Loss of Players? Yes or No.

[Red October]

Ok, hope this doesnt erupt into a flame war...

Last night while I was Playing EQII, the Group Leader (fighting the Orc King on IOR) asked for a "sitrep" from one of the players. My first reaction, "whoa...planetside". So I asked "Do you play Planetside?" And he and another said yes. So...

I haven't been playing PS for a bit due to time constraints and me getting sucked into EQII. I hated EQI and didn't even think about looking into EQII...until a friend brought his comp over and gave me a test run of the game.

Will PS lose a chunk with EQII....Think I'll make this into a poll.

[Warborn]

EQ2, WoW, Half-life 2, all will make a dent, as PS shares characteristics with all three. Unfortunately once WoW is released I'll probably be scarce in Planetside for a while myself, but I'll still have an active description, as most people should if they're just sucked into a different game temporarily.

[Black]

i feel its a lil bit of a loss of players

[mechaman]

Yes we have probably lost some players due to new game releases but what does that poll have anything to do with this thread?

[Ghryphen]

I have no idea what the poll has to do with the thread, but it is the same as the front page poll :o

[Hamma]

There is some kind of bug.

[Baneblade]

Originally Posted by Hamma

There is some kind of bug.

Really, I hadn't noticed.

[Lartnev]

Sony All Access certainly helps on the EQ2 front.

Unlikely that PlanetSide will suffer great losses as it's not a MMORPG. It will get hit but the influx of new subscription games but that's something to be expected, not to get all pessimistic about.

[MrVicchio]

CoH has seen a huge player base drop, Dedenimuls was on last night, and there were 1000 players, a month ago it was 10k

[Lartnev]

Many people I've heard from either doubted CoH's longetivity or they were only playing it as a filler until EQ2 or more likely WoW.

[Smokin_Pope]

hehe this wasnt the sort or discussion i was expecting from the poll

[Lartnev]

You were expecting maybe Jerry Springer?

[AbramsVS]

A lot.

Compared to 2003? a HUGE.
2003 = any given time you have a poplock on any surface, or nearly poplock(10-20 positions left).
2004 = rare poplocks, no poplock at "dead time"(night from 1 Am to 7 AM)

[Kam]

Planetside is going downhill population wise, and there is a STRONG reason why. There is NO advertising anywhere for PS, and I know why. I know this may make you angry, but although PS was meant to be a game with 50000 people on each server, ever since it's initial failure to reach that amount of active subscribers the bigwigs at Sony have taken this game very lightly. In fact, they plan to discontinue it as soon as it starts to make less than 300,000 dollars a month. Currently they pull in about 350-400 thousand a month. I fear in another year PS will no longer exist.

[6thEdition]

It's going to happen eventually. Planetside will not live forever. In time there will be like 20 players left, br20 and cr5, completely everything u can, sitting in VR shooting range trying to get a buz outa shooting virtual vs. For shame.. Btw - I don't see the greatness in WoW. I've seen the trailer and am a lil impressed, but nothing that will make me ejaculate from the planetside community.