planetside has drawn 60,000 subscribers???

[ThEOnLyOnE]

quote:
Planetside has drawn more than 60,000 subscribers so far, according to SOE, and its developers are keen to make it clear that they don't plan to slack off on supporting the game any time soon. The team has in fact beefed up its programming staff to pick up the pace of updates, and the new expansion looks like it incorporates several steps in the right direction. The addition of more goals to accomplish and more terrain to explore should do plenty to extend the game's lifespan beyond that one month.


60,000 subscribers..???
where are they..
each green dot is about 750 players..
correct me if im wrong please..

[Hamma]

This may be a longshot but, I'm guessing they dont all play at once.

[Madcow]

They aren't even necessarily all active subscribers. The wording is kind of vague, that could be 60,000 different accounts that have been active at one point or another. Sounds like spin to me.

[ThEOnLyOnE]

lol.. i was being sarcastic...
due to the amount of sub they did lose..

but i do want to know each green dot is 750 ppl

[Happy lil Elf]

No one knows how many people a dot is. That's why it's dots and not a set number.

[Javenn]

60000 is from all the servers and thats not alot of people if u think about it

[Eliaas_Demens]

No it's not. EQ currently has over 250,000 subscribers. SWG has a similar number. FFXI is predicting 100,000 subscribers at release.

[ThEOnLyOnE]

beta dayz it showed how many people per sever..
a member from the outfit im in told me it was 750 per dot..
1000 per yellow dot.. just wanted to confirm that..

FFXI oh yeah.. im looking forward to that as well..
well all in all.. i would like to see knoird server with more then 2 dots..

thanks for the feed back fellas

[Madcow]

I just realized it doesn't even say paying subscribers. This really could be anybody who bought the game and activated their free month, it could even include people on the 7 day trial (although I doubt that). It really isn't a large number but it still seems like an exaggeration.

[Happy lil Elf]

That's what I'm saying. No one can confirm it because SoE won't tell us. If they did it would defeat their goal of no one knowing how many people are on a server. Never have understood why they don't want people to know but it changed a few years back with EQ with no warning and it looks like they want to keep all the games that way.

[ThEOnLyOnE]

just the ' has drawn 60,000'
i found that to be funny..
they dont have 60,000 subs

i see only 2 servers with 4 dots.. and thats werner and emerald

markov was poppin at first but seems to die..
i see markov at 2 - 3 dots...

SoE needs to make moves...
i like the idea of a MMOFPS.. only reason why i bought the game..
'playing against 1000s of players'
like there ad says was attractive..
now its more like hundreds....

they either need to cluster servers, merge them somehow..
with this new expanison.. (even thou im going to get it)..
is going to be hard looking for a fight.. with 6 new massive battlefieds...

TO SOE (if you ever read this)
most of us like this game.. im one of them.. make moves.
draw more people into the game.. you got a good concept going here... DONT FUCK IT UP..

[ThEOnLyOnE]

how could i forget...
i have digital cable.. and they have a phat ass channel..
G4 tv..
and the dude from Judgment day..
the lightskin.. tall one... he breifly interview.. someone from SoE that is involved with Planetside... think it was Danny Han...
well he said that.. per server it can hold over 5200 players..
per cont.. it was 500 players...

sort of gives you an idea...

[00AgentDuck]

About FFX1, anybody know if that has any PvP in it? PvP is one of the best parts of an online game since your not fighting some AI monster. I would like teaming up and partying along but, I think it should at least have some PvP.

Anyway, I think the problem with PS is that it's not a well known game such as the final fantasy series or everquest. Even though SOE made them both everquest related products take up more space in the shops. With PS there isn't that many products. Maybe the expansion will kick things up a bit. I think also that alot of people like power in a game. Since a BR1 can kill a BR20, they don't feel that sense of power, even if they have power in skill. Alot of people would probably want some kind of currancy, rare items, or really strong moves such as ultimate spells which you get in games such as everquest. But in PS BR only allows for more flexibility and adapting to situations, CR kind of adds some power with OS but not that much.

