Poll: How long do you think PS will be lively?

[RazorPlasma]

Games come, and fade. How long do you think PlanetSide will be crawling with people everywhere?

I think for a while now - like two more years. :O I dunno why I think that, I just do.

[PanickMe]

It'll be dead in less than a year if they can't stop the player turnover. But there is the freebie 7 day trial deal that might bring in a few new players but overall I would give it until HL2, Doom III, and EQ II all ship. Then it's on to the "next big thing" for everybody.

[Navaron]

Wow, that's not encouraging. But JLo's ass is the size of a basketball now, so...

[PanickMe]

Originally posted by {BOHICA}Navaron
Wow, that's not encouraging. But JLo's ass is the size of a basketball now, so...

I wasn't expecting that Snorted Dr. Pepper all over my keyboard.

I give it a year though. I hope PS2 is better than the original.

[diluted]

i give it a fcking week

[BigTexas]

I say, the game grinds to a halt over the next few months and the upcoming expansion http://planetside.station.sony.com/corecombat/ revitalizes it for a short time, maybe 6 months, after that I say its gone for good.

[Ghost06]

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG! PIE!

[321]

It think it will be active for a lot longer. There are so many people playing PS right now its not gonna all end that fast. Also I so far I've found no reason not to renew my subscribtion when it ends.

[BigTexas]

Originally posted by 321
It think it will be active for a lot longer. There are so many people playing PS right now its not gonna all end that fast. Also I so far I've found no reason not to renew my subscribtion when it ends.

There arent as many people playing as you think, there are a whole boat load, im talking sacks full, I mean crates and barrels, of players who are on the 7 day trial. And I doubt a lot of the subscribers will last much longer, hell do you know how many people were ready to cancel over something as ridiculous as the Lasher being a little over powered? And with some recent crash problems and what seems to be increasing lag even though the player base has been steadily decreasing, I bet the number of subscribers will continue to dwindle to almost nothing.

[Caspertoo]

Hmm hard to tell....if they really start to go down in numbers, they can always combine some of the servers, like markov and the other west coast server, same with the east coast one.

I think the only time that I find it hard to find people online is like at 4am my time.

[Mejwell]

Originally posted by {BOHICA}Navaron
Wow, that's not encouraging. But JLo's ass is the size of a basketball now, so...

I agree.

Uh, about the "not encouraging" part.







Ok, and the ass part. So sue me.

[Aegis]

6 months maybe, with server consolidation like they are having to do with AC2. FPS games move on so fast that multiplayer HL2 is gonna be the thing, graphics in a different league, gameplay probably will be better, and seriously cool weapons!!!

[Kaltagesta]

nerf teh anti-grav gun!

oh, and dont forget all the HL2 mods - they are making it easy to move because they know that, while HL was a great game, it was really the mods that kept it alive - its still one of the biggest played online games even after 4 years or whatever.

[MrVulcan]

well.....
I think that there will be a huge drop off once this month ends, with another huge drop off at the end of the next month to the point that it will cause a cascade affect and cause people not to play due to player count. The expansion will being a couple months of life back, but thats it.

so... my guess is that the game will be gone in about 4 months... (right around christmas).

[Kaltagesta]

the devs have said that they have plenty of things lined up for the next 2 years and beyond... uh.... yeah, ok.