your 30 day subscription is over, I pressed OK waitng for a monthly renewell screen to pop up, but nothing did, I thought it gliched out, unfortunatly that was not the case.

This isn't new, every P2P mmo does this. They automatically take their monthly fee directly from your account. Only time it don't is if you don't got enough in your bank or if your billing info changes. In which case you get a mandatory month off the game lol. The fact that this goes through your PSN is the same as the PC version taking it directly from your checking account. Nothing new.

I had a situation related to this with FFXI. I had stopped playing and came back to it to find my account had been closed for insufficient funds. It was pretty terrible that I had forgotten about it. Needless to say I didn't play it ever again.

It's nice that Gameinformer decided to remind everybody. For me I haven't purchased the game yet but plan on getting it sooner or later but as it stands now there are just to many good games coming out for me to sink all my play time(and money) into an MMO.

yeah they got me I forgot about that and wanted the new 30 3 month deal but got hit with this. the messed up thing is not only forgeting but there aint no refunds either which sucks ass!

As my mom says: "news of the day!"

You can set it up so that it does not auto renew, it is a process but can be done. Some people are saying that this is nothing new for mmo's, that PC MMO's auto renew all the time. That is probably true. For someone like me who had never played an MMO before, and was more comfortable playing on a console, it isn't common knowledge. I wish they had made it more clear in how this would work. I happened to look into it ahead of time so I was able to stop the auto renew before it took money out of my wallet, which is funded by a debit card. I cannot help but feel they were counting on many people to learn this lesson the hard way. Kind of like stores that sell gift cards even though they know they are closing soon.

a free 30 day trial is more than enough for me.  Not paying 15 bucks a month for this game.  Maybe 5.99

The article misses a very important point that has a lot of people angry over at the DCUO Official forums. Even if you turn off auto-funding, even if you turn off auto-renew, the game is still renewing *if you have enough existing funds on PSN*. Meaning, if you had a $30 PSN card and put it up there, it's highly likely DCUO decided to renew you, even if you turned auto-renew off, because you had more than $14.99 in your digital wallet. There's plenty of nonplussed folks on the PS3 DCUO forums over this, not necessarily the auto-deduction, but rather that the game went ahead and renewed even after they turned off the service, but happened to have 15.00 or already in their PSN wallet.

My account just shut off, but I definitely think I'm going to renew, I had a blast with the game the first month.

It's a good thing this game is fun, or I'd be upset about this.

Its perfectly clear on this, not too mention this is how pretty much every pay to play mmo operates.

dude, I love this game.

Haven't hit my first month yet but I am already at the level 30 cap. Not much to do after that besides other pvp stuff and start a new character all over again. Think I will just put my account on hold and wait a few months for a update and then pick the game back up.

yeah honestly i was done with the game and wanted to trade it during the 50% bonus but they auto deducted $15 from me.  I supposse it as in the fine print I ignored, but it definitely bugged me...this was my first and probably last mmo experience...

one of the reasons i don't play mmo's

This is why I don't have auto charge on my ps3