I quit PlanetSide 1 month ago and have been following the official forums occasionally. It seems to me nothing of any importance has changed yet and I still feel the same about all the topics I brought up back then :
My goodbye note
I was wondering what the majority of the players that payed for their 1st month after the free month feel about the game now as their accounts will start to expire soon. Are you now cancelling or are you continueing to pay? For people that payed for 3 or 6 months at once, do you regret it?
I find it quite amuzing reading all these goodbye threads on the official PS forums. They still bring up the same issues from a month ago. The topic "exp in groups" might be gone for most of you since you are BR20 but it seems that gameplay has changed exactly nothing. There are now even more goodbye threads stating that the most important factor is the lack of end game content.
As for me, I'm happy I didn't keep my PS account running. The devs made promises a month ago and they are making the same promises today. They will prolly still be making them in 1, 2, 3 months from now. Will anything change? Prolly not. Will the bugs & tech issues (clinet & server) be changed in 3 months? Well judging at the speed they are now fixing bugs - hell no! Sony pumped quite some money in PS devellopment and if the servers are indeed running empty as I seem to get the impression it won't be proffitable for them to cmpletely revamp end game content. I expect by the end of the year there will be 2 or 3 servers left for those with open accounts, a discontinued devellopment since all devs will be on SWG and EQ2. PS expansion? Forget it. Unless they want to gamble some money and with some marketing tricks (X-Mas holiday season) try to sell an pack.
I left DAoC for PS and I am now back with DAoC. I used to be complaining at Mythic's door about their poor support and lack of knowing what the problems in their game are. Well compared to Sony, Mythic has extremely good customer realtions. The latest improvement was a fully free housing patch. And as for customer support, did you know that Mythic is now giving point by point feedback on ALL class TL reports? That is 39 classes in the game. A reports for them can be up to 2-3 pages long and they now reply to them in public saying what can be changed or not. That is IMO what a gaming company for an MMO game has to do. Keep good communication with the players. Sony does exactly jack of that, the "I'll forward it to the programmers" forum clown they hired is not the way it should be.
Wanted to post this at the PS forums but.... lol. I can't post there anymore. One would think if they care for returning players they would at least keep the ability for them to post at the forum asking questions how the game is evolved.
Seems to me: PS = dead horse.
Flame away, agree or disagree as you want.
2003-07-19, 04:24 PM
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