I loved CoH, the only MMO I played for a long time, and I played it for 5 years.  But yea, there wasn't really crap to do at level 50, other than help others levels and make new alts.  But, man, I loved that game so much.  Thinking about getting back into it still.  But I know it wouldn't keep my attention for all that long any more, yea, I think it's sunset for CoH.  I would just sit for hours playing with the character creator on that game. 

DCUO doesn't even give you that, though. The character creator pales in comparison to CoH or CO's. It has a couple different skin types, but the costume part is sorely lacking in customization. Unlike in CoH/CO where you make your costume and can get gear without changing your appearance, DCUO has a more traditional loot system where each piece of gear is its own costume style, and you get your basic equipment slots (boots, belt, back, gloves, etc).. so your appearance always changes.

i may or may not have played beta and it may or may not have felt like a crappy mix of CoH hero building and UI and Tabula Rasa's fps-like aiming and control.

Oh what the hell, I picked it up.  Thanks pacov

And now, I'm going to go try to do something other than play games.  Heh.

Actually you have the option of making the new pieces of gear you pick up disappear while still giving you the bonus from wearing it.  Otherwise everyone would just start looking the same and the game would be stupid. 

Well that's good at least.  Didn't know that was an option.

Can you be a Green Lantern? Just curious...

well that certainly is true.  But I think its a fun system so you can tweak your appearance as you go along.  At first, I thought it was a bit annoying as the character I designed looked radically different after picking up this and that gear (eg to the point of why did I even bother to design the character), but understanding how the system works is great.  As they add items, that should give > customization that anything out there - you just have to work for it.  My theory at least.  At any rate, I don't think I'm getting this one after the beta.  Maybe give it a go in a few months after more reviews are in, etc.  

I've heard a lot of negative buzz around this game in the MMO beta tester circles, so I'm not really interested at all. Besides, there's only time for so many of these at once, and the one I'm looking forward to right now is Rift.

I'm just going to wait for Hungry, Hungry Hippos Online.

I got into the DCUO Beta for the last two months it existed. Unfortunately my health didn't let me play "too much" but I managed to get a good 50-60 hours or so in as I had a laptop and could play from bed for part of that time. It's a fun game, it is, BUT....it does have blatant flaws. One of those flaws being a lack of players. For something supposedly in the final stages of beta and with as many people as they let in those last few months, the world should have been crowded. There were only two beta servers and I had characters on both. No matter when I would try, in two months time I only saw the server status for one of the two say the population was "High". Every other time it was either "Med" or "Low". Even the time it was supposedly "High" the world was almost devoid of other players. Most areas where a practical "ghost town" when there should have been hundreds, if not thousands, of other beta testers running around. I've got some inside news from the big "Beta Event" they had the last night of Beta when Jim Lee, Mark Hamill, and other stars were actually supposed to log in with their characters and the server load was So Bad they couldn't stay up and people couldn't stay logged in for more than 30 seconds at a time without crashing.

While the game may be fun, the character creator is pretty limited, and they obviously don't have the hardware set up to handle true "MMO Capacity" levels. The PvP is fun and interesting because of the mechanics involved though and being able to move and dodge has great effects in game-play. Still, until they get the hardware issues resolved, get a Lot of bugged quests fixed and working right, and finally decide on a good game-play mechanic so that they won't have to re-write the combat mechanics (which they did three times in a little more than 2 months) I'd say stay away from DCUO for now unless you're a Real Die Hard DC Fan.

Hope that helps some guys.

I have to give them credit - City of Heroes has really reinvented itself time and time again.  The invention mechanics have grown on me, and the auction house was long overdue.  The Architect expansion led to my spending hours just tinkering with new mission designs, and the new Alpha Slotting has me pulling out my level 50 characters and having fun at the higher-levels again.   There is almost too much to do in the game with so many ways to get what you want, gobs of TFs and seasonal mission sets.  The servers always look full but the total lack of PvP/Base Raiding has been annoying me lately.

The market just feels too watered down anymore.  There aren't enough people to give MMOs that "crowded" feel of old for more than 6 months after release.  No clue why we need another MMO, let alone one set in the DC Universe...

Well, ten days later and I'm still having a hell of a lot of fun.  There are definately people on.  I think most of the buddy keys are expiring right about now, but it still seems pretty solid...we'll see in the next few days of course but I can't complain.

Did several Alerts and they're pretty awesome too.  Haven't done the Legends matches yet.

Champions Online just went free to play as well but I don't care enough to download it anymore for some strange reason.