News: Planetside 2 has 1.6 million players

[Beerbeer]

Originally Posted by GLaDOS

To those of you who are saying that the pops seem really low, there's a reason for that. This week is finals week for a lot of the US, at least, so a lot of people are busy (and have been busy recently) with that. Not to mention that it's a Wednesday night right now, even prime time isn't going to be near what it is on the weekends.

Edit: Forgot it was an update day today as well. That certainly doesn't help.

Even double experience weekend seemed a lot lower than the previous weekend. Sony needs to figure out why players aren't staying around. I have a good newbie theory, but they need to figure it out.

Or just merge servers. The fun factor is heavily dependent on how crowded servers are, at least for me.

[Miffy]

Originally Posted by Sledgecrushr

Planetside 2 supposedly had 500,000 players on over the last weekend. And considering the soft start and mostly word of mouth advertising this game is kicking ass. I think PS2 has lots of room to grow.

It isn't growing they already need to merge servers.

[Rivenshield]

Number one in revenue...? Off what? People buying minguns and such at five bucks a pop? Smed is lying his ass off. He has to be.

Originally Posted by Beerbeer

I have a good newbie theory

Regale us, sir.

/gestures magnanimously

[Tatwi]

Originally Posted by Beerbeer

I hope so, the servers I play on seem pretty barren as of late.

I played Friday night for a couple of hours. Prior to that, I hadn't played since November. The game is a boring zerg that plays very, very poorly now. I had acceptable performance in mid sized battles in September, but all I could find after launch was huge 5 FPS zergs or empty bases most of the time.

I'm not complaining, just pointing why I personally haven't bothered to log in and likely won't bother loggin in again. I did spend $50 on SC for PS2 though, so you're welcome.