PlanetSide $12.95 a month.

[Ghryphen]

www.planetplanetside.com

[Strygun]

It will most likely be $12.95, it's what everyone expected. Doesn't mean it WILL be, but it's a good estimate.

[Determinado]

i wouldn't be too happy with that, i just mean, $5 would be like the perfect for an mmoFPS, this isn't really 'everquest' with shooting, it's a simple fps with still limited posibilities, i just mean; ps features:
* Vehicles
* 20 Battleranks
* Buildings
* Lots equipment, but don't even think about saying it's like everyquest or any other RPG, it's simply guns, armors, you know, pretty much the tribesthingy here!
* 3 armies, not different only other vehicles and some weapons.

Is this worth $155,4 / year?
I just mean, with that price you can buy a decent CPU each year aswell; 2.2Ghz is about $100 now...
Memory (256Mb) about $58
Well that's just a VERY little bit more;
ehem; well this isn't hardware so like $5 wuld be really much
if you guys of SOE want really much peepz to join the battle then just think man; if you get 40000 peepz to play PS...
You would make $2400000 each year if you only charge $5/month
With like $12.95 you'll make... $6216000
SIX MILLION DOLLARS FOR SOME UPDATES?
ARE YOU INSANE? IF IT IS THIS WAY HELL NO,
I'M NOT PAYING; $5 ISN'T MUCH FOR NORMAL PERSONS,
BUT $12,95 IS!!! AND YOU'LL GET EVEN ALREADY 2400000 F*CKING DOLLARS FOR ONLY THAT 5 DOLLAZ!!!

please, think about the normal gamer, we won't just play planetside and just planetside; with half-life 2 coming up, CS:CZ, TF2, well damned planetside is done...
I'll simply buy $200 for upgrades and i'll have a nice gamer pc,
then i buy HL2 for a ONE-time payment of $50 and damned... oh damned...
They are VEHICLES who actually drive the way they should in HL2!
What are you waiting for damned? In begin of 2004 we'll be playing planetside; planetside in half-life 2!!!

[Determinado]

and btw, diablo 1&2 run for free...

[Lendl]

$6 million is probably what it costs to operate their data center (hardware), isp, and staff (operations, networks, call center, programmers)

per month

[Strygun]

Originally posted by Determinado
and btw, diablo 1&2 run for free...

only because battle.net does not host their own play servers, or have a dev team constantly adding features.

[Trebax]

6 million a month to maintain servers? are you kidding?

[ObnoxiousFrog]

Well, in PS, there are lots of people in it doing what they do. That needs big servers. Getting fast reaction time in battle. Big servers. Processing free entities (bullets, explosions, bulletholes). Big servers.

[kerosene31]

Hopefully they have some longer term deals like if you pay for 6 months up front , you only pay $10 / month or something.

[SpacemanSpiff]

Where did you get the 6 million $ figure from? I'm just curious.

[tmartinez72]

Here's the price scheme I WISH they would implement:

$5/month for 5 hours of play. Then $2/hr after the first 5 hours until the next billing cycle.

This keeps everyone happy. Those who can just afford $5 just pay $5 and be done with it. While those who love the game can play more at an additional cost.

That'll solve EVERYONE's problem! See? Now ain't I the smart one.

[Determinado]

Originally posted by Determinado
With like $12.95 you'll make... $6216000
SIX MILLION DOLLARS FOR SOME UPDATES?
ARE YOU INSANE?

That's where i get 6Millions; 40000 players paying each $12.95 each month...this is what i did:
Price * 12 (=price for one year) * payers
That's 6Millions 216k, and that's a lot!
Since they could also use local webhosts for their
servers and connections, this doesn't cost $6Mills,
as they could use some connections between hosts
so everyone could have a ping of at least 100, it would
only increase performance and if they would do it this way,
they couldn't get wrong; i just mean if you have the ISP
who is running a PS-server, it would be a new feature of
your ISP (internet service provider btw)

And you say diablo1&2 don't use their own servers to run their games on, i don't get it, what servers do they use then?
Blizzard servers as far as i know!

6Mills isn't too much, they did a great job surely but damn,
a subscription costs 155/Year? THAT is much, i just can't believe
you would have to pay like 3 games (full price, $50) each year, just to run one game who doesn't add any VERY special feature to the FPS-genre, exception for its size.

So that's how i get 6Mills, and i wouldn't believe you if you
told me the first year only 40k players would play PS,
it's the max of a server and there will be several servers, and more players (100k is really not much if you look at certain MMORPGs)
100k players * 12 * 12,95 = 15 540 000
(says my calculator)
as you see, i split up the numbers a bit,
just to make stuff clear ^^

[IDgaf]

5 hours for 5 dollars?

I regularly play Bf1942 for 5+ hours, sometimes 12 hours at a stretch.*

I prefer the monthly fee to your system. Crikey.

IDgaf

*Yes, I have a job.

[Determinado]

Originally posted by tmartinez72
Here's the price scheme I WISH they would implement:

$5/month for 5 hours of play. Then $2/hr after the first 5 hours until the next billing cycle.

What are you talking about? That would get the price up damn much! I guess i would have played 10 hours AT LEAST per month; and that's already $15, and 10 hours isn't much, you've got these peepz playing professional counter-strike who play 3 hours/day, 5 times each week just for training! Not my kind of scheme!

[SpacemanSpiff]

Originally posted by tmartinez72
Here's the price scheme I WISH they would implement:

$5/month for 5 hours of play. Then $2/hr after the first 5 hours until the next billing cycle.

This keeps everyone happy. Those who can just afford $5 just pay $5 and be done with it. While those who love the game can play more at an additional cost.

That'll solve EVERYONE's problem! See? Now ain't I the smart one.

So let me get this straight. First of all, there are a lot of people out there that play at least 5 hours a DAY. Now what would that make the total cost for them at? Hmmmm.... time to bust out the calculator.

5*7 = 35 hours a week
35*4 = 140 hours a month
140-5 = 135 since you're talking about 5 hours per month costing 5.00$
So, that leaves you with 135 extra hours per month...
135*2 = $270.00 a month! Wow... that's NOT BAD AT ALL! *intense sarcasm*