Why do you play DC Universe Online?

the community motivated me to play DCUO ... i also attended SOE LIVE and met many forum names... and the devs! most of all my league keeps me going! the wonderful players i met during the years and the great conversations i had over TS... DCUO has found me great friends! BTW i dont think we met at SOE if you were there

Well I'm 16 almost 17, and besides schoolwork, friends, and cross-fit, I need something else to sink my time into. That is why I currently play. 3 years ago it was because school, friends and junk-food, I had to divide my time into something to get me off the latter. I have dc to thank for my current bodybuilder status. It helped me read smoother also. (I started playing this game when I was 12.)

me? i play cause i'm too old for real fights now and my underoos slide off when i fly.

Inertia.

I invested too much time and now I dunno what to do

It is like a fail, but stable, marriage.

p.s.: In fact, I didnt find any other game that gives me what DCUO gives: a feeling of REAL MMO/ACTION

I'm guessing the reason for no more mentors is because the Dev don't have enough money to pay the voice actors and their own writers to develop missions for those mentors from 1-30. Then develop Challenges Duos Alerts and Raids custom to those Mentors Plus would you have the voice actors reprise the role of Captain Marvel and Black Adam and pay the actors more money to do more audio don't forget coming up with Invest and briefs for those mission not only that it would most likely make it harder to bring in new stuff for the end game crowd when. It's really sad that there isn't a DCUO 2 that has different mentors and maybe even a version of the game where Lex is the hero and Superman the Villian. Honestly It all comes down to Dollars in the end and legal red tape.

I totally agree that in part it is cost, but since PS3 doesn't have the room for it that is a big part as well. If they can keep the money coming in without doing it there is no motivation to do it and every one not to.

Because it was and still is the ONLY action MMO (my first btw) set in a Super Hero environment (specifically the DC Universe) on a console system. There are and were a few others on the PC, but 1) i've never owned or built a PC that could play games in an optimal way and 2) After going through the incredible character creation/customization process...those games fell FLAT graphically (not to mention I could NEVER do the mouse and keyboard thing), and they are SEVERELY lacking in the combat system department. Plus I grew up reading DC & Marvel comics, watching super hero movies and playing super hero games. This game came along and allowed me to create and customize my very own super hero...and the first time I stepped out of the Chinatown PD station and took to the skies....it was a done deal.

Even though many will say that there's no challenge in this game, I beg to differ. I find myself being motivated to get better at everything by playing with and against some pretty damn good players within my league and many outside of it. When I run into bad pug groups, I work hard to compensate for the bad players...like the other day when I was trolling Nexus with a group that had SERIOUS communication issues. Most people would have either abandoned the group (like some did) or they would have given in to the desire to disband. I got lucky that two decent players queued in and decided to stick it out with me when we got to the split and things were falling apart fast. We rallied and made it into the center and demolished the Luthors. I'm not the best (probably never will be...especially compared to some of you geniuses in here who can crunch numbers and do things that continue to stump the Devs...props to you guys continually making guides and offering actual advice), but I continue to learn and get better.

I've also gotten a bit of the completionist bug, so I have to get those feats done...although I may have to give up at some point with a few that just feel impossible (races, Happy Hyppolita, 100 Iconic solos [Oh how I loathe you, mostly cause I suck with Legends Toons]). But at least with each new DLC there comes more feats to accomplish, which leads to character improvement via skill points.

In my personal opinion, the storylines don't feel as fleshed out as the content did prior to Tier 4...but they're still present and I like a large portion of what they've done (though I long for the cut scenes of yesteryear). And I look forward to the rest of the current trilogies as well as future ones (hello Kryptonians and new Kryptonian gear styles).

Another thing that keeps me playing is the fact that the game keeps changing, adding more, continually trying to improve upon the greatness started over 3 years ago (even though some of these changes are HOTLY debated in the forums here).

Despite what some might deem as a limited ability to customize your character, I find a never ending array of ways to change my characters according to whatever strikes my fancy. Whether it's a newly acquired, much sought after style piece (ahhh...I love you Kryptonian Flexsuit chest), or finding new ways to make certain pieces fit together to completely alter my appearance, or the excitement I get when the Devs announce new upcoming content with new styles to mix and match with...DCUO has me hooked. I've actually spent some days just tinkering around with my appearances for HOURS. And when we finally got Armories...let's just say that if my leaguemates aren't on, i'm just exobit hunting while I tinker around with a new look.

Speaking of my leaguemates...

I have to echo the sentiments of my esteemed league leader. They're the biggest reason why i've continued to play this game (especially after the Origin Crisis fiasco and the strained relationships it created, along with the community nastiness).

