Because there’s no such thing as a surprise anymore, Sony Online Entertainment’s “mystery guest” for NYCC has been revealed by early shipping copies of Wizard’s latest issue. The man in question is living legend Marv Wolfman. With a tiny story in his past called Crisis on Infinite Earths, Wolfman has a pretty intimate knowledge of most every character in the DCU. Geoff Johns did the original plotting, and Wolfman will be working from those plots to further flesh out the missions your created hero or villain can undertake alongside DC’s best and brightest good and bad guys. He joins Johns and artist extraordinaire Jim Lee, lending three very high profile comic book names to the ambitious PC and PS3 MMORPG. More details on Wolfman’s involvement will be revealed next week at the convention. Regardless, this game is looking better and better.
When reached for comment, the game’s PR representatives were currently unable to confirm or deny, as they didn’t expect the issue in question to be out this week at all.
January 30th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
I really really really hope Marv will be a special guest at WonderCon!
January 30th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
oh man, idk if i should switch from wow to this…
i would love to live in the DCU
January 30th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
I’m hoping Sony really doesn’t drop the ball with this.
January 30th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I don’t think this is going to top warcraft but boy do I hope it’s cool.
January 30th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
I can not wait for this, and I agree GOOF, it won’t past WOW, but it’s gonna be wonderful. (and i’m sure it will knock the crap out of Age of Conan. but that’s just imo lol)
January 30th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
I hope it’ll take all his time and he’ll stop to make those terrible comics he does write lately.
January 30th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
As a die-hard WoW player, I’m sooooooooo looking forward to this. I could see quitting WoW for this, if it ends up being good. I just love the DCU so much.
January 30th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Ryan, what server are you on? I’ve mostly shaken the addiction, but I might be dragged back…
As for getting WoW-like numbers out of this, that’s ambitious, to say the least. WoW works for several reasons (not the least of which was Blizzard’s sterling reputation amongst hardcore gamers, yet providing a gameplay experience accessable to the less than hardcore), and those are the kinds of reasons that are generally overlooked when the license itself overshadows the gameplay.
You’ll attract hardcore DC fans with the DC license in an MMO, but you have to provide something more to keep folks paying out their twenty bucks or so a month.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
this is the one thing that I might risk running Windows on my Mac for.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
All this means absolutely nothing if DC doesn’t get their comics online like Marvel is doing. The DCU MMO is perfect advertisement for their comics, unfortunately not everyone has access to a comic shop, nor are they willing to shell out $3.99 for comic they’ve never read before.
Getting their comics online would go hand in hand with the MMO. think far-reaching advertising of the MMO with accessibility of comics online would definitely work in the publisher’s favor.
January 30th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
DC Forever Says:
January 30th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Comics online are for cheap losers. Support the comics industry. Get decent jobs and buy comics… actual books. $3.99 is not a lot of money. It doesn’t matter if you don’t live near a comic shop (why are you living in the hinterlands?), there is internet shopping.
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Maybe some of us don’t think DC comics are worth buying
and this may shock you, but some of us have actual jobs in the “hinterlands”
think about that the next time you, say, eat, or use paper, or something with metal
“hinterland” people make city life possible, not the other way around
I would support online comics for DC, btw
January 30th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
I hope DC don’t put their comics online like marvel Not ever has Internet you know so newspaper and Marvel need to stop thinking that everyone Rich in this country because theres more Poor people then rich
January 31st, 2009 at 12:06 am
Wolfman? Finishing up Geoff Johns work? I take it back, DC: spoil Geoff’s stuff in Previews all you want…just don’t let writers who have seen better days possibly ruin it all.
January 31st, 2009 at 11:09 am
Would it beat WoW in numbers? Likely not. Could it be better in quality? Well, it wouldn’t that hard. Lord of the Rings Online doesn’t have the same numbers as WoW, but I think it’s loads better. Good luck Sony!
January 31st, 2009 at 2:36 pm
I’m hoping Sony really doesn’t drop the ball with this.
…Sadly, Sony is a company run by marketing g00bs who haven’t had a real understanding of what consumers want or need since the original Walkman(*). Marketers are supposed to think out of the box, but not lose sight of it.
(*) Just to show how much of an achievement that was, almost three decades later you can still use them for something. The latest MAKE craze is to make a Mellotron out of two or three dozen Walkmen, and the three that I’ve seen demonstrated sounded pretty darn good!
January 31st, 2009 at 2:39 pm
“Wolfman? Finishing up Geoff Johns work? I take it back, DC: spoil Geoff’s stuff in Previews all you want…just don’t let writers who have seen better days possibly ruin it all.”
…If I’d have said this, Matty would have been throwing thunderbolts and whining “three days banishment”. Kevin, you’re dead wrong about Marv’s writing, and not only will his involvement help improve whatever aspects of the story that Jim Lee doesn’t turn in on time, it’ll make it worth reading when DC collects it into a crossover event to at least make something off the game when Sony dumps the whole thing after *they* screw it up.
February 1st, 2009 at 12:21 am
Man, if you can be a member of any of the different corps, like in an orange corp member in the picture, count me in. I will purchase a ps3 just for this game.
February 1st, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Looking forward to this provided I have a fast enough connection and my computer is still running at this same time next year when its finally released.
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