Make Planetside free for the sake of PS2!

[Xyntech]

Originally Posted by Kouza

Or you guys could not be cheap asses and pay 15 bucks.

There is hardly anybody on currently. I'm not going to pay $15 per month for a game that is no longer really Planetside in my eyes.

Now if they made it free, the populations may possibly go up. It isn't a sure thing, but what is a sure thing is that the populations aren't going up with the subscription fee in place.

I'd pay $15 a month for a Planetside if it had decent populations, but I'm glad PS2 is going to be F2P. It will mean higher populations which equals better Planetside style gameplay.

[Mastachief]

The current ingame issue is population, there is no zerg left so the organised players are having to be that FRONT and its just a constant stalemate

As for being cheapskates.......... i've played maybe 5 times in the past 5months and yet i have had a constant subscription since July 2003 pretty much (cancelled a couple of times but always came back to subscribe within a month or two).

Make the sub free or perhaps doing a Christmas free period as they have before would drive the populations up and re-kindle some fires for the development of the new game. Talk breeds talk and i know that current players are discussing the development of planetside 2 over mumble/teamspeak etc.

Forumside is dead due to the unimaginative trolls and the over moderation.

[CutterJohn]

That'd be cool.

Also, give everyone BR40/CR5 and give access to all empire weapons, just for kicks. Go out with a bang!

[MooK]

Originally Posted by CutterJohn

That'd be cool.

Also, give everyone BR40/CR5 and give access to all empire weapons, just for kicks. Go out with a bang!

Err, no.

Would be pretty awesome to do a massive database export, set everyone BR1 (keep CR, I think) for a month.

[Zulthus]

Originally Posted by CutterJohn

Also, give everyone BR40/CR5 and give access to all empire weapons, just for kicks. Go out with a bang!

[CutterJohn]

Originally Posted by MooK

Err, no.

Would be pretty awesome to do a massive database export, set everyone BR1 (keep CR, I think) for a month.

Err, no.

I can think of few things that would make me less likely to play again than having to rank up again after I spent all that time getting it out of the way so I could play.

[Traak]

Witnessing the massive cheat-fest and preening strut of the cheaters in the present game is nothing I would recommend unless you wanted to turn someone off from gaming, permanently.

[LordReaver]

Just because there are hardly any people playing the game, doesn't mean that there are hardly any people subscribing to it. SOE is currently making enough money off of PS1 that it is worth dedicating resources to. Removing that profit, removes any reason to keep it going. SOE is a company, not a friend.

[Coreldan]

I would definitely jump back in as well. I'm at a pretty tight financial situation, which is why I havn't subscribed. Also with PS2 "so close", I don't really wanna "waste" my little money on an old game, even if PS is still totally enjoyable.

I also don't have overly much time to play at the moment or interest to play Planetside as my main game, but I very often feel like jumping in to take a few bases, but not wanting to pay 15€ just to log in occasionally.

I understand their reasonings as to why not, the server is probably online only cos the current playerbase still pay the bills. Going F2P with no marketplace, they would bel osing money.

[Hamma]

Seeing anything change with PS1 is extremely unlikely, I don't see them making it free or making any changes to it at all. SOE is solely focused on PlanetSide 2.

[MooK]

Originally Posted by CutterJohn

Err, no.

I can think of few things that would make me less likely to play again than having to rank up again after I spent all that time getting it out of the way so I could play.

I can't imagine that giving everyone BR40 wouldn't negate the whole purpose of all of that time ranking up. One thing about Planetside, BR1 or BR20, it doesn't matter, still as lethal.

The people continually stating that cheaters will infest the game, seem to forget two major points:

The original concept, so far dictated to me, is that only previous subscribers would have the option to play for free. That, and, why would anyone willing to play Planetside 1, a game which is, what, almost a decade old, waste their potential in playing Planetside 2, by cheating in Planetside 1? I can't see hundreds of people wasting their time like that.

Hamma is right though.

[Mastachief]

Go here:

http://forums.station.sony.com/ps/po...id=88000028136

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[Traak]

I say they put up PS2 billboards all over PS1. I mean EVERYWHERE.

Even have restrooms, so they can include those little above-the-john mini-billboards.