Dunno about patrolling the city pointless, you are a superhero, hence you are supposed to want to help people, that should be the reward
. And heck with all the hidden feats there proably is a feat in there somewhere.
My problems with the game are more along the lines of, i played beta on pc, and was one of the people that had massive desync issues when trying to play, that nothing i did stopped it, started in gotham, batman being my mentor and all, but i could not play more than 5 minutes without the game geting more and more unsynched off what i was doing, if i was bounding around the city exploring the town would be a ghost town nothing on the streets or anywhere until i was getting attacked by stuff i could not see at all, only way i got thru many combat missions was to just spam my attack buttons until my health stopped dropping. any timed missions i had to get myself killed or restart the game to hopefully get enough lag free time to pick up item x move it over there before it exploded, sometimes this took constant reboots just to get one mission done.
BUt i went to metropolis and there was no desync just basic lag, most of metro was fine to play in, parts of chinatown were desync but not near as bad as gotham. But other parts of metropolis were fine, while gotham was quite honestly unplayable.
AND what REALLY irked me, was the fact that we had a pretty good forum thread on the soe dcu beta forums about us people having this issue, comparing isps, oss, etc where we had lag, where we did not have lag, and the pattern was is that those of us that had it gotham was horrid, metro was fine except for a few zones of the city. But sony deleted the forum thread, one day it was just gone.
Now there was a patch the day before so i thought hmm maybe they fixed it and closed the thread well it was better but it was not fixed, gotham was not as bad as it used to be but still bad enough to be unplayable unless you had a ton of patience to restart the client, die or just spam skills to try and do anything. metro that same areas had the same problems.
SO after that i just said gg sony, uninstalled the game, and said f it. No more beta testing no more broken quests found, not more desync investigation conducted, just bye hope you get this shit fixed before you ship it else you are going to have a ton of angry people at launch if some of these issues were still in the game.
My other nagging worry while playing is this, there is a good story to dcu the mentor missions and the whole war on brainiac thing has a ton of potential, the cities are well done the music is awesome, the voice acting is solid with mark hamils second to last ever perfomrnace as the joker and other voice acting regulars doing the characters they own, but mmos work on updates, some big updates, fixes, balance, content updates, with the game being on ps3 i was worried about the depth of content we would get via downloads. Was also worried that with hmail retiring as the joker how would they keep some of the voice acting consistent if we got new content down the line.
The cities were well done gotham and metro were great to explore the watchtower was done well, but stil the game world seemed small compared to most other mmos, 2 cities and a watchtower you could have everything explored to some degree in a week or two of playing.
While there was a good bit of good and fun about this mmo based purely on the geek factors of being mixed up with the heroes and villians you know and the random moment if the game like when batman showed up out of nowhere while i was exploring the city to tell me, i got my eye on your, your doing good work, scared the crap out of me. and the random pickups of headlines and tape recordings of events in the city, and places of interest was cool n all. But i could not shake the feeling that the game just had not enough there there and needed another few months of work to iron out the bugs i found and were not fixed last time i logged in.
I do not mind paying for a mmo if there is a a good game there, hell if it is a really good game it saves me money by not buying other games to play for months or years on end. And almost always perfer a p2p mmo over a f2p mmo since many f2p mmos destroy the games balance with the cash shops, and arrange the game so the only way to be efficient in travel xp and loot and loot is to shell out for the cs items.
