How much does Planetside 2 really cost you?

[Landtank]

Originally Posted by Deadeye

I read about these people who are ditching 570s and 580s to get 670s/80s because that's what the Devs got and all I have to say is: If anyone doesn't want their 'old' 570 or 580, I'll take it off your hands.

Ditto! I'll take one, maybe two. Hell I can't even use it, but I'll take it!

[DOUBLEXBAUGH]

I have a nvidia 460 that could probably run it fine on low to mid settings, but I need a new processor, which will require a new mobo to fit it, which will require me to buy new memory cause i'll need ddr3, and I want an SSD.... so might as well get the gpu upgraded too

[LegioX]

I bought a 580 last year. I'm not about to go wasting money on a 670 or 680. If anything i will upgrade monitor/SSD/ new mouse.

[johnyenglish]

$1500 so far. But, I may go further if my video cards are not able to run the game on full.

[DarkChiron]

My system's pretty old, so I was needing upgrades anyway. I can't run Witcher 2 worth a damn and Skyrim doesn't run well either. So I'm going to have to spend about $450 for computer upgrades. But as I said I needed to for my rampant PC gaming in general.

I spent $10 on station cash when they were having a double cash sale, though. So there's that.

[jepaul]

Originally Posted by Gin

Sure, Planetside 2 is a Free-to-play game. Sure, you can spend money on items in the future cash shop to deck out your character.

But... how much money have you all spent upgrading or completely rebuilding your systems? Are you lucky enough to already have a nice rig that will run the game?

I am personally struggling to decide if I want to spend the money to build a new computer that is capable of running Planetside 2. For the record, I built my current computer in the summer of 2005. My specs are an AMD Athlon FX-57, a 9800 GTX+, 4 Gigs of Corsair XMS PC3200 memory, and a 300GB Raptor. If that's not an old rig, I don't know what is.

I'm willing to bet at least 40% of the Planetside player-base has spent at least $100 or more tweaking/upgrading/completely rebuilding their computers to be able to play Planetside 2.

So, how much have you spent on Planetside 2?

Maybe 40% of the ps player base has to upgrade. But for the average gamer absolutely not. And for the competitive gamer hell no. What are you smoking? I've got over 200 members and haven't heard of one single person upgrading anything. I don't really know of anyone that games with me that doesn't run at least a 1 gig video memory, dual core, 4 gigs ram. And that would run this game just fine. Maybe not ultra settings or whatever but it will run it well.

Personally I couldn't buy anything that would upgrade my rig so $0.

But i'll probably spend around $500 on in game stuff or more if they have things to by. I'd spend $1000 to insta upgrade everything but doubtful that will be an option.

And finally, your rig will run the game just fine. Not ultra settings or whatever but it will run just fine.

[Dairian]

Current build

Intel Core i7-960 4.2 GHz
ASUS Rampage III Formula
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 12GB (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000
COOLER MASTER HAF X
CORSAIR H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
OCZ RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS RVD3MI-FHPX4-240G PCI-E 240GB 1000 MB/s
1000W PSU
2 GIGABYTE Ultra Durable VGA Series Radeon HD 6850 1GB in crossfire

Just ordered

Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 2011
ASUS Rampage IV Formula LGA 2011
CORSAIR DOMINATOR GT 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133
Keeping the OCZ RevovDrivev
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro Gold Series RS800-80GAD3-US 800W
2 x GIGABYTE GV-N670OC-2GD GeForce GTX 670 2GB 256-bit
COOLER MASTER HAF X RC-942-KKN1 Black Steel
CORSAIR H100 (CWCH100) Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler

Can't wait to OC. Its so fun!
But I think I'll have PS2 covered.

[TheBladeRoden]

Nothing yet besides the hours and hours spent on this forum

[soulsurfsublime]

Well I broke down this morning and ordered a OCV 120 gb SSD and a Zalman 9900 nt heatsink/fan for my new build. Bf3 was causing my cpu to run hot, it seems fine on idle then my temps soar when playing BF3 on ultra for a few hours.

Current Build
MSI 890fxa gd70 mobo
Gskill Ripjaws series 1333 16gb
(2) Iceqx Raedon HD 6950 2gb
Cooler Master Silent Pro 700 watt psu
AMD FX 8150 3.6 (stock) need to get my new heat sink in to OC
Zalman 9900 nt heat skink
OCV 120 gb hd
Western Digital 1.5 tb @ 7200 HD
NZXT case (Orange)
4 120mm green led case fans
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Razer Naga Mouse
Razer speed mouse pad
Logitech g110 keyboard

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This is an early pic of when I first built it a few months back. Was still missing a few of the led fans and what not. And believe me if I was in the tech test I would have never took the time to post all this

[Rico Suave]

2.9 GHz
6 Gb RAM
500 watt power supply
And an ATI Radeon HD 4890

Both the power supply and the graphics card were given to me by a coworker, before that (prepare to shudder) integrated graphics. Hooray low/mdium settings!

[Unforgiven]

well its not for PS2, but once im all setup at my new house, i plan on dropping about 3,000 on building my own PC. i can get some good deals on parts if i do it myself (and no i cant get you parts, sorry.) but i plan on going in to the dual, quad core area, with atleast 2 vid cards, overclocking EVERYTHING and then going to cryo cooling for sub zero internal temperatures.

[megamold]

i built myself a new pc since i am returning to pc gaming after 4 years of absence.
i didnt build i purely for ps2 but also for my rediscovery of steam.

i5 3570K
geforce gtx 670
128gb ssd
8 gigs of ddr3 ram
gigabyte z77 motherboard

about 900€ in all

[Simokon]

I am sure I will throw some money down just to show my support even if I don't really want the station cash.

[cryosin]

In total i spent about $650, including tax and a new case. The only thing i kept from my old system was my Raptor 150gb HD(and now i want an SSD lol).

Core i5 3550
Radeon 7770
8 GB's RAM

Blacklight Retribution occasionally dips to 50 FPS, but if i turn Dynamic Lights off I'm back at 80 FPS constant. Game looks great either way(shallow game though).

This little budget rig has been able to hand everything i throw it at and more, I'm very proud.

You can't really factor that in as a cost though. You'll be able to run many OTHER games outside of Planetside 2, so you aren't exactly paying that much for the game specifically.

[snaffe]

I'm constantly holding back my "I wanna upgrade nooooow.
But it's always that little niggling "well I should upgrade so I can try the beta".

Then my logical tightar*se kicks in:

1. You have no idea when/if you will be in beta
2. You should wait until the actual launch.

But then again there may be floods increasing hard drive costs so you never really quite know...

I think since sandybridge it's ok to buy whenever. I'll only go entry/mid level GPU anyway. Sub 100 sterling gfx