Why SOE and PSU need to send out mass emails about the free time.

[MasterChief096]

I started a petition some time ago in order to collect signatures in support of making PlanetSide 1 free-to-play. There are a total of 339 signatures at this moment. The website I used (change.org) allows me to email everyone who signed the petition.

So far I have spoken with 10 people in-game and in PM that have thanked me for emailing them the news of the free time, as they would have otherwise not found out.

Those 10 people are just who I've spoken too that found out through my email. I don't know how many actually returned due to it, the number could be higher. I also blast emailed everyone on my outfit website, to which another five, possibly more, are returning.

10 people out of 339 is 3% (rounded up from 2.95%).

PSU and SOE have access to hundreds of thousands of accounts. Even if my very modest estimate of 3% people returning to try the game proves to be the case, that is still thousands of people that would return, enough to fill Gemini for sure, perhaps enough to warrant another server.

The only advertisement that this event got is what the community gave it plus the RadarX post on the PS2 boards which most people over there don't care about PS1 anyways. Then Hamma put up a news update.

There are thousands of people who don't check PSU or PS2 news anymore because they gave up on SOE. How are they to be contacted?

I'm urging everyone that's playing right now to email or contact everyone you possible can to get them back, but the best way to do it would be an email from SOE and PSU to former players.

Why would this be so hard to do?