Please Sign this PS1 Free-to-Play Petition!

[Crator]

Originally Posted by Atheosim

Smed doesn't run a fucking charity. People pay for it or it doesn't exist. They're going to need a good while to figure out how to monetize it, then figure out how to implement it. It's an old engine. It's not going to be fast. Give up hope now and your pleasure IF it does come will be tenfold.

However, it's been stated by Smed that it costs next to nothing to run the server for PS1. What would be interesting to see, as an experiment, is to let people play PS1 for free (no limits or changes to the game) just to see how many will play it. I'd be curious to see that #. Make it have a one time purchase with no subscribtion for this test.

If this does produce a large pop that would tell SOE there is something in PS1 that players like over PS2. They could then think seriously about adding a F2P shop to PS1 while at the same time using what works in PS1 in PS2.

EDIT: Combine the one time purchase serial # to an account so that when banned you must purchase another serial # and create a new account to associate that serial # to it. This is to help control exploiters/hackers as we know there will be a lot of it in PS1 if it has any kind of free to play offer...