DC Universe Online: Free to Play Your Way on PS3

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DC Universe Online: Free to Play Your Way on PS3

DC Universe Online

Remember back in September when we announced that DC Universe Online was going to be Free-To-Play? Well, it’s here! Starting today you can download DCUO from the PlayStation Store for free, and play all you want with no monthly fee required. Experience the game play features that have gotten players excited about DCUO since it launched, including the intense, fast-action brawler style combat system that makes it feel more like an action game than a massive online game. Now, you can see for yourself how DCUO offers the best of both worlds. Fight, fly, speed, battle with friends, pummel your enemies, explore the amazing locales of the DC Universe, hobnob with Wonder Woman… all for free!

We’re really excited about this transition because you all have been asking us to make this change, and now we’ve done it – we’re making DCUO accessible to so many more players. We heard all of you out there who told us at conventions, on Facebook and elsewhere that you’d love to jump in to the game, if only it didn’t have that pesky monthly fee. Well, now’s your chance. With our three levels of access there’s something for every type of player. Free-To-Play. Your way.

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Are you a new player? Then just jump in and play for free. If you buy a few of the awesome items in our marketplace or a DLC pack (totaling at least $5), then you’ll get permanently bumped up to Premium Access, which gives you extra features such as more character and inventory slots. You can continue to play at Premium Access for as long as you want with the option to purchase extra features, or jump in to a Legendary membership for a monthly fee and get access to maximum game features and all DLC packs. Don’t want to pay that membership fee for a while? No problem, you’ll automatically become Premium Access if you drop your Legendary membership.

And for you current players, you may have already noticed that you’ve already been migrated to a Legendary membership. Former players, come on back! You’ll be granted automatic Premium Access as soon as you log in. We have all the details on our website if you want to know more.

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We look forward to seeing all of the new faces, and old friends, zipping around Metropolis and Gotham City. Let’s hear from you in the comments below. See you in game!

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148 Comments

  • Yeah its Maintenance should be up a little later

  • servers back up M1ST3R_BBX

  • any1 kno how to get the free 1 month legendary subscription i read about???

  • Warning if you run off WiFi do not attempt to get this game will take forever.

  • Thx !!!!!!!

  • down again haha lol just got to level 2 and was getting into it too :(

  • @106 exact same thing for me too lol :(

  • yeh all world servers down lol

  • it says the worlds are under miantianence

  • yes we know lmao but thanks for repeating me lmao

  • your welcome

  • from the few minutes i DID get to play it, it was ok… but today, servers down all afternoon, then the “find the safehouse mailroom” glitch that’s been in the game since launch (according to threads i’ve searched) so i have to re-start the game, and then i’m in a login queue (3,600th in line to log-in) and a half hour later i’m still at 600th in line… ridiculous. get enough servers, sony. absolutely ridiculous… thank GOD i didn’t pay for this game! if i paid 60 bucks and then another 15 per month, and had to put up with this crap… i’d be suing somebody.

  • heres what i wanna know, can i just download the digital version but use the old 15 gig download i have from my old disc version or do i have to download a whole 15 gig for the digital version

  • I need a little help here, already download DC universe but when i launch it, it stay in load screen for long time and by waiting several minutes, says that the server cant reply and it starts again loading the game, so do i have to redownload the game?, or maybe the servers are to busy

  • Yeah I give up on this crap. Haven’t been able to get on in forever and you freaking expect ME to pay YOU monthly for down servers a lot. Random hard lockups a lot to on this game. Screw it Im deleting this crappy game off my ps3 harddrive. Thanks for WASTING my WHOLE night last night waiting for this stupid thing to download. Thanks alot sony.

  • Does this support trophies? Or is it like Free Realms? -_-

  • Hi,

    I guess the servers are still down but is itjust me but everytime it tells me i have being disconnected and gives me an option return to launchpad it just locks up ps3 after that.

  • @ 116 Fue, that’s correct. The price/trophy, is EXACTLY like Free Realms. Unless you pay for a sub. for DC UO (Legendary Status), you cannot obtain trophies.

  • I am having trouble getting started it loads so far and disconnected and something about not having a valid user id but if i have to get a membership to play it I guess I’ll have to get used to coming up with the money… LOL

  • DC Uni Won’t Get Me On The Server At All Wants The Hold On This Crap Man Made Two Hores An “NO PLAY”

  • Are there any benefits to still purchasing the game at retail?

  • i loved the beta & now i get to download it AND play it for free thats awsome..not really worried bout the trophies im going to play it just for fun

  • How come no one is available to answer what do people get that spent $60 for the the game at launch? I get the game is now free and you can pay to play, but we have been payingto play from the beginning on top of the $60 we paid for the game. Should we not get $60 credit towards Legendary subscription? If not, the only thing this tells me is to not buy games right off the bat.

