How Long do you think you'll Pay to Play PS?

[Airlift]

My point more ties in with the fact that PS requires a monthly fee. What am I paying for?

The answer to this is:

You are paying for 4 things.
1. Professionally administered servers with customer support and active policing for cheats/grief play
2. More content that gets added throughout the lift of the game
3. Persistence of character
4. Massively multiplayer first person shooting.

Seriously, can you get those 4 things with no monthly fee? Because if you can, I'm all over it. Otherwise, Sony can have my $10-15 a month. I will play until I don't like it anymore, and then I will stop.

As far as the levelling and everything is concerned, I think they've done an excellent job balancing the exp ladder against allowing new players to jump right in and not be weak as hell.

That brings me to one area where Planetside is far superior to EQ and the rest of the MMORPGs. While it is true that they have way more content and a glorified end-game, Planetside lets you enjoy both the high level content and the massive battles associated with MMORPG endgames on your very first hour of playing. I'll pay for that, too.

The answer to this question for everyone is, pay to play until your attention span / interest in the game is exceeded, and then cancel.