When will PS come to an end?

[Kikinchikin]

When do you think Sony will cut off Planetside for good? It's obvious the game isn't heading in the right direction, and they are losing players. I give it another 9 months.

[JetRaiden]

even if it completely goes down the shitter for whatever reason, at least 2 years.

[GreyFlcn]

Well if anything... not atleast until March.

[Lonehunter]

Until WoW comes out with their expansion

[Mag-Mower]

1-2 years... I actually figured out why planetside was made. It is a front for EQ2. Thonk about it, they dont advertise PS, but they spend tons of money on EQ2... just a thought

[Lartnev]

Well when you bring out a sequel to your flagship game, you're gonna put a lot of cash into it.

[Sabinius]

used to think 3-6 months, but at this rate with the recent patches
and the sexily AWESOME new lead designer, I'd say for a year or two

[MercFox1]

Fix the BFR unbalancedness.
Bring on the Phantasm (with a non-cloaked gunship variant)!!!
Bring back Oshur!

If the devs do all of the above, I'd say it's hard to tell...possibly 2-3 years.
Until Planetside 2 is made of course :D :D :D

(I'm reinstalling it right now because, frankly, I'm bored with CS:S. You can only anniahlate so many people until you get bored. PS was fun, it gave me a challenge, you had to work to kill tanks and the air stuff. BFR's killed that challenge...screw completing the god damn rock-paper-scissors cycle! Tanks, Air , and Infantry were the cycle, now we got BattleTech invading our precious Auraxis! Or at least nerf them..)

[JetRaiden]

Bring back Oshur!


you're a dumbass.

[MercFox1]

Nice flame dumbshit, if you're going to talk, at least give a reason we have to hear such screeching.

I loved Oshur, amny other people do. The Battle Islands can stay, but I liked playing on that continent.

[Baneblade]

Oshur was nothing but Ishundar's little cousin.

[MercFox1]

So what?
We should just frag it just because there isn't enough people to go around?

[Red October]

(I'm reinstalling it right now because, frankly, I'm bored with CS:S. You can only anniahlate so many people until you get bored. PS was fun, it gave me a challenge, you had to work to kill tanks and the air stuff. BFR's killed that challenge...screw completing the god damn rock-paper-scissors cycle! Tanks, Air , and Infantry were the cycle, now we got BattleTech invading our precious Auraxis! Or at least nerf them..)

Thats the one thing the game has going for it and will give it longevitey....eventually another company is going to do the MMOFPS with vechs...and that should give it the death blow.

[Warborn]

It will last until Blizzard comes out with a Starcraft MMOFPS, or Games Workshop has someone do a WH40k MMOFPS.

No, there is no indication either of these will happen. But a brutha can dream, can't he?

edit: So, voted realistically. 2+ years.

[Mag-Mower]

I hated Oshur, it was, like sobekus said, oshur was ishandurs litle cousin...

[FatalLight]

BFRs DONT need to be nerfed again, they already lost what made them cool in the first place

[JetRaiden]

anyone who picked the top 3 options needs to be shot.

[FatalLight]

What they need to do on the last day the servers are up is give the VS a giant machine of doom that owns everyone so we win ^_^

[Dizik]

Thats the one thing the game has going for it and will give it longevitey....eventually another company is going to do the MMOFPS with vechs...and that should give it the death blow.

Ever hear of Twilight War (http://www.twilightwar.com/index.php)?

[EarlyDawn]

6-9 Months. The slowdown in developments, rapid changes in administration, and blind development direction heed bad things, imo.

[MrVicchio]

SOE is currently a hurtting puppy. You guys don't know this, I got a monkey working for SOE, and he knows enough that the MMO departments are not as happy as you might think.

EQII is turning sour on them, the predicted subscriber base isn't as high as anticipated, and it's lost more accounts after the first month then it's picked up.

PS is slowly draining, it's still profitable, but it's dying slowly.

EQL is the ONLY money maker they have.

Oh that Crafting game, in space... SW:G IS HURTING BIG TIME. Talk about a huge hurt, they were expecting SW:G and it's expansion to steam roll, it's almost dead. It's actually in the red.

But hey, who knows...

[I Hate Pants]

PS will die once I push this big red button!!!!!!

Very interesting Mr. Vic. I can see that happening. SOE has stapled thier balls to the wall and if they tug too hard they lose they're sac.

Perhaps I drank too much egg nog tonight.

[MrVicchio]

No, its pretty much the reality of it all. they bought Verant, basically ass raped EQ for what it was, dicked up SWG, and the expansion.. it's not moving many units.

PS did well, and has had a longer term core base then they anticpated, the ONLY thing keeping it alive.

EQII... look I bought two copies on launch day, and both are canceled. Thier decision to rush the game out the door to beat WoW BACK FIRED hard core. they had to make too many sacrifices. The game.. sucks. Period.

SOE has not produced on stellar MMO to date. The only hit they had, they BOUGHT from someone else. I think we are gonna see a major shake up over there this summer, thats the word I got.

[Pilihp3]

What they need to do on the last day the servers are up is give the VS a giant machine of doom that owns everyone so we win ^_^
amen to that fatal light thatd rule :p :D