Loss of Players? Yes or No.

[Red October]

Ok, hope this doesnt erupt into a flame war...

Last night while I was Playing EQII, the Group Leader (fighting the Orc King on IOR) asked for a "sitrep" from one of the players. My first reaction, "whoa...planetside". So I asked "Do you play Planetside?" And he and another said yes. So...

I haven't been playing PS for a bit due to time constraints and me getting sucked into EQII. I hated EQI and didn't even think about looking into EQII...until a friend brought his comp over and gave me a test run of the game.

Will PS lose a chunk with EQII....Think I'll make this into a poll.

[Warborn]

EQ2, WoW, Half-life 2, all will make a dent, as PS shares characteristics with all three. Unfortunately once WoW is released I'll probably be scarce in Planetside for a while myself, but I'll still have an active description, as most people should if they're just sucked into a different game temporarily.

[Black]

i feel its a lil bit of a loss of players

[mechaman]

Yes we have probably lost some players due to new game releases but what does that poll have anything to do with this thread?

[Ghryphen]

I have no idea what the poll has to do with the thread, but it is the same as the front page poll :o

[Hamma]

There is some kind of bug.

[Baneblade]

There is some kind of bug.
Really, I hadn't noticed. :love:

[Lartnev]

Sony All Access certainly helps on the EQ2 front.

Unlikely that PlanetSide will suffer great losses as it's not a MMORPG. It will get hit but the influx of new subscription games but that's something to be expected, not to get all pessimistic about. :)

[MrVicchio]

CoH has seen a huge player base drop, Dedenimuls was on last night, and there were 1000 players, a month ago it was 10k

[Lartnev]

Many people I've heard from either doubted CoH's longetivity or they were only playing it as a filler until EQ2 or more likely WoW.

[Smokin_Pope]

hehe this wasnt the sort or discussion i was expecting from the poll :lol:

[Lartnev]

You were expecting maybe Jerry Springer? :D

[AbramsVS]

A lot.

Compared to 2003? a HUGE.
2003 = any given time you have a poplock on any surface, or nearly poplock(10-20 positions left).
2004 = rare poplocks, no poplock at "dead time"(night from 1 Am to 7 AM)

[Kam]

Planetside is going downhill population wise, and there is a STRONG reason why. There is NO advertising anywhere for PS, and I know why. I know this may make you angry, but although PS was meant to be a game with 50000 people on each server, ever since it's initial failure to reach that amount of active subscribers the bigwigs at Sony have taken this game very lightly. In fact, they plan to discontinue it as soon as it starts to make less than 300,000 dollars a month. Currently they pull in about 350-400 thousand a month. I fear in another year PS will no longer exist.

[6thEdition]

It's going to happen eventually. Planetside will not live forever. In time there will be like 20 players left, br20 and cr5, completely everything u can, sitting in VR shooting range trying to get a buz outa shooting virtual vs. For shame.. Btw - I don't see the greatness in WoW. I've seen the trailer and am a lil impressed, but nothing that will make me ejaculate from the planetside community.

[Red October]

Good news for SOE is that there are few games that were supposed to be "big" but crashed and died in a spectacular ball of flame. Competition is getting fierce and some games are going to croak. Planetside holds a unique place in that its the only FPS of its scale. That will hold it...unless another company decides to jump in. And I agree, a serious lack of advertising hasn't helped much. One of the reasons for expansions alone is to generate "advertising" and keep the base from jumping ship. They need to start creating a buzz about thier next expansion right after the holiday season to get people inerested and speculating again. Perhaps even have a way for the Playstation 3 to have access (Planetside comes with the console or something).

[Lartnev]

I know this may make you angry, but although PS was meant to be a game with 50000 people on each server

lol, I think you added an extra zero in there :)

In fact, they plan to discontinue it as soon as it starts to make less than 300,000 dollars a month.

Source?

[AbramsVS]

yup.....50k people?

Ok according to very fast calculations it would be ~2500-4000 people per cave/island/battleisland.

