IGN posted this one day ago: http://ps3.ign.com/articles/114/1148680p1.html
Some people may think this is no big deal. We're not one of them. Who'd consider cancelling a game that exceeded expectations and was the great superhero online experience that everyone envisioned?
NO ONE WOULD.
We think that IGN's describing how to cancel your DCUO subscription is a subtle hint that they don't consider the game to be worth its $15 a month pricetag. We hate to say this, but we actually agree with them. We've gone on at length about how the game is too keyboard-dependent to communicate for the bulk of console users (who don't have and won't get keyboards) and how typing forces us to leave the game world of a game predicating itself on being an Action MMO. For that, we'd pay $4.99 or maybe even $9.99, but at 14.99 DCUO prices itself above what a solid but incomplete experience should. We've also spoken extensively about how Shouts, Area Chat and other ways to communicate need to have a headset equivalent. No one communicates--we feel like we're playing a single player game at times. If you're already in a group or have friends that play the game voice-chat is serviceable, but meeting people in-game, recruiting and saying anything longer than "hi" or "bye" to strangers requires way too much typing in an age where voice chat options in games with no monthly fee are more extensive. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.We ran a poll on our site that showed almost 70% of people described the Voice-Chat as "Very Poor" and almost 80% of those polled considered Social/Chat as the area most in need of improvement.
With the wave of first-month cancellations that are no doubt coming, we sincerely hope SOE gets the message. People won't pay for a "solid" experience--but they certainly will pay for an exceptional one. Expand Voice Chat so we can get the Immersive, Community-focused experience we deserve. We're willing to give the game a few months to "sort it out" but should March and April roll around with the same cumbersome and incomplete voice options we had at launch, we'll have to bow out gracefully and consider DCUO as "Solid, but in the end, just not worth the money."
couldn't agree more. i let mine lapse today. somebody let me know when we're no longer in beta. chat sucks.
ReplyDeletei'm wiling to give it a month or so, but i agree the voice-chat is limited for 15 dollars a month.
ReplyDeletehave the devs said anything about adding to voice?
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine the chaos that would come from /Shout voice chat?....I'm sure there's a reason they didn't give a thousand immature people the option to broadcast their unnecessary opinions to the entire zone without the option for others to 'look away'. They just need to update the options for the current chat system and it will be fine.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the communication problems are not 100% across the whole game. No Man's Land is very social and people who aren't willing to get a keyboard for $10 are less likely to get a headset in my opinion.
i really dont have a issue with chat well when voice chat goes down yeah buit other then that its alright
ReplyDeletean option to "mute user" alleviates people who might spam city-wide voice chat, and a 15 second broadcast limits people being able to disrupt the enjoyment of others.
ReplyDeletethis is why i'm glad to be on pc.
ReplyDeleteNow, you've missed quite a few good points about the gameplay as well. I have the PC version, and let me tell you, it's not much better. First off, you start to get the feeling about 8-10 experience levels in that you've got no real clear goal to follow. All we know is everybody is turning into heroes and the earth is somehow threatened by Brainiac. Also, you don't really migrate areas like you would in games like WoW, you just get more and more quests at different buildings across the same 3 cities. Sure, there's "districts", but it's not like anything changes besides the quests. The enemies are lackluster and often require little more than button mashing skills to defeat. I could go on, but I think you get the point. It's a game wasting it's potential.
ReplyDeleteWait better idea, stfu and stop complaining and play the wonderful game... or go back to WOW and complain there idiots.
ReplyDeleteChat blows. After the latest update it's worse. Tons of background noise and you can barely hear the people you are trying to communicate. The game is going backwards. Color me pissed for spending 60 bucks on this POS......
ReplyDelete....that or it's not intuitive as to how/where subscriptions are at on PS3. I'm not bashing the system itself, I'm saying we're not USED to subscriptions or "Services". I just got the game and was curious as to how to do it. So I thank IGN for showing me where it was.
ReplyDeleteAlso, concerning chat: What happened to keyboards? What happened to logic? Are people THAT bad on this game that they must be directed how to play their character all the time? Even if the situation is complex, every human brain has the ability to adapt.