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I have an itching feeling that the super servers for DC Universe were envisioned, developed, and either implemented or too far along to cancel when Sony received the green light to take the game free to play, because as Crimecraft has shown us: Merging servers to accommodate the subscriber population will cause all hell to break loose [...]
Archive for the ‘DC Universe Online’ Category
DC Universe F2P Just Too Popular, Server Down
November 4th, 2011 
Omali Someone better call Queen Latifah, because DC Universe players are bringing down the house. Literally! The US servers were in a state of limbo yesterday, going up and down as players flooded in to see Superman break Bane’s back, or vice versa. In response, Deadmeat has posted an announcement on the DC Universe forums: As [...]
Free To Play Tuesday: Rhyming Title Edition
November 1st, 2011 Omali Welcome to November, everyone. Now if you are following the free to play mashup, as I do, you know that the market is getting a lot more congested in quarter 4 of 2011. We’ve already seen the free to play conversions of City of Heroes, Fallen Earth last month, and today sees the extended downtime [...]
GDC Online Awards: MMO Awards
October 14th, 2011 Omali No, Games Developers Conference Online, the piggy nibbler award is for me. GDCO has come and gone, and although the Golden Joystick Awards won’t be released for a little while longer, I wanted to share the results. Because what makes for more controversy and argument than the opinion of someone who molded a piece of [...]
Week In Review: Trust In The Community Edition
September 25th, 2011 Omali I told you I’d eventually hit the Sunday deadline for Week in Review. I’ve found through MMO Fallout the deadlines I set for myself often conflict with what I’ve heard referred to as a “lack of respect for authority and tendency toward inappropriate analogies.” Personally I equate the situation more to the first few seasons [...]
DC Universe Heading Free to Play In October
September 19th, 2011 Omali DC Universe is something of a lone duck in the industry. With Champions Online free to play and City of Heroes making the transition later this year, I’ve speculated before that Sony following with a similar model was only a matter of time. Of course you could also look at John Smedley’s statement that freemium [...]
Nominations For Golden Joystick Awards/GDCO
August 25th, 2011 Omali The Golden Joystick Awards have been running for 29 years, making the ceremony older than a good amount of the people reading this website. Every year, games compete in a number of categories from shooter to adventure and everything in between, with the voting determined by viewers like you. This year marks the first year [...]
SOE Authenticator Coming To Device, iOS, and Android
August 12th, 2011 Omali Even if you did hide the authenticator image behind several pages of CSS. With the recent hacking of Sony’s services, one might be slightly concerned about the safety of their account. Following in the steps of Blizzard, Square Enix, and a select few other companies, Sony Online Entertainment has announced that the company will be [...]
DC Universe Server Mergers, Name System, Phasing
August 6th, 2011 Omali As my emails have shown, I’m not the only one still confused about DC Universe’s upcoming server merger/melding on Monday. Previously, I presumed that this not-merge-merger would allow players to keep their names, as the servers weren’t merging. As it turns out, however, that is not the case. When the mergers go live on Monday, [...]
Smörgåsbord of Sony Online Entertainment News
July 8th, 2011 Omali Sony Fan Faire 2011 is still live until tomorrow, but there has been a plethora of information coming from the Las Vegas convention center. New expansion packs, updates on upcoming games, and more. Everquest and Everquest II respectively are set to receive yet another expansion in the coming months. In Everquest, Veil of Alaris opens [...]
