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DC Universe Online Touts One Year Anniversary Stats
The superhero-powered MMO has been out for a full year, and Sony Online Entertainment has some impressive stats to share about the game's success.
Since launch the game has had 1.8 million registered players on PC and over 2.3 million on PS3. Those players made over 3.5 million in-game Heroes, and over 2 million Villain characters. All told, this impressively sized population of players and characters accounted for 3.6 million days of in-game playtime.
In addition to a robust population, SOE has also been hard at work fleshing out the in-game world, adding 200 new quests, 15 new zones, and 1,800 new encounters post-launch, and rolling out updates that included the villains like Ra's al Ghul, locations like the Fortress of Solitude, and new power sets from characters like The Flash and Green Lantern.
As a thank you to its players, DCUO is gifting in-game characters with a special cape with the number "1" inscribed on its back to all characters created before today, January 11th.
DC Universe Online went free-to-play late last year, and the game's continuing success seems to be an indicator that the approach is a viable one for high-end MMOs moving forward.
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