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DC Universe Online Continues To See Growth

It appears going Free-to-Play is the best way if you have a struggling MMO game on your hands.

Since removing the monthly subscription costs earlier this month, DC Universe Online continues to see growth in its revenue and active players. Sony Online Entertainment recently announced it gained one million users in just a matter of days since going free-to-play.

The company passed along additional statistics today:

  • DCUO's player base grow by 6% a day
  • 700% increase in daily revenue (47% PC / 53% PS3)
  • Percentage of European players has grown from 20% to 50% of daily log-ins
  • More than 85% of daily log-ins are returning players
  • Most popular marketplace items are: Vanguard of the Heavens character skin & Additional Character Slots

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  • Good to hear. Too bad I have no time for it.
  • I like this game but it's too bad the servers are so swamped I can barely log on to play...
  • Free-To-Play is getting to be the best way to "sell" an MMO since there's no "risk" here in paying $60 on top of the $14.99 a month on the off chance that you may not like a game. Add that to having to pay that for extra MMO's and subscription based MMO's start to be a big money chance. With Free-To-Play the only thing you waste if you don't like the game is the time it took to Download and Un / Install it.
  • I love this game sadly it eats my broadband too fast lol.

  • MMO's are a difficult place to make success. Good job SOE, finally did something right for a change. Now let's not f*ck up Planetside.
  • I feel sorry for Robin....

  • I played it for an hour, it's really fun im gonna start my real character next saturday.
  • I would love to play this when I'm done with Skyward Sword.

  • This game is really solid and absolutely free. No wonder people are checking it out now. I wonder if this lead to bigger MMO releases taking up a free-to-play model. I still don't mind paying a fee if the developers make it worth it through extra game content and great servers, but this might be where MMOs are going.

  • Games are always better when they are free.99

  • I bought it for PS3 but once my 30 day subscription was out, I was hard pressed to pay to play it online. I thought it was a great game but with the economy being the way it is right now and paying for Xbox Live and all of the blockbuster games that have been coming out, putting more money into a game just didn't seem feasible. I have still not gotten back on since I'd heard from GI that it went free to play but I most surely will.
  • I've always wanted to play this game, just never got the opportunity to. Now that Skyrim is out, and then Kingdoms of Amalur afterward, I might not have time right now to play it. In the future though, I might consider it.

  • DCU isn't even worth playing when it's free. The quests get really boring real fast. The servers suck and you can't even get online unless it's past midnight when no one is online. Horrible game.
  • I was one of the ones who jumped right into this game after it went free-to-play. Took a really long time to download to my PS3 but it's been a real entertaining game so far. I've only tried it for a few hours, and while I'm no fan of grinding, this game did make me wanna fight bad guys and roam around Gotham City doing missions. I'll definitely be buying some of the DLCs and character slots so I can take advantage of its brevity, and even though I really wish there were some easy-to-earn Trophies for it, it still is a pretty cool game for me.

  • 700%, there's your sign. hahaha. And yeah, I wish I had time for it

  • World of warcraft could learn something from this.

  • The only problem I had with my one month game card for it was that there wasn't a lot of content to even cover one month worth of play. Other than that the MMO was great.

  • If only I had unlimited internet..

  • I plan on starting mine tomorrow. I still need to install it. I sure hope it's worth the horrendous amount of Gigabytes it takes on my PlayStation 3. I do have high expectations for this game because of what I have been reading and hearing.

  • Can anyone tell me how long this thing takes to download?? Im still at the startup screen for over six hours supposedly downloading stuff
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