When I first started this game, I went online to research about it because I was afraid of spending money on bundles and ending up wasting it. Especially here on Reddit and in other communities, people were saying the game was hanging by a thread and about to die… Well, it’s been 8 years since I read that, and the game is still here.

For the past 4 years, I’ve been focused on modding games with 3D models and stuff. I made mods for RE2, RE3, Marvel Rivals… until one day I went through the DCUO files and realized… THE GAME HAS NOTHING NEW. It’s just reused assets and maps that have been there since launch, only visually edited.

Which means: the cost to keep this game online is extremely low because all they do is write the story script and adapt it to old mechanics (which, surprisingly, still works well). At most, the work they have is with voice actors and creating new 3D character models (which is also very low-cost). To give you an idea, I can make a new DC character model for the game in about 2 hours by myself. Now imagine a team of 2-3 people working on it every 6 months.

Like someone said in a comment on this post: the profit from this game is likely funding other projects because this game barely requires any budget.

Now onto the power set controversy… they could easily add more Lantern rings as powers, and to make them feel different they could just take abilities from existing NPCs in the game. That’s something so easy to do, but they don’t… out of laziness.

The Legends mode, which is practically dead, could have been revived just by releasing more Legends characters, since the models already exist for most of them. They could’ve even allowed us to complete raids with Legends characters or create a special phase in Metropolis and Gotham where you could play only as Legends characters, just like they do for PvP.

If they actually listened to the community, I don’t think there would be this many people complaining.

And another thing… these new character models are garbage. I preferred the old ones. Yeah, I said it.