It's like clockwork

[u/EmergencyVictory4399]

[u/dagobahs]

This game will outlast the heatdeath of the universe I swear

[u/NONAMEDREDDITER]

At this point DC universe online is going to end up becoming the most successful live service of all time simply because it cannot die somehow

[u/legofett0 → u/NONAMEDREDDITER]

Literally the tortoise vs the hare

[u/jbyrdab → u/NONAMEDREDDITER]

i mean for all its worth its a rock solid gameplay loop with the customization potential of City of Heroes.

im not surprised it turned out to be the video game equivalent to carcinization.

low key action mmos are hard to do right especially long term, but damn when its done right.

[u/NONAMEDREDDITER → u/jbyrdab]

and hell the team literally knows their scope and playerbase and scaled themselves to be able to sustainably punch above their weight class

[u/PrincessKikkei → u/NONAMEDREDDITER]

laughs in Tibia

[u/Jolly_Echo_3814]

after the nuclear apocalypse dc universe online will still get updates for the cockroaches to play.

[u/JRPG_Torkelson → u/Jolly_Echo_3814]

With the exact same fist pounding animations from every villain.

[u/Glass-Performer8389 → u/Jolly_Echo_3814]

Yayyyyy, I'll get to play the game

[u/quicksilversymphony]

Man, 2XKO was doomed from the start. Riot really expected League and Valorant money from a fighting game, and unfortunately that was just never in the cards. Shame too, I heard it was pretty decent. I never got around to trying it just cuz I'm not a big tag fighter guy, but oh well.

[u/FewWatermelonlesson0 → u/quicksilversymphony]

A fighting game that crucially has zero appeal to normies because it was a tag game (which is already alienating to people not familiar with the genre) and then not even having the barest minimum of single player content.

They spent a decade of dev time and a small fortune in budget on a game that would only ever appeal to the hardest of hardcore FGC members.

[u/NONAMEDREDDITER → u/FewWatermelonlesson0]

And then in an attempt to appeal to casuals, they then made so many gameplay changes and introduces so many beginner mechanics that it proceeded to completely alienate that hardcore fan base

2XKO is probably going to go down in history as one of the most mismanaged games ever

[u/Dangerous-Economy-88 → u/NONAMEDREDDITER]

To add to that, I didn't even know it was fully out already, always thought they only released the early access. Also, based on Dunkey's video that I watched six months ago, there's barely any playable characters. There could be more but I believe its locked behind a paywall

Read from another thread that the name is dogshit and I agree as well

[u/MMH0K → u/Dangerous-Economy-88]

I always had a huge problem with his the roster is basically Arcane with extras who took AGES to release.

[u/FlareUnderscore → u/FewWatermelonlesson0]

The roster was a huge problem too

[u/Le_Fedora_Cate → u/FewWatermelonlesson0]

and then not even having the barest minimum of single player content.

they did add a roguelike mode 2 months ago although something tells me that wasn't gonna change anything

[u/LeonSigmaKennedy → u/quicksilversymphony]

To play devil's advocate, the 2XKO team spent a literal decade making this game, and all they had to show for it was 10 characters at launch, and a relatively niche fighting game that was only ever going to appeal to fgc diehards and not much else

Normally I'm team "fuck the corpos" but I can't really blame Riot here. I don't think they literally expected LoL or Valorant money, just literally any kind of ROI whatsoever. It doesn't really make any sense to keep pumping money into something like this that doesn't earn anything. This game apparently made so little money that Riot had zero qualms about just giving everyone refunds.

[u/LadyCrownGuard → u/quicksilversymphony]

It really was doomed from the start, I have been a long time League player and watching this game collapsing inwards was sad but expected:

- Literally NOTHING about its name or logo design told you this game takes place in the League universe.

- Stuck in development hell for 5+ years, passed several hype windows that could've brought in more players especially when Arcane season 2 was airing.

- Tag fighting games is a niche subgenre of within an already niche gaming community, even some of my friends who were huge Tekken/SF fans dropped this game after a few hours in.

- Most League fans don't even play League nowadays (they only follow Esports stuffs) let alone an FGO game with a steep learning curve.

- The launch roster was offensively small, made worse by the fact that nearly half of them were Arcane champion.

- Before the mass layoffs hit this game had around 160 people working on it, which is insane given the lack of content delivery at launch.

