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Old 2012-06-05, 10:02 PM   [Ignore Me] #1
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Reopen PS1 trials?


With PS2 only a few weeks/months away from beta, whats everyone's take on re-opening trials to Planetside?

I can already hear the screaming from veterans all around. Listen, no other game on SOE's roster has taken such a beating from hackers more than Planetside has. I been playing this game for far to long to know this. I've seen populations drop so badly, where there was only 18 players in the total game, if not less!

With PS2 around the corner, why not allow people to get familiarize with the original Planetside and to understand the three empire's and weapon concepts that made Planetside such a killer game to begin with?

Of course this would require SOE to highly enforce their customer service responses. They have on one hand, been doing a semi decent job since the hacker break out; dealing with customer inquiries. So its something to take into consideration. Not to mention, this could test SOE on a small scale, of whether or not they truly can police Planetside correctly.
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Looking from the outside in. The game does not represent Planetside. With original concepts that players across the board accepted with open arms; have been taken out. Developers are creating the next COD on a massive scale. Generic players who never saw or even felt the uniqueness of the game, will only continue to nod their heads with blinding satisfaction, not realizing what basic functionality the game will lose in the process.

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Old 2012-06-05, 10:36 PM   [Ignore Me] #2
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I don't want the trials opened back up. PS isn't going to be a good representation of what PS2 is going to be. Plus with the amount of hackers that possibility will be floating around with those will make it look even worse.
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Old 2012-06-06, 12:02 AM   [Ignore Me] #3
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Old 2012-06-06, 12:07 AM   [Ignore Me] #4
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No, last thing we need to give is bad impression for PS2 by plaguing the game with blatant trial account hackers
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Old 2012-06-06, 12:25 AM   [Ignore Me] #5
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While i wouldnt mind the extra players, the hackers wouldnt be worth it.
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Old 2012-06-06, 05:45 AM   [Ignore Me] #6
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The problem is that people are turning down the re-opening of trails because of hackers. Yet PS2 is going to be F2P, if SOE can't control a small segment of players in Planetside then why should they even bother with PS2?

Do you not have faith with-in SOE?
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Looking from the outside in. The game does not represent Planetside. With original concepts that players across the board accepted with open arms; have been taken out. Developers are creating the next COD on a massive scale. Generic players who never saw or even felt the uniqueness of the game, will only continue to nod their heads with blinding satisfaction, not realizing what basic functionality the game will lose in the process.
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Old 2012-06-08, 03:16 PM   [Ignore Me] #7
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NO to trials. Hackers are in any FPS, but in most any other game they are not 100% game breaking in PS they are and bringing back free trials would overwhelm the game.

I would like to see any account that has paid a month of sub time for the game, that is in good standing, activate the game free to play. Follow that with no temporary bans for getting caught cheating. Those should be perma-bans. Get in the game for the price of a 1 month sub and play on. The game I would think get the influx of pop and should cut down on the number of hackers.
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Old 2012-06-09, 07:30 AM   [Ignore Me] #8
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Originally Posted by Wahooo View Post
NO to trials. Hackers are in any FPS, but in most any other game they are not 100% game breaking in PS they are and bringing back free trials would overwhelm the game.

I would like to see any account that has paid a month of sub time for the game, that is in good standing, activate the game free to play. Follow that with no temporary bans for getting caught cheating. Those should be perma-bans. Get in the game for the price of a 1 month sub and play on. The game I would think get the influx of pop and should cut down on the number of hackers.
I agree with this. I'd like to see SOE give out some free time again this summer to give the game a nice last summer of gameplay.
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Old 2012-06-09, 05:30 PM   [Ignore Me] #9
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Holy crap, everyone CHILL OUT. It's like listening to children arguing back and forth. Take it to private or don't bother with it at all.

To get back on subject: I'd say no. Believe me, nostalgia wants me to say yes, and I want to pilot my reaver or gun a vanguard again really bad. But one quick read through the forums shows the game is absolutely on its last legs. Hacking, BR40, and other issues make it very inaccessible. SOE won't put resources into a product that probably won't last the year. Instead, those resources go into PS2, so that hacking isn't an issue there, and that the players have a great experience.

We're just going to have to bite the bullet and wait for beta.
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Old 2012-06-09, 06:59 PM   [Ignore Me] #10
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Free trials, no. People who played and payed before, a month or two would be okay (as long as I get credited a month as well.)
If they reopened the trial for anybody, I'd be unsubbed in a minute. I'm not paying $15 a month to be killed by some hacker who made a free trial.
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Old 2012-06-10, 02:10 AM   [Ignore Me] #11
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I say yes bring back the trials and get SOE's anti hacker GM's online to oversee the game. There is no excuse, there must be GM's on 24/7. We are paying money for what? I would love to see some of these GM's (you know the ones they gonna have for PS2) start work a little eraly and oversee PS1 for a while before PS2 goes live!
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Old 2012-06-10, 10:29 AM   [Ignore Me] #12
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Would be nice. But hacker issues would kill it and leave bad taste in your mouth. Would defiantly raise hacker awareness. For those who don't know, PS1 Reserves program allowed people to play for free with limits applied to your character. The exploits used by hackers totally ruined game play for everyone. And they could be achieved by a single player. They would get banned but sometimes it would take forever for it to happen. So a whole weekend could be ruined easily. And even once they were banned they would just create another trial account cause it's free and hack away again. They closed the Reserves program for this very reason and you don't see the blatant exploit hacking anymore since then.
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Old 2012-06-10, 01:07 PM   [Ignore Me] #13
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PS1 as it is cannot even reach half a pop lock across all empires. While the new players would definitely be nice for one last Hoo rah for PS1, The hackers are beyond gamebreaking, it wasn't a issue of just wall hacking or aimbotting, the hacks they had were literally gamebreaking for whoevers empire was a enemy of the hacker. Since they had no GMs the vast majority of days.. these gamebreaking hackers would be on for extremely large sessions without any bans.. if they ever get banned. Me and 4 other friends who were paying money last time they had trials all had to quit, it was still fun and pops were a bit better back then.. but playing with those kinda hackers that very obviously weren't being taken care of was not worth 15 bucks a month.
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Old 2012-06-11, 06:03 AM   [Ignore Me] #14
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I never actually played the game with a Sub. I had a blast when there were year trials though. I'd probably buy an account if the PS2 beta wasn't coming out soon, but I'd love it if they reenabled trials so I could give PS1 a go again.

Also, if SOE ever wants PS1 to be long standing, they need to make it free to play (to a point). Like most other low populated games are.

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Old 2012-06-11, 09:16 AM   [Ignore Me] #15
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Pretty sure PS1 goes away once PS2 is here. Not to mention PS1 will most likely be a ghost town, even if it were free, since PS2 is free.
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