Did anyone play City of Heroes? That game actually seemed really cool and might have been one of the only times where I got over my MMO hatred for a while. I couldn't stand WoW or LOTR:O (even though the latter had cool things I must say, but it was still the same shit). Conan looks better but I'm still not convinced. My mates seem to enjoy it a lot but eh.
As far as this goes it could go either way. The idea is cool but no doubt there will be a horde of carbon copy 'cool/dark' looking superheroes made by people and the quests will be lame and blah blah MMO pitfalls. I'm hoping it turns out to at least be worth a look though.