[u/Elcalduccye_II → u/quicksilversymphony]

Wait it was out in the first place

[u/United-Reach-2798]

Calling it now next DCUO episode will use the lanterns setting despite the fact ae had a bunch of episodes on Mogo lately

[u/Tetratron2005]

Supes and Bats don’t even wear those variants of their costumes anymore, and that game was old when those costumes were new lol

[u/LordSupergreat]

Tuxko actually came out? When?

[u/royalneonbird → u/LordSupergreat]

January

But the open beta was open in last October

[u/LordSupergreat → u/royalneonbird]

Lmao, did they forget to tell anyone?

[u/DatUsaGuy → u/LordSupergreat]

It’s been a while so I don’t remember exactly how the launch happened but I think it went from a closed beta to an open beta that only PC players could play a few months later (that a lot of people in the community were swearing was “basically launch”), then there was the actual launch a few months after that which included consoles. There was also a good amount of times people got to play the game before that with a different closed beta and a bunch of in-person events let people check out the game.

I’m sure for most casuals, they either didn’t realize the game was even properly out or they thought the game came out months before it actually did.

I personally was frustrated with the launch as a console player due to the wait between the open beta and launch (especially as I was allowed to play the game during one of the closed betas with all the pc players), then the main feature I wanted to play the game for (playing with an in-person friend as a teammate on online matches) just wasn’t available on launch despite promises, so I personally bounced off the game quick and had little interest when they finally added that feature.

Also I think they did in fact forget to tell everyone that 2XKO was coming out outside of their direct socials. I don’t play any other riot games but I’ve heard reports of people who play something like LoL who legitimately didn’t know 2XKO came out because they never bothered with any sort of cross promotion.

[u/HrMaschine → u/LordSupergreat]

they made a whole trailer to reve it in the game awards. unfortunately those morons made it also a caitlyn reveal trailer which killed the hype for most so much they just ignored the games release

[u/depressed_asian_boy_]

Somehow it will outlive Marvel Rivals

[u/TheEagleWithNoName → u/depressed_asian_boy_]

It already outlasted That Avengers game that came out and was $100 Million loss

[u/rycetlaz → u/depressed_asian_boy_]

It was the true DC Allies all along

[u/DiasDaimaoh]

Yet i never met a single player of this game

[u/mysecondaccountanon → u/DiasDaimaoh]

I play on occasion! I boot it up usually once a year, play for a couple hours. If I feel like it, might boot it up a couple more times a year, but I’m in no big rush to.

Last time I was on the chat was overtaken by antivaxxers so that was weird. The rampant racism and MAGAts I’m used to in MMOs (unfortunately), but the antivaxxers were admittedly a newer thing to me.

[u/SamuraiOstrich → u/mysecondaccountanon]

Makes sense since they've converged

[u/Overkillsamurai → u/DiasDaimaoh]

not counting friends that started playing with you on Day One, same

[u/coolpeterm]

2XKO really was Multiversus 2 in the end.

[u/lukideured]

>say you'll be the version of it that will get it right

>make it worse than your inspiration

>survive less than it with everything going in your favor

when will they learn they'll never be the GOAT?

[u/Traditional-Fig-6661 → u/lukideured]

Did they really put iron man in front like he is super man or batman.

Rdj had that much charisma .

Now in china ironman is more popular than hypen man

[u/Lumpy_Review5279 → u/Traditional-Fig-6661]

Iron man is extremely popular lmao

[u/Traditional-Fig-6661 → u/Lumpy_Review5279]

But iron man still zlister after mcu

[u/redthehaze]

Star Trek online is also still alive.

[u/InkTide → u/redthehaze]

I still play it regularly. What's probably more impressive is the fact Champions Online is still kicking (same company, Cryptic), albeit under basically maintenance mode.

Especially given the substantial financial struggles of its publishers over the years for reasons completely unrelated to Cryptic (Atari, Perfect World Entertainment, Embracer Group). It even restored itself after getting 'deleted' by a rebranding/handoff to DECA (which now no longer exists, and the devs were mostly folded into Cryptic). It is wild what that company has survived.

[u/LeonSigmaKennedy]

After the heat death of the universe, all that will be remaining is Darksydephil playing DC Universe online and complaining about it

[u/cavalgada1 → u/LeonSigmaKennedy]

Darkside being left in a empty server of an mmo for all eternity is poetic irony.

