Join the DCUO Extra Life Team!
/Statement from DCUO: “Extra Life is always an important and fun part of of yearly traditions here at DC Universe Online. We come together as a community, we play our favorite game, we unlock gifts and rewards, and - the point - we help children in need in our local communities. We can all be heroes for this brief time, even you villains out there, and this is a very good thing.
The BIG NEWS this year is that EVERYONE is invited to join the DCUO team! Plus, new rewards.
In prior years, our team has consisted only of DCUO developers. No more! We want everyone in the community to join us this year, have fun, and help kids. This allows us to better support everyone out there wanting to participate, opens up new avenues for rewards and incentives, and - most of all - should help us raise even more funds for this heroic cause.
So join the DC Universe Online team or donate if you can. If you can't? That's fine too. Anything you can do to help spread the word is powerful, and that means just as much as a donation for the cause. It's really very simple: donate yourself, spread the word, or join our team! Everyone wins no matter what you choose to do.
Let's Go!
The DCUO Extra Life Team is working to raise $20,210 in 2021. We will have Extra Life livestreams every Friday in October leading up to a marathon stream on Game Day on November 6, 2021. We also expect to have some Extra Life events on Saturdays (learn more below). Join us when you can!
Dimensional Ink Games will again kick off our fundraising with a donation of $5,000! We - our studio, our players, our community - are all in this together.
Why Extra Life?
Extra Life is a charitable organization that unites thousands of gamers around the world to play games in support of their local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. Since its inception in 2008, Extra Life has raised more than $87 million for sick and injured kids.
By fundraising, our team is helping to support a local hospital that treats thousands of children each year, regardless of their illness, injury, or even their family’s ability to pay. And as the COVID-19 pandemic places new stresses on hospitals and communities, Extra Life helps ensure that the 170 Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals around North America have the resources they need to care for the most vulnerable kids.
The DCUO team will support our local Austin CMN hospital, Dell Children's Ascension.
Milestones, Incentives, Rewards!
For that little extra push to get everyone involved, we have new and returning Extra Life rewards - both in-game and out. These rewards will be updated as we get closer to Game Day as more rewards come online. Rewards will begin unlocking on October 8, 2021, with our first official Extra Life livestream.
Team Milestones
Our goal this year is to cross that $20,210 mark, but we have rewards for everyone in the game when we cross other milestones on the way. These will be revealed as we go, but here's what we can share right now.
Milestone #0: $20.18
Helper's Halo Unlocked
Milestone #1:
2019 Rewards Unlocked
Milestone #2:
2020 Rewards Unlocked
Milestone #3+: To Be Revealed Soon!
Stay tuned for 2021's new milestone rewards!
Developer Incentives
Members of the DCUO development team also have what Extra Life calls incentives - donations you can make for specific amounts to unlock a special reward. Head to each of our personal Extra Life pages to donate for your incentive of choice.
Of special interest, Oceans created an incredibly beautiful and all-new Metropolis (physical) postcard for 2021. Don't miss your chance to get this one on your wall!
Please note that not all incentives will be available at all times and can sell out. Check our Extra Life pages to see what is available.
Oceans' Incentives
2021 Metropolis Postcard
Boss Event (See Oceans’ Special Menu)
Lair Tour
Mepps' Incentives
2021 Metropolis Postcard
2020 Metropolis Postcard
Custom Forum Title
Red Five's Incentives
2020 Gotham City Postcard
Aeyrn's Incentives
2020 Postcard
Team Member Milestones
Remember how the DCUO team is open to everyone this year? Join the team and reach one of the below personal milestones for an extra special reward! (Tip: You can add these for everyone to see on your personal page directly.)
The great thing about this is that even if you can't donate, getting others to donate to you will get you cool stuff, too!
Team Member Milestone #1: $100
Extra Life in-game title "The Benevolent" for one character on your account
Team Member Milestone #2: $300
Extra Life in-game title "The Benevolent" for all characters on your account
For clarity, these Team Member Milestones are unlocked if you 1) join the Extra Life DCUO team and 2) reach the milestone's dollar amount in donations you personally have received.
Livestreams
That's it! Donate, join the team, and/or spread the word. And if you do none of those, please just stop by to say hi, show support, or maybe give us a pep-talk in that we've-been-streaming-for-9-hours window of exhaustion. We will appreciate it immensely!
October 8, 2021 @ 3PM PT
October 15, 2021 @ 3PM PT
October 22, 2021 @ TIME TBD
October 29, 2021 @ TIME TBD
November 6, 201 @ TIME TBD (Game Day Marathon)
*All you villains can help, too, just make sure to spin up an overly convoluted and complicated circumstance where IN THIS CASE only it makes sense for your evil self to do a good thing, or retcon your fall into semi-humanity later with a similar story of not quite nonsense. Please also share these.”
For the DCUO Source Wall’s own Incentives and for the DCUO Discord Incentives, see: Extra Life Game Day Livestream Marathon & Bonus Incentives!