7 day free trial [CLOSED] so how the bloody hell do i trial it now?? - Page 2

Ghryphen · 2003-08-28, 03:09 PM

Because of who his question was regarding.

Happy lil Elf · 2003-08-28, 04:44 PM

Ummm...ok. But he's saying he was in the Beta since open beta and thus had time to try the game out for free before it went live. You were in since exclusive meaning you also had time to try the game before it went live. His point, I think, is that it's easy for we who were in Beta to say "I pay, why shouldn't you?" when we had months of free playtime to try out the game before we had to buy it and start paying the subscription. I guess I just don't see how you being in since exclusive even applies to his argument, but maybe it's just me.

I agree with him, sorta. But then I'm not annoyed by the people who tried it for a week and then either decided to buy it or not to buy it. I'm annoyed by the leeching asshats that used free trials to play for free for two months.

CaptainBirdseye · 2003-08-28, 05:00 PM

I do agree with you elf and completely understand, why should these abusers get it free when you guys have to pay. However they could have easily implemented a solution to stop abuse.

Make them give a credit card number!! Even if you are not going charge us for the use of the 7 day trial u can put a marker against each card number or name and address of the person and voila, at best people are only going to get a couple goes out of it.

Ok people could use false numbers but then they run the risk of getting done for credit card fraud and i doubt the majority of people are willing to go that far for just a trial!!

You also get rid of those people who have no interest in buying the game at all and are just there for the free ride.

Hell you could even charge �5 for the week. I would rather that then having to fork out �30 to find out

Harps · 2003-08-28, 07:08 PM

About the game its actually a nice game .. sure the tutorials dont work, but those dont really matter The game doesnt have much bugs that stop u from playin, there are a few annoyin gameplay bugs but thats about it. and about the speedhack its already been fixed and that was pretty fast

Madcat170 · 2003-08-28, 08:30 PM

You Didnt Play in Beta, and if you did you shouldn't have. You should have been testing.

im 2 fluffy to be serious

Zodiac · 2003-08-28, 08:35 PM

Originally posted by Madcat170
You Didnt Play in Beta, and if you did you shouldn't have. You should have been testing.

thats a joke, right?

Flammey · 2003-08-28, 10:38 PM

There IS a way to trial the game. Find a friend with PS. He can give you a 7 day trial, with the friendship key that came with the game. HOWEVER, I am assuming, now, that since this thread was conceived, that you DON'T have a friend with this game, otherwise you would have either asked him, or seen him play it.

That said, PlanetSide is very sweet. YES, there was, and probably still is cheaters. I won't point fingers, but I HAVE seen a few. Yes, there is still Team Killers, but I'm afraid that will never go away. But there are some good sides to this game. The first being the massive battles I have seen and participated in. Imagine 250 players on each side, roughly 200 ground troops(Snipers/Heavy Infantry weaponry/Anti Vehicle weaponry/Grenades flying all over) and about 35 vehicles driving and even flying around (being that there are sometimes 2 or even 3 to a vehicle), and all this happening on both sides, JUST TO CROSS A BRIDGE. Massive battle for a choak point(sp).
For us people with nice systems, good vid cards, xDSL or Cable connections, this battle is SaaWeeet. Usually would end with one side slowly losing ground as the other side gains an advantage. I've only once seen a battle like this last hours. (lasted 2 1/2 hours just for a tower)

So, that said, if you can't get a trial, you should get the full version. I don't think you'll be disappointed. I didn't get the trial. I couldn't. (CRC decompression errors) I almost couldn't get the game to install. But I am SOOO glad it did work, and that I've been playing for the past month. And I paid 75 canadian for this game, plus 20 canadian for the next month.

scarpas · 2003-08-28, 10:54 PM

i got it a week ago, its definetly worth it!

(join tr on markov, and give me a tell at cutemurderouskitten)

CaptainBirdseye · 2003-08-29, 04:26 AM

And no i dont know anybody with the game so i can get there trial key. Unless anyone reading this feels genourous.

Flammy go read the first post

Flammey · 2003-08-29, 09:27 PM

Uh, yeah, must have missed that last line.

CaptainBirdseye · 2003-08-30, 02:47 AM

No worrys

Sputty · 2003-08-30, 03:13 AM

I'm glad they did this. There was a way with non static IPs you could get a new free trial every week. Yay!

CaptainBirdseye · 2003-08-30, 03:46 AM

Had nothin to do with your IP besides if it did and lets say the person uses that IP's free trial. Then changes there service provider therefore changing their IP address. The next person who recieves the previous IP address wont have a trial.

I am not gald they cancelled the trials but understand why they did. However as i have said before whoever planned it was pretty lame as they could have put measures into avoiding its abuse.