wtf went wrong?

Mag-Mower · 2005-07-11, 02:24 PM

look at these reviews... PS Recived some pretty high scores

PC Gamer - 80/100 - 80
Gamespot - 7.9/10 - 79
IGN - 7.7/10 - 77
PC Zone - 82/100 - 82
Gamespy - 3/5 - 60
Computer & Video games - 8/10 - 80
PC Zone - 92/100 - 92
EGM - 95/100 - 95

so the average score is: 81%

its a shame that such a highly regarded game is going down a slope of subscribers and popularity, you would think a game that had an average score of 81% would be doing fairly well... why cant SOE advertise more

Lartnev · 2005-07-11, 04:52 PM

Nothing went wrong. PlanetSide's had a long eventful life.. for a FPS

Mag-Mower · 2005-07-11, 05:34 PM

but more people play CS 1.6 now, alot more people than PS recived, look at EQ, its 6 years old, has 250000+ people still subbing while ps only has 50000+... mag am cry...

321 · 2005-07-11, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by Lartnev

Nothing went wrong. PlanetSide's had a long eventful life.. for a FPS

It wasn't long, most FPS games last for five or more years.

Two things happend, first they took out surge, and second MagMower got the game.

Jeffey · 2005-07-11, 09:08 PM

no publicity

Mag-Mower · 2005-07-11, 09:53 PM

they took out surge for magmower...

Warborn · 2005-07-11, 10:28 PM

The fact that they wasted an expansion on Core Combat didn't help at all. That thing was abysmal. Expansions are suppose to revitalize the game by adding lot's of cool new stuff, but Core Combat did almost nothing to improve the game.

LimpBIT · 2005-07-12, 01:36 AM

they didnt advertise PS enough. When i first started playing there were TONS of people. Like I could walk around the sanctuary and see vangaurds all over the place. Now your lucky if you see a green dot on the map in the sanc. Well, I hope a PS2 comes out and they make some TV commercials and ads for it.

Jeffey · 2005-07-12, 03:47 AM

The worst part is... this is SoE, they made EQ1 into the MMORPG of the last 6 years, and they very easily could have done the same with PS, respectively.

Mag-Mower · 2005-07-12, 09:38 AM

wow, PS is up about 10000 subscribers from this time last year. which i guess isnt too bad, considering there are doomsday messages on the OF...

Lartnev · 2005-07-12, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by Jeffey

The worst part is... this is SoE, they made EQ1 into the MMORPG of the last 6 years, and they very easily could have done the same with PS, respectively.

PlanetSide and EverQuest are two VERY different genres of games. Such comparisons are not really fair since EverQuest also existed in a different time without a lot of competition.

I don't think there's anything in particular went wrong. Perhaps certain things could have been better (advertising imo is not one of them seeing as I remember plenty of ads in magazines and I'm sure I saw a TV ad, the only other MMO I've seen recently on TV is WoW), but pointing them out and brooding isn't really going to change anything.

Rhemuss · 2005-07-12, 01:34 PM

I dunno, a lot of people I know or talked to online didn't even know what a Planetside was until I told them... and if they did play the game they either told me "It was too laggy for my PC (or in general)" or "Yeah... that game got boring really quick"

Jeffey · 2005-07-12, 05:57 PM

Originally Posted by Lartnev

PlanetSide and EverQuest are two VERY different genres of games. Such comparisons are not really fair since EverQuest also existed in a different time without a lot of competition.

Without a lot of competition you say? We're talking about Planetside right?