PS going FTP - Page 7

Effective · 2014-04-14, 05:22 PM

I can almost guarantee their will be some GM support. It won't be fast, but it will be there.

Skittles · 2014-04-15, 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by Effective

I can almost guarantee their will be some GM support. It won't be fast, but it will be there.

I can almost guarantee there will be ZERO GM support. It will be completely non-existent. But keep holding onto your dream.

Babyfark McGeez · 2014-04-15, 02:05 AM

And how are you coming to this conclusion? Got smed on speed dial?

I imagine some sort of player(-chosen) gm would be difficult to do, maybe for their own faction(?). Infos on this would be very nice.
If there is a volunteer gm program for PS1 i would certainly apply, having moderating/admin experience for like 15 years (on forums though lol).

Minigun · 2014-04-15, 02:27 AM

I don't think they want players from the community as GMs only SOE employees, or atleast that's what I've read and come to assume.

Effective · 2014-04-15, 06:39 AM

How am I coming to this conclusion? Common sense. Support tickets for planetside 1 in it's current state have been answered more than once. It's very unlikely they'll stop giving it even the little bit of support they're giving it now after making it so that they'll have more people playing.'

It likely won't be much different from how it's always been. Slow but eventual, with spurts of dedicated moderation (<3 GM-Chrol).

People saying that there won't be any support at all are simply saying so because they want to find something negative to say, when all evidence from the past suggests that even if it's a GM from a completely different game showing up, they will show (if not always quickly).

It's not so much of a dream as it is putting 1 and 1 together to form 2.

Calista · 2014-04-14, 09:49 PM

I tell you what, as long as things don't get totally apeshit out of hand people will somewhat tolerate it because it is FREEEEEEE! I can take some lag in GM involvement because my level of investment is nothing but I won't stick around to get pull hack ganked for days on end. Stay positive and give it a shot is all we can do.

bedzike · 2014-04-15, 09:46 AM

Look everyone. We will see on the 23rd if caves wasp and striker is fixed if they are then you know for damn sure. That a gm is going to be watching the game. How could there not be a gm if all the game breaking bugs are fixed. Lets be real people. Soe won't puts its name on the line for something that could drive players away completely like look at ps2 its a alright game i stream it and play it with my outfit but the bugs and crashes are horrible but it still has a playerbase that is waiting for the 64 bit client and it to be updated on graphics drivers. So if the game is fixed then gm support if not then no gm support but rant rant rant and it will be fixed

SgtMAD · 2014-04-15, 12:29 PM

you don't get it.

some of us have been dealing with SOE for the last decade concerning PS,we have read 10's of thousands of posts concerning every damn aspect of this game.

ppl like Mouser,Effective,Basti,Godless (ME)and quite a few more have seen how SOE acts in situations like this,we have seen how SOE operates and how they deal with issues.

SOE has told everyone that there would be no more dev work on PS,that's a simple concept and seeing how it would take a dev to fix the caves,wasp and other bugs ingame right now,I wouldn't hold out much hope.

GodlessHeretic · 2014-04-15, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by SgtMAD

ppl like Mouser,Effective,Basti,Godless (ME)and quite a few more have seen how SOE acts in situations like this,we have seen how SOE operates and how they deal with issues.

It might seem like pessimism, but trust us. It is anything but.

If SOE gives even one flying fuck about Planetside after it starts up again, it will be the first time ever.

Baneblade · 2014-04-15, 05:19 PM

I'd still like to know how they managed to patch in those bugs when there is no dev support.

SgtMAD · 2014-04-15, 07:56 PM

Originally Posted by Baneblade

I'd still like to know how they managed to patch in those bugs when there is no dev support.

I will bet that they retasked the servers holding the caves and that caused a cascade effect that resulted in the bugs we saw,everyone knows that the code for PS is a huge mess

Baneblade · 2014-04-16, 06:18 PM

Originally Posted by SgtMAD

I will bet that they retasked the servers holding the caves and that caused a cascade effect that resulted in the bugs we saw,everyone knows that the code for PS is a huge mess

Possibly, though that seems less likely than internal sabotage... maybe I'm too damn jaded lol

Minigun · 2014-04-15, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by Baneblade

I'd still like to know how they managed to patch in those bugs when there is no dev support.

I've seen you comment about this multiple times in the past few weeks and I wonder the same, i had an issue where i couldn't even adjust my mouse sensitivity. It was like playing on high sensitivity with a DPI of 8000, in short playing was not possible.

But how did these bugs come about? I haven't seen any official report or statement from SOE even acknowledging the bugs exist.(If there are please link me)

Could this be the reason its going FTP? They don't have devs who know how to fix it and you can't sell a game for $15 a month if its broken i suppose.

Perhaps someone from the outside was able to compromise the server and SOE won't announce the strike. Maybe more account info was stolen and they don't want all that bad PR AGAIN. All speculation i suppose.

Taramafor · 2014-04-16, 04:30 PM

They pushed the release date back AGAIN! Seriously, what the hell is going on here?

26th now. Though at this rate, I'll believe it when it happens. >_<

BeatCrazed · 2014-04-16, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by Taramafor

They pushed the release date back AGAIN! Seriously, what the hell is going on here?

26th now. Though at this rate, I'll believe it when it happens. >_<

26th? Can we get a source on this please? The sony all access faq still says 23rd.