[Bismarck]

If it is 750 ppl per dot, that means that a 4 dot server has 3000 people in it, werner and emrald both have 4 dots usually, and markov will occasionally hit 4.

ok lets say at one given moment....

Emerald: 4 dots = 3000 ppl

Konried: 2 dots = 1500 ppl

Markov: 3 dots = 2250 ppl

Werner: 4 dots = 3000 ppl

Johari: 2 dots = 1500 ppl

added up thats....... 11,250 people, thats.... like one fifth of the 60,000 number put in by SOE.

I'd say that 1/5 of the total subscribers on at one time is a fair guess, some maybe these numbers are correct.

And I know those servers dots are pushin it but at prime time they might make those numbers.

Maybe my math is wrong, I dunno........... algebra is making me forget basic math now, pushing all the stuff I actually need to know out of my brain

[ThEOnLyOnE]

who is hosting FFXI?
and do you know the release date..
thats going to be a good game..
plus the fact that ps2 players and pc players.. will be on same servers.. is nice..

[ThEOnLyOnE]

sounds good... Bismarck

[Bismarck]

ok, so im not an idiot, or maybe you're being sarcastic.

50/50 chance there.

[Diddy Mao]

1 word "Fileplanet"

[Pyrrus]

Hard to believe those numbers. When was the last time you saw a server have a gold star? Now people are talking about combining servers to get the population up.

[JetRaiden]

'playing against 1000s of players'
like there ad says was attractive..
now its more like hundreds....

that may be true, but correct me if I'm wrong, but you have ever been in a battle with THOUSANDS of players, not dozens, let alone hundreds? Every server usually has about 2 REALLY big hotspots. THe kind where everyone goes to until its locked.

[RottenPeanuts]

What you folks aren't taken into consideration is the 21.95 all access pass for PS.

That factors a lot into it.

[shadowseed]

:)

[Madcow]

Originally posted by JetRaiden
that may be true, but correct me if I'm wrong, but you have ever been in a battle with THOUSANDS of players, not dozens, let alone hundreds? Every server usually has about 2 REALLY big hotspots. THe kind where everyone goes to until its locked.

Yes, I have. Maybe once in the last 2 months, and a few times before that. Even with my horrible connection it's worth the frustration to die repeatedly in those battles due to lag just to witness it. I actually had one time where the system 'lost' me, I couldn't die and couldn't deal damage to others. We were defending a base (and had a cont lock with probably every TR on the cont inside the base) and we were being seiged by NC. Once the system lost me, I had the opportunity to walk around the battlefield and just take it all in. NC on a ridge above the base with Lightnings, Vanguards and Sunderers just raining shells down on the base below. Over a dozen snipers on the same ridge picking people off. An area out in the woods where engineers and medics were camped and healing all of their allies. A few AMSs with people just pouring out and assaulting the base. The true PS battles are things of beauty, it's a shame they're so rare right now.

[Bismarck]

Never fought a hundred person plus battle.?
Go to emrald on forseral. They're going on there all the time.

Last night for example. A hundred TR are so (acorssing ot the CUD) at pwyll ALONE. I cant see nmes yet tho I imagine they were just as numerous.

[ThEOnLyOnE]

Originally posted by Bismarck
ok, so im not an idiot, or maybe you're being sarcastic.

50/50 chance there.


i was not being sarcastic.. i meant what i said.

[ThEOnLyOnE]

Originally posted by JetRaiden
that may be true, but correct me if I'm wrong, but you have ever been in a battle with THOUSANDS of players, not dozens, let alone hundreds? Every server usually has about 2 REALLY big hotspots. THe kind where everyone goes to until its locked.

yes i have been in those battles.. a few times.. just go to emerald.. they have at least on a 4 dot peak.. 2 pop locks..
great fighting..

im talking about other servers.. only server u can see that on is emerald and werner..
the rest have 1 poplock if lucky.

[Bismarck]

Then play on emerald or werner.

As for the other servers then just go to the one pop locked cont.

[Diddy Mao]

When in Doubt Follow the Zerg

[Phaden]

Damn that zerg, i wish there were more tactical fighting. I mean im not asking for Ghost friggin recon, but something more than mass and hack the backdoor!!!