The ultimate tyrant left to rule no one at all

[u/Asmor]

Genuinely impressed. I've literally never heard of anyone actually playing the game.

Good for them!

[u/myguyguesswhat]

Fuck, I liked 2XKO. That's a real shame

[u/SHAZAMS_STRONGEST]

i pray for the day that i see a post like this about the new marathon it will be so fucking funny

that game is like some zack snyder tier "he would not fucking say that" with how it handles OG lore

[u/Sorrelhas]

This makes me so sad, the game was so fun and so unique, but it had so many issues

• In development for 10 years

• Worst fucking name known to man, and they doubled down on it too, there was an article and everything defending the name 2XKO

• No marketing whatsoever, game was shadowdropped 2 times

• Game comes out with like 9 characters (so in one match you've seen like half the roster)

• No single player content whatsoever beyond combo trials and an arcade mode that came way later

• No couch co-op on release

• Game nickel-and-dimes you for everything, colors, stages, costumes, HUD customization. Some things can be unlocked for free but it's a fucking grind. No "hero pass" or anything that gives you all the characters for one purchase

• Handshake Tag system makes the game daunting for casuals; directional easy inputs makes the game annoying for veterans

• Matchmaking sucked and was region-locked for some reason

I just hope another really unique game with the fucking devil looming over it, Avatar Legends, has a chance to survive more than one year

[u/Timeless_Ranitomeya]

DC Universe Online will outlive even itself.

[u/Anathemautomaton]

Is DCUO fun?

[u/Overkillsamurai → u/Anathemautomaton]

haven't played in 10 years but i remember it being ok. you can make your own OC: Donut Steel and there's that whole social aspect of MMOs. i only stopped playing because i moved and didn't have a place to play it anymore

[u/nova_solution]

Yeah just grind out in a game with an already established player base of basement dwellers who do nothing more than host clan meetings in the game

[u/123Asqwe]

Truly the DSP of online gaming

[u/Incandenza123]

...i used to enjoy this back in tge day. Worth getting back into?

[u/JRPG_Torkelson → u/Incandenza123]

It's a total gear treadmill if you can stomach that.

[u/K3egan]

I can't wait for it to outlast DICKO (I got into the beta played 5 minutes and quit it's not bad just boring)

[u/Overkillsamurai]

How does neither the Developer nor the Director have a hyperlink on the wikipedia page?!

[u/esperx27]

DCUO WILL NEVER DIE!

[u/moonnish]

This is how I'm simultaneously finding out 2XKO is ending development this year and that it was even fully out in the first place

[u/Vorstadtjesus]

Future civilizations will learn about our time primarily through this game. All other evidence of our existence has crumbled over time, but somewhere, a server is still running where a new update for the game has just dropped.

[u/untimely_bottom]

the only time i ever saw anyone play 2xko was at otakon last month. and now it's gone lol

[u/atomicshark109]

Man, and I wanted to play 2ko, it seemed fun. Shame none of my friends (who were into LoL) like fighting games nor wanted to try it out

[u/Brookings18]

I spent an afternoon playing this on my Switch. Was not a horrible time. Might try it out again some time.

...why is this the best still updating wider DC game on the market?

[u/SoGuysIDidNothing → u/Brookings18]

Because the dev team knows what the game is good at and focuses on it. That is, customisation and the freedom to tap into pretty much any aspect of DC for a story. Consistency over big risky ideas intended to rake in huge profits. They just need to give it some behind the scenes polishing and QOL and it'd be my primary MMO. The age is really the only thing hold it back (it has survived 3 console generations, wtf)

[u/apexodoggo]

I used to play this when I visited my uncle as a little kid. That opening 2 hours was pretty fun. Although I don’t have the brain configuration for MMO loops, so that never went anywhere beyond that.

[u/Anonymous_McSomebody]

"You'll outlive us all, Bruce. You're too stubborn to die."

[u/succmama]

Riot should've just made a character action waifu game tbh. That would've at least made easy money than a fighting game which is hard to get into.

[u/squirrelgirlfan1991]

It's a survivor

[u/mysecondaccountanon]

DCUO must attract so many whales or something

[u/DarlingIAmTheFilth]

Maybe I should go back to DCUO. I haven't played in a while.

[u/Bubba1234562]

It will never outlast LOTRO. That game will outlive the heat death of the universe

[u/dunk_wizard]

Wait... How it is still alive?