DC Universe Online Forum

I've been looking forward to DCU Online, but I don't own a Playstation 3 to play it on.  If it is subscription free I will totally pick it up since the PS3's new price drop.

Guild Wars: Prophecies was released in 2005, almost five years ago, and in that time there has been three full retail expansions released for players to enjoy. Each expansion bringing with it significantly more content for the community to play through, each new expansion adding substantial content that was worth the money it cost to purchase. And each expansion came out in a relatively good time period too, less than a year between each expansion's release. Add onto that dedicated patching, ingame celebrations and events etc and you have yourself a really good free-to-play online only game. One with oodles of skills, classes, explorable environments and a PvP system that puts shame on almost every other.
 
A game that in the almost five years since launch has still retained a substantial, dedicated community that actively continues to play and enjoy the game. Not to mention we'll now see Guild Wars 2 releasing at some point in the future as well. So clearly ArenaNet have made substantial financial success out of Guild Wars to keep it operating for this long, and to allow them to afford creating a sequel. Proof that free-to-play MMOs, if done right, can be both a financial and critical success for a company and the players.
 
So my point here is this. If a free-to-play game like Guild Wars can still be going strong after almost five years, and in those five years managed to pump out three expansions less than a year apart from each other, then surely SOE can do the same with DCU: Online.
 
It just seems too many MMO developers and publishers these days are dead set on being the next WoW. Except the problem with that is Blizzard have that corner covered, they've got their 11.5 million subscribers, they have the money, time and interest invested by their players with a firm grip. Chances of another MMO stealing them away is rather low. So try and fill another gap in the online only game market, make a good free-to-play game and you'll get everyone's interest.