The game is just shit but the greatest crime is the character creator, which offers you nothing more than the chance to be a faded emulation of an existing DCtm SuperheroTM. There is exactly one female body type (Wonder Woman's) and everyone has to share.

The first time someone makes a game where you can make your own Superhero and fully understands all the dimensions of the superhero fantasy, including bodily hyper-autonomy, and the outward expression of interiority (including a multifaceted representation of the psycho-sexual aspect) they will make approximately One Bajillion Dollars. Until then we simply have to point and laugh at this fucking shambles.

I started playing this in 2011 on my PS3 and actually did play it actively for a while.
My league tried to speedrun T3 and T4 raids until quite a lot of people left so we got more into PvP. First of Arena and later on focused mostly on Legends PvP.
When the game came out on PS4 I did play it for a couple years until I started raising up new accounts on PC that I mainly played until ~2018.
On release for the Nintendo Switch I only recreated a couple of my main toons to save them and never really played them.
I have ~1200 hours of playtime on PC and maybe ~2000 hours on PS, both including a lot of AFK times while playing other games etc.

The best mmo experience you can get other than like wizard 101, Older WoW (not classic but not the most recent either) or (the best mmo of all time) SWTOR. It could have been so much more but due to lack of forced instancing it kills this game a lot because the main plot is just a small portion of the game. The meat and potatos is the DLC which is primarily instanced based. Which is no fucking good playing with randoms. If they had it set up like SWTOR where you could solo instances this would be a easy 3.5 - 4 Star.

Y'know, all the criticisms of this game are 100% valid. But I can't help but find myself absolutely in love with it.

I think the 2 main parts of that are the community and that I read DC comics religiously. The community (at least on the EU server) is weird and fantastic with multiple server-wide well known personalities that hang out in the chat. They're surprisingly helpful too, at least compared to my other MMO outings.

That's why finding an active league is a MUST and making sure to just play what sounds interesting and not focus too much on becoming powerful is the best way to stave off the boredom.

Sadly if those can't be done, the game is shallow and dull. While the customisation and world building are amazing, those alone aren't enough to lift up the game's negative aspects:

The playerbase is dwindling BAD. PvP has not received support in years and there's maybe the same 5 players (on EU) that cycle through hoping to pick off at some newbies. New content is also limited and slowly trickled in. At most, they're new cosmetics and a few new instances. These are delievered roughly every 4-5 months which isn't enough to keep people wanting to play any longer than maybe a month or two.

Despite these issues, I personally had a fun time and my review score reflects that specifically. But I completely agree with the lower scores from others too.