Planetside 2 and the fate of Planetside 1

Bing · 2011-08-25, 03:01 AM

I've been wondering for awhile now if we've seen any information about what will happen to Planetside 1 after Planetside 2 is released. Barring any official info, I'm curious about what the community here thinks will happen to it.

I apologize if this has already been brought up in a different thread, but I couldn't find any information on the subject.

NewSith · 2011-08-25, 03:46 AM

Depends on PS2 entirely. If it fails, I will play PS1.

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Bags · 2011-08-25, 04:03 AM

Even if SOE doesn't shut down PS1 right away I imagine PS1 will die unless PS2 completely flops right out of the gate.

Brusi · 2011-08-25, 04:18 AM

They haven't really mentioned anything about it, have they.

I never really assumed that they would close down the PS server after the release of PS2, mainly due to the way EQ was still supported after EQ2 was released, however these are two very different games.

I assume they will wait to see how successful PS2 is before they stop taking peoples money for PS.

krnasaur · 2011-08-25, 05:16 AM

Either way planetside 1 is dying

PS2 is a success: everyone plays it

Ps2 flops: everyone hates SOE and stops playing PS1

Elude · 2011-08-25, 05:44 AM

^

I agree, PS1 is a dying game, and has no future.

ikon · 2011-08-25, 05:51 AM

the fact that its still going is impressive

Grimster · 2011-08-25, 05:54 AM

Originally Posted by ikon

the fact that its still going is impressive

Yeah agree. Granted that they have done several server merges but still impressive imo.

Crator · 2011-08-25, 09:06 AM

Doubt they will keep servers up for PS1 if there are no players on the servers. No reason to keep them running if that happens.

WarChimp130 · 2011-08-25, 10:06 AM

I imagine PS1 is done either way after PS2 releases. Even if people personally say they aren't leaving, enough people will be leaving to kill it anyways. And I imagine in the rare event PS2 flops, people won't be beating down the doors to spend $15 a month still playing the original. I'm sure their are quite a few scenario's that could play out, but I'm pretty sure they all end with PS1 ending.

In fact, they'd be smart to kill PS1 the day before PS2 releases to help push the last few lingering people into PS2. No sense really in running both games. As a company, why bother competing with yourself? The more people playing PS2 the better for SOE, anybody left playing PS1 just cuts into PS2's population. PS1 is the past, it's dead once PS2 comes out. They need to pour all their resources into it, and not even bother trying to keep PS1 alive.

Crator · 2011-08-25, 10:28 AM

^^^ Ya, but this is SOE. A company that is still running, and producing new content, for the original EQ1. But, they haven't produced any new stuff for PS1 so ya might have a good point there.

WarChimp130 · 2011-08-25, 10:39 AM

Different games, PS needs a large pop to survive. EQ and games like that you can roll out some new PvE content once in a while and be fine.

Baron · 2011-08-25, 11:54 AM

I think PS1 will be shut down because of the way they are branding PS2. EQ1 was supported after EQ2 was released because they marketed those as separate games all together.

They are marketing PS2 as more of a re-image of PS1, not a separate game so it makes since for there only to be one PS universe.

my .02

Ferriman · 2011-08-25, 12:07 PM

Planetside 2 will plain and simply be awesome and will not flop.

PS1 will shut down eventually due to insufficient player numbers.

---The End for PS1 is nigh---

kubacheski · 2011-08-25, 01:51 PM

I agree that PS1 is "dead game walking". It kinda has been for a while now. What are the chances they'd leave it up for a while and use it as advertising for PS2. Not sure how they'd do it tho, even if they make PS1 no sub. Game advances, from what we've heard, are huge and it's gonna be a completely different experience so it can't be a teaser for PS2. And you'd have to justify the resources to maintain the current PS1 servers by showing enough people are moving from a free PS1 to PS2.

Also, life expectancy of PS1 depends on the business model that PS2 uses. If it's F2P for limited content, levels, etc then noone would play PS1 anyway.

Even in the best of circumstances, PS1's main problem is to maintain the population as there's no PVE. How boring would it be to have just a few dozen people running around on the multiple continents/planets spending all of your time trying to find each other? To keep battles going with low pop would require scaling back the size of the landmass or maybe reducing hack times or something silly. But then it just wouldn't be the same.