I'll be getting more articles out too; be it a war story, some more history + explanation of the first game, or maybe even an interview with some of the devs
Waiting for something fresh to arrive on the MMO scene...
Its rare for me to post in the mmorpg forums these days, but i had to add to this.
I too recall the days of planetside with a fondness.
I had a 56k modem, and a sub-par computer with 200 megs of ram, a pathetic onboard graphics card and nearly no processing power.
With all the lag, with all the pain and sorrow...
I still played and paid to play planetside for at least a year. Why? because i loved to hack. I loved being stealth, i adored signing in on early mornings and sneaking into places to cap us some shinys for the days battles. It felt accomplished.
I couldn't get to the big fights, my old cpu wouldnt take them. So i did what i could, and those small fights were wonderous.
Now, in the future, i see the prospect of planetside again and Smile.
Because this time im ready. I have broadband, and i have a high-end gaming cpu. I enjoy bf3, but it just cannot compete with the feeling that planetside gives you: Total War.
That said, to the others above:
They already did try that, they introduced a F2P mode called the reserves. Basically, they did it as a 'story' thing where free players were the reserves brought in for reinforcement. Much like grunts, they were restricted in levelling and couldn't go past level 15, i think.
But the planetside numbers still dropped despite that (I returned for the reserves on my gaming laptop, STILL not good enough to play planetside XD)
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I'm glad this got you guys excited!
I'll be getting more articles out too; be it a war story, some more history + explanation of the first game, or maybe even an interview with some of the devs
Waiting for something fresh to arrive on the MMO scene...
I can't wait.
Its rare for me to post in the mmorpg forums these days, but i had to add to this.
I too recall the days of planetside with a fondness.
I had a 56k modem, and a sub-par computer with 200 megs of ram, a pathetic onboard graphics card and nearly no processing power.
With all the lag, with all the pain and sorrow...
I still played and paid to play planetside for at least a year. Why? because i loved to hack. I loved being stealth, i adored signing in on early mornings and sneaking into places to cap us some shinys for the days battles. It felt accomplished.
I couldn't get to the big fights, my old cpu wouldnt take them. So i did what i could, and those small fights were wonderous.
Now, in the future, i see the prospect of planetside again and Smile.
Because this time im ready. I have broadband, and i have a high-end gaming cpu. I enjoy bf3, but it just cannot compete with the feeling that planetside gives you: Total War.
That said, to the others above:
They already did try that, they introduced a F2P mode called the reserves. Basically, they did it as a 'story' thing where free players were the reserves brought in for reinforcement. Much like grunts, they were restricted in levelling and couldn't go past level 15, i think.
But the planetside numbers still dropped despite that (I returned for the reserves on my gaming laptop, STILL not good enough to play planetside XD)
All i remember of Planetside was lag lag lag lag lag lag lag....