Planetside Server Merge

[Rathmort]

Just got this in my inbox. Looks like Planetside is finally bowing to pressure and going for a much needed server merge. There's also free play until Aug 26th.

PlanetSide Customer Service Notification

Greetings Soldier of Auraxis!

In the interest in maintaining a high level of competition and gameplay within the three empires of PlanetSide®, the Werner server will be merged into the Gemini server on August 25, 2009.

Starting today, as a part of a select group of past PlanetSide players, you will be able to log in for free* until August 26, 2009!

Preserve your Legacy! After the merge, many character names will be duplicated, and priority will be given to players who have logged in most recently and to those who created their names first. (See below for name change details.)

As a thank you to our loyal PlanetSide players, special merits will be given to native Werner players to represent your past server. Characters will receive their merits upon logging in to Gemini for the first time after the server merge is complete.

If you haven't played in a while come check out what's new in PlanetSide! Experience elevated battles and more competitive play!

[Tenks]

I just could never get into Planetside. I liked the concept and everything but it was just kinda 'meh.'

Maybe the next Tribes iteration will be a fully persistent MMOFPS

[Junun]

I got this too. I had alot of fun playing PS back in the day, but eventually it never became worth the monthly payment. I'm definitely going to give the free month a shot though.

[Kharza-kzad]

yey reinstalling

[Xenrauk]

Sweet haven't had some planetside fun in over a year, going back for the month for sure. And yeah while the game can be fun, it just doesn't quite have enough to get it over the free fps hump to be worth paying for.

[Junun]

Hopefully with people coming back and the server merge the population will be good.

[Fury]

Best battle I ever had was in Planetside. 250 players from each of the three sides all battling it out over one base. TR defending the base, while the NC coming in with a column of tanks to the main entrance, while we, Vanu, were hacking out way into the back of the base. The sky was literally so full of aircraft you couldn't hardly survive up there for more then a few seconds. 750 players all slugging it out for hours. Good times, good times. My first time ever getting called a hacker in a game. Simply because I got shot out of the sky, and while falling to the ground, pulled out my anti air and killed the Mosq pilot who'd shot me down.

In the end though, Core Combat is what killed it for me. The game stability just went to crap, the "upgraded vehicles" weren't worth it, and the whole cavern fight stuff just seemed lame. That and back base hacking simply killed it for me.

[leane]

I tried it a few months ago and seems with their patches they are trying to kill it off. Population is massively out of whack, saw some nights where VS had 60% cause they totally overpowered the Lasher. Such a shame because I loved playing VS (although I prefered the NC/TR BFRs)

[Regime]

Originally Posted by Fury

Best battle I ever had was in Planetside. 250 players from each of the three sides all battling it out over one base. TR defending the base, while the NC coming in with a column of tanks to the main entrance, while we, Vanu, were hacking out way into the back of the base. The sky was literally so full of aircraft you couldn't hardly survive up there for more then a few seconds. 750 players all slugging it out for hours. Good times, good times. My first time ever getting called a hacker in a game. Simply because I got shot out of the sky, and while falling to the ground, pulled out my anti air and killed the Mosq pilot who'd shot me down.

In the end though, Core Combat is what killed it for me. The game stability just went to crap, the "upgraded vehicles" weren't worth it, and the whole cavern fight stuff just seemed lame. That and back base hacking simply killed it for me.

Best days of that game was the 24/7 bridge battles being fought in beta. Oh and the Jackhammer being overpowered.

[Kobalt]

Originally Posted by Tenks

Maybe the next Tribes iteration will be a fully persistent MMOFPS

This will never happen, they would rather make a web game to toy with my emotions ;_;.

[Gecko]

Originally Posted by Regime

Best days of that game was the 24/7 bridge battles being fought in beta. Oh and the Jackhammer being overpowered.

So true. If ever a game didn't need more land mass and stupid expansions it was Planetside.

I haven't even checked it out in years, but have they done anything about all the zones and other crap that made the game too wide open and somewhat tedious?

[Vekruul Shuth]

Best days of that game was the 24/7 bridge battles being fought in beta. Oh and the Jackhammer being overpowered.

Those battles were awesome. I remember like 50 tanks lined up along the shore/bridge, fuckton of mechsuits, enough aircover to blot out the sun! Aaaaand there was always some retard thinking he could get by all that shit by running across the bridge on foot.

The down fall to this game for me was they took the "aiming" of out of the players hand, and gave us that god awful COF with a certain miss rate? Still to this day have no idea how they thought this would make for a better game. PC gamers LIVE off FPS's...why dumb it down?

And why hasn't someone ran with this genre yet? Seems like it would just be a sure fire winner if done right.

[Kevincheese]

Originally Posted by Vekruul Shuth

Those battles were awesome. I remember like 50 tanks lined up along the shore/bridge, fuckton of mechsuits, enough aircover to blot out the sun! Aaaaand there was always some retard thinking he could get by all that shit by running across the bridge on foot.

The down fall to this game for me was they took the "aiming" of out of the players hand, and gave us that god awful COF with a certain miss rate? Still to this day have no idea how they thought this would make for a better game. PC gamers LIVE off FPS's...why dumb it down?

And why hasn't someone ran with this genre yet? Seems like it would just be a sure fire winner if done right.

There's a couple of games that have tried, but either were never released or just didn't get any commercial support/decent publisher/etc. I can't think of any names offhand at the moment.

Just started playing again two days ago on a free trial, so I'm happy with this change. Free play til the end of august? win!

[brekk]

God I might have to download and play some. This is the only game I've ever played thats trumped my EQ experiences nostalgia wise. It was just such a completely un-comparable experience to any other game to date.

WTB Planetside 2

[Sneaky]

Couldn't get PS to run under Vista64 last time I tried like 3 months ago.
Was pretty pissed about the wasted resubscription.