I'm glad for all the European and Asian players that they're finally merging Werner in...The game really needs to all be on one server now..
The 45-day PS Vets free-play thing that is going on now seems to have brought quite a few old timers back the last few days...The battles and numbers seems to be growing this past week.
The population in planetside the past week has nearly doubled due to the free 45 day come back trial. Those out there that haven't retried the game yet, you should deffinantly reconsider, there has been up to 3-4 different battles going on, sometimes up to 2 poplocks. Very fun stuff, only hope to see some of those staying after the 45 days as well.
Have you played the game, and if so, what were your experiences like? Are you still playing? And what do you make of SOE's treatment of the product since it's launch? Also, why do you think it is that PlanetSide has essentially been swept under the rug?
I have played the game. I followed it during development and tried desperately to make it into Beta. I'm currently playing the 45 day trial.. and I do plan to resub after that period.
The initial reason I actually stopped playing was because I felt SOE gave up.. and I think it did.. but what I didn't expect.. was for the community to essentially keep the games heart beating on the deathbed. I regret quitting now.
I'm absolutely baffled that SOE treated the game, and the community the way it did. They literally have the only game like this. They have a monopoly for this play style! I can only assume that people the power positions didn't understand the game, and thus, it wasn't marketed or supported but in the most menial ways. Perhaps they just don't like money.
Having said all of that.. PlanetSide is.. without exception.. the absolute BEST game I have ever played in my entire life. Ever. I'll never forget it, and I'll be playing until it's last dying breath.
Have you played the game, and if so, what were your experiences like? Are you still playing? And what do you make of SOE's treatment of the product since it's launch? Also, why do you think it is that PlanetSide has essentially been swept under the rug?
I have played the game. I followed it during development and tried desperately to make it into Beta. I'm currently playing the 45 day trial.. and I do plan to resub after that period. The initial reason I actually stopped playing was because I felt SOE gave up.. and I think it did.. but what I didn't expect.. was for the community to essentially keep the games heart beating on the deathbed. I regret quitting now. I'm absolutely baffled that SOE treated the game, and the community the way it did. They literally have the only game like this. They have a monopoly for this play style! I can only assume that people the power positions didn't understand the game, and thus, it wasn't marketed or supported but in the most menial ways. Perhaps they just don't like money. Having said all of that.. PlanetSide is.. without exception.. the absolute BEST game I have ever played in my entire life. Ever. I'll never forget it, and I'll be playing until it's last dying breath.
SOE lacks anyone that has a brain. If they did they would see this great game and redo it and make a Planetside 2. Only this time do it bigger and better. With some fluff and some PvE stuff tossed in for good measure. This game was my all time favorite MMO next to SWG - so I have double the reason to be ticked at SOE. As someone else mentioned, my favorite game stories come from this game. Nothing and I mean no other game comes close to producing the same effect this game had on me. Love Planetside.
The population in planetside the past week has nearly doubled due to the free 45 day come back trial. Those out there that haven't retried the game yet, you should deffinantly reconsider, there has been up to 3-4 different battles going on, sometimes up to 2 poplocks. Very fun stuff, only hope to see some of those staying after the 45 days as well.
I'm one of those who returned. Yeah it is awesome to actually see 2 pop locks again and I've been having a good time. Actually as a full time boomering cloaker I'm having a really good time since people are making silly mistakes these days like putting up routers straight to their spawns. Unfortunately seems most of the other old names I'm running into all agree on the same thing though. A game that has been in maintenance mode for years now just isn't worth that 15 a month price tag. Anyhow..
I've been playing PS on and off since around the 3rd month point. There are so many factors involved when trying to discuss just why PS has died over the years though it's overwhelming. Placing ALL the blame on Sony though for PS's fall isn't quite accurate I'd say.
Planetside even though it's large scale as hell is and always will be a FPS and isn't immune to all the reasons people move on to new ones over time. Ask a lot of old FPS players what they believe is the best most twitch/skilled based game online ever made and they will still tell you Quake 1. Yet none of us still play it, why? It's old. We've all been there and done it so long ago that even though it's still a great game you would never actually go back and play again.
To me first person shooters are unlike other genres in that you have basically what I would call a "peak" or "plateau" that you reach eventually. Any devoted first person gamer knows what I mean. It's when you've reached a point in a first person shooter that you will never improve, when you have experienced it all and will never do or see anything you haven't already seen or done 500 times before. It's that point when you start searching out a new game for new and fresh challenges. Hell I bet practically none of the people still logging in and playing counter-strike today were around back when Goose first released the mod. Planetside is no different.
Spork told us years ago that new bases and such were impossible. The games world was designed in a way that those bases were permanent/unmodifiable parts of the map. Sure Sony I suppose could have dumped serious cash into redoing a lot of things but ultimately people would have still left. New maps are fun and all but the same game is still the same game and new map packs have never kept me playing a game no less subscribing to one after reaching that peak.