Now imagine 2500 guys on Nexus =)

[WritheNC]

I think the population drop is also a result in many people unwilling to go through the balancing stages of BFR's.

A lot of people cancelled before the 3rd or 4th BFR patch, where they are reasonable to most(underpowered for some).

But mostly HL2, Halo 2, WoW, and EQ2. I'm going to WoW cuz I love Warcraft and that's where my friends are goin.

[Sabinius]

Sigh... planetside is a good game,
and if it only had the right people
and company it could have bee SO much more...
it hurts me terribly to see planetside end like this
it could have been so much more...
Expecially if they just advertised it

Arghhh this makes me soo madd

[AbramsVS]

BFRs are in total shit right now. Even 3 guys can kill it easily with Pilsars....

[internetn]

Well I haven't played planetside for about a week now, I really don't care about the BFR's but the thing that is forceing me away is the lack of people. The last time I was on, there was a pop-lock on searhus I think, the rest of the world was either completly captured or people got tired of, hacking a base with ten people, go to the next base with those same 10 people, after you hack into the next base enmey backhacks you, you go and try to re-resecure the hack, and the enemy backhacks the base you were just at...

Horrible

PLANETSIDE, WHERE HAVE GONE!!! I KNOW I'LL BLAME IT ON THE OUTFITS, ALL AT ONCE EVERYONE SEEMED TO STOP PLAYIN WITH THERE OUTFITS AND SQUADS GOT SMALLER OUTFITS GOT SMALLER, AND EVENTUALLY, YOU HAVE TEN PEOPLE FIGHTING FOR SEARHUS!

[Lartnev]

Everyone's playing Half Life 2 and Halo 2... obviously :D

[6thEdition]

I think advertising would save Planetside. I wunder why there is no adverts for it? It's a great game and I'm sure with advertising the populations would increase by LOTS.
=-). I couldnt really imagine what an advert wud be like, but if they hired some great writers n stuff they cud make it look brilliant =D .. not that that wud be hard to do.
I actually found planetisde searching "mosquito" on google for a school thingy (had to rake through loads of pages). Maybe they dnt do advertising coz maybe it will get too popular and massive lag. oh well w/e

[Warborn]

I think advertising would save Planetside. I wunder why there is no adverts for it? It's a great game and I'm sure with advertising the populations would increase by LOTS.

It's an older game (not a new release) and it would cost a lot of money to advertise for it. It's the new stuff magazines want to put on their covers or between their pages. This is partly why Aftershock was done. Combined the glamor of BFRs with the new two-in-one to give an expansion-esque package that magazines and sites would be more keen on advertising.

So, in other words, Planetside has gotten more advertisement lately than it has in quite a while.

[Kam]

But they never advertised it much at all, even when it came out. Sony just doesnt take it as seriously as EQ2 or WoW.

[Warborn]

But they never advertised it much at all, even when it came out. Sony just doesnt take it as seriously as EQ2 or WoW.

EQ2 and WoW are going to be huge. PS would be very, very lucky to ever come close to either. The marketing spent on PS reflects their opinion of the game's quality. As much as I like Planetside, I can see why people quit after a month around release time. PS really didn't deserve to have much more money spent marketing it when it came out.

[Indecisive]

WoW-Universe here we come ;)

[Kam]

Honestly, I think within a year they will combine all the servers due to a lack of players and then no more than a year after that PS will be shut down. At the current rare they lose players, it is unavoidable.

[Hamma]

WoW-Universe here we come ;)
Doubtful.

[mrpwase]

As a game, I prefer Planetside to any other online game, since there is some form of continuity in the game - you don't just reset at the end of the round, and your achievements actually count for more than points.

Still, at the moment I'd prefer to play WoW, despite not knowing much about it. It just sounds better than Planetside does at the moment. :mad:

It's a shame. Planetside is a genuinely fun game, but without people to play it...well, it's worthless! I blame chavs. As always.

[Lartnev]

Blaming chavs goes without saying :D