How much does Planetside 2 really cost you? - Page 3

SirDart · 2012-07-20, 01:50 AM

So far...

Intel i5 2500K - $179
Gigabyte Z77 MoBo - $119
8 GByte DDR3 RAM - $39
240GByte SSD Drive - $169
Station Cash - $20

older stuff is still being reused, such as 8800 GT, Power Supply, Case, Gaming Mouse & Keyboard, and Monitor

Will likely spend between $200 & $300 on a new Video Card once I see how things perform.

EveningTide · 2012-07-20, 01:54 AM

So far...alot. Completely rebuilt my rig, went from a core 2 duo 4 gigs of ram and a Radeon 6770 to an i7 2700k 3.50GHz, 16 gigs of Ram and an Nvidia GTX 680.

Gin · 2012-07-20, 01:59 AM

Originally Posted by EveningTide

So far...alot. Completely rebuilt my rig, went from a core 2 duo 4 gigs of ram and a Radeon 6770 to an i7 2700k 3.50GHz, 16 gigs of Ram and an Nvidia GTX 680.

I'm secretly hoping that more responses are like yours so I can pretend to justify spending $$$ on my new build.

Jonny · 2012-07-20, 02:03 AM

Originally Posted by Gin

I'm secretly hoping that more responses are like yours so I can pretend to justify spending $$$ on my new build.

If i get a new rig (computer is fairly old and will give away) and moniter and station cash it'll probably add up to around £1600.

Thank dog its free to play... lol

Coreldan · 2012-07-20, 01:56 AM

Planning on putting 250€ to get a new GPU so that I can run PS2 better and also record gameplay while at it. (From HD5770 to HD7850)

I have put 20€ into Station Cash on a triple SC day (Will play on EU though, so hope it converts well into Pro7$)

Apart from that, when I play a F2P game I really like and plan to play for long, I try to budget ~13€/month for the game, as I would with any sub based game. Sometimes if I make bigger purchases (like in APB where the things I usually buy are like 40€), I just wont use any money for several months then so that it pretty much equals out to that 13€/month-plan.

SpLiTNuTz · 2012-07-20, 02:01 AM

I know ive spent easily £500 in the last month on upgrading. Shameful i know

I5 2500 @ 3.7
Nvidia 680
8gb ddr3 ram 1666

Oh and 6 blue led fans

Im not spending any more!

fod · 2012-07-20, 02:18 AM

$0 for planetside 2

i keep my computer contantly upgraded and only recently got my i7-3820 and oc'd it to 5.0ghz so i should be ok (also have 6970) i would have upgraded no matter if ps2 came out or not though

Landtank · 2012-07-20, 02:23 AM

I haz a laptop, it can run the Witcher 2 on High and it cost me $800 shipped with a five year warranty, I know how to build a good desktop, but they aren't practical for me right now so I'm stuck with a laptop >.>

If I find a way to upgrade it, I would get a better video card (currently have a le crap 540m), and maybe a solidstate drive just for certain games, probably something small.

Hightail · 2012-07-20, 02:29 AM

I still haven't got a pc but it will probably cost 800-900 dollars

MCYRook · 2012-07-20, 03:18 AM

I've recently spent 1150 € on an all-new rig (based on an i5-3570 and a GTX670), but it wouldn't exactly be fair to attribute that cost to PS2 only. My old machine is 3.5 years old and doesn't really run some of my other games as smoothly as I'd like (PS1, Global Agenda, Natural Selection 2 Beta). It was just time for an upgrade anyway. PS2 only affected my timing for that a little bit.

Gin · 2012-07-20, 03:23 AM

Originally Posted by MCYRook

I've recently spent 1150 € on an all-new rig (based on an i5-3570 and a GTX670), but it wouldn't exactly be fair to attribute that cost to PS2 only. My old machine is 3.5 years old and doesn't really run some of my other games as smoothly as I'd like (PS1, Global Agenda, Natural Selection 2 Beta). It was just time for an upgrade anyway. PS2 only affected my timing for that a little bit.

I'm also going the 3570-K + 670 route. It seems to be the popular build at the moment. I hear ya when you say the new build isn't just for PS2. If/when I build my new rig it will be a huge update for me for everything (Editing software, gaming, etc).

PS2 is definitely the kicker to get people going on upgrading/buying. I bet most people are saying "well I really need to upgrade for my graphic design work and it just so happens that PS2 is right around the corner... might as well upgrade now!"

TAA · 2012-07-20, 03:36 AM

I am not spending a cent upgrading and I only have mediocre specs:

Intel Core2 Quad Q9495 @2.66Hz
4GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
Asus Maximus Extreme motherboard

My plan is only to upgrade when the next generation of consoles hits the market. When that happens I will fork out for the best hardware I can buy, thus making sure I have a great computer for PC games for a few years, and way beyond minimum specs for any console-ported game for the next 6-8 years (until the subsequent generation of consoles after this next one is released).

Covent · 2012-07-20, 03:41 AM

My gaming rig should already be up to par and I believe my girlfriends computer is as well, she won't play the game but it will be nice to have 2-man LAN sessions with friends.

Tatwi · 2012-07-20, 09:07 AM

Originally Posted by TAA

I am not spending a cent upgrading and I only have mediocre specs:

Intel Core2 Quad Q9495 @2.66Hz
4GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
Asus Maximus Extreme motherboard

My plan is only to upgrade when the next generation of consoles hits the market. When that happens I will fork out for the best hardware I can buy, thus making sure I have a great computer for PC games for a few years, and way beyond minimum specs for any console-ported game for the next 6-8 years (until the subsequent generation of consoles after this next one is released).

Yeah, I'm pretty much thinking the same thing. The last time I did a motherboard upgrade(Sept. 2007), I bought an Asus P5K-VM motherboard, because it could handle the whole range of Core2 processors and it has solid capacitors, onboard video, and 4 DIMM slots, so built to last. I always buy something with onboard video, so as to not be tempted to get raped buying a new video card locally rather wait a couple of days for a delivery from newegg lol... However, I now have 3 pci-e video cards kicking around, so no worries about being without video.

I'll stick with my setup for a few more years, unless the CPU speed proves to be a hindrance in PS2, as it's perfectly awesome for everything else that I do. Heck, it even plays the heavily CPU dependent EQII really well...

Asus P5K-VM Motherboard
Core2 Quad Q8200 (2.3GHz)
6GB DDR2 667MHz RAM
GTS 450 1GB GDDR5

It's too bad that there aren't any inexpensive socket 775 upgrades like there were back in the Pentium Overdrive days! Really sucks crap that I bought the Q8200 when it launched, because ones 6 months later supported VT and I can't run a 64bit VM without VT. And it's not worth upgrading now, because I could get an AMD based mobo/video/ram for the cost of a socket 775 quad. Really too bad that Core2s never had the price drop that the core i3/5s had. That did not go as I had planned ( P4 > Core2 Duo > Core2 Quad > Core2 Quad again), so I stuck with the low end quad, because it works and anything better isn't worth the money...

Coreldan · 2012-07-20, 04:14 AM

Looks like PS2 just costed me an extra 150€ if TrackIR is really coming to PS2