Last thing...I get simultaneously annoyed and amused when people bring up upcoming games like Destiny or whatever, and mention how those games are going to end or kill off DCUO. It's just sad and laughable. You all know that there's no other game with the kind of combat system this game has...in fact, a large majority of you here have touted that it's the reason why you became hooked on this game. Then there's the fact that Destiny, Final Fantasy or whatever DCUO-Killing-Game-Of-The-Month cannot be compared to DC Universe Online...because they are NOT SUPER HERO MMOs!!!!! That one little FACT seems to elude the doom-&-gloom crowd when they spout their ridiculous predictions (wasn't Final Fantasy supposed to have killed this game off last year...or was that GTA V...it's kinda hard to keep up with the latest title that's supposed to "end DCUO").

Face it, every upcoming game will be a minor distraction...and a good portion of those flocking to those games will be right back here, to the ONLY [Super Hero] game in town (on the consoles of course...the PC is a different landscape). I hope you all get some kind of thrill or something from all the nay-saying and bad doomsday predicting...me, i'll be right here enjoying the best game to have held my attention 2 years and running.

gotta catch em all

I play DC Universe Online because I love most of the DC mythos. And to actually create a toon that can basically interact with these characters is just amazing. Also, this being my first MMO got me really curious how this type of game works. What keeps me to play this game is my awesome league. I love our members. They're funny, hardworking, and with a sense of "family" that I'm really proud of. We're not perfect, and we're not even top brass as compared to other leagues but each one of them contributes something to the league - be it advice, support, jokes, collections, exos, their time and patience. So I'll have to say the people that I play with everyday is the reason I play this game.

'cause I love DC enough to overlook the atrocious character models and relatively boring powers.

Well, I started playing for the first time when my ex dumped me (2011). I was sorta depressed, lonely and pathetic and discovered DCUO on PSN which I downloaded and got involved in playing the game and making my superhero toon. DCUO helped me get over a big sad period of my life. The SP grind made me forget everything else happening around me and I became better over a certain period.

There was a time that I would do nothing else but play DCUO all day and night, week after week and month after month. It was all I did as anything else would remind me of the pain of loss of love. Anyway, in 2012, I was no longer the sad case of life I thought I was and slowly joined back society from an year long isolation playing DCUO.

Mid 2012, I started working again and continue to do so currently. I still play DCUO but spend much less time now than before. Now, I average 23 hours of gameplay every week and have somewhat turned casual considering I have a life besides DCUO. Nonetheless, this game is the most special game of all times and I will continue to support it till the very end.

Been with DCUO since it began. It was my first MMO apart from an incredibly brief foray in Runescape.

I collect media featuring my fav character Batgirl (Cassandra Cain) and DCUO grabbed my attention due to it being one of the last DC projects to feature the character (and now it is the only place the character appears). As I was considering looking into MMOs at some point as well (and WoW didn't really fascinate me) I pre-ordered DCUO and spent a lot of time hanging around the Watchtower with Cass (I intentionally logged in and logged out of the game next to the character, very fanboyish).
So I started DCUO due to Batgirl.

On the leading years before the game was released, I took to editing the DCUO Wikia with information as it was released (which pretty much largely amounted to character profiles of character slotted to appear, really) and eventually became the wikia's administrator as the original creator disappeared.
Fast forward three years and I now pseudo research and RP as I play the game; controlling a character decked out in the Detective Trenchcoat and investigating various instances, locations or characters/mobs/bosses to add to the wikia. I have even decked out my base to include research papers, desks and computers to "edit the wikia" with.
I am a very big Bat Fan (Keaton Batman is my fictional hero (him and Swartzenegger)) but researching for DCUO has broadened my knowledge to DC's other characters and I now have a healthy respect for the universe's characters outside of the Bats (still don't like Green Arrow though, unrepentant womanizer and cheater).
So I stay for the story and the rich history of the characters, which I discover and then share with others through the wikia.

Would be nice if the DCUO staff would provide some insights of their own though. Like the few questions I have posted in the forums previously. Maybe they could release a book or something on DCUO, like WoW and such have done. Give us some official background material to immerse the players within (although I am thinking they are assuming the comic book lore would do that job for them).

Personally I play for a mixture of lore and the immersion factor.

It may sound a little silly but I think DCUO is the best MMO in terms of making you feel like you belong in that world. The exobyte angle was really quite clever on a number of levels. It simultaneously answers:

Why has your character never been heard of in the comics? Exobytes.

Why are there so many heroes / villains in the universe all of a sudden? Exobytes.

