Planetside 2 Obituary. Goodbye & Farewell.

1100 PER CONTINENT, which technically can be viewed as its own server. Though we're more used to thinking of "server" as entity with same set of characters where you can switch to 1 of 4 continents at a time. For example Briggs, Connery, Cobalt, Emerald are what we think of as servers, as opposed to Connery Indar, Connery Esamir, Connery Hossin where we think they're all on same server (though the physical machine is very likely a separate entity, or even a cluster of further continent sub-divisions). By the way I believe world record is for population on single FPS map, as opposed to server. Map is what you see as client, server architecture underneath could come in many different configurations.

So per server with 4 active unlocked continents a total of 4400 players maximum can play at same time, lets say 1 continent is always locked, so 3300 maximum if you base it off of world record population.

Obviously that kind of load isn't normal, it's just maximum that makes game pretty laggy (though somewhat playable still). Devs have some degree of population control where they can have 2 locked continent if population gets too thin, at same time during peak they can go to no locked continents at all (thereby spreading population across more continents). It's a good design if you think about it, which makes me think is the reason why they are hesitant to implement continent lattice or add more continents/battle islands.

I blame higby pushing the mlgl33t ******** creating a toxic band of stat intensive players who only care about the dasanfall wecsite (which is third party anyway)

no matter what game you play, there will be these people. hell im sure theres barbie horse sparkle adventure MLGs out there, but when you encourage a community like that it ruins peoples experiences, instead of encouraging epic fights, you encourage press U to redeploy when the enemy starts getting to much for you to reliably farm.

Instead of encouraging territories meaning something, you remove all but one alert type, remove hexes nanite values, and merge all resources into one pool.

Instead of encouraging teamwork and specialization, you make a class that can do everything and make all other classes more gimmick than anything else. Heavy assault can do everything, AV, AA, AI, AM, self heal, medkit dance, have a free IWIN ability, never need to reload in 1v1s, not be punished for inaccuracy as much with 50-200 round mags and the shield, have a rocket launcher, and climb walls (granted a bug that DBG has no intention to fix)

Instead of fixing bugs, you give us hideous hats.

Planetside is a bad game. **** i went back to an even deader game until i find something better. Enjoy your **** game, ****posting on forumside is the only meta in this cancerous tumor on FPS kind.

Then again, FPS games are an even bigger tumor on all of gaming with how the majority of them are developed these days. passions gone, profit made way. maybe ill go back to doom for awhile

Wauw what an original thread. I haven't seen these before!

Ok a dude is leaving. Lets continue relevant discussion in relevant threads and hope he doesn't hit his head too hard on the way out eh?

I just came back to the game not long ago and now I'm banned without any email or notification and 7 days without reply to my ticket. I probably will leave the game again because of this, worst customer service I have experienced, and SOE was pretty bad lol. it's sad because I've had my account since launch and ive put alot of time effort and money into it, but shouldnt be a surprise since daybreak is owned by a front company for the russian mob lol, and russians do business their own way. in russia we have no phone give us your money yes?

he is right, the population is dying fast, i look at my server Cobalt, 1800 players during prime time at the start of april, merely 2 months (and several dreadful patches) later...barely over 900 players at the exact same time, thats half of the players, gone in 2 months.

i do love this game, i've played since march 2013, i've probably thrown more money in that just about anyone,
so it is deeply saddening to see them completely butchering it with each patch.
these last few have really taken the cake, bad price changes, bad control changes, bad ui changes (thankfully reverted).
and now they're announcing things like:
instant action isn't even going to put you in battle,
you won't be able to use squad beacons unless you're near them...
tank mines are going to kill your 450 resource max,
theres a new "lobby" game mode to leach players from the main game. (pretty much like another unlocked continent, but just a copy of the originals)

what they really should be doing is adding new weapons and vehicles, breathing life back into the corpse!

with your what, 40 shots? 2 shot kill, you can kill 20 people tops without an engi, but nice try

Yeah once they stop wasting resources on the PS4 release and can actually refocus some back into the game and maybe get it out of post-post-beta phase, instead of just releasing the occasional patch and player made content, I would guess that some of the older players will come back after a while if anything to check out the changes. Honestly the fair weather sallies that leave at the first sign on things going bad I really don't want in the game beyond the first year or 2.

Terminals exist in Planetside 2. I also use them to cheese people out by resetting my shield till they run out of ammo.

time for a TDM mode, 12v12, instant respawn

Ok I just have to comment on that video.


