Any substitute for PS ? - Page 2

Destroyeron · 2003-05-20, 05:03 PM

Originally posted by tok1m
i think battlefiel 1942 / desert combat is the closest thing u can get to PS (multiplayer wise)... Its simple, and fun to play... plus alot easier on the PC

Pay to play has its obvious drawbacks... and its becomgin more and more accepted... for people like me that don't even have a job, (im 15, dont get the wrong idea) its kinda a nuinsance asking your parents for money.... any1 know is SOE is making pay-to-play cards? like eq...

Yes, Pay Per Play cards are already on sale I beleive.

Gwartham · 2003-05-20, 07:19 PM

"Remember that it was beta. Not everyone could download it."

Actually, everyone could. Gamespy and Fileplanet started whoring it out about a week or so into open beta.

MiP · 2003-05-20, 08:01 PM

Originally posted by Destroyeron
Remember that it was beta. Not everyone could download it.

For awhile, anybody with a FilePlanet subscription could download the beta - that's how I got onboard. Then, for about the last two weeks of beta, I believe it was wide-open to anybody so Sony could really stress test the system.

Peacemaker · 2003-05-20, 08:22 PM

Yea but there are players with low end systems who cannot play the game simply because their computer sux <--- that would be me! Also alot of people dont have broadband or the time to DL that file or it didnt work after they got it.

AAs for 1000 ppl in one battle i think u got the wrong idea from lines like thousands of people fighting each other, that is more directed to telling u that the server capasity is in upwards of 5000. They NEVER said that their would be 1000 ppl battles. And i have seen beta and have seen battles in upwards of 300 ( god i think thats y they dropped the coffins, just for the sole battle that i witnessed that night, the horror! THE HORROR!)

Winged_Nazgul · 2003-05-22, 10:30 AM

A very intelligent post about the good and bad in PS. There was really nothing you could argue about in any of the points you made. I'm also in the same boat as you. I used to play BF1942 a lot before I tried the beta and now I just can't seem to get into the gameplay so much anymore. I guess PS has spoiled me now.

IMO, right now there just isn't any substitute for PS.