Devs, a new powerset would be nice, and critical to the game's continued longevity

Dear Devs,

Thank you for undertaking the monumental task of revising and refreshing/updating existing powerset abilities.

This comes at a critical time in the game's life where it's struggling to find and sustain new players and retain older members who are already invested in the game.

I'm sure you guys would like to get more done with the limited resources available at your disposal, but you are constrained by market forces and other factors not within your control.

I'd just like to put it out there that introducing a new powerset would signal to the public at large, and to us players as a whole, that you are taking the role of reviving DCUO seriously and this I think, would be a major step forward, both in terms of attracting new players to DCUO, and breathing a fresh new perspective on the game's direction and progress into the future. This would enhance the game's longevity for sure.

To conclude, I would like to suggest that introducing a new powerset is entirely within your powers to do so, and you CAN choose to do so. Whether you choose to do so, will determine the path DCUO takes at this critical crossroads of its destiny. Will the game continue to spiral into oblivion, or will it rise like a phoenix from the ashes of its past and move forward into the future? The choice is yours. The game's future is in your hands.

Omg .. the dev protectors are gonna get so mad at you for suggesting anything new or exciting to the game.

You’re about to get flamed so hard right now and made to feel like a terrible person cause you want something.

This will be loaded with people telling you how wrong you are that a new powerset is wanted. And how most people don’t even want new powersets.

Then they will come in with their factually based evidence that the game can’t afford the time or resources it would take … all cause you selfishly want a new powerset.

But yeah I agreee new powersets would be cool

Why has nobody mentioned this before?!?!?!?

Wait they could just add a new power and people would be happy and excited at the same time? Until they realize its not the power they wanted and then its not worth it so, guess no new powers.

New power etc. would never be profitable would waste cash doing animation, the balance etc., taking months for something they have no guarantee people would like and, no matter if they sell the power, the amount of cash they would get compared to other produce like a capsule or any of the other simpler stuff would be too small to worth doing it.

Personally, I like their current approach with adding iconic abilities. It allows for everyone to use the new powers, and for players to create their own powerset. Its also easier and cheaper for them to do single abilities versus an entire set that has to be worked and tested for all variables like artifacts and allies.

The only communication on this subject came from Mepps, and he repeatedly stated that the return doesnt ever equal the investment. It takes many hours of labor for multiple devs to create, and the players do not directly purchase the product. All current members will get to make a new character for free, while others will only sub a month to make a character then let the sub lapse. If they decided to change the structure and make it so we had to directly purchase the powerset, Im not sure how many would do this. After 14 years, most players have their main character set, and the new powerset would be for an alt character. Yes, some would change their main characters powerset, but that also depends on how much the new one is desired, and if it out performs the current meta.

Overall, its a huge gamble on resources that could be better used to improve other parts of the game, or the entire game in general.

Would be cool I definitely but I also like how they are doing the iconic abilities besides that bat one locked in a TC . But with these icionc abilities dropping I do enjoy them I just wish we get some support ones.

Absolutely, a brand new powerset is so utterly critical to the future of the game, if they don't release a new fully developed powerset(as distinguished from indefinite new iconic powers) then the game is guaranteed to fail sometimes in the next 50 years.

Meanwhile, if they release a new fully developed powerset, it's pretty much guaranteed that the game will still fail in the next 50 years.

Just because we say something is critical, or essential, or required, doesn't mean it is. Try to be more creative, you're just repeating the same argument someone else made 6 years ago. That suggestion is a joke. Every failed justification for a new powerset had been made, and made again 3-18 times.

Can't release a new powerset. They have to release them in threes, one for each role. So that means they have to spend a whole year or so creating powersets, while dealing with a bunch of players complaining about how boring the game is, and quitting, because they aren't working on new episodes. So by the time the powersets drop, there aren't enough players left to make them worthwhile.

plastic man powerset FTW !.
If a new powerset was to ever be released, i would like to see it open on the test server from working concept to polished power ( sort of like how early access helped shape BG3 to become what it is today ).

This is so steeped in unverifiable assertions that I don't even know where to begin - and even if I did, it'd make no difference. The Devs have been crystal clear on this: It's not cost effective to make new powers.

I'd love there to be new Powers, but I've had to make my peace with the fact that there aren't going to be any more. I'm not as optimistic about the direction we're going with Iconics as some others are either, but it's possible that the rebalance that's in the works could blunt some of my criticism there.

Not very optimistic a new powerset will do much for the game; People will get board after a few months and want a new one. But if they did, then wind power would be needed to give us the 4 elements .

They have been doing a lot of work to improve the quality of life and I hope they continue to do so. I would prefer elite supply drops and orbitals next, so I don't need to use generators on my alts

To be fair, the statement about costs/resources/time it takes to create a new powerset is from years ago, and from a different Dev Team.
One can hope the new Team consider the idea of adding a new powerset, since they are adding more iconics and the power balance in the works. Doubt it tho...but we can hope.

Anyways...we all know everyone will complain if its not Blue Lantern or Wind or whatever power players fantasize with being added to the game.

Absolutely agree. The cost effective way IS to create new iconic abilities that they can tie into events/time capsules/seasonals [revenue drivers] rather than an entire power set.

With that aside, there is an amount of haziness with the new dev team and what they consider “off the table.” I’m interested to see how they rework/rebalance powers. Maybe they’re planning on simply adding new powers to the existing power sets. I could see that being more likely than an entirely “new power set.”

14 years of existence of the game and all this seniority to be reduced by capsule releases, artifacts, paid abilities, regular forced missions and no more new powersets, the sad evolution, devolution of the management of DC Universe Online nowadays and making a new powerset, it’s too hard, while the heal lantern has been much claimed lately!

I'm here for a big surprise

For brevity’s sake, you could’ve just said “DCUO transitioned from a subscription model to a free-to-play model.”

You'll probably need to go down to the woods today, then.

This, I do however think that they should just enhance existing power-sets with new ELITE ability packs; Some free, some unlockable through say feats? or in-game marks, some Pay2win. Why only give us iconic abilities? and not just upgrade whole power-sets.

I say no. There's way too many thing wrong with this game for them to focus time and resources on a new powerset that will become irrelevant in a months time and used by 10% of the population by then. Ask for them to expand the longevity of existing powersets by giving those new abilities to utilize. I want to see new space like abilities in Quantum's tree. I also want to see more DOT and AOE damage in Atomic, the list goes on.