Why is Planetside 2 losing so many players?

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enough already.

second time this got necroed.

mods please delete this

Is this thread still considered constructive? Oh dear.

Waterson is just fine.

lazarus

deployment freeze sure isnt helping

...Also the steam graph, the dreaded steam graph... has mostly leveled out.

So this isn't even relevant anymore.

All new games go through this. The gloom and doom people should just log off life and leave the game to the rest of us. The game is fine. It had a peak after release, a gradual bleed since, and at some point it will bottom out and then grow again. The game is set up for a bright future.

As for all the complaining about infantry, well I have played HA since the start and I have no problems. Its called not running around in the open noobs. I used obstacles, the natural landscape, etc etc to move around while infantry. If your running around from spot to spot over wide open ground then you DESERVE to get fragged by a vehicle or aircraft. L2Infantry man....

dont know anything about ranking or how high a game was on this ranking but planetside 1 had a very good run.

you people make up names for anything. its just a thread.

you can also say servers merged so this isnt relevant anymore..again. then say it again after the next merge.

Nah, it was tiny compared to counter strike. Just like ps2 is tiny compared to cod

I'm sure youre one of the know alls of the internet but i'm positive youre comparing mmo's to non mmo's. I could compare TF2 to PS2 but why?

There are no pure pvp MMOs. I can name like 3 and they didn't do well.

I am looking at this as FPS games. TF2 does better then ps2 if you want to compare those games

Its cool to make up facts. I can name a game that isnt in the genre and compare it to PS2 , CoD and BF3. Ragnarok Online during the 5 yrs i played had 140mil world wide subscribers. Was no free 2 play.

I can also pull anything out the air to try to be right at all times. No reason to do that either.

Except I am right. Go look it up

I'm glad youre right. I mean we all gotta be right sometime. I dont have to ask you to look up what i said because I'm right too. 140mil paying subs world wide beats CoD on the imaginary mmo's that arent true mmos when they are mmo's scale.

I am not being stupid though

I know these things because I read about them and follow the information about them because it interests me. If you choose no to believe that is fine. But the information is correct

Why the duck did this pop up? This thread is from January!

reviving threads is cool though. "do you remember...?". nostalgia about previous forumside skirmishes.

No user's manual. Dumping people headlong into a bewildering online environment with no explanation for what to do or even how to find a fight to begin with, when other FPS's teach them to simply run forward with your buddies on a small linear battlespace... and figuring, apparently that LOL IT'S FTP THEY'LL COME BACK LOL is costing Sony oodles of dough.

I think this could be one of the biggest reasons of all...people like to see progression and there really is none here.Very little difference in each factions weapons they can select from really...this gun has this but in the overall scheme it is the same as that gun. maybe the ability to unlock better gear every 20 levels might help? yes it would put a new player at a disadvantage but then I can't think of one game I have ever played where a new player was not at a disadvantage...they just put things in place where the high levels won't farm them so much...like no exp or certs for killing someone a thousand levels under you.

I would also like to see a variety of alerts...some reaching across all continents...whoever controls the most large bases or medium sized bases on all three worlds would win...anything to mix it up a bit.