Server crashes + being a little to... busy with the trying to get people to pay premium is a great recipe for players to just walk away from the game. It is really the tri-fecta of bad patches. I really hope that there will be a patch rollback. Most folks I'm talking to now (even those who have purchased premium) are talking about taking a break from the game. You get money by getting players to play, and this upgrade now key probably would have been better added a long long time ago. Players psyches have gotten used to the layout they have now, and changing it at this stage in the game is a bad call. If players wish to go premium they will do so. You have advertised that people w/ premium get 2x xp while everyone else does not. Let that be an incentive. We have options to purchase what we want. We have all sorts of things we as gamers can do. Jamming advertising in people's faces now a days with the media saturation that exists most gamers react quite negatively when it's pushed into their faces.
Server stability is a feature for paying members. UPGRADE NOW! Also, if it's a tri-fecta, what's the third thing?
-Server Crashes -Rushed out features (mission system--what we're getting is basically the alpha version, there's not a lot of positive feedback on the PTS forum right now because everyone was waiting for them to get around to start introducing the actual features of the mission system. Right now the "mission system" is just another waypoint, basically, that often points in the wrong direction and away from places you should be fighting or can easily get to, especially on Amerish) -GIVE US YOUR MONEY PLOX everywhere--girls, and customers, dig confidence. This looks just a little bit neurotic, and raises concerns about the future of the game.
^ One of the top posts recently on reddit was on the subject: http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/..._the_liberator_update_was_probably_the_worst/
Completely useless "mission objectives." They don't give you a bonus, they don't help you out, they just basically hand hold you while at the same time doing absolutely nothing. It's just wasted space, it's annoying, and it isn't needed. The idea that it's suddenly "improving gameplay" is false. All it does it just add an unneeded layer of UI on the game, while at the same time blocking countdowns on capture and defense points. The game added a lot of UI clutter for no reason whatsoever.