Plenty of bad decisions’ were made over the years that hurt. The Surge nerf I'd say was the first time I really saw people start leaving in droves. Love or hate the old surge is irrelevant; it did make many more twitch oriented fast paced fps clans leave. A lot of people just didn't want to play the slower paced game of REXO/HA/plasma spamming personal shield side. I know a lot of weird lag issues and crap took place with agile/surgers and I'm not defending it, I'm just saying that was one of the big nerfs that Pissed off and affected a large group of players.
The next big exodus I noticed was the infamous BFRS. Even ex developers came out and admitted this was a bad idea and apparently something you can blame on Sony. From what I remember the devs were basically told to go through with it and they had to. The problem with BFR's was never about killing them. Any half decent player could toss on their agile/deci loadout, hop in a mossie and solo the things all day long. I know I did and the hate tells from the BFR pilots were so worth the trouble. The problem with the things and why it caused cancelations though had nothing to do with my play style. It was the guys who had always enjoyed the large open field armor battles. You used to see massive amounts of tanks out there throwing down. After BFRs those poor saps would just have good fights ruined by some goofball in his robot jumping in, crushing everyone and then bailing right back out. They made the game less enjoyable for a lot of people so they left.
Eh...seriously this could just go on for days and I've pretty much forgot what I was even typing about anymore. PS to someone like me is still the best MMO ever created and it's sad to see no one trying something like it again. Frankly it's an insult to even use the name Planetside in the same sentence with crap like Global Agenda or Huxley. Damn I just did...
It will work with Vista,you just need to faff about with it first.
Most fixes usually involve running PlanetSide 'as Administator' and forcing Windows 95 compatability mode.
There's a more thorough section about Vista fixes in the PlanetSide Official Forums,General Technical Support sub-forum.The Vista fixes should be found in the top stickied thread in that sub forum,about 1/4 of the way down.
Actually...There is the occasional cheat, but they're usually only a very temporary inconvenience..They get taken care of pretty quickly..
And the populations are actually pretty good right now, at least one poplock every evening in prime-time, with one or more auxilliary fights going on peripherally...
I'm still in the game, primarily because nothing else has ever offered the sheer scale and combined-arms experience of PlanetSide...
If you've EVER had an account, you can play free right now until Aug. 28th, I think...Great opportunity to see what you're missing out on....
Oh, and the Werner server is being merged into the US server also the end of this month.....That's made the Europeans users VERY happy.
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I have just learned (literally in the last hour) that there has been an announcement that Werner will now be merged with Gemini,effective August 25th.
I'd forgotten what it was to experience deep joy
The game will be down to one server,but it'll be a great fight again.
*withdraws about 20% of previous criticism of SOE :P lol
I'm glad for all the European and Asian players that they're finally merging Werner in...The game really needs to all be on one server now..
The 45-day PS Vets free-play thing that is going on now seems to have brought quite a few old timers back the last few days...The battles and numbers seems to be growing this past week.
The population in planetside the past week has nearly doubled due to the free 45 day come back trial. Those out there that haven't retried the game yet, you should deffinantly reconsider, there has been up to 3-4 different battles going on, sometimes up to 2 poplocks. Very fun stuff, only hope to see some of those staying after the 45 days as well.
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Have you played the game, and if so, what were your experiences like? Are you still playing? And what do you make of SOE's treatment of the product since it's launch? Also, why do you think it is that PlanetSide has essentially been swept under the rug?
I have played the game. I followed it during development and tried desperately to make it into Beta. I'm currently playing the 45 day trial.. and I do plan to resub after that period.
The initial reason I actually stopped playing was because I felt SOE gave up.. and I think it did.. but what I didn't expect.. was for the community to essentially keep the games heart beating on the deathbed. I regret quitting now.
I'm absolutely baffled that SOE treated the game, and the community the way it did. They literally have the only game like this. They have a monopoly for this play style! I can only assume that people the power positions didn't understand the game, and thus, it wasn't marketed or supported but in the most menial ways. Perhaps they just don't like money.
Having said all of that.. PlanetSide is.. without exception.. the absolute BEST game I have ever played in my entire life. Ever. I'll never forget it, and I'll be playing until it's last dying breath.
SOE lacks anyone that has a brain. If they did they would see this great game and redo it and make a Planetside 2. Only this time do it bigger and better. With some fluff and some PvE stuff tossed in for good measure. This game was my all time favorite MMO next to SWG - so I have double the reason to be ticked at SOE. As someone else mentioned, my favorite game stories come from this game. Nothing and I mean no other game comes close to producing the same effect this game had on me. Love Planetside.
I'm one of those who returned. Yeah it is awesome to actually see 2 pop locks again and I've been having a good time. Actually as a full time boomering cloaker I'm having a really good time since people are making silly mistakes these days like putting up routers straight to their spawns. Unfortunately seems most of the other old names I'm running into all agree on the same thing though. A game that has been in maintenance mode for years now just isn't worth that 15 a month price tag. Anyhow..
