Anybody want to subscribe a month to encourage F2P? (I'm itching to play)

[gunshooter]

Originally Posted by igster

SOE won't make PS1 free to play. Not a chance.

Do you really think they will give anyone an incentive to stop playing their monetized expensive to develop sequel in order to play an older version of the game which provides no income stream?

And what effective said. PS1 has superior gameplay but just has very outdated graphics and gunplay engine. Both of these engines are first class in PS2 but unfortunately they don't get the gameplay they deserve.

People are only not playing PS1 because no-one else is - they are desparately trying to grind / farm kills on PS2 in the hope that the gameplay improves eventually.

What makes you think PS1 couldn't provide an income stream? There's plenty of mmo on life support being kept alive by their devs/publishers because they're still profitable even though they might be a shadow of what they once were.

A game that they could just leave there and forget about it with minimal development effort aside from implementing some monetization options would be incredibly efficient income.