Why did you stay?

I came for the free, and stayed for the play. No other game I have played has captured the feeling I had the first time I was in a gal drop with a squad of people I didn't even know. As the flack poored in the squad leader started to bark orders and it felt like this

I was hooked.

Well, about 400 hours or so. If I count the money then it's something close to 50 euro.

Cause:

• I never enjoyed a PvP FPS before PS2.
• I can play how ever I want, slow, fast, from a distance, up close.
• I don't have to wait for match making.
• Huge *** maps.
• Tons of players.
• PS2 is visually awesome.
• Day-night cycle.
• Customizing your character and play style is a great thing.
• Its F2P.
• There is no P2W elements due to the side grades.
• All types of vehicles.
• NO FPS COMES CLOSE TO PS2, in the sheer versatility, amount of players, lack of wait time to "start a match".

I hope PS2 survives and thrives.

Because I'm a PS1 vet of 14 months, so I knew the franchise and the IP very well, and definitely wasn't a newcomer in the combined arms FPS scene since Arma I and Arma II had been out for some time. The game wasn't confusing to me - I understood the vehicles and truthfully I was a little disappointed in Beta at the lack of depth and how dissimilar it was to PS1 to begin with.

That being said - I stayed around during it's transformation from awkwardly attempting to recreate PS1 in it's own, messed up way to evolving into a Battlefield clone on steroids with insane bugs - because of the people I played with. I managed to get into a kickass group on Connery roughly 2 years ago, and just recently left 4 months ago to form a new outfit with the majority of said core members i got along with very well.

Having played most MMO's than I'd care to admit, one thing always rings true across the board - It's who you play it with that can make or break a game. Even if the game is **** (looking to you SW:TOR and Wildstar) if you play with a fun and good group of people, you'll definitely 100% enjoy yourself and stick around.

i came here for BIG battles
i got high density battles
i stayed for 2 years despite high density battles
i recently left for Arma 3
still can't leave properly and have to stay to play Light Assault from time to time

I started PS2 at the end of last may, so it's been less than a year (so many hundreds of hours played already...).
It had been 10 years since i actively played an multiplayer fps (since the glorious days of UT, Q3, HL mods, BF 1942, BF:Vietnam, Tribes 2...).
After so many years playing MMOs, i just felt like shooting stuff again, and my best experiences online were large scale shooters (the 3 at the end of previous list), which is how i found PS2.

Basically i knew i was going to be awful at PS2 at the start, that i had to give about 2 weeks of intensive play before i took any decision to leave/stay. It didn't disappoint.
What made me stay was how one minute i was fighting in a deep Hossin jungle, 15mn later defending/attacking a dam, then a esamiri wall, a indarian eagles' nest, a bloody bridge in the middle of God-knows-where... It was grand, way bigger than what i remembered from my old BF/Tribes experiences. Sure the jetpack wasn't Tribes 2 worthy, but the variety of combat beat anything i could recall.

Then i saw myself visibly improving very fast (i was so awful at the start, it could only improve), which was a powerful motivator. I feel like i'm a much more efficient fps player now than i was 15 years ago, in spite of age.

So i'd say i stayed both for the great variety and the pride that my improvement induced.

I'm a PS1 vet since 2003.... My most played game out of everything else....

The dynamics/sizes of the battles and large open maps are what I really like about it....

I enjoy playing the game, if nothing changed I would still play, I have confidence in the new well not new, renamed developers in bringing some of the promised features (like battle islands) to the game in the near future, if we say get to summer (europe) and theres not been any new content I might un sub.