I've been playing PS on and off since around the 3rd month point. There are so many factors involved when trying to discuss just why PS has died over the years though it's overwhelming. Placing ALL the blame on Sony though for PS's fall isn't quite accurate I'd say.
Planetside even though it's large scale as hell is and always will be a FPS and isn't immune to all the reasons people move on to new ones over time. Ask a lot of old FPS players what they believe is the best most twitch/skilled based game online ever made and they will still tell you Quake 1. Yet none of us still play it, why? It's old. We've all been there and done it so long ago that even though it's still a great game you would never actually go back and play again.
To me first person shooters are unlike other genres in that you have basically what I would call a "peak" or "plateau" that you reach eventually. Any devoted first person gamer knows what I mean. It's when you've reached a point in a first person shooter that you will never improve, when you have experienced it all and will never do or see anything you haven't already seen or done 500 times before. It's that point when you start searching out a new game for new and fresh challenges. Hell I bet practically none of the people still logging in and playing counter-strike today were around back when Goose first released the mod. Planetside is no different.
Spork told us years ago that new bases and such were impossible. The games world was designed in a way that those bases were permanent/unmodifiable parts of the map. Sure Sony I suppose could have dumped serious cash into redoing a lot of things but ultimately people would have still left. New maps are fun and all but the same game is still the same game and new map packs have never kept me playing a game no less subscribing to one after reaching that peak.
Plenty of bad decisions’ were made over the years that hurt. The Surge nerf I'd say was the first time I really saw people start leaving in droves. Love or hate the old surge is irrelevant; it did make many more twitch oriented fast paced fps clans leave. A lot of people just didn't want to play the slower paced game of REXO/HA/plasma spamming personal shield side. I know a lot of weird lag issues and crap took place with agile/surgers and I'm not defending it, I'm just saying that was one of the big nerfs that Pissed off and affected a large group of players.
The next big exodus I noticed was the infamous BFRS. Even ex developers came out and admitted this was a bad idea and apparently something you can blame on Sony. From what I remember the devs were basically told to go through with it and they had to. The problem with BFR's was never about killing them. Any half decent player could toss on their agile/deci loadout, hop in a mossie and solo the things all day long. I know I did and the hate tells from the BFR pilots were so worth the trouble. The problem with the things and why it caused cancelations though had nothing to do with my play style. It was the guys who had always enjoyed the large open field armor battles. You used to see massive amounts of tanks out there throwing down. After BFRs those poor saps would just have good fights ruined by some goofball in his robot jumping in, crushing everyone and then bailing right back out. They made the game less enjoyable for a lot of people so they left.
Eh...seriously this could just go on for days and I've pretty much forgot what I was even typing about anymore. PS to someone like me is still the best MMO ever created and it's sad to see no one trying something like it again. Frankly it's an insult to even use the name Planetside in the same sentence with crap like Global Agenda or Huxley. Damn I just did...
Tried to get back in, but does not seems to work with Vista?....Shame was looking forward to checking the game again.
Had the same problem and updated drivers and sound card drivers and ran as adminastor in windows 98 mode.
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It will work with Vista, the forums tell you what to set.
Basically, you have to set the game to XP compatibility mode.
Tried it, killed multiple times by the same old hacking cheaters, nope, not going to pay money to be cheated on.
Mentioned several times in this thread...Go back and look and you'll see PlanetSide runs fine under Vista..If you follow the instructions...
It will work with Vista,you just need to faff about with it first.
Most fixes usually involve running PlanetSide 'as Administator' and forcing Windows 95 compatability mode.
There's a more thorough section about Vista fixes in the PlanetSide Official Forums,General Technical Support sub-forum.The Vista fixes should be found in the top stickied thread in that sub forum,about 1/4 of the way down.
Me and a friend just sat and talked about good memories, and we "what happened to planetside"
We miss it, and think it was a great game!
We quit back in the day due to some imbalance and lag, and never got around to resubscribing..
Wish I had done that!
Now im a bit afraid of what you mention about vista, people using hacks and low population. Especially since I play on odd hours since im from Europe.
SOE, please wake up, make Planetside 2 and you would have a winner again...
Actually...There is the occasional cheat, but they're usually only a very temporary inconvenience..They get taken care of pretty quickly..
And the populations are actually pretty good right now, at least one poplock every evening in prime-time, with one or more auxilliary fights going on peripherally...
I'm still in the game, primarily because nothing else has ever offered the sheer scale and combined-arms experience of PlanetSide...
If you've EVER had an account, you can play free right now until Aug. 28th, I think...Great opportunity to see what you're missing out on....
Oh, and the Werner server is being merged into the US server also the end of this month.....That's made the Europeans users VERY happy.