PlanetSide worth the money?

[Reyem]

Is PlanetSide worth what we are forced to pay per month? Why is the monthly payment so high? If you take 100,000 people, multiply that by $12.99, you get $1.29 million a month, and we all know more than 100,000 people play PlanetSide. And dont forget the $50 you pay for the game. I really dont see why we pay so much. Can someone please enlighten me on this? I feel like we are paying way too much. Anyone else feel like this?

Reyem

[Vis Armata]

Well, there's three years of development, the infrastructure costs...not to mention that Sony isn't in the business of having a happy fun time with us, they want to profit.

[FireWolf22]

Bigger the Profit the better.

It does cost a lot to complete games. It also costs them some every so often in serve maint. Also they have to keep paying the dev's to keep making things better and add new things

Wolf

[OutlawSZ]

All of the future plans with this game cost $$..big money! Guess they are making that money and frankly, It does not bother me in the least bit. Imagine what the server/bandwidth bills for all the backbones the tap cost monthly? Gotta be astronomical.

[sniper4evr26]

damn this has been gone over so frickin many times... look at the forums before you post a new thread i will try to find the one about this but its pretty old

[sniper4evr26]

oh sry i couldnt find it but i didnt look very long, only about 5 pages i went through. but here are alot out there. and hey. if u dont wanna pay for it, you dont wanna play it plain and simple period end of story. why does everyone whine about how much it costs? we dont care! and even if we did, no one can do anything so i guess you will just have to miss a whole lot of fun.

think about this, if you go to an amusement park like 6 flags or something, you will pay between 15 and 45 dollars just to get in the place, then food and drinks, souvenirs... so around 60 bucks for ONE DAY of fun, and usually "one day" is about 3-6 hours at an amusement park, so planetside costs nothing compared to that ok?

[Adun]

damnit, if you think the games too expensive, please dont make others think the same way.

Theres alot of people involved in making planetside work who have some kids to feed. This game took a little bit longer than average to make, since its like a miracle a game like this is even possible.

If you cant afford $50 dollars and pay $12.00 the next month, you probably dont have a computer that can play it.

Its a nice game where you can play every now and then. Not a game where you have to spend hours to get fake money to get fake stuff that you lose when you die and get completley pissed off.

And another thing, if you play this game enough to complain that theres nothing new, you need fresh air, real bad.

Thats about it

[Reyem]

laugh. dont have a computer that can handle the game? wtf does that have to do with anything. for one my computer runs the game fine, for second im building a whole new computer so gg there. anyways, ive played PS enough to see that its already getting repetitive. and yes, i use to play CS, but that has nothing to do with PS, i quit CS for PS. im not trying to change anyones mind and make them think they are paying too much, but thats how i feel, and most likely i will quit the game, cuz i dont think dropping that kind of money is worth it. but than again it might be with the plans SOE has for future patches. i voiced an opinion, but all you can up with is cheap bs that makes you feel good about yourself.

[Happy lil Elf]

If you think there's 100,000 actually paying the monthly fee atm, your kidding yourself. Have you seen the server pops lately?

Regardless if you don't like the monthly fee, don't play the game. Simple enough for you? No amount of ranting is going to get them to lower it.

[Reyem]

didnt realize i was ranting, but merely posting an opinion, and seeing how other people felt. obviously you all are not very bright because you think im against your or something and jump all over me. and like i just posted, odds are, i wont play anymore, and be the more intelligent person. but awwww, ill miss out on all the fun, but oh well, more money in my pocket.

[Adun]

I was seriously just posting my thoughts, reyem, i didnt even read your post. I just saw the title of the thread and typed crap.

Sure, these kinds of games are expensive, but theyre expensive to make and run, theres a server for EVERY continent, probably more. Usually theres one server in these games. That, plus the 3 year development, the people who contantly work on addin new stuff and plan things and the people who keep the game running loong after the games finished, thats pretty pricey. Im surprised we arent charged alot more, its a good thing alot of people play.

Besides, the people who made planetside are working under people who only want money. Planetside was orrigionally just a "futuristic fps everquest to make money" and it came a long way from there.

Seriously, this is a great game, some people are suprised a game like battlefield1942 is possible, well planetside is like twice as hard, were lucky it doesnt look like crappy looking everquest.

[Navaron]

No. Wait 6 months, if it's still around, get it then.

[kidriot]

no, it's currently not worth it.

wait a few months for some supposed defence changes.

[Bismarck]

Personally I don't play it for the RPG portion of it, and when you think of it from a strictly FPS standpoint, this game is brilliant. I was never and will never be an RPG player, too damn boring, for us strictly FPS guys...if you have the rig this game is unbeliveable.

IMO It is worth every cent

[Arthell]

PS has its boring moments too. :p

Personally, i beleive MMOG games are worth much more than what they are now per month. You spend $15ish a month for a game you get hours upon hours of enjoyment out of.

You could blow that $15 in one night going to the store.

[ViperGTS]

if sony was nice they might lower the price of the game somewhat ya no from like 50 to like 30 or 35

[X-113]

Or you could go on Ebay and buy it for $20 or so. That's what I did, got in in three days, perfect condition with working CD keys. :)

[Hellblazer]

The 12,99 per month isn't for the 3 years of development. By paying 50 euro's you pay for the development and stuff. The $12,99 is just for the servers and for sony's right/left pocked.

[ViperGTS]

Originally posted by Hellblazer
The 12,99 per month isn't for the 3 years of development. By paying 50 euro's you pay for the development and stuff. The $12,99 is just for the servers and for sony's right/left pocked.

WHAT THE HELL IS A EURO?????????????????

[Hamma]

http://www.euro.gov.uk/home.asp?f=1

[Happy lil Elf]

didnt realize i was ranting, but merely posting an opinion, and seeing how other people felt.

You're right, you weren't ranting. I appologize for saying that were and I take this opportunity to correct my statement. What I should have said was: No amount of voicing the same opinion that's been voiced since before the game went retail will make them lower the amount. You're right, me and a few others did jump down your throat, but I think that's because this discussion (or argument) has been going on since about a month before retial started. I, and I'm guessing a few others, are sick of hearing about how PS is not worth the money. To us it is. That said I appologize for overreacting as well.

obviously you all are not very bright because you think im against your or something and jump all over me. and like i just posted, odds are, i wont play anymore, and be the more intelligent person. but awwww, ill miss out on all the fun, but oh well, more money in my pocket.

And here's where you went wrong. You don't like the game so you basically call everyone who does an idiot. Or rather professed to be smarter than anyone who likes the game.

Judging by your post, oh intelligent one, you seem to be someone who is in need of little help with their typing skills and, since you are the smarter person, in order maintain that I'll give you a short lesson. Now pay attention.

Just to the left of the "z" key on your keyboard and just right of you"/" key ther are keys that say "Shift", sometimes with an arrow pointing up. These keys are used to capitalize letters, so that you don't look like an idiot. Learn to use them.

Then just to the left of your "Enter" key, there is a key for apostrophes. Apostrophes are used whenever you use a compound word such as "I'll" which is meant to be a combination of "I" and "will" and prevents it from looking like the word "ill". It also helps if you you the shift key described earlier when dealing with this particular compound word.

If you're going to call someone an idiot, try not to look like a semi-literate 4 year old who just got his first Mac for Christmas, you idiot. Now go back to playing outside in traffic. I know what your mom says, but remember that it's not only fun, but it doesn't cost you $12.95 a month to do :)