I always feel writing the small captions to entice readers in should be funny or at least related to the story or a quote, but that one was just ridiculous and I more than apologise. Well, it looks like DC Universe's switch to Free to Play has paid off with the game recieving more than a 700% increase in revenue in only a few weeks after going free to play.

That's not just oh, it's been a few months and it's up 700%.  It's actually up 700% for daily revenue. The free to play model started on November 1st and their boss John Smedley could not be happier about the decision.  So happy in fact that he tweeted about it and has continued to for the past few days. 

That 700% is split between the PS3 and PC version, with more Sony players (53%) than PC gamers (47%) going for the new model.  They are seeing an increase of players at 6% per day and with over eighty per cent are recurring players who are buying new costumes, new skins and items on a daily basis. 

Smedley tweeted that he was  "really happy with how [it was] doing." However, DCUO has suffered slightly in the past month as Smedley acknowledges, with more people, more servers and mo' problems.  There are a few stability and lag problems, and Sony has said that they are working to increase the capacity of its game servers. 

"We are at a 900% concurrent increase since we launched f2p. We are working on getting subscribers to the front of the line," Smedley tweeted. "Very bluntly this has been a wee bit more successful than we planned on. Sorry."  However, the day after this tweet it was revealed (by Smedley) that DCUO was running at over 1000 percent of its pre-free-to-play concurrent user numbers. Better get cracking SOE.

Via [EuroGamer]

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