Holy ****.
Where do they grow people like that?
I listened to 10 Minutes and all I heard was "PS2 got destroyed by upper management" (which I agree to) and "I am great, no actually I am the greatest! You still play this game? Do like I do and drop that turd for I AM THE WAY!" on autorepeat.

Seriously what the ****.
I don't know who that guy is, but if that guys ego was a physical object that had mass it would propably swallow the black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Omg! What happened to all of the alerts!

Nice topic, lol.

Its the legendary ex. PS2 TR Buzz, he is epic! If you know what I mean.

Pretty much this,.. yes.

All in hands of Developing Crew: Fresh Ideas, Less Bugs, Diverse Gameplays. This game is STILL BEST of ITS KIND.
P.S. Some sort of check sum system(s) is(are) needed to reduce HACKS even MORE.

This game has NEVER been anything more than a farming exercise by those with good gear and good internet and the ability to abuse the game meta.

There are instances where knowledge and skill can be used but those instances almost ALWAYS take advantage of the meta.

I'm not talking about hackers (though these exist), but the folks abusing the latency.

Outfits with players with good gear and good connections using the lag at a base where their mere presence cripples the average Joe and the farm begins.

Even this wouldn't be so bad if there was MORE TO DO but farm the enemy.

Not that there is anything wrong with it... it's not cheating, but makes for a horrible game experience.

The game server and perhaps the game itself can't cope with the numbers that can be stacked in a base.

The game takes a crap when it even comes close to anything "epic".

DBG will only put money into something that makes money. It has been said that PS2 has only just recently paid for itself.

Reason enough for DBG to have purchased it as whatever the game makes now is pure profit less overhead...

...and lets face it, what kind of overhead could they possibly have now other than the obvious.

Nope, I just don't see a big change even with the PS4 version available.

The game at its core is woefully lacking in so many ways with not much hope for any improvement.

I can't tell you how much I would love to be proven wrong.

Read the sloppy handwriting, 2-3 years left of effective life at best.
SOE becoming daybreak actually made things worse for the game itself, stop fooling yourselves.

There will be 1 more peak when the game goes live on PS4, but it will not be as big nor last as long, that's why I say up to 3 years.

There's still a changes, if Daybreak fixes all the stupid weapons and crappy bugs that have been here forever as well as take a SERIOUS look at their marketing.

He has a point and he was being sarcastic when he said:"i am pretty great"

The peak february was for the Amerish update. I remember that day there were lots of players. Connery had people locked in VR. It's a mystery how Hossin's addition didn't cause any rise in popularity. When I first tried to play this game 3 days after release I could not log in because the server LithCorp was full, 3 months later that server was removed.

The existence of Emerald alone is a living proof that the game is dying - US East, one of the most populated zones for the game, is down to one server.

You know, while you forumsider Vogons are moaning and whining away on these forums, people are playing the game and not getting their knickers all twisted and pinching their delicates over every. little. thing.

There's genuine issues in the game, and yeah it's fun to discuss them sometimes but even then it's just a game guys. Seriously.

If PS2 is dying like the OP grandly proclaims as if anyone cares or asked for his opinion, then so be it. The game's been around 3 years, a lot of games can't even boast the current numbers a month or two after release.



I'm sure none of you are strangers to the lifecycle of a multiplayer based game.

Sit back.

Breath deep.

Relax.

GUT GUD YOU ALL SUCK SCRUBLORDS MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


Nah I kid, genuinely, stop worrying so much guys, reelaaaaaxx... Just a game.
Those of you still playing continue to play, enjoy yourselves.
If you don't enjoy playing then stop playing.
Don't rant.
Don't piss and moan.
Just shrug, realise your adults with the free will to chose not to continue to do some pastime you no longer enjoy.
Go outside or check the Steam store.
???
Profit, live long and prosper, etc.

For the rest of us, we'll continue to play until we likewise no longer enjoy it, or the game dies.

Once people have gotten over their feelings, they'll be back.

Your only other option for mass scale is ww2 online or ps1. The game is set to be out until 2025 and we're not even 4 years in so i don't get why people are so mad that it's going slow lol.

A lot of games have one server though and although they're not huge games like PS2 seem to do alright which is a good sign for this game. Look at League of Legends, they have the same server setup, one USA east, 2 EU etc and although it's a much smaller, niche game from what I can tell still can afford to develop and continue supporting the game.

EVE Online too is a game everyone considers to be doing well and it only has one server for the entire world (minus China).