With that in mind, let's take a look at DC Universe Online from launch to current day, and I'll toss out my thoughts on picking up the game afterward.

I get just as irked when I feel as if I'm not getting value for that dollar as anyone else does. Much like everyone else, I have a life to attend to outside of MMOs, I had to shell out for a copy of the game, and I pay my own subscription each month.

So with my bias openly stated, I'd like to counterbalance it with this: As a veteran MMO player, I also won't put up with things I think are absolute crap for very long. While I love aspects of all of them, I currently prefer DC Universe Online for the fact that I get to run around with some of my favorite heroes and take down villains that I've known all my life. I'm a comic geek, so I've played every superhero MMO that's come out to date. Obviously, I personally like the game, else I wouldn't still be playing and writing a column about it. One of the most common questions I get every week in the comments for Alter-Ego is whether or not I think people should come play DC Universe Online.

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