One F2P feature that LoL doesn't have and Planetside 2 NEEDS

[Talek Krell]

Originally Posted by LZachariah

I haven't used one myself, but what maybe could happen would be that any player had the option to "purchase the ability to send."

If they're using stolen credit cards to buy things they can then resell for cash, then no number of paywalls will stop them. The only people who will balk at having to spend money to spend money are your legitimate customers.

[Tapman]

Originally Posted by Graywolves

Maybe Planetside could sell an Authenticator.

Originally Posted by LZachariah

Ah, an authenticator is an interesting idea. I haven't used one myself, but what maybe could happen would be that any player had the option to "purchase the ability to send." This would have a fee associated with it (for the authenticator). Therefore, people who didn't want to bother with buying gifts wouldn't need to get it. I assume that we would only need to confirm that the gift was purchased by legitimate means (rather than the purchaser AND the receiver verifying that everything is legit), so the receiver wouldn't necessarily need an authenticator too.

Not a bad idea, Graywolves.

Originally Posted by SKYeXile

an authenticator is always a good thing, blizzard has one thats linked with your iphone at no cost. I use one and have never been hacked...clearly it works...

None of you guys read the end of my last post?

Originally Posted by Tapman

and show the option for the SOE Authenticator in with a font size that scales up based on the amount of items you have purchased.

SOE already started offering the Authenticator after the big security breach debacle, obviously they have not advertised it well enough. Now that I think of of it, it should be set up so that if you spend a significant amount of money in the cash shop, you should be able to opt in your account and get one of these in the mail for free as a token of good faith from Sony regarding account security.

[Graywolves]

I want a Planetside specific authenticator that has a small picture of a TR soldier or an IFF Door Lock.

[Hamma]

I got one when I was at fan faire, sadly it has EQ on it

[Raymac]

Speaking of F2P, Smed had an interesting tweet this morning about another SOE game that recently made the move to F2P...

wow. Over 330k new players. Concurrent usage is up 600% in DCUO! F2P FTW!

Just sayin.

[Xyntech]

Yeah, even without proper advertising, I think PS2 could get close to the numbers PS1 had at launch. With some decent marketing, this thing is gonna be huge.

[Crator]

Originally Posted by Raymac

Speaking of F2P, Smed had an interesting tweet this morning about another SOE game that recently made the move to F2P...

Just sayin.

That's awesome! I know they have F2P features and a cash shop in EQ2 as well. Not sure what kind of new player numbers they got for that. Very promising for PS2 with those numbers! I'm excited!

[SKYeXile]

Originally Posted by Raymac

Speaking of F2P, Smed had an interesting tweet this morning about another SOE game that recently made the move to F2P...



Just sayin.

there is no stopping him now.

[TRex]

Originally Posted by SKYeXile

there is no stopping him now.

on twitter he said its up to 900% now, so I think thats almost 500k playing dcuo ,from I guess pre-ftp of <50k. Sound about right.

I just hope they anticipate same sort of thing for ps2, looks like a lot of angry folks who cant get into the game , and subscribers included . expect some raging. though they are trying to sort it out.

[Hamma]

Originally Posted by SKYeXile

there is no stopping him now.

Indeed.

If anything this is good for us, it means they are learning things from DCUO.

[Raymac]

Originally Posted by Hamma

Indeed.

If anything this is good for us, it means they are learning things from DCUO.

Yeah, like get a crapload more servers, and put the paying customers at the front of the line. haha

[TRex]

Originally Posted by Raymac

Yeah, like get a crapload more servers, and put the paying customers at the front of the line. haha

They do that in lotro , if theres a server queue subscribers and premium players get first through door. If you bought a sub, then cancelled it, or bought something from the store, you become premium .

[SKYeXile]

Guide to winning:

Put F2P game on steam splash loading screen.
???
Profit.

even dungeon defenders a $13.00 game thats rather avg must have made a killing through steam, like everybody on my friendls lsit brought in and played it.

if PS2 launches for free or even just launches with a box/purchase fee with decent advertising on steam, then word of mouth + some other highly paid advertising..maybe even some commercials, there should be heaps of fodder...i mean players.

[FIREk]

Originally Posted by SKYeXile

Guide to winning:

Put F2P game on steam splash loading screen.
???
Profit.

This only works for the one week or so when the game is in the loading screen rotation, though, so it would only work at launch.

[Talek Krell]

Originally Posted by FIREk

This only works for the one week or so when the game is in the loading screen rotation, though, so it would only work at launch.

As long as the game doesn't hemorrhage players that's still a nice boost to the launch playerbase.