{"id":8315,"date":"2011-09-20T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8315"},"modified":"2018-07-18T18:24:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T18:24:14","slug":"dc-universe-now-f2p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/dc-universe-now-f2p\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Universe MMO Now Free-to-Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10626\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10626\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10626 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Wonder-woman-dc-universe-S-e1427695383145.jpg\" alt=\"DC Universe is now free to play.\" width=\"390\" height=\"244\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DC Universe is now free to play.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SEPT. 20, 2011 \u2022 Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) announced it was taking its DC Universe MMO free-to-play mode in October. At that time, players can download and play the game for free on both the PlayStation 3 and PC. DC Universe will have three new access levels Free, Premium and Legendary. Free includes access to all existing content. Premium is for anyone that spends more than $5 in previous subscriptions or microtransactions, and opens up including additional character slots, additional inventory slots, and higher cash limits. The Legendary level costs $14.99 and offers all DLC packs at no cost, more than 15 character slots, more than 80 inventory slots, and the ability to form unrestricted-sized leagues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Impact: It is no surprise that the mandatory monthly subscription is going the way of the dinosaurs.\u00a0 Essentially allowing consumers to try the game and then upgrade them to a subscription once they get hooked seems more natural.\u00a0 When a consumer must pay $40 or more to buy a game knowing they must commit to a monthly subscription to actually play it the barriers to entry are just too high. World of Warcraft is the only game to be able to do this on a mass scale.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEPT. 20, 2011 \u2022 Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) announced it was taking its DC Universe MMO free-to-play mode in October. At that time, players can download and play the game for free on both the PlayStation 3 and PC. DC Universe will have three new access levels Free, Premium and Legendary. Free includes access to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137,78,66],"tags":[88,245,244,256],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8315"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16553,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315\/revisions\/16553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}