  • @Lorin Jameson @ DCUO Please have this game be supported on NTSC Display… PLLLEEEAAAASSSEEE! If you are reading this, please!

    Long Live Play!

  • SO people who spent $60 plus on a hard copy of the game get the same treatment as someone who comes along new to the game and spends $5 on it? How is this good customer service? Why can we not eve nget the option for a lifetime subscription? I think at the very least you should credit the retail purchase towards a subcription, that would atleast drop the lifetime price within the limits of funding for your PSN wallet. I bought the CE and ye the extra money was for the extra content, but still $60 for a game that is no free, and you just treat it as we only spent $5 and are brand new to the game, yet we have been here from the begining, and you cannot even answer these questions and I am not the only one asking them.

  • @Blade, I’ve noticed that Sony tends to just ignore questions they don’t like.

    It sounds like it’s not even worth the free download right now if I can’t get on a server. I’ll wait.

  • @126 It seems so, since it has been asked multiple times in this post as well as the previous one. The DCUO site support is only for free to play people as well and their forums are down too. Seems like the best course of action is to contact my States Attorney General or a Consumer Advocacy group.

  • I’m guessing this will become a slide show due too high latency on a Satellite DSL connection ?

    Anyone know ?

  • I sure do hate that I paid $60 plus legendary status for a piece of garbage that doesnt wanna load.. its always a problem with this crappy mmoe.

  • PLEASE SEPERATE THE SERVERS ITS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO GET IN NOW THAT EVERYONE CAN PLAY FOR FREE

  • This jus shows how crappy their servers are

  • Anyone having issues getting in

  • Going F2P was a good move IF it had been done right before it launched. but as we’ve all seen it wasn’t done right. it’s a very good game though when it works which is rarely. It should’ve been obvious to even a 9th grader in an introductory computer course when u multiply the users of an online servers by the thousands the servers must also be scaled up to match the load. This was clearly not done and once again sony’s got themselves in a huge mess that could’ve been easily avoided and also extremely damaging to sonys already battered useless reputation. I would even have considered legendary status after getting into the game a bit more. But with the servers down far more than they’re up and the communist level restrictions on psn account activations I’ll have to say forget it. That is if I can even get back in the game again which is doubtful. Of the last 6 hours I’ve spent on the game over 4 hours where spent in loading screens and waiting in queue to sign in. I could tell you buffoons at SOE to once again get your act together but its pointless since you can’t be bothered.

  • Don’t expect people to keep paying for this when the game servers are in such a mess, especially with the communist era account restrictions soon to be enforced on PSN. And to be honest, this is the second comment I’ve posted on this. The first was censored immediately on posting in a manner that would make the Gestapo proud.

  • So, since it’s gone free to play, does that mean that the life time membership will be reduced enough that we can actually get it on the ps3?

  • I was going to start with this game but really whats the point if it doesn’t really work.

  • Just downloaded the game. I used to play it since it was launched and it is a great idea that they made it for free but this should have been done long time ago since the first day release. At the moment, I just finished downloading after waiting like 7-8 hours and I’m having issues logging to the game. I get disconnected everytime I choose between PvE PVP US servers. I’m a bit disappointed.

  • ok so i downloaded it 2 my system,installed it, updated it, and i have to download it again??? can some1 tell me why?

  • Batman: Arkham City, now this! freakin’ sweet! I’m gonna be Batman!
    Thanks Sony!

  • dont know what you guys are talking about. took me 4 hours on sh@t wifi connection. stop stealing you neighbors WiFi ya bums! *shakes fist*

    DCUO is awesome, best MMO ive played since PSO

  • i want trophis -___-

  • NOW I CAN PLAY THIS GAME YES! You can play this with LOTS of TEAM WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Go to Playstation Store

    Text Free-To-Play

    Then you will see this game

    DOWNLOAD IT THEN YOU GET THE FULL GAME!!!!!!!!!!

    Good Luck :)

  • It’s not possible to earn trophies on the free version… how pathetic is that. Because of these fools, I have a 0% stuck on my set and can’t do a damn thing about it. Screw the legendary or w/e version, I ain’t paying for anything and this download is complete B.S.

  • @145, I’ve got a 0% on my set… it was when “Star Wars: The Force Unleashed” patch didn’t fully take. It makes you cringe, but you get used to it after a while.

    I haven’t even been able to download this beyond the basic file. Heck, I get booted off Playstation Home before IT updates, so I don’t know why this would be any different.

  • Finally ive been dying to play. :)

  • logged on after downloading it and have GamerMod_RDM after my name whats it mean?

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