The planetside portion of SoE is evil :P Anyay,s if you may have see, $15 might be a way for them to get funds for feeding the programmers and design team to bring up new content. It happen once in DAoC rate increased and the new content flow is pretty steady after that.
I thought that was what the ingame ads were suppose to do, get the team funding so they could design new content.
Now correct me if i'm wrong since it's been awhile since I've played Planetside, but if I was a player still, and they started charging me $15 and had ingame ads, I'd seriously have to reconsider just what I was paying for. Since their are plenty of free FPS as well as plenty of $15 MMO's that are better without ads.
Exactly and thats what many of us who still play the game have been saying.
This game is aready dying there have been cries for months for them to merge the 2 remaining American servers due to the west Coast server barley having enough people to have a good fight going on in PRIME TIME... Now they pull this crap out there butt.
This combined with the fact that the trial program (lets people try the game for free first) ending in 3 weeks is going to be crippling for the small population that this game has right now.
I can't tell you how many people are outraged about this, one look at the forums speaks volumns about whats on peoples mines.. Several people have already quite others have sworn they will quit before the increase.
Its going to be interesting to see how things turn out, but I just have a feeling that lots of people are going to be leaving due to this.
15 bucks a month is for A list games that have constant development, not for games thats last addition in development was a SINGLE plane(Wasp) some 6-8 or so months ago.
------------------------------ You see, every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You spread to an area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.-Mr.Smith
I don't think I have ever played a MMORPG or heard of a MMORPG Developer that as time went on actually incresed its monthly rate... But leave it to SOE to become the first. Starting April 2, 2007 Planetside which has been out since around the summer of freaking 2003 and has been 13 bucks a month is going to start to charge its few subscribers it has left 15 bucks a month... Now some of you might be like, well whats the big deal.. Well its simple to anyone that has actually played PS for any period of time, there is almost no Development going on in the game. Planetside is basicly operating on a skeleton crew since most of the orginal Developers left along with other PS team members. And we won't even talk about how hardly anyone even plays this game anymore. 15 bucks a month should be reserved for the A list games(WOW, COH, EQ2, Vanguard) that have a pretty big population not for struggling games that are only kept afloat due to the free trial that has been offered for the last year. 15 bucks a month should be charged for the new games that have came out within the past 2 years and continue to offer actually Development and not empty promises and lies like we have seen in Planetside (has taken them over a year to get us deployables)... If anything you would think a game that is going on 4 years old and one that is struggling to even have 400 people on its biggest server in primetime would go down in its monthly price.. But when its SOE I guess you should expect stupidty. I
Planeside is receiving a huge update this month.
They are getting DEPLOYABLES thats it.. And please do tell how long it took for them to get those...
Don't bother I will do it for you. It has taken them close to 1 1/2 years to develop them, thats a long damn time for 8 or so new additions to a game that you pay 13 bucks a month for.
------------------------------ You see, every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You spread to an area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.-Mr.Smith
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I thought that was what the ingame ads were suppose to do, get the team funding so they could design new content.
Now correct me if i'm wrong since it's been awhile since I've played Planetside, but if I was a player still, and they started charging me $15 and had ingame ads, I'd seriously have to reconsider just what I was paying for. Since their are plenty of free FPS as well as plenty of $15 MMO's that are better without ads.
Exactly and thats what many of us who still play the game have been saying.
This game is aready dying there have been cries for months for them to merge the 2 remaining American servers due to the west Coast server barley having enough people to have a good fight going on in PRIME TIME... Now they pull this crap out there butt.
This combined with the fact that the trial program (lets people try the game for free first) ending in 3 weeks is going to be crippling for the small population that this game has right now.
I can't tell you how many people are outraged about this, one look at the forums speaks volumns about whats on peoples mines.. Several people have already quite others have sworn they will quit before the increase.
Its going to be interesting to see how things turn out, but I just have a feeling that lots of people are going to be leaving due to this.
15 bucks a month is for A list games that have constant development, not for games thats last addition in development was a SINGLE plane(Wasp) some 6-8 or so months ago.
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You see, every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You spread to an area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.-Mr.Smith
Planeside is receiving a huge update this month.
They are getting DEPLOYABLES thats it.. And please do tell how long it took for them to get those...
Don't bother I will do it for you. It has taken them close to 1 1/2 years to develop them, thats a long damn time for 8 or so new additions to a game that you pay 13 bucks a month for.
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You see, every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You spread to an area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.-Mr.Smith