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SOE refuses to pull the plug on this game.
goneglockin
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Kinda figured they would. Only a few thousand ppl still play at best; it was hovering around 10K when I left about 2 years ago. The forums are dead. Fodderside is ending. Jesus it's sad.
I wish the suckers still left playing this game would realize they're being milked and up and leave. SOE will only pull the plug when they begin to take a significant loss. But even a 1,000 suckers is enough to keep the wheels on this joke turning after all the server downgrades and the complete lack of any dedicated staff to it. Occasionally someone working on another project will give PlanetSide minor attention in the form of a carrot on a stick.
Give me a fucking break.
Hope you got your things together. Hope you are quite prepared to die. Looks like we're in for nasty weather. ... There's a bad moon on the rise.
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I mean that in the sence that it needs planetside 2, a nice update to the game whole new graphics, more of everything with updated ways of playing ect.
If they did make a PS2 id personaly buy it in a heart beat because of how much i loved the game when i did play.
I played it for 2 months half a year back and i really enjoyed it.Even if it only has 10k of players ..if these 10k are happy with the way the game is why take out the plug.On the one forum they are mad at SOE for making a drastic gamechange...SWG...and on this part you are asking to let them pull the plug while appearantly some people still are enjoying the game.Let those who stillplay make up their own mind if it's worth their cash or not....just like the people who are bashing on SWG should let the players who still want to play it do as they like.
Meant as a reply not flame btw...Sometimes my typing looks harsher then i mean it
pull the plug?
hell, its going UP $2 a month in april
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a robot foot stomping on a human face -- forever."
And why do you think it's going up 2 bucks? Because of the increasing cost of "continued development" when there was never any in the first place?
This game is truly on it's last leg. There are so few people left that they are raising the subscription solely to maintain a decent profit. Keeping PlanetSide alive only discourages other companies from entering the MMOFPS arena. PlanetSide needs to die and be forgotten by the gaming industry- so they forget the artificial reason why it's not a good idea to get involved with an MMOFPS project.
Hope you got your things together. Hope you are quite prepared to die. Looks like we're in for nasty weather. ... There's a bad moon on the rise.
If there is nothing else I can say about SOE thats positive its that they dont like to shut down games. Hell they even bought MXO. Im glad that the older games keep going. At some point in the not to far off future a lot of these older games are going to close down. Some of them have had great runs others not so much. I think it sucks to see them pull the plug on any game.
I agree that this game is a spent force, but no reason to turn it off while people are still playing.
It's dead to me, but no reason to kill it for any others.
you brought up a good point about buying MXO. I totally forgot that game was still live, much less in the station package.
SOE is the Nursing Home of MMO's
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a robot foot stomping on a human face -- forever."
Well the good news is, now that server populations are low, one player can really have an effect on the game world
I just resubscribed to planetside this month, and its such a great game, its really fun! I remember why people left, and Im already starting to feel the same. Its funny... Planetside's gameplay is more interesting and players have more of an effect on the game world than almost all mmorpgs, yet I feel more bored than in WoW or EQ2. I shouldnt but I do. I guess its just because I am more of a rpger than a fps gamer.
The Planetside forums arent in the greatest state right now; not because of lack of players but because of the way they behave. They are even more rude than on mmorpg.com, and no offense to those reading this because its not necessarily you but the posters at mmorpg.com arent exactly the most polite people on the net 
Maybe it just feels like they are rude/childish in comparison to the pirates of the burning seas forum, where I spend most my time these days.
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Still the best game ever.
MMO games played or tested: EQ, DAoC, Archlord, Auto Assault, CoH, CoV, EQ2, EVE, Guild Wars, Hellgate: London, Linneage II, LOTRO, MxO, Planetside, SWG, Sword of the New World, Tabula Rasa, Vanguard, WWIIOL, WOW, Age of Conan
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer" -Bruce Lee
Business management degrees FTL. Never have a touch on reality only some obscure hope, ideal target for pyramid schemes by the by.
When I started PS, I was looking for an mmo, but an mmo with guns and more faster paced action that took more skill than just press hotkeys 1 through 9 stuff. PS is VERY fun, I only played fro about 3-4 months, but being in a guild where you routinely do massive attacks on the continents is a huge rush, especially when your coordinating with 80 people + 2 more guilds of 80+ peeps.
PS will remain as a great memory to me, and if a second one came out I would buy it in a heartbeat. This is a game that the sony-haters can admit was never screwed up and stayed true to itself!
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.
Game is stable.
Is part of SAAP.
No need to kill it as long as it is making any profit.
For me, what killed this game from the start was the 'Cone' firing technology.
Not being able, as a Sniper, to target for a One-Shot kill was just goofy and destroyed the immersion factor for me.
Other than that one thing, really wanted to play the game and love it.
Someone who just did not understand FPS thinking made a horrible design decision.
And Planetside paid dearly for it.
Just my opinion.
Good Hunting
Ahh so you are bitching about a game that you dont pay for? The "commericals" you speak of do not run at all if you are a subscriber.
The game is fun, and enjoyable to play (specially with a group of friends on teamspeak or vent). Could it be better? Sure. I gotta say though, this is one of those games that I always fall back on in between my burn outs on other MMOs...it is trully what they call "casual player friendly."
BR 25 CR 4 --- been playing on and off since release.
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer" -Bruce Lee
MMO games played or tested: EQ, DAoC, Archlord, Auto Assault, CoH, CoV, EQ2, EVE, Guild Wars, Hellgate: London, Linneage II, LOTRO, MxO, Planetside, SWG, Sword of the New World, Tabula Rasa, Vanguard, WWIIOL, WOW, Age of Conan
Make up your mind eh? You are either a paying customer or a free trial subscriber.
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.
Naw. Never banned for trolling. Just stopped wasting my breath on the ignorant lifers who hold onto PlanetSide like it's the only thing sustaining them. It's pathetic. I still read the forums there; it's an absolute joke. Nothing but the same mindless idiots talking about how new content will save all. Reading about how prime time is down to several hundred folks on a server- struggling for 1 poplock.
They never fucking learned.
Hope you got your things together. Hope you are quite prepared to die. Looks like we're in for nasty weather. ... There's a bad moon on the rise.
All canceled. Waiting on Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning.
Naw. Never banned for trolling. Just stopped wasting my breath on the ignorant lifers who hold onto PlanetSide like it's the only thing sustaining them. It's pathetic. I still read the forums there; it's an absolute joke. Nothing but the same mindless idiots talking about how new content will save all. Reading about how prime time is down to several hundred folks on a server- struggling for 1 poplock.
They never fucking learned.
Never banned, or never banned for trolling? Cuz I remember Glockin, GoneGlockin, and StillnotGlockin.MMO games played or tested: EQ, DAoC, Archlord, Auto Assault, CoH, CoV, EQ2, EVE, Guild Wars, Hellgate: London, Linneage II, LOTRO, MxO, Planetside, SWG, Sword of the New World, Tabula Rasa, Vanguard, WWIIOL, WOW, Age of Conan
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer" -Bruce Lee
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.