PS1s 10 year Anniversary in regards to PS2

[Shogun]

Originally Posted by Vashyo

I don't want them to slowdown work on PS2 if making PS1 F2P takes time...it looks like the things I want in PS2 take way too long to implement (Hex-system, more continents, intercontinental warfare/end of this 3way orgy of randomness).

At this rate I see it taking +3 years for PS2 to catch up to PS1.

i want ps1 to be free to play because i am slowly losing hope that ps2 will ever catch up with ps1.

because smedly wants to have a callofdutyside 2... and he is the boss. i am not sure if 3 years are enough to convince him that the transition from planetside systems to bf and cod systems was a big step backwards.
and the devs are so stubborn, that it will be too late to change anything by the time they realise it. like now with the solotank. it was a plain wrong decision but since players have put money into their tanks and would rage when they are changed, we are stuck with this shit.
same goes for TTK. the devs wanted to speed up the game and go with fast TTK. but now it becomes obvious that too low TTK makes it impossible to balance so many weapons and combined arms because anything will kill anything within seconds, no matter what weapon is used.

changing ttk back to reasonable and playable levels would be too much of a change, so we cannot get a game that feels like planetside.

and when ps1 is finally switched off due to nobody subscribing, all chances are lost to get this unique deep gameplay for the next decade. since there is no alternative to ps1, and ps2 doesn´t live up to it.

ps1 doesn´t need microtransactions. it is already prepared to contain ads ingame on bulletinboards. a lot of browsergames work without having to pay due to advertising, and only several weeks ago we learned about the making of ps1, that the servers were simple pc rigs and no special hardware. so how much can it cost to host a server with the power of some decade-old pcs?
the ad bulletins have never been used because the players protested. but only because they were meant to be used in addition to the subscription. if the bulletinboards were used to get rid of the sub, i am sure nobody would have whined.