I don't mean any disrespect by this. I'm just really curious if there's like some plot going on in the background to secretly lay PS2 to rest without a massively upset player base. Maybe profits aren't exceeding the cost of running the game? Maybe you want to focus on the PS4 version and let the PC "Beta" die out so you can focus more on the PS4? I don't really want to speculate on the why, but think there's suffeficient evidence to support the theory that you're very slowling tightening the noose around the neck of PS2. Evidence: -Every patch has been causing problems and the constant patching has caused many to be disappointed by constant inability to get in and play. -You've let go of a lot of people who have worked very hard to make this game what it is now and had big plans to improve it further. With their passing, so too passes some of the biggest content changes we would have seen. -You have yet to deal with an abundance of the simple bugs that have been plagueing the game for months. -The banning of hackers and cheaters is a very long and slow process. You'd think it'd be sped up if you wanted to maintain the quality of the game for people who pay and play fairly. -You failed to listen to your customer base and implemented the bounty system, a clear cash grab maneuver. -You've only got 1 employee reading our feedback for you. Thank you for the 1, but more would show you actually care about what your customers have to say. Though there is certainly more evidence available, I'll let this evidence suffice. Around this time last year there were a constant 6,000 players that signed in from steam. Now there's about 4,000 on the weekends, and 3,000 on any given weekday. You've lost about half your player base, and your actions lead me to believe you're ok with that because you keep doing things to cast off more players. On the current trajectory, by this time next year we'll only have 1,000 people on the weekdays playing, or less if you keep ignoring and offending your current player base. Please tell me this isn't true. Please tell me you're working hard to keep my favorite game alive and well. Please tell me you're working to fix the small constant bugs and optimize the game. Please tell me you're thinking of ways to introduce more people to the game and get them to stick. Please please please. Or just tell me the game is dying and I should stop wasting my time earning certs because in 2 years we'll only have 500 or less people signing on through steam and the servers will be an unpopulated nightmare of hackers, bugs, and impossible to kill BR100's. Or tell me you're killing the game slowly because in 2 years you'll have finished Planetside 3. That would be a welcome surprise! Either way, when planetiside 2 does meet its demise, I'll be there wondering if it was by design or just by sheer accident and negligence to stop the decline.
In my opinion, it is a sign that a company has stopped caring about there product when they don't even utilize their own purpose built customer interaction interface (I.e. Forums) and instead use reddit. They really don't care when they let the steam wallet be broken for weeks, costing them unknown thousands. I mean honestly, there is never any dev input, at all, on these forums. The most you see is someone locking a thread or posting patch notes (in a locked thread). Seems to me, if they cared, they would actually talk to us.
What you stated is may be true, but it is not DayBreak trying to kill this game. I have been playing DayBreak (SoE) games for many years, this is how things are. I remember in Everquest 2 we would have a weekly Tuesday patch (2-4 hours), followed by a Wednesday patch to fix what Tuesday broke (1-2 hours), followed by a hotfix Thursday to fix yet another set of things.