Why are there so many heroes / villains that are similar to other heroes / villains? Exobytes transmitting the data for already existing characters in the world to the player characters. A wonder woman lookalike obviously having received a wonder woman exobyte, a batman lookalike having received a batman exobyte.

It does a much better job of explaining why im there than a game like WoW, where I'm given a sword, a pair of underwear and within a matter of hours I'm able to be beheading dragons for some reason.

I also need something to do while waiting for my **** to download and/or render... i do cgi so i make col stuff all the time.

I've played a bunch of different MMOs but I always find myself coming back to DCUO. I think seeing the world I read about in the comics of my youth come to life like a videogame tends to do is what really hooked me. Grappling across buildings to see crime alley or the ace chemicals plant in the background while I go about my business really hits me in the warm and fuzzies

I really wish we could have as many mentors as were want and as many story lines as we have different mentors.

Green Lantern Storyline could easily be based around Brainiacs attack on the emotional spectrum- Missions in deep space on alien worlds same goes for the other factions of Lanterns. We could also have more hero centered story lines if they just fleshed out the 1-30 process. However the only true progress would come when the world ends this obsession with greed and attaining wealth.

Oh to be in Gene Roddenberry's future where humanity works togather to better the entire race than the need for personal gain.

Yes I'm a Trekky. My Mom was a fan of the original series and I of The Next Generation.

Yeah, that was one of the things I was disappointed in when it got added, no GL mentor.

DC Universe Holodeck Edition.

I can see it now. The hologram dummies in the headquarters running wild .....hey. There's your next April Fools day event right there.

It is crazy how the loop has gone around. Games were advancing and now they seem to be falling back to the beginning. I guess I should be waiting the MMO version of Pong soon.

I know that this was designed for the PlayStation 2 really not for the computer.
I think gaming has tended to be more RP oriented on the computer and particularly when subscriptions are involved.

A friend of mine was highly offended that they couldn't click on a door to get into a building (and instead was forced to click on the floating object in a circle in front of it.) I guess this convention came from the Spiderman games on the PlayStation # platform

When it comes to super-hero MMO's DCUO is a step back. I'm glad that you agree with me and brought up the point about the coins actually being in the beta (so pathetic. I mean really "pathetic".)

One of the things that really gets me is how the game play has been toned down so much to an almost kiddie level but, at the same time, the content has very adult-oriented themes.

This is really funny to me. I think it's the other way around. I think the DEVs need to understand that it is a role-playing game and not an action MMO and make it more RP friendly.
What do I do when I come to this game? Do I play DC Universe character? No.
What am made to do when I start playing DCUO is create a character that I will be playing, pick clothing, pick powers and weapons that I will use, and pick a mentor. Yes. Character creation. And it is about playing that character's story. It is a role-playing game but some how that has a bad stigma in gaming.

it's kind of funny. It kind of like the "jocks" have taken over gaming and know what's cool. All the "nerdy kids" that are into role-playing should leave. DCUO is here because of role-playing, but the DEVs and so many players are blind to how we ended up here.

DCUO could very well have been a game that we logged into and picked a DC Universe character to play. When we went into an instance at there was another Superman there we would just have a phantom 2 associated with our name that never showed up in the game. Would it be a little confusing? yes. Would it be a little less of a role-playing game? yes. But even then it would still be a game where we were playing the role of a hero in the DC Universe.

The point is how far we take the immersion into the role-playing.

I want to feel like I'm a super-hero running around saving people and fighting the good fight (or a villain doing something diabolical, but more because the option is there rather than that's really what I want to be doing with my involvement in the super-hero genre).

Think of how the DCU comics would read if they were like the DCUO. Once they got to the end-game, the characters would be running around doing the same thing issue after issue and complaining about why they didn't get the drops they were looking for and cutting down other characters because their writers were noobs.

it's a sad day in gaming.
The lowest common denominator is the target audience.

I ran into a player that didn't read comics. They were only apparently playing because they were really into a super-hero from a movie. In fact, that super-hero wasn't even a DC character, but rather a Marvel one.
Even then, they weren't acting like that character, but they were playing the game because they wanted to be that character.
You know, they wanted to play the role of the character because the is the best game that they can do that in.

If DCUO was more like Planetside 2, it wouldn't really be an issue. There would be sides fighting for territory, Some controlled by the heroes and some controlled by the villains, but that isn't the case.

There is no need to rant on further about this.

The DCUO is the best super-hero genre game out there at the moment, and it doesn't want to be a super-hero game. I wants to be a game that only happens to have super-heroes in it. A game where players aren't focused on trying to be super-heroes, but only focused on what? Paying money? Defeating and repeating content as quickly as possible?